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Madam Speaker, I would like to hear what my colleague from the Bloc Québécois thinks about what the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons said. He said that my party is taking time away from the House, when his party or the government wants to continue having a House that sits as little as possible, since it prorogued Parliament. Does he think that the gov…
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Madam Speaker, that is a good question. The actual terms of the energy agreement in the former NAFTA was a proportional sharing agreement. It was not an absolute sharing agreement to the highest levels that we provide to the U.S.; it was a proportional sharing agreement so that if in some emergency or international incident we had to cut back one-quarter to the U.S. we would be incumbent to cut ba…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague on the other side of the House for that Freudian slip. This is very constructive. This is about Canadian jobs. This is about one of the most important issues for the future of Canada and a pattern we see happening. We are speaking up loudly at this point in time for the interests of Canadians and asking the Prime Minister to meet with the U.S. President and get …
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the first report of the Special Committee on the Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States, presented on Thursday, April 15, be concurred in. I will be splitting my time today with the member for Chilliwack—Hope. Today is May 10. In two days, on May 12, the Governor of the State of Michigan has stated that she will shut down Enbridge Line 5, which provides…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Natural Resources is leaving no stone unturned, he says, and he is looking at all options. That is what he tells us. However, there are 48 hours left before 30,000 jobs and millions of people who depend on them are affected. Fuel shortages, food distribution impacts, essential goods and personal protective equipment not being manufactured are what awaits us if the gove…
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Mr. Speaker, today is May 10. In two days, on May 12, the government will fail if the Governor of Michigan closes down Line 5. When is the government going to actually recognize that this is something serious it has to deal with? When is the government going to talk to the Governor of Michigan, and also with the President of the United States, and get this problem solved?
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Mr. Speaker, I have to thank my colleague on the other side of the House for his comments. I am often challenged by which comments are more worthwhile to the House, his or the deputy House leader's, because they both seem to be taking up a lot of oxygen and they are frankly more partisan than they are practical. I would suggest that a little parsimoniousness in their words might get us a little fu…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to ask my colleague from the Bloc Québécois a few questions about the costs of oil and gas. She had some good questions: What are the costs of remediating this land and what are the costs of pollution that society bears on behalf of the oil and gas industry? Inasmuch as there are some effects of every industry we have, does she know about the amount of tax, the amount of econom…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I am humbled to be in this debate tonight. I know so many of my colleagues on this side of the House wanted to comment on the emergency of Line 5. I am here representing so many of them. We do have a good list of speakers, but many more wanted to address this issue. They have been advocates for this industry for years, advocates for how we will benefit across Canada, fro…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a very theoretical question because I am sure my colleague is well aware that there has never been an oil spill in the Great Lakes on either the Canadian or the American side. I think Canadians are just as keen as Americans are to keep the waters of the Great Lakes safe.
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Mr. Speaker, that is the first I have heard that Canadians do not have confidence in the environmental review standards, which are both provincial and federal. Most people think they are onerous and overlap, and can take years or sometimes decades to get through. I think that as far as the world goes, Canada has the most robust environmental review regime known across many jurisdictions. I am chal…
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Madam Speaker, I was referring to his reference to the legal position of the government on this and the previous deputy House leader's reference to his colleague's legal opinion of what was going to happen at the hearing with the Governor of Michigan. Yesterday, in The Globe and Mail, the Governor's office was quite clear that, “the Governor's position is that Enbridge must stop operating Line 5 b…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, the minister has unfortunately let down Canadians on so many files. I mean, I have been in this House for a year and a half. I have been working solidly on the natural resources file for several months now, ever since I was named the shadow minister for natural resources, which was last September. Since September, we have had failures on so many files. As a mat…
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Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate the comments from the member on the other side. I also appreciate him bringing his role as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to this debate as well, because it is very important. I have heard his words and ask him this. At what point in time does he feel this will receive enough importance, with six days left before the decision is made…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to hear the assistant government House leader on that side of the House. Hansard will know there is no font for sarcasm, but I hope he gets that. He brought up last night's emergency debate and I will refer to it. My colleague for Edmonton Strathcona, a member of the New Democratic Party, made it quite clear about the Prime Minister and his potential relation…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize as I just have that quote there. We will go through with the withdrawal of the remarks, but nevertheless I think they were part of the record. Let us go forward and address what that means. If the NDP in Alberta actually think the Prime Minister is not helping Alberta enough, and this line is potentially linked to Alberta's prosperity, can this member get the Prime Minis…
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Madam Speaker, I know my colleague on the other side of the House spoke about the legality of what is happening here and I refer to his previous colleague, the deputy House leader, when he referred to the opinion of one of your colleagues earlier in the evening—
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his comments. What role does biomass play in the transition to a green economy? Does the technology to replace textile fibres with tree fibres exist? How many trees will be cut down to develop that industry, and how many years will it take?
