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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank our colleague and dear friend, the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie. I just want to say that it is an honour to work with him here. We have been friends for a long time, of course. It was an honour to work together as MPs in the House. It is a great honour for me. It is true that I will miss him here in Parliament, but I know that we will continue to work together…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the minister for his speech. My question is about the temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax and the fact that, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, that tax was used exclusively to fund urban transit. If this fuel excise tax is suspended, what revenue will go to urban public transit? That is the responsibility of another level of government, local …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a point of order that I hope the hon. member who has the floor at the moment, will appreciate. There is far too much noise entering the chamber for me to give respectful attention to the hon. member from Kings—Hants. I do not know if you could hear it from where you are, Mr. Speaker, and it is beginning to come down to a dull roar, but it was really difficult to hear the hon. me…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and says, “no goddamn way”.
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Mr. Speaker, I apologize for the wording but not the sentiment.
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to have the opportunity to rise in debate today on the opposition day motion, and I have the great honour of splitting my time with the terrific MP for Vancouver Kingsway. I want to start by saying that this is a thoughtful motion. I will be voting against it, but I do think it is important to have Canadians use this moment as a teachable moment. There is no question t…
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Mr. Speaker, to the second part of the question, there is no hesitation on my part, because we have, for years, been calling for improving our refinery capacity in Canada. There was a Canadian entrepreneur in British Columbia who wanted to do that to reduce the risk of bitumen on our coastlines. However, let me just point out that eastern Canada has something called Hibernia. The mobile oil platfo…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the Liberals' policies lack common sense. There is this belief that it is a good idea to cut and eliminate almost every policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the government is saying yes to electric vehicles. However, at the last minute, the government changes its plans and ends up saying that it does not want them at all. In the end, th…
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Mr. Speaker, I do think it is important to remember that, while it is rare that on any climate issue one would invoke Stephen Harper's legacy, the current government's climate policies are so bad that they do bring to mind things that Stephen Harper did better, such as deciding that the gas tax should be permanent and should be used to fund urban transit. I think there is a bit of bait and switch …
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Mr. Chair, I wish the hon. minister a good evening. I will watch my time closely and try to give him adequate time to respond because I hope to have a conversation more than a grilling. I note that the hon. minister referred frequently to the International Energy Agency as authoritative. I wonder if he noted that last month the executive director, Fatih Birol, said that based on the global experie…
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Mr. Chair, I thank the minister for his very kind comments. I want to turn to a perennial challenge for Canada's economy and ask where the minister sees his government's efforts to deal with the productivity crisis going. We are not making any headway since back when David Dodge first declared that we had a crisis in productivity. This is my analysis, and I could be dead wrong on this. Certainly i…
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Mr. Chair, I ask the hon. minister if he would not agree with me that we have seen a steady stream of efforts to get Canadians corporations to invest in themselves and reinvest in R and D, and it is a string of failures, as David Dodge pointed out. The tools that we have tried just have not worked, and then people tend to turn on the corporate sector, which it does not appreciate. They say that th…
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Mr. Chair, we are here borrowing $25 billion to start a sovereign wealth fund, but we have $793 billion in assets in the Canada pension plan, managed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Most of those investments go to the United States. The vast majority of them go to countries other than Canada. We have had some—
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting against.
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting in favour.
