Stephen Harper’s “crazy” timeline on oil and gas regulation

Published December 10, 2014

Eight years of unfulfilled promises made by five environment ministers — and Prime Minister Stephen Harper himself. All gone in one “crazy” moment. On Tuesday, Harper said it’s “crazy” to consider regulating the oil and gas sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — backtracking on the government’s stated position since 2006. His comments were a dominant theme during Question […]

VIDEO: Leona Aglukkaq’s bizarre response to news people look for food at garbage dump

Published December 3, 2014

Waste not, want not? Seriously, Leona Aglukkaq? It sounds like the Environment Minister believes reports that poor people in her Nunavut riding are scavenging food out of a local garbage dump is just an example of how people in the North let nothing go to waste. Interviewed by CBC on Wednesday, Aglukkaq apologized to her […]

VIDEO: Leona Aglukkaq reads newspaper, ignores questions about people looking for food in dump

Published December 1, 2014

That news article must have been really interesting. Facing tough questions from the Opposition during Question Period on Monday about the price of food in Canada’s North, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq was caught on video reading a newspaper only seconds after ignoring a question about news footage of her constituents in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut scavenging for […]

WATCH: Conservative shrugs off own department’s greenhouse gas projections as just “opinion”

Published November 17, 2014

The Environment Minister’s own point man is dismissing Environment Canada’s projections on greenhouse gas emissions reductions as just an “opinion.” Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment, made the statement Sunday while appearing on Global’s The West Block on behalf of his boss, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq. “Well, everybody’s entitled to their […]

VIDEO: Conservative climate change credibility disappearing at alarming rate

Published October 8, 2014

After the release of a devastating environmental audit on Tuesday from a federal watchdog, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq tapped her parliamentary assistant, Colin Carrie, to deal with the media. Poor guy. The audit of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development found, among other things: The government has no specific plan to meet its greenhouse gas […]

Big Oil asks Conservatives: change the endangered species law, please!

Published September 3, 2014

Will Canada’s biggest oil and gas lobby group get to rewrite key clauses of the Species At Risk act to weaken recovery plans for endangered species? In a recent letter to Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, released to PressProgress under access to information, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) spells out what it would like […]