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Mr. Speaker, really, this Prime Minister is nothing but an illusion. A banker is supposed to be good with numbers, yet here is the Prime Minister's track record: every family will be spending an extra $1,000 on groceries in 2026, business capital investment has fallen for five consecutive quarters, and Canada has the second-highest unemployment rate in the G7. This record makes us the only G20 cou…
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Mr. Speaker, delays in the delivery of support ships for the Canadian Navy have been growing longer for years. Meanwhile, the Liberals are threatening to end the lease agreement for the MV Asterix, which is in perfect condition. Does the Liberal government intend to renew the lease or purchase the MV Asterix?
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Mr. Speaker, the Alto train is not a gift. It places a perpetual burden on the backs of future generations. Yesterday, the Minister of Transport opened the door to the possibility of cost overruns, so the minister is prepared for it to cost far more than $90 billion and far exceed its budget. Is the Liberal transport minister prepared to pour money down a bottomless pit?
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Mr. Speaker, hundreds of people gathered on Parliament Hill today to make their voices heard about the Alto train, which is threatening the survival of our communities. These people included many farmers facing the prospect of not being able to cross their land because of the Liberal government's threat to split it in two. I have not met a single farmer who wants a high‑speed train cutting across …
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Mr. Speaker, if the minister believes that this project is sound, he should go and meet with farmers himself to explain the expropriations. Experts are unanimous: This ideologically motivated project is completely irresponsible when it comes to our public finances. There is no evidence that it will be cost-effective. The Liberals want to leave us with a white elephant that runs purely on subsidies…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to give my esteemed colleague the opportunity to tell me how people in Mirabel are feeling. The government told them that a high-speed rail project is going to cut right through their farmland. It did not offer much in the way of explanation. A lot of questions were asked, but not a lot of answers have been given. I am sure that my colleague has a lot to say about that.
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to investing in agriculture, the Liberal government turns a blind eye. When it comes to investing in research centres dedicated to agriculture, not only does it turn a blind eye, but it turns away entirely. The future of Canadian agriculture is now preparing for the next generation. The closure of seven research centres in Canada reduces our ability to innovate and prepa…
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Mr. Speaker, agriculture is just a drop in the bucket for the Liberals, who are spending $6.6 billion on the Cúram program, $19 billion on consultants, and $100 billion on a high-speed train that will ruin entire farming communities in Quebec and Ontario. Saving $23 million a year by closing seven research centres in Canada is completely unacceptable. This decision is a direct attack on our countr…
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Mr. Speaker, the feedback about Alto's high-speed rail project, which is being promoted by the Liberal Party and relatives of influential ministers, has been very negative. According to Radio-Canada, some 500 farms and 1,200 landowners will be affected in the Montreal-Ottawa corridor alone. Just imagine how many people who will be expropriated over the 1,000-kilometre route. Considering our Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always the same story with the Prime Minister's costly illusion: everything is more expensive. It is higher costs, higher taxes, more debt, and the national credit card is maxed out. It costs the average Canadian family $4,000 net per month just for the right to breathe under Liberal rule. What used to be a decent wage is now barely enough to survive on. How can people make ends…
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Mr. Speaker, that answer is not worth much. What is worth a lot is gas at $2 a litre, a two-bedroom apartment at $2,000 a month, on top of an annual bill of $17,000 for a family of four's weekly grocery run. We saw just how distressed Canadians are when a new liquidation store opened in Granby this morning. The police had to direct traffic because a queue of people had turned up as early as 5 a.m.…
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Mr. Speaker, in loving memory of my sister-in-law Marlène Beaudoin, an energetic, dedicated woman who loved her family: her husband Yvon, her children Jonathan, Myriam and Catherine, and her six beloved grandchildren. Always ready to protect us so that we would want for nothing, Marlène leaves us with indelible memories of her devotion to her loved ones. She was the centre of attention in our fami…
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Mr. Speaker, the national credit card is more maxed out than ever, leaving a $1-trillion bill behind for our kids and grandkids. That is $1 trillion more in 10 years being piled on the backs of future generations. Today, families are paying the price for the Liberals' structural deficits through higher taxes, higher inflation, even higher interest costs and higher prices across the board. When is …
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Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. It is apparent that he was a teacher before becoming an MP. Going back to the $1.5-billion program, we are talking about loans that must be repaid over three years. However, companies are losing money due to U.S. tariffs. With these 25% tariffs, they are forced to lower their prices to remain competitive, or they will be forced out of the…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for introducing this bill, which could have far-reaching effects and help a lot of Canadians. Black holes exist in my riding, too. In particular, in one section of the Saint-Nicolas sector of Lévis, right in the city at the head of the bridges on the way to Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, cell service suddenly disappears. These people are asking us to do everything in our…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Calgary Midnapore. I am pleased to take part in today's debate in the House on Government Motion No. 9. However, I am very unhappy with what this motion will do, particularly as the result will fundamentally redefine the work of MPs for the remainder of this Parliament. The parliamentary committee work that MPs do is very important for our…
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Mr. Speaker, on April 28, 2025, Canadians voted for a minority Liberal government. That is what Canadians wanted. In their wisdom, Canadian wanted to keep this government under close supervision and hold it accountable. Unfortunately, the government is now using Motion No. 9 to stop Canadians from getting what they want.
