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Mr. Speaker, this is a pro-investment plan with which we intend to attract more auto investment to Canada, and it is the one defending our trade interests every day south of the border.
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Mr. Speaker, yes, I agree. We do need to have a focus on affordability and bringing jobs back to Canada. That is why these investments and the strategy, which responds to the moment and the situation that was created in the last year, not 10 years ago but in the last year, are the right strategy for Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, I think Canadians want the Civic, they want the RAV4 and they want some of the cars that are coming out of the plants that we think we can attract. I think Canadians want the vehicles that are being made here, and they want to be part of the electric future, which does not mean just the vehicles, but all the connected technologies, software and parts that are made in Canada. When we t…
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Absolutely, Mr. Speaker, this plan is pro-dealership, including through the EV rebates. We have a critical minerals strategy, not only for domestic but for export. We have a software and a parts industry, including in the hon. member's riding, and she has been such a champion of those sectors and emerging sectors that are more tied to this space. I know she has an interest in artificial intelligen…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a good question and here is my answer. We have reinstated the incentives and we have created a new electrification strategy. In these changing times, what with the war in the Middle East, I think that our existing policies and the incentives that will be announced next week will be well received by Quebeckers and Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is quite right. He clearly demonstrated the possibilities. We have made commitments on this, but there is still a lot more work to be done. That is one of the reasons why the ministers and the Prime Minister have been travelling to Europe and other countries to forge partnerships with respect to critical minerals. Yes, we need to invest more in processing these minerals t…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe there are some K-car drivers still here. The kind of strategy the opposition is talking about is one that frankly needs the heritage licence plate on it, because that is kind of the strategy being proposed here. This focus on emissions reduction in a smart way, working with partners, that makes vehicles better is a key part of our plan and a key part of our progress. In every er…
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Mr. Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to speak to the motion, which I will be opposing because it would roll back 50 years of environmental progress and protection. It embraces not the last era, but three eras before of automotive production in Canada. It also rejects a strategy that we know is already working to bring modern vehicles, with a modern means of construction, to a modern work…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague has been a long-time advocate for the kinds of policies that get results for the climate and affordability, and I want to share my appreciation for that. He has laid out some very good specific numbers that show what is possible with the right kinds of investment in the right kinds of vehicles. The flip side is that if we go back to a 60-year-old policy and abandon 50 yea…
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Mr. Speaker, of course, I have received emails and correspondence. I have had, and continue to have, conversations with people who oppose this bill. As my colleague said, these people have not had the opportunity to read the bill for themselves, and they have received misinformation and disinformation. They send me emails about things that are not in the bill. When I calmly explain what the bill d…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question, and I realize this is also a fuller response to my colleague, the member for Mirabel. I believe the source of this is an attempt to find opportunity. We have some good collaboration on some aspects of some pieces of legislation with the other side. We have had good conversation in the past about Bill C-5. We have had conversations about Bill C-19,…
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Mr. Speaker, I am speaking in my capacity here as an MP representing my constituents. The leaders I have been dealing with in my riding have not raised this as a concern that they feel needs an urgent response. The urgent response that they are raising is the fear and the potential fear that they know is being faced by them and their members and congregants. This piece of legislation, in a very ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. It is a pleasure to be speaking in this chamber today on this very important piece of legislation. It is one of a trio of bills that we, on this side of the House, committed to and campaigned on when this was put in our platform, along with the other pieces of legislation around intimate partner violence an…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians have not seen this level of global chaos and instability since the Second World War, with a level of death and suffering due to the conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan that is staggering and horrifying. Right now, civilians in a dozen countries in the Middle East are facing daily air attacks from drones and missiles. Every member of the House has a duty to join…
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Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate Penpa Tsering on his decisive re-election as Sikyong, or leader, of the Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet's government in exile. More than 51,000 Tibetans in 27 countries voted in this election, a testament to the strength of Tibetan democracy. The hunger of Tibetans for self-determination, a right unanimously recognized by this House in 2024, will als…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour a few of the Black and African-Canadian cultural trailblazers of Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park. Dr. Rita Cox served as the head of the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library for decades, and created the Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection there with more than 16,000 items. She continues to connect us to literature and learning, including as the namesake for…
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Madam Speaker, this will change lives. For instance, there will be 51 homes that are part of the Dunn House project, 42 homes at 11 Brock Avenue and 92 homes that are part of the Green Phoenix II project. That is not a story. It is not PR. Lives are being changed. I think that every member of the House has a duty to stand up for their community and to ensure that the funds allocated to Build Canad…
