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Madam Speaker, I listened to the speech given by my colleague, and he had a lot to say about his riding of Bourassa. He carefully avoided mentioning the people in Bourassa who cannot pay their bills at the end of the month. He avoided mentioning the 600,000 Quebeckers who are lining up at food banks every month because they cannot put enough food on the table to feed their families. I understand t…
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Madam Speaker, I think that for the rest of my speech, there will be a little less applause from one side of the House. This Liberal Prime Minister is going to be remembered as the leader of the most expensive government in Canadian history. Every dollar he spends and every dollar he says he is going to spend in his budget, which forecasts a $78-billion deficit, has to come from somewhere. It come…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a budget that will make this Liberal Prime Minister go down in history as the most costly head of state Canada has ever seen. I would like to remind him of something important: Every dollar he spends comes directly out of the pocket of a Canadian who worked hard to earn it. He promised to spend less. His deficit is going to be nearly $80 billion. It is not for nothing that today…
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Mr. Speaker, this costly Liberal budget will drive up the price of food, housing and everything else Canadians need. The Prime Minister says Canada is in a strong fiscal position. If that is so, why are families struggling to make ends meet? Why is home ownership virtually impossible for young people? Why are 2.2 million Canadians lining up at food banks every month? This is not a strong position,…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a costly budget that is going to make life even more expensive for Canadian families. Yesterday, the Prime Minister presented a budget that will cement his memory in history as the nation's biggest-spending Prime Minister ever. That is a deficit of almost $80 billion. He promised to spend less, yet he is spending $90 billion more. That amounts to $5,400 per family coming direc…
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Mr. Speaker, every time the Liberal government spends $1, $1 comes out of a Canadian's pocket because of higher taxes and Liberal inflation. Piling hidden taxes on families who are struggling to put food on the table is the height of Liberal hypocrisy. Yes, it is a hidden tax. Canadians are forking over $5.6 billion because of a change to food packaging rules. Instead of tabling a costly budget th…
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing imaginary about mothers not having enough money to buy the milk, cheese and meat they need to feed their children. For example, the industrial carbon tax costs them up to $1,000 a year of very real money. While they wonder how they are going to pay for their groceries, the Prime Minister is trying to engineer a costly election with a costly budget. Why does he not thi…
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Madam Speaker, even with a new Prime Minister, after 10 years of this Liberal government, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Liberal insider friends continue to line their pockets with millions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of Quebeckers and Canadians are going hungry. Why is the Prime Minister giving executives at Export Development Canada, Via Rail and the Business De…
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Madam Speaker, it is Halloween. Will the government leader stop trying to scare Canadians? What Canadians need for Christmas is an affordable budget for an affordable life. It is this government's responsibility to deliver that budget. While the government leader is making jokes, the 2024–2025 Nutritious and Affordable Food Basket Report says that products such as meat, fish, cheese and yogurt are…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. If you seek it, I believe you will find the unanimous consent of the House to adopt this motion. That, in relation to its study on the development of critical minerals in Canada, three members of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources be authorized to travel to Sudbury, Ontario; Saguenay, Quebec; Montréal, Quebec; and Québec, Quebec, in the Fall of 202…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have been in power for 10 years and now more than 600,000 Quebeckers are using food banks every month, while the Prime Minister's friends are lining their pockets. Last week, the Prime Minister had the nerve to tell our young people that they need to make sacrifices, while the executives at BDC and the CMHC are getting tens of millions of dollars in bonuses. Imagine: The …
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Mr. Speaker, members on the other side of the House seem unable to grasp the reality facing ordinary Canadians. As I said, 600,000 people in Quebec are using food banks. Meanwhile, rents are doubling in every region of the province, and grocery prices just keep going up. On the weekend, Le Journal de Montréal reported that pregnant women are now cutting back on protein and vegetables. People can n…
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Mr. Speaker, “Montreal ravaged by hunger” headlines La Presse. Food Banks Canada's HungerCount 2025 paints a bleak picture of the state of Canadian families' finances after 10 years of Liberal government. Across Quebec, nearly 600,000 people receive help each month from food assistance organizations. Across Canada, more than two million people a month use food banks. The trend has accelerated afte…
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Mr. Speaker, this government is not creating a bulwark against inflation. It is creating inflation. It is forcing Canadians to turn to food banks. There is a reason why Food Banks Canada's 2025 HungerCount report is called “Food Banks as a Lifeline: Canada's New Normal”. The new normal in Canada involves relying on food banks. That is the new normal under these Liberals. In fact, 20% of food bank …
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Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. I heard him mention that he is new to the House. Since this government came to power, many bills have been introduced. In my speech yesterday, I called this a pothole repair operation. It is like the government is going around trying to fix potholes all over the place. For 10 years, the Liberals created holes everywhere and caused all s…
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Madam Speaker, before I begin my speech, I want to take a moment to thank Divya Dey, who is participating in the parliamentary internship program and who gave me the great privilege of choosing me for her first stint with a member of the House of Commons. She is a brilliant and dynamic young woman from the Greater Toronto Area who speaks excellent French and who chose a member from a rural region …
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Madam Speaker, is the House familiar with the concept of a pyromaniac firefighter? Essentially, it is when a person starts a fire and then sits by the phone waiting for a call to come in saying that there is a fire for them to go put out. The person causes problems and then tries to pretend to fix the problems that they themselves caused. The Liberals say that a new Prime Minister means a new appr…
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Madam Speaker, I think that my colleague is still a bit confused. He mixed up the Liberals and the Conservatives, and I think his statements are still a bit muddled. As I see things, it was the Liberal government that lowered the thresholds. When they were lowered from 30 to 20 and from 20 to 10 overnight, without any warning to businesses, families or workers that this was coming, that was a Libe…
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Madam Speaker, I can just say one thing: Canada will always be a country that is open to refugees who are truly in need. For refugees fleeing war and hardship, Canada will be open. However, sending a tweet inviting the whole world to come settle in Canada and then forgetting about these people is unacceptable, immoral and, dare I say, heartless.
