Steven Guilbeault
- Born
- June 9, 1970 — La Tuque in Haute-Mauricie
- Education
- Studied computer science in CEGEP (junior college), enrolled in industrial relations at the Université de Montréal in 1989. Switched his major to political science. He minored in theology.
- Career
- Founding member of Équiterre, director and campaign manager for the Greenpeace Quebec chapter for ten years, senior consultant for Deloitte and Touche
- Political Experience
- Minister of Canadian Heritage from 2019 to 2021, Minister of Environment and Climate Change from 2021 to 2025, and Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages in 2025. MP for Laurier–Sainte-Marie since 2019.
- Notable
- Scaled Toronto's CN Tower in 2001 as a Greenpeace activist. Sat on the climate change advisory committees of three successive Quebec governments.
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Steven Guilbeault won with 27,286 votes (52.1%)
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much for being here, Ambassador and Ms. McCollum. In your view, which criteria could Canada use in deciding to pursue greater involvement on the ground in Syria, by opening an embassy, for example? Do you have an evaluation grid to show how that result could be arrived at?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Abou Diab, thank you very much for those very enlightening answers. I have some questions for Ms. Deschamps-Laporte. Just now, we were trying to gauge the difference between 2016 and 2026. How do you and your colleagues in the academic community evaluate the change in the situation during that decade?
Thank you.
That's a good question. I am referring to civil society.
My time has run out. However, I would be grateful if you could provide the committee with the list of the 20 names you mentioned. I feel that would be very useful. Thank you.
Earlier, a number of colleagues spoke about the importance for the government of reflecting the diversity of Syrian society. I am thinking particularly of various minorities who actually are not always minorities. I agree with Mr. Aboultaif on that. The matter of representation aside, what do you feel to be the criteria needed for more stability in the Syrian state?
Thank you. In your opening statement, you, like others today, spoke about the role that Canada could play. You mentioned that it need not involve a major investment. Could you tell the members of the committee the two or three actions that, in your view, could be Canada's most meaningful contribution to support the transition in Syria?
Thank you to all the witnesses here today. I had a question for Dr. Johnston about what would be needed in terms of investment in Venezuela to ramp up production to what it was, certainly in light of comments by companies like Exxon saying the oil sector in Venezuela is “uninvestable”. Ms. Dickinson, I have a couple of questions for you. You talked about the three-point plan from the Americans, [more]
Thank you. How do you think a country like Canada should respond to the recent developments in Venezuela, specifically in terms of reopening diplomatic relations with the regime in place?
Thank you very much. I don't have any more questions.