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House Hansard - 297

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 10, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 297 - Apr/10/24
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Lib.)
  • Apr/10/24 2:30:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the time is always right to talk about the impact of federal investment for Quebeckers. Let us start with child care services. A $6-billion investment over four years is helping give families, and women in particular, 35,000 new child care spaces. Naturally, this is helping boost family income and reduce poverty, while contributing to gender equality and childhood development—without interfering in anyone’s jurisdictions.
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Context: House Hansard - 297 - Apr/10/24
Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Apr/10/24 2:41:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we are investing to build homes in Quebec. For example, with the housing accelerator fund, we are concluding an agreement worth $1.8 billion with the province of Quebec to build 8,000 affordable housing units across the province. The Conservative Party opposes this investment. That is unbelievable. We continue to invest in order to make things better and build more affordable housing as quickly as possible.
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Context: House Hansard - 297 - Apr/10/24
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Apr/10/24 2:58:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what we are hearing is the party of inaction. According to the Conservatives, doing nothing is the answer. Well, no, the people watching us at home know we need to invest in housing, we need to invest in day care, we need to invest in workers. If my colleague from Quebec wants to talk about success, let us look at the biggest private investment in Quebec's history. We attracted Northvolt to make the biggest investment here. From our side of the House, we believe that by investing, we ensure prosperity not only today, but for generations to come.
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Context: House Hansard - 297 - Apr/10/24
Mr. Brendan Hanley (Yukon, Lib.)
  • Apr/10/24 3:07:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government signed bilateral agreements with all 13 provinces and territories this past March. A few weeks ago, in my riding, three agreements were announced with the territorial governments, to invest a total amount of nearly $86 million to improve health care access and services for the Yukon. Can you elaborate on what this health investment means for those living in the Yukon and for all Canadians? This is for the Minister of Health.
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Context: House Hansard - 297 - Apr/10/24
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Apr/10/24 5:39:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech, even though I only had the pleasure of hearing the second part of it, since we were called back to the House at the last minute. The minister just tabled an update of Canada's defence policy, which will invest $8 billion over the next five years. Most of that money will be invested in the final part of those five years, however. In the first part, the investment will be much lower. We are also being told that the $900 million in cuts announced in September will not be reversed. This works out to roughly the same thing, considering what will happen in the first few years. We heard military personnel complain a lot about these cuts and say that they were the first victims of penny-pinching. That is more or less what this motion touches on when it talks about military personnel, who are the first victims of the federal government's penny-pinching at their expense. I would like to know whether the member thinks the government is sending the wrong message by saying that it is going to increase the defence budget but not reverse the cuts, which were made primarily at the expense of military personnel, even though it hopes to improve personnel retention and recruitment in the future, given that our national security depends on it.
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