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1,397 speeches by François-Philippe Champagne — Page 17 of 28
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Mr. Speaker, I like the member very much, but let me inform him about a couple of things. When it comes to jobs and investment, Canada received the largest investment in Honda's history, $19 billion. That has been its largest investment in 75 years. Canada also received the largest investment in Dow Chemical's history over 127 years, an investment of $10 billion in Alberta. We received the largest…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a great day for Quebeckers and Canadians. Today, Canadians realized that the Liberal government has their backs. The number one thing that Canadians talk to us about is affordability. Today, our government is stepping up with a GST holiday that will apply to everyday items to help families in a tangible way. In the spring, we will be there to help workers. The people watching at…
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Mr. Speaker, we will take no lessons from the NDP on that. In fact, it was a Liberal government that reformed the Competition Act. Now, thanks to our government, consumers at home know that we are going to have their backs. We have given new powers to the competition commissioner to investigate. We expect him to use all his power and to make sure that we restore competition in the country every si…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP is waking up. It is Christmas time, and the NDP is waking up. We have long understood that the number one issue for Canadians is affordability. That is why, today, we are introducing a flagship measure, one that will help families. We are doing this because, at Christmas time, people need a helping hand. They need a little extra for the kids, for groceries and for eating out. …
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Mr. Speaker, we do not need an election for that; we have already done it for Canadians. The answer is clear. On one side of the House, the Conservatives are filibustering. Canadians will see whether the Conservatives have the gumption to stand up for them. What we are proposing today is an affordability measure. It is a measure to help people when they need it, this Christmas, and to help workers…
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Mr. Speaker, for once we agree with the NDP. It is true that the Conservatives' economic plan is to make cuts. They will cut health care, day care and the help we have provided for businesses. We know the Conservative plan. If there is one thing people watching from home know, it is that, on this side of the House, we believe in investing in Canadians. We believe in investing in families. We belie…
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Mr. Speaker, what Canadians are witnessing today is very disturbing. On many occasions, questions were asked and answers were provided, but the real issue that Canadians are asking at home is why the leader of the Conservatives will not get a security clearance, will not get a briefing and will not do his job. That is what Canadians are concerned about. Get the clearance, get the briefing and do y…
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Mr. Speaker, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, ISED, maintains a single reinforced contribution agreement, CA, with the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology, SDTC, due to the arm’s-length nature of the organization. SDTC was set up by Parliament to deliver funding to eligible recipients under a further distribution of a contribution funding model, and as such…
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Mr. Speaker, I would agree with the member that what we are going to see from the Conservatives is cuts. They are going to cut dental care. They are going to cut the Canada child benefit. Canadians at home know that on this side of the House, we will always stand for the middle class. We will always stand for those who are working hard to join the middle class. We will fight for Canadians as we ha…
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Mr. Speaker, what the Conservatives will not talk about is the record level of investment we have seen in the country. More importantly for Canadians watching at home, people are really wondering why the leader of the Conservatives is not getting his security clearance. What does he have to hide? People on the streets of Canada are asking. The leader should get the clearance, get the briefing, get…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a great deal of respect for my colleague, but he knows that we have always stood up for the forestry industry and for workers. The real question that Canadians are asking today is why the Conservative leader does not want to get his security clearance. What does he have to hide from Canadians? That is the real question of the day. It is the elephant in the room. We keep asking …
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Mr. Speaker, what the Conservatives will never admit is that Canada has attracted record levels of investment. Take Honda, for example, which is investing $19 billion in our country. This is the biggest investment in Honda's 75-year history. We were talking about mining companies. BHP is investing $22 billion in Saskatchewan. That is the biggest investment in its history. Since we are talking abou…
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Mr. Speaker, I will always stand up in the House to talk about good news in Canada. Canadians should be cheering. This is the land of possibilities and opportunities. We have attracted a record level of investment in this country. Just talk to the CEOs of Honda, Volkswagen, Dow Chemical and Northvolt. People are investing in this country because they believe in our workers. We have the best worker…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell the Conservatives something they will not acknowledge: The root cause of our success is Canadian workers. We have attracted record levels of investment in this country. I do not know what those people are reading. They should talk to Volkswagen, talk to Honda, talk to Dow Chemical—
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The practice he described is completely unacceptable. I am going to write to the Commissioner of Competition today to ask for an inquiry. With the new powers we gave to the Competition Bureau, we will get to the bottom of this issue. People at home know that we, on this side of the House, will always side with tenants, will always side with consu…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish my colleague had heard my answer. We are going to launch an investigation. That is exactly what I said. It is completely unacceptable what we have seen. I am going to write to the competition commissioner today to launch an investigation. The NDP should celebrate what we have done, because thanks to our party, we now have powers within the act to investigate. We will always be …
