“The Liberals have dropped their own promises on climate change. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives criticize each other for things they do themselves. I want to know what the member thinks about this.”

“Mr. Speaker, this is an awkward question to ask the hon. member for Elgin—St. Thomas—London South. I am distressed. When he asks the Liberal members why they do not support all of the Conservative platform, I do not think it is just a rhetorical question. I wonder why the Liberals do not, because they have abandoned their own platform. Almost all of the people across the way ran on a platform that mentioned climate change 38 times, and as Steven Guilbeault pointed out, it did not mention pipelines once. I am in a House where people on both sides of the aisle believe that we can throw stones at glass houses and glass never breaks. I do not think that is credible, but I wonder if my hon. colleague has any comments.”

“I want to know what the member thinks about this bill based on his past work in Ontario, when he helped cut pollution and save money by closing coal plants. I am disappointed this bill only cuts fuel taxes for a short time instead of taxing the huge extra profits of big oil and gas companies.”

“Mr. Speaker, I am perhaps asking the hon. member for Mississauga—Lakeshore to turn back and reflect on some of his previous background. I think he was the minister of finance in the government of the province that did the most to reduce greenhouse gases when the province of Ontario shut down its coal-fired power plants. I think he may know something about reducing pollution and saving lives, reducing greenhouse gases while also saving people money in that province. I wonder if he has any reflections. I am disappointed that all we would be doing is a temporary relief on an excise fuel tax instead of taxing major oil and gas companies on the excess profits they are receiving right now, but perhaps the former minister of finance has some thoughts.”

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“The Liberals broke their promise and cut 2.7 billion dollars in aid to poor countries. Also, most of the 714 billion dollars in the Canada Pension Plan is invested outside our country, mostly in the United States. I want us to change the law so that money is invested here in Canada.”

“Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Hamilton East—Stoney Creek cited some relatively small amounts of money that have been sent overseas to the poorest of the poor. I do not know if he is aware that the Liberals broke their election platform promise to not cut foreign assistance, and they took another page out of the Conservatives’ platform by cutting $2.7 billion from overseas development assistance. Does my colleague agree that we should make sure that the Canadian pension plan, the over $714 billion that we have contributed over our working lives, is invested in Canada? The majority of it is not invested in Canada. A great deal is invested in the U.S. Should we not repatriate that with a change to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act?”