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Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge the commitment of organizations that are having a positive impact in my riding. First, I want to acknowledge the Saint‑Romuald Lions Club, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and the Lévis Lions Club, which is celebrating its 80th. For decades, their members have been working hard to support the most vulnerable and improve the quality of life of members of…
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Mr. Speaker, I encourage the Liberals to take off their rose-coloured glasses. It is their taxes, their bureaucracy and their anti-energy laws that are suffocating our businesses. The result is that Canada leads the G7 in food inflation and in household debt. When will the Liberals get rid of their taxes and their red tape so that Canadian businesses can breathe again and Canadians can finally get…
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Mr. Speaker, the government's economic record is abysmal, with 100,000 jobs lost in two months. Today it was announced that 1,000 workers at Algoma Steel are being laid off. While our G7 partners are moving forward, Canada is moving backward. How did the Liberals manage to turn Canada into the country with the second-worst unemployment rate and the only declining economy in the G7? How did they do…
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Mr. Speaker, the February jobs report is troubling and, as everyone knows, numbers do not lie. In just one month, this government is reporting a loss of 108,000 full-time jobs. That is the worst drop since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. While our G7 partners are moving forward, Canada is falling behind. We are still waiting for the results this government promised Canadians. The Liberals' …
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Mr. Speaker, businesses are not investing because they have no confidence. Young people are suffering because of the government's economic incompetence. In February, youth unemployment hit 14%. In Quebec, 57,000 jobs disappeared in a single month. Young people are out of work because the Liberals' policies simply do not work. While the Liberals pat themselves on the back, our constituents are left…
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Mr. Speaker, same government, same old Liberal habits: Once again, consulting firms are getting rich. Since the Liberals took office, they have awarded $26 billion in outside contracts. With Cúram—a project that is totalling $6.6 billion, half of which is going to private companies—history is repeating itself. In the meantime, 85,000 pensioners are suffering due to late pension payments or endless…
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Mr. Speaker, following the Phoenix disaster, now we have Cúram ruining the lives of our seniors. It was initially expected to cost $1.75 billion, but the price tag has now ballooned to $6.6 billion. That is four times more. While the Liberals waste taxpayers' money, our seniors have been waiting for their pension cheques for nine months. My questions are very simple. The first is this: Why do the …
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Mr. Speaker, this is the Phoenix fiasco all over again. As members will recall, that pay system deprived thousands of public servants of their salaries for months. Now, with the Cúram software, the Liberals are creating a Phoenix for seniors, but on a larger scale, according to federal employees. The project was supposed to cost $1.7 billion, but the cost has skyrocketed, currently coming in at $6…
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Mr. Speaker, that response was frankly embarrassing. The government talks a good game, but there are retirees who have been waiting nine months for their cheques. That is shameful. Worse still, an internal report criticized a departmental procedure that orders civil servants to hide the truth from the public. They are formally prohibited from mentioning the name of the Cúram software to explain th…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is now leading the G7, but for all the wrong reasons. We have the highest food inflation. Prices have been rising twice as fast since this Prime Minister took office. The Liberals are taxing farmers and truckers. The Liberal fuel tax will cost up to $1,000 per household. As we all know, taxing farmers and truckers means taxing families. The Conservatives are proposing to elimin…
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Mr. Speaker, if that were working, we would know it. The only thing we know is that we currently have the highest food inflation in the G7. My question is simple. Will this government stop taxing the middle class and instead support our plan to get rid of the fuel standards tax and increase competition between the grocery chains? It is as simple as that.
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Mr. Speaker, eating has become a luxury. The numbers are painful. The price of beef is up 17%, lettuce is up 13% and apples are up 10%. Under this government, making a simple salad is like investing in the stock market. Even coffee is 41% more expensive. When will the government finally stop taxing our farmers and truckers? Will the government commit today to axing the industrial carbon tax and th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal announcement this morning is merely a band-aid solution for the 2.2 million Canadians who will continue to rely on food banks. Canada has the highest inflation rate in the G7 because of Liberal taxes, which are killing our local businesses. For example, it is estimated that 7,000 restaurants shut down in 2025, and another 4,000 are expected to shut down this year, in 2026.…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to talk to him about the consequences of his own policies. One 75-year-old senior in my riding spends half of her income on rent and medication. In front of a grocery store shelf, she realized she could not afford anything and left the store in tears. She admitted that she felt ashamed, that she had worked all her life and that she never imagined she would one day have to a…
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Mr. Speaker, food banks are overwhelmed, but the Prime Minister is living on another planet. While Canadians are struggling to put food on the table, this Liberal Prime Minister spent $736,000 of taxpayers' money to travel on a private jet when a government plane was available at a third of the cost. Meanwhile, 86% of Canadians are cutting back on meat because they cannot afford it. When will he s…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister told Canadians that he should be judged by the cost of groceries. That is perfect. I hope he has a good lawyer because the verdict is brutal. According to Le Journal de Montréal, 36% of Quebeckers are experiencing food insecurity. The most tragic thing about all this is that 41% of them have a job. Hunger is hitting so hard that Quebec's food banks received a recor…
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Mr. Speaker, that is very unfortunate, because it is not working. This is the nightmare facing a family of two parents and three children in my riding. Because they are struggling with inflation, they are spending the winter in a trailer. They were so ashamed that they did not dare ask for food. It was a frontline worker who stepped in and requested food assistance for them. Now a report confirms …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a bit difficult to rise to speak after listening to such a heartbreaking and personal account. What we heard from the Minister of Women and Gender Equality this morning was a cry from the heart. It is essentially an appeal to us to work together, to make sure that we live in a society, a country, a city, a town where every person is respected for who he or she is, with hi…
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Mr. Speaker, it takes a lot of talent to create unemployment while spending $15 billion. Food banks are swamped, but the Prime Minister would rather act as an ATM for multinationals. He is giving $15 billion to Stellantis and $400 million to Algoma Steel, and yet the result is job losses. Can the Prime Minister explain his wonderful strategy that involves paying big business to layoff Canadians?
