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House Hansard - 327

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 7, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Jun/7/24 11:45:16 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the arts inspire us, enrich our lives and add so much to our community. We need to support them, but the Liberal government has been underfunding Edmonton's arts scene for years, and local artists and our community are struggling. Cities with loads of Liberal MPs are getting as much as four times what Edmonton gets per capita. The partisan politics are hurting Edmonton's creative scene. When will the government stop punishing Alberta and start funding our arts?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia (Lac-Saint-Louis, Lib.)
  • Jun/7/24 11:47:45 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to build more homes and build them faster, Liberals know that municipalities need funding to accelerate the construction of critical housing infrastructure. Through our new Canada housing infrastructure fund, we are going to help municipalities do just that. Can the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities share the Liberals' plan to support the municipal infrastructure necessary for homes to be built across this country?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Jun/7/24 11:53:26 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday at the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development we welcomed the CEOs of the five major oil companies. They were despicable. They do not care about increased emissions in the oil sector. They all defended their record profits of $38 billion since 2020, money made from pollution. Despite their bulging pockets, they are seeking even more public money. These companies do not deserve a penny of the $83 billion in tax giveaways that the federal government is offering them over 10 years. Will the government cut the funding and reinvest in climate change adaptation?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and to the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, Lib.)
  • Jun/7/24 11:54:03 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the work of my colleague at the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development and in the House of Commons. We are the only G20 country to have eliminated subsidies for oil and gas companies, two years ahead of schedule no less. This week, we announced $530 million in funding with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in order to work with our communities across the country on fighting climate change.
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and to the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, Lib.)
  • Jun/7/24 11:55:19 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her question. Once again, I enjoy working with her. The new funding that I just mentioned supports more than 1,400 projects to help municipalities adapt to the impacts of climate change. Over the past two years, we have implemented a clean fuel standard, something that the Conservatives promised to do in their last election campaign. However, they changed their minds to make their leader happy.
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Jun/7/24 12:05:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the B.C. communities of Merritt, Princeton and Abbotsford were devastated by floods in 2021. Five people were killed, thousands were forced from their homes, farmland was flooded; and roads, bridges and other structures were destroyed. At the time, the Prime Minister said that he had the backs of these Canadians. Now these same communities have been denied funding to mitigate future disasters. Will the minister live up to his promises and provide these communities with the funds they need to rebuild and prevent more devastating floods?
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