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Mr. Speaker, the government is there in support of all Canadians, including with a first-time homebuyer's tax credit and a number of other measures to increase affordability and build homes at scale. That is just one of the many ways that we are there. We are investing in apprenticeships, in job training and in Canada summer jobs. There is a great deal of opportunity and investment, and it would b…
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Mr. Speaker, we are giving Canadians a boost across this country, up to 12 million of them, with the grocery benefit, which will reach families with up to $1,900 this year to give them a boost. I was at the Daily Bread Food Bank in Etobicoke recently. They were very happy about this increased GST rebate, as well as with the national school food program, which we are using to fight food insecurity.…
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Mr. Speaker, we are actually helping Canadians with the cost of living by lowering their costs with a rebate worth nearly $1,900 a year for a family of four. This measure is in addition to other investments, such as the tax cut for 22 million Canadians and the $800 in savings for families with children who benefit from the national school food program. We are here to help families move forward. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, the members opposite are focused on imaginary taxes. On this side of the House, we are continuing to invest in Canadians and the supports that they need, including the Canada child benefit, which is pegged to inflation and worth up to $8,000 per child under six years old in this country. On this side of the House, we will continue to invest in Canadians and the supports th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that we do not want families to struggle to feed their children. We are investing in programs and supports for families so they can put food on the table and have food at school through, for example, the national school food program. At the same time, we are creating jobs. That is what Canadians really need. We can see it in the numbers. The number of jobs has been increas…
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Mr. Speaker, there is no tax on food; we can start there. Canadian families with children under six are receiving up to $8,000 a year tax-free per child. This is a program that is tagged to inflation to meet and keep up with the cost of living. Members opposite, year after year, vote against investments like the Canada child benefit. It is shameful.
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister is delivering for Canadians, let us take a moment to reflect on the hypocrisy of the members opposite in the House. They voted against meals for children at school. They voted against 800 dollars' worth of savings for families through the school food program. They voted against dental care for seniors and for children. They voted against saving parents thousan…
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Mr. Speaker, our investments are helping families. Budget 2025 includes a lot of investments for families and children. This includes Canada's national school food program, which will help families keep up to $800 a year in their pockets. There is also the Canada child benefit, which represents up to $8,000 per child under six. That benefit is indexed to inflation. On this side of the House, we ar…
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Mr. Speaker, we take these issues very seriously on this side of the House. We are not fixated on imaginary taxes. We are here to help Canadian families. One of the first measures we implemented as a government was a tax cut for 22 million Canadians. That is how we help families, and that is how we help children. We are here to do the work.
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Mr. Speaker, in fact, we have good employment news this morning. I am proud to say that 50,000 young people found work in November. In October, 21,000 young people found a job. The numbers are moving in the right direction. We are there to support young Canadians. Budget 2025 does that. On this side of the House, we are proud of the job numbers.
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that in order to move forward, in order to support families and children, we need to invest in our future. That is what we are doing with budget 2025. We are investing in jobs for young people. We are investing in affordable housing. We are investing in school food programs. We are investing in affordable child care. We are investing in dental care. All of these things are…
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Mr. Speaker, we will not take any lessons from the members opposite who are against everything. They are against children and families and giving children access to food at school. They are against investing in affordable child care and investing $13 billion in the construction of affordable housing. It is shameful. We are against them. We are investing with budget 2025. We will protect and streng…
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Mr. Speaker, we are here for families. We are investing in the support measures that families need. These include investments in affordable child care, which puts more than $10,000 back into Canadians' pockets and reduces costs by 50% across the country. This helps families pay for rent and all sorts of fees. The same goes for the Canada child benefit. Canadians receive $8,000 per child under six.…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that opposition members are currently shutting down committee work. In committee, we are trying to move forward with Bill C-15, which will provide the support and investment that Canadians need right now. What is happening in committee is shameful. I encourage opposition members to change course and support the measures in place in committee.
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Mr. Speaker, no parent should have to struggle to feed their children. That is indisputable. On this side of the House, we are investing $13 billion to build affordable homes. This will help families. We are investing in child care and dental care. These measures are helping families keep more money in their pockets so they can get ahead and have money to cope with the cost of living. We will cont…
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Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we are protecting essential programs that millions of Canadians count on. Six million children count on the Canada child benefit and 5 million people count on the Canadian dental care plan. On this side of the House we are busy helping and supporting families, while the members opposite oppose all of those measures and vote against them.