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure she understood my question, so I will ask it again. Canadians can no longer afford to put food on the table because of the cost of living, and this government continues to empty their pockets and fill those of big corporations. This Prime Minister found $72 million for Nokia, $400 million for Algoma Steel and $15 billion for Stellantis. What do the Liberals get in return…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank and congratulate my colleague, the Secretary of State (Nature). I believe that there is no such thing as too many opportunities to talk about women and violence against women. We have the chance to talk about it here from November 25 to December 10, although we should be talking about it all year round. In fact, that is what we do at the Standing Committee on the…
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Mr. Speaker, there needs to be some context. When my colleague shares information, he should provide the full context. I would like to remind my colleague of something that he may not remember, since he is a young man. In 2008, there was a global financial crisis.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to share my time with my dear colleague from Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies. It is always very interesting and very important to rise in the House, especially during the budget debate, because as we know, the tabling of the budget is a crucial moment in the history of any parliament. I have received a lot of comments and talked a lot with people in Bellechasse…
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Mr. Speaker, I will repeat what I said earlier. If the government had not spent money like it grows on trees for 10 years, we would have money to invest in infrastructure. We would have money right now to protect our borders. I am going to read some of what Fitch Ratings wrote about the budget. It said: "[P]ersistent fiscal expansion and a rising debt burden have weakened [the government's] credit…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the member asked me this question. Food banks have never been busier. I believe that the number of monthly visits to food banks is now 2.2 million, which is double what it was in 2019. That is just off the top of my head. These are not the unemployed; these are working people. The people who are ending up at food banks are people who have jobs, who get up in the morning…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's credit card budget passes the bill for today's spending on to our children. After 10 years of this government, families are struggling. They have to put 50% more of their household expenses on their credit cards just to get by. Meanwhile, Fitch Ratings says that federal finances run a high risk of further deterioration since the Liberals keep exceeding their own f…
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Mr. Speaker, is the minister telling us that Fitch and the Parliamentary Budget Officer are liars? In fact, the Liberals want to fire the Parliamentary Budget Officer. In his recent report, he confirmed that the government has abandoned the fiscal anchor to reduce the debt. He warned that this poses a direct threat to Canada's credit rating and investor confidence. I have a straightforward questio…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are tightening their belts, the government is spending recklessly. It is adding $90 billion in spending. That is an extra $5,400 per household. According to Professor Charlebois, the gap between wholesale food prices in Canada and the United States has widened, and the industrial carbon tax is a major factor. Canada is the only G7 country to have experienced four conse…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal budget is the most costly budget with the largest deficit in the history of the country, outside of the pandemic. We know it is going to drive up the cost of food. It is an attack on our food security, and food banks know it too. They are overwhelmed. Add to that the industrial carbon tax, a hidden tax that increases the cost of producing and transporting food. When will t…
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Mr. Speaker, the heavy responsibility of protecting Canadians, especially the most vulnerable among us, our children, falls to the government. The government introduced Bill C‑14, which could have brought back minimum sentences and done something useful. But no, that is not what it did. Instead, criminals are being let off the hook. The Supreme Court confirmed it just last week. Why is this govern…
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Mr. Speaker, on the same topic, the Supreme Court ruled that sentencing pedophiles to minimum sentences could be cruel. However, one of the offenders had 317 images of children in his possession, 90% of which were images of girls aged three to six. Canadians are shocked by this decision to protect these child abusers. There are certain crimes for which mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec has been occupied with municipal elections over the past several weeks. Yesterday, voters made a choice. That choice means that many people have offered to give their time to serving the public. I congratulate all the candidates for having the courage and generosity to embark on this adventure. Many were not elected, but they won something nonetheless: They won the gratitude of…
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Mr. Speaker, numbers do not lie. I do not know whether the member is aware, but food inflation is skyrocketing. It is up 4%. This week, Food Banks Canada reported a record 2.2 million visits in a single month. Twenty per cent of food bank users are full-time workers, and 33% are children. The Conservatives have a plan to make life much more affordable for Canadians again. I repeat: Will the Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister wants to be judged by the price of groceries. Ironically, hidden Liberal taxes on food are driving up grocery prices. I am talking about the industrial carbon tax, the food packaging tax and the clean fuel regulations that increase the cost of transporting, producing, and marketing food. Everyone understands that. The more the Liberals spend, the more Canadians pay.…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec has already seen its 15th femicide since the beginning of the year. This morning, we learned that the number of women who are victims of domestic violence has increased by 39% across Canada since 2015. Bailey McCourt died because the system failed to protect her. Gabie Renaud died because the system protects criminals more than it does victims. Their families are calling for gr…
