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Madam Speaker, I cannot express today how proud I am to be a member from Quebec and to stand up for seniors. Budget 2021 was great news and will make a difference for all seniors in Quebec and Canada. I have travelled throughout Quebec and have met with the AQDR and FADOQ over the last two days. I can say that the AQDR is very pleased with the progress we have made for seniors. We kept our campaig…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his question. We are keeping our promise to increase the old age security pension for Canadians aged 75 and over. We will provide seniors with a one-time payment of $500, and we will increase their monthly benefits by 10% beginning in July 2022. We will invest $3 billion to help the provinces and territories implement long-term care standards and make p…
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Mr. Speaker, today I would like to recognize the work and dedication of front-line workers, especially teachers, specialized educators and education professionals during this extremely difficult pandemic period. Every day, I witness the hard work of a dedicated teacher of young people with autism who are eager to learn and who must navigate an intermittent world between the face-to-face and the vi…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to answer this question. Members know that the Prime Minister has met with all provincial and territorial premiers. They have spoken about health care. Work is under way. The federal government has invested half a billion dollars to help seniors and other Canadians get the essential services they need, such as grocery deliveries. We allocated an additional $20 million for…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his question. As I mentioned earlier, the Prime Minister is in constant communication with the premiers of every province and territory. That topic has been discussed. The Prime Minister has made a commitment to work on this file. We will continue our work on behalf of our seniors, our citizens. We are also taking steps to promptly pay out the …
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Mr. Speaker, today I want to acknowledge something that makes the people of my riding, Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, very proud. Legendary hockey player Kevin Lowe, originally from Lachute, back home, was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada. The Order of Hockey in Canada is a Hockey Canada initiative that was established in 2012 to celebrate individuals for their outstanding contribution to the …
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Madam Speaker, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Seniors and as the member for Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, I am pleased to take the floor today and participate in this important discussion on seniors. I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin people. Our work to help seniors began in 2016, when our government's fi…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank our two colleagues for their speeches. They both mentioned their discussions with the FADOQ. One of them even said that she was having discussions with the FADOQ regularly and that it was not happy. Let me ask you the following question: In your regular discussions with the FADOQ, did you talk about the non-taxable one-time payment of $500 for single seniors or…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. I doubt seniors will be pleased to hear you say things I never said. I never said that everything was okay and that seniors are doing fine. They are the most vulnerable people during this pandemic. What I did say is that we should all work together to help seniors, that they must not be misled, and that they should be given the right numbers. W…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. Seniors are a priority for our government, and that includes getting them vaccinated. Every province believes that seniors should be the first to be vaccinated. We have an obligation to provide them with vaccines, and that is what we are doing. We are distributing to each province and territory the maximum number of doses necessary so that our …
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Of course, the older seniors get, the more likely they are to run out of savings. There are also more widows aged 75 and over. That is not to mention the health care costs associated with the fact that their health is deteriorating and their homes need to be adapted to make them more accessible. Very few seniors aged 75 and older are working. H…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his question. For the entire $400 billion in pandemic spending, everything was done in collaboration with all members of Parliament. Everyone proposed ideas, and we all worked together to meet Canadians' needs and help as many people as possible. I am sure there are many seniors in the member's riding who received all the benefits we provided, …
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Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question. I have also spoken with seniors in my riding, on top of being in contact with seniors and organizations from across Canada. I hear a different story, though. I am hearing that we have helped seniors quite a bit but that we need to help them even more. In the economic statement, our Prime Minister committed to increasing old age security by 1…
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Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today to take part in this important discussion on Bill C-14, the economic statement implementation act, 2020. I would like to begin by acknowledging that the lands on which we are gathered are part of the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin people. Bill C-14 is very important to me in my capacity as the Parliamentary Secretary to the …
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Madam Speaker, does my colleague agree with me that the federal government has an important role to play in Canada's economic recovery, including in Quebec, through economic development programs such as the CFDCs, which he mentioned, but also through the connecting Canadians and Canada summer jobs programs? Does he agree with me that the federal government has an extremely important role to play, …
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