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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question, but he just revealed that he did not really listen to my speech, because I did talk about minorities. Quebec is a plurinational state. The charter is supposed to defend minorities against the dictatorship of the majority, except for the Quebec national minority. I do not think Quebeckers are the majority in Canada. He cannot dispute that. We are …
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, we never said that. We are all Quebeckers. I agree that diversity of opinion exists among Quebeckers. However, because a lot of Liberals were elected, they sometimes say that they represent Quebeckers. When the 1982 Constitution was introduced, only one Liberal member from Quebec voted against it. It was Mr. Duclos, who subsequently resigned. Furthermore, no Quebec gover…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague. Why does he think that no government in Quebec has ever signed the Constitution Act, 1982 and its draft charter?
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleague that one of the very first Black members to sit in the House was elected under the Bloc Québécois banner. That said, one of the challenges we face today is the increasing anglicization of Montreal, a phenomenon caused in large part by Montreal's municipal government. It makes things difficult for us. I am the only Bloc Québécois MP on the island of Montreal…
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Mr. Speaker, I would describe the Conservatives' motion as kicking down an open door. They are proposing that Canada repeal a cap that does not exist. I would like my colleague to tell us a little more about this. Earlier, a Liberal colleague said that greenhouse gas emissions are down 9%. Is that true? I have the impression that they are plateauing, that they are not falling enough.
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Mr. Speaker, despite all the Liberals' promises and good intentions, pretty much all experts agree that Canada is not meeting its greenhouse gas reduction targets. Year after year, the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development keeps challenging the government's action on climate change and confirming that it is failing. Year after year, the conclusion is the same. We are witnessi…
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Mr. Speaker, I see a contradiction in what my colleague said. We have heard many people here say that oil can be decarbonized, that there could be green oil or that we could find a way to make oil less polluting. Now some people are saying that lowering the emissions cap means reducing production, so they are admitting that that it is not true. There is no such thing as green oil. Oil inevitably l…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the Conservative leader for his speech. I would like to know what he thinks is behind the increase in forest fires, floods, climate disasters and global warming. Does he believe that there is a climate emergency?
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Madam Speaker, I commend my colleague and congratulate him on his speech. There are cases where the law seems unfair. For example, Canadian citizens who go to a foreign country for work and have a child there have to reapply for citizenship for the child when they return. If that child then leaves the country, they will also have a hard time obtaining citizenship for their child. Can the member gi…
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Madam Speaker, I think there are some very good things in this bill that will correct some injustices. I am sure other changes need to be made too. The Citizenship Act as a whole is very confusing. Does my colleague agree that the Citizenship Act is in need of a complete overhaul?
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Madam Speaker, I commend the member on her speech. Earlier, one of her colleagues spoke about language issues. Given that Quebec is a nation, a bill has already been introduced to make a knowledge of French a requirement for obtaining citizenship in Quebec. I would like to know what my colleague thinks about that.
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With regard to the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office: what is the proportion of the federal public service whose first official language spoken is English or French among (i) the general public service, (ii) deputy and associate deputy ministers, (iii) positions at the EX-03, EX-04 and EX-05 executive levels, based on the most recent data available, indicating the date in eac…
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With regard to the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office: how many unilingual English-speaking positions not requiring knowledge of French, unilingual French-speaking positions and bilingual positions exist in the federal public service, in Quebec, specifying the institution (department, branch, board, organization, agency, corporation, Canada Post, Royal Canadian Mounted Police,…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that transportation accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions and that oil development and mining operations generate 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. Does my colleague believe that climate change is real and that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? If so, how would he go about it?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals seem to want to pick up where the Conservatives left off and abandon the fight against climate change. Their EV incentive program was discontinued well before the deadline, causing challenges for dealers who wanted to meet the zero-emission vehicle standard. Some dealers advanced as much as $11 million to pay for federal subsidies, but they did not receive the expected pa…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently, the Conservatives are in favour of free choice. They are against EV subsidies and the incentive program for zero-emission vehicles. If we apply their reasoning around free choice, oil companies that want to keep operating and polluting should receive no government subsidies. Does my colleague agree that the federal government should provide no subsidies, whether direct or …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to know what my colleague thinks about the fact that the oil and gas industry causes an increase in greenhouse gases. Does my colleague agree that we need to find a way to transition away from the oil economy to one that is more reliant on renewable energy?
