44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 31, 2022 11:00AM
- Oct/31/22 2:33:16 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, how many more Canadian families have to visit food banks in our country? How many more young couples will have to give back their keys because they cannot pay their mortgages? How many seniors will have to cut back on the necessity of heating their homes before those Liberals and their costly coalition partnership with the NDP wake up to what is going on in Canada?
Will they stop the taxes? Will they stop punishing Canadians? Will they commit to stopping their planned tax increases and their tripling of the carbon tax?
94 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:33:52 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, let us look at the Conservative record on taxes. In 2015, when we lowered taxes on the middle class, the Conservatives voted against. When we voted for the child care benefit, the Conservatives voted against. When we created the Canada worker benefit, the Conservatives voted against. When we lowered taxes on small businesses, how did the Conservatives vote? They voted against.
What did they do last week? Instead of supporting Canadians who needed the help the most, the Conservative bench voted against.
84 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:34:25 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the inflationary spending is the cause of the pain for almost every Canadian, while the Liberals pretend that everything is fine.
Remember that the Liberals told Canadians that interest rates would stay low. They told Canadians that the problem would be deflation, not inflation. We were told then that all of this was temporary so the government could continue to spend and spend. They told us that they would take on the debt so Canadians would not have to.
What else are the Liberals going to get wrong?
90 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:34:53 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, we need to roll the tape back in the House to the time when the House was discussing, in a hybrid Parliament, how this government, this Parliament would support Canadians in the worst pandemic in 100 years. This government had bold proposals to make sure there would be wage subsidies and individual subsidies so people would be able to keep their homes. How did the Conservatives vote? They voted with us.
Are they now saying that they wished they would have taken those votes back and not have the CERB and not have kept businesses afloat?
The Conservatives need to tell Canadians what their plan is, because we certainly have one.
113 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:35:32 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance contradicted her Prime Minister when she said that the government would have to tighten its belt and rein in spending. Even Mark Carney, the man who wants to replace the Prime Minister, contradicted him when he said that inflation in Canada is a Liberal-made issue. Although the finance minister wants to rein in spending, she is being pressured by the NDP and the Liberals, who are working together to continue the inflationary spending.
Will the minister commit to not raising taxes and to stopping the inflationary spending?
94 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:36:05 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, let me be clear. Here is the Conservatives' record when it comes to taxing Canadians. When we lowered taxes for Canadians in 2015, the Conservatives voted against it. When we introduced the Canada child benefit, the Conservatives voted against it. When we brought in a plan for workers, the Conservatives once again voted against it. Last week, the Conservatives voted against our bill yet again. Their plan is to vote against Canadians. Our plan is to vote for Canadians.
81 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:36:36 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, we will always vote for what is best for Canadians. Every time the Liberals present measures that create economic problems, as we are seeing now, inflation rears its head. Interest rates have had to be raised because of the inflation created by the Liberals' spending in various areas. The Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that of the $500 billion spent in two years, $200 billion had nothing to do with the pandemic. The Liberals talk all the time, but when it is time to really take action for Canada's economy, they are out in left field.
When will the government take responsibility and stop its inflationary spending?
111 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:37:15 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, it is clear that our plan during the pandemic helped Canadians get through the worst pandemic in 100 years. The Conservatives voted with us. Now they want to rewrite history to their own liking.
On this side, we know that current inflation is a real concern for Canadians, so we are providing $500 in assistance for housing, a dental care plan for children, and double the GST credit. The Conservatives are not interested in that, but Canadians are. That is why we are taking action on this side of the House.
93 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:37:51 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, it is going to be awkward next week when Canada walks into COP27. The UN has just released another report proving that the climate change plans being put forward by various countries will lead to disaster. At the same time, Canada announced in Washington that it will fast-track its oil and gas projects in order to export more to Europe.
Does the government realize that the UN is asking us to fast-track the fight against climate change, not climate change itself?
85 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:38:26 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for her commitment to climate action. I just want to remind her we have the most ambitious climate change plan in the history of Canada: $100 billion invested since 2015; $9.1 billion in the emissions reduction plan.
It is an ambitious sector-by-sector pathway to get to our 2030 targets on our way to net zero by 2050. It has broad support from environmental groups, industry and farmers in Quebec and across the country.
