44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 18, 2023 02:00PM
- Oct/18/23 2:21:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of this government, the inflation rate in Quebec is the highest—
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- Oct/18/23 2:27:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, every day in the House, the opposition has occasion to respond to the actions of the government and hold the government accountable for its actions on behalf of Canadians. That happens at 2:15 p.m. every single Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That is not a “may”. That is not a “possible”. That is a “shall”.
There is nothing in the clause that creates question period in the Standing Orders that allows the Speaker to arbitrarily change the time in order to give a speech. I will note that the Speaker has a plethora of occasions to stand on his feet to make any point he wants or any declaration he likes. He does not need to do it in the middle of the sacred period during which we hold the government to account.
If I may, this is the first time in all of my years here that I have seen a Speaker interrupt question period to make a speech. I have never seen it.
Furthermore, the fact that you have risen to your feet in order to impose, apparently, a series of guidelines that are not approved by the Board of Internal Economy or voted on by the House of Commons, and that you are doing it in violation of one of the rules that are already in place, suggests a very serious and unusual departure from the normal way in which Parliament exists. The government is here to serve Parliament, not the other way around. We ask that you allow us to proceed with question period and that you make your statement afterward.
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- Oct/18/23 2:44:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight long years in power, this Prime Minister is not worth the cost, especially not in Quebec, where the inflation rate is at 4.8%. That is a lot higher than elsewhere in Canada.
After eight years of inflationary deficits, the solution that the Bloc Québécois and the Liberals are now proposing is to drastically increase costs with a tax on gas and diesel, which drives up the cost of all products that are transported.
Will the government finally reverse its inflationary policies so that Quebeckers can buy gas and groceries and put a roof over their heads?
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- Oct/18/23 2:46:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I will ignore the member's lack of decorum and his emotionally charged approach to focus on Canadians, because I can actually take it. I can take the debate and have it out in the open.
He talks about cuts. Canadians are making cuts in their own lives. We now have a new phenomenon in Canada, which is the middle-class homeless. We used to just have young people living in their parents' basements; now we have parents moving into their children's basements.
Will the Prime Minister reverse the inflationary policies that doubled housing costs and are forcing seniors to move into their kids' basements just to avoid going homeless?
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- Oct/18/23 2:48:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, incompetent rating agencies mean absolutely nothing to the unhoused seniors who say that for affordable housing in metro Vancouver, the only thing that turns up is “nothing, nothing, nothing”. Nor do they mean anything, to quote from the CBC, to him: “Living in his broken-down car, homeless man says he has until Thursday to move.”
We have nurses and carpenters living in parking lots after eight years of the Prime Minister doubling housing costs. Will the Liberals stop driving up the cost of living so that Canadians can house, feed and heat their families?
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- Oct/18/23 2:49:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is actually the government that is promising over $10 billion of cuts right now, because it suddenly woke up and realized that it was bankrupt. When we were in office, we managed to balance the budget while growing health care spending every single year and, in fact, growing it faster than the current government. However, today the biggest threat to the health of Canadians is homelessness. People are losing their homes because the Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housing.
Will he realize, with people living in parking lots, that after eight years he is just not worth the cost?
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- Oct/18/23 2:51:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member is right about one thing: They do not balance the budget on the backs of Canadians; they run massive inflationary deficits on the backs of Canadians.
On another matter, our hearts were broken to see a hospital in Gaza struck by a missile. Disinformation peddled by Hamas and regurgitated by CBC was then amplified by the Prime Minister. Does he agree with President Biden that the offending missile originated with terrorists in Gaza?
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