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Mr. Speaker, there are parts of every omnibus bill that need to be studied, but when there are omnibus bills, they rarely are. I was the only member of Parliament to vote against part 1 of Bill C-5 last June. Why? It was because the Canadian Cancer Society reached me and asked me to please oppose reducing measures that would make it easier for toxic chemicals that are carcinogens to cross provinci…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to present two petitions today, the first of which is an e-petition that received over 1,000 signatures from Canadians across the country, and particularly from my riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands. It is a civil society-based effort, launching as well this week in Victoria, with support from many nations around the world. The petitioners hope that Canada will take the le…
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition comes from constituents concerned with the status of animals in this country. Under law, they are seen only as property, without recognizing that they are sentient beings, living beings, with the ability to feel pain, fear, comfort and other experiences. The petitioners cite the support of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association in saying that animal sentience …
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Mr. Speaker, in Bill C-30, there is not much climate commitment at all. We now know, concerning the MOU with the province of Alberta, that whereas the November 27 MOU said Canada and Alberta are committed to net zero by 2050, the May 15 MOU said they are committed to tangible progress toward net zero by 2050. Has the Prime Minister now completely withdrawn from our legally binding commitments to r…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to agree with my colleague. The sovereign wealth funds of other countries, particularly Norway's, were designed on Peter Lougheed's plan, which was to take oil revenue out of government rents and using it as a set-aside for a rainy day, which is not what the Liberals' fund proposes to do. I wonder if my hon. colleague has any comments.
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Mr. Speaker, Mother's Day was not invented by Hallmark Cards. In the late 1800s,there was an annual mother's day for peace. It was started by mothers and women who were sick of seeing the ravages of war after the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. They started an annual day to call for an end to war. In 2026, let us think of the mothers of Ukraine, whose children are being stolen by Putin to e…
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Mr. Speaker, petitioners have asked me to present a petition around the export of thermal coal. We note that if Bill C-33 had not died on the Order Paper on January 6 last year, that bill would have banned the export of thermal coal as the government had previously committed to do. Petitioners point out to the government that it has the mechanisms now. By listing thermal coal as a toxic product, i…
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Mr. Speaker, I really do want to thank my hon. colleague from Winnipeg Centre, and I am grateful to her for splitting her time with me. In this day's debate, I do not want to attribute motivations and reasons for why we are doing it or to say which side is right or wrong, but the problem is that it is posing a question as if it is a live issue that needs to be addressed. That is largely due to mis…
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Mr. Speaker, it has already been quoted by my hon. colleague from Winnipeg Centre that the court confirmed that the Cowichan nation did not seek to invalidate or render ineffective fee simple lands. It is true there are some fee simple lands within the area that used to be the village. It is primarily federal land, it is City of Richmond land, and it is the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. However…
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Mr. Speaker, I know a lot of my Conservative friends are wondering about the expropriations built into Bill C-15 for Alto. That is basing it on what kind of title rights we have in this country. Nobody's title rights in fee simple are absolute vis-à-vis our own government, but they are absolute vis-à-vis potential indigenous title, which has not in any way been put forward. As my hon. colleague fr…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague from Repentigny. It is a bit difficult because various issues are being conflated. From this confusion, untruths may grow. We are in a situation where, for natural resource projects, we need to establish honest and thorough consultation mechanisms before the projects are implemented. At the same time, the decision from the B.C. Supreme Court in the Co…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a shame that Richard Moody was a thief. It is a shame the Government of British Columbia did not long ago negotiate in good faith with the Cowichan. It is a shame the Government of Canada did not long ago negotiate with the Cowichan. With this degree of shame, we must not let the honour of the Crown be dishonoured now.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my friend from Simcoe North. Those who started watching at late show will not know what just happened. In any case, that was a good moment. I am speaking tonight to a question that I asked in question period on January 28, related to what the government had announced as intended cuts to the civil service. I was particularly concerned because within my riding of Saanich—…
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Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I am not impressed with the government's attempt to run balanced budgets when we now have a $66.9-billion deficit. We also know that where there are funds that could be accessed through reasonable shifts in taxation, such as a wealth tax, those opportunities are being avoided. So too is a financial transaction tax that would affect no one but multi-billionaires. We also …
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Mr. Speaker, the issue in the petition I am presenting today was initially raised in one of my town hall meetings some months ago. As some may know, Saanich—Gulf Islands happens to be a riding that has a particularly high percentage of senior residents. The petitioners from Saanich—Gulf Islands are very concerned and raise an issue that I think is Canada-wide, which is that the headlights for auto…
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Mr. Speaker, we frequently hear said in this place that the previous government under Stephen Harper was ready to move ahead with northern gateway and that it was the Liberals who struck it down. However, I am certain many people forgot, but I did not forget, that the Conservative platform in 2011 was specifically against exporting bitumen to Asia. Specifically, Stephen Harper's platform said that…
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Mr. Speaker, I must start with congratulating the new member for University—Rosedale. I have long admired her advocacy for our public health care system when going down to Washington. This may be a bit of a tough question. Does she agree with the Canadian Medical Association that the climate crisis is the single biggest public health threat of the 21st century? Can she help us get it back on track…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party also agrees to apply the result of the previous vote to this vote and will vote in favour of the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, the Greens agree to apply the vote and vote no.
