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Shannon Stubbs

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Lakeland
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $228,013.82

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  • Apr/15/24 1:28:29 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-50 
Madam Speaker, the hon. member and I disagree on nearly everything when it comes to energy policy, but I enjoy very much working with him on committee. I want to acknowledge both the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party for actually being honest about what Bill C-50, the just transition, is, which is a plan to end oil and gas, kill Canadian oil and gas jobs and, as the member pointed out, create a government committee to create a government committee to implement economic restructuring plans from the top down. I would note for the member that the leading driver of the creation of new union jobs in Canada is the oil and gas expansions by major multinationals in Alberta and other provinces where they operate, yet on the other hand, 93% of Canadian oil and gas businesses have fewer than 100 employees; they are small businesses. Since he is interested in engaging what is in the legislation, I appreciate that he will oppose the just transition in order to protect provincial jurisdiction and because he can see that the bill would not do anything that its proponents claim it would in terms of jobs training, new jobs or skills training. What does the member think about the fact that what Bill C-50 would do is end oil and gas, the leading creator of new union jobs and big multinationals right now, yet would not contemplate at all the 90% of Canadian oil and gas companies that have fewer than 100 employees?
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  • Apr/11/24 12:52:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since the minister was not on the committee, I appreciate his commendation of his cohorts for colluding in the costly coalition cover-up. The Liberal members of his party rejected a Bloc Québécois motion that would have ensured that Bill C-50 supported “the decarbonization of workplaces while preserving existing jobs, minimizing job losses, and encouraging the involvement of workers and trade unions in the associated transition processes”. How can he possibly rationalize that? This is an important question, because in the Canadian energy sector, more than 90% of energy companies are small businesses with fewer than 100 employees. In Bill C-50, the just transition actually does not contemplate those workers at all. We supported that Bloc amendment; the Bloc and the Green Party are the only parties being honest about the agenda that is actually included in Bill C-50, instead of pretending that it is about skills and jobs-training programs. That amendment, as well as all the Conservative amendments, were the only measures that would have included provinces, territories and indigenous governance bodies for consultation and collaboration under the central plans by all the secret government committees that would stem from Bill C-50. How on earth can the minister defend Liberal members for rejecting these amendments?
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  • Apr/11/24 11:24:40 a.m.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 28 on page 11 with the following: “territories, Indigenous peoples, trade unions, non-unionized workers, munici-”
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  • Apr/11/24 11:11:07 a.m.
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moved: Motion No. 64 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 22 on page 7 with the following: “(b) three members who, among them, represent unionized and non-unionized workers;” Motion No. 69 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 23 on page 7 with the following: “(c) three members who represent lndigenous peoples, of whom at least two also represent workers or employers;” Motion No. 71 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing lines 25 to 28 on page 7 with the following: “(e) two members who represent other key stakeholder groups.”
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  • Apr/11/24 11:09:31 a.m.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing lines 27 and 28 on page 5 with the following: “decent work, namely work — including, but not limited to, jobs in which workers are represented by a trade union that has entered”
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  • Apr/11/24 11:01:37 a.m.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 25 on page 3 with the following: “communities, non-unionized workers, non-governmental organizations and”
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  • Dec/1/23 10:42:52 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, regarding the 1% of Canadian oil and gas companies that have 500 or more employees, and the fact that it is traditional oil and gas pipeline and oil sands companies in Alberta that are currently leading the creation of new union jobs in Canada, what does she have to say to all of them when the aim of the just transition, just like the Bloc member rightly pointed out the NDP-Liberals are trying to hide, is to shut down oil and gas in Canada as quickly as possible? What does she say to all the union workers in Canadian oil and gas companies in Alberta, where new jobs are being created at the highest rate of any company or sector in any place in the country, who are also going to lose all their jobs immediately because of the just transition agenda?
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  • Dec/1/23 10:34:13 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, what does the member have to say to the 92% of Canadian oil and gas companies that have 100 employees or fewer, and the 60-some per cent that are considered micro-businesses with five or fewer employees, none of whom are union workers and none of whom Bill C-50 contemplates?
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