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House Hansard - 273

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 1, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Feb/1/24 2:27:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is interesting. The Bloc does not want to blame immigrants, yet they are telling us to amend our plans. I would like to ask the Bloc members from rural ridings to go and visit the farmers in their ridings to see where they are finding workers. Would they want to reduce the number of temporary workers? The Bloc members need to answer the question, because it is a very important one that needs an answer.
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Feb/1/24 2:42:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we can hear the members laughing, but yesterday in the House, the leader of the Bloc Québécois compared immigrants to heat pumps. Then, during my announcement of more than $300 million to help house refugees, he was talking about social housing. They are not taking this seriously. It is an issue that needs to be taken seriously. We are not negotiating with the federal member for Beloeil—Chambly, the leader of the Bloc Québécois. We are negotiating with a serious government, the Quebec government.
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Hon. Pablo Rodriguez (Minister of Transport, Lib.)
  • Feb/1/24 2:44:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is not doing anything. Apart from asking questions in the House, Bloc members are doing absolutely nothing while the minister works, collaborates and holds discussions with Quebec. We started by contributing $50 million. That is a huge amount. Next we paid close to $70 million, and yesterday, $100 million. That is a lot of money. The Bloc should not ridicule these financial efforts. We commend the Quebec government for the enormous amount of work it has done. We applaud the work done by the Government of Canada, which has been also enormous. We will continue to work collaboratively despite what the Bloc wants, which is bickering. There are no quarrels here. We are working together.
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Context: House Hansard - 273 - Feb/1/24
Mr. Richard Martel (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, CPC)
  • Feb/1/24 2:57:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of this government, people are running out of money. Food banks were emptied over the holidays. We have found out that the Bloc Québécois fully supports the Liberals' policies and wants to hike the infamous carbon tax yet again. Voting for the Bloc Québécois is costly for people in the regions, because the Bloc Québécois has lost touch with regional realities, as we know. Could the Liberals come back down to Earth and support our common-sense motion by at least refraining from raising the tax on April 1?
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