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Mr. Speaker, if these much-touted Liberal structural and policy decisions were working, 2.2 million Canadians would not be relying on food banks every month. On Ormière Boulevard in the Les Saules neighbourhood of Quebec City, the organization Solidarité familles is unfortunately breaking records for the amount of aid it provides. Last year, it delivered just one emergency hamper in December, but …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told voters to judge him by the price of groceries. Well, it has been almost a year since he became Prime Minister, and putting food on the table is costing families an extra $1,000. We have the worst food inflation in the G7. We Conservatives are appealing to the government to lower taxes. I have an example. The Liberals spent nine years praising the apparent virtu…
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Mr. Speaker, the primary concern for all the families watching us right now is the cost of groceries. Unfortunately, Canadian families are being hit hard by food inflation, which currently stands at 6.2%. That is the worst result in the G7. One of the contributing factors is the Liberal fuel tax. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, this tax could cost families an extra $1,000. We, the C…
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the minister talks a good game, but he does not get results. Let us not forget that, just two years ago, he was boasting about meeting with grocery executives. What came out of that? The result was the worst food inflation in the G7. The Liberals' plan is not working. It is not surprising that 2.2 million Canadians are using food banks. The charitable organization …
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Mr. Speaker, what is not working is that the architect of the Century Initiative is going to be appointed as the Canadian ambassador to the United States. Worse still, the minister knows full well that Mr. Wiseman is also strongly opposed to supply management. I am not making this up. That is the truth. Imagine the conversation he will have with President Trump, when President Trump says to him: “…
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Mr. Speaker, in Canadian diplomacy, there is no position more important or prestigious than that of Canadian ambassador to the United States. The person who holds this position must be in perfect political harmony with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is set to appoint Mark Wiseman as Canada's ambassador to the United States. Mr. Wiseman is the architect of the infamous Century Initiative, w…
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Mr. Speaker, the government's economic policies are not working. Take the weekly cost of groceries, for example. The cost has doubled in 10 years from $159 to $338 under the Liberal government. It is going to cost an extra $1,000 next year. Food bank demand is way, way up. Back home in Saint‑André de Neufchâtel, 200 Christmas food hampers will be handed out. That is 70 more than last year. Accueil…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his passionate speech. If there is one member who takes the time to be present for the constituents, families, students, young people, seniors and entrepreneurs in his riding, it is the member for La Pocatière. I will just call his riding La Pocatière for short. My colleague raised a very important point for businesses: U.S. tariffs have risen …
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, every Canadian had access to affordable housing. The dream of home ownership was alive and well. After 10 years of mismanagement by this Liberal government, rent has doubled and home ownership is inaccessible. That dream is crumbling. Now, the Liberals have come up with a new scheme called Build Canada Homes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer was scathing. The objective o…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a point of order. First of all, I want to apologize to my colleague. There are some technical problems. I very much appreciate all of my colleagues here, but the camera is not focused on the person speaking. I am sure a lot of people have noticed. It reminds me of the good old days, when I was a TV journalist. Maybe we can fix it right now.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are facing a sharp rise in food prices, and two million of them are using food banks. Fortunately, in the riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk, hundreds of volunteers are working hard to help the least fortunate among us. In Loretteville, the Maison de la Famille in St-Ambroise and Accueil Saint-Ambroise are getting ready to distribute Christmas hampers. In L'Ancienne-…
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Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague on his speech and on the comments he just made, but I would still like to ask him the following question. The so-called architect of environmental policies that he mentioned earlier—obviously referring to the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie—was there six months ago when the government decided to get rid of the carbon tax. He was there when the government introdu…
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Mr. Speaker, when we talk about Bill C-4, obviously we are talking about the carbon tax. The point is that when we talk about the carbon tax, we are talking, sincerely and correctly, about the exploitation of all kinds of energy and natural resources. Can the member inform the House about his experience as a leader of his community in terms of natural resources? Can he share with the House his exp…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure and an honour to take part in this debate on Bill C-230, concerning transparency. First, here is a quick explanation of what the bill is all about. In Canada, and in other countries around the world, the government sometimes enters into agreements with businesses or individuals who owe money for unpaid taxes. Sometimes, agreements are reached. The bill seeks to incr…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge my colleague from British Columbia and leader of the Green Party. Many Canadians were surprised last week when the member asked the Prime Minister if he would respect the Paris Agreement, to which he said that he would indeed respect it. The Green Party member ultimately decided to support the Liberal government's budget. The Prime Minister gave exactly the…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the Prime Minister is very familiar with Brookfield, but is he familiar with Paccar? Paccar is truck manufacturing company in Boisbriand that has been around for decades. As we speak, 300 workers at Paccar are losing their jobs. Parents, men and women, are losing their jobs, basically because of the new tariffs Trump has imposed since the Prime Minister took office. I und…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question and congratulate her on her work. Yes, I am a former journalist, so I can truly appreciate what is going on, but I recognize that everything also happens on social media now and that the media has to adapt. There used to be a local newspaper in my riding, but it has now become much more of a virtual newspaper that is much more in tun…
