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House Hansard - 304

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 29, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 304 - Apr/29/24
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • Apr/29/24 12:49:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on her excellent speech. It is wonderful to see just how much she takes her constituents' interests to heart. I want to give her the opportunity to highlight a few points that she would have liked to raise but could not, since she ran out of time.
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Context: House Hansard - 304 - Apr/29/24
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • Apr/29/24 2:03:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a truly great man passed away on Saturday. Jean-Pierre Ferland, known to all as our petit roi, is mourned by his wife, his family and millions of grieving subjects. Quebec swayed to his music for more than 65 years. He was born in Montreal like a flower blooming in a cracked sidewalk and later settled in Saint-Norbert. He bestowed upon us hundreds of songs, each a masterpiece. From Immortels and Écoute pas ça to Je reviens chez nous and Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin, his repertoire is marvellous and monumental. He sang of love and women his whole life long. His magnum opus, Jaune, was a massive success and perhaps the greatest album in Quebec history. Fortunately, he is not really gone, not truly. I will always be with you On your shoulders, in your lapI am because we must exist The artist café's constant cat I am grateful to Jean-Pierre. We were lucky to have had him.
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Context: House Hansard - 304 - Apr/29/24
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • Apr/29/24 4:15:38 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, one of the Bloc Québécois's budget requests was to reimburse Quebec for taking in asylum seekers. We estimate the cost at roughly $900 million. My colleague's political party boasts that it would interfere less in the jurisdictions of Quebec and the provinces. Does my colleague think that decent reimbursement of the money that Quebec spent on an area of federal responsibility should have been included in the budget?
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Context: House Hansard - 304 - Apr/29/24
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • Apr/29/24 5:45:39 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her intervention. What we have here is a budget that is full of interference and inefficiency. That is what happens when, for example, the government encroaches on areas under the jurisdiction of the provinces and Quebec and subcontracts projects to private companies. ArriveCAN recently showed us what happens when projects are subcontracted to private companies. The same thing is going to happen. It is just going to make things more inefficient. I know that my colleague is going to say that she supports the government and its budget. However, is she not bothered by the fact that this is going to create inefficiency and waste public money, all to benefit private companies? There is a very simple and easy initiative the government could launch at the same time. It could increase old age security starting at age 65. We have been asking for this for years, but the government stubbornly refuses to do it.
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