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to translate what he just said. He is talking about generational investments. These are investments that will borrow from future generations of young Canadians. For 10 years, the Liberals have been promising that their deficits are attracting more investments to Canada. The Minister of Finance is keeping all the deficit spending policies that have driven many Canadians to use…
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government was elected exactly 10 years ago on one specific promise, namely that it would run small deficits and return to a balanced budget during its first term. That promise was supposed to generate investment here in Canada. What remains of that promise 10 years later? The Liberal debt has doubled, and Canada has the worst economic growth per capita in the G7. Will th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals do not want to talk about the $1 trillion. That is how much money the Prime Minister promised President Trump that Canada would invest in the United States over the next five years. What did the Prime Minister get in return for that promise? He got a free meal at the White House. That is the result. Our workers are going to lose their jobs because their companies are goin…
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Mr. Speaker, we want a country where pension funds are looking to invest their money here in Canada to create jobs here in Canada, rather than doing what the Liberals are doing and sending $1 trillion to the United States over the next five years, which will cost us jobs. The Prime Minister came back empty-handed. I am not the one saying that; it is coming from The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Le So…
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Mr. Speaker, the wait is over. Tomorrow will be a big day for the Liberal Prime Minister. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will finally keep his promise to “negotiate a win” for Canada. Tomorrow, tariffs on steel, aluminum, automobiles and softwood lumber will come down, because that is what the Prime Minister promised. The Prime Minister was encouraged to keep his promise to negotiate a win with the …
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Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about Liberal clarity on the economy. On the one hand, the Liberals claim that the collapse of Canada's economy, the worst performing in the G7, is due to tariffs. On the other hand, they say they have reached an excellent agreement on tariffs. What do the real numbers say? They say that the deficit has doubled, that Canada is the G7 economy with the sharpest contractio…
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Mr. Speaker, what gift do seniors get after 10 years under the Liberal regime? They get a damning report published on National Seniors Day that shows one in three seniors is financially supporting adult children or grandchildren. Sixty-seven per cent have to help their families meet their daily expenses. That is 12% more than last year. Because of higher Liberal taxes and inflation, every dollar t…
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Madam Speaker, I encourage the minister to read the newspapers. This morning, Le Devoir had this to say: “The [public safety] minister just proved in spectacular fashion that he is not up to the job”. The comments coming out of the office of the Solicitor General of Ontario are scathing. It says that the gun buyback program does nothing to address the root causes of gun violence in our communities…
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Madam Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety demonstrated this week that he is a Liberal through and through. He said one thing in private and did the opposite in public. In a shocking recording made without his knowledge, the minister admits that the gun buyback program is not worth the money being spent on it, that it is not an effective way to fight crime and that it is designed to score politi…
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Madam Speaker, I forgot to mention that I will be sharing my speaking time with the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. One thing is very clear. I am explaining why the Prime Minister is trying to divert attention from the real issues affecting Canadians, issues that impact people's daily lives. That is the reality, and it is not for nothing that the preamble states that the government will not touch Bi…
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Madam Speaker, I will never put up with being told that I am not defending the interests of my province, the interests of the people back home and my constituents. That is not true. When I talk about the mother who cannot afford to buy lunch for her children, when I talk about seniors who are forced to make tough choices, I am defending Quebeckers who are struggling after 10 years of this Liberal …
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Madam Speaker, I wonder if the member knows that the Liberal government has been engaging in cover-ups for years. What I would like to know is whether the member and all other members of the Liberal Party agree that the government is leading us in a totally unacceptable direction due to the out-of-control debt, the inflation crisis and the crime crisis.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to know if my colleague supports his Prime Minister's cover-ups, because for the last 10 years, we have seen a government—
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Madam Speaker, I think that one of the major crises that the Liberals are currently trying to cover up and sweep under the rug by sowing division and trying to further divide Canadians is the debt crisis. I heard the finance minister say that this budget will be a generational investment. Just imagine a budget with the kind of spending that even Justin Trudeau would not have thought possible. I wo…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I was not asking a question, I was making a comment. Had you let me finish, you would have realized that I was actually about to make a comment.
