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Madam Chair, the minister told us that this type of accounting is used in the United Kingdom. I would like him to confirm that.
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Madam Chair, so says the person who confirmed it earlier. Could the minister tell us what percentage of public capital held by governments in Canada is held by the federal government?
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Madam Chair, it is approximately 4%. I do not think the minister has the numbers at hand. We will do him a favour. Can the minister tell us which level of government in the United Kingdom manages hospitals?
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Madam Chair, are we to understand that once the accounting is reformed, and we are told that the model is the United Kingdom, a country that has a different model of government than ours, all the transfers to the provinces will count as operating expenses instead of capital expenses?
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Madam Speaker, indeed, we look forward to having a budget. We have said that several times. Does the minister agree that if health transfers are counted as operating expenses, the transfers to the provinces will artificially run up the deficit?
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Madam Chair, do the estimates account for the government's election campaign promise to reduce the size of the public service?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us by how much consultants' fees are increasing, in the estimates?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us by how much the government is going to reduce spending on civil servants compared to what was expected? By how much is it going to increase spending on consultants?
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Madam Chair, I will ask the question again. I would just like to know how much of an increase there is with respect to the planned expenditures on consultants.
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Madam Chair, the Income Tax Act has been under the minister's purview since the early 1960s. The Income Tax Act provides that Canadian advertising expenses incurred in foreign media are not deductible for income tax purposes. However, the act is extremely outdated. Today, we have companies that are deducting costs incurred for advertising with foreign web giants, specifically the big American grou…
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Madam Chair, I would like to point out that since 2018, approximately 40 daily newspapers, 400 community newspapers, 42 radio stations and 11 television stations have disappeared in Canada. Their revenues have partly gone to web giants like GAFAM. The government has done nothing and has ignored the industry's demands. I would like to know how much this tax expenditure costs the government every ye…
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Madam Chair, I would like the minister to tell me whether he needs a parliamentary committee to provide me with the value of the tax expenditure associated with these tax credits. Is he able to obtain that figure for us?
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Madam Chair, the minister's problem is that he is reaching out instead of providing figures. I am asking him for the value of a tax credit. How much do Canadians pay annually in tax credits, in money that goes directly to American web giants like GAFAM that contribute to disinformation in our democracy?
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Madam Chair, I would like to know how much revenue will be collected as a result of the retaliatory tariffs against the United States during the current fiscal year, the government's fiscal year.
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Madam Chair, what the minister is saying would be true if, during the election campaign, the government had not included $20 billion from retaliatory tariffs against the United States in its financial platform to fund operating expenses. The “Fiscal Monitor” shows us that, as of March, $600 million in retaliatory measures against U.S. tariffs had been collected. If we multiply that by 12, it is ju…
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Madam Chair, can the minister confirm for me that the Liberal campaign platform proposed to use this $20 billion for operating expenses, not for ad hoc programs to help workers and businesses?
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Madam Chair, the minister says it is false that a large part of the retaliatory measures against the U.S. tariffs have been suspended. Contrary to what Oxford Economics says, the Department of Finance has not submitted any documents and there is no evidence to support its claim. Does the minister think that publicly squabbling with consulting firms that are trying to help their clients contributes…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to say how proud I am of the awards received by the City of Mirabel and the mayor of Sainte‑Marthe‑sur‑le‑Lac at the 2025 Municipal Conference of the Union des municipalités du Québec, or UMQ. First, there is the Ovation municipale award in the climate future category in recognition of the ingenuity and creativity behind the work to reduce the ecological footprint of the …
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Mr. Speaker, the $9 billion in spending is in addition to the $26 billion over five years in tax cuts. Add to that the $4 billion for the GST exemption for new homes. All that is in addition to the $38 billion more in appropriations for the cost of the federal government. That alone is more than Quebec's total annual health care budget. The Liberals are asking us to support it without a budget bei…
