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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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Mr. Speaker, it still seems to me that he is calling the Parliamentary Budget Officer a liar, but facts are facts. This Prime Minister's first few weeks in Parliament have been full of broken promises, particularly when it comes to spending, taxes, outside consultants, defence and even our relationship with the United States. Meanwhile, Canadians are paying 14% more for rice, 18% more for apples a…
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Mr. Speaker, facts are stubborn things. Under the Liberals, violence against women has continued to rise. By maintaining Bill C‑5 and Bill C‑75, which were passed by Justin Trudeau, this government is protecting criminals rather than victims. That is a well-known fact. Meanwhile, women are living in fear. The government needs to take a good hard look in the mirror and admit that it is responsible …
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Mr. Speaker, there have been 10 femicides in Quebec since the beginning of the year. At one point, there were five in five weeks. Yesterday, a woman was killed in Vaudreuil-Dorion. She was in a toxic and violent relationship. Did the system let her down, as it has many other women before her? When will the Prime Minister correct the mistakes made by his predecessor, Mr. Trudeau, which contributed …
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell this House what is scandalous here. We have a minister who is forcing Quebeckers, young Quebeckers, to move back into their parents' basements because they do not have a penny to pay for housing. That is what is scandalous. He needs to stand up and tell us how he is going to solve the housing crisis, not as a millionaire, but as a member of Parliament.
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Mr. Speaker, as July 1 approaches, Quebeckers who are still looking for a place to live are becoming increasingly concerned. Why? Housing is too expensive. Meanwhile, the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure sees no need for prices to come down. He, of course, is a wealthy property owner, so perhaps it is in his interest to keep housing costs high. His refusal to answer the question is stirring …
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General has confirmed what the Conservatives feared. The Liberal government paid $60 million for a project that was originally expected to cost $80,000. The outcome is waste, uncertainty and incompetence. However, not a single minister lost their job. Worse still, they were rewarded in the new cabinet. Will the Prime Minister do the honourable thing and vote in favour of o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General's report is damning. Contracts were awarded without tender, without oversight and without justification. While Canadians are getting poorer, certain companies are getting richer. Some of the ministers responsible for this fiasco have even been promoted. Can the Prime Minister explain why he is choosing to reward those who allowed such a mess to happen, rather than …
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Mr. Speaker, in 2017, the government estimated that 50% of federal offices were vacant or underused. The Liberals said they would cut that number in half and create housing. Eight years later, the Auditor General of Canada has confirmed that there has been less than a 2% reduction, that none of the 10 properties promised in the NCR have been disposed of and that only 309 of the 4,000 promised hous…
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Madam Speaker, the House is demanding that a budget be tabled this spring, but the Liberals are asking for the approval of more than $500 billion in spending without submitting a single figure or a single budget. Meanwhile, unemployment is rising, mortgage payments are late and even full-time workers are being forced to turn to food banks. Even though all Canadians have to make a budget for their …
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals broke their promise by increasing spending by 8% when they promised to reduce spending to 2%. The result is out-of-control food inflation. Since January, the cost of beef is up 34%, apples are up 18%, rice is up 14% and infant formula is up 9%. Food banks are overwhelmed. Canadian families are hungry. When will this government table a budget this spring? There are fewer…
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Mr. Chair, the answer is the Laviolette Bridge in Trois‑Rivières. Does the minister know how many extra kilometres and hours that is for truck drivers and the companies that hire them?
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Mr. Chair, it is 140 kilometres there and 140 kilometres back. That is an hour and a half each way, which adds up to an additional three hours. In 2016 and 2017, 94% of the 800 incidents that occurred in and around the Pierre Laporte Bridge caused the bridge to close. Does the minister know how many days those interruptions added up to?
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Mr. Chair, I will answer the question. They have to cross the Pierre Laporte Bridge because the Quebec Bridge cannot handle heavy vehicles. The minister should know that now that she is the owner of the Quebec Bridge. Does she know where heavy trucks go if the Pierre Laporte Bridge has to be closed?
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Mr. Chair, earlier, the minister was worried about whether truckers would be able to cross interprovincial borders. Personally, I am only going to worry about whether they can cross the St. Lawrence. Does the minister know where heavy traffic has to go to cross the river in Quebec City?
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Mr. Chair, I am pleased to see the minister again and to speak with her. Tonight, we will be discussing the third link between Quebec City and Lévis. Could the minister tell me why 70% of residents of the greater Quebec City area and 83% of residents on Quebec City's south shore are calling for a third link?
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Mr. Chair, will she recommend funding the third link between Quebec City and Lévis, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister been in contact with Quebec's minister of transport and sustainable mobility, Ms. Guilbault, who has reiterated her intention to build the third link? Has the minister spoken to her? Has she had any contact with her?