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Madam Speaker, sooner or later, we are going to have to limit greenhouse gas emissions and the use of gas-powered vehicles. Sooner or later, we are going to have encourage the use of electric vehicles. Does my friend think that the federal government should bring back the electric vehicle incentives?
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Madam Speaker, I would like to know what my colleague thinks about greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Does she think that electric vehicles are better for the environment than gas-powered vehicles?
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Mr. President, my colleague said that the government presented its platform during the election. However, nowhere in the platform does it say that it would claim unprecedented power, the power to govern by decree. For example, section 21 allows any proponent to circumvent any and all laws. We heard our Conservative colleagues talk about GC Strategies and ArriveCAN. Moreover, the government is tryi…
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Mr. Speaker, my Liberal colleague is saying that this is written in the Liberal platform and that it is necessary. What is actually necessary is to not impose a gag order and circumvent Parliament. It reminds me of the saying that the ends justify the means. If the ends justify the means, then anything is justified, including violence and breaking the law. This government says it is going to consu…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his speech. For several weeks now, we have heard the Conservatives criticize the Liberals on ArriveCAN and GC Strategies and question their ethics. This legislation will really give the Liberals superpowers, allowing them to shield their developer friends from the law. Proposed section 21 will allow them to exempt developers from ethics laws, the Canada …
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Madam Speaker, I commend my colleague for his speech. I want to pick up on what my colleague from Repentigny was saying. The Liberals did away with the carbon tax and their measures to fight climate change. However, during the election campaign, they promised to increase the carbon tax for big industry. However, there is nothing about that in this bill. Do they intend to do something, particularly…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his speech. We agree in principle with a tax cut and eliminating the GST on new homes. That said, it brings the spending up to about $30 billion. The problem is that there is no budget. We do not know where that money is going to come from. Will it come from a reduction in health transfers? Is the government going to abandon the measures to compensate wo…
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Mr. Speaker, we obviously agree that industrial carbon pricing should be maintained, because it is very important. However, my colleague missed the point. In this case, the Liberals decided to hand out election goodies for electoral purposes, as they tend to do. In this case, we are talking about a total of $3.7 billion taken from government funds. Quebec taxpayers ended up paying for the Liberals…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague. Canadian citizens stopped paying the carbon tax as of April 1, which means that their rebates were just vote-getting handouts. Earlier, one of my fellow MPs from Quebec said that no one in Quebec asked to be reimbursed, but he is unaware that there has been a lot of talk about this situation in the media. The Quebec National Assembly even voted unanimously i…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the House that I will be sharing my time with the member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue. The subject of today's Bloc Québécois motion is a good example of the injustices that Quebec is subjected to because we are a distinct nation governed by another nation. For example, the federal language policy uses our tax dollars and its overriding legislative power to impose t…
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Mr. Speaker, in fact, we take the opposite view. The carbon tax should not have been eliminated. It should have been maintained. We shall see what happens with industrial carbon pricing. There was nothing about it in the Liberals' recent bill, but we hope that something will be done. In all honesty, if the industrial tax is not maintained or even increased, that will hinder our trade diversificati…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his speech. Throughout the election campaign, the Prime Minister talked about Donald Trump and the disaster that was coming. Now the Liberals are putting forward measures without presenting a budget, which makes no sense. We completely agree on that. It is even more troubling because the fiscal framework the Liberals presented during the election campaig…
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Mr. Speaker, we agree with the Conservatives that committing that much money without tabling a budget does not make sense. The Bloc Québécois commissioned a study from the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine. We wanted to see if food inflation is tied to the carbon tax. The answer we got is that it is not tied to the carbon tax, or at least not in any significant way. However, it is ti…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his speech. He said that the Liberal government has failed seniors, and I think he is absolutely right. The Liberals increased the pension amount by 10% only for seniors aged 75 and over, so the Bloc Québécois introduced a bill to also increase the pension amount for seniors aged 65 to 74. Members supported that bill through almost every stage of the pro…
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Mr. Speaker, I heard my colleague talk about safety and crime. I would like his opinion on the possibility of creating a registry of criminal organizations, restoring minimum sentences for gun crimes and prohibiting community-based sentences for violent sexual offences.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on her speech. She said that the issue of the French language is important to her. I would like to know what she thinks of the fact that her government's official languages policy only supports English in Quebec. For example, roughly $100 million is invested every year in official languages support programs and it does nothing but finance the development of…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank my constituents in La Pointe-de-l'Île for electing me to a fourth term. This is my first speech in this Parliament. There is nothing in the throne speech about unemployment or workers. Will there be measures to improve employment insurance? Will there be measures to support workers grappling with the problems caused by Mr. Trump's tariff threats?