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Mr. Speaker, it is quite ironic to hear from the New Democrats about standing up. When they had that opportunity, they folded. I think everyone in this House understands that. The member knows well, like everyone in the House, that we stood up to the big telcos in this country. We will always stand up for Canadians and consumers. We fought for more competition, lower prices for Canadians and bette…
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Mr. Speaker, a lot of members here should take lessons from the NDP about standing up for what is right. On this side of the House, we stand up for Canadians. We stood up to Rogers. We said no to its proposed merger. We imposed the harshest conditions in our nation's history on telecom. We are always on the side of consumers. We want more competition in this country, more choices for consumers and…
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Mr. Speaker, it is disappointing that after nine years, it is the same slogan, the same type of disinformation, the same type of false accusation. It is time to get real. The Conservatives know very well that we acted in a timely way to dissolve that organization. The board has resigned, the CEO has resigned and the organization no longer exists. We made a solemn promise to Canadians to get to the…
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Mr. Speaker, I thought the leader of the NDP would stand up and say “thank you” to the Liberal government. We have introduced the most comprehensive reform on competition in Canada's history. I want to congratulate him for his contribution. Now we will have less concentration and more choice, and we will stabilize prices in Canada. More than that, the member should rejoice that now in Canada we ha…
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Mr. Speaker, I think all Canadians should be concerned today. They should actually be worried, because what we are witnessing today, and have witnessed over the past few days, is worrying. The Conservative Party wants to run the police. Imagine the situation we are in. The Conservative Party, with the Conservative leader at the helm, wants to direct the work of the RCMP. The RCMP has been clear. T…
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Mr. Speaker, I think that the leader of the NDP should apologize. The only one who spoke out against Galen Weston in the House is the Liberal government, when we asked all the industry CEOs to come to Ottawa and explain themselves. The leader of the NDP should be happy because we not only improved the competition system in Canada, but we also included what he wanted because we know how hard things…
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Mr. Speaker, the people watching at home and those in the gallery today can see what the Conservatives are up to. The Conservatives now want to run the police in Canada. Just think how far things have come. I challenge my colleague: 87% of clean tech companies in Canada received funding from SDTC. The reality is that it is a foundation that has helped SMEs in this country. I think that today is a …
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Mr. Speaker, all Canadians are concerned about what we have been witnessing over the past few days. The fact is, what we are seeing in the House is the Conservatives' attempt to put themselves in charge of the police in this country. What the Conservatives are trying to do is unprecedented in the history of Canada. Those of us on this side of the House are acting responsibly. We have already hande…
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Mr. Speaker, it is very clear that Canadians are fed up with the Conservative Party's games. Canadians are tired of the Conservatives' slogans too, and they have had it with the Conservatives' obstruction. On this side of the House, as we have said repeatedly, we will always stand up to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals in Canada. We will always be here to defend democracy. We will co…
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Mr. Speaker, I can assure the member that it is much cheaper to have Thanksgiving dinner in Shawinigan. I do not know where he is shopping for his turkey. I will invite him to my house in Shawinigan and he will find out it is a bit cheaper. The reality of what this government has done has been said by all economists in Canada. The most significant thing was reforming competition in this country to…
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Mr. Speaker, what is not okay is for the Conservatives to repeat the same thing time and time again when they know it is false. The reality, and let us talk about facts, is that the entity they are talking about was created in 2001. It was managed by the Conservatives for nine years. The CEO of that organization is gone, the board is gone and the foundation no longer exists. That is the reality. W…
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Mr. Speaker, it has only been nine minutes since question period began, and slogans are up. Slogans are up again. Canadians are sick and tired of Conservatives repeating the same false things and the same slogans. These Conservatives are trying to go after the personal files of employees and former employees. They are targeting SDTC today. Who will they target tomorrow? On this side of the House, …
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Mr. Speaker, we already have the Bloc, but now we learn we have the blocker-in-chief, the Conservatives. How ridiculous for Canadians watching at home. The Conservatives are blocking their own motion, if we can imagine that. We know that the Conservatives know how to count to six, so let me explain to them. There has not been one report, there have not been two reports, there have not been three r…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians watching at home have a question. Why are the Conservatives still going on about an organization that has ceased operations? The CEO has resigned. The board of directors has resigned. The issue before us today is that the Conservatives do not like the order that the Speaker gave to send this matter to committee. Why? Perhaps it is because they may learn some things in commit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are waking up, as though this were news. We took action quickly and decisively. There have been not one, but four reports: two by national law firms, one by an accounting firm and one by the Auditor General. We have investigated and we have taken action. It is time for Parliament to get back to work in the interest of all Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent work. We all benefit from investments in science and research. Thanks to the work of the Minister of Finance, in the last budget, we invested $800 million in 24 organizations that are working on the biggest challenges facing the world today. Everyone is delighted by the fact that, more recently, Canada joined Horizon Europe, the biggest research …
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Mr. Speaker, I have a great deal of respect for my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent, but four independent reports were produced. Not one, but four independent reports were produced. Even the commissioner of the RCMP openly stated in a letter that he had access to all the documents. In the interest of Canadians, in the interest of democracy, in the interest of the work of parliamentarians, we ask…
