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House Hansard - 143

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Ms. Leslyn Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:34:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the wasteful spending of the Liberal government knows no bounds. Yesterday we found out that the Liberals paid out billions of dollars in COVID payments to people who were ineligible. Rather than accepting their mistake, they implied that the Auditor General cannot be trusted. However, it is Liberal waste that is causing the cost of living crisis in this country. When will the Prime Minister take responsibility and stop the inflationary spending so Canadians can put food on their tables and heat their homes?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mrs. Jenica Atwin (Fredericton, Lib.)
  • Dec/7/22 7:00:26 p.m.
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Madam Chair, in my hon. colleague's speech on this very important topic, she mentioned the responsibility we have as lawmakers and as parliamentarians. Could she speak to the other responsibility that we have as women in this House? What more could we be doing collectively and in a non-partisan approach to address this issue and make sure these voices are honoured?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 8:38:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government has said a lot of words over the last seven years, and the government has spent, or claims to have spent, a lot of money, yet here we are. I appreciate the minister's willingness to be non-partisan, but at the end of the day, he is the one who writes the memorandums to cabinet. He is the one who has responsibility for oversight. It is actually his fiduciary responsibility to the country to break down the silos, and here we are. Would the minister today commit, in light of these murders, to immediately implementing the call for justice that would require an independent oversight body to ensure that the government is actually meeting its spending objectives, as opposed to just making announcements and then, per my colleague from Winnipeg Centre's Order Paper question from earlier this year, spending minimal amounts of money while indigenous women are still being taken, still being murdered and still freezing to death on the streets of Winnipeg?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Dec/7/22 10:26:29 p.m.
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Madam Chair, we heard today the government side, unfortunately, frame this about hope, about these communities demanding hope. However, I do not recall there being 231 demands for hope. There were 231 demands for justice, demands for action. I would love for the hon. member, in her closing remarks, to explore why it is important that we do not just sit here with platitudes, offering talking points about hope, but that this government takes responsibility for taking clear and targeted steps towards action.
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Ms. Jenny Kwan
  • Dec/7/22 10:27:12 p.m.
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Madam Chair, as we continue to talk about this, which the government is doing, people are dying and lives are being lost. The violence taking place is real. When we say we need to do this work, what we need the government to do is put actions to words. I want to see in the budget real, significant investments, and want the government to spend those investments, not just to put them on paper and not take action. I want to see the government's implementation of call for justice 1.7, because we need the government to take responsibility and ensure there is independent accountability for that work, not just platitudes.
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