44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 29, 2023 02:00PM
- Mar/29/23 3:08:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we know that provincial and territorial programs do not cover dental care needs equally across Canada. Yesterday, as part of the 2023 budget, our government announced that it was committed to moving forward with a transformative investment to provide dental care to Canadians who need it by creating the new Canadian dental care plan.
Can the Minister of Health tell us more about the current plan to move forward with our dental care plan?
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- Mar/29/23 3:09:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from London West for her question. She knows, as we all do, that good oral health is essential for physical and mental health.
That is why we are so pleased that, to date, 250,000 children have received the $650 benefit to take better care of their oral health. That is why we are so pleased that, by 2025, we will be rolling out our dental care plan for all Canadians who do not have private insurance and earn less than $90,000 a year. That is why we are so pleased that people with disabilities, seniors and children will have access to the plan by the end of 2023.
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- Mar/29/23 3:09:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last week we found out that Canada imports all its baby formula from other countries. For over a year, there have been shortages of baby formula all across this country, with no end in sight. The shelves are now bare, leaving many families stressed, frustrated and desperate.
Moms and dads who rely on formula to feed their kids are now scared they will not be able to feed their babies. When does the Prime Minister intend to do something about this crisis?
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- Mar/29/23 3:10:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to hear this question, although I am also very troubled by the challenges that families, mothers, parents and fathers, like me, with children face in those very tight circumstances.
That is why Health Canada has made sure that, with special interim regulation policies, more than 70 additional formulas have been imported in the last few months to Canada, and more will come. We are working with international providers to have more infant formulas come more quickly to those children and families who need them.
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- Mar/29/23 3:11:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for the second year in a row, Liberals have expropriated $5 million a quota from elver harvesters to give to others without compensation. This is against two decades of DFO policy that a willing buyer needs a willing seller.
The minister, in committee this week, stated that the expropriation will come mainly from harvesters who have not used their quota, yet her department has said it will come equally from all licence holders. Who was right? Was it the minister, or her officials?
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- Mar/29/23 3:11:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to advancing first nations' treaty right to fish. The elver fishery is unique and the preferred approach remains a willing buyer and a willing seller. That is the way to create predictability in the market and allow all harvesters to adequately plan.
However, in keeping with the Ahousaht court decision, we acknowledge that there are times that there is not a willing seller at a market price. A decision for the 2023 season has not been made, and it will be shared soon.
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- Mar/29/23 3:12:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, more than 50,000 gathered in Toronto last Saturday to support a free Iran. Families of the victims of flight PS752 were there. Survivors of the regime were there, and people with loved ones suffering in Iran were there.
However, the member for Don Valley West stormed out in the middle of the speech of a world-renowned women's rights advocate muttering something that I cannot repeat in the House. Her crime was to call out the government for not banning the IRGC terrorists.
Does he have the courage to stand up to apologize for his embarrassing display of disrespect, or is he going to storm out of here too?
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- Mar/29/23 3:12:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think I can say safely that, without exception, everyone in this House stands with the people of Iran and their struggles against the regime, making sure that they stand with human rights. Every one of us is incredibly aligned on that issue.
Canada is recognized as a world leader in leading the way against the regime and for human rights. We have announced the 10th package of sanctions this last week. We have also made sure that IRGC officials cannot come to this country. We will continue to work.
Let me say that we may have different strategies—
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- Mar/29/23 3:13:35 p.m.
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The hon. member for Hamilton Mountain.
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- Mar/29/23 3:13:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance presented budget 2023, “A Made-in-Canada Plan”. Unlike the empty rhetoric of the Conservative Party, this is a real plan to deliver results for Canadians and one I am proud to share with my constituents of Hamilton Mountain.
Can the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance explain what this budget means for a strong middle class, an affordable economy and a healthy future for Canadians?
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- Mar/29/23 3:14:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Hamilton Mountain for her hard work on the file.
The budget aims to ensure that Canadians have more money in their pockets and invest in the challenges that we are facing today. It delivers on affordability by making sure there is a new grocery rebate that will help 11 million Canadians. It stabilizes and invests in our health care system in the long term, and it makes transformative investments to fight climate change, to build the economy of the future and to support Canadian businesses. That is what budget 2023 is about: delivering for Canadians.
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- Mar/29/23 3:14:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we need to fight the climate crisis like we actually want to win. There is an incredible opportunity. If we make the right investments to tackle the climate crisis and tie that to good jobs, good union jobs and good wages, we can actually create positive economic growth. We did that in this budget. We forced the government to have strings attached to investments so that any dollar that goes to a company has to be tied to guarantees for good wages, good salaries and good union jobs.
Will the government commit to having strings attached to good jobs, good pay and union jobs for any future investments to incentivize business?
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- Mar/29/23 3:15:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. leader of the NDP for raising this question because we have done something in budget 2023 that is new and demonstrates leadership by our Liberal government. In the top investment tax credits, whether it is clean technology, hydrogen or the clean electricity grid, to earn the top credits, there needs to be labour participation. That labour participation needs to include apprentices. It will mean prevailing wages, as our labour partners asked. We are delivering for union workers, and we are delivering for Canadians.
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- Mar/29/23 3:16:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people with disabilities deserve better from the government. When the government was serious about child care, first came a federal investment of $30 billion, then agreements with provinces and territories and then legislation. However, for Canadians with disabilities living in poverty, yesterday's budget told them to just keep waiting, putting billions for a car on the moon and new gifts for oil and gas companies ahead of their basic needs.
When will the government stop pretending agreements and legislation must be done before it puts some money on the table?
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- Mar/29/23 3:16:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in Canada, no person with a disability should live in poverty. That is why we are creating the Canada disability benefit, a thoughtfully designed income supplement with the potential to seriously reduce poverty and improve financial security for hundreds of thousands of working-age persons with disabilities from coast to coast to coast. On February 3, Bill C-22 passed unanimously in this House, and it is currently being studied at a Senate committee. We look forward to its swift passage.
I am pleased to say that budget 2023 provides funding of $21.5 million to continue work on the Canada disability benefit.
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- Mar/29/23 3:17:30 p.m.
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I wish to draw the attention of hon. members to the presence in the gallery of the Honourable Derek Bennett, Speaker of the House of Assembly for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Some hon. members: Hear, hear!
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- Mar/29/23 3:18:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday just before we adjourned, you made it very clear to the House that we are only supposed to address people by their riding or their title. However, yet again today we have seen, and in particular from the member for Calgary Forest Lawn, the use of names. I am not going to repeat it. Basically, he did not use the minister's real title, but rather a fictitious title he decided to make up.
I wonder if you could once again remind the House of this very important rule and perhaps even ask the member to apologize.
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- Mar/29/23 3:18:33 p.m.
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Does the hon. member for Calgary Forest Lawn want to respond? No, he does not.
I want to remind everyone, regardless of what side they are on, to please use respectful language and show some respect to each other. When we show disrespect, it bleeds out and comes back to bite us.
We will check Hansard, find out exactly what was said and go from there.
The hon. member for Winnipeg Centre is rising on a point of order.
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- Mar/29/23 3:19:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in describing increased rates of crime on the streets during question period, the member for Carleton used the derogatory term “savage”, which is often used to describe indigenous people. Not only is that term racist, but it is also unparliamentary.
I want to invite the member for Carleton to retract that word and apologize.
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- Mar/29/23 3:19:36 p.m.
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Once again we will look into it, see exactly what the context was of the use and come back to it if we see it to be necessary.
We have another point of order, the hon. member for Edmonton Griesbach.
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