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House Hansard - 339

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 19, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Sep/19/24 3:04:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague that, in 2013, the Harper government used the same emergency order to protect a species. It was not radical then, but suddenly it is radical now because we are the ones using it. It is hogwash. I met the workers too. They came to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. Experts, environmentalists, the first nations and workers are saying that we must protect the forest to protect jobs. Only the Conservative Party does not understand that.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)
  • Sep/19/24 4:14:07 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the NDP has been fighting for meaningful legislation to be brought forward since government first announced the transferring of cases, but the government's delay in bringing this legislation forward has had the tragic consequence of survivors being robbed of justice by concurrent jurisdictions causing cases to be stayed. We want this legislation to reach committee quickly, we are hearing that around here, so we can strengthen the bill and ensure more cases are not stayed. We also know this bill needs to pass to protect future cases from potentially being stayed by undue delays in the transfer of evidence. Many survivors have expressed their frustration that this bill was created by Ottawa lawyers without their input. How can the government protect survivors when the minister is not actually consulting them?
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Fraser Tolmie
  • Sep/19/24 4:29:22 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her work on the veterans affairs committee. As the member has heard during committee, when I served with the Canadian Armed Forces, we always wanted to protect everybody in our platoon. We always protected them, and it did not matter what race or sex a person was. Obviously, I want to make sure that everybody is protected. Conservatives would like the bill to be expedited as quickly as possible, but we also have to take the time to make sure that there is input and that people are truly protected and looked after. It does not matter what province or country a person is in when serving.
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