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Madam Speaker, I always appreciate hearing what my colleague from Joliette—Manawan has to say. His speeches are always insightful and well thought out. I wanted to start with a question, but I will just make a comment instead because I think my friend has clearly explained the connection between the bill, which has a specific objective, and his desire for the wording of the bill to be more precise…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her excellent work in setting up the partnership that we have with the City of Toronto. Because we had Dunn House, the second edition of Dunn House, which had Build Canada Homes funding announced in our community just nine months after the election, has been able to attract provincial government funding for the health care supports we need. A last piece of p…
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Madam Speaker, I know the Winnipeg members on this side of the House are very active in their support of projects, especially housing projects in Winnipeg. The next time I am in the area, I would be delighted to have a conversation with my colleague and the Winnipeg MPs on this side of the aisle about some of the needs that exist. I know that in my riding of Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park, in parti…
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Madam Speaker, I am delighted to speak on behalf of and in support of the bill, which is already delivering results in my riding of Taiaiko'n—Parkdale—High Park. I want to speak specifically about the Parkdale neighbourhood in my riding, an area that has welcomed newcomers, including people fleeing persecution and violence, and people who have mental health challenges, for decades. It is a place t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be associated with a government whose record on jobs is very strong. Jobs are growing faster here than even in the United States, and incomes are growing faster than inflation. The next part of our plan, the budget implementation act via Bill C-15, is before Parliament right now. The hon. member opposite can work with his colleagues and work with us to ensure speedy pass…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question from my colleague opposite, who is a constructive member on these questions. Obviously, the situation he refers to with this particular company has its issues, but we know, more generally, that investments in renewable technology work. We know the future direction of both heavy vehicles and light vehicles is increasingly electric. That is why we are making th…
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Mr. Speaker, this week we marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. At a time when, in some parts of the world, the scientific community is being discredited and dismembered, Canada chooses a different path. We choose to invest in discovery, to trust evidence and to honour our late colleague, Kirsty Duncan. We choose to celebrate this and do this with the women and girls who are …
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Mr. Speaker, we know that colleges conduct very important research and that their relationships with businesses are very important, since the intellectual property rights to the research conducted by colleges belong to businesses. People have been advocating for the program, and we are having productive conversations about it with the people from the colleges.
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Mr. Speaker, our auto strategy associates itself with the stronger emissions standards that are prevailing in California and in Europe, and it is part of a strategy that will decrease our dependence on internal combustion engines and increase our adoption of electrification. This strategy is good for the environment and good for the climate. Not in the motion but in the debate, we now hear that th…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the intervention from my colleague from York—Durham. On this day of all days, to receive this question is really quite something. This is the day on which the administration to the south, the U.S. administration, has rejected a decades-long bipartisan consensus. The very serpent that the hon. member refers to is the existence of California-level emissions standards that h…
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Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member knows, this new EV rebate is positioned a bit differently from the older one. It is capped at vehicles retailing at $50,000 or less. Sometimes I hear from the other side that we are denying consumer choice in some way. In fact, our policy is to attract investment of all types while looking at the electric vehicle future that we are pointing to. The auto strategy is …
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Madam Speaker, I welcomed the beginning of my colleague from Dufferin—Caledon's speech, where he did acknowledge the trade war. Unfortunately, he spent the rest of his speech mostly talking about the policies that we think will spur investment in response to consumer choice. I heard a number of critiques of different kinds of investments, including, if I understand correctly, the kinds of investme…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the intervention and I look forward to participating in the debate shortly. The text of the motion says, “the House call on the government to fix their auto strategy by”, and then lists three items. What is not listed in the three items that the opposition is saying need to be fixed is the increased tailpipe emissions standard that we are proposing in our auto strategy.…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to address the House on this very important issue today. I would like to start by sharing my condolences on behalf of the people of Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park with the people of Tumbler Ridge and of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation on the horrific attacks of the last 48 hours. May the light that we all generate in our worlds help them and shine w…
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Madam Speaker, I was hoping my colleague across the way would use the window I created to condemn the tariffs. I am a bit disappointed he did not do that, but I will take the question anyway. The fact is that, as I mentioned, 90% of the vehicles we manufacture here are exported to the United States. We think these rebates, first, respond to consumer desires; second, help build the electric future …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague fights every day for workers and the auto industry, here in Canada and in his riding. We are bringing in specific measures for workers who need help and we think that the investments we are trying to attract will create jobs not only in southern Ontario, but across Canada, especially in ridings that have economic potential in the technology sector or in the climate sect…
