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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 - 201 - May/29/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • May/29/23 5:24:57 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for the member for Milton and his work on the health file. Health Canada has found that air pollution is a factor in 15,300 premature deaths and millions of respiratory issues every year in Canada, yet this bill has nothing in it about air quality standards. We need to have enforceable air quality standards in Canada, but this bill does not mention it at all. The air flows between provinces. We see that with the smoke coming out of Alberta. Why did the government leave air quality completely out of this bill and vote down proposed amendments to fix this?
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Context: House Hansard - 121 - Oct/31/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Oct/31/22 12:41:27 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-5 
Madam Speaker, I just want to add some comments to the member's concerns around how this idea of the right for Canadians to live in a healthy and clean environment would be approached. In this bill that we are debating today, Bill S-5, the new Canadian Environmental Protection Act would only extend those rights as far as the bill goes. It would basically be around toxins, air pollution and water pollution. The federal government has a wider mandate than that. We have a lot of environmental legislation on the books, including the Fisheries Act and the Species at Risk Act. Would the member agree that we need to extend that right to the entire federal mandate?
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Context: House Hansard - 102 - Sep/26/22
Mr. Richard Cannings
  • Sep/26/22 6:44:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, obviously we need to put a price on pollution and make sure the processes, companies and individuals causing climate change around the world pay for that pollution so that we can do the things necessary to combat climate change. That is the mitigation part of climate change. Tonight I have been talking about the adaptation aspect. We are stuck with the climate change we have right now. Right now, it is close to a 1.5° rise. If we stopped all our carbon emissions today, as I could only hope, we would still in this place where we would be having hurricanes and forest fires over the next centuries. We have to do both.
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