Elizabeth May, Saanich—Gulf Islands
“I oppose this bill. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives are ignoring climate change. Canada now has a worse climate record than the United States. Climate change costs Canadians too, like when they have to flee wildfires.”
“Madam Speaker, it is a very difficult problem, for those of us who are committed to basing policies on science, to watch the Liberal Party squander what it had, which was basically a puffed-up, false reputation on climate in the first place, and then have the Conservative Party prop the Liberals up at the very moment when the Conservative Party should also say that not only is the Liberal Party driving up the fiscal deficit, but that it is also driving up the climate deficit. Canada now has a worse record on climate, and let this sink in, than the United States does, after one and a half terms of Donald Trump. It matters to Canadians, because affordability also includes running for one’s life from wildfires.”
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Madam Speaker, it is a very difficult problem, for those of us who are committed to basing policies on science, to watch the Liberal Party squander what it had, which was basically a puffed-up, false reputation on climate in the first place, and then have the Conservative Party prop the Liberals up at the very moment when the Conservative Party should also say that not only is the Liberal Party driving up the fiscal deficit, but that it is also driving up the climate deficit. Canada now has a worse record on climate, and let this sink in, than the United States does, after one and a half terms of Donald Trump. It matters to Canadians, because affordability also includes running for one’s life from wildfires.