Speaker: Ms. May
Time: 20/06/2022 15:11:15
Context: Question
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP): Mr. Speaker, the latest IPCC report advanced the clock on “too late”. To have any hope of holding to 1.5°C or even 2°C, global emissions must peak before 2025 and drop rapidly from there to roughly in half by 2030. Net-zero by 2050 will not make any difference without deep cuts before 2025. We are 30 months from too late. When we get back here in September, we will have 28 months, yet the government continues to approve fossil fuel expansion.
Who would care, in this place, to explain this madness?
Ms. Julie Dabrusin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, we tabled an emissions reductions plan that is ambitious and achievable. It goes by sector by sector to create a path for Canadians to reach our 2030 climate projections. It is a detailed plan that goes through each economic sector, and it has been supported by environmental groups right across our country. We are working very hard and take this issue very seriously. We will continue to do what is needed to reach our emissions projections.
The Speaker: I am afraid that is all the time we have for today.