NDP wants to build clean and sustainable future

MONTREAL — Today, New Democrats have supported a number of resolutions aimed at building a clean and sustainable future.

New Democrat members voted in favour of a resolution calling on the Conservative government to cancel the gutting of our environmental protections and adopt concrete measures to ensure a healthy environment for future generations.

“New Democrats urge the Conservative government to cancel its amendments to fish habitat protection, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act,” said NDP Environment critic Megan Leslie (Halifax). “These measures go against the interests of future generations.”

Instead of reinforcing our environmental protections, the Conservatives chose to gut our existing laws, make cuts to science and research and refused to take action on climate change.

“If they want to do something for future generations, the Conservatives must immediately implement the 75 recommendations of the Cohen Commission and cancel budgetary cuts to fisheries science and ecosystem management,” said deputy critic Anne Minh-Thu Quach (Beauharnois--Salaberry).