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House Hansard - 308

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • May/3/24 11:43:40 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2021-22. That is why the advisory board appointed by the Minister of Environment himself is issuing a warning: Climate policies work when they exist. In other words, they do not work when they do not exist, for example, in the oil industry, where emissions continue to rise. Emissions are going to skyrocket with the opening of the Trans Mountain pipeline, a new dirty oil pipeline, on Wednesday, given that there is no emissions cap on oil. When will the minister rein in oil companies instead of opening pipelines?
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Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:44:18 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite my colleague to carefully read the report that was published yesterday because it states that Canada's greenhouse gas emissions are 44 million tonnes less than they were before the pandemic in 2019. That is equivalent to taking 13 million vehicles, or half of Canada's vehicle fleet, off the roads. The last time that greenhouse gas emissions were so low in Canada, Connor McDavid from the Edmonton Oilers had just been born, O.J. Simpson was on trial and the google.com domain name had just been purchased. Our plan is working. We need to continue to fight climate change.
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Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:45:37 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague that if she bothered to read the report, she would see that our record between 2019 and 2021 is the same as Germany's or even Italy's and that it is better than that of the United States of America. We are not talking about Russia or Iran here, but the United States of America. Our performance on fighting climate change is better than our neighbour to the south. We have tabled the consultation document to impose a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. I have said that we would have draft regulations this year and final regulations by next year.
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