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Madam Speaker, just a week ago, the leader of the Bloc Québécois wondered what he was doing here. I imagine my colleague is asking himself the same question. The reality is that the Bloc Québécois is in it just for Quebec and does not care in the slightest about the rest of Canada. Nevertheless, the Bloc is delighted to be here and to reap the benefits. This is clear in everything its members do. …
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to a topic that makes me very indignant. My indignation is shared by millions of Quebeckers and Canadians. Let me explain. Once again, CBC/Radio-Canada, an institution funded with taxpayer money, is betraying the values, culture and trust of the people who pay for it to exist, the people it is supposed to serve and represent. The CBC chose to record a podcast i…
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Madam Speaker, my NDP colleague must be extremely confused these days. He has to vote with his leader to prop up a party the New Democrats cannot stand. They say so everyday here in the House of Commons, and now my colleague is trying to lecture us. This is truly nuts. The NDP members must be so confused.
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Madam Speaker, I will continue in the same vein. We know that the Auditor General looked at a portion of the documents. She stopped because it was a repetition of the amounts that had been allocated to people who were in conflict of interest. I have the following question for my colleague. I think that the Auditor General felt that she had evaluated nearly 40% or 60% of all the data. Inevitably, t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, life has become unbearable for Canadians. Rents have doubled, mortgage payments and down payments are out of reach, and food banks are serving record numbers of people every month. Who is enabling this catastrophic management of the economy? The Bloc Québécois. Instead of being there for Quebeckers, it is being there to serve the Liberal Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' soft-on-crime policies have plunged Canada into chaos. Thousands of vehicles continue to be stolen and shipped out of the country, yet the Liberal government is not lifting a finger to restore order. Meanwhile, Canadians are paying through the nose for insurance and worrying whether their property and their families are safe. Can this Liberal government stop sitting arou…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, crime is the only thing thriving. Canada is being hit by an unprecedented wave of auto thefts. In Montreal, a victim whose car has been stolen twice now has to pay more than $7,000 for insurance. Quebec has set a new record for most stolen vehicles, with more than 1,213 vehicles intercepted at the port of Montreal. When will this government…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years with this Liberal government in power is nine years of housing failure. The “Liberal Bloc” has doubled rents, mortgage payments and down payments. A recent Habitat for Humanity survey revealed that 88% of Canadian renters believe that home ownership is out of reach, and 75% of them are sacrificing basic needs like food and education to pay the rent. All this is happening in…
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Mr. Speaker, the “Liberal Bloc” doubled the cost of housing, doubled the amount needed for a down payment, doubled mortgage payments and doubled the debt. The Conservatives will scrap the federal tax on new homes under $1 million, potentially allowing Canadians to save up to $50,000. That is what we call common sense. Will the “Liberal Bloc” wake up at long last and implement our idea so Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” is not worth the cost of housing. This week, our leader announced that, once elected, we will eliminate the GST on homes under $1 million. This announcement was welcomed by many stakeholders, including the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec, the Quebec landlords' association, which said the Conservative leader's proposal was one mo…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the Liberals do not understand. It is very simple. We are requesting, and the Chair is requesting, that the government turn over the unredacted documents to the RCMP. It is not complicated. That is all that needs to be done. Then we can get back to work.
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Mr. Speaker, the ineligible projects were those that demonstrated no environmental benefit. SDTC is a program designed to help companies implement green environmental technologies. The Conservative Party is very open to the idea of supporting technologies that can help us, rather than imposing the carbon tax on people. We want to implement new technologies that will help us improve the environment…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a real pleasure to rise in the House today and speak to this question of privilege, which has been going on for a month now. Nevertheless, I rise with a deep sense of frustration over the fact that today, as always, we are again discussing a scandal of alarming proportions. It is a scandal that once again highlights the Liberal government's irresponsibility, corruption, and cont…
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Mr. Speaker, that was a great answer. He could have added to that list and talked about the things that the Bloc members have not done. My Bloc Québécois colleague says he is ready to take action, but the Bloc members dropped the ball on two votes recently. They just wasted 30 days in the House of Commons. The question I would like to ask my colleague is the following. The cost of living is going …
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny because the Liberals are acting like cornered rats. They are finished and they know it, so they are bringing up old stories from back in the day, from 10 years ago. It is now 2024. People are struggling to make ends meet today. They are having trouble getting by every day. Young people are having an even harder time than my generation did. They are the ones we need to thin…
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Mr. Speaker, basically, what caused it are the conditions created by this government after nine years in power. I cannot help but draw a link between what my colleague just said and the question my other Liberal colleague asked me earlier. The two witnesses appeared one after the other and both gave testimony along the same lines. They both said, right now, the new generation will have a harder ti…
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Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question. What my colleague is saying or trying to have people believe is that things have never been better in Canada. What he just said is that the superintendent of bankruptcy said that there may be fewer bankruptcies right now, but that is because there are a lot more proposals for bankruptcy, proposals for agreements with creditors. That means there is an inc…
