Parliamentary Speeches
898 speeches by Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe — Page 17 of 18
Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I really like working with him because he is honest, true and serious. He works really hard on the Standing Committee on National Defence and is very familiar with the files. I agree with my colleague. In one way or another, it has to be done. If the minister does not want to resign, if he does not want to do it himself, and that would be the m…
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Mr. Speaker, today I am tabling this petition signed by nearly 100 people, all of whom are concerned about the rise in international trafficking in human organs. These petitioners are calling on all parliamentarians to pass Bill S-204, an act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act with regard to trafficking in human organs, which is currently before the House and…
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Madam Speaker, I will give our hon. colleague a second chance to answer my Conservative colleague's question, since he just failed to answer it. Will he vote in favour of the motion, yes or no?
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Wellington—Halton Hills for his speech. He is someone I like, someone who works very hard and is very insightful. Speaking of insight, on Monday, the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations heard from the hon. Minister of Health, and I know my hon. colleague was there. I would like to know whether he learned anything interesting during those three hours…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleague from Charlesbourg—Haute‑Saint‑Charles. I want to talk about what happened on Monday at the meeting of the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations we both attended. The minister came to committee to answer our questions. Every time she gave us an answer, or did not give us an answer, we found ourselves wondering how it was possible to say so little in …
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Mr. Speaker, I heard my hon. colleague and a number of Conservative colleagues say how terrible it is to force closure on the opposition and pass Bill C‑10 under time allocation. I would just like to remind my Conservative colleagues that one government used closure more than any other government in the history of their country, of Canada, and that was Stephen Harper's government. During his final…
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Mr. Speaker, the majority of Quebeckers believe that the best way to protect every religion is for the government to be free from religion. For Quebeckers, secularism contributes to social cohesion and harmony for all. The Prime Minister would have people believe that Bill 21 fuels intolerance and Islamophobia and practically invites people to challenge it. Will the Prime Minister promise that the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister needs to stop conflating issues. In the current context, it is quite simply irresponsible to blame Bill 21 for the absolutely horrific events that have recently taken place. We have a responsibility to pull together, but the Prime Minister and politicians from other parties want to point fingers. That is not how we show solidarity. That is not how we will heal our w…
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Madam Speaker, the debate seems to be venturing into the topic of religion. I was born at the end of the 1970s. Since my parents had communist connections, I was not baptized. I wanted to make a little aside, but it may not be relevant to the debate. However, we are talking a lot about religious conscience and freedom of religion. We have also received a lot of emails from religious lobby groups. …
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Madam Speaker, yesterday the Senate adopted a motion calling on the Minister of Immigration to grant citizenship to Raif Badawi. That is the exact same demand that the House of Commons unanimously passed in January. It is unanimous. Everyone wants the minister to take action. I am emphasizing that this was unanimous because it means that even the minister agreed. The minister has the power to gran…
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Madam Speaker, allow me to repeat what I just said. Yesterday, the Senate called on the government to grant citizenship to Raif Badawi. The House unanimously called for the same in January. That is right: in January. That was five months ago. The clock is running. I am not sure if the minister realizes that time can feel like an eternity in prison in Saudi Arabia. Time feels like an eternity to Mr…
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Madam Speaker, I want to acknowledge my colleague's passion and the work he has done with respect to the Uighur people. We worked together on the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. I therefore want to commend him and acknowledge his passion and commitment on this issue. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of …
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Madam Speaker, I want to once again thank my colleague from Wellington—Halton Hills for his efforts and his commitment to this issue. I also want to point out that he agreed to let the Bloc Québécois amend his motion, which was unanimously adopted here. He was happy to do it, and I think it added something to the motion that was adopted by the House. The Subcommittee on International Human Rights …
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Madam Speaker, today, I rise as the member for Lac-Saint-Jean, the vice-chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the House of Commons, and the vice-chair of the Canada-Uighur Parliamentary Friendship Group, but, above all, I rise as a human being who cares about other human beings, no matter who they are or where they live on this planet. It is important to know why we are having…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, whom I admire, for his question. Earlier he posited that it would be easy for the government not to send diplomatic personnel to the next Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing. That is a first step, of course, but I also think that it is not too late for the government to exert even more pressure and use even more of the leverage at its disposal. The thi…
