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House Hansard - 110

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 7, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 110 - Oct/7/22
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Oct/7/22 10:53:23 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. However, I have to say that his comments about plastics were hair-raising. One of his colleagues actually introduced a private member's bill to ban the export of Canadian plastics to places such as the Philippines and India. Of course, our plastics do not end up in the water, but we send them to places that do not have the means to recycle them. I just wanted to point that out. Would my colleague support the idea of strengthening industry regulations in the context of the bill before us now?
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Context: House Hansard - 110 - Oct/7/22
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Oct/7/22 11:39:35 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the government has cooked the books to hide the fact that it continues to sink our money into the Trans Mountain pipeline. In the spring, the Minister of Finance announced that the government would spend no more public money on Trans Mountain. However, West Coast Environmental Law has revealed that the interest on the project's debt alone will cost us $750 million this year and $800 million next year. By the end of 2023, the total cost of Trans Mountain to taxpayers will reach, brace yourselves, $17 billion. How much will Quebeckers have to pay for Canada to continue polluting?
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Context: House Hansard - 110 - Oct/7/22
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Oct/7/22 11:41:27 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, therefore fighting climate change means increasing the oil supply. We will have to remember that. We have known since day one that the Trans Mountain pipeline is a financial and environmental disaster. However, we did not know that taxpayers would have to cough up $17 billion. Another $17 billion of public money will be invested in the oil sands as we find ourselves in a climate crisis. That is the price of letting the Government of Canada make decisions for us about how to invest our money in climate change. Do they really believe that Quebeckers would have chosen to sink their money into a pipeline in western Canada that will go bankrupt?
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