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Mr. Speaker, for over a month now, the Conservatives have brought government to a standstill to talk about contempt of Parliament, specifically the fact that the government refuses to hand over the documents requested by Parliament. They have used this time to give all kinds of examples of Liberal corruption. However, we know that corruption and this kind of phenomenon of contempt of Parliament ex…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the excellent work being done by the Association pour les victimes de l'amiante du Québec, or AVAQ, the Quebec association for asbestos victims. Some members of the association, which is headquartered in my riding of La Pointe-de-l'Île, are here today. The AVAQ has mapped more than 3,700 public buildings containing asbestos, including many federal government …
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are paralyzing the government to denounce its refusal to hand over certain documents and to denounce corruption. I would like to know if my colleague could talk about any measures the Conservatives are planning on taking to fight corruption and improve government transparency.
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Madam Speaker, essentially, that is a way for the Conservatives to pass the cost on to the provinces and to Quebec. With $18 billion in projected housing starts, the same amount it will cost the government in taxes could help build roughly 20,000 social housing units. I would like to know what my colleague thinks about that.
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Mr. Speaker, I asked another Conservative colleague a question earlier. I wanted to know what she thought about the Bloc Québécois's bill that seeks to do away with the religious exemption for hate speech. She responded that censorship is not going to solve the problem. Does that mean that, under a Conservative government, hate speech will be allowed for everyone or will the Conservatives just con…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois has also condemned the acts of violence that occurred during Friday's protests. I would like to know what my colleague thinks about the Bloc Québécois's bill that seeks to do away with the religious exemption for hate speech. For example, criminal charges cannot be laid if religious-based incitement to hatred or hate speech occurs as part of a protest like the one w…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to pay tribute to Francine Lalonde, after whom the Pointe‑aux‑Trembles lookout was recently named. Francine Lalonde was the first female vice-president of the CSN trade union federation and served as minister of the status of women under René Lévesque. From 1993 to 2011, she was the Bloc Québécois MP for La Pointe‑de‑l'Île. As the foreign affairs critic, she advocated for Quebe…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the memory of former slaves who became soldiers during the Battle of Vertières in 1803. This was a major event in the history of the resistance to colonial oppression, yet it has never been mentioned in the House. On November 18, 1803, the Battle of Vertières in northern Haiti dealt the final blow to Napoleon Bonaparte's army. It was the last battle of the Haitian Rev…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are making a lot of accusations of corruption. We agree with them on the motion. However, when they were in government, they were also routinely criticized for corruption, influence peddling and so on. I would like to know if a Conservative government will come up with ways to reduce or eliminate corruption.
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Madam Speaker, I have the honour of presenting petition e-5054, which has been signed by 228 citizens of my riding to signify their support for the Bloc Québécois's Bill C-319, an act to amend the Old Age Security Act. The citizens are calling on the government to provide a royal recommendation for Bill C‑319 in order to increase OAS by 10% for people aged 65 to 74 and to raise the maximum amount …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would seek unanimous consent to present the Bloc Québécois's dissenting opinion.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to say that the Bloc Québécois will be presenting a dissenting opinion. More importantly, I want Quebeckers to know that all of the recommendations in this report are aimed exclusively at supporting the economic development of English-speaking Quebec. That is really unfair and appalling. We know that the English-speaking community is growing and developing and that it is highly…
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Madam Speaker, I asked the question a few times and so far, I have had no answer. My colleague talks a lot about the Liberals and their corruption. However, examples of corruption involving Conservative governments also exist. Does my colleague have any ideas on ways to prevent this kind of corruption?
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Madam Speaker, the Conservatives talk a lot about Liberal corruption, but there was also a lot of corruption when they were in office. There is an old saying that “opportunity makes the thief”. Often, corruption occurs because the system allows that to happen. I would like to know what the Conservatives are committed to doing to eliminate corruption.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague talked about it at length. Whistle-blowers started speaking up back in 2022, but it took quite a while for things to get to this point. Given everything he studied, does he see any way to make the process more efficient and enable a faster response in the future? Does he see any way to prevent this type of situation from happening again?
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