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Richard Cannings

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • South Okanagan—West Kootenay
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 60%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $128,729.57

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Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Mr. Richard Cannings
  • May/29/23 1:50:05 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands. However, I am not holding my breath. I think that if the government wanted to do this right, it would have done it right the first time. All I would say is that my private member's bill has that enforceability part baked into it and extends it to the other parts of the Canadian federal legislation on the environment. It carves out CEPA, because of issues around that legislation, but I would hope the government would use this as a model to fix CEPA once and for all.
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Context: House Hansard - 197 - May/15/23
Mr. Richard Cannings
  • May/15/23 6:48:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, indeed, one of the major problems with Bill S-5 is that the enforceability of the right to live in a clean and healthy environment is left up to the minister. It is not up to the residents of Canada, who should be able to bring forward concerns to the minister and then follow a transparent and timely path so we can make sure this right is upheld in a proper manner. It should not be left entirely up to the minister, as it is now.
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Context: House Hansard - 197 - May/15/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • May/15/23 6:03:47 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, we just had a question about some of the amendments that were not considered. Some of the amendments that people wanted to put forward were considered out of scope. We even heard one of the Liberal speakers today say that he hoped we would go back to this bill as soon as possible, as soon as we passed it, and create another bill that would fix the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. After 24 years, the government did not include these important provisions in this new bill. They include things like the enforceability of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, something obvious that should have been done. Can the member comment on why these things were not included in Bill S-5?
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