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Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22

Mr. Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)

Oct/27/22 2:11:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot afford the cost of living, and this week they have been hit with another devastating interest rate hike. That is the result of a Prime Minister who does not think about monetary policy and has added more to the national debt than all other prime ministers combined. While Canadians make sacrifices, the Liberals are blowing taxpayers' dollars on themselves and their elitist friends. Most recently, we learned about the Prime Minister’s luxurious trip to London. He saw it as an opportunity to spend $400,000, which included a $6,000 hotel suite for one night. It is not surprising. Year after year, the Liberals have not missed a chance to waste Canadians’ money. The WE scandal gave half a billion to a company that lined the pockets of the Prime Minister’s family. It cost $54 million to create the intrusive and glitchy arrive scam app, when it could have been made for $250,000. Former Liberal MP Frank Baylis’s company was part of a $237-million contract for ventilators that were not even used. The Liberals have a record full of wasteful spending. It is unacceptable and it needs to stop.

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Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22

Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)

Oct/27/22 4:39:05 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-31

Madam Speaker, a child in Quebec will receive about half of what a child outside Quebec will receive. There is considerable inequity. Why? It is because we already pay for dental care in Quebec. Quebec taxpayers already pay once for children's dental care and they are going to pay a second time for the federal program, even though Quebec will only receive half the money handed out elsewhere. That is really inequitable. We could have fixed this when this bill was being studied in committee. The government just bulldozed it through by imposing a super closure motion. We could also have fixed the rental assistance component. Why is the government refusing to accommodate Quebec?

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Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22

Hon. Andrew Scheer

Oct/27/22 5:05:13 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-31

Madam Speaker, I am happy to do that. There is a big difference between lowering the tax burden on Canadians and new spending. It is as simple as that. I just want to take issue with one of the major principles with the far left these days and this idea that the government has a big pile of cash and all we are really doing is fighting over how to spend it. The government does not have a dollar that it does not first take out of the economy, that it does not first take out of someone's pocket. Is the hon. member comfortable saddling Canadians with more financial burdens and higher costs of government? That cost, the cost for this program, has to be paid for by taxpayers. It adds to the inflation crisis, because the government has to first borrow to pay for it.

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Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22

Mr. Don Davies

Oct/27/22 6:07:53 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-31

Mr. Speaker, I remember the words of J.S. Woodsworth, who said, “What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all.” I think that this is an excellent guiding principle as a matter of good citizenship and good governance. If I flip that around, I think of the utter hypocrisy of people in the House voting against providing dental care to Canada's poorest citizens, while they themselves get their teeth fixed, their spouses' teeth fixed and their children's teeth fixed, not paid for by them but paid for by the taxpayers. The leader of the official opposition has been in the House since he was 25 years old. He has been having his teeth fixed, paid for by the taxpayers, since he was 25, and he is going to stand in the House and say that people who make under $70,000 should not have dental insurance. Seniors over 65, do we know how many seniors over 65 make under $70,000 a year and have no dental insurance? Almost all of them. That is who the NDP is going to bring dental care to. I want to know what Conservatives will say to them next election.

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