44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 22, 2023 02:00PM
- Nov/22/23 2:50:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we would think that after two decades in this place, the member opposite might know that the Senate is independent of this place.
However, there was a time when Canadians could look to Conservatives for a little bit of leadership on fighting climate change. Brian Mulroney was—
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- Nov/22/23 2:51:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we would think that after two decades working here, having had no other job before that, I might add, the member opposite, the leader of the Conservative Party, would know that the Senate is independent of this place.
There was a time when Canadians could look to the Conservatives for leadership on climate action, back when Brian Mulroney led the fight against climate change and when my neighbour, the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, staked his entire leadership campaign on a carbon price. Now, the leader of the Conservative Party is using climate action as a wedge to justify its shameful vote against the Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement.
Ukraine already prices carbon, and the Conservatives are out of air.
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- Nov/22/23 2:53:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing radical in the House is the leader of the Conservative Party's constant climate denial.
As I just mentioned, the Conservatives are trying to use climate denial in an attempt to justify their shameful vote against the Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement yesterday. However, I have news for the Conservatives, Ukraine already prices carbon, along with other European countries, such as Norway, Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. A lot of them believe in pricing carbon.
They all ran on that promise, and the member for Wellington—Halton Hills staked his entire leadership campaign on it. Conservatives need to get with the program.
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- Nov/22/23 3:00:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is refreshing to talk about how we fight climate change and not whether we fight climate change, constantly debating with the Conservatives whether climate change even exists. I agree with the leader of the NDP. Establishing a cap on oil and gas emissions is one of the key commitments of the government's emissions reduction plan.
Canada's oil and gas companies have proven repeatedly that they can innovate and develop new technologies and more competitive business models, and we will continue to work with them on reducing their emissions with an emissions cap.
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- Nov/22/23 3:11:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the agri-food sector is affected probably more than any other sector by climate change. In a year when we saw increased floods, more frequent storms, soil erosion, sporadic and unpredictable rainfall, and fires across this country that devastated rural communities, driving people out of their homes and causing destruction, it is really disappointing that the Conservatives still do not believe in climate change.
All of those impacts result from climate change, and a price on pollution is working to reduce our emissions and fight the fight.
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- Nov/22/23 3:19:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, who knows a thing or two about farming and climate change? It is the farmers who work in the breadbasket of the world, Ukrainian farmers. Who asked Canadian parliamentarians to vote for the Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement? Ukrainian farmers did, and so did the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and President Zelenskyy himself.
Ukrainian farmers are betrayed by this federal government. They are the people who grow—
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- Nov/22/23 3:20:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian farmers are betrayed by the Conservatives. My apologies for the misstep.
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