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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Kildonan—St. Paul. We have in front of us today a motion. The House of Commons is calling upon the federal government to table a plan to lift all federal mandates and restrictions. What I want to do with my time today is outline why I believe the initial rationale for restrictions is perhaps no longer particularly pertinent and that ther…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it unfortunate that my colleague will not commit to coming up with a plan to lift restrictions. I mean, this is probably the most serious issue our Parliament has been faced with in a generation, and today that type of a question is not going to address any of the issues I brought forward. He did not comment on any of the proactive solutions I suggested. Give your head a shake—…
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Mr. Speaker, I am having a sense of déjà vu, because it was basically a year ago when we all stood in this House and debated whether we should have a plan to end restrictions. A plan to end restrictions is not saying that we do not want Canadians to be healthy and safe. What we are saying is that the impositions on Canadian freedoms and the impacts on our economy and on our mental health as a coun…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe that public health restrictions should be informing our decisions as legislators. At the end of the day, we are charged with making these decisions, as are the ministers, and public health officials cannot make these decisions for us. Their opinions can inform our decisions but not make them for us, right? As for the second thing, hospitalizations, we are in year three of CO…
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Madam Speaker, as the minister mentioned, Canada now has vaccines, therapeutics and tests. We are beyond the stage we were at in March of 2020, and in fact, we are in year three. The reality is that many restrictions are still in place as a stopgap because the government has failed to use its convening role to address a fundamentally broken health care system in Canada, where a few hundred patient…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-249, An Act respecting the encouragement of the growth of the cryptoasset sector. Mr. Speaker, right now, Canada should be attracting billions of dollars of investment in the fast-growing cryptoasset industry. Right now, we are seeing government officials discuss and set policy related to cryptoassets. At the same time, many officials and lawmakers are not deepl…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for raising one of the key economic engines of his riding, the wine industry. I certainly know that our party has several ideas for tax relief, around the escalator tax, to incentivize growth in that sector. I believe that all Canadians, particularly low-income Canadians right now, should be afforded some measure of tax relief, but particularly low-incom…
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Mr. Speaker, today we are debating a bill related to the fall economic update. I think we have to realize that the situation we are in right now is the context in which we are debating this bill. I have never seen our country more divided in my time in office, and I have never seen us in the kind of national crisis that we are in right now. We are now in year three of COVID. Every one of us in thi…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to thank my team and my caucus for standing behind me for over a year as I stood in the House as the official opposition critic for health. In the role of the opposition, during that time, we held the government to account. When we were not getting vaccines and other countries were, every day we were in the House, asking questions as to when they were coming, as well as …
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague, who is always bright and good to work with. We need to have a much more robust response from the government on addressing Canada's broken health care system. Funding is certainly a large component of that. We need to make sure that the provinces are adequately funded. We also need to look at some of the significant learning that has occurred, and at the…
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Mr. Speaker, COVID has painfully proven that Canada's health care system is not capable of handling a high volume of emergent patients, particularly over a sustained period of time. Today, in year three of COVID, provincial governments are still closing businesses and imposing restrictions because of this. Even with these restrictions, doctors and nurses tell us that this approach does not reduce …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know what “Justinflation” looks like: higher prices and less stuff on the shelves. Let me tell the House what “just transition” looks like: higher greenhouse gas emissions and more offshore jobs. The Prime Minister has seen greenhouse gas emissions rise under his time in office. He has seen us spend billions and billions and billions of dollars on debt, all while erasing goo…
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Mr. Speaker, that is really interesting, because he has asked the natural resources minister, in his mandate letter, to end energy sector jobs. That is actually in the natural resources minister's mandate. Instead of diversifying our energy mix, he should be trying to ensure that Canadian energy workers have jobs, not offshore it to Saudi Arabia. Will he say today that he will commit to ending the…