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Mr. Speaker, Calgary is a dynamic city. It is a resilient city. Analysts know that the advances Canada has led in oil and gas revolve around the development of technology. Despite a tumultuous six years, Calgary's technology industry continues to prosper and is doubling down on growth and opportunities. Venture capital investment in Alberta tech opportunities has experienced phenomenal growth. In …
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Mr. Speaker, those are nice-sounding words. The minister, and now the parliamentary secretary, keep stating that keeping Line 5 open is “non-negotiable”, yet we are still in limbo. The environmental impact of shutting down Line 5 would be devastating. It would require 15,000 trucks and 800 rail cars per day to replace the supply shortage. For a government that claims to be addressing climate chang…
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Mr. Speaker, the government claims it is working to ensure that Enbridge Line 5 is not shut down on May 12. We have been calling for the Prime Minister to get involved in this file for six months. Last week, the National Post reported that officials were frustrated by how much time they were spending on the matter. Canadians are frustrated by the lack of results from the government. May 12 is a me…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to finally have the opportunity to speak to Bill S-3 virtually in the House of Commons. As I am here safe while doing my job, I am reminded that offshore workers do not have the same protections. In fact, it has been 120 days since offshore oil workers were stripped of their health and safety regulations because the Liberal government let the temporary safety regulations …
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Mr. Speaker, we have been asking that question ourselves ever since this file landed on our desk. What is taking so long? It was five years, then a one-year extension and then a request for another two-year extension, which we managed to push back to a one-year extension. We need these regulations done. There are 300 pages of them. This is the basics of governing, and the current government is fai…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe that is much the same question as the one I just answered from the hon. member for St. John's East. I do agree that all governments in their practices need to look forward to what is the best regime to look after workers' safety, in combination with what we are looking at as far as the industry itself goes. I will repeat that I do think it is something we can look at going f…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is exactly right. Six years plus one year means we are talking about seven years of delays in implementing actual safety regulations. That is 2,190 days for 300 pages, which is seven days per page for getting regulations—
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Mr. Speaker, the effort before us today is to pass the regulation to make sure the workers are safe. I think it is incumbent upon us to make sure we look at regimes going forward that will provide for independent oversight of that safety as well. I think it is something that we should consider going forward.
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome my colleague who has recently been named the parliamentary secretary and I am looking forward to working with him on these very important files. In the first part of his speech, which was regrettably split in half here, I did notice that he said this is an important issue to the minister as it is in his actual backyard, Newfoundland. However, the workers in the minister's ba…
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Mr. Speaker, as my first order of business, I will ask for the unanimous consent of the House to split my time with the hon. member for West Nova.
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Madam Speaker, I echo some of the comments of my colleague for New Westminster—Burnaby about the minister's disingenuousness about having this in front of Parliament in the first place. Would he prefer to have this type of legislation, which my party would like very much to debate and have our input on, decided by his bureaucrats alone without any input from democratically elected Canadians? That …
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Madam Speaker, if the minister really wants to move this through the House and actually have some input on it, he may not have appointed all members of the board that should have resulted from this, as opposed to actually working with other members in the House of Commons in constructing that after this went through. Is this legislation really just a hurdle that he has to get over as quickly as po…
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Mr. Speaker, two years ago, Canada lost its lead in carbon capture technology to the United States. My colleagues and I have been pushing the government to introduce a tax credit that will level the field with our U.S. competitors. The Liberals responded last week when they included this environmental tax credit in their budget. However, they specifically excluded enhanced oil recovery, a strange …
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Madam Speaker, we were very much engaged with the government on the changes that we brought to it on the emergency wage subsidy. We were very happy it was able to deliver those to Canadians who needed those during the pandemic. We were quite proud that as a caucus and as a party we were able to deliver aid after the Liberals had initially put forward a package that—
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Madam Speaker, I will start today by thanking my colleague from Edmonton—Manning. He is a great advocate for the Canadian oil and gas industry. He does great work here and has proven on the floor of the House of Commons again today virtually that he represents his riding very well. Alberta's industrial heartland lies just outside Edmonton. I am certain a lot of his constituents work in that gem of…
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Madam Speaker, it is strange, the timing of all the expenses that seem to be flowing out of the Liberals at this point in time and attaching themselves to the budget. There is something that we need to do for our seniors. The pandemic has exposed one thing, and that is how we have had a hole in the health treatment to our seniors to which we did not pay enough attention. Adjusting those structural…
