“I oppose this bill. Environmental lawyers say it will destroy nature, and they gave it a failing grade. Will the member listen to these experts?”

“Mr. Speaker, keeping it short, I am sure my hon. friend from Vancouver Granville will agree with me that the lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law based in Vancouver are hard-working and very skilled. They have named this the “bulldoze nature bill”. I agree with them. Is the member prepared to listen to the advice of expert environmental lawyers who give this bill an F?”

“This bill does not protect the environment. Environmental lawyers agree on this. I want to know if the government will make big changes to it, because it is unacceptable as it is.”

“Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed with Bill C-39. Unlike the Liberal MPs, I would say that there are no environmental lawyers who believe this bill protects the environment. I would like to ask whether the government and its MPs are open to significant and serious amendments, because this bill is unacceptable.”

“The government talks a lot about getting products to market, but they do not seem to understand what is actually in the west coast pipeline. It mostly carries diluted bitumen to China to pave roads, yet the government described it wrongly. Does the government really know what it is shipping?”

“Mr. Speaker, “getting products to market” is a repeated phrase, and one thing that shakes my confidence in the government was in the Canada Gazette. On August 1, when it posted about the west coast oil pipeline, it did not accurately describe, in a very short description, the product that will go in the pipeline. Similarly, as the Liberals talk about the product going to China in the pipeline, I will note that the diluted bitumen, which is actually the product used mostly in China, is the tar in the bitumen to pave roads. I wonder if the member would comment on the level of familiarity of the government benches with the products that are being shipped.”