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Mr. Speaker, this is a scandal in itself, but what saddens me most is that the Liberals, through their actions, are building a case for political cynicism in Canada. Let me remind everyone: Canadians elected a Liberal minority government. We now have a Liberal majority government, not because Canadians chose it, but because of defections.
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Mr. Speaker, according to an in-depth feature in Le Journal de Montréal, the Liberal government is letting seniors fall through the cracks. With all the spending on credit in the budget, food inflation is rising much faster than old age security benefits. As a result, seniors are being forced to work at age 68 to pay their mortgage. While seniors are struggling to make ends meet, the Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, I can assure him that we have never dared to go as far as the Liberals have. I have to emphasize the word “never”. The Liberals have broken democracy. They are going to foster cynicism. I read a message last night from a young man who took the time to write to me, and he said he may never vote again in his life because of the Liberals' tactics. Has anyone thought about the cynicism th…
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Mr. Speaker, this will not take long and I will answer honestly. Shame on the Liberals. Shame on them for what they are doing right now. They may be destroying democracy in Canada for future generations.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister keeps telling Canadians that affordability is the best it has been in a decade. It seems that Brookfield's elite rarely go out to buy groceries. Over the past Liberal decade, food prices have risen by 42%. Potatoes have gone up by 60%, and beef has gone up by 69%. Those are the facts, and the list goes on. Can the Prime Minister take responsibility for the Liberals'…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the Liberals like to chew gum, but here are the facts. Just yesterday, data confirmed that Canada has the worst record in the G7 when it comes to food inflation. Canadians are unhappy under Liberal rule. We have fallen from fifth place to 25th place in the global happiness rankings. Even without a track record to speak of, the Liberals are outdoing themselves in arrogance…
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Mr. Speaker, my granddaughter Clémence, my eighth grandchild, was born last night. The Liberal federal government has gifted her with $44,716 in debt. What a great start to life. Luckily, the Prime Minister is offering her a four-cent reduction on a litre of diesel. Talk about ironic. How will those four cents help Clémence start her life with peace of mind?
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Mr. Speaker, the measures announced this morning by the Liberal government are too little too late in the face of the magnitude of the cost of living crisis in Canada. The price of diesel today is $2.75 a litre. The announced tax cut of four cents a litre changes nothing for our truckers. The Liberal government is still charging eight cents a litre in GST and seven cents a litre for the clean fuel…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning I listened to the Liberal government's announcement. They are talking about lowering the price of diesel. Diesel currently costs about $2.75 a litre. The government announced a four-cent-per-litre reduction. In the trucking industry it can cost between $1,300 and $1,500 a day to run a truck on diesel. Will this four-cent reduction make a big difference? Could the governme…
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Mr. Speaker, whether we are talking about a new Liberal government or an old Liberal government, it is a Liberal government that is no good at math. For the past 10 years, the same Liberals have been ruining our country. Canada has lost more than 100,000 jobs since the start of the year. Business investment per worker has fallen by 25% since the last Conservative government and investment in indus…
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Mr. Speaker, the scandals never end. The wind is blowing in the right direction for Liberal wind turbines. This week, it came to light that the Liberals issued a $205-million loan at a below-market rate as well as $150-million in subsidies for a wind farm in Nova Scotia. In fact, to get a seat on the board of directors, a person has to be a former Liberal MP or part of the Liberal family—no except…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Liberal Prime Minister said that the immigration system was under control, yet the Liberals have abandoned security checks and systematic screening processes and have allowed approximately 25,000 people into the country without even having to talk to a government employee. Meanwhile, where is the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship? She is not answering an…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have locked the doors to the Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures experimental farm and the Laval University research centre in the Minister of Public Works and Procurement's constituency. Everyone agrees that this decision will have long-term consequences for our food sovereignty and our Canadian expertise. Agricultural research is already being neglected under the Liberals. The …
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Mr. Speaker, there is yet another scandal. Following the Phoenix fiasco, Liberal incompetence has reached new heights with the Cúram software, a federal version of SAAQclic. The price tag for this IT project has risen to $6.6 billion, and more than half of that money will go to consultants who are racking up delays, failures and cost overruns with impunity. While Canadians are struggling, public m…
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian dream of home ownership is fading for young Canadians. A Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report says that housing starts in 2028 could fall by as much as 18% compared to last year. The Canadian Home Builders' Association says that current conditions will create a lost decade for home ownership in Canada. When will the government adopt our plan to stimulate residen…
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Mr. Speaker, since my colleague brought up the issue of high-speed rail, which strays a bit from the topic of the Bloc Québécois motion, I would like to know how many farm families will be affected between Quebec City, Toronto and Windsor. How much farmland will be built on as part of this project?