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Madam Speaker, today, I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Carleton. Before I start a real speech, I want to talk about the basics, because the basics are sometimes lost. Seeing yesterday's budget, a lot of basics were lost. However, let us start with the definition of budget. A budget is an estimation of revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time and is usually comp…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Kingston and the Islands for pointing out my stumble. I am pleased that the Minister of Finance has followed our lead in applying an investment tax credit for carbon capture utilization and storage, one of Canada's most tangible opportunities to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. A 90-day consultation period has been announced. I encourage the government to …
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Madam Speaker, this week, the House of Commons got to finally debate Bill C-262, a bill that would provide a tax incentive for companies across Canada's economy to contribute to greenhouse gas reductions. Yes, in an era when the government's approach to an environmental problem is to nibble at the edges and tax Canadians, Conservatives have put forth a plan to incentivize the removal of these gase…
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Madam Speaker, that is a very important question because I have met with indigenous organizations in my riding and across Canada. One of the exact issues that they brought forward is who has standing to say that “you need my consent in order to move this forward”. Does that consent now come at the high school level when every person has to step forward or does it come with an actual legitimacy? We…
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Mr. Speaker, I heard an earful from the Minister of Justice about why we have to do this here today. I do not know how much of that is actually verifiable, because I have been in this House many times. Today is the first day that I will get to speak on this bill. I have spoken to many indigenous organizations in my riding and in my province in developing resources across Canada. They all want a sa…
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Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague. I am certainly proud to talk about the existing constraints of the Indian Act. That has to change now. Maybe they should cease to exist. I hope we will see that in the next Parliament.
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Madam Speaker, the coal development they are looking at that has been petitioned in southern Alberta has been in the process for over eight years. I think it started in 2013, so it has transcended different provincial governments and indeed different federal governments and has a multi-party, multi-level of government environmental assessment review going on at this point in time. It is important …
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Madam Speaker, I represent a riding that is in Treaty 7 territory, the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nation, including Siksika, Piikani and Kainai, theTsuut’ina nations; and Stoney Nakoda First Nation. We acknowledge all the many first nations, Métis and Inuit, whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries. Let me start today's debate on Bill C-15, introduced to ensure that the …
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Madam Speaker, there are all kinds of new technologies Canadians are bringing to the table. Carbon capture, which we are talking about here today, was actually something that originated in Alberta and Saskatchewan, because we have the reservoirs here that are available for it. It is really ideal for us to actually lead in this respect. Companies are coming from around the world because they want a…
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Madam Speaker, yes, the United States has a difference in the way its application works toward the 45Q tax credit when it is utilized in actual enhanced oil recovery. The data actually shows that the reduction from wells to wheels, as we call it, or the full life cycle of oil and CO2, actually reduces by between 57% and 100%, depending on the way the sequestration happens. Enhanced oil recovery is…
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moved that Bill C-262, an act to amend the Income Tax Act (capture and utilization or storage of greenhouse gases), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Madam Speaker, it is my honour to rise in the House today to present this private member's bill at second reading: Bill C-262, an act to amend the Income Tax Act regarding carbon capture, utilization and sequestration. I want to st…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the passion with which my colleague on the Liberal side of the House has addressed this issue and I see he did it without noticing he was going on about what was going wrong with this side of the House on that matter. I have been in the House as much as I can through this pandemic and I have not seen this bill advance as much as it should have. It has been here since Nove…
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Madam Chair, I really want to ask the hon. member more about the experiences that she spoke about in describing these incidents that have happened, and the results of these being somewhat related to COVID and what has happened in the last year here in Canada, and how much we can look forward to coming out of this at the end of the day and hopefully getting past this. How do we deal with it in the …
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Mr. Speaker, last week, Chevron Canada announced that it was exiting the Kitimat LNG after seven years and $3 billion. Why is investment fleeing this world-leading project? The Liberal appointee leading the Canada Infrastructure Bank said that risk and uncertainty are holding back private investment projects across the country. It comes full circle. Liberals create risk and uncertainty and then bl…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a couple questions of in hearing her speech. I really want to ask her about travel. Travel is one of those things that Canadians have said that we need to lock down, but at the same time, we also have to continue to think about what travel means in our society. Travel means, of course, external affairs and making sure we have international business. Prior to this latest lockdow…
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Mr. Speaker, offshore oil workers are hard at work keeping our economy running, yet the Liberals are sitting back and delaying regulations to keep these workers safe on the job. The Liberals waited until the last minute to introduce a bill in the Senate to keep offshore workers safe in their jobs. The Senate has finally done its job, but now the government is dragging its feet again on moving this…
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