The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the message from the government is simple: Tell Canadians to hold their breath for five years while they figure themselves out. The government said it had a plan; it does not. It said it would reduce pollution; it will not. It said there will be targets and timeline

House debate  Mr. Speaker, the point being missed here is that the government has already leaked out the fact that it is going to go after intensity rather than overall reductions in emissions. What that means for people watching is that any efficiencies made by the sector which are naturall

House debate  Mr. Speaker, at various points it was nice to see the House of Commons get along and get something done. The consideration we have before us is a question I put to the minister some weeks ago. I think all Canadians, once given the evidence, will also agree that there needs to b

Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006  Mr. Speaker, the consolidation of industries, and the consolidation in particular of this industry, has been staggering. We have watched mill upon mill get bought up. It almost seems like in the last five years, in this particular plight of industry as more and more tariffs were

Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006  Mr. Speaker, it is both a pleasure and a distress to enter into this debate. Talking of rhetoric, we take no lectures or lessons from other sectors of the industry. British Columbia has a proud forestry tradition. My particular riding takes no lessons or lectures from anyone in t

Wild Salmon Stocks  Mr. Speaker, once again this week another independent report has come out raising the alarm about the harm that open net fish farms cause to wild salmon stocks. The research that was published in one of the world's most prestigious journals shows that more than 95% of the wild

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the minister has a number of concerns on her plate, namely that the memorandum of understanding signed by the old Liberal regime had no teeth, no enforcement and no penalties for non-compliance. This government has no strategy of how to protect Canadian auto jobs.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of the Environment has already had to apologize for her remarks suggesting that she is not at all concerned about Quebec in terms of the environment. We all know that the Liberals do not really care about the environment. The Commissioner of the Environ

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Canadians can be forgiven for a certain amount of déjà vu, because not only just 18 months ago did the current environment minister, along with the former environment minister, vote against an NDP motion to cut greenhouse gas emissions, she still cannot get tough on

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, over the last number of months of watching the environment minister bungle the job like the last environment minister, one is reminded that the more things change, the more they stay the same. There is no green auto strategy while thousands of Canadian auto workers

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Canadians now know that while the Liberals dithered and feigned concern about climate change, money went missing and pollution went through the roof. Will the Minister of the Environment make the effort to finally s

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, today's environment commissioner's report is a stinging indictment of 13 years of Liberal inaction on climate change. The Liberals cannot account for more than $1 billion that was intended for the environment. They do not have a clue where it went, or at least they

Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for that correction. I thank the member from Windsor for his diligence in listening. On September 11, the Prime Minister said, “Because we are a country that has always accepted its responsibilities in the world...Canada has acted when the United Nations

Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I join in the debate around something as important as climate change and our international agreements, and the promise that Canada made to actually abide by the signature we put on paper. Before getting into the merits or demerits of t

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, with the cuts they have made this week, the Conservatives have said no to families working for a better life, no to affordable housing for seniors, no to the first nations and no to Canadians learning to read and write, but with a wink, wink, they are continuing to p