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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague; his questions are always pertinent. It is indeed a pity that the government, which has now been in office for over a year, has not gone to the trouble of engaging with the opposition parties, which is absolutely essential, particularly in the case of a minority government. That said, for the past few weeks, there has been talk of it being a majority…
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Mr. Speaker, let us not forget that, last year, when the internationally renowned banker ran for Prime Minister, he said that he would be careful with taxpayers' money. A year later, here are the results: The cost of living is very high, we have the worst food inflation in the G7, there are more taxes, more debt and more charges on the credit card. In short, this great banker is nothing more than …
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Mr. Speaker, let us remember that a year ago, the Liberals were forecasting a $31‑billion deficit. One year later, it is twice that—$65 billion. That is the reality after one year of Liberal governance. Worse still, the outlook from now to 2031, according to the economic statement, is another trillion dollars added to the debt. More and more spending is an indication that the deficits will increas…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his interesting speech. He made a lot of historical references. When he talked about the Aquarius song from the 1970s, however, I must confess that I tend to associate Aquarius with the name of the Apollo 13 lunar module from April 1971, which saved the lives of the three astronauts on that mission. Let me be more serious about this and talk about ethi…
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Madam Speaker, there is nothing more important than having enough to eat. After 10 years of Liberal governance, the situation here in Canada is terrible. One in three Canadians has to borrow money to put food on the table. Some 2.2 million Canadians are visiting food banks every month. What is really heartbreaking is that one in three children has to go to a food bank. That does not make any sense…
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary knows very well that I have a great deal of respect for him because, when he was a member of the provincial government, he ran a zero deficit. However, he is currently a member of a government that has run up a $67‑billion deficit. The problem is that these Liberals have launched all kinds of programs over the past 10 years, all with zero results. Some 2.…
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Mr. Speaker, 600,000 Quebeckers are being forced to make ends meet on the guaranteed income supplement. That is one in three seniors, and 600,000 people is more than the entire population of Quebec City. I am going to address Quebec's seniors directly and ask them whether, over the past year, their situation has improved when they go grocery shopping. Unfortunately, the answer is no. For the past …
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Mr. Speaker, April is Daffodil Month. For the Canadian Cancer Society, this flower is a symbol of resilience and solidarity. When a person is diagnosed with cancer, it turns their whole world upside down, but they do not have to fight this battle alone. Today, my thoughts are with the families across the country who are battling cancer because, behind each statistic, there are faces, families, fri…
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Mr. Speaker, of course, I listened carefully to what my Green Party colleague had to say. Unlike the Bloc Québécois member, who refers to her as a member from British Columbia, I refer to her as a member of the Green Party. That is simpler and members know right away who I am talking about. It is like the good old days because the member is now sitting on the same side of the House as the official…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my colleague. I completely agreed with everything, or almost everything, she said. In fact, I was in agreement up until the last sentence. Unfortunately, I was left unsatisfied, although I was hanging on to her every word, but still. I think our colleague described the situation very well. Indeed, there is a difference between winning a majority through votes an…
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Mr. Speaker, what is pathetic is seeing the Liberal Prime Minister stand up and say something that could not be further from the truth. On March 25, the Prime Minister said that affordability is the best it has been in a decade. Where is the Prime Minister when we know that what he said about the past 10 years is really not true? In the past 10 years, rents have doubled. In the past 10 years, what…
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Mr. Speaker, it gives me no pleasure to tell my colleague that two million Canadians are using food banks every month. It is a proven fact that Canada has the worst food inflation for the fourth month in a row. What is true is that, compared to the past 10 years, beef now costs 69% more, vegetables now cost 57% more and chicken costs 43% more. That is insane. What is completely false is what the P…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the great privilege of representing the people of Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk, who put their trust in me for the seventh time almost a year ago. I am very proud to have represented Wendake as part of my riding for 18 years, including my time in provincial politics. I have the privilege of representing the Wendat community in the House of Commons, and I had the privilege of…
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Mr. Speaker, the question by the member from Winnipeg is a very interesting one, because, yes, we do support a modern treaty all the way, and we need more of those kinds of treaties. What we are opposing is another level of bureaucracy, with the commissioner. We have all the people in the government getting involved in that right now, and we are sure they can do the job they want the commissioner …