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Mr. Speaker, it being the 125th anniversary of Desjardins Group, it is an honour for me, as a resident of Lévis, to pay tribute to Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins, founders of what has become the largest co-operative financial group in North America and one of Quebec's largest private employers. The first caisse populaire, the Caisse populaire de Lévis, was founded in December 1900, when 132 peop…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister wants to be judged by prices at the grocery store. We know that his taxes, such as the food packaging tax, are secretly driving up prices. These taxes are so sneaky that they are built right into the posted prices. They do not even show up on customers' receipts. What we have learned is that the packaging tax will cost $1.3 billion until 2032. Will the Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, we do not live in the same world. Food bank visits will soon reach four million. That is a 128% increase under these Liberals. In my riding, Les Frigos Pleins has provided more than 1,600 emergency food baskets just four months. That is almost half of what they did all last year. The industrial carbon tax, food packaging tax and clean fuel regulations are measures that increase the co…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to reform his deeply flawed criminal justice system, but six months later, nothing has been done. He continues to release dangerous repeat offenders. I would remind members that, over the past 10 years, sexual assaults have increased by 76% under the Liberals' watch. The Conservatives are proposing legislation that we can pass very quickly to protect Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, sadly, the news is flooded with truly disturbing cases of women being attacked, of femicides. I said it in the House: Women are not safe. We live in a constant state of hypervigilance. We know this, and it is becoming increasingly well documented. The Quebec government is even calling for this. Does my colleague agree with me on the problems caused by Bills C-5 and C-75, which were in…
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Mr. Speaker, as I have told the House many times, we women are often hypervigilant when out in public, unfortunately. I would also like to remind the House that the Conservative Party has been very consistent. We have always sided with victims. This tragic event, Quebec's 14th alleged femicide, has captured our attention. No one on the Conservative side wants to put an innocent person in prison or…
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Mr. Speaker, that is not the reality. Quebec has already had 14 suspected femicides so far this year. Recently, one of the victims was allegedly murdered by her partner, who has a long criminal record for domestic violence and who violated his conditions 16 times. Despite that, he was out of custody. Since the Liberals came to power, violent crime has increased by 55%. Homicides are up 30% and sex…
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Mr. Speaker, I would encourage her to read Patrick Lagacé's column in this morning's La Presse. He speaks out against a justice system that protects dangerous repeat offenders with lengthy criminal records who are released back into society. Who is looking after the victims? Nobody is doing that in this government. The Liberals promised to act and to take down their ridiculous laws and yet nothing…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety was recorded admitting that the Liberals' gun buyback program is not worth the $750 million he is about to spend on it. As he knows and as we know, this program will only frustrate good citizens, like sport hunters. It will not reduce gun crime, which, I should note, has increased by 130% under the Liberal government. Canadians have no confidence in this …
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Mr. Speaker, here is the situation. Because of the Liberals, gun-related crime has increased by 130%. This is a fact. The Minister of Public Safety has acknowledged that the gun buyback program is purely political. This is another fact. He acknowledges that it is ineffective. It is no secret. The minister is failing at keeping Canadians safe. Will the Prime Minister demand the minister's resignati…
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Mr. Speaker, I normally love jogging and walking outside, but I no longer do that during the weeks I am here in Ottawa for work. I no longer go out alone after dinner, because I am afraid. I have had people scream at me and shout abuse at me for being a woman. Another problem is intimate partner violence, which is hidden and under-reported. We have to stop looking the other way. We are introducing…
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Mr. Speaker, as a woman, I am somewhat taken aback and disappointed to hear that. Women have to be hypervigilant at all times. Behind closed doors, the situation is disturbing. Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women. This morning, our colleague from Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola introduced Bill C‑225, which would protect women who do not have a voice. Can we count o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to double housing starts, but instead, they are actually down 16%. This should come as no surprise. The Prime Minister's entourage includes the former mayor of Vancouver, who saw housing prices increase by 150%, and a former Toronto city councillor, who raised taxes on residential construction by 700%. Does the Prime Minister realize that it is not surprisi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is further compounding the problem with a new Crown corporation that will make it even harder to build housing. He is allocating $13 billion to build 4,000 homes, which works out to $3.2 million per home. That seems worthwhile, does it not? Everyone knows that. This is completely unacceptable. This is the same wasteful government, bogged down in bureaucracy and enta…
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who is an officer of the House of Commons and our financial watchdog, has confirmed another broken Liberal promise, this one having to do with their so-called tax cut. During the election, the Prime Minister promised people $850, but it turns out that the average Canadian will save only $90 this year. For seniors, it is $4 a month. My question is very…
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