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House Hansard - 318

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 27, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Ken McDonald (Avalon, Lib.)
  • May/27/24 1:38:47 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I will say from the outset, because my colleague mentioned the oil industry, that I have family members who work in the oil industry in Newfoundland as well. I support the oil industry wholeheartedly. He mentioned “powerful paycheques”. Could you please give this House your definition of a powerful paycheque?
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • May/27/24 2:41:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my hon. colleague that more than half of the oil consumed in Quebec is Canadian oil and that as Quebeckers, we consume 360,000 barrels of oil every day. Yes, our record is better than the rest of the country, but Quebec also needs to make an effort. No one is off the hook from fighting climate change. No one is better than everyone else. We must all work on fighting climate change.
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • May/27/24 6:53:53 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-59 
Mr. Speaker, Bill C-59 includes more than $12 billion for carbon capture by western oil companies. It also includes $18 billion to help oil companies buy nuclear power plants, known as small modular reactors, to replace the natural gas used to heat the oil sands with polluted water, so that they can save the gas and export it instead, particularly through the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Bill C‑59 gives the oil industry about $30 billion. Is that the Liberals' environmental plan?
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Mike Morrice
  • May/27/24 7:45:18 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, first of all, we agree with the Bloc Québécois on the fact that the government needs to eliminate all oil subsidies, including those pertaining to carbon capture and storage. As a Green Party government, we would be much more ambitious. We would move more quickly and take this issue more seriously. We are in a climate crisis. That means that we need to make significant investments in public transportation. We need to electrify our grid across the country and we need to eliminate all oil subsidies.
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Taylor Bachrach (Skeena—Bulkley Valley, NDP)
  • May/27/24 8:31:34 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I listened intently to the speech by my colleague from Manitoba, and it was interesting because it reminded me of other times when we have had bills in the House for which Conservative after Conservative got up and spoke against and then somehow all voted for. What kind of jolted me awake midway through the member's speech was when he said that he supported the bill, because everything he had said prior to that gave me the indication that he would not be supporting it. However, that is not my question. Partway through his speech, the member raised the concern about importing oil from jurisdictions like Saudi Arabia, and he said that really we should be able to use our own oil for domestic use and not have to import oil from jurisdictions that we do not support for one reason or another, which is actually a premise that I support. However, my question, and the reason I think it gets raised time and time again as a red herring, is on why the former Conservative government and the current Conservative Party has never brought forward a single proposal to ban or add tariffs to the importing of oil from countries like Saudi Arabia. Why is that?
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • May/27/24 8:48:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very interesting speech. This bill makes it clear that it does not end oil and gas exploration in Atlantic waters. However, fishers are being asked to do more and more to protect the right whale. My colleague had started to list some potential solutions that could be put in place. I invite her to continue with that list, for the benefit of all our colleagues.
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Context: House Hansard - 318 - May/27/24
Mr. Martin Shields (Bow River, CPC)
  • May/27/24 11:42:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Calgary Rocky Ridge understands what the oil industry did in the city of Calgary, what it could do and how it was devastated by these Liberal policies. Can he imagine what this kind of policy would stop from happening in the Atlantic region? It has possibilities, but what does he really think would happen, as he may have seen what the Liberal government did to the industry in Alberta, particularly Calgary?
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