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Mr. Speaker, obviously the world has changed. I remember pretty well the Prime Minister, while he was campaigning, saying, “Elbows up”. What happened? He went to the White House twice, and was it elbows up? No, it was thumbs up. The reality today is empty hands. He went from elbows up to thumbs up to empty hands. That is not the way to address the reality of the geopolitical situation right now. T…
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Mr. Speaker, thank you for calling me to order. It appears that I addressed another member using the informal form “tu”. I am quite embarrassed and must apologize. I have been an elected official for 17 years and yet I made this mistake. Even in my private life I tend to address everyone with the formal “vous”. Well, it happens to everyone. It is Thursday evening. It has been a good day, and I am …
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her hard work in the House and in her riding. By the way, she is among the few people who unseated a Liberal MP. I am very proud of that. The question raised by the member is very important because we are talking about where the priority of the government is. Does it want to put more money in the banking system or in directly helping Canadians? This is…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. It was well researched, as always. We have different points of view, as he so aptly put it, but that is the beauty of democracy. I do not want to get into the details of his culinary remark from a few moments ago. I did not catch the name of the dish. Does he think that this dish could also apply to the fact that this government is doing worse than…
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Mr. Speaker, in the past 10 years since the Liberals came to power, the bureaucracy has grown by 80%. Unfortunately, the quality of public services has not kept pace. Today, the TVA program J.E. reported that 950,000 calls were made to the Canada Revenue Agency because Canadians could not access its online services. That is the reality after 10 years of Liberal governance. This is true in my ridin…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech and congratulate him on his election. I know it has been a long time, but I still want to congratulate him on his first term in the House. My question is very simple. We know that his government likes to talk about a generational budget. We keep hearing that it is generational, that it is going to be talked about for generations, that …
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Mr. Speaker, the new Liberal Prime Minister's first budget is a credit card budget, with a $78 billion deficit. That is $16 billion more than the Liberals promised during the election campaign. I do not need a Ph.D. from Oxford University to know that running deficits means fobbing the bill off on our children, our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren. In fact, Fitch Ratings has warned that f…
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Mr. Speaker, who would have believed it? The current Prime Minister is worse than Justin Trudeau when it comes to compulsive deficits. Something really needs to be done about this. Let me quote someone who, on March 11, 2015, said that balancing the budget "is the best way to maintain the credibility and financial stability of the province". Do members know who said that in 2015? It was the curren…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have tabled the costliest budget with the biggest deficit in Canadian history, excluding the pandemic. The deficit is nearly $80 billion. A deficit is what happens when we live beyond our means. A deficit is a bill that we send to our children and our grandchildren. A deficit pours fuel on the fire of inflation. Why is the Prime Minister breaking his promise by recklessly…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I am not at all proud of the figure that I am about to share: 2.2 million Canadians are visiting food banks every month. That is the Liberal track record after 10 years. Of these 2.2 million Canadians, one in three is a child. That means that 700,000 children in Canada are relying on food banks to eat. I am sorry, but I love Canada too much to watch this happen. Why is …
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Mr. Speaker, in less than two hours, the Liberals will table their 10th budget with their 10th colossal deficit. I would remind the House that those folks got elected in 2015 on a promise to run three small deficits and then balance the budget in 2019. The reality is that the debt has doubled under the Liberals. Housing costs have doubled under the Liberals. What did the Prime Minister say to youn…
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Mr. Speaker, every Canadian wants a budget that will curb the cost of living, which is very high for everyone. The grocery store is where it hurts the most. Food inflation is twice as high as other areas, and there are now 2,200,000 Canadians who use food banks. Do not forget what the Prime Minister said in order to get elected. He got elected by saying that he would be judged by the price of food…
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Mr. Speaker, for months now, we have been suggesting something that will help bring down food prices: Axe the industrial carbon tax. Yes, it directly affects food. Food does not fall from the sky. It has to be produced, processed, transported and packaged. That is the reality. The Liberal industrial carbon tax applies to all that. In fact, Professor Charlebois told a parliamentary committee yester…
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Madam Speaker, in my speech, I did indeed forget to mention those two very important things, one of which is accountability. Canadians are craving transparency and accountability. We need those things so that we know whether the job is being done right and so that we can make changes along the way, if necessary. Second, with regard to my esteemed colleague's first question, it is unfortunate to se…
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal government, 10 years of chronic deficits, Canada's debt has doubled. Running a deficit is like adding fuel to the fire of inflation. Unfortunately, that is why prices are skyrocketing in Canada. We have a government that says one thing and does another. It is telling young people that they need to make sacrifices while it is spending $20 billion on consulta…
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Madam Speaker, obviously, I recognize the issue we are debating today, but on the other hand, we have to address the issue of our reality in 2025. Life goes on, and we have to adapt to the reality of the day. I do not want to be too partisan, but I will be. Over the last 10 years, we have seen a lack of responsibility when we are talking about this specific issue. For good or bad reasons, I think …