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Mr. Speaker, I actually did not expect him to know the answer. Why would he? The answer is 30%. Thirty per cent of Canadians rely on foreign imported energy to heat their homes. Energy prices are out of control. When he talks about transforming our energy mix, he should be talking about transforming it to sovereign-produced Canadian energy that is rapidly decarbonized instead of offshoring our job…
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Mr. Speaker, could the Prime Minister please update the House and tell us what percentage of Canadians currently rely on foreign imported energy to heat their homes?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister should know that gross domestic product is calculated including government expenditures. The government has put so much debt onto Canadians, and what have we seen happen? The cost of living has increased. This cost-of-living increase is affecting regular Canadians. Certainly somebody with a $270,000-a-year salary should not be trying to equivocate with somebody who cannot…
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Mr. Speaker, two years into the pandemic, Canadians do not want to be hearing about lockdown provisions. They want a federal government that is taking a leadership role, fixing Canada's broken health care system, getting people back to work and getting their freedom back. The Liberals are so out of touch with the average Canadian. People just want to work. They want to keep people safe. They want …
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With regard to companies funded by the Natural Resources Canada’s Emissions Reduction Fund: (a) what are the names and addresses of the headquarters of all companies which received funding from the Offshore or Onshore Program; and (b) broken down by company funded, what are the details of each grant, including (i) the date signed, (ii) the start and end date, (iii) the total dollar amount, (iv) th…
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With regard to government estimates related to energy consumption in Canada: (a) what is the approximate number and percentage of homes currently heated by sources of energy originating outside of Canada; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a), by (i) type of energy source (gas, coal, wind, hydroelectric, etc.), (ii) country of the energy source’s origin?
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With regard to energy security: (a) how does the government define energy security; (b) by the definition in (a), is Canada currently energy secure; (c) how much energy did Canada store per year for the last 10 years; (d) what is Canada’s frequency of reliance on our stored energy, broken down by year over the last 10 years; and (e) what is the profile of Canada’s current energy storage, broken do…
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Mr. Speaker, most Canadians do not have the luxury of the Prime Minister's privileged future. No one is going to magically buy them an electric vehicle in the next couple of weeks. Nobody is going to magically build them an LRT in the next couple of weeks. They are struggling to pay their fuel costs now. The Prime Minister has failed to provide them with low-cost carbon alternatives, and his lack …
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Mr. Speaker, after cancelling the Keystone pipeline and challenging Line 5, the United States finds itself in the same boat as Canada, with soaring fuel prices as winter sets in. To deal with this lack of fuel and inflation, President Biden has begged human rights-abusing oil cartel countries to increase their oil production. Will the Prime Minister admit that his delays, obstruction and lack of a…
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Mr. Speaker, what the Prime Minister just said is that he has spent Canada into oblivion to make our prices higher for consumers. That is insane. Come on. Right now, Canadians are struggling to pay for gas. They do not have the ability to magically buy an electric car. We need to get fuel prices under control. Last year, the Prime Minister voted against a bill to reduce fuel price costs for farmer…
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Mr. Speaker, somebody in Papineau who is struggling to pay for a tank of gas is not an oil and gas lobbyist; they are one of his constituents. He owes it to them to not only provide low-carbon alternatives, which he has failed to provide, but also to reduce their fuel costs. The Prime Minister has failed on all these fronts. He has failed to buy energy infrastructure. He is perfectly fine with hav…
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Mr. Speaker, amid the global energy shortage and soaring prices, American President Joe Biden has begged countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia, places with no commitment to climate action, where women are not seen as people and gay men face the death penalty, to increase their oil production for the Americans. However, the U.S. cancelled the Keystone pipeline and is challenging Line 5. Can the Mini…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is right about one thing, which is that global demand for energy is changing. The Americans want more Saudi oil as opposed to Canadian low-carbon energy. The Americans probably want this type of energy because they know Canada's Liberals will roll over on human rights-abusing oil cartel countries; they could care less about energy prices, and they love offshoring Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, there is one thing that minister will not stand up for, and that is Canadian energy and Canadian energy worker jobs. Let me translate what she just said. She says she has not once promoted Canadian energy to the Americans. At a time when we need continental energy security, cheap energy bills and climate actions, the Liberals have offshored our jobs and increased energy prices, and th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bank of Canada is supposed to be focused solely on reducing the rising cost of living, but some people are saying that it should be focusing on all sorts of other things outside of that, particularly policy, which is the sole responsibility of elected representatives. Right now, people are struggling with maxed-out credit cards, and they are trying to figure out how to buy Christm…
