Replaced By Player English Français Floor Wide Player Headline Politics Jagmeet Singh on Climate Change Motion, LNG Project

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to unveil the motion that his party will introduce for debate in the House of Commons. The motion calls on the government to acknowledge and declare an “emergency and climate emergency”. It includes a pledge to cut Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions in line with recommendations from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The party would also eliminate federal aid to the fossil fuel industry and cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Singh is also asked about his position on the $40-billion LNG Canada project in northern B.C., which involves fracking or the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into shale rock to extract oil or natural gas. (May 13, 2019) (no interpretation)