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I would ask that I be allowed to finish. It will not take too long. Twice now, Mr. Speaker, you have prevented the member from finishing his questions and comments when he actually had questions for the government.
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Mr. Speaker, I was listening to my colleague's speech. Clearly, I do not agree with much of what he said, especially at the end when he said that the budget that was presented is a conservative budget. Far be it from me to contradict him, but a budget with a $78-billion deficit and interest payments that are higher than what the provinces get in health transfers is not at all what I would call a c…
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Mr. Speaker, a friend is a friend for this Prime Minister, who is very proud of his European roots and his Brookfield pedigree. While a quarter of Canadians have to go into debt to pay for groceries, the Prime Minister is giving $500 million to the European Space Agency to create jobs in Europe at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. Can anyone guess who owns 50% of that campus? Let me end t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is no longer a secret that we are dealing with the most expensive government in Canadian history. Every dollar lavishly spent by the Prime Minister comes out of the pockets of Canadians. The problem is that there is no money left in Canadians' pockets. One-quarter of Canadians are facing food insecurity, which means that they cannot afford groceries. In the last budget, the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has just given an endless list of expenses that this government has imposed on Canadians in the latest budget. That is what it means to be a Liberal. Meanwhile, what is happening? More and more Canadians are being forced to use their credit cards to buy food. They have to eat on credit. They have to drain their bank accounts to eat. For 80% of people, the cost of food is br…
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Mr. Speaker, I am extremely proud to mark the 110th anniversary of the Cercle de fermières de Plessisville. It was on November 27, 1915, that Marie-Ange Vallée and some of the village women founded one of the very first farm women's circles in Quebec. This group became one of the founding members of what is now a large family of 34,000 farm women across the province, a group that is also celebrati…
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Madam Speaker, before I get into this massive deficit budget, I want to say a few words about the bow tie I am wearing. My wife, Caro, gave it to me at the beginning of November. She asked me to wear it for the entire month of November to raise awareness about the reality of men who, like me, have had to deal with a diagnosis of prostate cancer. I was fortunate to be diagnosed early, so they were …
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Madam Speaker, I think that for the rest of my speech, there will be a little less applause from one side of the House. This Liberal Prime Minister is going to be remembered as the leader of the most expensive government in Canadian history. Every dollar he spends and every dollar he says he is going to spend in his budget, which forecasts a $78-billion deficit, has to come from somewhere. It come…
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Madam Speaker, I simply cannot believe it. This shows how completely out of touch the Liberals are. I just spent five or six minutes describing the precarious financial situation that Canadians and Canadian families find themselves in and talking about the fact that they are unable to pay their bills at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the Liberals are bragging about how Canada is better off than …
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Madam Speaker, I call this creative accounting method Liberal flim-flam. Speaking of the plan to divide federal spending into two budgets, one an operating budget, which the government promises to balance, and one an investment budget, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Jason Jacques, said this: We have not seen a clear definition of what would fall into capital and would fall into operating. Even …
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Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question. The purpose of my speech today was to show how completely out of touch this Liberal government is, because it does not realize that we are not only talking about GST but also about health transfers. The amount of interest on the debt that the Liberals are racking up will exceed the amount spent on health transfers, when people across the country are ca…
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Madam Speaker, I listened to the speech given by my colleague, and he had a lot to say about his riding of Bourassa. He carefully avoided mentioning the people in Bourassa who cannot pay their bills at the end of the month. He avoided mentioning the 600,000 Quebeckers who are lining up at food banks every month because they cannot put enough food on the table to feed their families. I understand t…
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Mr. Speaker, imagine what someone could buy if they were given a credit card with no limit and never had to pay it off at the end of the month. They could just pass the bill on to their children and grandchildren. That is exactly what the Liberal Prime Minister is doing. This is a red budget that will put generations of Canadians in the red. Credits cards like that do not exist, except for the Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, what is in the budget is the biggest deficit we have ever had, outside of a pandemic. Fitch is not the only agency that is concerned about Canada's public finances. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has raised a number of concerns about the Liberals' broken promises. There is nothing to limit Liberal spending anymore. The Prime Minister has abandoned all of his fiscal anchors. The Parl…
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Mr. Speaker, this costly Liberal budget will drive up the price of food, housing and everything else Canadians need. The Prime Minister says Canada is in a strong fiscal position. If that is so, why are families struggling to make ends meet? Why is home ownership virtually impossible for young people? Why are 2.2 million Canadians lining up at food banks every month? This is not a strong position,…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a budget that will make this Liberal Prime Minister go down in history as the most costly head of state Canada has ever seen. I would like to remind him of something important: Every dollar he spends comes directly out of the pocket of a Canadian who worked hard to earn it. He promised to spend less. His deficit is going to be nearly $80 billion. It is not for nothing that today…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a costly budget that is going to make life even more expensive for Canadian families. Yesterday, the Prime Minister presented a budget that will cement his memory in history as the nation's biggest-spending Prime Minister ever. That is a deficit of almost $80 billion. He promised to spend less, yet he is spending $90 billion more. That amounts to $5,400 per family coming direc…
