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Mr. Speaker, I was just saying how knowledgeable my colleague from South Shore—St. Margarets was on this issue and how ably he pointed out something that we should all know. He put his finger on a major problem. The sponsorship scandal is small potatoes by comparison. Today, the House has rightly requested access to documents so that we can unravel this entire matter, not just a small part of it. …
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moved: That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my colleague fro…
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Madam Speaker, once again, the first member to rise here to save the government's skin is a member of the Bloc Québécois. No surprise there. The Bloc Québécois has propped up this government nearly 200 times during non-confidence votes in recent years. It voted for $500 billion in inflationary spending. It is thanks to the Bloc Québécois and this government that Quebeckers are paying more for thei…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It is unparliamentary to tell the House that a member is not being honest. I would ask the House leader to withdraw that comment.
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Madam Speaker, I would ask the NDP why it sold its soul by signing a coalition agreement that allowed this government to enact policies that drove up the cost of food and doubled housing costs. That is the reality. The NDP made a big show of saying the coalition was over, but when the first confidence vote took place in the House, the NDP rushed to save its partner. Yes, the NDP is still the Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, young Quebeckers cannot afford to wait any longer. After nine years of this Prime Minister, they have been betrayed by the “Liberal Bloc”, which wants to continue with the Liberal government. A total of 72% of young people between the ages of 18 and 40 think that they have a lower standard of living than the previous generation. Half of them are living paycheque to paycheque. The “Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, we are here this evening because the Liberal government has once again refused, through its many tentacles, to comply with a direct order of this Parliament to obtain very important information. Let us talk about the Liberal green fund, the Liberal government's slush fund. A lot of public money, Canadians' money, went into this $1‑billion green fund. Remember the sponsorship scandal? …
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Madam Speaker, the truth hurts the Liberals. I understand that. That is why they should step aside and go see the Governor General.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is a bad government for Quebec. After nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” has doubled the cost of housing, caused the worst inflation in 40 years, forced students to live in their parents' basements, pushed Quebec to the breaking point on immigration, voted 188 times to save the Prime Minister and voted for $500 billion in inflationary spending. Tomorrow, will the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes, inflation and grocery prices are what we are going to cut. The leader of the “Liberal Bloc” struck a very different tone today compared to what he said after the finance minister's most recent bad Liberal budget. Here is what the leader of the Bloc Québécois said about the Prime Minister: “I believe he has his hand in Quebeckers' pockets. ...He is blatantly abusing his spending…
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask my NDP colleague the same question. What is he trying to hide? We are here to talk about a non-confidence motion against this government and to say that the House does not have confidence in this bad Liberal government. What I am hearing from my NDP colleague is a whole different story. I understand where he is coming from. Earlier, I was talking about the little orange fr…
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Mr. Speaker, at a minimum, I would have expected my Liberal colleague to acknowledge that it is unacceptable for a television journalist to take snippets of sentences and string them together to put words in the mouth of the Leader of the Opposition that he never uttered. Manipulating information the way CTV did is despicable and disgusting. I cannot understand why Quebec's media has not spoken ou…
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Mr. Speaker, the motion states, and I quote, “That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.” It is a simple motion that, in a few words, will reveal the true nature of this 44th Parliament. Everyone in the House, whether Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP, Green, Liberal or even independent, will have to reveal whether they have confidence in this Prime Minister, after …
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my colleague from Cariboo—Prince George. “That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.” It is a simple motion, a few words that, in a few hours, will reveal the true nature of the members of this 44th Parliament. Everyone in the House, be they Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP, Green Party or even independent, will have to r…
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Mr. Speaker, this is all a game. Did you hear what my Bloc Québécois colleague just said? This is a game. While rent prices have doubled, while we are facing inflation the likes of which we have not seen in 40 years, while young families no longer have access to housing, while young families can no longer even dream of becoming homeowners, while, by the admission of the Bloc Québécois leader himse…
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite the Liberals to face the facts. This Liberal government's track record should be making the Bloc members run the other way. Over the past nine years, the cost of housing and food have doubled. We are paying $1 billion in interest on the debt every week because of the $500 billion in inflationary spending that the Bloc Québécois supported. Everyone is paying and the Bloc…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal Prime Minister, who has been put on life support this week thanks to the Bloc Québécois, more and more Quebec students are going hungry. According to the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, students are broke and struggling to feed themselves. According to statistics, more than 80,000 students have used food banks, which is four times more than …
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Madam Speaker, the “Liberal Bloc” is the most centralizing, spend-happy, divisive Liberal government, one that has increased the cost of living and the price of food and doubled the cost of housing. Even the Quebec premier is imploring the “Liberal Bloc” to do its job of representing Quebec and to vote against keeping this bad government in power. Will the Liberal ministers and members from Quebec…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, it has been a tough first week back in Parliament for the Prime Minister: His party suffered a second defeat in a Liberal stronghold, he lost his Quebec lieutenant and another MP from his caucus as a result, and then he saw the NDP leader tear up their agreement one day only to glue it back together after the byelections. I think the best of the bad news for him is…
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Madam Speaker, we have just heard the proof that a bad Liberal government for Quebec is a bad Liberal government for Quebeckers. No matter how hard the “Liberal Bloc” tries to justify itself, it has no reason to support this minority Liberal government other than feeding its leader's ego. When will the “Liberal Bloc” Prime Minister allow Quebeckers to vote for a common-sense government that will w…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague's comments are completely unacceptable. To suggest that my colleague, the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, disrespected the interpreters despite the fact that she apologized is shameful, unacceptable and should not be accepted in the House. I would ask her to withdraw that comment.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member clearly insinuated that my colleague showed a lack of respect for the interpreters, which is completely false. I would ask her to withdraw her comment.
