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Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured earlier this year, spoke about the government's environmental policies in the House of Commons on June 5. Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre congratulated the government 'for acknowledging that the debate about its carbon tax is a fiscal one and not an environmental question.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP PIERRE POILIEVRE

June 7, 2017

The following is an excerpt from a speech Conservative employment critic and MP for Carleton, Ont. Pierre Poilievre gave in the House on June 5 during debate on a government motion “that, despite the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, Canada remain committed to the imple...

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