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- Bloc Québécois
- Trois-Rivières
- Quebec
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- Apr/29/24 6:16:19 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to hear my colleague's thoughts on how often these budget measures interfere in Quebec's jurisdictions. I could give one example after another. It is starting to get ridiculous.
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- Apr/29/24 5:14:42 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. He has a big heart, and it shows in everything he says.
Where this budget talks about health care, it directly infringes on a jurisdiction of the Province of Quebec. Health care is a shared jurisdiction, and the federal government should not interfere with it.
I think that the budget before us shows interference. Despite the good intentions voiced by my colleague, I would like to know how much importance he places on that interference.
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- Feb/26/24 4:28:49 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Longueuil—Saint-Hubert for his passionate speech. I would like to ask him a question that has really been bothering me.
Last December, I received a letter from an organization in Trois‑Rivières, Les Artisans de la paix. They told me that their budget had been cut by $79,000 under the Reaching Home program.
We are seeing more and more homeless people on the streets in Trois‑Rivières. A lot of people are experiencing homelessness. The distress is very real. I would like to ask my colleague the following question.
When I get letters like the one from Robert Tardif, executive director of Les Artisans de la paix, who says that it is totally irresponsible and inconceivable to make cuts to such a program, how should I reply, in light of the 3% budget cut to the Reaching Home program?
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- Feb/12/24 5:40:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I heard my colleague's passionate speech here, as well as that of my colleague across the way, and I have a question.
Where will the funding for this national council for reconciliation come from? There were some figures provided in 2019, but now we are talking about adding investigators, monitoring and recommending measures. Where will this budget come from? The bill does not mention that.
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- Apr/27/23 8:06:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. We have been serving together on the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics for some time now, and I tend to really value his judgment.
I would like to ask him the following question. In his opinion, with all the experience he has, is this a good budget or a bad budget?
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- Apr/27/23 3:58:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his brilliant speech. I would, however, like him to clarify something for me. I heard him criticize the government for making non-recurring investments rather than structural ones.
When I look at what is happening with the budget, I get the impression that the government is investing based on events. I would like to know what my colleague thinks about that.
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- Apr/25/22 5:58:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has been promising a high-frequency train in my riding of Trois‑Rivières since 2015. This train is an election promise more than anything else.
In the current budget, the sum of $400 million appears to have been allocated to finding an external partner to draw up plans that may be used for something.
How confident does my colleague feel about the government's proposals when the train project has been in the works for 10 years and will probably never see the light of day?
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- Mar/28/22 5:03:10 p.m.
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- Re: Bill C-8
Madam Speaker, last weekend, I attended the Trois-Rivières book fair, where I met people who asked me what is happening with the budget.
It seems to me that this budget signals that the government is tired. It contains very little to address the labour shortage and mismanages supply problems.
One issue I care about, which we will talk at length about but is nowhere to be found in the budget, is the fight against tax havens. What does my colleague believe could be done to step up the fight against tax havens? At present, there is nothing in the budget about that. What can be done to crack down on people who use tax havens?
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