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House Hansard - 222

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 21, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Sep/21/23 1:56:44 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-33 
Mr. Speaker, I listened to my hon. colleague say the old Conservative mantra that they are going to build pipelines, pipelines, pipelines. I was reading the indictment of the people of California against ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, Conoco, Phillips, and it says: Rather than warn consumers, the public, and governments, however, Defendants— That is big oil: —mounted a disinformation campaign beginning at least as early as the 1970s to discredit the burgeoning scientific consensus on climate change; deny their own knowledge of climate change-related threats; create doubt in the minds of consumers... ...Defendants have promoted and/or profited from the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels... This has forced the state of California and the people of the world to pay for the damages. What we are seeing is the big tobacco moment. My hon. colleague is saying big tobacco and big oil will continue to pollute the planet and it will be good. I would suggest that he read the indictment from the state of California against all the big five oil companies that knowingly discredited climate science and are knowingly destroying our planet.
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