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Mr. Speaker, with regard to national interest projects, I would ask the member opposite to direct his questions to the Minister responsible for Intergovernmental Affairs. What I can say is that our government is committed to working as one with all the provinces and territories—
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Mr. Speaker, it is the same question I have been answering all night, and once again, my job as Minister of Environment and Climate Change is to make sure that we protect our environment. It is not to pick and choose the projects.
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Mr. Speaker, is the member opposite trying to say that they would rather sow division in this moment when we are facing President Trump's threat to our sovereignty and to our economy, or are they willing to join us in building a strong economy together?
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Mr. Speaker, it is not about choosing one project or another, and it is not up to me to do that. For all decisions to be made in the context of this bill to build Canada, the government will have to determine whether projects will help us meet our climate change objectives.
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure why the members opposite are moving away from wanting to celebrate what Canadians wanted to see, which is the unity between premiers and the Prime Minister that we saw last week.
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Mr. Speaker, there are national interest projects that our entire country needs to see built. My question is, will the Conservatives be supporting the premiers from across the country?
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Mr. Speaker, I find this rich coming from the Conservatives, who were unable to build any projects over their time, because they did not care for the environment and they did not do indigenous consultation.
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Mr. Speaker, while I thank the member for providing a precis of that commentary, the truth is, as I have said before, that the most important thing is how we work to build Canada as an energy superpower that is low-cost, low-risk and low-carbon. That is a task that Canadians have given us to do, and that is what we will work on.
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Mr. Speaker, there are several factors in this bill, and I think it is important to take a look at them. While several factors relate to other areas, if we focus solely on the environmental aspect, it is clear that projects must "contribute to clean growth and to meeting Canada’s objectives with respect to climate change". That is in the bill.
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Mr. Speaker, again, it is not my job to pick which projects will be built. My job is to make sure that the environment is considered as we make those decisions, and the legislation allows for that specifically.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians love our proud heritage and proud nature coast to coast to coast. However, I will point out once again that there is a Minister of Canadian Identity and a Secretary of State for Nature who are responsible for those files. I am sure they will be happy to answer those questions.
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Mr. Speaker, I will give the same answer to the same question. My job is to ensure that Canada achieves net-zero emissions by 2050 and that we always consider the environment when completing projects. That is what I am doing, and I am committed to doing so every day.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians want to see us working together, and I am going to say that this applies to the members across the way. They want to see us meet this moment when we are facing the challenges from President Trump. I hope they are willing to help us.
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Mr. Speaker, as I have already mentioned, there was a meeting with all the provincial premiers last week. I had the opportunity to speak with Quebec's environment minister, as I do with the environment ministers of every province, to really find out what they think. What Canadians want to see is a united Canada, given—
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Mr. Speaker, we will need energy to be able to support our country, and we are planning for us to be an energy superpower. There are many forms of energy that our country can support, including using nuclear, hydroelectric, hydrogen—
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Mr. Speaker, I can say with certainty that the position of this government is that we need to build ourselves as an energy superpower, and to do that, we will be working to make sure it is low-risk, low-cost and low-carbon. We will look at all forms of energy that Canada is lucky to have as its resources.
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Mr. Speaker, most of the chatter I am hearing is from the Conservatives across the way. What I saw last week was premiers and the Prime Minister sitting at a table and saying, “Let us work together.” The only people who seem to be upset with that are the Conservatives.
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Mr. Speaker, last time I checked, there is one minister of environment and climate change, and that is me.
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Mr. Chair, absolutely, economic reconciliation is important, which is, in fact, why we have an indigenous loan guarantee.
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Mr. Speaker, I hope that the member opposite will support the build Canada act, which gives us the opportunity to build projects in the national interest. We have a very important moment that we need to face. I do not hear that support. Are the Conservatives supporting it?
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Mr. Speaker, after we complete the consultations, we will have to study what we have heard and then determine what we need to do, using all the tools that we have, to get us to net zero by 2050.
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Mr. Speaker, as I said before, choosing projects is not part of what I do, but I always have to make sure that we consider the environment. That is my job as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and I am committed to doing that.
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Mr. Speaker, will the Conservatives support building projects of national interest, or will they not?
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Mr. Speaker, I would be happy to provide a numerical breakdown of the protections of our oceans. There is a Secretary of State who is specifically tasked with a nature file. I would be happy to consult—
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Mr. Chair, we are talking about an industry that employs many in Ontario, which is my home province, and I work—
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Canadian Identity is in charge of the file with respect to biodiversity. He was actually at the UN negotiations in Montreal on biodiversity and would be happy to fill in the member and provide all those—
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Mr. Speaker, I talked about the factors we need to think about when making decisions about national interest projects and the bill. I hope the member will support it. This includes taking the interests of indigenous peoples into account. That is where—
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Mr. Speaker, as I said, it is important. The government announced a cap on greenhouse gas emissions for the oil and gas sector last December. It held consultations, as it always does for this kind of regulation. It is one of the tools that we have in our tool box. We remain committed to achieving net zero by 2050.