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Mr. Speaker, what is the “Liberal Bloc”? It is the most centralizing, costly and divisive Liberal government in history. It is the Liberal government that has no respect for Quebec, imposing programs, claiming that the Liberal occupant of the big federal seat knows best and can do better than the elected members of Quebec. It is a government that breaks ethics rules without facing the consequences…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is having another big day. The Liberal Prime Minister is so bad for Quebec that his Quebec lieutenant has decided to jump ship in order to better stand up for Quebec. However, the position did not stay vacant for long. The leader of the Bloc Québécois was quick to put his name forward to become the new Quebec lieutenant. Negotiations did not take long. The posit…
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to cut taxes and cut cost increases for Quebeckers. That is where we are going to make cuts. The “Liberal Bloc” has made no gains for Quebec. Now, it is going to blindly support a centralizing Liberal government that is taking money out of Quebeckers' pockets to feed a big federal machine that imposes programs in areas under Quebec's jurisdiction; a government that is cre…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, and the pressure on the “Liberal Bloc” is mounting. After nine years of this Prime Minister with the support of the Bloc Québécois, some people in Saguenay are living in campers because they cannot find a place to live. One man from Saguenay said, “If I rent an apartment, I will have to use all four of my monthly paycheques to cover it. How wil…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, and the pressure on the “Liberal Bloc” is up. After nine years of this Liberal government, supported by the Bloc Québécois, the consequences for Quebeckers have been disastrous. I am talking about Moisson Haut-Saint-François, which is pleading for help. To quote from an interview on Sherbrooke radio, “small food banks are hungry”. Imagine, a fo…
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Madam Speaker, divide and distract is the Liberals' mantra. While I am talking about problems that affect all Quebeckers and all Canadians, namely the ability to put food on the table, find a place to live and pay rent, the only thing the Liberals and the government want to do is change the subject and pretend that these problems do not exist in Canada or Quebec. We need to shine a light on this L…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague wants a real answer. Here is one that is simple and straightforward. We voted in favour of the Bloc Québécois bill on this matter. We voted in favour of it. To suggest otherwise would be false. Unfortunately, apart from claiming that I said things that were inaccurate, he could not identify a single one. On the contrary, all I said in my speech was that the Bloc Québéco…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent speech and for the opportunity he is giving us today to examine the Liberal government's incompetence and inability to govern the affairs of the state and of all Canadians. The motion before us reads as follows: That, in light of new reports that GC Strategies and other companies incorporated by the cofounders have received millions of dollars …
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Madam Speaker, the reason we are in this situation today, with housing prices doubling, food prices doubling and Canadians unable to make ends meet, is because the NDP signed a coalition agreement to support spending, thereby creating the current situation with the Liberal government.
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With regard to spending on consultants by the government, broken down by year since 2018, and by department or agency: what was the total spending on external consultants (professional and special services) that are not an employee of a Crown corporation, agent of the Crown, or another department of the Government of Canada?
