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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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Context: House Hansard - 281 - Feb/13/24

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

Feb/13/24 2:53:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, right now in Canada, we have a province, Alberta, that has to talk about rationing water next summer because of climate impacts. We have atmospheric rivers in British Columbia that are affecting thousands of people and ski resorts that have to close down. We are seeing the costs of climate change that have not doubled or tripled but increased by 10 times over the last decade. What is the answer of the Conservative Party of Canada? It is to make pollution free again and let the biggest, most profitable and polluting countries off the hook. Not on this side of the House, where we will fight— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!

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Context: House Hansard - 275 - Feb/5/24

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

Feb/5/24 2:36:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think that a lot of the people watching us just cannot understand why, in 2024, a party that wants to form the government someday, maybe, still cannot grasp the importance of climate change. In 2021, drought caused a 27% decrease in Canada's grain production. Just two years later, in 2023, grain yields dropped by 13% across the country, again, due to drought. Over the past decade, 200,000 Canadian farmers have seen their costs increase because of climate change. What is the Conservatives' response? They are going to make polluting free again.

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Context: House Hansard - 241 - Oct/27/23

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

Oct/27/23 11:33:14 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we announced yesterday that we are going to double the rural top-up for Canadians, who benefit from the implementation of carbon pricing. We will also, through a pilot project, make it free for Atlantic Canadians who want to switch to heat pumps, which will enable them to save $2,000 per year. What is it the Conservatives do not like about it? I will tell members what it is: It is making Canadians less dependent on their big-oil friends. They want Canadians to continue paying for inefficient, polluting and pricey systems. That is not what we want to do on this side of the House.

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Context: House Hansard - 132 - Nov/22/22

Hon. Steven Guilbeault

Nov/22/22 2:47:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as the Leader of the Opposition said earlier during this question period, this will not take effect before July of next year. In the meantime, we are helping tens of thousands of Canadians get rid of their home heating oil, which is more expensive, more polluting and less efficient. The Conservatives would like to condemn those Canadians to continue being dependant on systems that will cost them more and more over time as opposed to systems that will save them thousands of dollars every year. That is the unfortunate truth.

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Context: House Hansard - 94 - Jun/22/22

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

Jun/22/22 3:16:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Davenport for her advocacy and her work on these important issues. Selena is right. We need to do better when it comes to protecting our environment, which is why this week we announced that we are banning six single-use plastics that are polluting our rivers and our environment. They are ending up on our streets and everywhere. Between now and 2030, there will be 22,000 tonnes of plastic waste that we will take out of our environment and 1.3 million tonnes that we will take out of the Canadian economy.

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