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Minister of Environment and Climate Change

Hon. Steven Guilbeault

  • Member of Parliament
  • Minister of Environment and Climate Change
  • Liberal
  • Laurier—Sainte-Marie
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 58%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $99,511.83

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Context: House Hansard - 233 - Oct/17/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Oct/17/23 2:45:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my colleague. We have already cut fossil fuel subsidies. We are the first G20 country to do so. We did it two years sooner than all of the other partners. We even went a step further. We committed to eliminating public funding as well, unlike any other G20 nation, and we will do so by next year.
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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Jun/8/23 2:31:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is quite simple: We are already doing it. We are investing more than $200 billion in clean technologies and in the fight against climate change. That is half of what the United States, a country 10 times our size, is doing. What is more, we are eliminating fossil fuel subsidies. I agree with my hon. colleague. We need to do more. We need to move faster on both tackling climate change and ensuring we can adapt to it. That is exactly what we are doing on this side of the House.
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Context: House Hansard - 173 - Mar/27/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Mar/27/23 2:44:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. As she probably knows, we eliminated international subsidies for fossil fuels at the end of last year. That is billions of dollars that we are now investing in clean technologies. We have also committed to eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies by the first half of 2023, and we will get there.
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Context: House Hansard - 155 - Feb/7/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault
  • Feb/7/23 10:50:29 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I can reassure my hon. colleague that I do not supposedly come from the environmental sector. I am from the environmental sector. I have the arrest record to prove it. We have put in place a number of measures to tackle the emissions of the oil and gas sector. In fact, our emissions reduction plan presented last March is the first time in the history of this country when we have set a trajectory for emissions reduction for the oil and gas sector. We are working on a number of different elements of regulations to tackle the emissions of the oil and gas sector. We eliminated international fossil fuel subsidies just before Christmas, and we are working with the party of the member opposite on eliminating those subsidies in Canada in the first half of this year. We will be doing this two years earlier than all of our G20 partners who have committed to eliminating those fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • May/17/22 2:27:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for the question. As he well knows, we have committed to eliminating fossil fuel subsidies by 2023, two years sooner than our G20 partners. We are the only country to have made that commitment, and the subsidies have already been reduced by more than $3 billion a year since 2018.
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