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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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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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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, 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, 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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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 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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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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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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Mr. Speaker, nine years of this Liberal government equals nine years of inflationary spending, nine long years where the Liberals, with the support of the Bloc Québécois, have cost Quebeckers dearly. We might even say that there is no Bloc Québécois in Parliament, just a “Liberal Bloc”. This “Liberal Bloc” voted for the largest-ever expansion of the federal government. The “Liberal Bloc” voted to …
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Mr. Speaker, nine years of this Liberal government is nine years of interference in Quebec's jurisdictions. The Minister of Environment wants to impose an emergency decree that will restrict the activities of forestry workers and jeopardize thousands of jobs in this sector in Quebec. Only a Conservative government will protect forestry workers' jobs. Strangely enough, the member for Avignon—La Mit…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years in office, this Liberal government still does not know its place. It continues to impose its incompetence on the provinces. It wants to adopt an emergency decree to protect the boreal caribou and trample all over the jurisdictions of the Government of Quebec, which is trying to protect jobs, nature and the economy. For some reason, the Bloc Québécois is helping the Li…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for so clearly explaining the absolutely unacceptable aspect of this bill, namely the change in the election date, which, as he said, will be very close to the date of municipal elections in Quebec. As my colleague said, there is no rush to vote at the municipal level in Quebec. I quite agree with him on that. There is, however, one thing that has been bothering…
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Mr. Speaker, I found my colleague's intervention very interesting, because a distillery in my riding that had been in business for five or six years was forced to shut down. It was producing some absolutely extraordinary products, mainly fantastic gins. Unfortunately, it was forced to close down for obvious reasons. Small businesses like this one have to fill out literal mountains of paperwork on …
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Mr. Speaker, the housing crisis is untenable in Quebec. The housing shortage is being felt by people throughout Quebec. Homelessness is spreading and is more visible than ever before. While Quebeckers suffer, the Bloc Québécois voted with the Liberals against the bill introduced by the Conservative Party aimed at building housing units. It also voted for $500 billion in centralizing and inflationa…
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Madam Speaker, it is a little odd that my colleague would ask me a question about that, because we have been extremely clear for months and months. We still want to pause taxes on fuel for the summer to give Canadians a break. Unfortunately, the Bloc Québécois does not want this and has spoken out against this idea. However, the member is not asking me about the nearly $200 million that was put in…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to tie in with what my colleague from Montreal just said. Yesterday, his colleague who sits on the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology, the member for Windsor West, spoke with officials who were there. He asked them a question about the fact that it was whistle-blowers who finally exposed the truth and that these people were never protected in any way. Some lost…
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Madam Speaker, the question is not whether we are going to abolish a fund like this. The reality is that we are all well aware of the fact that we must continue to invest in technology. What is more, it is part of the Conservative government's policies to bring new technologies on board to deal with the problem of climate change in Canada. Inevitably there will be and continue to be investments, b…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak today. Nine years with this Prime Minister in power has meant nine years of scandals. The scandals are piling up here in Ottawa at an unbelievable rate. There is a new one every day. This week, the Auditor General of Canada discovered that the Prime Minister turned Sustainable Development Technology Canada into a slush fund for Liberal P…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague what she thinks of the Auditor General's report. This report is very clear and straightforward. The people were appointed by the government, by both the former minister and the current one. They knew that these people had a conflict of interest. There was no doubt about it, but they decided to go ahead anyway, especially the former minister, Mr. Bain…
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Madam Speaker, once again, I cannot believe it. Questions like that prove the NDP-Liberal coalition wants to protect its Liberal cronies. They are all one and the same. I cannot believe the questions we are hearing today. We are not the ones saying so. The Auditor General of Canada said so. If I am not mistaken, she was appointed by the current Prime Minister. She is independent. She has been doin…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, the cost of living is too high and Quebeckers are paying the price. Yesterday, the Bloc-Liberal voted against pausing federal gas taxes to give Quebeckers a break. The Bloc Québécois is at it again: It wants to radically increase the taxes that are costing Quebeckers so much. The Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed yesterday at the Stand…