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Mr. Speaker, every time the Liberal government spends $1, $1 comes out of a Canadian's pocket because of higher taxes and Liberal inflation. Piling hidden taxes on families who are struggling to put food on the table is the height of Liberal hypocrisy. Yes, it is a hidden tax. Canadians are forking over $5.6 billion because of a change to food packaging rules. Instead of tabling a costly budget th…
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing imaginary about mothers not having enough money to buy the milk, cheese and meat they need to feed their children. For example, the industrial carbon tax costs them up to $1,000 a year of very real money. While they wonder how they are going to pay for their groceries, the Prime Minister is trying to engineer a costly election with a costly budget. Why does he not thi…
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Madam Speaker, even with a new Prime Minister, after 10 years of this Liberal government, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Liberal insider friends continue to line their pockets with millions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of Quebeckers and Canadians are going hungry. Why is the Prime Minister giving executives at Export Development Canada, Via Rail and the Business De…
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Madam Speaker, it is Halloween. Will the government leader stop trying to scare Canadians? What Canadians need for Christmas is an affordable budget for an affordable life. It is this government's responsibility to deliver that budget. While the government leader is making jokes, the 2024–2025 Nutritious and Affordable Food Basket Report says that products such as meat, fish, cheese and yogurt are…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. If you seek it, I believe you will find the unanimous consent of the House to adopt this motion. That, in relation to its study on the development of critical minerals in Canada, three members of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources be authorized to travel to Sudbury, Ontario; Saguenay, Quebec; Montréal, Quebec; and Québec, Quebec, in the Fall of 202…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have been in power for 10 years and now more than 600,000 Quebeckers are using food banks every month, while the Prime Minister's friends are lining their pockets. Last week, the Prime Minister had the nerve to tell our young people that they need to make sacrifices, while the executives at BDC and the CMHC are getting tens of millions of dollars in bonuses. Imagine: The …
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Mr. Speaker, members on the other side of the House seem unable to grasp the reality facing ordinary Canadians. As I said, 600,000 people in Quebec are using food banks. Meanwhile, rents are doubling in every region of the province, and grocery prices just keep going up. On the weekend, Le Journal de Montréal reported that pregnant women are now cutting back on protein and vegetables. People can n…
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Mr. Speaker, “Montreal ravaged by hunger” headlines La Presse. Food Banks Canada's HungerCount 2025 paints a bleak picture of the state of Canadian families' finances after 10 years of Liberal government. Across Quebec, nearly 600,000 people receive help each month from food assistance organizations. Across Canada, more than two million people a month use food banks. The trend has accelerated afte…
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Mr. Speaker, this government is not creating a bulwark against inflation. It is creating inflation. It is forcing Canadians to turn to food banks. There is a reason why Food Banks Canada's 2025 HungerCount report is called “Food Banks as a Lifeline: Canada's New Normal”. The new normal in Canada involves relying on food banks. That is the new normal under these Liberals. In fact, 20% of food bank …
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Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. I heard him mention that he is new to the House. Since this government came to power, many bills have been introduced. In my speech yesterday, I called this a pothole repair operation. It is like the government is going around trying to fix potholes all over the place. For 10 years, the Liberals created holes everywhere and caused all s…
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Madam Speaker, before I begin my speech, I want to take a moment to thank Divya Dey, who is participating in the parliamentary internship program and who gave me the great privilege of choosing me for her first stint with a member of the House of Commons. She is a brilliant and dynamic young woman from the Greater Toronto Area who speaks excellent French and who chose a member from a rural region …
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Madam Speaker, is the House familiar with the concept of a pyromaniac firefighter? Essentially, it is when a person starts a fire and then sits by the phone waiting for a call to come in saying that there is a fire for them to go put out. The person causes problems and then tries to pretend to fix the problems that they themselves caused. The Liberals say that a new Prime Minister means a new appr…
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Madam Speaker, I think that my colleague is still a bit confused. He mixed up the Liberals and the Conservatives, and I think his statements are still a bit muddled. As I see things, it was the Liberal government that lowered the thresholds. When they were lowered from 30 to 20 and from 20 to 10 overnight, without any warning to businesses, families or workers that this was coming, that was a Libe…
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Madam Speaker, I can just say one thing: Canada will always be a country that is open to refugees who are truly in need. For refugees fleeing war and hardship, Canada will be open. However, sending a tweet inviting the whole world to come settle in Canada and then forgetting about these people is unacceptable, immoral and, dare I say, heartless.