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Mr. Chair, we are talking about the third link. Is the minister in favour of building a third link, as the Quebec government and the people of Quebec have been calling for, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, I look forward to hearing the beginning of an answer. In February, the current Prime Minister of Canada described the idea of a third link as interesting, particularly in the context of economic tensions with the United States. Does the minister agree with him, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, prices are skyrocketing. It now costs 34% more for beef strip loin, 26% more for oranges and 14% more for rice. Even the price of infant formula has risen by 9%. After 10 years under the Liberals, families are eating less and less well. They are being forced to turn to food banks more and more. Now the Liberals want to spend another half a trillion dollars without a budget, without a …
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Mr. Speaker, the House is demanding that this Liberal government table a budget, but instead the Liberals are asking Parliament to approve half a trillion dollars in new inflationary spending without tabling a budget. They are breaking their promise to limit spending by increasing expenditures by 8%. Meanwhile, the number of missed mortgage payments has reached record highs, and food banks are ove…
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Mr. Speaker, after a throne speech that seemed to draw inspiration from the fiscal prudence advocated by the Conservative Party, the actions taken by the new Prime Minister quickly dashed any hopes. He promised restraint in the morning and went on a spending spree in the afternoon. They are handing out another $6 billion for consultants while families in Lévis have to line up for food hampers. For…
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Mr. Speaker, those who are profiting right now are the consulting firms. They are getting a 36% increase, $6 billion more. There are 10,000 people in my riding using food banks. Can the government at least have the decency to table a budget this spring?
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Mr. Speaker, 10,000 people in Lévis recently applied for food aid. That is twice as many as in 2021. People working full time can no longer put food on the table. Meanwhile, the Liberals promise to cut spending in the morning and then increase it in the afternoon by 8%. The Prime Minister has a new face but the same bad habits. Does the Prime Minister realize that his out-of-control spending is fu…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control of spending and of his ministers. I hear there is some sort of spat happening over there. The Minister of Finance promised to cap the deficit at $40 billion, but the Prime Minister pushed her to spend more. Will the Prime Minister, a fake feminist, admit that he has already replaced the first female finance minister with the unelected Mark Carney, w…
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen everything now. An incompetent Prime Minister pushes his Minister of Finance to blow through an already stratospheric $40-billion deficit, blames her for his failure, and then replaces her with an unelected man. Meanwhile, he struts about on Equal Voice and declares himself a feminist. This is sheer hypocrisy. Will the Prime Minister finally admit that he has turned his m…
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Mr. Speaker, in a very disappointing move yesterday, the Bloc Québécois saved this government yet again. Since the leader of the Bloc Québécois arrived in Ottawa, his party has voted in favour of more than $520 billion in Liberal spending. They have voted to support this government nearly 200 times. To achieve what? One has to wonder. The public service has practically doubled in size, consulting …
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 26th report of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in relation to Bill C‑378, an act amending the Canada Labour Code in regard to complaints by former employees. The committee has studied the bill and has decided to report the bill back to the …
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Mr. Speaker, the reality looks like this: public finances in disarray, tensions at the border, frustration in cabinet, dissent in caucus and public fatigue of this worn-out, inefficient, spend-happy government. Not even the finance minister is getting along with the Prime Minister, according to The Globe and Mail. It is time for him to ask himself that important question. There is plenty of snow i…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance has failed to table a single balanced budget in nine years, failed to live up to her promise of keeping the deficit below $40 billion and, above all, failed to persuade her leader to abandon his inflationary spending. Incidentally, tensions are rising between the two of them, according to The Globe and Mail. The Prime Minister is losing control of government fi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance has waited until the day before the House wraps up for the holidays to table her economic update. That is not very courageous. Bad news is coming. According to The Globe and Mail, the Prime Minister wants to drastically increase spending, and his finance minister cannot get him to listen to reason. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has already said that the defi…
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Mr. Speaker, stopping tax hikes, the debt, inflation and bureaucracy seems to have no meaning for the “Liberal Bloc”. To common-sense Conservatives, all of it is essential. Our vision is to manage carefully and leave money in Quebeckers' pockets. The Bloc Québécois voted twice against a non-confidence motion to keep this government in power when this same government shows us how incompetent it is …
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Mr. Speaker, December 6 is always a hard day. It is always a harsh wake-up call. It brings back all the trauma. Exactly 35 years ago today, the unthinkable happened. It was in Montreal, on the eve of exams. The holidays were approaching. It should have been a time for celebration, but on that day, 14 female engineering students at the Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered in cold blood, because …
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Mr. Speaker, as Christmas draws near, a sad reality is becoming clear in Quebec. Nearly one in four Quebeckers expects to have to cut back on their holiday meals. Food inflation is hitting hard, and many people are having to choose between putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads. The Bloc Québécois has voted in favour of $500 billion in Liberal inflationary spending. As a res…
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Mr. Speaker, we openly said that the Conservatives will axe the tax and take the GST off new homes, which will save buyers up to $50,000 on the purchase of a new home and spur the construction of 30,000 new homes. This is a concrete idea to provide lasting solutions to the problems that this government created. Canadians are not stupid. They see what is going on. They will make this government pay…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is desperate for a distraction. He is baiting voters with a GST holiday that will last a measly two months, but everyone sees through him. This morning, a constituent came to my riding office to criticize this out-of-touch Prime Minister for his tricks. Everyone is done with this worn-out government. Does it know that everyone wants an election in order to elect the…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Jonquière called one our colleagues an idiot. That is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it. It is zero tolerance here.