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Mr. Speaker, that is one of the reasons why we are not in favour of creating a new bureaucracy to support first nations. What first nations need is a lot more breathing room and a lot more support to create even more wealth. We want more modern treaties, but to do that, we need real projects and real results.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Hamilton's question is right on target. We spend too much money right now, so that is why we cannot invest all the money where we need it. We do not have to hire other people and create another level of bureaucracy. Millions of dollars could be invested in the development of first nations instead of in the development of bureaucracy.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure, an honour and a joy to respond in French to this extremely well-articulated question asked in French by my colleague from British Columbia, whom I hold in the highest regard. I really enjoy working with her. We do not think that we need a commissioner. The public servants who currently work for the federal government on first nations affairs can do the work and ensur…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, they do not take the cases of honest Canadians seriously. Let us look at an example that is happening right now in Quebec. A Canadian veteran who pays his taxes had to wait years before getting a proper ruling on the issues that he was having with the Canada Revenue Agency. The CRA owes him $20,000. When was that ruling given? It was handed down on July 17. Nine months …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are understandably outraged to learn that, after 10 years of Liberal governance, the Canada Revenue Agency is sending $5-million cheques to fraudsters without conducting any checks. They are also outraged at the secretary of state's flippant response when he was questioned about this yesterday. Just yesterday in Washington, the minister, the real Minister of Finance and Nati…
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Mr. Speaker, as my colleague from Lac-Saint-Jean said, this is indeed a very high-level debate we are having today. I would like to thank and congratulate my colleague from St. Albert—Sturgeon River, who is always very eloquent when it comes to discussing an issue close to his heart, particularly this one. I probably should not say this, because we are not supposed to mention whether someone is in…
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Mr. Speaker, we thought we had seen it all with the Liberals in charge of the Canada Revenue Agency, but it turns out that things are worse than we thought. Canadian families are struggling to cope with Liberal food inflation. Meanwhile, CBC reported this morning that the Canada Revenue Agency paid out $5 million to a fraudster who filed a bogus return. It paid out $5 million without checking a th…
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Mr. Speaker, [Technical difficulty—Editor] hockey player. The CRA gave a fraudster $5 million. Those people have been mismanaging the CRA for a decade. As a result, if honest folks make a little $100 or $200 mistake on their income, it is the end of the world and the CRA throws the book at them, yet it gives $5 million to a fraudster. I will not stand for the minister hiding behind the fact that h…
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Mr. Speaker, the inflation affecting gas prices is hitting all Canadians, including those who fill up their cars and those who buy goods and products that are transported. This means that it is affecting everyone. We cannot control what happens in Iran. However, we can control what happens here, specifically taxation and Liberal taxes on carbon and gas. We are proposing that they be eliminated thi…
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about this minister's voting record. Let us not forget that, like many others here, he was elected in 2015 on a promise that the Liberals would implement the Liberal carbon tax, which they presented as the best way to help the environment. After insulting us for nine years, they scrapped the Liberal carbon tax. We applaud them for doing the right thing. They already scrapp…
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago, Canadians thought they were getting a new Liberal Prime Minister, but he is just like all the other Liberals we have seen over the past 10 years. Our investments are not doing well. Today, the C.D. Howe Institute is reporting that industrial investments are down: investment per worker is down 25%, investment in buildings is down by 32% and investment in machinery is down b…
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Mr. Speaker, in the last two months, 100,000 Canadians lost their jobs. That is the reality. While the government blames everything on Donald Trump, the reality is that this government could be taking direct action. Instead, what the government is doing for industry is increasing the Liberal industrial carbon tax. That is the truth. When investments go down, taxes go up. That makes no sense. It is…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister was elected a year ago on a promise that he would build the strongest economy in the G7. Here we are one year later, and things are still not on track. In the first two months of this year alone, 100,000 Canadians lost their job. Ours is the only G7 economy that is shrinking. We have had the highest spike in unemployment in the G7 and we have the worst food inflati…
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Mr. Speaker, I have bad news for the government, but especially for Canadians: The Liberals' policies are not working. There are 100,000 Canadians—100,000 men and women, 100,000 families—who have lost their jobs. That is the reality after 10 years of Liberal government and after one year of this new Prime Minister. He claims that this is happening all over the world. If the impacts are being felt …
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome this question from my true friend and colleague from Kingston, because I am living proof that we can run an electric car on a daily basis without subsidies and without mandates. Yes, Conservatives like their electric cars. What we do not like is subsidies, because subsidies will have some movement inside the market. This is why the Liberals decided to take $2.3 billion of ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. I would like to thank him and congratulate him on his remarks. My colleague spoke about the true nature of Quebec. I would nevertheless like to remind him that, over the past year, the province consumed 20 billion litres of oil, which represents an increase of 2.1%. However, that is not the point I wanted to raise. Has my colleague, who d…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague that there is a big difference between a subsidy and a tax cut. A tax cut does not cost other taxpayers anything. When the government provides a subsidy, that means taking $2.3 billion of workers' money, which comes out of the pockets of workers who do not earn millions of dollars a year, and giving it away. The government is deciding who gets the m…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the House that I will be sharing my time with my colleague from Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore. As we begin this debate on the auto industry, my thoughts are with the 475 Paccar workers in Sainte-Thérèse who have lost their jobs over the past few months. That is 475 men and women and 475 families who have been directly affected by the collapse of Canada's auto indus…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to say in English that the member is one of my political heroes. I want to inform this House and the people in Canada from coast to coast that this gentlemen balanced the budget in Quebec. That is great. I hope those who are opposing us now will listen, be very careful and get inspiration from the Liberal member. He is on the wrong team, because it is the team of the deficit. I…
