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House Hansard - 170

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 21, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 170 - Mar/21/23
Mr. Philip Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC)
  • Mar/21/23 2:58:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would sincerely invite this member to come down to the Food Share Food Bank in Cobourg, meet with these individuals and tell them that life has never been so good because that is just not true. The truth of the matter is the Liberal government is as incompetent at fighting the affordability crisis as it is at climate change. It fails to meet every target. It continues to make life more and more expensive for Canadians. When will the Prime Minister finally get out of the way so that we can fix what they broke?
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Context: House Hansard - 170 - Mar/21/23
Mr. Mario Simard (Jonquière, BQ)
  • Mar/21/23 2:59:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the ink on the health transfers agreement is not even dry and the federal government is already making cuts. It has announced $82 million in cuts to health care funding, and half of those cuts will be made in Quebec. Ottawa is taking $41 million out of our health care system. The minister must know that all our health centres are in crisis. At this time, the ER in Lachine has been partly closed since February. In the Outaouais, the ER occupancy rate is at 200%. How can anyone be so heartless as to make cuts to emergency rooms at this time?
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Context: House Hansard - 170 - Mar/21/23
Ms. Niki Ashton (Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP)
  • Mar/21/23 3:12:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, first nations in our region are in crisis and the government is missing in action. In God's River, Gods Lake Narrows and Oxford House, drugs are destroying the lives of people. In God's River, the RCMP took up to two and a half days to respond to a serious incident. There is a housing crisis, a cost-of-living crisis and an unemployment crisis. First nations leaders and members on the ground are clear: They have never seen it this bad. What will it take for the government to act on the humanitarian crisis that is destroying families and first nations right now?
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Context: House Hansard - 170 - Mar/21/23
Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)
  • Mar/21/23 5:09:25 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-23 
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very long speech. I am going to talk about the very long detour that he made at the beginning, as we were all wondering how he was going to land on topic. He eventually got there after a few minutes. He talked about housing, actually, and he touted his party, which released a housing plan two weeks ago. I have never heard the Conservatives come up with coherent solutions to the housing crisis that we are experiencing in Canada right now. Obviously, the current Liberal government is useless. It is one of the worst governments we have ever seen when it comes to the housing crisis. CMHC economists say that, in Quebec alone, 1,100,000 units need to be built over the next 10 years to address the crisis. We often hear the Conservatives, who have close ties to the private sector, say that the private sector will take care of it. It is true, the private sector will build 500,000 units, but governments will have to somehow step in and build 600,000 units in the next 10 years. That means the government is going to have to spend and invest to fix this problem. Does my colleague have a plan for tackling this crisis?
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