Elizabeth May

Madam Speaker, if I may, permit me to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving as we are about to leave Ottawa for the moment. These petitioners within my riding and across Canada are extremely concerned, and I am very honoured to get this petition in before we have our Thanksgiving constituency week. This is the issue that really troubles so many Canadians, and I give thanks to Jann Arden for [more]

Madam Speaker, I really have no confidence in the current government when it comes to keeping its promises. Their promises are just like everyone else's—

C-61 C-37 Madam Speaker, I am concerned that between Billof 2024 and Bill, the loudest interventions against rights to safe drinking water came from some of the premiers. I am wondering if my hon. colleague from Parkland has any thoughts on how a government can be held accountable in a Parliament when it pays more attention to premiers than to the operations of Westminster parliamentary democracy.

Winnipeg Centre Madam Speaker, it is an enormous honour for me to split my time with a member of another party, but I want to stop for a moment and just say that the hon. member for, with whom I will be splitting my time, is a champion for indigenous rights. I am honoured to share my time with her. C-37 C-61 I am rising now to speak to Bill, the bill that, as we know, is under debate today, an [more]

Madam Speaker, obviously I do not know. I would love to really understand the motivations of this change in government. From all appearances, indigenous rights, climate and nature are no longer important to it. These issues, peoples and ecosystems are seen as obstacles to bulldozers.

Madam Speaker, it makes me heartsick, because I did feel that we were making a lot of progress. Obviously as leader of the Green Party, I was never in a cheering line for everything that was done under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, but I did have a sense that there was a deeper understanding of the imperative of reconciliation. Reconciliation has to be the work primarily of settler [more]

Madam Speaker, I want to quote a former Liberal environment minister and former Liberal federal member of Parliament, the Hon. Clifford Lincoln, a strong Liberal who cared about rights. When he resigned his seat in the Bourassa cabinet, he gave a speech in the Assemblée Nationale du Québec, where he said, “rights are rights are rights”. This is a scandal.

Prime Minister Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary keeps mentioning LNG Canada as a great investment. Yes, it is a $33-billion project, and it is true that thestood side by side with David Eby, Premier of B.C. He has so much in common with the Prime Minister. David Eby inherited a surplus of $1 billion in 2022 when he took office. He is a miracle worker. In four years, he has converted it [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is always an enormous honour to rise in this place that is so important to Canada's true democracy, but that is especially true today. My constituents started this petition. Its subject is a specific human being, an extraordinary Canadian and one of my constituents, the renowned and much-loved artist Robert Bateman. It is e-petition 7456, and it has received over 9,000 names, [more]

Courtenay—Alberni Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague fromthat there is nothing to vote against in the motion. I wonder, if we are going to have a day spent debating something foolish, if the member for King—Vaughan would agree with me that since we have more billionaires in Canada than ever, we should hold the world's first trillionaire to account. Elon Musk said yesterday that Alberta, [more]

Mr. Speaker, my question is for the hon. Minister of Fisheries. In 2019, the federal government committed to shutting down what are sometimes called open net-pen salmon farms. In my riding, my constituents asked me to call them toxic fish factories, which is what they are. The government promised to shut them down by 2025, but in 2024, it extended that to 2029. Now the First Nation Wild Salmon [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am returning to a question I asked on May 1. It relates to the science around the climate crisis. I am very concerned that we do not actually talk about the position we are in as humanity on a planet that is undergoing dramatic, irreversible changes due to our own conduct. Too often in this place, it is a throwaway line, or someone stands up and says, “Well, we could talk about [more]

Mr. Speaker, earlier today, five members of Parliament from this place, from five different parties, were deeply honoured to welcome to this place former Afghan members of parliament. All these former MPs are women. All of them lost their role as parliamentarians in the blink of an eye on August 15, 2021, when the Taliban again seized power and declared a war on women, a genocide on women. These [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is no indication of urgency whatsoever except the urgency with which the Liberal government is turning its back on climate commitments. Prime Minister As Steven Guilbeault said before he left the House, the platform on which all the Liberal members ran mentioned climate change 28 times but did not mention pipelines once, and in approving the pipeline recently, theclaimed that [more]

Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. I would add that the word “hypocrisy” may actually be a little too kind. There is one thing that troubles me. During last year's debates, Liberal members argued that the five-year sunset clause could be problematic because a future Conservative government might use these extraordinary powers improperly. At the time, the [more]

C-5 Mr. Speaker, honestly, I was shocked because not only is this bill is badly drafted, it is also deceitfully drafted. Usually when we look at the summary of a bill and what it says it is going to do in the front few pages it would say that it is amending Bill, although it is not called Bill C-5 anymore, the Building Canada Act, in the “following ways” or “including the following”. We would [more]