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Madam Speaker, what would Quebeckers and Canadians like? They would like the parliamentary secretary to do exactly what he did when he was in the provincial government, which is to balance the budget. That is exactly the opposite of what he is doing now. Is he aware that he is part of a government that, over the past 10 years, has caused 2,250,000 people to turn to food banks? He is part of a gove…
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Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to participate in today's debate. Before I address the substance of this bill, I would like to make two observations. First, today, October 31, marks the beginning of poppy season, a time when all Canadians remember the great sacrifice, and in too many cases, the ultimate sacrifice, made by the men and women serving in the Canadian military. It is thanks to them th…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleagues for the applause, but they should save it for my second point, which is even better. All of Canada will be united tonight. With one voice, we will support the Blue Jays. Tonight, they will beat the other team and bring home baseball's biggest prize. If they should happen to lose tonight, I am not even worried, because they always come back strong. There is no d…
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Mr. Speaker, for 10 years, the Liberals have been mismanaging taxpayers' money, and the Auditor General has informed us of a prime example of this. Do members know what it is about? It is about the Canada Revenue Agency's 10-year, $50‑million contract for a phone system. Do members know how much that contract has cost to date? It has cost $190 million and could cost up to $217 million, or four tim…
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Mr. Speaker, yes indeed, I invite everyone to watch the parliamentary committee meetings on the subject of the Canada Revenue Agency. It revealed a lot about how utterly irresponsibly those people, the Liberal government, managed the Canada Revenue Agency over the past 10 years. What do we have to show for it? Two million Canadians are currently using food banks. Housing costs have doubled since t…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Gaspésie—Les Îles‑de‑la‑Madeleine—Listuguj for his interesting and informative intervention. I think this is the first time I am interacting with him in the House, so I congratulate him on being elected just six months ago. I think he is the only one in the House to have beat a Liberal incumbent. I wanted to point that out. It was the only instance of…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was elected on the promise that he would be judged on food prices. Six months on, here are the results: Grocery prices keep going up and up, twice as fast as inflation. That is the legacy of 10 years of Liberal governance. Will the Prime Minister use his budget to eliminate the taxes that impact food prices so Canadians can have an affordable life?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' governance is so effective that 2.2 million Canadians now have to go to food banks every month to eat. Yes, 2.2 million people. That is the Liberal record for a G7 country after 10 years. Shame on those who mismanaged the government so horribly. That is why people are realizing that the more the Liberal government spends, the more it costs Canadians. I will repeat my que…
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Mr. Speaker, Paccar in Sainte‑Thérèse has been manufacturing trucks for 60 years, but today 300 workers learned that they are losing their jobs. That is the sad truth about what the Liberal government has achieved in its dealings with Donald Trump. The Liberals are talking big, but they are failing to take action. Let us remember that they were elected by telling Canadians to keep their elbows up …
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General has confirmed what Canadians have known for quite some time: The Liberal Canada Revenue Agency is completely off the rails. In June, only 5% of calls were answered within the standard time frame. Worse still, when callers did get through, the information they received was inaccurate four times out of five. My question is for the revenue minister, who is an honourab…
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Mr. Speaker, I can appreciate that the minister is pleased with his 100 days. However, I would like to remind him that, just two years ago, he did exactly the same thing. He told everyone that he had met with all the supermarket executives and that we would see food prices go down, and yet, for the past two years, prices have only gone up. That is the truth. Let me get back to the Canada Revenue A…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague and congratulate him on his speech. Clearly, we have our differences, but we also have some common ground. For example, we are the ones who proposed the tax cut. For years and years, we said that it had to be done, and the Liberals finally did it. I am glad they are using some of our ideas. Our leader actually reiterated that commitment. He said the …
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Mr. Speaker, on April 12, 2021, the Bloc enabled the Liberals to stop the work being done at the committee with respect to Mr. Vance. The reality is that all parliamentarians are united in facing the challenge posed by this bill. We must tackle this sad and unfortunate reality head-on in order to fix the problems associated with sexual misconduct. This needs to be properly studied in parliamentary…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his hard work in his riding and here in the House of Commons. I remember pretty well when he got elected for the first time. I had some responsibility at that time to welcome him, and I was very proud to welcome him. I am prouder than ever to see that he is doing a very good job here in the House of Commons and also in his riding. For sure, we all shar…
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Mr. Speaker, we are resuming the debate from two days ago on a very important bill about a very sensitive subject. We must be serious and rigorous in doing this work, since it concerns misconduct in our armed forces, more specifically, sexual assault. That is why we need to take the time to do things right. This is an important issue. Every time the army has been faced with an internal problem, it…
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Mr. Speaker, obviously, as I said earlier, we agree with the principle of this bill, which addresses this serious issue. With all respect to my veteran colleague, I just want to tell the member that he and the government should have done something 10 years ago. Unfortunately, they delayed and delayed. As said clearly by a colleague in the Bloc Québécois two days ago, who expressed the time frame o…
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