Elizabeth MayElizabeth May: Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. friend from Kitchener—Conestoga. Oh, I am making a mess of his riding name. I apologize for the…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my friend, the member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands, has a very impressive science background. Therefore, I can understand why he addressed…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, Canadians may be confused. They hear opposition members saying that with Bill C-38 the government is gutting environmental laws, and they hear the Conservative…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is concerned about wasting taxpayer money. How does he feel about the increased amount of spending, like $8 million to go…
Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member. I have a question regarding environmental assessment. The bill before us is completely and absolutely new. We have the…
The budget omnibus bill was best described by Terry Glavin the other day as a “statutory juggernaut that introduces, amends or repeals nearly 70 federal laws.” (Ottawa Citizen,…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, we have had a lot of debate in this House about precedence in terms of the length of debate time for budget implementation bills…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. friend from Kildonan—St. Paul who is one of the hardest working MPs and who has done so much…
Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Sherbrooke for his very passionate words. He is a young person who is coping with…
Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech, which was very interesting. I completely agree with the criticisms that the member has made of the…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I feel this discussion of time allocation particularly keenly as the leader of the federal Green Party with a lot of background as a…
Publication Source: Times Colonist Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Jan Slakov Re: “It’s not easy being Green, but May is making it work,” May…
Publication Source: Indian Country Today Media Network Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Barbara Fraser Achuar leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are protesting oil…
Publication Source: The Western Producer Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Staff It is a pity that most Canadians who care about politics get most…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the hon. parliamentary secretary talks about future generations, and that is one of our primary concerns in looking at this legislation: the failure to…
Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, I would like to make a comment and ask the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a question. My comment is that…
The mainstream media is marking its report cards for the one-year anniversary under Harper Conservative majority rule. The bromides are calming—the Globe and Mail editorial gives the Conservative…
Publication Source: CBC News Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Heather Scoffield The federal government’s new budget bill sets out a controversial two-step approach to…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. friend for her presentation. I hope she will forgive me for using this as a moment for a comment. I…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my hon. friend claims the bill would strengthen the environment. I would like her to find a single section in the bill that could…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a brief point of order but at the relevant time. The mix of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4,5-trichlorfonoxyacetic acid were never registered…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, in Bill C-38, the number of changes to virtually every environmental law ever passed in this country is literally shocking to anyone who has…
Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, it is very difficult to be brief when the government is doing something as outrageous as tabling a 420-page omnibus bill that destroys decades…
When I heard that ForestEthics, a group targeted in a Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) memorandum as an ‘adversary’ of the PMO agenda, had decided to split its activities…
Okay, agreed. There’s is nothing about Stephen Harper that suggests he is a big joker. He doesn’t speak in public except in modulated monotones. Very reassuring, like Prozac. …