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Jenny Kwan NDP
“I oppose this bill. It approves projects before the environmental reviews are done. Once nature is damaged or a species goes extinct, we cannot undo it.”
“Madam Speaker, that is exactly the point that I had raised in my speech. The government is saying that it is building faster, that this is all in the national interest and that somehow magically it will protect the environment, yet it would do preemptive approvals before the work is done. As indicated, we cannot actually undo the damage. The ecosystem will not fix itself. Extinction will not disappear, because the government violated that provision in safeguarding the environment.”
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Madam Speaker, that is exactly the point that I had raised in my speech. The government is saying that it is building faster, that this is all in the national interest and that somehow magically it will protect the environment, yet it would do preemptive approvals before the work is done. As indicated, we cannot actually undo the damage. The ecosystem will not fix itself. Extinction will not disappear, because the government violated that provision in safeguarding the environment.