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Madam Speaker, the economists at the International Energy Agency have not said that. The economists at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have not said that. All economists are saying something: We have to take our time. Where was the gag order in the Conservatives' platform and the Liberals' platform? Where in both of those parties' platforms was the idea of muzzling Parli…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals were so afraid of losing their seats over the past few months, before the new Prime Minister came along, that they fell prey to a cult of personality. Now no one dares challenge this Prime Minister, who appeared like a saviour and says he is going to cut taxes, but will not say how he is going to pay for it, and this is after presenting a completely flawed economic and …
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Mr. Speaker, I am not surprised that the minister is so fond of his own bill because it would give excessive power to him personally. The minister will be able to designate projects as being in the national interest, hold non-binding consultations and have the federal government adopt environmental standards. Nothing would prevent the federal government from adopting the lowest environmental stand…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague put it very well: Essentially, the bill requires the entire country to blindly trust a minister who will not be bound in any way by environmental assessments. I recall the fairly recent Bay du Nord project, which received unfavourable environmental assessments. In the end, even the environment minister at the time, who is now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture,…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister, whom I hold in high regard, knows full well that Canadians were not paying the carbon tax when they got their cheques. The Prime Minister himself confirmed that he had eliminated the carbon tax on April 1 but that he had nevertheless issued the quarterly cheque for the period from April to June at the end of the month. If tax revenues were not used to cover those cheques…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish to raise a question of privilege. Yesterday, during consideration of the main estimates in committee of the whole, the Minister of Finance and National Revenue deliberately misled the House when he answered one of my questions. I asked him several times whether he acknowledged that the Canada carbon rebate cheques that were issued by the federal government in the middle of the …
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Mr. Speaker, six days before the election, the Prime Minister sent out cheques, paid for by Quebeckers, to almost everyone in Canada except Quebeckers. The Quebec National Assembly was unanimous: The Liberals need to reimburse us now. Quebeckers are also suffering due to the cost of living. They should not have to hand over $450 to families in Alberta or $300 to Ontarians in the form of fake carbo…
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Madam Chair, I got an answer. I will mark my calendar. Can the minister confirm which level of government in the U.K. is responsible for education?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his eloquent speech. It was very good. During the last Parliament, the Bloc Québécois held opposition days on issues we consider important, such as Bill 21, secularism, the oath to the King and the monarchy. Each and every time, the Conservatives stood up and asked us why we were not talking about the real issues. They spoke about the cost of living, how much …
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us by how much the government is going to reduce spending on civil servants compared to what was expected? By how much is it going to increase spending on consultants?
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Mr. Speaker, I am surprised by the comments of my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk. We should ask him how many Bloc Québécois seats he thinks it takes to make cheating morally acceptable. I sense some moral ambiguity in my colleague's questions now. I have a question for my colleague from Rivière-du-Nord. We know that the Liberals do not want to pay. Usually, we would expect the rea…
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Mr. Speaker, in addition to greeting you, I would like to take this opportunity to say that I will be sharing my time with the member for Rivière-du-Nord. I listened to the previous member give a speech that was completely off topic for all 10 minutes. I was wondering how to start. I went to the dictionary and looked up the word “cheat”. That is a strong word. It is important to define it. It is d…
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Mr. Speaker, the issue is not that Quebec did not participate. It is that the Liberals created a war room, thought about how they could buy votes, and decided to write cheques to eight provinces. I find it interesting how the member for Winnipeg North phrased his question. He spent the day in the House telling everyone that people had budgeted for this rebate and that they should be treated with r…
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, the member has been given time but the motion concerns a specific topic. My colleague is completely off topic. I would like to know if she is going to shift direction and talk about the motion we are debating today.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague, whom I hold in high regard, said something important in his opening remarks. He said that he does not always agree with the Bloc Québécois. We do not have to agree on everything. However, we must agree that there are facts, things that can be verified as true. Then we can disagree on which policy is the right one. For the purposes of this debate, the Liberals believe tha…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are making an effort when it comes to the environment and the transition, but the rest of Canada has decided to stop trying. I think that is obvious. Now, in this debate, people have made the mistake of thinking that the April 1 cheque that was sent to eight provinces was in some way related to the carbon tax in those eight provinces, even though it no longer existed, or th…
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Mr. Speaker, with your permission, I request a recorded division.
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Madam Chair, I salute my colleagues in the official opposition. I also want to salute the minister. We did not have a chance to talk, and we were not supposed to. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election. In early January, the incentive program for zero-emission vehicles was suspended. We were told that there was a lack of funding. People in Quebec who bought an el…
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Madam Chair, does the minister remember the commitment that he made to dealers to provide the necessary funds to reimburse these amounts?
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Madam Chair, has the minister provided the funds to reimburse these people?
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Madam Chair, he was unable to secure the funding that he promised. Does the minister believe that he owes money to these dealers?
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Madam Chair, with regard to carbon pricing, eight provinces had a federal tax. Does the minister acknowledge that cheques to individuals and families were sent out before the tax was collected?
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Madam Chair, the member for Mirabel has enough experience to know that the minister is playing for time. Can the minister tell us whether the cheques were sent out before the tax was collected?
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Madam Chair, 70% of electric vehicles in Canada are sold in Quebec. Does the minister acknowledge this statistic?
