44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 28, 2022 10:00AM
- Apr/28/22 10:51:13 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North said we should focus on issues that are having an impact on Canadians.
I think ethics is an issue that has an impact on Canadians. I think that confidence in institutions is an issue that has an impact on Canadians. What happened with the WE organization and the almost $1 billion that was given to a Liberal Party crony raises some serious questions.
If we are going to talk about lobbying, since my colleague mentioned it in his presentation, the king of Canadian lobby groups is the oil and gas industry. It is the biggest lobby in Canada and controls a considerable portion of our economy.
We can go further still. The emissions reduction fund was launched during the pandemic solely to support the oil and gas sector.
I wonder if my colleague is as concerned as I am by oil and gas sector lobbying.
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- Apr/28/22 2:50:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, how much public money is enough for oil and gas companies already making mad profits? That is the question on the minds of Canadians reading about the CEO of Cenovus complaining that they need even more public money for carbon capture and storage. Never mind Canadians getting gouged at the pump while companies like Cenovus have profits sevenfold higher than this time last year. Never mind the billions that Liberals already gifted to them for unproven climate measures in the budget. They want more, but Canadians are not buying it.
When are the Liberals going to stop greenwashing corporate handouts and get serious about actually reducing emissions?
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- Apr/28/22 2:51:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have good news for the member opposite. Emissions are going down in Canada. The government's own emissions are going down by 25%. We have already reached a target we had set for ourselves for 2025. Fossil fuel subsidies are also going down, by more than $3 billion a year since 2018.
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- Apr/28/22 3:01:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the environment commissioner's latest report confirms that the Liberals are all talk and no action on the environment. They talk about the importance of the carbon tax, but ignore the impact it is having on small businesses and first nations. They talk about a just transition from oil and gas, but provide no support to Canadian energy workers who are losing their jobs. They fly across the country to talk about reducing emissions, while missing all of their targets every year.
These reports are scathing. Why is the Liberal government failing to protect Canada's environment?
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- Apr/28/22 3:02:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the short answer is no.
The long answer is the commissioner says that carbon pricing is one of the most important measures to fight greenhouse gas emissions. That is exactly what we are doing.
The commissioner says that eight out of 10 Canadians are getting more money through carbon pricing than without it. The commissioner said that the federal government would reach its 25% emissions-reduction target this year, not in 2025. Our plan is working, but I will agree that there is way more we need to do.
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- Apr/28/22 4:32:25 p.m.
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- Re: Bill C-8
Madam Speaker, with all due respect, with all the challenges our health care system had throughout the pandemic, how does charging a carbon tax to a hospital, in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars, reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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