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Mr. Speaker, our budget is helping Canadians move forward. The report indicated that access to support measures needed to be improved. That is what we are doing with automatic tax filing, which will help more than five million Canadians get what they are owed. That means they can access support measures like the Canada child benefit, which provides up to $8,000 tax-free per child. We are here for …
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Mr. Speaker, of course no parent should struggle to feed their children. That is why we have invested in school meals, the Canada child benefit and tax cuts for families, benefiting 22 million Canadians. We have invested in affordable housing, which is a very important aspect of fighting poverty. Those of us on this side of the House are here for families. On the other side, they have voted agains…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, I would like to emphasize that no parent should struggle to feed their children. I was in Nova Scotia this weekend. I had the opportunity to meet with mothers, with women who run day care centres and take care of our children. They told me just how much our investments are doing for their families, whether it is because of lower day care costs or because they are receiving…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her work as an educator. The voices of educators are in this decision. We have heard from educators, from school boards and from principals across the country about how important school food is to learning for children, to their attention spans and to their capacity to sit still and participate in class. It also has long-term health impacts. Ther…
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Mr. Speaker, I think we understand that any parent struggling to feed their child is one parent too many. My colleague opposite knows that Canada has historically relied on imports of baby formula, which means Canadians have been impacted by external pressures. As a country, we do have to move from reliance to resilience, and I would also point out that the Canada child benefit, which members oppo…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to address colleagues on a key measure in budget 2025, the national school food program and the government's intention to enact legislation to make the program permanent. The national school food program act, which would be enacted through Bill C-15, would set out the Government of Canada's long-term vision for the program, guided by the national school food …
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Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada is putting money back in Canadians' pockets. The first thing this government did was cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. Budget 2025 makes historic investments, including in protecting the supports that Canadians rely on to help them with the cost of raising their families and the cost of living. The national dental care program is an example of this. The redu…
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I am not the Minister of Finance. I do not have the answer to that question. I apologize.
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Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we have taken and are taking action to fight food insecurity. This is why, among other measures, we are making the national school food program permanent to ensure more children have access to healthy meals at school. This also represents over $800 in savings on families' grocery bills. We introduced a middle-class tax cut. We introduced dental care. We have…
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Mr. Speaker, budget 2025 responds to the needs of the time. We are investing in building strong families and communities across Canada. The investments will create jobs and careers for young people and protect the support measures that help families and enable them to get ahead. Our budget has a plan for building, protecting and strengthening Canada. It is a shame that the members across the way v…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Mont-Saint-Bruno—L'Acadie is an excellent example of how the Canada summer jobs program helps young people succeed. The Canada summer jobs program supports quality jobs for young people to help them develop skills and gain experience in the job market. With the 2025 budget, we will support approximately 100,000 jobs through this program. That is 24,000 more jobs than la…
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Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we are investing to build strong families and communities. The budget investments will create good jobs and careers for young people. It will protect the supports that help families get ahead. Our new government is delivering a budget that will build, protect and strengthen Canada. I encourage the members opposite to vote for the budget this afternoon.
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Mr. Speaker, we have taken action to fight food insecurity. Part of the solution is working with our provincial, territorial and indigenous partners to ensure that 400,000 more children get nutritious meals at school every year. That is why this budget will make the national school food program permanent. In Canada, no child should wonder at school where their next meal is coming from. When member…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a budget that will invest in Canada, invest in young Canadians and invest in Canadian families from coast to coast to coast. We are supporting youth by giving them opportunities to help them build skills in trades and access high-paying careers and jobs across projects, building homes and building out major national projects. We are investing in training and supports for 20,00…
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Mr. Speaker, our budget delivers historic investments to build Canada strong. This means strong families and strong communities from coast to coast to coast. That includes supports for youth in building skills to help them find and access high-paying careers. We are investing in training and supports for 20,000 youth facing employment barriers. We are investing in an additional 24,000 Canada summe…
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Mr. Speaker, the affordable budget includes historic investments to strengthen Canada, strengthen families and help Canadians across the country. These investments will create quality jobs and careers for young people, build more affordable housing for young Canadians and protect the supports that help families get ahead. Our government will present a budget that aims to build, protect and strengt…
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Mr. Speaker, today's budget will deliver historic investments to build Canada strong. This means strong families and strong communities from coast to coast to coast, and investments that will create good-quality jobs and careers for young Canadians, that will build infrastructure, that will put more affordable homes within reach for young Canadians and that will protect the supports that help fami…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, we find members opposite worried about imaginary taxes while, on this side of the House, we are focused on solutions. The budget will make permanent the national school food program, which represents $800 in savings for families each year. This is one of the many investments we are making on this side of the House to ensure that kids have the best start in life and that fa…