85 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:39:02 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the minister could have said that he acknowledges the UN report and that he will not approve any more oil and gas projects. At the very least, he could have said that he would not fast-track them. Instead, he went on television last week to explain how he, as environment minister, could advise oil and gas companies to help them get through the assessment process faster.
In the midst of the climate crisis, is it the role of an environment minister to help the oil and gas industry get projects approved?
94 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:39:39 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the world does indeed have to deal with the challenge of climate change; we have to deal with it for our children and our grandchildren. Canada has implemented a plan to fight climate change, a plan that may well be the most detailed one in the world. Yes, we need a very strong economy, but we also have to deal with climate change, and that is what we are doing.
72 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:40:13 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, all the countries at COP27 are going to talk about what they have done to fight climate change since the last conference. When Canada stands up to talk, our allies are going to remember that, since the last COP, Canada has approved Bay du Nord and its billion barrels of oil. They will remember Canada's announcement in Washington that it is planning not only to approve other projects like Bay du Nord, but also to fast-track them.
Does the minister realize that showing up at COP empty-handed is bad, but showing up with filthy hands is worse?
102 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:40:48 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, we know that we need to address the issue of climate change. We need to be a leader in these circumstances. I want to say that there are not very many countries in the world that have a plan that is as detailed as Canada's. We also need a plan for a prosperous economy for the future of our children, and we will work to accomplish both of those goals at the same time.
77 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:41:25 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the minister has repeatedly claimed that neither he nor his staff ever requested the RCMP commissioner to reveal confidential evidence. He claims that he never asked for letters of support from independent police to provide political cover for the use of the Emergencies Act, yet the RCMP commissioner clearly knew that the minister was seeking these letters.
Evidence shows that she was working with him to reveal confidential evidence about the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Does the minister expect us to believe that the RCMP commissioner acted alone?
90 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:41:57 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, there is a very significant problem with the member's theory, which is based entirely on speculation, innuendo and conjecture.
He ignores the facts, and here are the facts. At no time did I or the government attempt to interfere in police operations. I did not direct, ask or even suggest to the commissioner that she release that information and the commissioner herself has testified under oath, “I did not receive direction and I was not influenced by government officials regarding the public release of information”. Those are simply the facts.
95 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:42:30 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, we have received email evidence from his office that suggests otherwise. Audio recordings and text messages from the RCMP commissioner confirm this disturbing pattern. The Minister of Emergency Preparedness has repeatedly crossed the line, interfering in a police investigation and politicizing our independent police forces, all to provide political cover for the Liberal government.
The evidence against the minister is piling up. It is no wonder that the commissioner is looking for a new messenger app to permanently delete messages. The minister keeps denying, but the facts say otherwise. When will the minister finally come clean?
98 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:43:05 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, as I have said a number of times in the House, the independence of police operations is a key principle in our democracy. It is one that our government respects.
I would like to remind the House that, in May of 2020, the member for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes rose in the House and demanded to know why the government was not releasing information on search warrants, production orders and closed warrants related to the Nova Scotia massacre. At that time, I was forced to rise in the House to explain to that Conservative member, as I did to all members, that our government does not interfere with ongoing criminal investigations, and the RCMP is responsible for the information that he sought.
129 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:43:47 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, here are the indisputable facts.
Just 10 days after the tragic events, here is what the commissioner said to her assembled colleagues when confirming that there had been political interference in the ongoing investigation into the weapons used.
First, she said, “I shared with the Minister that...it was going to be in the...news release and it wasn’t.” Second, she said, “Does anybody realize...they're in the middle of trying to get a legislation going”? Third, she said, “I’m waiting for the Prime Minister to call me so I can apologize.”
Why is the minister continuing with his cover up?
115 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- Oct/31/22 2:44:24 p.m.
- Watch
On the contrary, Mr. Speaker, I have risen in the House a number of times and simply repeated the truth to the members. I am not going to speculate on a conversation of which I was not a party.
I can simply advise the House that at no time did I direct, ask or even suggest to the commissioner of the RCMP that she should release any information pertaining to this investigation. Under oath before the Mass Casualty Commission, the commissioner has confirmed that she was not directed by me or any government official on the release of information or in the conduct of the investigation. Those are simply the facts.
111 words
All Topics
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- menumenu
- notificationsnotifications
- home
- mailmail
- searchsearch
