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House Hansard - 169

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 20, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 169 - Mar/20/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Mar/20/23 2:53:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my hon. colleague that neither indigenous nations nor the federal government were told about the seepage or leak before February. For nine months, the federal government did not know about this. We have since sent out enforcement officers to do monitoring. Many of my colleagues and I are working with the communities to provide them with what they need. This includes having drinkable water sent to them if they wish as testing of the water in their communities is still ongoing. We are working on this. We will continue to work on it with the indigenous nations and the Alberta government.
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Context: House Hansard - 169 - Mar/20/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Mar/20/23 2:55:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we welcome President Biden's visit to Canada in the coming days to talk about these important issues, about the clean economy, about fighting climate change. I would like, however, to remind my hon. colleague that we are already investing in Canada, $120 billion, not coming but happening now, which is, per capita, three times more than what the U.S. is doing. We have a price on pollution in Canada. Unfortunately, our U.S. friends cannot have a price on pollution. We are doing a number of things in Canada that the Americans are telling us they only wish they could be doing. We will be happy to work with President Biden and the U.S. on these.
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Context: House Hansard - 169 - Mar/20/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Mar/20/23 3:13:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her advocacy on this very important issue. Yes, today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued another stark warning. We collectively need to act to fight climate change, something the official opposition does not seem to have understood over the last 30 years. It wants to make pollution free again in Canada. It has no idea whatsoever what needs to be done to fight climate change and to adapt to the reality of climate change. In 2021 alone, there was $17 billion in climate impacts to Canadians. That is what climate change means to Canada.
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