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IN THE HOUSE ~ Calling on Minister Oliver to apologize for denying climate change and its impacts

Context : Question M. Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, NPD): Monsieur le Président, le ministre des Ressources naturelles doute encore des conséquences des changements climatiques. Il pense que les gens ne sont pas inquiets de voir la Terre se réchauffer de 2 degrés. Au contraire, les gens sont bien inquiets de voir les glaciers fondre et les ours polaires disparaître, en plus de voir les océans se vider de leurs ressources. En niant l'existence des changements climatiques, les conservateurs nous ont encore embarrassés sur la scène internationale. Le ministre va-t-il enfin reconnaître que les changements climatiques sont réels et prouvés par la science, oui ou non?

L'hon. Joe Oliver (ministre des Ressources naturelles, PCC): Monsieur le Président, comme je l'ai dit maintes fois, j'accepte la science. Par contre, le leader adjoint du NPD n'est pas d'accord avec une étude indépendante, objective et scientifique menée en 2000 par le département d'État américain sur Keystone XL. Nous allions nos cibles de gaz à effet de serre à celles des États-Unis, qui visent une réduction de 17 % d'ici à 2020. Nous sommes à mi-chemin quant à l'atteinte de nos engagements.

Mr. Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, NDP): So the minister accepts science, Mr. Speaker, but does not believe it. The minister made an outrageous claim and has failed to name a single scientist to back it up. These anti-climate change beliefs are relics of a bygone age. Worse still, the government is sending clear signals to industry that it will do nothing to fight climate change, that it will do nothing to make polluters pay and the Conservatives are happy to leave the clean up bill to future generations to pay. That is wrong and irresponsible. Will the minister apologize for his ill-informed and outrageous comments?

Ms. Michelle Rempel (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the people who should apologize here are the NDP. That is a party filled with job creation deniers. It is the first time in Canadian history we have seen the stoppage of growth in greenhouse gas emissions while the economy continues to grow. This is because our sector-by-sector regulatory approach reduces greenhouse gas emissions while saving Canadians money unlike the NDP that proposes an approach that would raise the cost of basic goods on everything for all Canadians.

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