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House Hansard - 262

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 5, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 262 - Dec/5/23
Mr. Mario Simard (Jonquière, BQ)
  • Dec/5/23 2:39:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, does anyone know how many times this government has met with fossil fuel lobbyists in the past two years? Two thousand times. There have been 2,000 meetings with oil and gas companies in two years. Imagine: That is three meetings per day, seven days a week, with no days off. If each meeting lasted 20 minutes, that would be like watching every episode of all 35 seasons of The Simpsons three times. People wonder why nothing about this government works properly. Obviously, it is busy meeting with oil and gas companies. Seriously, what is the government thinking?
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Context: House Hansard - 262 - Dec/5/23
Mr. Mario Simard (Jonquière, BQ)
  • Dec/5/23 2:40:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals and the fossil fuel lobby are in love. After 2,000 “I love yous” and 2,000 dates in two years, I really think they are ready to move in together. Let me give some advice to my Liberal backbencher friends who feel like cabinet is ignoring them: Just resign and become oil lobbyists. That might be why the Minister of Environment and Climate Change invited Suncor, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Cenovus to the Conference of the Parties, or COP. I suppose that spending a day apart would feel like an eternity to him.
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Context: House Hansard - 262 - Dec/5/23
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Dec/5/23 2:41:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have had 2,000 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists in two years. Here is why Canada has not yet announced its plan to cap emissions in the fossil fuel sector: The oil companies have not finished writing it. They do not have time to finish it, because they are too busy meeting with the Liberals all day. Meanwhile, the Global Carbon Project announced at COP that, within seven years, we will exceed the 1.5°C warming target set out in the Paris Agreement. While the lovefest continues between the Liberals and the oil lobby, the planet is burning. Could the Liberals cancel just two or three meetings to take care of the planet?
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Context: House Hansard - 262 - Dec/5/23
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • Dec/5/23 2:48:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Environment is not only leaving for COP28 with a record number of oil lobbyists, but this seems to be a pathological habit. For those close to power, the Prime Minister's Office is only too happy to pay. Guess who the Liberals will meet with and listen to the most. Bingo: the oil and gas companies. According to a TVA report, the Liberals meet with fossil fuel representatives three times more often than they meet with environmentalists. If the Liberals miss all their greenhouse gas reduction targets, might that be because they are the puppets of the major polluters?
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