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House Hansard - 298

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 11, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 298 - Apr/11/24
Mr. Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)
  • Apr/11/24 11:11:07 a.m.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended (a) by replacing line 19 on page 7 with the following: “(1.1) The Council includes the following mem-”; and (b) by replacing lines 22 to 24 on page 7 with the following: “(b) two members who represent trade unions; (c) two members who represent Indigenous peoples; (d) two members who represent industry;”
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Context: House Hansard - 298 - Apr/11/24
Mrs. Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland, CPC)
  • Apr/11/24 11:24:40 a.m.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 28 on page 11 with the following: “territories, Indigenous peoples, trade unions, non-unionized workers, munici-”
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Context: House Hansard - 298 - Apr/11/24
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Apr/11/24 12:42:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to be clear, I agree with my friend from Provencher on one point. This bill should have been called the just transition act. The government and governments around the world, largely because of the work of Canadian trade unions, which were in Paris at COP21. They worked hard to ensure that climate action would not compromise the jobs of workers in the fossil fuel sector and that they would receive help and support. As a Maritimer, I lived through what was called the “TAGS program” or the “groundfish strategy”. They told workers who had just lost all their work from the cod fishery to trade the fish net for the Internet; these were ridiculous notions. We need to support the workers and communities that are going to be impacted by the climate crisis and by actions to address it. This bill is the result of the Liberals trying to talk out of both sides of their mouths, while accomplishing nothing.
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Context: House Hansard - 298 - Apr/11/24
Mrs. Shannon Stubbs (Lakeland, CPC)
  • Apr/11/24 12:52:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since the minister was not on the committee, I appreciate his commendation of his cohorts for colluding in the costly coalition cover-up. The Liberal members of his party rejected a Bloc Québécois motion that would have ensured that Bill C-50 supported “the decarbonization of workplaces while preserving existing jobs, minimizing job losses, and encouraging the involvement of workers and trade unions in the associated transition processes”. How can he possibly rationalize that? This is an important question, because in the Canadian energy sector, more than 90% of energy companies are small businesses with fewer than 100 employees. In Bill C-50, the just transition actually does not contemplate those workers at all. We supported that Bloc amendment; the Bloc and the Green Party are the only parties being honest about the agenda that is actually included in Bill C-50, instead of pretending that it is about skills and jobs-training programs. That amendment, as well as all the Conservative amendments, were the only measures that would have included provinces, territories and indigenous governance bodies for consultation and collaboration under the central plans by all the secret government committees that would stem from Bill C-50. How on earth can the minister defend Liberal members for rejecting these amendments?
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