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Madam Speaker, we made a major move forward in ensuring EI eligibility, which was made earlier through some previous legislation. If there are particular cases the hon. member has around supports that are not moving fast enough, either through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada or another department, I would be happy to work with him or to refer those cases to the appropriate coll…
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Madam Speaker, I will refer my colleague from Sarnia—Lambton to some of the electricity generation projects that are happening in her area of the province, and in particular Bruce. I will refer her to the major projects we have outlined, including SMRs in the Darlington area. I will also refer her to the strategy itself, which has a national electricity strategy to come and a charging infrastructu…
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Madam Speaker, as the member mentioned, it was necessary to reinstate these incentives. We saw that removing these incentives had an unintended and perhaps unforeseen impact on the EV market. Studies by the Canadian Climate Institute indicated that these incentives are needed to promote the economy and spur EV sales. That is why we did the responsible thing, in my opinion, and reintroduced these i…
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Madam Speaker, that is exactly what this policy hopes to create in future years. I mentioned the era of Japanese automaking, when policy-makers made a brave choice to invite Japanese automakers in, despite substantial opposition. That resulted in the kind of consumer choice that now exists. I believe that these investments will create the kind of consumer choice that the hon. member is referring t…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Etobicoke—Lakeshore is a champion for economic development in all its forms, and especially for clean and sustainable development. This is what the strategy does. It embraces the consumer choices that are emerging, the Canadian content of those vehicles that the hon. member referred to and also the multiplication that comes from an electric future, where the econom…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the time the member for Oxford and I had, together with his colleagues, the member for Kitchener South—Hespeler and the member for Cambridge, participating in the rollout of the new 2026 RAV4. I will note that it is a hybrid RAV4 that responded not only to consumer taste but also to the California emission standards, which require an increase in vehicle efficiency. Does…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question, but once again it is the opposite. Our announcement today includes the development of a national network of EV charging stations with an investment of $1.5 billion. It is a national project that includes Quebec to welcome this green future and electric vehicles to Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, if the member and the party opposite think we are on the wrong side of Canadian sovereignty, they have another thing coming. Our approach is all about Canadian sovereignty. It is all about investing in the companies that invest in us. It is all about embracing the future of electrification. It is all about embracing our workers, who are the best workers in the world. For the members o…
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Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we welcome these electric vehicles because our rebate applies to countries with which we have free trade agreements, including European countries. Our auto strategy includes many incentives to encourage people to adopt electric vehicles and make the future as electric as possible here in Canada. That is exactly what our policy is doing.
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Mr. Speaker, this is what the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association had to say about today's announcement. It “welcomes the government’s automotive strategy announced today. Funding to support renewed purchase incentives and a robust charging infrastructure strategy will help continue to drive EV adoption, and CVMA members are well-positioned to support the shift to electrification through d…
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Mr. Speaker, today I am presenting a petition that was brought to my attention by Federico Sanchez and was signed by 44,869 Canadians. Clearly it has struck a chord. Political honesty and public trust are critical cornerstones of our democracy. This petition touches on those themes and draws inspiration from a white paper by the Institute for Constitutional and Democratic Research, in Wales, where…
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Mr. Speaker, we signed that deal on behalf of the government for every worker, every employee and every member of that community. Stellantis broke that deal. In our opinion, it is in default. We are going to get that money back, or the jobs are coming back, period.
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Mr. Speaker, instead of repeating Stellantis talking points and talking points from south of the border, perhaps the party on the other side should be joining with us to agree that the company is in default, and it should be joining us in encouraging the company to come to the table and either return those jobs or give our money back, period.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to the bill before us today, and to speak to the proud history of Arabs and Arab Canadians in Canada. I will try to contextualize how we can come to a moment at this time in 2025 when we have the prospect of an Arab heritage month but not yet an Arab heritage month for Canada. My colleague for York South—Weston—Etobicoke described in some detail t…
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Mr. Speaker, I think we are quite blessed in this House to have, in our parliamentary secretary colleague, someone who has experience in first nations' governance, in provincial government and in federal government now. I wonder if he could just share the perspectives that he has gained over the years in relation to the motion before us.
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Mr. Speaker, our history is filled with examples of projects that connect our two largest provinces. Today, we have another opportunity to continue this proud tradition. One of our major national projects is the Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project. The next step to get there is to pass Bill C‑15, which enacts the high-speed rail network act. What is the holdup? It is the opposition, which …
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Mr. Chair, I know that my colleague is working very hard in her riding of Guelph and is hearing from folks about the government's response to the unjustified tariffs. I am wondering if she could share more perspectives from her constituents about how they are responding to our government's position with respect to the United States.
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