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House Hansard - 19

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 16, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 19 - Dec/16/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/16/21 10:24:36 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is my great honour today to table a petition that is asking the Government of Canada to enact legislation to provide just transition. Recognizing that we are in a climate emergency and a a climate crisis, the petitioners ask that we address the crisis to reduce emissions in Canada and in the global south, that we commit to a jobs plan to help people transition to new jobs in a new economy, that we expand the social safety net and that we tax the ultrawealthy and corporations to help pay for that just transition.
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Context: House Hansard - 19 - Dec/16/21
Ms. Heather McPherson
  • Dec/16/21 11:00:50 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a point of order. I would really like to hear this question; it is very important to me. However, unfortunately, I cannot because of interpretation.
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Context: House Hansard - 19 - Dec/16/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/16/21 11:02:08 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-2 
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her holiday greetings. I also hope that she has a wonderful holiday season. She talked about how proud she is of the Canadian government's response with regard to vaccines and also said she hopes this is the final pivot we need to make as we deal with the omicron variant. What I will ask her about, though, is our response globally. What we know about the omicron variant is that it is happening because we did not allow populations around the world to get the vaccines they need. Is it not smart to not only vaccinate Canadians, as important as that is, but protect Canadians? For an actual global recovery, we will need to vaccinate everyone, but unfortunately the government still refuses to support the TRIPS waiver.
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Context: House Hansard - 19 - Dec/16/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/16/21 12:39:52 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-2 
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for the incredible work he does to protect people living with disabilities, students and workers. The question I have for him today has to do with seniors in particular and the unbelievably disappointing GIS clawback we have seen. I know the member wrote to the government almost five months ago, on August 3, asking it to fix this program and it did not. We have heard from the Deputy Prime Minister that there will be a fix coming and that it may come as late as May, which we all know is far too late for seniors who live in their cars, who cannot afford their groceries or who cannot afford their cancer treatments. Could the member perhaps provide some feedback to the government on how we could fix the GIS clawback today and right now?
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Context: House Hansard - 19 - Dec/16/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/16/21 1:24:20 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-2 
Madam Speaker, the member talked a bit about accountability and transparency, and I want to tell him about a business in my riding that accessed the wage subsidy to lock out its boilermaker workers. It is Cessco steel. It locked out its workers, received the wage subsidy and used the wage subsidy to pay for scab labour. We have asked the government to fix this loophole in the program time and time again. We have asked the government to review the process so this cannot happen again. However, to date, the government has ignored us. I am wondering whether the member thinks we could have done so much better in implementing these programs. If the government had listened to the opposition when we told it about holes in some of the programs, Canadians would have been kept safer and we would have had a much better program rollout.
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