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Madam Speaker, it has indeed been their MO for 10 years now. Sometimes the Liberals accidentally tell the truth. We saw that this past week with the Minister of Public Safety. It is coming back to haunt him now. I must say that, unfortunately, when there are moments of lucidity like that, it is purely accidental. The Liberals usually want to cover things up and make sure the crises that they are g…
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Madam Speaker, I will begin by reading an excerpt from the Attorney General of Canada's factum in the case we are discussing today. The following excerpt is taken from the first paragraph: In accordance with his role as intervener, the Attorney General of Canada takes no position, on any basis whatsoever, on the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Act respecting the laicity of the Sta…
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Madam Speaker, there is clearly a connection. This Liberal Prime Minister made a lot of promises to Canadians. Now he is trying to further divide Canadians to avoid being held to account. The factum that was submitted to the Supreme Court is yet another attempt to divide Canadians, to pit them against each other so they forget about all the crises and the many promises this Prime Minister made to …
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Madam Speaker, the federal government's intervention is clear: “the Attorney General of Canada takes no position, on any basis whatsoever, on the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Act respecting the laicity of the State.” This is the position that the government took before the Supreme Court to avoid addressing the real issues affecting Canadians. It wants to create a constitutional…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-231, An Act to amend the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Mr. Speaker, it is with a great deal of emotion that I rise today with the support of my wife, Caro, who is at home, to introduce my first bill, the friends of David bill. This bill aims to help teenagers who are struggling with addiction at a very young age to access treatment programs so that they can get he…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister promised to cap government spending, but he is doubling the deficit. This is another broken promise, another Liberal bait and switch. Yesterday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a scathing indictment of the latest Liberal Prime Minister's first six months in office. “The deficit will absolutely be higher”, he said. “I don't know that the government cu…
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Mr. Speaker, do my colleagues know what the Parliamentary Budget Officer said about November 4? The Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that the deficit is going to be a lot higher. Reports indicate that it could reach as high as $100 billion. Canadians know that massive Liberal deficits fuel inflation. They are the ones paying the price at the grocery store. Food inflation is 70% higher th…
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Mr. Speaker, on the day his cabinet was sworn in, the Liberal Prime Minister said that Canadians would judge him by the cost of groceries. Let us take a look at the results of this Liberal regime: Food inflation is now 70% higher than the inflation target, families are paying more, children are eating less, and this is just another broken promise from the Liberals. Does the Prime Minister admit th…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a message for David's friends. David was our first child, mine and Caro's first child. He had a heart as big as the sky, and we were so proud of him. As a big brother, he was protective toward his two sisters, Marie-Soleil and Justine. He was a boy who never held back from saying “I love you” to his parents. David was also a young man who tried marijuana one day with his friend…
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Mr. Speaker, are the Liberals ashamed that their Prime Minister has not kept his promise to make groceries more affordable? Statistics Canada has revealed that, since this Liberal Prime Minister came to power, the price of stewing beef increased by 22% from March to June, the price of potatoes went up by 20% and the price of onions by 11%. Even the folk singer La Bolduc would no longer be able to …
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With regard to the $247,485 announced for Island Telecom Services Inc. to connect 106 households in Prince Edward Island with high-speed internet: (a) on what date is this project expected to be completed; (b) why was the funding recipient unable to complete this project by the original prescribed project completion date; (c) were there any penalties given to the funding recipient for not meeting …
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With regard to the $445,395 announced for Island Telecom Services Inc. to connect 150 households in Prince Edward Island with high-speed internet: (a) on what date is this project expected to be completed; (b) why was the funding recipient unable to complete this project by the original prescribed project completion date; (c) were there any penalties given to the funding recipient for not meeting …
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With regard to government spending related to the Lac-Mégantic Rail Bypass project: (a) how much has been spent to date by the government on the project, in total and broken down by type of expense; (b) how much is expected to be spent in the future, from the present until the completion of the project, in total and broken down by type of expense; (c) what are the complete expected expenditures of…
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With regard to the government's Net Zero Accelerator initiative: (a) how many emissions have been directly reduced by the program to date, if any; (b) does the government measure the direct emission reductions from each contribution agreement, and, if not, why not; and (c) how many emissions have been directly reduced by the program to date, broken down by contribution agreement recipient?
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear, I think it goes without saying that we do not share the same opinion on this issue. We understand the Bloc Québécois does not want projects to be fast-tracked, particularly projects allowing for a global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, liquefied natural gas projects and pipelines. There is one thing, however, on which I agree with my colleague, and that is the lack…
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