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Mr. Speaker, back home we have an expression, “to have someone by the balls”, which refers to something real. The reality in Parliament right now is that there is an opposition leader who essentially has this government's back against the wall, to avoid using that same expression again. Why is he doing that? Honestly, we do not know since he keeps talking out of both sides of his mouth. On one han…
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Mr. Speaker, just to put things into perspective, $400 million is an astronomical sum. Considering everything this money could have been used for, especially to help young people, it is a huge amount. In my riding, some groups are pleading for help. Let me give just one very concrete example involving non-profit food banks. Knowing that two million Canadians, out of our current population of 41 mi…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, we could help veterans, because apparently there is not even one office open for the number of ones closed back then. There are all sorts of things we could do, especially if we continue in the same vein as the announcements we have already started making. Yesterday, we announced that our next election platform will include eliminating the GST on homes. We are going to k…
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Mr. Speaker, this week is Small Business Week in Canada. I myself have been a small business owner for over 30 years, and I am very proud of that. I am very proud because, for all those years, I have dedicated my life to doing what I love most, and that is giving back. Small business owners tend to be generous with their time and money. They share their innovative ideas and create wealth for all o…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of scandals under this Liberal government, here we are again, paralyzed by Liberal corruption. Canadians need to know where their money is going and why nearly $400 million ended up in the pockets of Liberal cronies. Canadians are struggling to find shelter and put food on the table while Liberal cronies get rich at their expense. Will the Liberals put an end to the s…
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Mr. Speaker, what Canadians want, and what we are asking for, is simply transparency and integrity. The Liberal government continues to hide behind excuses to obstruct justice. Canadians are struggling to put food on the table. Meanwhile, $400 million went up in smoke in Ottawa in another Liberal corruption scandal. Will the Liberals end the cover-up, hand the evidence over to the police, and allo…
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Mr. Speaker, while millions of Canadians are being forced to choose between paying their rent or putting food on the table, the government is using their money to line the pockets of Liberal cronies. We are all waiting for an explanation regarding the misappropriation of $400 million in taxpayers' money. If this corruption was not bad enough, the government is making things worse by refusing to pr…
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Madam Speaker, in fact, we are waiting for the minister. He asked us to tell him what needs to be done. We quickly sent him our response so that we could settle Bill C‑27. We are waiting for his reply. Unfortunately, we still have not received it. He travels all over the world. He is a good salesman. However, when it comes to fixing things, it just is not happening.
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak today. I thank my colleague for pronouncing my riding name so well. She did a very good job. Above all, she has a wealth of experience, having been a minister in a previous government, which did a great deal for technology, among other things. We are talking about a report on facial recognition technology that was tabled two years ago. The reality is th…
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Mr. Speaker, $400 million of taxpayers' money has ended up in the pockets of Liberal cronies. At a time when Canadians are facing doubled rents, food insecurity and crime, Liberal corruption has taken over the parliamentary agenda. Here we are once again, paralyzed by the corruption and fiscal irresponsibility of this Liberal government. Can the Liberals release the documents we requested so that …
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Madam Speaker, as I explained earlier in my speech, the government introduced Bill C‑27 and then it consulted 300 groups. Ideally, it should have consulted those groups before introducing the bill. That would have been the right thing to do. This government is always introducing bills and then proposing a pile of amendments in committee. That is what we call doing things backward, or not doing the…
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Madam Speaker, that is complete disinformation. The 20,000 amendments he is talking about were not written with artificial intelligence, but with my colleagues here who work at the office. Again, we are trying to work collaboratively in committee. Now we are being accused of things that are not even true. It is a real shame to see because we have a duty to all Canadians to pass legislation to regu…
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Mr. Speaker, you yourself decided that this Liberal government had violated an order of the House that called on the government to hand over evidence to the police as part of the investigation into the latest $400-million Liberal scandal. Liberal corruption has brought Parliament to an absolute standstill. Canadians are counting on us to do something about the high cost of living, crime and the bu…
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, my colleague is from Winnipeg North. I do not understand why the Liberals cannot find someone else to answer our questions, considering the number of members they have in Quebec and who represent regions along the St. Lawrence. I am thinking about the member for Gaspésie—Les Îles‑de‑la‑Madeleine, who is also the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coas…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his excellent question. In fact, this has come up in various speeches. When it comes to Canada's economy, 80% of materials are transported by ship. There is already an economic plan for all of this. It already exists. I have been hearing about the importance of marine transportation across Quebec and Canada for 30 years. Experts are already worki…
