44th Parl. 1st Sess.

January 30, 2023 11:00AM

Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23

Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)

Jan/30/23 5:19:55 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-35

Madam Speaker, I hear calls around me of revisionist history. This is the history; I remember it like it was yesterday. On November 28, 2005, we had signed child care agreements from every province with the federal government, stickhandled, which is a good use of the term, by Ken Dryden, who was the minister at the time and a former hockey great. That was part of a package of things that had been accomplished, including a plan for Kyoto that would have gotten us very near our Kyoto targets. We could have avoided Fiona if November 28, 2005, had not happened. There was also the Kelowna Accord. This was all agreed to, and tragically my friend Jack Layton, whom I loved, decided it was better to bring down Paul Martin's minority government and turn the country over to Stephen Harper, and we lost child care. Martha Friendly, child care advocate, will back up every word I just said. We had been working together on it.

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House Hansard - 149