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Mr. Speaker, we do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. It seems so easy for major project proponents to look at a map and draw a line. However, when that line becomes a route and valuable farmland has to be acquired for a project, we often forget where that land came from and who owns it. If a person gets their car stolen, they are not going to be in a good mood…
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Mr. Speaker, these kinds of questions make me very emotional. Nothing is more precious to a farm family than the land. That land is the fruit of generations of work: nine, 10, 11, 12 generations. The land in Mirabel was the most fertile land in Quebec. There were beautiful plateaus, plains and heat units that everyone here in Quebec would love to have. This was the federal Liberal government's wor…
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Mr. Speaker, the largest key projects for Canada over the next 15 to 30 years will involve massive investments in our manufacturing sector, which is really under threat right now. If we want to create jobs for Canadians, we need to invest in the manufacturing sector and in mining as well. Rare minerals will bring in a lot of money. They will be in demand around the world. Canada can be a world lea…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to give a brief history lesson. When I was young, between four and five years old, I saw families on television being expropriated from their land. It is impossible to imagine what it would have felt like for a four- or five-year-old boy living on a farm to see his house being bulldozed. The entire rural community of Quebec felt this great betrayal and the fear of having …
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Mr. Speaker, in addition to expropriating farmers from their land, the Liberal government is closing agri-food research centres. The Sainte-Foy research centre in the riding of the member for Louis-Hébert is one of seven agricultural research centres that the Liberals just randomly closed. Canadian science and innovation are built in these centres. They drive our productivity. How does the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, three years ago, the Minister of Finance promised to stabilize food prices. Since then, the price of lettuce has gone up 40%, the price of coffee has gone up 34% and the price of beef has gone up 27%. Instead of lowering costs, the Liberals are rolling out another temporary rebate as a band-aid solution. Will the Liberals finally turn things around and support our Conservative motion,…
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Mr. Speaker, for 10 years, we have seen that there is nothing logical about the way the Liberal government runs our country. There are too many taxes, and the measure that the government has put in place will cost approximately $9 billion. However, unfortunately, we will have to add to that $1.4 billion in recurring interest for, perhaps, the next 100 years.
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise in the House today to speak to Bill C-19, which is a striking and disturbing illustration of how far Canada has fallen over the past 10 years under the Liberals. This bill is not just another piece of legislation. It is indicative of a much deeper problem, specifically how the Liberal economic vision has failed and how it has increased the tax burden on Canadians, w…
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Mr. Speaker, let us think about what it takes to put food on the table after what the Liberal government has done over the past 10 years. Some 12 million Canadians will receive the grocery benefit. Have Canadians become so poor that 30% of the population needs this benefit? Why have the Liberals kept taxes so high? They need to lower taxes. They need to leave Canadian taxpayers' money in their poc…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent question. Yes, GST is collected on some food and processed items, especially in grocery stores. Anytime a service is required for a product, it is taxed. That tax should be cut immediately. That would have been much simpler than managing a program that will also cost a lot of money to administer.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to tell my colleague that Conservatives have always supported Canadians who face food insecurity. Unfortunately, today, 30% of Canadians need to use this type of program, whereas only 3% of Canadians needed to do so in 2015. The numbers have been multiplied by a factor of 10. That is the problem. It is the result of 10 years of Liberal government. Canadians are hungry and…
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Mr. Speaker, two-thirds of Quebeckers are losing sleep at night because of the Liberals' inflationary taxes. It costs an average of $17,600 per year to feed a family of four. That is $1,000 more than at this time last year. This is the worst record in the G7, but the good news is that the Conservatives are ready to co-operate on any initiative that will remedy this situation. Will this government …
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Mr. Speaker, food is expensive in Canada. It is more expensive than anywhere else. There is not another G7 country where food costs more than in Canada. Ground beef is unaffordable: it is 17% more expensive. Apples have gone up by 10%, lettuce by 13%. Oranges have gone up by 15% and ground coffee by 42%. Is the Liberal government in trouble? Its credibility is the only thing that is going down.
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Mr. Speaker, votes cannot be bought. They must be earned. The latest consumer price index data shows that food inflation has risen by 6.2%, making Canada the food inflation capital of the G7. The Prime Minister can blame the rest of the world, but this is a problem created right here at home by the high Liberal taxes imposed on our farmers. Will the government agree to immediately introduce legisl…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are struggling to put food on the table, this Liberal Prime Minister spent $736,000 of taxpayer money to travel to Egypt, a last-minute trip, which tripled the cost. The Prime Minister's responsibilities come at the expense of taxpayers, while next year Canadians will pay $1,000 more for food. Can the Liberals stop their inflationary spending and get rid of hidden taxe…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality on the ground is that food prices have skyrocketed. This week, Ms. Ouellet wrote to me that her grocery bill is higher than her mortgage payment. Ms. Vallée told me that she no longer eats meat so that she can stay within her budget. Mr. Hardy has noticed that people are regularly choosing pop and chips as a meal so they can pay their rent at the end of the month. Can the …
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Mr. Speaker, during this magical festive season, I want to wish my dear constituents in Lévis—Lotbinière good health, peace and happiness. May these times of celebration give them the opportunity to share precious moments with their loved ones and to celebrate what unites us all as a community. I also want to sincerely thank them for their trust and loyalty over the past 20 years. Their commitment…
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