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House Hansard - 209

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 8, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Mr. Stéphane Lauzon
  • Jun/8/23 1:01:41 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we are proud to be at the forefront of the global movement against fossil fuel subsidies. Canada has accelerated its commitment within the G20 by moving the date up from 2025 to 2023. We are on track to meet this accelerated timeline. We are also asking our peer countries to accelerate their timeline. If everyone on the planet moves in the same direction, we will succeed in combatting climate change.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Ms. Marie-Hélène Gaudreau
  • Jun/8/23 1:44:10 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is 2023. Earlier in my speech, I mentioned that in 2002 Jacques Chirac said that our house is burning, that the earth is burning. This government will soon have been in power for eight years. All of a sudden, they are thinking about changing course. Meanwhile, we should already be seeing the positive effects of the shift that should have started in 2015.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Jun/8/23 2:51:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her advocacy on this issue. As she is well aware, last year, we eliminated international fossil fuel subsidies. Canada and the U.K. are the two most advanced countries in the world who have tackled this international crisis, and we are on track to phase out domestic fossil fuel subsidies this year, in 2023, two years earlier than any of our G20 partner countries. We are getting there, and we will get there faster than anyone else.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Jun/8/23 3:11:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my hon. colleague. In 2018, EDC went from $12.5 billion in international fossil fuel subsidies to less than $400 million last July. This will get to zero this year. These are international fossil fuel subsidies. We will also eliminate all domestic fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, two years earlier than all of our G20 partners.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Mr. Mark Gerretsen
  • Jun/8/23 3:53:37 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, that is the reason I wholeheartedly support this motion. I will be honest with this member. I informed my whip before I knew that this party would be voting for it that I would be voting for it because I genuinely do not believe that we should be investing in fossil fuels. That is my own personal position. The sooner we can get to a point that we are not doing that, the better. I realize that the government is on track to get to that point by 2025, but if we can get to it by 2023, I would be even happier. I support this motion. I personally am not in favour of continuing to prop up the fossil fuel industry. I do not think it is good for our environment. I know it is not. I do not think it is good for society as a whole.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès)
  • Jun/8/23 8:31:16 p.m.
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Pursuant to order made Thursday, June 23, 2022, the division stands deferred until Monday, June 12, 2023, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions.
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