Evidence of meeting #112 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was energy.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Through the chair, please. That's why they say “through the chair”, so we don't get into arguments.
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Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to just resume by addressing some things that I've noticed on this committee today. There are members—
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
You visited Epcor. It wasn't an oil sands company, to be clear.
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Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
I'm proud that every single MP can appear at a committee. I think it's really very important. I find it disheartening that members who have oil and gas lobbyists in their families arrive here to have conversations with the oil execs their partners lobby. That's really very challenging, from an ethics perspective, for me.
I also have a challenge with Mr. Corson saying there's been no impact—
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
I have a point of order, Chair. Can I just ask about the rules—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
We'll take a little time out for a point of order.
Mrs. Stubbs.
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Yes.
Can I just ask you a question? What are the parameters within committee in the case of members getting very close to defamation, which a tax lawyer and accountant might want to pursue?
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Yes, you did. You said my husband earlier, so we're not going to play that game.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Yes, you did. You started off in your first round, when you talked about my husband.
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An hon. member
It wasn't him.
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An hon. member
Yes, you did.
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An hon. member
Yes, it was.
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Yes, you did. You said it, and it's on record.
Chair, that's just my question.
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
If a tax lawyer, who is also an accountant and a principal of a business, who is a silver medallist and clerked at the Tax Court of Canada and wrote many precedent decisions...? If a member was here making comparisons or assertions about the person's role or job, what are the rules around whether or not those would be actionable?
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Liberal
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Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Certainly all Albertans are definitely proud of the groundbreaking, pioneering lifeline of investment to the indigenous communities and all those local communities on that groundbreaking project.
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Liberal