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Mr. Speaker, why can he not just make that announcement right now? His lack of policy on this has created a lot of instability, and what that translates to the average Canadian is that they cannot buy Christmas presents. They are struggling with maxed-out credit cards. What we have here is a Prime Minister who does not understand that it is his responsibility to set this policy. The Bank of Canada…
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Mr. Speaker, except the Canadian economy has seen inflation blow way past that target, and the average Canadian knows that. The average Canadian right now cannot buy Christmas presents. I know that the Prime Minister might not understand what it is like to be struggling with a maxed-out credit card, but most Canadians do. That means understanding that he should be telling the Bank of Canada to foc…
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Mr. Speaker, “misrepresenting this inflation crisis”, tell that to someone in Kelowna today who is paying $1.67 a litre for gas. Tell that to the single mom who is trying to fill up her tank with gas, or the person who is trying to buy her spouse a hockey jersey that is costing $100 more this year or is paying $600 a month in interest on a credit card. The Prime Minister has misrepresented to Cana…
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Madam Chair, perhaps I know her job better than she does. When will she enact the CUSMA provision?
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Madam Chair, last time we had a softwood lumber agreement in Canada was under a Conservative government. The Liberal government has failed softwood lumber workers for six years. I have a very simple question for my colleague. She has announced tonight she intends to enact chapter 10. When?
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Madam Chair, this is frankly embarrassing. When is the foreign affairs minister of Canada enacting chapter 10 under CUSMA, as was announced two weeks ago by the finance minister? Who is in charge of our foreign relations?
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Madam Chair, she just announced that she would be enacting chapter 10 under CUSMA with regard to the softwood lumber dispute. When?
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Madam Chair, she just had it whispered to her, “I've answered the question.” When is she enacting CUSMA, which she has not answered?
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Madam Chair, when is she enacting CUSMA?
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Madam Chair, I would like softwood lumber jobs. I would enact the CUSMA provision at this point. I would also enact better Canadian-American relations than the government has done. However, when is she enacting the CUSMA provision, as she just announced?
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Madam Chair, I think I am fighting for jobs here. She should have a clear answer. When is she enacting chapter 10 under CUSMA regarding the softwood lumber agreement?
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Madam Chair, we still do not have a softwood lumber agreement. When will she enact the CUSMA provision?
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Madam Chair, perhaps she should take a lesson, as it was the Conservative government that last negotiated a softwood lumber dispute. When will she enact the CUSMA provision?
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Madam Chair, when I do media in Canada, I am protecting jobs in this country, unlike the minister. When is she enacting the CUSMA provision?
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Madam Chair, sometimes we need to get the attention of a foreign government in order to ensure that jobs are protected in this country, so when does she plan on enacting the CUSMA provision?
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Madam Chair, softwood lumber workers cannot wait for “in due course“ and, frankly, neither can American-Canadian relations. The announcement tonight, I am sure, will make news in the morning; I will make sure of that. When does she intend on announcing the CUSMA retaliation?
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Madam Chair, when will this be happening?
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Madam Chair, the minister has just said policy. She has said that she will enact chapter 10 under CUSMA. When?
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Madam Chair, when will the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has jurisdiction over this, announce retaliatory measures under chapter 10 of CUSMA regarding the softwood lumber dispute?
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Madam Chair, the minister just said that she would announce retaliatory measures under chapter 10 of CUSMA. When does she intend to enact that provision?
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