Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, this is all the Bloc has. I will be honest in that I have not spoken to a Quebec business person recently, but they want Ontario businesses buying their products, and they want Alberta residents buying their products. I want to see Quebec aluminum used in Canadian products. I want to see Niagara wine purchased in Quebec. These are things that the Bloc is apparently against. The Bloc w…
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Mr. Speaker, there was more applause from the other side than my own, but it is early on. That was some Jeb Bush-level begging for applause, and I apologise to my colleagues, but it is good to be back. I should say that I am splitting my time. I am hoping the Speaker will indulge me while I offer a few thank yous. First, I would like to thank the residents of St. Catharines, who have entrusted me …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member for Winnipeg North's words in this place, which are bountiful. This is a commitment that we made to Canadians. It is a strong commitment to show Canadians that we understand what they are going through and to provide some relief to them. Things have gotten more expensive. Global inflation still remains a problem, but Canada can step up. We have made this commit…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, it is unconscionable that the member rises on his feet with a smile on his face to mention that name in this place. It is disgusting. It is disgusting that—
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Madam Speaker, the member's speech just shows how unserious the Conservative Party is about this. For 20 minutes, we have seen the member smirking, talking about such things as J.R. Ewing, Darcy Tucker and General Hospital. He has quoted a comical German prison guard from the Second World War multiple times. That is how serious they are about this. I am wondering if the member could actually spend…
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Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, if the government's responses to Questions Nos. 3073, 3074, 3076, 3077, 3081, 3083, 3086, 3087 and 3089 could be made orders for return, these returns would be tabled in an electronic format immediately.
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8)(a), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to six petitions. These returns will be tabled in an electronic format.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. With respect to questions on the Order Paper, I believe that if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for me to answer a number of questions today.
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Madam Speaker, on the same point of order, Standing Order 18 prohibits reflection on a member's vote. Again, it is disgusting, what the members are trying to do in this place.
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Mr. Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 3075, 3078 to 3080, 3082, 3084, 3085 and 3088.
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Madam Speaker, if the government's responses to Questions Nos. 3059 to 3067 and 3069 could be made orders for return, these returns would be tabled in an electronic format immediately.
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Madam Speaker, I think this falls under the category of one who doth protest too much. Six months ago, when the member brought forward the question, he was eager for housing accelerator fund money for his community, one of his communities having gotten housing accelerator fund money, the city of Kingston, which he represents. I guess he has had to go into reverse after it was released that Conserv…
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Madam Speaker, the member does not like the hypocrisy. He gets up, and his own community received housing—
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Madam Speaker, let me quote the mayor from one of the communities the member represents. Again, he points outside Ontario. His own community got housing accelerator fund money. He represents the city of Kingston—
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Madam Speaker, one of the mayors of the community he represents received housing accelerator fund money, and he said that he is grateful and that it will help “meet the critical need for more housing in our community”, with “our” being the member's riding and the member's community. The member can point all across the country and all across the province. His own community received housing accelera…
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Madam Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 3057, 3058 and 3068.
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Madam Speaker, I have enjoyed my multiple shifts here this evening. I did go through, in my initial speech, the deductions that were levied against the provinces. This is something that will continue. I do share the concern, especially being from Ontario, of the creeping privatization of health care in Ontario and beyond. That is why this government will continue to stand firm, continue to use the…
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Madam Speaker, I think if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for me to answer three questions today.
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member is concerned when his misinformation is called out. He brings up this topic and is eager to establish the integrity of this program. He understands the importance of this program. It is nice that he and his members, for once, are bringing indigenous concerns and economic reconciliation to the forefront. It is important that we ensure the integrity of this program exi…
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Madam Speaker, I ask that all remaining questions be allowed to stand.
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Madam Speaker, as the member is yelling at me out of turn, I am eager to—
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Madam Speaker, it is quite the contrary. The federal government is putting health care first. Canada's universal health care system is a pillar of our national identity. It represents Canadians' ongoing commitment to the values of equity, fairness and solidarity, to ensure that everyone has access to medically necessary health care services based on medical need and not on their ability or willing…
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Madam Speaker, that is not what the AFN has said, but I am eager—
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Madam Speaker, determining and affirming one's indigenous identity is deeply personal and complex. It is not for the House to act as the arbiter of anyone's identity. We must acknowledge that indigenous heritage and identity are not always straightforward. Many indigenous people in Canada face challenges in tracing their roots due to historical injustices, including systemic efforts to erase indig…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the former chair of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, WDBA, board of directors, Tim Murphy, leaving his post to become executive vice-president and chief strategic affairs officer at Aecon, the answer to parts (a) and (b) is as follows. Mr. Murphy, appointed by the Governor in Council, is subject to post-directorship obligations as part of the Conflict of Interest A…
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Mr. Speaker, without an ounce of irony, the hon. member gets up and talks about breaking promises. That member ran on pricing pollution; he and every member of his party ran on a carbon tax. It is in his platform.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know where the hon. member thinks I come from, but there is a lot of agricultural land. I speak to farmers in Niagara, especially grape growers, and they are incredibly worried about climate change. Looking at British Columbia, farmers have lost 95% of their crops because of the impacts of climate change. The hon. member does not care. He buries his head in the sand and still…
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Mr. Speaker, he is heckling; he says, “Show me where it is.” There was an announcement. It was on the cover of the Conservatives' platform. The guy with the muscles, whom they got rid of a little bit after, ran on a carbon price. It is shocking. I looked it up before the speech, and more than half of the member's province is currently in drought conditions. However, in his entire speech, he did no…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the Conservative leader announced his plan to shut down housing projects across the country. He is proposing reckless cuts that will devastate housing progress in Canada, including in my own riding of St. Catharines. Even his own MPs are going behind his back to secretly write the housing minister to support the housing accelerator fund and advocate that their communities g…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the federal lands initiative, as of June 30, 2024, 23 commitments were signed representing 3,744 units. Currently, 1,880 new units are under construction.