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the results of the last vote to this vote and will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting against the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleague, the hon. leader of the Bloc Québécois. My question is simple. There is only one product everywhere in Canada that is protected in a strategic reserve: maple syrup, of course. In my opinion, it might be a good idea to have a strategic reserve for our forestry products or for the others we share. I would like to hear the Bloc Québécois's policies on the id…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the votes and will also be voting in the negative.
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Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the vote, with Greens voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, almost seven years ago, June 3, 2019, the inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two-spirited plus people was given to the government. Of the 231 individual calls for justice, can the Prime Minister update us as to how many have been fulfilled?
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Mr. Speaker, as we are now debating not Bill C-11 itself but time allocation, I would like to remind my hon. friend the Minister of National Defence and cast his mind back to when the Liberals were the third party in the House and the Harper Conservatives used time allocation over and over again. In those days, those of us back in this corner would say frequently that we did not need time allocati…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition on behalf of my constituents who are deeply concerned about abuses of human rights and environmental protections. This petition deals with the activities of a Vancouver-based mining company, Pan American Silver Corp, with respect to a silver mine called the Escobal mine in Guatemala. The Guatemalan courts interceded and instructed the mine to stop operatio…
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Madam Speaker, I want to specifically drill into what we can expect in an omnibus budget bill in relation to the Pest Control Products Act. The parliamentary secretary referenced that earlier. Will that section of the bill be carved out so that potential health threats through reducing the regulatory process of registering new pesticides, which I am assuming this may be about, will go to the healt…
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Madam Speaker, alarm bells are ringing of imminent global collapse of key climate systems, but the alarms are being drowned out by the cheering of Liberals and Conservatives for new and more climate-killing projects. Key experts say that there is a fifty-fifty chance of the collapse of the massive and complex Atlantic Ocean current system with devastating and catastrophic results. When will the go…
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It is nice to see you in the chair, Mr. Speaker. I am presenting a petition that I cannot say I am happy to present. I was hoping this issue would have been resolved. I know I am not to speak to my own opinion. To summarize, Canadians are outraged that live horses continue to be exported for slaughter for sushi in Japan. The slaughter and the movement of wild horses by air are in cruel and inhuman…
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Mr. Speaker, I like to share information, and I appreciate that my colleague has noted that I do the work before I speak. I would have loved to have discussed what we knew about the sovereign wealth fund and how it is going to be set up, but all we know is that the Liberals are creating yet another office to consider and consult. If we had information, my speech could have focused on that informat…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my dear colleague from Mount Royal, the parliamentary secretary, for sharing his time with me. I hope he will not regret it after hearing my speech because there are several things in the opposition motion that I agree with. This might be the first time I find myself in this situation. I usually do not find myself agreeing so very much with opposition day motions from …
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Mr. Speaker, I absolutely agree. As my hon. colleague from the Bloc Québécois mentioned earlier in debate, this looks a lot like the Infrastructure Bank. Government money is put into it. It is supposed to be a bank. It is supposed to sound great. At this point, particularly since we have no details, we are debating something that is amorphous. We know what happened with the Infrastructure Bank, an…
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Mr. Speaker, the economic update document includes the following sentence: “Introducing Canada's own sovereign wealth fund—the new Canada Strong Fund”. That is all. There is no explanation, no rationale. There is not a single reason why we should have confidence in the idea of a Canada Strong fund.
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