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Mr. Speaker, it is confusing to us on this side how, every day, the members of the opposition party vote against every support for Canadians, yet they raise the issue. This month, Canadians will get the groceries and essentials benefit. The Conservatives voted against it. We are taking action against surveillance pricing to stop price gouging. How could they help people do that? They could support…
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Mr. Speaker, we are very proud to have tabled legislation that would protect children, privacy and personal information and give us the opportunity to finally act against surveillance pricing and price gouging, making sure that Canadians have an affordable life. We are doing that with a regulator that will enforce that. This practice has been praised by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, whic…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague for her hard work representing her riding. Our AI strategy for all is about trust, opportunity and sovereign control. The first pillar is all about trust: a promise to protect our kids, to protect privacy and to protect our citizens' personal information. The protecting privacy and consumer data act would do just that. We would give citizens the right…
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Mr. Speaker, we should use common sense here. The bill is not just words; it would be a law. This is the most important thing that a government can do, which is to very seriously look at the law and change it to secure citizens where they worship and go to school. On the display of hate symbols, there is a new category as well. This would give police guidance when there is obstruction and intimida…
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Mr. Speaker, members of the opposition are chirping about that, but they can come to the synagogue where I was and try chirping, because we are there, there is fear and this bill would stop it. This is not a slogan and this is not something to be divided on and try to score points about. This is about supporting a bill that would protect people and prevent this kind of fear and intimidation. The b…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time tonight. I am pleased to rise today to speak to the message from the Senate concerning Bill C-9, the combatting hate act. At the outset, I would like to thank all who have contributed to the development and the study of the legislation: the Minister of Justice, the members of the House and Senate from all parties who participated in the debate, witnesses who …
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-36, An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
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Mr. Speaker, instead of tearing down this country, which the Conservatives do, or counting airline miles, they should help build it up. The May jobs report showed that Canada created 88,000 new net jobs. Do they mention that? No. Our trade surplus is up 55%. Do they mention it? No. Our total exports are at a record high. Do they mention it? No. When we have a groceries and essentials benefit to he…
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Mr. Speaker, I would really like to thank the member for Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas for his incredible advocacy on behalf of his community. Our new national AI strategy, AI for all, is building trust, creating opportunity and keeping sovereign control. We are creating a national AI literacy program so all Canadians can build a literate and educated workforce. We are creating 90,000 job placemen…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always good to hear from my hon. friend in the opposition, who I know has spent a lot of time thinking about the line between security and civil liberties, and the very reason for this chamber is so we can have robust debates about finding exactly where that line is. Sadly, for communities today, for Jews in synagogues, for Muslims in mosques, for the 2SLGBTQ community, too ofte…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for his work bringing communities together and keeping them safe. This is an extremely important time for us to have a thorough and fair debate about how we are protecting communities, but it is not the time to invoke more division. It is not the time to stand in the way of the protection laws that the leaders of these communities and the opposition are…
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Mr. Speaker, every single day the opposition plays the same song, gleefully running down our economy instead of building it up, instead of pointing out the 88,000 new jobs created in the May report, that the trade surplus is up 55%, the highest in 15 months, and that total exports reached a record high. That is not leadership. We are building this country. We are investing in this country. We are …
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Mr. Speaker, it would be a little more plausible that the opposition party cared about workers and cared about investment if it did not oppose every investment and every support for workers and for families. The Conservatives oppose dental care. They oppose affordable housing. They oppose investment in their own communities. We invest in Laval Tool and Mould, and they oppose. We invest in Jahn Eng…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of gleefully running down the economy, which the opposition does every day, those members should help us build it up. They do not like to point out that 88,000 new jobs were created, as said in the May report. They do not like to point out that wages have grown faster than inflation every month since we took office. They do not like to point out that rents are down 9%. In Wind…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a dangerous and serious crisis of anti-Semitism, and all the opposition can do is drive more division in the country when we do not need it most. The very synagogue where I was bar-mitzvahed was shot with 20 bullets. We do not need lessons from the opposition as to the seriousness. That is why it is a shame that the opposition opposed our anti-hate bill to protect campuses, p…
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Mr. Speaker, like all Canadians, I was proud to stand with the Prime Minister yesterday as he named the dangerous scourge of anti-Semitism. He took action, and not with divisive rhetoric. We have an anti-hate bill that will protect our places of worship, campuses and community centres. We have put money into protecting synagogues and camps. Instead of stoking division, and instead of the hollow rh…
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Mr. Speaker, I respect the hon. member, but I am surprised that the opposition continues to run down auto workers and this sector in the midst of a trade war. We just put forward $1.5 billion to support the sector with steel, aluminum and copper, as well as auto workers. The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters said this is “a constructive step to help manufacturers and exporters manage through a …
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of credit, we have the best credit rating in the world. Wages have grown twice as fast as inflation. What would the opposition cut? For example, would they cut support for our workers? Just today, we have invested $1 billion to support the steel, aluminum and copper industries hit by a trade war that the Conservatives deny, with another $500 million for good jobs, like at Bea…