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Mr. Speaker, although my colleague's speech was very interesting and very good, I would like to address two things that she said. First, she mentioned that old refrain from the election campaign, specifically “think big, be Canadian”. In other words, Canada has to be “big”. The President of the United States is a bad guy, and the situation is urgent. Then my colleague regurgitated all the old meas…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his election. In fact, in another life, he was my own city councillor. That said, my colleague argues that it is not at all customary for a government to get elected, open Parliament and immediately table a budget. He may be right about not tabling an entire budget, but it is customary to table an economic statement. It is customary to give information t…
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Mr. Speaker, what we are hearing from the government benches is that negotiations are progressing and that there may even be direct negotiations going on between the Prime Minister and President Trump. However, in Canada, there is a total lack of transparency when it comes to trade negotiations. Agreements are negotiated behind closed doors. Parliament does not even get to vote on the substance, o…
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Mr. Speaker, steel and aluminum tariffs are doubling, and 2,000 forestry jobs have been lost. The trade war is heating up. Our industries and workers need support. We need a budget. Yesterday, the throne speech was adopted on the condition that at least a budget update would be adopted. Today, the Liberals are being asked to respect their own throne speech. Will they keep their word for once and i…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague gave a very good speech with a smile on his face. I have to say that throughout his speech, I kept thinking about how his first and last names, which I cannot say here, are so similar to Miles Davis, one of my favourite musicians. This brought the following question to mind. Does my colleague not think that, given the crisis we are experiencing with the United States, c…
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his election and thank him for his speech. When you watch the news, at least in Quebec, the situation is crystal clear. Health care is in crisis. At the height of summer, emergency rooms are overwhelmed. Psychiatric services cannot keep up. People who are homeless need services on the street. My colleague talked about the government's fiscal and budget…
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Madam Speaker, you have handed me a golden opportunity to say hello. You know how much I appreciate you, and I am delighted to see you again. Congratulations on your election to this position. Please know that you are in my thoughts. I also congratulate all my colleagues who have been elected. It is true in life, it is true in love, it is true in general, but it is especially true in politics: One…
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Madam Speaker, I commend my colleague. She is my neighbour, so we are bound to run into each other. It is funny because during the election campaign, someone new arrived in the region. We looked into it. We saw that early in her career she was at a large consulting firm that practised tax evasion. We wondered if she took part in that. She did not so we did not give her a hard time about it. That s…
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Madam Speaker, time is running out to introduce a budget. The Liberals have pushed things far enough, and it is hard to backtrack. There were no pre-budget consultations. Now they find themselves having to draft a budget without having heard from anyone. They spent their campaign scaring people. The solution is a budget update. At the very least, we need to know where we are at with revenue and sp…
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Madam Speaker, it is funny because, over the weekend, I thought I would get my colleague's cellphone number to say hello, since we are working on a joint file in a municipality. I would like to take this opportunity to tell her that I know she is very much appreciated. Now, to answer the question more specifically, I would say that that is precisely the issue. My colleague is asking me whether I w…
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Madam Speaker, when my colleague was asking her question, she made a slip of the tongue that I am going to keep and reuse. Instead of saying, “one economy out of 13”, she said, “one government out of 13”. She said that the Liberals wanted to create one government instead of 13, and not one economy. That is what they are trying to do. Canada's nature and geography mean that there will always be mul…
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Madam Speaker, I will quickly read the Supreme Court decision in R. v. Comeau: The need to maintain balance embodied in the federalism principle supports an interpretation of s. 121 that prohibits laws directed at curtailing the passage of goods over interprovincial borders, but allows legislatures to pass laws to achieve other goals within their powers, even though the laws may have the incidenta…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by congratulating the member for Guelph on her election. What she said in her speech is very noble. She began by saying that she got into politics for her children, to whom she wanted to leave a cleaner, healthier world, a world where global warming might be below 1.5°C. The International Energy Agency has been quite clear that if we want to prevent global warming from…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend my colleague on his election. Earlier, the Liberal member for Egmont gave a speech that I thought was absolutely outrageous. He said that health is not just a provincial jurisdiction, even though section 92 of the Constitution says that it is. Ottawa got involved because changes in government revenues allowed it to meddle in provincial affairs. All of the provi…
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Mr. Speaker, since he is a new Conservative member, I am curious. Does the member believe that global warming is a real, scientifically proven phenomenon?
