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House Hansard - 9

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 2, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Jamie Schmale (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, CPC)
  • Dec/2/21 2:58:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Office has estimated that, if the Liberal government had acted on its promises, all boil water advisories would have ended in 2020. Indeed, the Prime Minister failed on his promise to end all advisories nine months ago. Worse, the Minister of Indigenous Services said yesterday that she refuses to set a deadline for ending the remaining 44 on-reserve boil advisories. In fact, she wants to hold more consultations. If the minister could not drink water in her home, how much longer would she wait?
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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Jamie Schmale (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, CPC)
  • Dec/2/21 2:59:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, these promises of funding mean nothing when a child cannot drink clean water. We all know that one cannot run a business, a farm, a school, a hospital, a community or even a household without clean water. Sadly, as of October 15, 44 long-term boil water advisories on reserve still exist. In fact, the PBO report highlights that proposed spending on water and waste-water maintenance and operations over the next five years suggest annual funding gaps of $138 million. Rather than misleading indigenous communities, when will the government finally get the job done?
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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Jamie Schmale (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, CPC)
  • Dec/2/21 4:02:32 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to ask the member opposite a question. I appreciate her words and congratulate her on her electoral victory. The member mentioned child care quite often in her speech, and in her questions and comments. Given that the federal government was running a significant deficit prior to the pandemic and Liberals are running a massive deficit now, how is child care being paid for? Is it going to be deficit-financed, to put on the backs of those children entering child care whenever this money starts flowing and whenever these child care spaces start being created?
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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21
Mr. Jamie Schmale (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, CPC)
  • Dec/2/21 5:01:05 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the words of the member opposite, as well as his work in the previous Parliament on the indigenous and northern affairs committee. My friend across the way talked about child care in his speech, and I am going to ask him the same question I asked his colleague a few moments ago. The government was running substantial deficits prior to the pandemic, and it ramped up the spending after the pandemic hit. It was, in fact, printing money, and inflation is on the rise. The solution from the Prime Minister seems to be to solve inflation by coming up with yet another government program. We know that nothing is really working on that side of the House. Indigenous communities are still waiting for boil water advisories to clear. Veterans are still waiting in line, and we have a housing crisis. I do not think it is smart to put yet another program in place when we cannot even figure out the ones we have. Does the member think it is fair to have the kids of today actually paying for their own child care, even if they do not know it yet?
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