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Mr. Speaker, these guys will find any excuse to talk down Canada and talk down investing in Canada, even in a trade war. Our credit rating is the highest in the world. We have just lowered the deficit by $11.5 billion, and we are using that money to invest in Canadians. We are making the largest investments in the skilled trades in our history: 100,000 jobs in the skilled trades. The Conservatives…
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Mr. Speaker, in about an hour the finance minister will give very good news for that member. Instead of just this negativity, let me give some facts. It is a fact that wages are growing twice as fast as inflation. It is a fact that Canada has the highest credit rating in the world. It is a fact that we lowered taxes for 22 million Canadians. It is a fact that we invested $6 billion in the auto sec…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives pretend to be champions of affordability, but they never get in the fight. Even worse, they vote against every measure to help families. We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. They are against it. We build affordable homes. They are against it. We introduce the groceries and food essentials that will put $1,900 into the pockets of a family of four. They are against it. W…
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Mr. Speaker, all these guys do every day in the middle of a trade war is talk down the economy and tear down the country. We are doing the real work of investing in sectors and building it up. The Conservatives just want to tear it down. Let me ask what they would tear down. Here is a list of projects we have invested in. We invested in Northern Transformer. It is in a Conservative riding; they do…
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Mr. Speaker, we are in serious negotiations with the United States because we are in a trade war. In a trade war, we have to do the serious work of supporting Canadian businesses. At FedDev Ontario, we put hundreds of millions of dollars into Canadian businesses, many of them in Conservative ridings, and they need that support. This includes Dishon in Vaughan, MVA in Stratford and Sensor Technolog…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a little early for cherry-picking season, but he is cherry-picking quotes and negative statistics to run down our country. As the Prime Minister said, wages have grown twice as fast as the rate of inflation. We just took 10¢ off the price of a litre of gas, 28¢ since we took government. We have just given families up to $1,900 this year in the groceries and essentials benefit. W…
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Mr. Speaker, the party of “no” cannot seem to take yes for an answer. We just cancelled the excise tax on gas, saving 10¢ a litre for a family, 28¢ since we became the government, which puts $2.4 billion in the pockets of families. What do these guys say? They say no. They say no to all our affordability issues, no to the groceries and essentials benefit. They do not say yes to Canadians. We are b…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of repeating talking points, let us give some facts about building an affordable life for real Canadians. We cut tax for 22 million Canadians. Our groceries and essentials bill will put almost $1,900 in the pockets of families of four. We are building affordable homes. Let us not forget dental care and health care. That is real help for real families and real jobs for a real a…
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Mr. Speaker, we are investing in Canadians. We are investing in businesses because, unlike the opposition, we realize we are in a trade war and have to support our businesses. Let me give some examples. In Markham, we invested in CES Transformers, creating 143 new jobs there. In Thorold, we have been investing in Axe Buildings: 32 permanent new jobs. In Kit Steel, we are investing in companies and…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Conservatives continue to talk down this economy and talk down our workers, we are building it up. Why? It is because we have a plan to make life more affordable. We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. We have taken the GST off first-time homebuyers, and we are investing in our auto sector, our steel sector and our aluminum sector. Why? There is a trade war on, and we are ba…
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Mr. Speaker, the opposition wants to close its eyes and have a fantasy that the trade war will go away and that the tariffs will go away. It does not work like that. They have to have a plan. They have to invest in their workers. They have to invest in affordable housing. They have to invest in national defence. They have to invest in Canadians and their workers, including those making auto parts,…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives want to close their eyes and hope that the tariffs just go away like it is 50 years ago. That is not a plan. That is a fantasy. Even The Globe and Mail said that the Conservatives' plan is straight from the 1960s. I am sorry, but nostalgia is not a plan. We are investing in our auto workers. In fact, the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario is inv…
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Mr. Speaker, as the hon. opposition knows, there is a war raging that is affecting prices everywhere. In this chaos, Canada is in a strong position. Why? It is because we prepared. We invested in jobs and industries like auto, steel and aluminum. We made sure to keep life affordable for all Canadians with our groceries and essentials benefit for 12 million Canadians. We are cutting taxes. Why? We …
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Mr. Speaker, here is breaking news for the hon. member: We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. Here is breaking news for the hon. member: Our groceries and essentials benefit will help 12 million Canadians put food on the table. Here is breaking news: We have made it easier for first-time homebuyers. Here is breaking news: We are helping families. We are investing in our defence. This is what a pl…
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Mr. Speaker, while the opposition talks the economy down, we are building it up. We have a plan to make life more affordable. We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. We eliminated the consumer carbon tax. We cut the GST for first-time homebuyers. We also have the Canada groceries and essentials benefit, which will provide about $1,890 to an average family of four this year. Instead of talking the e…
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Mr. Speaker, breaking news for the opposition: we are in a trade war. Maybe instead of talking down the Canadian economy, talking down workers, they should join us and build them up. We are investing $3 billion in the auto sector. We are backing companies who choose to build here. I was just in Bradford, Ontario, where we invested in Kumi Canada. It employs 280 Canadians and it supports our plan t…
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Mr. Speaker, the only party going in reverse is the Conservative Party. We are going to move forward. We are going to drive forward by investing in the Canadian auto sector. We have a plan to invest $3 billion in this auto sector. We are making sure that we are building the cars of the future. We are not only building the cars of the future; we are building affordable homes. We are making sure tha…
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Mr. Speaker, the contrast could not be more clear. We like to build; they like to block. We are building our auto sector with a new auto strategy; they are blocking. We are building affordable housing; they are blocking. We are investing in defence; they are blocking. We are making life more affordable for families with the GST tax credit; they are blocking. We like to build; they like to block.
