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House Hansard - 9

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 2, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/2/21 11:30:17 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I give my colleague my sympathies for the loss that he described early in his speech. I also come from a province where oil and gas is, of course, very important to our economy. We are seeing very little investment in the oil and gas sector because we have not shown, in Canada, that we are doing what we can to take carbon out of the barrel. Does the member see a way that we could use our oil and gas subsidies in this country to invest in our sectors so that they could be removing the carbon from the barrel? Is there a way we could use those subsidies to invest in renewable energies and make the sector more attractive to international investors, but also make sure that the people in Alberta and across Canada are able to keep working?
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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/2/21 12:47:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague will not be surprised by the question I am going to ask him today. I agree with him that there needed to be much more focus on agriculture within the throne speech, and I was very disappointed we did not see that, but I have spoken to people in his riding who are very concerned about the attacks on water in the very drought-prone area that would be the result of coal mining in that area. I just wonder if the member would be willing to work with me to push back against the attacks on our water, our wild spaces and our endangered species by coal mining in his riding.
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