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moved: Motion No. 154 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 17. Motion No. 155 That Bill C-50, in Clause 17, be amended by replacing line 2 on page 12 with the following: “tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15” Motion No. 159 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 18. Motion No. 160 That Bill C-50, in Clause 18, be amended by replacing lines 9 to 11 on page 12 with…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 18, be amended by deleting lines 16 to 20 on page 12.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 20, be amended by replacing lines 21 to 24 on page 13 with the following: “(c) coordinating specific federal-provincial initiatives related to the Plans;”
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moved: That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 21.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 34 on page 7 with the following: “and underrepresented groups; (a.1) the importance of having a balance of members who represent labour, Indigenous organizations and industry; and”
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moved: Motion No. 76 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 9. Motion No. 77 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 10. Motion No. 78 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 11. Motion No. 79 That Bill C-50, in Clause 11, be amended by replacing lines 6 to 9 on page 9 with the following: “than October 15 of each year.” Motion No. 80 That Bill C-50, in Clause 11, be amended by repl…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by deleting lines 17 to 20 on page 11.
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moved: Motion No. 97 That Bill C-50, in Clause 13, be amended by replacing line 22 on page 9 with the following: “must make public the response within 80 days after the” Motion No. 101 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 14. Motion No. 102 That Bill C-50, in Clause 14, be amended by replacing lines 27 to 29 on page 9 with the following: “search and report on any particular matter specifie…
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moved: Motion No. 119 That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended (a) by replacing line 4 on page 10 with the following: “prepare a new Plan no later than December 31 of every fifth”; and (b) by replacing line 12 on page 10 with the following: “the fifteenth sitting day of that House after December 31” Motion No. 123 That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing lines 19 to 23 on page 10 with…
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moved: Motion No. 58 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 8. Motion No. 59 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended (a) by replacing lines 15 and 16 on page 7 with the following: “8 (1) The Council consists of no more than 15 members, including two co-chairs, who are to be appointed by the Governor in Council, on the recommend-”; and (b) by deleting lines 19 to 28 on page 7.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing lines 28 to 31 on page 10 with the following: “identified to be implemented,”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by deleting lines 7 to 11 on page 11.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by deleting lines 26 to 31 on page 11.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended (a) by replacing line 19 on page 7 with the following: “(1.1) The Council includes the following mem-”; and (b) by replacing lines 22 to 24 on page 7 with the following: “(b) two members who represent trade unions; (c) two members who represent Indigenous peoples; (d) two members who represent industry;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing lines 31 and 32 on page 5 with the following: “such as fair income, job security and social protection. (emploi durable)”
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Mr. Speaker, there are so many things wrong with this bill. The member referenced part of it. As I said in my opening, this is an act to promote Liberal friends to fancy boards. That is all that is going to happen. There is going to be a board of Liberal elites who are going to write reports to talk down to and explain to the provinces and the people in the community I represent how they should li…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by deleting lines 11 to 16 on page 5.
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moved: Motion No. 38 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 4. Motion No. 39 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 5. Motion No. 40 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 6. Motion No. 41 That Bill C-50, in Clause 6, be amended by replacing lines 10 to 14 on page 6 with the following: “through skills development, training, retraining; and”
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moved: Motion No. 45 That Bill C-50, in Clause 6, be amended by replacing lines 19 and 20 on page 6 with the following: “Ministers, amend the terms of reference.” Motion No. 47 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 7. Motion No. 48 That Bill C-50, in Clause 7, be amended by replacing lines 25 and 26 on page 6 with the following: “strategies and measures to encourage growth in goodpaying, hi…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 7, be amended by deleting lines 3 to 7 on page 7.
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moved: Motion No. 22 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by deleting lines 49 to 51 on page 3. Motion No. 23 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting the short title. Motion No. 24 That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting Clause 2. Motion No. 25 That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by deleting lines 3 to 10 on page 5.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 25 and 26 on page 3 with the following: “communities and provinces and territories, which all”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by deleting lines 29 to 31 on page 3.
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 39 and 40 on page 3 with the following: “reduction, are committed to working to ad-”
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moved: Motion No. 6 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 43 and 44 on page 2 with the following: “trade union — as well as job security, social pro-” Motion No. 7 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended (a) by replacing line 48 on page 2 with the following: “and potential of workers and communities, and”; and (b) by replacing lines 2 to 7 on page 3 with the following:…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 13 to 15 on page 2 with the following: “fostering the creation of sustainable jobs;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 35 on page 10 to line 6 on page 11 with the following: “include a summary of available data related to economic growth and the labour market in a net-zero economy;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by deleting lines 24 to 32 on page 5.
