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Patrick Bonin Bloc Québécois

“I oppose this bill. The government is using the tariff crisis as an excuse to permanently ignore our environmental and health laws. Good projects do not need to bypass the rules.”
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his clear remarks. We are very clearly dealing with a government that is currently exploiting the tariff crisis. Bill C-39 proposes to make it possible to circumvent environmental laws on a permanent basis. This has nothing to do with the tariff crisis. It shows very clearly that the Liberals want to make this permanent. We have laws and regulations for a reason. We have spent several decades establishing a system to protect the environment and people’s health. Essentially, what Bill C-39 does is allow us, within 24 hours, to throw this entire framework for protecting the environment and people’s health into the dustbin of history. There would be no need to bypass laws and regulations if the projects were sound. Clearly these are bad projects. The Liberal government is using the tariff crisis to literally engage in Trump-style politics, develop oil and gas, set aside the law and rule like a king.

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