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government was elected exactly 10 years ago on one specific promise, namely that it would run small deficits and return to a balanced budget during its first term. That promise was supposed to generate investment here in Canada. What remains of that promise 10 years later? The Liberal debt has doubled, and Canada has the worst economic growth per capita in the G7. Will th…
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to translate what he just said. He is talking about generational investments. These are investments that will borrow from future generations of young Canadians. For 10 years, the Liberals have been promising that their deficits are attracting more investments to Canada. The Minister of Finance is keeping all the deficit spending policies that have driven many Canadians to use…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals do not want to talk about the $1 trillion. That is how much money the Prime Minister promised President Trump that Canada would invest in the United States over the next five years. What did the Prime Minister get in return for that promise? He got a free meal at the White House. That is the result. Our workers are going to lose their jobs because their companies are goin…
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Mr. Speaker, we want a country where pension funds are looking to invest their money here in Canada to create jobs here in Canada, rather than doing what the Liberals are doing and sending $1 trillion to the United States over the next five years, which will cost us jobs. The Prime Minister came back empty-handed. I am not the one saying that; it is coming from The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Le So…
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Mr. Speaker, the wait is over. Tomorrow will be a big day for the Liberal Prime Minister. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will finally keep his promise to “negotiate a win” for Canada. Tomorrow, tariffs on steel, aluminum, automobiles and softwood lumber will come down, because that is what the Prime Minister promised. The Prime Minister was encouraged to keep his promise to negotiate a win with the …
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Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about Liberal clarity on the economy. On the one hand, the Liberals claim that the collapse of Canada's economy, the worst performing in the G7, is due to tariffs. On the other hand, they say they have reached an excellent agreement on tariffs. What do the real numbers say? They say that the deficit has doubled, that Canada is the G7 economy with the sharpest contractio…
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Mr. Speaker, what gift do seniors get after 10 years under the Liberal regime? They get a damning report published on National Seniors Day that shows one in three seniors is financially supporting adult children or grandchildren. Sixty-seven per cent have to help their families meet their daily expenses. That is 12% more than last year. Because of higher Liberal taxes and inflation, every dollar t…
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Madam Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety demonstrated this week that he is a Liberal through and through. He said one thing in private and did the opposite in public. In a shocking recording made without his knowledge, the minister admits that the gun buyback program is not worth the money being spent on it, that it is not an effective way to fight crime and that it is designed to score politi…
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Madam Speaker, I encourage the minister to read the newspapers. This morning, Le Devoir had this to say: “The [public safety] minister just proved in spectacular fashion that he is not up to the job”. The comments coming out of the office of the Solicitor General of Ontario are scathing. It says that the gun buyback program does nothing to address the root causes of gun violence in our communities…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to know if my colleague supports his Prime Minister's cover-ups, because for the last 10 years, we have seen a government—
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I was not asking a question, I was making a comment. Had you let me finish, you would have realized that I was actually about to make a comment.
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Madam Speaker, I wonder if the member knows that the Liberal government has been engaging in cover-ups for years. What I would like to know is whether the member and all other members of the Liberal Party agree that the government is leading us in a totally unacceptable direction due to the out-of-control debt, the inflation crisis and the crime crisis.
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Madam Speaker, I will begin by reading an excerpt from the Attorney General of Canada's factum in the case we are discussing today. The following excerpt is taken from the first paragraph: In accordance with his role as intervener, the Attorney General of Canada takes no position, on any basis whatsoever, on the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Act respecting the laicity of the Sta…
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Madam Speaker, there is clearly a connection. This Liberal Prime Minister made a lot of promises to Canadians. Now he is trying to further divide Canadians to avoid being held to account. The factum that was submitted to the Supreme Court is yet another attempt to divide Canadians, to pit them against each other so they forget about all the crises and the many promises this Prime Minister made to …
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Madam Speaker, the federal government's intervention is clear: “the Attorney General of Canada takes no position, on any basis whatsoever, on the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Act respecting the laicity of the State.” This is the position that the government took before the Supreme Court to avoid addressing the real issues affecting Canadians. It wants to create a constitutional…
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Madam Speaker, I forgot to mention that I will be sharing my speaking time with the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. One thing is very clear. I am explaining why the Prime Minister is trying to divert attention from the real issues affecting Canadians, issues that impact people's daily lives. That is the reality, and it is not for nothing that the preamble states that the government will not touch Bi…
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Madam Speaker, I will never put up with being told that I am not defending the interests of my province, the interests of the people back home and my constituents. That is not true. When I talk about the mother who cannot afford to buy lunch for her children, when I talk about seniors who are forced to make tough choices, I am defending Quebeckers who are struggling after 10 years of this Liberal …
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Madam Speaker, it has indeed been their MO for 10 years now. Sometimes the Liberals accidentally tell the truth. We saw that this past week with the Minister of Public Safety. It is coming back to haunt him now. I must say that, unfortunately, when there are moments of lucidity like that, it is purely accidental. The Liberals usually want to cover things up and make sure the crises that they are g…
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