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Mr. Speaker, since my colleague pointed out what said in French, I will repeat it in English. Yes, I am an electric car user. I bought it two and a half years ago. It was a used car, so it was half the price, with no subsidies and no obligation. It answered my needs and it was okay. It is a free market. This is how it works in the real world for people. However, what we have seen is that the gover…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, first and foremost for his passion to fight for Canadian workers in the auto industry. This is a great example that we shall follow each and every time we want to fight for an issue we believe in, as he is doing with auto workers. What we have seen in the last 10 years is that it is only the Liberals who let the car industry crash. In the last year, they did…
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Mr. Speaker, it is so easy to blame the United States. The reality is that Liberal bureaucracy and Liberal taxation are 100% in the hands of this government. It is worth noting that the Prime Minister got elected by saying that the tariffs would be lifted by July 21, that it would be over, but they are still here. We are a long way from elbows up. It is more like thumbs down from the White House. …
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, numbers do not lie, and the employment figures this morning are especially dismal. We learned that 108,000 Canadians lost their jobs in February. The fact is, 108,000 women, men and heads of households are now looking for work. In the private sector, 73,000 jobs were lost in February. This proves that after 10 years of Liberal governance, the Liberals' policies are not …
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources has been in office for a year, but the minister who just answered that question has been here for 10 years. For 10 years, he and his fellow ministers have snubbed Canadian oil. We are now paying the price. All Canadians are paying the price. There is also food inflation. Sadly, Canada, a major G7 country, has the worst foo…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources promised here in the House that Canada would do its part to help release oil reserves in order to stabilize the market. That is a good idea, but we have a bit of a problem: We do not have a strategic oil reserve, in part because for 10 years the fine people facing me right now have shown contempt for Canadian oil. Our party is pr…
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Madam Chair, I want to thank my colleague for always asking relevant questions. I was talking about Irwin Cotler earlier. I know that my colleague knows him well, that Mr. Cotler knows him too, that my colleague has a lot of respect for him and that Mr. Cotler has a lot of respect for him too. Mr. Cotler is currently being targeted by the tyrannical regime of the ayatollahs and by the regime in Te…
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Mr. Speaker, in 2016 in Laval, former mayor Vaillancourt was found guilty of stealing $7 million from the people of Laval. All that money was returned and is back in Laval. Guess what? This Liberal government is now asking the City of Laval to write a cheque for $1 million. Who is it for? It is for Mr. Vaillancourt. That is appalling. Not only were the people of Laval robbed once, but they are bei…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to commend Thomas Gerbet, the Radio-Canada journalist who made the situation public because the mayor of Laval had already spoken to the revenue minister who did nothing. The Minister of National Revenue should have followed the Government of Quebec's example. In 2016, a Quebec finance minister said, “For our government, this is a matter of fairness to the people of Laval who w…
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Madam Chair, we have come together this evening to talk about the war currently in progress in the Middle East. My late father was a Second World War veteran. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour and wounded twice on the battlefield. He always told me that nothing was uglier in life than war. As a small child, I asked my mother, if war is so ugly, why did Dad go? My mother told me that my fa…
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Madam Chair, in Quebec and across Canada, people are wondering where the Prime Minister is. Where is the Prime Minister in this debate? Where is the Prime Minister in this arena that we call the House of Commons? Davos is all well and good. Travelling around the planet is all well and good. Visiting with the leaders of parties and countries is all well and good. This, however, is the reality. The …
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Mr. Chair, pursuant to Standing Order 43(2)(a), I divide all Conservative caucus slots in two.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the leader of the Bloc Québécois for his remarks. They are always well thought out and well explained, with truly inspiring language, although sometimes I do not entirely agree or I really disagree with the leader of the Bloc Québécois. The leader of the Bloc Québécois pointed out that, unfortunately, for some, Davos is not the House of Commons and the House of Commons…
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Madam Chair, absolutely, when diplomacy is done well, it works. It is no coincidence that Canada invented the concept of peacekeepers. However, we cannot rewrite history. We can write it, though. For 47 years, this tyrannical regime has been imposing its abhorrent dictatorship on a nation that does not deserve it. It is time to take action; there are clearly countries that feel directly threatened…
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Mr. Speaker, these are 85,000 people, 85,000 seniors, who are among the most vulnerable in our society. These are people who live off their old age pension, and the minister knows it. Unfortunately, that minister said that the program is a success, and 85,000 people are still waiting. He said that it was just a few cases, but it is 85,000 people that are hurting. Why is the minister being so arrog…
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Mr. Speaker, any time the Liberal government touches a major IT system, it is a disaster. Let me remind the House what happened with ArriveCAN. It was supposed to cost $80,000 and ended up costing $59.5 million. Now, with Cúram, the cost has ballooned from $1.6 billion to $6.6 billion. That is $5 billion more, and $5 billion down the drain. That is what the Liberals do. Why are the Liberals incapa…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for my colleague and he knows that very well. First, he is an example of an immigration success story, just like my parents. Second, for me, he is a hero of government finances in Quebec because he was the last minister to balance the budget. I hope he draws inspiration from his experiences when it comes to doing what needs to be done at the federal level. The …
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