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House Hansard - 47

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 28, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 47 - Mar/28/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Mar/28/22 4:18:57 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member represents a beautiful part of the country with some spectacular native grasslands. He touched on farming, and I just want to give the member some time to maybe expand on his comments about using native grasslands and conserving native grasslands to have carbon sequestration and to preserve biodiversity. This is the most endangered ecosystem in Canada.
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Context: House Hansard - 47 - Mar/28/22
Mr. Jeremy Patzer
  • Mar/28/22 4:19:39 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it was a pleasure to serve with the member on committee in the last Parliament. I really appreciate his question, because it is important to know that great water and grazing practices are extremely important to the survival and the revitalization of our native prairie grass. We saw in Grasslands National Park a number of years ago that there was a move to remove all grazing from the park. The problem was that the species at risk left the park too, because there is a very important relationship there between keeping grass grazed and providing the protection that those species at risk need from the predators that are trying to get them. When it comes to species at risk, the grasslands and grazing practices are so important. They sequester more carbon. They do a better job of that, and the biodiversity that exists there is better supported when we have modern grazing practices, not by removing them from the land.
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Context: House Hansard - 47 - Mar/28/22
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Mar/28/22 5:21:27 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-8 
Madam Speaker, I could not agree more about the important role that farmers play. I would like to ask my hon. colleague if he agrees that we need to pay for the ecological services that farmers perform: for instance, not cultivating areas of wetlands, pulling back and protecting hedgerows, using low-tillage or non-tillage methods and doing things that sequester carbon in the soil. Does he agree with me that we should pay farmers for sequestering carbon in the soil and protecting biodiversity?
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