Oceans Act  Madam Speaker, in response to my colleague's question, climate is what people expect and weather is what they get. That is the simple definition. What is a marine protected area? Obviously it is an area that is considered important and in need of some kind of protection. Unfortu

Oceans Act  Madam Speaker, one of the reasons we are so suspicious of the government is that we need only look at what happened in California with MPAs. On its coastlines, some of the best areas for fishing are now off limits to citizens. The Liberal government's track record on environmenta

Oceans Act  Madam Speaker, I served with the member for Bonavista—Burin—Trinity on the environment committee and enjoyed interacting with him very much. I recall a discussion we had on Bill C-69 in the environment committee in which he expressed grave concern about the offshore oil industry

Oceans Act  Madam Speaker, I have a strange philosophy regarding environmental policy in that environmental policies and environmental spending should actually have an environmental outcome, a measurable environmental outcome. However, the Liberal government is more about show, talk, studies

Oceans Act  Mr. Speaker, when I took my biology degree at university, I learned that an environmental statement without a number attached to it was completely useless. All we heard from the minister was basically a word salad. Quantitatively, under the Stephen Harper Conservative government

Oceans Act  Mr. Speaker, I found the comments from the minister about our environmental track record to be ludicrous. This is clearly a government with an environmental and fisheries policy that is show over substance. I can prove that. When the Conservatives were in government, we introduc

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, one of the things that is very bad about Liberal environmental policy is that they never do any math. Nobody does any math or numbers, and they throw around words like “pollution” without even understanding what pollution is. Sulphur dioxide is pollution. It is a com

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague's speech. I was shocked at the very beginning of his speech when he implied that sound environmental technology is just a recent thing. As someone who has been in the business since 1973, and part of the Mackenzie valley

Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act  Mr. Speaker, I will give the House a bit of personal history. Back when I was a young biologist, I spent time in the Mackenzie Valley doing some of the initial environmental impact assessment work. I stayed in the community of Norman Wells, which has been producing oil since th

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the development of the new Canada Food Guide: what scientific evidence formed the basis of the decisions to (i) advise Canadians to choose protein foods that come from plants more often, (ii) advise Canadians, in recommending they choose protein foods that come fro

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I hate to interrupt my fellow Manitoban, but talking about Supreme Court appointments is clearly ridiculously off topic. It is not relevant to this debate, and I would ask you to direct the speaker to stay relevant to the topic.

National Defence Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my hon. friend a very simple question based on her experience in the military. She talked about how poorly equipped the military had become under the present government. Could she provide her views on how the present government is treating the

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to all Marine Mammal Regulations introduced or amended by the government since November 4, 2015: what are the details of all biological, ecological, population, and impact studies conducted by the government, broken down by regulation or regulatory change, including (

Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak on Bill S-203. I am opposed to this bill. The bill is fundamentally flawed. I was interested to hear the previous two speakers conflate this particular bill with environmental conservation and the conservation of whales. This has nothin

Whale-Watching Industry  Mr. Speaker, after nearly 18 months without an operational rail line, rail freight service has resumed for the town of Churchill. This is excellent news that will help lower the costs of food and goods for the people of Churchill and the surrounding area. However, just as the c