HANSARD: Will the Liberals end the subsidies for big oil to pay for it?

Debates of Dec. 3rd, 2024
House of Commons Hansard #381 of the 44th Parliament, 1st Session
Environment and Sustainable Development
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings

12:15 p.m.

Jenny Kwan Vancouver East, BC
NDP

Madam Speaker, the House needs to hear this again, that some 600 people died during the heat dome in British Columbia, some of them in Vancouver East. Some of my constituents lived in a SRO, where the air is absolutely stifling, and they were forced to become unhoused. There are now encampments as a result of that.

Now we have the Liberal government and the Prime Minister who, during a climate crisis, bought a pipeline. Over and over again, the NDP has been calling for the Liberals to end the subsidy for big oil, yet they will not do it. They say they support Canadians with a half measure on the GST. The NDP is saying that they should in fact ensure that the elimination of the GST applies for home heating and for essentials, and make that a permanent program.

Will the Liberals do it and end the subsidies for big oil to pay for it?

Adam van Koeverden Milton, ON
Liberal

Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her climate advocacy. It is absolutely horrid to imagine all the devastation that has occurred in Canada. We know that Canada is warming at three or four times the average rate of the rest of the world due to climate change, and it is indeed a crisis.

However, I am very proud of the fact that Canada is not only the oil and gas-producing nation to bring forward a cap on emissions, but we have also ended all those fossil fuel subsidies ahead of schedule. It is also important not to paint them all with the same brush, because we still have some northern indigenous communities that require those subsidies for their power systems.

It is disappointing to see the NDP continually point to carbon pricing as something that should not be part of a responsible climate plan. It is part of our climate plan, and it is disappointing that the New Democrats have turned their backs on that.

HANSARD: Will the Liberals end the subsidies for big oil to pay for it?

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