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Mr. Speaker, the newspaper headlines over the weekend talked about the moral turpitude of a government in decline and said this government is buying itself time on the taxpayer's dime. The “Liberal Bloc” coalition, which voted twice to keep this government in power, still does not understand that we have to stop feeding the federal bureaucratic beast. The Bloc Québécois also voted for $500 billion…
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Mr. Speaker, dangerous criminals are granted bail and get to serve their sentences at home. The mind boggles. Here is another upsetting example from a sick system. Terri-Lynne McClintic abducted eight-year-old Tori Stafford and then helped her boyfriend kill her, yet she is allowed to be in the presence of children, courtesy of this government, which passes laws that make no sense. Why is this Lib…
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Madam Speaker, The Economist has reported that Canada is now poorer than Alabama, which is the fourth-poorest state in the U.S. However, under this Liberal government, $450 billion in investments have left Canada to support the American economy, which, I would remind members, is growing faster than ours. I have another very simple question. Will the Prime Minister cut taxes to support Canadian fam…
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Madam Speaker, new data from Statistics Canada confirm this government has failed. GDP per capita has declined in eight of the last nine quarters, spreading poverty among Canadians, while growth in the United States has reached 2.8%. It is much stronger there than here. With its carbon tax hikes and capital gains tax, the government is once again driving down the per capita GDP, with the foreseeab…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this government, the cost of housing and mortgages has doubled, and homelessness is up. This Liberal failure was supported by the Bloc Québécois during two confidence votes. The Conservatives will axe the GST on the sale of certain homes, and the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec, the Quebec landlords' association, has said that the Conservative l…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister can ask questions when she is in opposition. The Conservative leader's proposal to eliminate the GST on homes valued at less than $1 million is giving young people hope that they will be able to buy a home and perhaps even start a family. With this program to eliminate the GST, some 30,000 new homes could be built. For a house worth $800,000, for example, the savings woul…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” has discouraged young people from owning their home. It doubled rent, mortgage payments and down payments. As we speak, 80% of Canadians say that home ownership is reserved for the rich. Our leader made a common-sense proposal to eliminate the GST from new homes and this idea has the support of the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québe…
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Mr. Speaker, I have one for him. It is a G7 parameter involving the size of our country. Canada has the lowest number of housing units of any G7 country. We have compiled a few horror stories like that one that we could share. What the member is forgetting to mention is the news that came out this week about poverty levels among Canadians compared to Americans. That news was nothing short of tragi…
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Mr. Speaker, what I think is important and urgent to do today is to talk about the Liberals' greed. They have lost all common sense. After nine years in power, their arrogance is astounding. That is what we need to discuss. That is what we are talking about here today. I want to remind my colleague that his political party's support for the government gives it the majority it needs to stay in powe…
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Mr. Speaker, when people say that the carbon tax does not apply, it is not true. Quebec's current system is undergoing a deep overhaul. The system has been in place for 10 years, if not more. When people say that the carbon tax does not apply, it is not true. It does not take a degree in quantum physics to figure out which butter or other products are going to cost more when a truck leaves Ontario…
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Mr. Speaker, it does not bother me to talk about the Conservative Party with my colleague, who is from Quebec and defends Quebec's interests. The Conservative Party is still the party that recognized Quebec as a distinct society under Prime Minister Harper. On top of that, we gave Quebec a seat at the UN and signed an asymmetrical health agreement with the Quebec government. That was a first. Peop…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House. When we do, we do so on behalf of Canadians, of course, but we rise especially for the people who have placed their trust in us and asked us to represent them in the House of Commons. It is always an honour. I would be remiss if I did not mention the spectacular performance of my colleague from Calgary Midnapore, who delivered a terrific sp…
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