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Hon. Steven Guilbeault

Member of Parliament
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Liberal

Laurier—Sainte-Marie
Quebec
Voting Attendance: 59%
Expenses Last Quarter: $99,511.83

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Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)

Nov/9/23 3:17:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to see my colleague in the House. I agree with the findings of the commissioner. We need to do more. Our plan shows that we are at 34%, towards a 40% emissions reduction target. Since the environment commissioner did the study, we have put up a number of new measures to help fight climate change and accelerate the reduction of climate pollution, including a zero-emission vehicle mandate and new methane regulations. By the end of the year, as the Prime Minister announced in New York, we will also have a framework to cap the emissions of the oil and gas sector.

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Context: House Hansard - 248 - Nov/7/23

Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)

Nov/7/23 2:53:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if my hon. colleague bothered to actually listen to the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development's press conference he would have heard him say—and these are his words—that the plan we presented last year is the best plan to fight climate change in the history of this country. I did not say that, the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development did. Can we do more to fight climate change? Of course. Would I be pleased to work with him, with the Bloc Québécois and with the Green Party so that Canada can move faster and go further in the fight against climate change, in spite of the Conservative Party of Canada? Absolutely.

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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23

Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)

Jun/1/23 3:01:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately the commissioner of the environment did not have the benefit of our latest national inventory report, which shows that we have the best performance of all— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!

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Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23

Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)

Apr/25/23 3:02:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague that we have a lot of respect for the work of the environment commissioner. Unfortunately, when preparing his five reports, he did not have access to the latest greenhouse gas inventory report, which came out last week after the commissioner's reports. He will no doubt include them next year. I would also like to remind my colleague that in the recent budget that my colleague, the Minister of Finance, tabled in the House a few weeks ago, we made record investments in clean technologies, in renewable energy, which puts us at the top of the list of G20 countries in terms of investment in this sector.

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Context: House Hansard - 58 - Apr/26/22

Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)

Apr/26/22 2:48:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, we welcome the commissioner's latest report and thank him for his findings. I do not know what is so controversial about that. Over the last six years, we have made major progress on everything from putting a price on pollution to protecting historic amounts of our lands and water. As we have planned in budget 2022 and the emissions reduction plan, we are transitioning to a clean economy. We are putting a cap on emissions from Canada's oil and gas sector, and we are putting a price on pollution through to 2030.

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