37th Parliament, 3rd Session
(February 2, 2004 - )

[Parliamentary Coat-of-Arms]

Edited Hansard • Number 043

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

 

STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

The Environment

    Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, CPC): Mr. Speaker, have you heard the latest emanation from Ottawa? The government is launching a $50,000 study to find out how much methane is coming out of both ends of Canada's cows. This is not a joke.

    This supposedly is to help the Liberals meet their promised greenhouse gas quota in their useless Kyoto accord.

    What are they going to do, tell farmers to get rid of their cows if they burp and pass gas too much? Like the Liberal government has not done enough to harm the cattle industry by mismanaging the BSE crisis.

    Before the Liberals waste another fifty grand, maybe they should do a study of Ottawa's gaseous output, especially the amount of hot gas coming off the Liberal's front bench when they criss-cross the country spending billions of taxpayer money making announcement after announcement, while at the same time insisting they are not campaigning. Now that is a lot of hot air.

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