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Mr. Speaker, talking about working for Canadians, now Canadians at home are seeing Conservatives blocking a Conservative motion. We live in a parallel world in this place. The Conservatives are blocking their own motion. What we did, and what we promised to Canadians, was to get to the bottom of this. There will be four independent reports, including the Auditor General and the commissioner of the…
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Mr. Speaker, I have tremendous respect for my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent, but only a Conservative would filibuster a Conservative motion. This Parliament has seen it all. The work has been done. That is what the police forces are saying. We said that we would take decisive action and we did. We got to the bottom of things, that is what we did. Four independent reports have been submitted. …
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Mr. Speaker, we do indeed respect seniors. That is why we have always been there for them. However, seniors understand that we need to invest in the future as well. Canadians understand that. That is why we have been able to attract generational investments to Quebec. Take, for example, Moderna, which set up shop in Laval. Ford and GM are in Bécancour. We brought Quebec into the 21st-century autom…
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Mr. Speaker, we did even better than that. We have attracted $60 billion of investment in this country. Even Bloomberg put Canada ahead of China for the battery ecosystem. We have the talent. We have the ecosystem. We have the critical minerals. We have the renewable energy. We have access to the market. Let us talk about possibilities. Let us talk about opportunities. Let us talk about Canada in …
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Mr. Speaker, I am always confident that Quebeckers understand what does and does not make sense. What they just heard makes no sense. We have been there for Quebec as a government. We have made exemplary investments in aerospace, record investments in aluminum, investments in the automotive sector and investments in digital technology. We are fighting to create jobs at home. We are fighting to bui…
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Mr. Speaker, all the Canadians watching at home will know what is up, and it is investment in the future of the country. Under the Liberal government, investment in decarbonization is up to make sure that our steel mills are productive, that our steelworkers have jobs and that Canada would win in the economy of the 21st century. Canadians know that what is up is making make sure that the governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to talk not only about steel but also about aluminum. One thing Canadian workers know is that, when it was time to stand up for them, Liberals stood up for them. We just imposed tariffs on steel coming from China to make sure we protect our industry, our jobs and our future. Workers across the nation know that we have their backs. We will fight for the industry, and we will…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell the member what Windsor is about. Windsor is about a revival. With the investment we have brought to Windsor, Windsor will never look the same again. We have brought generational investment in this town. We have given hope to people. We are providing opportunities. We are providing training for the people. Windsor will be at the centre of the auto sector again. That is tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to be back, but I am not happy to hear the Conservative voice of austerity. People watching at home know what the Liberal Party is all about. With the Liberal Party, investments are up, jobs are up and the economy is up. Quebeckers know that we are building the future. Whether we are talking about the automobile industry, batteries, semi-conductors or biomanufacturing, we a…
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Mr. Speaker, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has not provided funding to the MaRS Discovery District since November 4, 2015.
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Mr. Speaker, there was no meeting between the U.S. Ambassador, David Cohen, and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry or the deputy minister during which the artificial intelligence and data act was raised.
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), in July 2020 the federal government confirmed that the two properties on the National Research Council Canada, or NRC, Ellice Avenue site would be retained for Canada’s use in support of the response to pandemic preparedness by the Public Health Agency of Canada, PHAC. In fall 2020 the NRC began exploring options to sever the property, retaining the laboratory buil…
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Mr. Speaker, the terms of the 2021 agreement-in-principle were never finalized and have since been superseded. As such, the government has not disbursed any funds or received any equity for Telesat’s Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit satellite project. Since then, both Telesat’s and the Government’s plans have been updated. The government remains in discussions with Telesat regarding a potential investme…
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Mr. Speaker, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, or ISED, publishes an Industrial and Technological Benefits, or ITB, Annual Report in an effort to be transparent about the results and status of the ITB Policy. The most recent ITB Annual Report, in 2023, highlights, at a national level, the impact of ITB obligations active in 2022, which presents a point in time snapshot using the…
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Mr. Speaker, do those members know what is profiting from all the work of this government and all the members in the House? It is record investment in green technologies in our country. We rank number one, ahead of China, for the battery ecosystem in the country and have more—
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Mr. Speaker, a little guy from La Tuque and a little guy from Shawinigan are definitely not going to take lessons from the Conservatives on how to develop our regions and protect them. On our side of the House, we know how to balance the economy with our environmental obligations. We have always invested in the forestry industry, and we will always invest in the forestry industry. Workers watching…
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Mr. Speaker, we understand that the forest is part of the DNA of our country and that the forestry workers who have worked in this industry are important. Not only are we investing in the industry, but we are in the process of considering and developing new technologies because we want to help the forestry industry. We want it to have a future not only in the 20th century, but also in the 21st cen…
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