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Madam Speaker, the members opposite claim to be there for youth, or to be concerned about youth, and yet at every opportunity, when there is a chance to vote for investments and supports for our young people and families, they vote against them. They will have another opportunity, in this budget, to support the tax cut for first-time homebuyers, to support the permanence of the national school foo…
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Madam Speaker, it is fortunate that next week we will have an affordable budget for Canadians. We hope the members opposite will join us in supporting that budget. It will include many ways to invest in young people, in young families, in making homes more affordable, in making food available at schools and in making dental care available, with a number of other things that will support Canadian f…
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Madam Speaker, I think it is important to once again underline the fact that the report the member opposite cited also lists the Canada disability benefit, the Canadian dental plan, early learning and child care, the national school food program and the national housing strategy among the many tools and investments that support alleviating poverty in this country, all of which have been voted agai…
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Madam Speaker, we understand the pressures that Canadians are facing, but at the same time, the Conservative Party offers nothing new. Our government is empowering young Canadians to build lifelong careers. This is one of the reasons we are fast-tracking the Build Canada Homes program to get homes built and fast-tracking major projects to create tens of thousands of high-paying careers across this…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, members across the way are talking about imaginary taxes. Today, I spoke with people from the Breakfast Club, an organization that helps nearly 900,000 children access the school nutrition program. They told me that making the national school food program permanent is an important turning point for children's health, learning, and well being, as well as for Canada's social…
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Mr. Speaker, the members opposite remain fixated on imaginary taxes. On this side of the House, we remain focused on supports for Canadian families to help them fight food insecurity. We do this with, for example, the national school food program, which we are making permanent, the disability benefit, dental care, child care and the national housing strategy. Time and time again, we are there for …
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Mr. Speaker, in Quebec, we provide $65 million in funding to support the province's school food program, reaching more than 500,000 students and 2,200 schools. In addition, our support helps families save $800 a year in groceries. This program is not garbage. We are delivering this program for the well-being of children across the country.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives cannot have it both ways. They say Canadians are facing challenges, yet they dismiss the ways of helping them to get through these challenges. The same Food Banks Canada report they cite mentions the Canada disability benefit, the Canadian dental care plan, the national school food program and the national housing strategy as steps taken to address the underlying con…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives opposite should listen to Canadians who are on the front lines and who are working in favour of making the school food program permanent. The Coalition for Healthy School Food called the program “a generationally important decision that...will...change the future of Canadian society and the health and well-being of children”. Children First Canada said, “This isn't j…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservative MPs really ought to listen to the folks on the ground fighting food insecurity, such as the Breakfast Club of Canada, the Coalition for Healthy School Food and the Canadian Teachers' Federation, which have all called for the making of the national school food program to be permanent because of the positive impact it has on children. With federal funding, 9.8 million more …
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Mr. Speaker, we have a national school food program for children. It seeks to help Canadians cope with the challenges they are facing these days. What I am trying to say is that the members across the way will have the opportunity to support this program and the budget for this program. I encourage them all to support Canada’s national school food program.
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Mr. Speaker, this report clearly shows that we need to strengthen support measures for families to address these challenges. However, Conservative members have opposed each and every measure we put forward to help overcome the challenges outlined in this report. The Conservative member for Central Newfoundland said that the national school meal program is garbage, even though it is already feeding…
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Mr. Speaker, the report invoked also clearly states that to tackle these challenges, we need to strengthen supports for families. It specifically mentions delivering school food, dental care, child care and affordable housing at scale. Conservative MPs have voted against each of these measures. In fact, the Conservative MP for Central Newfoundland called the national school food program “garbage”,…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's largest food bank in Toronto, the Daily Bread Food Bank, is asking that the national school food program be made permanent through legislation. We are delivering this. It is asking because the program helps provide nutritious meals to 400,000 children at school. The Conservative Party voted against this. The members opposite will soon have an opportunity to do the right thing…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that Canadians are facing challenges. That is why our government is investing in Canadian families to help them get ahead. This report underscores the help that families receive through the national school food program. We are making it permanent. We are easing the pressure on families through our investments in dental care, child care services and the Canada child benefit. Acc…
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Mr. Speaker, no child in this country should go to school hungry. That is why our government brought forward the national school food program, and that is why this new government has committed to make this program permanent, introducing legislation to do so, as well as the funding necessary to ensure the program continues in perpetuity. This is an essential piece of tackling the challenges that Ca…
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