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to all infrastructure projects that have received government funding since November 4, 2015, that require the use of steel, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, or HICC, undertook an extensive preliminary search in order to determine the amount of information that would fall within the scope of the question and the amount of time that would be required to prepar…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis for her work on this file. The government supports this legislation, and I would like to take a few moments to explain why. Everyone deserves a healthy workplace where they feel safe. It is a basic right, yet one that many workers are denied. Harassment and violence at work still happen and no workplace is immun…
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to say it is disgusting that the hon. member across the way, with a smile on his face, would mention a serial killer's name in this place and attempt to use it for political gain—
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the housing accelerator fund and the government's response to Order Paper Question No. 2531, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation determined that the entities in question, such as counties or upper-tier municipalities in the areas in Ontario, did not meet the eligibility criteria for the housing accelerator fund program. Eligibility is contingent upon having delegate…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the failure of the schedule 40 pipe used on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, please note that this question relates to a dispute involving the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority or WDBA, its contractor Valard, and Valard’s subcontractor Sterling Ridge Group Ltd., “SLR”. WDBA, Valard, and SLR entered into a settlement regarding that dispute. The minutes of set…
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Mr. Speaker, if a revised response to Question No. 2626, originally tabled on June 27, and the government's responses to Questions Nos. 2700, 2702, 2706 to 2711, 2713 to 2715, 2717, 2719 to 2723, 2725, 2727 to 2738, 2740, 2741, 2743, 2745, 2746, 2748 to 2752, 2754, 2755, 2758, 2759, 2761, 2763, 2764, 2767 to 2769, 2772, 2775, 2781, 2784 to 2787, 2789, 2790, 2793, 2796 to 2798, 2801, 2802, 2804, 28…
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Mr. Speaker, I ask that the remaining questions be allowed to stand.
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the delays of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, the early works involving Valard, SLR, CIMA+, and others had no impact on the overall Gordie Howe International Bridge project schedule. All contracts associated with the early works were separate from the public-private partnership contract. Early works activities did not affect the schedule delay announced in…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the tendering process and announcement that CIMA+ was to be awarded the pre-engineering contract for the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, please note that with respect to this tendering process that occurred in 2016, Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority’s procurement policy was followed. With respect to part (a), there were no official memos between the Chairman Dw…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, WDBA, and the awarding of the contract to CIMA+ for the site pre-engineering contract, of which one project included the bury of the transmission and distribution lines on the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, the response is as follows. With respect to part (a), the premise to the question is factually inacc…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to part (a), as of October 1, 1998, under the Social Housing Agreement, or SHA, found at https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/about-us/social-housing-information/administration-of-social-housing, CMHC transferred Lions Place, a 287-unit building located at 610 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg to the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation, the MHRC. Under the terms of the SHA, MHRC, was…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the government's applications under the disaster mitigation adaptation fund, the DMAF, and the statements made by the Mayor of Merritt, Michael Goetz, and the Mayor of Princeton, Spencer Coyne, in response to part (a) of the question, the DMAF is a national, merit-based, competitive program, and projects are assessed based on the information provided in the project appl…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund applications received from communities in British Columbia since 2021, in response to parts (a) and (c), the Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund is a national, merit-based, competitive program. Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, or HICC, recognizes the importance of all projects it receives, however funds are limited, and…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the investment of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, or CIB, in the Avenue Living residential retrofits, with regard to (a), the CIB’s investment is structured as two corporate loans, together the “CIB credit facility”, to two Avenue Living entities, together, “Avenue Living”, that wholly own the properties being considered for decarbonization retrofits, each a “project”. …
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to any arrangements the Canada Infrastructure Bank, CIB, has with banks or other financial institutions, CIB has nothing to report.
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Madam Speaker, if the government's responses to Questions Nos. 2584 to 2589, 2591 to 2595 and 2598 could be made orders for return, these returns would be tabled immediately in an electronic format.
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Madam Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 2583, 2590, 2596 and 2597.
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Madam Speaker, I would ask that all remaining questions be allowed to stand.
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Madam Speaker, I ask that all notices of motions for the production of papers be allowed to stand.
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8)(a), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to seven petitions. These returns will be tabled in an electronic format.
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