Q Were there any Environment Committee hearings prior to Parliament exempting all energy projects from environmental assessment under CEAA (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency)?
Answer: Gutting the CEAA never went to environmental committee. It was stuffed into the 2010 budget bill and only finance committees looked at it.
Note: The following is taken from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency website :
Our role is to provide Canadians with high-quality environmental assessments that contribute to informed decision making, in support of sustainable development. The Agency plays a leadership role in the review of major projects assessed as comprehensive studies and those referred to review panels. We also coordinate the Government of Canada's Aboriginal consultation activities during the environmental assessment process.
Q: What bill removed "the duty to act honestly" from the Ethics Code?
Answer: Harper's Accountability Act of 2006.
For more commentary, read here.
Q: Whose salaries did the Harper government just raise?
Answer: All CPC political staffers got raises. There are also expanded severance packages in case the Tories lose. This is hardly a deficit reduction initiative.
For more comment read Winnipeg Free Press of April 16, 2011.
Q: Prorogation of Parliament to avoid political difficulty has only occurred 3 times in the entire Commonwealth. Which countries?
Answer: Only in Canada. Three times. Once when Sir John A. Macdonald wanted to avoid a non-confidence vote over the Pacific Railway Scandal; this led to an election which he lost. Twice by Stephen Harper.
For more comment read Winnipeg Free Press of April 16, 2011.
Q: How has the Harper government undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
Answer: by entering into nuclear deals with India, the Harper govt violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Part 2: India violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by using waste fuel from the Canadian research reactor for a bomb. We should not have entered into new deals.
For more comment read The Ploughshares Monitor, Autumn 2008, volume 29, no. 3
Q: How many nations that signed and ratified Kyoto have repudiated its goals?
Answer. Canada is the only country to have repudiated Kyoto. This was Stephen Harper's unilateral decision with no parliamentary vote.
For more comment read The Canada Problem by Sierra Club BC
I found the above questions and answers by following @ElizabethMay on Twitter. I added the comment links.