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague's statement. A study entitled “Coastal Resilience Project: developing tools for adaptation to coastal erosion for municipalities in Quebec's maritime regions” looked at 24 regional county municipalities, or RCMs. We would have to confirm which RCMs were involved, but it covered 123 municipalities and 10 indigenous communities. The only indigenous c…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be here today to talk about this important study by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities that addresses the St. Lawrence River, where I have lived since I made my home in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. I was raised in La Pocatière, along the St. Lawrence River. I have spent my entire life along the St. Lawrence River. I have watched the St. Law…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, young Canadians and Quebeckers are suffering. The high cost of living is causing despair across the country. Some 1.3 million Quebeckers are food insecure and, on top of that, they cannot find work. In a country like Canada, that is shameful. Quebeckers have had enough of this centralizing, inflationary Liberal government but the Bloc Québé…
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Madam Speaker, nine years of this Liberal government is nine years too many. Canadians are poorer than ever. Affordable housing is becoming increasingly hard to find. The high cost of living is forcing a record number of Canadians to turn to food banks. Today, thanks to Liberal soft-on-crime policies, crime is the only thing thriving in Canada. That is no joke. The time has come for this Liberal P…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for providing this important timeline of the case. I am part of the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology, and we have had the opportunity to hear testimony from the chair of the board, Ms. Verschuren, three times. She came to explain that she had not acted in bad faith and that she had sought legal advice from a lawyer, but it turned out that it was bad…
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Madam Speaker, nine years of this Liberal government has meant nine years of scandals. The RCMP has just opened another investigation. Corruption has become synonymous with this Liberal government. Canadians are still waiting for answers about the Liberal green fund that doled out $390 million in 180 conflict-of-interest cases. This is Canadians' money we are talking about. Canadians cannot afford…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, the results are devastating. The cost of living is up, taxes are up, crime is up and Canadians' frustration is up too. Quebeckers have clearly shown that they are fed up with a Liberal government that does nothing but waste Quebeckers' money and interfere in provincial jurisdictions. The Bloc Québécois has run out of excuses for keeping thi…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge. I am pleased to rise today as a member of the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. We have the pleasure of working in this committee with our colleagues from the Maritimes to advance the development of new technologies and industry in Canada. We have had the opportunity to debate various issues with our …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, young Quebeckers are suffering. The cost of living is horrendous. Half of young people are living paycheque to paycheque and are unable to save any money. The Bloc Québécois can no longer justify keeping this centralizing and inflationary Prime Minister in power. They are not being fair to Quebeckers and they are not helping young people, q…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians keep saying enough is enough. Nine years with this Liberal government in power is enough. Quebeckers are fed up with this centralizing and inflationary Liberal government that has no respect for taxpayers or provincial jurisdictions. Our common-sense leader moved a non-confidence motion over this devastating government that has doubled the debt, doubled the cost of housing, …
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Mr. Speaker, I am also a Quebecker, and my motto is also “Je me souviens”, or “I remember”. I will remember, as will all Quebeckers, that, as we speak, the Bloc Québécois is supporting a centralizing, spendthrift government. The Bloc supported spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, over the past nine years, and particularly over the past four or five. As a result, we now ha…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and congratulate him on his French. I did not even know he spoke French. That is great news. We have another French speaker in the House of Commons. That is great. I would like to congratulate him. The Bloc Québécois will be happy; we have yet another francophone. My colleague's question is very simple. We have the privilege of being in the House of Commons. We ar…
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Mr. Speaker, what is counterproductive is the fact that the Liberals do not want to co-operate and ask all the opposition parties that are here, that are represented in the House, to provide the documents in question. That is what we call counterproductive. The privilege that we have to be able to access those documents is an extremely important parliamentary privilege. Unfortunately, the Liberals…
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his speech. The member for Lévis—Lotbinière has been here for almost 18 years, if not more. He has seen a lot, I am sure. He mentioned the Harper government, which, at the time, brought back a balanced budget after a very dark period in history. Both 2008 and 2009 were very difficult years. In spite of everything and after making considerable efforts, …
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With regard to the list of over 300 meetings held on Bill C-27, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts, submitted to the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology on November 21, 2023: what are the details of each me…
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Madam Speaker, last weekend, nearly 200 people gathered for a fundraiser for the golf club that is now called the Club de golf de Saint‑Pamphile Matériaux Blanchet. This is a first here in Canada: Four elected officials from various levels of government, namely, the mayor of Saint‑Pamphile, Mario Leblanc, the reeve of the L'Islet RCM and mayor of Saint‑Jean‑Port‑Joli, Normand Caron, the MNA for th…
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With regard to individual expense receipts submitted by a board of director, chair, or CEO, at Export Development Canada, since 2018: what are the details of all items expensed, including the (i) dollar value of each expense, (ii) product or service expensed, (iii) name of the venue for the product or service expensed, (iv) name of the city in which it was expensed, (v) reason for the expense, (vi…
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With regard to the funding provided by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to the MaRS Discovery District (MaRS): what are the details of all agreements between ISED and MaRS since November 4, 2015, including, for each, the (i) value of any funding received, (ii) form of funding received, (iii) date that the agreement was agreed to by both parties, (iv) details on the purpos…
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