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Madam Speaker, it is funny to hear the member talk about an opposition alliance. The way I see it, there is an alliance between the Liberal government and their NDP farm team on numerous issues. As far as speaking time is concerned, the government has imposed time allocation a few times and even prorogued Parliament for six weeks. The member opposite better not talk to me about speaking time. The …
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I have not been an MP for long, but I have a pretty good sense of how it works because my father was one, and I kept tabs on the debates for 20 years. I think that, when it comes to human rights and international co-operation, this government is the epitome of hypocrisy. It loves to present itself as some kind of Superman, a supporter of human …
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. First, as I said earlier, I believe that we must recognize that this is a genocide. The government must do so, and that is the first step. If we want to move in a certain direction, we must take the first step. It is essential and significant, and the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs must do it. Second, we absolutely must get …
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Madam Speaker, this is nothing new. I remind members that in the 1930s, when a boat filled with Jewish refugees arrived on our shores, the Canadian prime minister turned it away, saying, “None is too many”. A Canadian prime minister said that. Should history be repeated today? I do not think so. I do not think anyone wants to be on the wrong side of history on the issue we are debating today, whic…
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Madam Speaker, I want to begin by thanking my esteemed colleague for his incredibly heartfelt speech. My colleague from Mégantic—L'Érable spoke as a father and, quite honestly, I think he and I agree in many ways on the issue we are talking about. He said that we are a bit naive to think we have seen it all in politics. I agree that in most professions, and in every aspect of life in general, no o…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. Every time the Conservatives rise to speak, they tell us that the Liberals are spending recklessly but that the Conservatives have a plan and can quote figures for everything, regardless of what we are talking about. However, over the past few days, and especially since the start of the debate on Bill C-30, I have been asking the Cons…
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Madam Speaker, the one thing that the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois agree on is that health transfers are not to be found in this budget. Unfortunately, the Liberals are demonstrating once again that they are incapable of hearing or listening to the premiers of Quebec and the provinces. The Conservatives are telling us that health transfers must be increased, but they are not saying by how …
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Mr. Speaker, I will be as brief as possible. I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. If the NDP were in office right now, would it increase health care transfers from 22% to 35% like the provinces, territories and Quebec are calling for?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia. Yes, once again, the federal government looked at what the provinces were doing and decided to do the same thing, even though it is outside its jurisdiction, instead of minding its own business and taking action where it has the right to act. For instance, the Canada summer jobs program should be expanded much more, because …
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Mr. Speaker, the budget and the implementation bill we are debating today will put a stamp on federal politics for many years. That is why it is crucial that we, as parliamentarians, take the time to analyze this bill and to ask the difficult questions that must be put to the government. It goes without saying that this is not a small bill. That is understandable given the context. Given the littl…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for that question. I appreciate it, and I know that we are on the same page on this file. Like him, I have gotten a lot of calls to my office from people who are angry about the federal Liberal government's new measure. It is not just people who are 75 and under and who will not receive the increase who are angry. It is also those who are aged 75 and up who w…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Port Moody—Coquitlam for his excellent speech. I am going to continue in the same vein as the question that I asked the NDP. I know that the Conservative Party has said that it supports increasing health transfers for Quebec and the provinces. However, it has not said anything about the percentage by which it would increase those transfers, even though Premie…
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Madam Speaker, I will try not to get too worked up, even though there is clearly good reason to do so. What we are talking about this evening is extremely important for our constituents, for those who put their trust in us to represent them. If we polled people on the street about whether a certain bill should be passed, it would be very rare for 10 out of 10 people to agree. However, that would b…
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on her speech despite the poor sound quality. She stated that she was proud of what her party did for seniors in the recent budget, which increases old age security for those 75 and up. If my colleague was in my riding office, she might feel a little less proud. Every day we receive telephone calls from people who are angry that they are not entitled to t…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Beauce. I am very fond of my colleague, and one part of his speech interested me in particular, namely where he spoke of public transportation in rural areas. It is an issue that also affects my riding of Lac-Saint-Jean. What is his vision and how will he put solutions on the table?
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Mr. Speaker, I have to send a heartfelt thanks to my colleague from Abitibi—Témiscamingue for his speech. We can see how well he knows the file and how passionate he is about it. It is obvious. I would like him to talk a little more about what is missing from this report.