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Mr. Speaker, fellow colleagues, I am happy to appear before you this evening as Minister of Environment and Climate Change to discuss the 2025-26 main estimates for Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canada Water Agency. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people,…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, it is not up to me to decide what projects will go ahead for our country and to build Canada. That is something we will do together, as a country. My role is to always think about how we can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think it is for me to speak to any feelings anyone has, particularly the feelings I am hearing from across the way. The most important part is that we work in unity in this moment.
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Mr. Speaker, I would really like to thank the member for asking that very thoughtful question, which goes to the heart of what we are trying to do right now in Parliament. It is why I am really reaching out to the members opposite to see if they can help us with this project. We are just coming out of an election where Canadians were very clear about what they wanted to see and what their concerns…
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Mr. Speaker, I absolutely support Canada being a strong country that protects our lands and waters, including our coastal waters. I would say there may be more the member could hear from the minister and the Secretary of State, who are directly involved in the protection of nature.
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Mr. Speaker, as I said before, the Minister of Canadian Identity has biodiversity as his file and has played a central role in the negotiations at the UN with respect to biodiversity. I am happy to provide that information to the member opposite at a later date.
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Mr. Speaker, we have been very clear as a government. Canadians want to see us build things. They want to see us build properly, taking into account the environment and making sure that we are consulting with indigenous peoples. It is not for me, as the Minister of Environment, to choose which projects are there. That is something that is happening through conversations between the provinces and t…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not understand where the member is going, because if he is trying to say that indigenous people should not be consulted as part of projects, I will say definitively that he is incorrect. Indigenous people must be part of the process and consultation—
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Mr. Speaker, as I said, in December the government proposed regulations to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector. It then held consultations and conversations with the industry and Canadians. It continues to do that work. So—
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Mr. Speaker, I think that the member and I could work well together on the environment. Capping greenhouse gas emissions is very important. In Canada, 30% of our emissions come from the oil and gas sector. It it very important that all sectors, all industries in our country work to help us cap and even reduce our emissions. We are continuing our work by using all the tools we have so that—
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Mr. Speaker, the answer remains the same: My job is to make sure we take into account the environment when we are making decisions. My job as the minister of environment is not to choose specific projects.
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Mr. Speaker, we have tabled the building Canada act. In that act, there is a process that is set out very clearly as to how decisions will be made. This is a moment to build on the unity that we saw last week between the Prime Minister and premiers from all across our country.
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Mr. Speaker, it is not for me to start talking about average salaries or salaries. However, what I will say is that we are going to make sure there are well-paying union jobs right across this country in building a strong Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, what I am saying is that certain factors in the bill must be taken into consideration, for example, consultations with indigenous groups and environmental issues. Personally speaking, I am wondering whether the member opposite will lend his support—
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Mr. Speaker, to be clear, I did not actually say I was supporting following any country's model. I said that I supported protecting our lands and waters, which I do. We have a Secretary of State for Nature, who is specifically tasked with 30 by 30. She is the one who will be working alongside the government.
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Mr. Speaker, I would say there is a big difference between a Liberal government and a government led by Pierre Poilievre. We believe in protecting the environment, and we are constantly working to do just that. We are working to ensure that we have clean energy. We are going to keep working to build Canada strong and protect the environment at the same time.
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Mr. Speaker, we are not going to take the Conservatives' advice. When they were in power, they were unable to get projects built because they did not have environmental assessments or consultations with indigenous peoples. We have nothing to learn from them. We are going to get it right. We are going to build Canada strong, a Canada that takes care of the environment and consults with indigenous p…
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Mr. Speaker, what we as a government respect are the two things that Canadians asked us to do. Canadians want us to build a strong Canada with a strong economy while protecting the environment. This is not just about working together; it is also about getting it right.
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Mr. Speaker, again, what I support and what our government supports is making sure that we have a competitive economy that meets the global moment we are in.
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Mr. Speaker, this gives me a chance to flag that we are in global treaty negotiations around the world, looking to how we move away from plastic waste. That—
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Mr. Speaker, there are factors set out in the legislation, which I would be happy to read if the member would like. My question is, will they support the legislation?
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Mr. Speaker, of all the actions we are taking, people need to pay attention to how we are capping emissions across all industrial sectors. That is very important if we want to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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