Statement made on 25 October 2011 by Senator Grant Mitchell
Hon. Grant Mitchell:
Honourable senators, when it comes to the environment, the government has cut the ozone monitoring group; it has cut 776 people from the department; it has cut $70 million from the department's budget; and now it has cut funding, after 35 consecutive years of funding, to the Canadian Environmental Network.
However, when it comes to prisons and the crime agenda, the government has found $15 billion to build new prisons that will not work.
When the government was establishing the priority of the crime agenda over doing something about climate change, did it give any thought whatsoever to how much climate change is stealing from Canadians already, not to mention what it will be stealing from Canadians in the years to come?
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