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House Hansard - 331

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 13, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Jun/13/24 11:12:41 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the fundamental problem with the Liberals' carbon pricing schemes is that the government, under the present minister, gave $34 billion for the TMX pipeline. We now have record production taking place at Imperial. Cenovus is going to increase from 150,000 barrels a day. We are expecting a 500,000-barrels-a-day increase from the bitumen sands, which cause the highest greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. How is the minister telling consumers that they should pay more when they go to the pumps when he is giving free money to big oil to continue the emissions that have risen in the oil sector year in, year out, and are now being subsidized by the government's pipeline?
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Jun/13/24 11:38:17 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have a lot of respect for my colleague. Today's discussion is very strange. When it comes to the climate crisis, the Conservatives are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. That being said, I am concerned about the Liberal Party's position. The government invested a lot of money in the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline. This will result in a massive increase in greenhouse gases. Why is the government supporting the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline and promoting the tar sands during a climate crisis?
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Jun/13/24 11:56:48 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the government gave $34 billion to the TMX pipeline, but what it does not talk about is that it is so over-budget that no oil company can use it because of the toll charges that have to be charged per barrel of oil. The Canada Energy Regulator had capped the toll charges at 22¢ on every dollar so that 78¢ was going to be paid by taxpayers. Now Liberals are saying they are going to increase it to just under 50¢ per dollar. In what credible world is it that the taxpayers of Canada will have to pay at least 50¢ on every dollar to ship raw bitumen to the coast on behalf of companies that are making record profits? This is the biggest scam and subsidy that I have ever heard of in promoting the burning of our planet, and yet the Minister of Environment is going along with it. I wonder what the member thinks of this.
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Jun/13/24 12:15:23 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we saw in the motion that the Liberals seemed to be trying to prevent the release of the report. Earlier, we heard the Minister of Environment and Climate Change say that he had stopped subsidizing oil when in fact he continues to subsidize the oil companies in all manner of ways, including the pipeline and so-called carbon capture. What does my colleague make of this doublespeak?
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)
  • Jun/13/24 1:29:47 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we know, even in the banter back and forth in the House, how serious Conservatives and Liberals are about the climate emergency. I am wondering how my hon. colleague feels about her government's buying a pipeline that is costing over $30 billion. I know that there is banter about who cares about climate more. Many of the Conservatives are climate denialists, are axing the facts and are still debating whether the world is flat. I would ask what my hon. colleague thinks about her government's buying a pipeline.
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