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Senate Volume 153, Issue 161

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 22, 2023 02:00PM
  • Nov/22/23 2:30:00 p.m.

Hon. Steven Guilbeault, P.C., M.P., Minister of Environment and Climate Change: Thank you, senator.

You seem to forget that just two years ago we won in the Supreme Court of Canada on carbon pricing.

On the Impact Assessment Act, it was not a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada, but an opinion. That opinion did say that some of the Impact Assessment Act was unconstitutional, but they also confirmed that parts of the act were entirely constitutional.

In terms of plastic pollution, I will make no excuse to fight to protect the health of Canadians. We are finding plastic substances in our brains. We are finding it in our fetuses. We are finding it in our kids. We are finding plastic pollution in our environment, and I will continue to fight to protect the health of Canadians, and I will make no excuse for that.

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