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Mr. Speaker, this weekend, my community was shaken by the loss of one of its most precious heritage buildings, the Roberval courthouse. Built on the shores of our majestic Lac Saint-Jean in a style inspired in part by the National Assembly of Quebec, the courthouse was a source of pride to the people of Roberval for over 110 years. The blaze was so fierce that dozens of firefighters from the Rober…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know whether I should thank my colleague, since no one asked for the debate we are having today. I remind members that we held an emergency debate last week on the same topic. We do not have any choice in the matter, though, so here we are. I have a simple question for my hon. colleague. Is he worried about the safety of Line 5? I ask this because a problem with this pipeli…
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Madam Speaker, I was appalled when my hon. colleague said during his speech that the Conservatives are blocking the work of the House. The Liberals are the ones who walked away and shut Parliament down. It is unbelievable. The Liberals shut Parliament down, yet they dare to accuse others of blocking the work of the House. That takes a lot of nerve. The Liberals shut the House down for a month and …
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Mr. Speaker, I am once again appalled by what I just heard. Whenever I hear the Liberals, I start feeling sick to my stomach. Once again, a Liberal member is saying that the Conservatives are filibustering, that it is ridiculous and that they are playing politics. The member belongs to a party that filibustered at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics and at the Stand…
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons has been trying to get his point across and put the opposition on trial since the beginning. He forgets that the people elected a minority government. Right now, he is off topic. Since the beginning of his speech, he has been off topic and has not said a word about the report. He has …
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Mr. Speaker, I will be brief. My colleague from Regina—Lewvan did not dare to use the word “hypocrisy”, but I am going to. My colleague from Winnipeg North reached the height of hypocrisy in his speech. He told us that the prorogation of Parliament did not really harm our work. I think it is unacceptable to minimize the prorogation of Parliament. The report on the Uighurs was supposed to be publis…
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Mr. Speaker, there have been consultations among the parties, and I believe that, if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: That the House salute and support the decision of the President of the United States to support the resolution presented to the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive COVID-19 vaccine patents for developing countries; and that the House …
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Mr. Speaker, during the exchange between the member for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles and the member for Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, I was hearing noise in the background. Unfortunately, it was hard to understand what was being said. From what I see on the screen, the member for Scarborough—Guildwood's mike is not muted.
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties, and if you seek it, I think you will find unanimous consent to adopt the following motion: That the House salute and support the decision of the President of the United States to support the resolution presented to the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive COVID-19 vaccine patents for developing countries; and that the House ask t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to be the first to speak tonight. First of all, I would like to note that International Workers Day was celebrated last week. In light of that, I take great interest in Bill C-220, which we are debating today, because it is part of the labour movement's long-standing struggle for the right to take leave to care for a sick family member. To give a little background, t…
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This is an issue that concerns me for two reasons. First, when I was working in the film industry, I was very active in the union movement as a representative of the Association québécoise des techniciens et des techniciennes de l'image et du son and as an elected member of its board of directors. Second, in my immediate family, we had to care for a sick loved one. I know the reality of families w…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech, but it made me jump out of my chair a little bit. I almost fell over, but I caught myself just in time. He said that the government does not support the oil industry. It is important to know that since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we have collectively invested over $70 billion to make this industry profitable. In the last four years alone, …
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Mr. Speaker, in a debate like this, it would be important to hear from the Green Party. I am willing to give my speaking time to the member for Fredericton, if that is possible.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the speech by my colleague, in which he alluded to the potential for environmental disasters. Earlier we heard the Minister of Natural Resources say that nothing has happened with this pipeline in 60 years. I will make an analogy, as my colleague from Jonquière did earlier when he was talking about diet poutine. I love that type of analogy. It would be like the people of…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. I have a great deal of respect for him. He used the same argument as the Minister of Natural Resources, namely that nothing has happened to Line 5 in 60 years. As I said earlier, that is what the people of Pompei said about Mount Vesuvius: nothing has happened in 60 years. I could even mention the movie La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. In terms of banging heads against the wall, I cannot say the Liberals are helping much. I also think that there are many things giving them a headache at the end of the day. Bill C-215, introduced by my colleague from Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, was a climate bill with teeth that required the government to meet its targets by 2050. The bill …
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Mr. Speaker, when I listen to my colleague, I cannot help but think of the novel 1984 by George Orwell. I am not thinking of the party in power in the Orwell's novel, but rather of his concept of doublethink. Doublethink is the ability to hold two completely different opinions and to believe them both while forgetting that they are completely contradictory. In its budget, the Liberal Party has all…
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Madam Speaker, I listened to my colleague, whom I very much appreciate and would like to acknowledge. He is a fine member, and I hear he works hard for his constituents every day. I just heard the last question from our Liberal friend, who said that the Conservatives keep talking about Brian Mulroney. Well, the Liberals keep talking about Pierre Elliott Trudeau, so they should not be so quick to c…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. I enjoyed his speech. As usual, he obviously had no choice but to brag about his government and his party. That is okay. I understand. However, I think he is honest enough to say that it took the work of all of the opposition parties and the government to make possible the…
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