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House Hansard - 233

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 17, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 233 - Oct/17/23
Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP)
  • Oct/17/23 5:22:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I note that the motion from the Conservatives talks about fiscal discipline, and Conservative fiscal discipline is an oxymoron. We lived through nine years of the dismal Harper regime. One thing that characterized that was absolutely appalling financial decisions. Members will recall the $116 billion that Harper showered on Canada's big banks to maintain profits, taking money out of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that should have gone to affordable housing. That helped contribute, thanks to the Conservatives, to the housing crisis that we are seeing today. The Conservatives also put in place the Harper treaties. Notoriously, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has said that these handouts to billionaires and profitable corporations cost over $30 billion a year, thanks to Mr. Harper and the Harper regime. However, the Conservatives used fiscal discipline all right; they cut back on veterans services and forced seniors to work years longer. My question is very simple: What are they going to do now? Are they going to end the dental care for seniors that the NDP is bringing in at the end of this year?
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Context: House Hansard - 233 - Oct/17/23
Mr. Peter Julian
  • Oct/17/23 5:27:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I just wanted to tell my friend that he should be saying, according to the Conservatives, “the Liberal-Bloc government”. I just wanted to correct him.
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Context: House Hansard - 233 - Oct/17/23
Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP)
  • Oct/17/23 5:39:17 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague, but I know that during the Harper years, the Conservatives brought in a system of tax havens that now cost us $30 billion a year, according to the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. My question is simple. How can we believe the Conservatives when their approach of imposing fiscal discipline was such a dismal failure in the past?
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