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Madam Speaker, nine years under this Prime Minister has meant nine years of misery for Quebeckers. They have no affordable housing and are now forced to live in motels and on the streets. The Bloc Québécois claims to stand up for Quebeckers, but it is turning its back on them and voting against every measure that would ease their suffering. Bloc members voted against the Conservatives' common-sens…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, the housing crisis has become intolerable for Quebeckers. While homelessness and hunger spread in Quebec, affordable housing is becoming increasingly scarce. To Canada's shame, it takes almost two years to get a building permit in Montreal. Quebeckers deserve better than this kind of incompetence. Will this Liberal-Bloc government stop its ou…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are paying the price for this Prime Minister's nine years in power. The housing crisis is hitting them hard. In Ville-Marie, the mayor of Montreal's administration takes 540 days to get a building permit. That is quite a number: 540 days. Given the unrelenting housing crisis, that is sheer incompetence. Quebeckers are suffering, yet the Bloc Québécois is voting in favour of…
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Mr. Speaker, nine is more than six. For nine years, under this Prime Minister, more and more Quebeckers have been living on the streets because of the lack of affordable housing across Canada. The Liberal-Bloc government has doubled the cost of rent. In Montreal alone, it takes two years to get a building permit on a good day. Once again, the incompetence is on full display. Quebeckers need soluti…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under this Prime Minister, more and more Quebeckers are going hungry and living in the streets, in dire need. While Canadians are suffering because of the Liberals' inflationary policies, the Bloc Québécois continues to encourage them. Quebeckers are struggling under the weight of this broken economy, but what is the Bloc Québécois doing? It is voting in favour of a $…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under this Prime Minister, more and more Quebeckers are going hungry or living on the streets. The Bloc Québécois voted for $500 billion in spending. It claims to represent Quebeckers, but then it turns its back on them and votes in favour of inflationary, centralizing spending. While Quebeckers are suffering, the Bloc Québécois is voting to give the federal governmen…
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Madam Speaker, I have a very simple question for my colleague. Our leader spoke about this earlier in his speech. The Bloc Québécois voted in favour of the budget allocations. We even heard the leader and some of his Bloc Québécois colleagues say that it was no big deal, that there is no time for that. The Liberal Party of Canada's meddling in Quebec's jurisdictions has been apparent for a long ti…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to put a question to my colleague, who lives just across the water from me, on the other side of the St. Lawrence River. We live in an absolutely extraordinary and exceptionally beautiful province. Isle-aux-Coudres, where my colleague lives, is a phenomenal place. It is right across from where I live. In fact, I jokingly tell her that I watch her with my telescope. I do n…
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Mr. Speaker, as July 1 approaches, the housing crisis in Quebec and Canada is reaching alarming levels. Many people are no longer able to put a roof over their heads. After nine years of this Prime Minister, the crisis is worse than it has ever been. Many people will be unable to find a place to live in two months, particularly in Quebec, where, as members know, everyone moves on the same date, Ju…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, the crises keep piling up. We have a housing crisis, a cost of living crisis and now an opioid crisis. In Montreal, the situation is getting worse and worse. Crack and heroin can be found near child care centres. Parents are worried about the safety of their children, and rightly so. Who is supporting the Liberal government on its extreme p…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of budget chaos, this government, supported by the Bloc Québécois, continues to promote inflationary spending and throw money out the window. The Bloc Québécois talks about the importance of health transfers, but it is voting for $500 billion in centralizing spending. The interest on that will be more than total health transfer amounts. The more this government spends…
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Madam Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to deliver a final reply in the debate on my private member's bill, Bill C-351, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act regarding maximum security offenders. I will not go into the details of the context surrounding the introduction of such a bill. I will simply point out that what prompted it was the news last June that se…
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Madam Speaker, at a time when Canadians are struggling to put food on the table, the Prime Minister's ArriveCAN app has made multimillionaires out of the owners of GC Strategies. This week, Canadians could have finally had some answers about ArriveCAN, but the Prime Minister chose to demand silence on the issue and ignore Canadians' questions. We are talking about $60 million taken away from Canad…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians work all the time, with nothing to show for their labour and efforts, while the consultants and contractors involved in the ArriveCAN disaster got $60 million from the Prime Minister. That $60 million comes from Canadian taxpayers. It is their money and it was wasted. It was a gift that was handed over in return for no work. Canadians have one simple question, and it deman…
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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