Oil Sands

October 09, 2009

Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the member for Mississauga—Streetsville said that she had been well briefed, had studied the bill and had a thorough understanding. What is strange is how she missed a very important recommendation of the advisory panel, which says the advisory panel recommends neither a general deregulation of the postal market nor a reduction of the existing level of Canada Post's exclusive privilege, save for one segment, which is the remailing sector.

This has nothing to do with reduced postal service to rural Canada or to the rest of Canada. This is only to correct a part of the legislation that, if not corrected, will put many remailing companies out of business and hundreds and thousands of people out of work who work in the remailing industry.

The member is starting to sound like NDP members, who sit up all night trying to dream up bad news scenarios to talk about in the House. It is not factual. The member should get her facts straight.

Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Madam Speaker, it is very difficult to listen to the member and all the nonsense they have been spewing out for the last 10 minutes. These guys have been here for 16 years and they have never deviated from the thought; big private company bad, small company good. They do not get it that big companies create jobs for hundreds of thousands of people in this country.

Let us talk about the oil sands in Alberta. Under the Liberal government no money went to the oil sand companies to help them develop new technology for cleaning up the environment, not one cent-

Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Madam Speaker, I am simply responding to what the Bloc member was saying when he talked about the big oil sands developers that were taking government money and still polluting. He does not get it. The reason the tax credits went to these firms was to help them get technology to clean up the environment. He will not admit that.

What is wrong with Canadian companies going abroad and teaching those companies about environmental rights, about workers' rights and helping those companies which maybe lacking in those areas come over the standards that Canada has? I ask the member that.