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his re-election. We need legislation to protect supply management because the Canadian government does not decide what is on the table during a negotiation. Each party decides what it is putting on the table. The Americans have announced that supply management will be on the table. I listened to my colleague from Compton—Stanstead, and the rhetoric has c…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague from Beauce and pass on best wishes directly from the people of Mirabel, which was recently named the maple capital of the world. However, good maple syrup can be found everywhere. Ottawa often automatically thinks that the federal government can fix everything. However, my colleague spoke about helping businesses, cutting taxes and making our economy more …
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Mr. Speaker, my friend, the member for Whitby, whom I congratulate and salute, was one of the main standard-bearers of the Trudeau government's environmental policy. I have here a mailer he sent his constituents in June 2022. In it, he defended the carbon tax and rebates for zero-emission vehicles, for which there are no tax credits anymore. He also sponsored a motion to speed up the passage of Se…
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Madam Speaker, with all due respect, I think that this is an important addition to the debate on this point of order. In his speech, the parliamentary secretary said that he was not up to date, had not read Bill C‑390, and was unaware. Members cannot do indirectly what they cannot do directly. Since the parliamentary secretary referred to himself as ignorant, should he withdraw his remarks?
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Mr. Speaker, on this Halloween, the worst house of horrors is here in Ottawa, the Canada Revenue Agency. Fraudsters got $6 million in fraudulent tax refunds. The agency was not even able to realize that different people were being paid in the same bank account. That is not all. There is a smart guy who fudged his tax returns to try to get a $40 million refund. The agency had time to refund him a s…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister might think this is our fault, but we want to know how many other times the Canada Revenue Agency has been a victim of fraud as a result of a lack of verification, because the CRA has been hiding the real numbers. Since 2020, the CRA has notified the Privacy Commissioner of 113 cases where taxpayers' personal information was used to commit fraud. When questioned by the me…
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Mr. Speaker, fraud is on the rise at the Canada Revenue Agency because no one is doing the proper checks, including the minister, who has the power to launch investigations. Then there are the cases where the CRA is defrauding itself, as was the case with 330 employees who had to be fired because they approved themselves for CERB, the Canada emergency response benefit. The vampires were running th…
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Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to talk about François Gervais, a staff member at Oka Secondary School, who recently opted for phased retirement after an accomplished career. For nearly 40 years, Mr. Gervais touched the lives of hundreds of young people. Some of them still talk to me today about his initiatives, such as setting up a fair trade store, creating a student environment committee, esta…
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Mr. Speaker, whistle-blowers with the courage to report federal wrongdoing have to wait three years for an investigation not to be completed, but merely started. Imagine how that must deter people from speaking out. Imagine how it damages the public's trust at a time when the federal government is getting itself mired in one scandal after another, like the ArriveCAN or SDTC scandals. The Public Se…
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Mr. Speaker, while the federal government is implicated in various scandals, 161 complaints from whistle-blowers are on hold. There are 161 complaints related to wrongdoing or wrongful reprisal against whistle-blowers. The government has to increase the commissioner's budget, but it must also ensure that whistle-blowers are protected. This reminds us that Bill C‑290, unanimously passed by the Hous…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would like to check that the member's comments are relevant to the matter at hand, which is homelessness and housing.
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Madam Speaker, several Liberals are telling us that there is already a system of accountability because the leaders of the political parties could have gone to get their security clearance to get the information. That is what the member for Kingston and the Islands said in a televised interview earlier today. Now, if they have that information, they cannot use it or disclose it, so they cannot tak…
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Madam Speaker, the interesting thing is that we now have the report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which sits in camera. We also have the first report of the Hogue commission. We have all these facts and all these allegations before us, which brings us to our motion today. We did not know these facts, and most of us still do not know them. The Prime Minist…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot is our international trade critic, so there is something I cannot help but wonder. Some of our trading partners are obviously taking the foreign interference issue more seriously than we are. The United States would never have let something like this slide for so long, and neither would France. Here, in contrast, the second opposition party is…
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Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to see my colleagues here this evening to debate the important issue of foreign interference in Canadian elections. Today, our democratic life has reached the very heart of the House of Commons. The report that the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians released last week, which is a redacted version—we do not have access to all the inform…
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Madam Speaker, the leader of the Bloc Québécois said that he was thinking about the opportunity of such a briefing. At one time, it was seen as a trap. Agreeing to this security briefing means getting the information and the names. However, those who obtain the names are not allowed to disclose them, not allowed to talk about it and not allowed to act on this information. We are effectively being …
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