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Madam Chair, the minister does not have enough respect for the member for Mirabel to answer the question. Perhaps he does not know his file. Were the cheques sent out before the tax was collected?
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Madam Chair, with all due respect, I think that is what the minister is presuming. Were these carbon tax rebate cheques that were sent out in the middle of an election to buy votes in eight provinces delivered without the tax that funded them being collected?
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Madam Chair, it took a lot of energy to get the opposite of the truth. I thank the minister. He is very good at that. When the minister does the accounting reform, he is going to separate the capital and operating accounts. What part of the budget is he going to exclude from the calculation of the operating deficit?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us by how much consultants' fees are increasing, in the estimates?
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Madam Chair, the minister told us that this type of accounting is used in the United Kingdom. I would like him to confirm that.
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Madam Chair, I am a very humble man. I insist. Could the minister add anything to my knowledge?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us how much of the unreimbursed funds are owed to Quebeckers?
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Madam Chair, so says the person who confirmed it earlier. Could the minister tell us what percentage of public capital held by governments in Canada is held by the federal government?
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Madam Chair, it is approximately 4%. I do not think the minister has the numbers at hand. We will do him a favour. Can the minister tell us which level of government in the United Kingdom manages hospitals?
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Madam Chair, are we to understand that once the accounting is reformed, and we are told that the model is the United Kingdom, a country that has a different model of government than ours, all the transfers to the provinces will count as operating expenses instead of capital expenses?
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Madam Chair, I would like the minister to tell me whether he needs a parliamentary committee to provide me with the value of the tax expenditure associated with these tax credits. Is he able to obtain that figure for us?
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Madam Chair, the minister's problem is that he is reaching out instead of providing figures. I am asking him for the value of a tax credit. How much do Canadians pay annually in tax credits, in money that goes directly to American web giants like GAFAM that contribute to disinformation in our democracy?
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Madam Speaker, indeed, we look forward to having a budget. We have said that several times. Does the minister agree that if health transfers are counted as operating expenses, the transfers to the provinces will artificially run up the deficit?
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Madam Chair, do the estimates account for the government's election campaign promise to reduce the size of the public service?
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Madam Chair, I will ask the question again. I would just like to know how much of an increase there is with respect to the planned expenditures on consultants.
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Madam Chair, the Income Tax Act has been under the minister's purview since the early 1960s. The Income Tax Act provides that Canadian advertising expenses incurred in foreign media are not deductible for income tax purposes. However, the act is extremely outdated. Today, we have companies that are deducting costs incurred for advertising with foreign web giants, specifically the big American grou…
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Madam Chair, what the minister is saying would be true if, during the election campaign, the government had not included $20 billion from retaliatory tariffs against the United States in its financial platform to fund operating expenses. The “Fiscal Monitor” shows us that, as of March, $600 million in retaliatory measures against U.S. tariffs had been collected. If we multiply that by 12, it is ju…
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Madam Chair, can the minister confirm for me that the Liberal campaign platform proposed to use this $20 billion for operating expenses, not for ad hoc programs to help workers and businesses?
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Madam Chair, the minister says it is false that a large part of the retaliatory measures against the U.S. tariffs have been suspended. Contrary to what Oxford Economics says, the Department of Finance has not submitted any documents and there is no evidence to support its claim. Does the minister think that publicly squabbling with consulting firms that are trying to help their clients contributes…
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Madam Chair, I would like to point out that since 2018, approximately 40 daily newspapers, 400 community newspapers, 42 radio stations and 11 television stations have disappeared in Canada. Their revenues have partly gone to web giants like GAFAM. The government has done nothing and has ignored the industry's demands. I would like to know how much this tax expenditure costs the government every ye…
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Madam Chair, I would like to know how much revenue will be collected as a result of the retaliatory tariffs against the United States during the current fiscal year, the government's fiscal year.
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Mr. Speaker, what we are hearing from the government benches is that negotiations are progressing and that there may even be direct negotiations going on between the Prime Minister and President Trump. However, in Canada, there is a total lack of transparency when it comes to trade negotiations. Agreements are negotiated behind closed doors. Parliament does not even get to vote on the substance, o…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his election. In fact, in another life, he was my own city councillor. That said, my colleague argues that it is not at all customary for a government to get elected, open Parliament and immediately table a budget. He may be right about not tabling an entire budget, but it is customary to table an economic statement. It is customary to give information t…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to say how proud I am of the awards received by the City of Mirabel and the mayor of Sainte‑Marthe‑sur‑le‑Lac at the 2025 Municipal Conference of the Union des municipalités du Québec, or UMQ. First, there is the Ovation municipale award in the climate future category in recognition of the ingenuity and creativity behind the work to reduce the ecological footprint of the …
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Mr. Speaker, the $9 billion in spending is in addition to the $26 billion over five years in tax cuts. Add to that the $4 billion for the GST exemption for new homes. All that is in addition to the $38 billion more in appropriations for the cost of the federal government. That alone is more than Quebec's total annual health care budget. The Liberals are asking us to support it without a budget bei…
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Mr. Speaker, although my colleague's speech was very interesting and very good, I would like to address two things that she said. First, she mentioned that old refrain from the election campaign, specifically “think big, be Canadian”. In other words, Canada has to be “big”. The President of the United States is a bad guy, and the situation is urgent. Then my colleague regurgitated all the old meas…
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