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House Hansard - 259

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 30, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 2:39:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think any Canadians who are watching us will see where the real hypocrisy is happening. The Conservative leader has been against all of our investments in green energy, including green aluminum, green steel and battery plants across the country. I have never heard the Leader of the Opposition speak in favour of the Canadian economy, the energy transition or Canadian workers. On this side of the House, we will always fight for workers and for the green economy.
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Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 2:42:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there is one number that the Conservative leader will not talk about. It is that Canada ranked third in the world for foreign direct investment. Yesterday, Dow Chemical announced one of its largest investments in 126 years in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. This is going to be thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of hours of construction. This is how one leads the economy. This is how one leads a country. This is how one leads to bring investment to this country.
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Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 2:52:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member gives me the opportunity to talk about an American investment that just happened yesterday. In fact, Dow Chemical made one of the largest investments in 126 years of history. It is going to invest more than $10 billion in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta for the first net-zero ethylene plant in the world. We are going to be producing green plastics. We are going to create jobs. We are going to grow the economy. That is a plan for the future, and we are going to put it in place.
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Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 3:11:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I know the member is a very influential member of his caucus, and people watching would know that. If he wants to give a gift to Canadians before Christmas, why does he not convince his caucus colleagues to vote for the affordability bill? Canadians know that bill would reform competition, one of the most fundamental reforms in Canadian history. It would give more power to the Competition Bureau and we will make sure it can do the study. Canadians know that the best way to stabilize prices in the country for the mid to long term is to have more competition. We are going to do the right thing for Canadians once and for all.
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Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 3:26:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am afraid I will have to say that we will take no lessons from a party with a leader who, when he was employment minister, oversaw the loss of not 3,000 manufacturing jobs, not the loss of 30,000 of them, but the loss of 300,000 manufacturing jobs in this country. Would this man like to tell us what to do? Canadians know better. We will continue to invest in Windsor. We will invest in the auto sector. We will invest in our workers. We will invest in a prosperous Canada.
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Context: House Hansard - 259 - Nov/30/23
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Nov/30/23 3:29:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is right to put on his glasses and he should start writing down some numbers. The Conservatives have not supported a single investment in the battery industry. They opposed the GM investment, they oppose the Ford investment and they opposed the Northvolt investment. They opposed the Volkswagen investment and now they oppose the Stellantis investment, which will create 2,500 jobs at the plant and up to 2,300 jobs to build the plant. That is outrageous. Canadians can see which side the Conservatives are on. They are definitely against workers.
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