“Liberal women have called out the Prime Minister for taking too much power in this environmental bill. They want limits, independent reviews, and reports to Parliament on any skipped environmental assessments. They do not want projects approved before assessments are done. I want the government to listen to them.”

“Mr. Speaker, we have been asking the Liberals for weeks to condemn Bill C-39. It was the National Women’s Liberal Commission that had the courage to take the lead. These Liberal women submitted a brief condemning the Prime Minister’s overreach. They are demanding that all powers to exempt or abbreviate environmental assessments be reported to Parliament, be subject to independent review and be time-limited. They are also speaking out against the government’s intention to approve projects before the assessments are complete. Will the government finally listen to reason and listen to the voices of Liberal women?”

“I want the government to listen to its own Liberal women's group and stop this bill. The Prime Minister is using a temporary tariff crisis to give himself permanent power to skip environmental reviews and Indigenous consultations so he can build pipelines.”

“Mr. Speaker, the Liberal women also denounce the temptation to create “manufactured urgency”. Any claims of urgency should be independently verified before they justify an exemption. The National Women’s Liberal Commission is right on the money. It clearly sees that the Prime Minister is exploiting the tariff crisis, which is temporary, to give himself excessive permanent powers, powers that allow him to bypass environmental assessments and indigenous consultations in order to build pipelines. Women are always the first to suffer when there is authoritarian overreach. Will the government listen to them?”