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House Hansard - 121

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 31, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • Oct/31/22 12:14:26 p.m.
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This brings us to the end of the 20-minute speeches. We are now down to the 10-minute speeches. Therefore, I would like to recognize for debate, the hon. member for Calgary Shepard.
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Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Oct/31/22 12:27:39 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, that was an interesting speech by the member from Calgary, as always. I will have to add the word “consultocracy” to my vocabulary. He mentioned how unenforceable the law would be. The CEPA, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, has been on the books since 1999, and it has never been enforced in any way. Could he perhaps give us some ideas on how we should make it enforceable? Canadians deserve to live in a clean and healthy environment and we need to be able to enforce that.
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Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Oct/31/22 4:41:20 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, number one, Bill S-5 does not deal with climate, and I recognize a big part of the debate we are having here is on sections of environmental and climate policy that are not in Bill S-5. It is true the government has never met any target, but neither did the previous government under Stephen Harper, which picked a target in Copenhagen and said it would meet that target. It picked a target in 2006 and said it would meet that target. The Liberals claim they reduced emissions, but it was due to COVID. The Harper administration claimed it reduced emissions, but it was due to the 2008 financial collapse. We need all the big parties to do all the things the hon. member for Calgary Midnapore has said: Have a plan, make a target and stick to it. In fact, not only have none of the governments in this country ever achieved the target, but they have not gotten the direction right. They are supposed to go down, but emissions go up. That is largely due to governments, one after the other, trying to accommodate Alberta's oil and gas industry and running into opposition.
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Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Oct/31/22 4:45:41 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my hon. colleague listing every climate promise. She missed some, but she did list a whole bunch of the climate promises the Liberals have made. They have failed on every single one. I want to ask the member a question. This past month, the Alberta Federation of Labour wrote to the Prime Minister with all the affiliates of the Alberta industrial unions, IBEW, the Boilermakers, the western section of UNIFOR, District 3 of the United Steelworkers and the International Union of Operating Engineers, to say that they are already living the transition, and they are asking the government where the funds are to create the diversification in a clean energy economy that we are seeing in the United States. Calgary Economic Development would say it would create $61 billion in opportunity for Alberta alone if that money was on the table. Does the member support the position of the Alberta Federation of Labour, that we need to see this commitment to an energy transformation now?
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Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
The Deputy Speaker
  • Oct/31/22 5:57:29 p.m.
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Well, knowing that we have only about 50 seconds left in the speech, I would ask the member to maybe wrap things up in view of the bill before us. The hon. member for Calgary Nose Hill.
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