44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 2, 2024 10:00AM
- May/2/24 12:40:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the hon. minister on his speech. My area has the second-largest group of people who came from his province to work in the resource sector for many years, and we have a strong connection with his province. I appreciate that he believes the resource sector is responsible, and its workers have tremendous skills.
The one thing I would ask him is this: What is the government going to build, and what resource sector would it depend on for all the parts and pieces to build it and the fluids to drive it?
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- May/2/24 1:09:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member opposite for his passionate speech. He should look at joining a theatre group somewhere along the way.
Why can we not do them all? Could we not do wind energy, oil energy and tidal energy? We have got an ideal spot to start it right in the Maritimes, the Atlantic provinces, to do just that.
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- May/2/24 3:09:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in this House, all members are entitled to be treated by other members with a presumption of being honourable. That is not what this member has just done. I would invite him to carefully consider the words he just employed while doing a speech into a television camera, one that he would never do were we outside this chamber. I would invite that member to be very, very careful with his words in the future.
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- May/2/24 4:09:25 p.m.
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The hon. member will have time for his speech very shortly, but I have to give the hon. member for Kings—Hants an opportunity to answer.
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- May/2/24 4:21:38 p.m.
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I recall hearing that, so it is in Hansard.
The hon. member may resume his speech.
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- May/2/24 5:11:19 p.m.
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We are not going to start that debate. The member made a comparison about who is listening to whom, but let us keep it at that and continue with the speech, please, on the point in question.
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- May/2/24 5:22:56 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, even by the member from Winnipeg's standards that speech was something else. He did not talk about the bill at all.
I listened to the member for Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame's speech. He is from Newfoundland and Labrador. There were a lot of people he consulted with, like those from the united fishermen's associations and a lot of people on the ground. He said a representative group of 14,000 fishermen had concerns with the bill, and they put forward amendment no. 56 so that it could work for both the fishing company and renewable resources.
I am wondering why those peoples' voices do not matter to my colleague and he listens only to the ones in his head.
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- May/2/24 6:32:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I believe that you will find that you have already recognized the member for London—Fanshawe; she has begun her speech and is 40 seconds in. I would urge you to allow her to continue the speech and ensure that the next speaking order is addressed to the other parties.
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- May/2/24 6:43:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, “scintilla” is not a word I hear a lot. I appreciate the vocabulary from the member, although the tone is certainly not appropriate. I want to do everything I possibly can to work together, as I said in my speech, to ensure that things are better.
Was the budget an NDP budget? If the member had maybe caught my speech a couple of days ago about the budget, I was very clear that it was not. However, the division that we consistently see, the trying to tear down this institution, is unhelpful. I will do everything I possibly can to honour the institution and to work as hard as I possibly can to ensure that people in the armed forces get what they need. It may not be perfect, but we need to move forward, and we need to do that together.
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- May/2/24 6:46:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am confused and actually troubled by part of the tone of the member's speech. I am quite aligned with the member on most of the underlying issues. The housing crisis in our armed forces is one we agree on. I do not understand why she used such bizarre terminology, calling a debate on an issue that desperately needs attention the weaponization of housing. She said that she is concerned about an attack on our institutions when using the tools available to us to have the debate. How on earth is this anything other than an exercise in Parliament, doing what it is supposed to do, which is to improve upon legislation and the lives of Canadians through debate, getting ideas and points of view across, and to hold the government to account?
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- May/2/24 7:28:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I did find the speech quite stimulating, but my head is fine. I hope, for the hon. member who just spoke, it is the same.
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- May/2/24 7:28:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I listened very carefully to that speech. It is great the way the member for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke does not pull punches. We all know how she feels, and I really find that refreshing in the House.
As the member said in her speech, she represents the largest base in the country. I think she would know better than anyone in this place how the housing costs affect the morale of the forces and how it is a factor in the crisis of recruitment and retention, which has been identified from the chief of the defence staff on down as the most important crisis facing the forces.
Can the member talk about this from her experience representing the people so affected by these things, such as the rent increase we are talking about?
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- May/2/24 7:31:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the member another question because there was a lot to unpack in her speech.
The condition of housing is critical as well. The member knows, from her experience representing the largest base, about the really deplorable condition of barracks and, in some cases, PMQs and residential housing units. Can she talk about what she has heard right on the ground from the forces about the condition of their living conditions, and the working conditions, because it is the buildings beyond the housing units as well.
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