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Richard Cannings

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • South Okanagan—West Kootenay
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 61%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $128,729.57

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Context: House Hansard - 227 - Sep/29/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/29/23 1:28:25 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-50 
Madam Speaker, I am glad the member for Elmwood—Transcona brought up signals that the current government and governments around the world are sending. Five years ago, I was at a G20 meeting on energy. The subject was this transition that we are talking about today. Germany, Japan, Argentina and even China were talking about the need to move to renewables quickly, and Canada got up and said we built an oil pipeline and would like to build more natural gas pipelines. It was a real face-smacking moment on the world stage. Workers can see that too. They see this transition is happening. Could the member talk more about how we need to involve workers in this process?
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Context: House Hansard - 227 - Sep/29/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/29/23 10:58:03 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-50 
Madam Speaker, my colleague said she wanted to base her speech on facts, but there is apparently some alternate world out there about facts. She mentioned that the fossil fuel sector has just less than 200,000 employees in Canada. The clean energy sector already has 430 employees, and it is expected to grow by more than 200,000 over the next 10 years. That is where her constituents and workers across Canada are looking. I will close by saying she should read John Vaillant's book Fire Weather, which is about her province, about the world, about climate change and about the industry that she is such a fierce protector of.
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Context: House Hansard - 227 - Sep/29/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/29/23 10:31:09 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-50 
Madam Speaker, I want to pick up on this idea of working on creating a clean energy grid and cleaning all our forms of energy in the Canadian energy ecosystem. One way we could do that to fight climate change, bring down our emissions, and keep Canadians safe is to have a really serious program to bring heat pumps to all Canadians. There is a small program in Atlantic Canada now. We really need this across the country. Heat pumps are safe and efficient, and they work everywhere across Canada. I wonder why the government is not really picking up on that in a big way.
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