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Mr. Speaker, here is some breaking news for the opposition: We are in a trade war. Illegal and unjustified tariffs are taking those jobs, and this party is fighting for those jobs and investing in the auto sector. Do members know how to fight for Canadians? We fight for auto jobs. We cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. We boost the GST rebate, helping to put food on the table. We build affordable …
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Mr. Speaker, I think some facts would be good for this debate right now. Here is one for the Conservatives: We are making life more affordable for 12 million Canadians, allowing them to put food on their table. The party of “no” likes to block; we are building. We are building affordable homes; they are blocking this. We are building safe streets; they are blocking this. We are building a chance f…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister likes to say, “Nostalgia is not a strategy”. I do not know why the Conservatives keep being nostalgic for their past policies. Here are some new ones: The 25% increase to the GST credit will allow a family of four, which the hon. member referred to, to have up to $1,900 to feed that family. That is real money. We have also made the national school food program perma…
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Mr. Speaker, while the party of no keeps standing in the way of bringing down the cost of living for Canadians, we are saying yes. Today the groceries and essentials benefit will give 12 million Canadians support to put food on the table, saving the average family of four almost $1,900 and the average individual almost $900. We are saying yes to supporting families. We are saying yes to making lif…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his leadership in his community of Vaudreuil. Canadian pioneers like Jeffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio helped invent modern AI right here in Canada, and our three world-leading institutes, Mila in Montreal, AMII in Edmonton and the Vector Institute in Toronto are success stories. We just invested more: $42.5 million in new AI compute for researchers all…
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Mr. Speaker, the opposition should stop the conspiracy theories. They should get out more, stop saying no and find out who is saying yes to Canada. They do not even have to go far. Just this morning, I was in Kanata where Nokia said yes to Canada and the Ottawa-Gatineau area. They broke ground on a $340-million innovation centre. They employ 2,600 Canadians. They will employ 340 more. The oppositi…
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Mr. Speaker, conspiracy theories and imaginary taxes are both different ways to say no to Canada. The Liberal Party is a party that says yes. Guess what: Just today, Nokia said yes to Canada. It invested $340 million in an innovation campus. That means good jobs: 2,600 jobs in Canada, with 340 more good jobs. Nokia broke ground today because it is building in Canada, buying in Canada and believing…
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Mr. Speaker, the only word the opposition seems to know is “no”. It is time for them to take yes for an answer. We said yes to investing in our businesses and entrepreneurs. They said no. We said yes to a national food program. They said no. We said yes to affordable homes and investing in our military. They said no. It is time for them to say yes to Canada and build this country strong.
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Mr. Speaker, it is very worrying that the opposition seems to exhibit such a fear of flying, but it is even more worrying that they exhibit a fear of building. The Prime Minister went to the U.A.E. and brought back a $1-billion deal to build our critical minerals sector and $70 billion of investment to build our country. That is exactly what we are doing. It turns out that our plan is an excellent…
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Mr. Speaker, we have to wonder what the opposition members will really support. They cannot support a deal to invest $1 billion in critical minerals from the U.A.E. They cannot support $70 billion coming in from the U.A.E. Maybe it is just because they want us to be distracted from what they also opposed; on Monday they opposed LNG Canada phase two in British Columbia, the new Darlington nuclear p…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of good news here. The Prime Minister went to the United Arab Emirates. The Prime Minister brought back an extraordinary deal: $1 billion for our critical minerals sector. Let us think about that. There is $70 billion in investment to build Canadian infrastructure and good jobs here in Canada. That goes along with our plan to build affordable homes and invest in our def…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have to learn to take yes for an answer. The Prime Minister was in the U.A.E. and its leadership said yes to Canada, investing $1 billion in our critical minerals sector, with $70 billion of investment coming to Canada. In fact, the Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe, supports this. Scott Moe said, “we welcome Prime Minister Carney's efforts to raise Canada's credibi…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of reading his air miles plan, why do you not read the budget? The only word the opposition seems to know is no. It is time to—
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for counting air miles instead of reading the budget. The only word the opposition seems to know is no. It is time to say yes to building Canada. It is time to say yes to the national school food program. They said no. It is time to say yes to building affordable homes. They said no. It is time to say yes to investing in our national defence. They said …
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