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On the same point of order, Madam Speaker, I have the government's own internal briefing document that outlines—
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his great question because he is exactly right. The development of natural resources is the sole purview of the provinces. We have a government, propped up by the NDP, that wants to infringe upon provincial jurisdiction yet again. It likes to do it all the time and then it likes to blame the provinces when it does not go the way it thought it was going…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House to speak to Bill C-50, which can be summed up in one short sentence: It is an act to promote Liberal friends to fancy boards and to destroy the economy of western Canada. There is an obsession by this radical socialist environment minister to push his not-so-hidden agenda on Canadians, to wipe oil and gas production off the face of the earth and …
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 7, be amended by replacing lines 8 to 10 on page 7 with the following: “(e) engaging relevant partners and stakeholders in accordance with the terms of”
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Madam Speaker, when I last spoke in the House on this particular issue about the carbon tax being imposed on Canadians, including to a young farmer trying to raise a family, the response I got from the minister was far from satisfactory. As long as the Liberals decide to keep the carbon tax in place and raise it every year, there is nothing they can say. Canadians will not be satisfied until the g…
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Madam Speaker, I have a couple of things I need to clarify for the member. The only people I work for are the residents of southwestern Saskatchewan. Those are the only people I work for. Also, I have never campaigned on a carbon tax. Regardless of what the former leader of the Conservative Party may have tried to do, I never ran on that promise. I never have and I never will. That is also reflect…
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Madam Speaker, let us just put some facts on the record here. Catherine McKenna, when she was the climate minister, deleted 100 years of climate data in this country. We can leave it up to debate as to why she did that. Let us go to an organization that has actually been collecting data for a very long period of time. Let us use their data and see what it says. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the principal reasons we oppose this is that the cost of this has a ripple-down impact. For the Town of Shaunavon back home, for example, with the carbon tax increase, it is going to cost the town $78,000. In order for the municipality to cover that off, it would have to raise taxes on ratepayers by at least 8% or 9%. There it is, another example of how the carbon tax continues…
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With regard to the Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Canada Labour Code (Menstrual Products): SOR/2023-78: (a) what was the total amount spent by the government on consultations and consultants related to the development and the implementation of the new regulations; and (b) what are the details of all contracts related to the consultations or consultants in (a), including, f…
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Mr. Speaker, we are hearing over and over again about the issues of the cost of living and what that means for day care providers. For example, there is the cost of food, and we have heard about issues in accessing formula. We have heard about lots of supply chain issues that are still happening today. The government can no longer blame COVID for those issues, yet we have a program here today that…
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition I have today is in regard to medical assistance in dying. The petitioners are seeking the end of the idea of expanding medical assistance in dying to those with mental illness as a sole underlying condition. The petitioners are looking for the government not just to delay it, but to stop it altogether.
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Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present here today. The first one is in recognition of International Mother Language Day, which was celebrated last week. I want to highlight Sindhi speakers in Pakistan. There are over 60 million speakers of that language; however, it is not recognized by the Canadian consulate in Karachi or the high commission in Islamabad. The petitioners are looking to have…
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Mr. Speaker, he was talking about the point of axing the tax. The Province of Saskatchewan, starting in January, told the Crown corporations to no longer collect the tax. The inflation in Saskatchewan has actually dropped almost a full point in the month of January. I am just wondering what his thoughts on that are.
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Mr. Speaker, it is important to say that the member is misrepresenting what is going on. For parents who want gender-affirming care, the government will not be standing in the way. The Premier of Alberta has made that abundantly clear. What people do not want to see is the government forcing, swaying or moving the conversation a certain way without parents being part of the conversation. This is b…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister blew over 60 million taxpayer dollars for his arrive scam app in a corruption scandal that is looking worse day by day. His NDP-Liberal government is also going to force grocery, gas and home heating prices to go up on April 1 as it increases the carbon tax another 23%. After eight years of being scammed and robbed by the Prime Minister, Canadians know that he is …
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Mr. Speaker, that is another excellent point, and I do need to thank the member for all of the time, effort and hard work she has put into this particular topic. I know it is something she is very passionate about, as a fantastic mother. When the government is designing and developing programs, that is who they should be targeted to. The government should be looking after people who are the most v…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House, and it is great to be able to speak to such an important issue as what we are talking about here today, which is child care and, in particular, the Senate amendments. I guess the fact that we are back here today goes to show, and I am sure my colleagues would agree, that there is always room for improvement when we are looking at any piec…
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Mr. Speaker, now they all come running back in to hear this marvellous speech, despite the heckles from the NDP guys over here. Thankfully we have not gotten to the point yet where they want to get us to, but when we hear people deny the primary role of parents to raise their own children, that is the line of thinking that will start to take us in a dangerous direction. Our approach to child care …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the question, but this is the problem; there is no surge capacity or flex capacity in day care. Day care is not just a simple thing where one can drop one's kid off for an hour or two and hope that they will be looked after. That is not the way it works. People are struggling to even find spaces for their kids for the hours of work. To think that one could just …
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House once again to speak to this bill. We do have an amendment coming back to the House from the Senate, which is why we are standing here to speak today. What makes this interesting, based on how this bill went last time, is that my province of Saskatchewan signed on to its agreement with the federal government in 2021. I hosted a couple of town hall…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy that the member raised that point, because I do think that a part of the Canadian population that gets forgotten about probably more than any other is single mothers. I think that if the program had been focused on ensuring that those women were prioritized, that would have been a better direction to go with a program like this. If we are going to be subsidizing day care na…
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Mr. Speaker, my wife gets her dignity through the fact that she is able to be a mother. She is raising her kids. She does not get her dignity through government handouts to her. That is not where she derives her value from. My wife knows that the value she brings to our family unit is from the way she raises our kids and the way we purposely sat down together to formulate that plan so she could ha…
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