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Madam Speaker, given the importance of the subject that my colleague just raised, I would like to reassure the House. Conservative members are ready to meet this summer at the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to study this issue, to advance the study already under way on foreign interference and to consider today's question of privilege more specifically. I advise the House that w…
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Mr. Speaker, the radical environment minister must either resign or be fired, full stop. First he misled Canadians by falsely claiming that the carbon tax would financially benefit them, and then he hid from Canadians a study from his own department that said the opposite. When the Parliamentary Budget Officer found out about it, the minister put a gag on him, preventing him from disclosing or ref…
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Mr. Speaker, does everyone know what the minister did? He desperately tried to hide the fact that Quebeckers are paying dearly for the federal carbon tax, which is supported by the Bloc Québécois. Despite his claims that Quebeckers do not pay the carbon tax, his own figures, which he would not reveal until the Conservatives forced him to, tell a different story. The report that he was so anxious t…
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Madam Speaker, this minister may not be lost in space, but he is definitely way out in left field. There is a reason he kept trying to cover up the secret report. It is because the report reveals the true cost of the carbon tax for Quebeckers. According to that report, Quebeckers will pay $5 billion a year in economic damage because of his carbon tax. The worst part is that the Liberal Bloc wants …
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Madam Speaker, an employee responsible for causing $30,000 in economic vandalism to his or her company would be fired on the spot. In this case, it is even worse. The radical Minister of Environment knew that the carbon tax would cause $30.5 billion in economic damage to Canada. That is nearly $2,000 per family. He covered up the report. He ridiculed the Parliamentary Budget Officer and tried to m…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the Liberals decided to wipe out of the middle class. Again this week, the Prime Minister refused to include in the bill on the job-killing tax a provision guaranteeing that 99.27% of Canadians would be spared from the Liberal Bloc tax hikes. We asked that carpenters, plumbers, small businesses, seniors all be excluded. They said no to all of that. We now have the …
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With regard to asylum claims made by individuals who arrived in Canada on a student visa, since 2018: how many claims (i) were accepted, (ii) were rejected, (iii) are still being processed, in total and broken down by the school in which the claimant was enrolled when the asylum claim was made?
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Madam Speaker, late at night on July 6, 2013, at 1:14 a.m., a runaway train derailed in the middle of the small town of Lac‑Mégantic. Forty-seven people were killed and 2,000 others were forced from their homes. We will never forget this tragedy. I was mayor of a nearby municipality when the tragedy occurred. I remember the pain expressed by the victims' families. I remember the outpouring of soli…
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division. Before the Clerk announced the results of the vote:
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Bloc tax is costing our economy $30.5 billion a year. That adds up to nearly $2,000 per family in costs that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change tried to conceal. The Minister of the Environment knew it, yet he deliberately hid the numbers from the Canadian public. After deliberately hiding the facts, will the Minister of the Environment have the courage to stan…
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Mr. Speaker, given the political games that the government has been playing today, I believe that this amendment is entirely relevant and advisable. I therefore agree to my colleague's moving the amendment.
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Mr. Speaker, he is absolutely right. I would never hide the $5-billion cost of a carbon tax from Quebeckers. That is exactly what the Minister of the Environment did in his own documents. According to row 17, column AN, the carbon tax is costing Quebeckers $5 billion a year. The Bloc Québécois supports that tax. After trying to ridicule and muzzle the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who was telling …
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Mr. Speaker, hallelujah, the Bloc Québécois has seen the light. Its members have realized that it is important to read the supply documents. Does my Bloc Québécois colleague regret not voting against the previous budget allocations?
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With regard to the number and value of contracts awarded to GC Strategies and Coredal Systems Consulting, from January 1, 2011, to February 16, 2024, that were provided by the Treasury Board Secretariat to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on April 16, 2024: what are the details for each deliverable associated with the contracts, including, for each, the (i) date that t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, Quebec farmers are crying out for help. Canadian farmers have been clear. They are saying that, by increasing the capital gains inclusion rate to two-thirds, the government is jeopardizing the success of real intergenerational farm transfers to young farmers across Canada. The Prime Minister wants to tax farmers in the midst of a food-pricing c…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, more than 2.3 million people in Quebec do not have a family doctor. According to the Journal de Montréal, a retiree named Serge Gagné was told, “You don't belong here. You don't have a family doctor.” The Canadian Medical Association made it clear that, given the ongoing doctor shortage, “These changes could jeopardize ongoing efforts across Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, the truth is that this Prime Minister has a long and troubled history when it comes to foreign interference, whether it involves political financing, his admiration for the basic dictatorship of the Communist regime in Beijing, or his talent for turning a blind eye to reports from the intelligence community. The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians courageo…
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