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Matthew Green

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
NDP

Hamilton Centre
Ontario
Voting Attendance: 66%
Expenses Last Quarter: $131,250.15

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)

Nov/20/23 1:15:23 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-56

Madam Speaker, the hon. member would know quite well, perhaps better than most in this House, that people living in northern, rural and remote communities, for decades have seen the high prices of groceries rise due to the lack of competition and the high costs associated with bringing goods to their communities. Does the hon. member agree that programs like Nutrition North must be made into social programs, so people could afford food, not subsidy programs for companies to continue to make massive profits?

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Matthew Green

Nov/20/23 12:48:00 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-56

Madam Speaker, when I asked the hon. member about the commodification of the production of labour, we were clearly talking about the commodification of wages. I would love for him to answer that question. It was a good, fair question, one that underscores much of his argument. I would like him to determine whether he agrees with that statement. Second, does he agrees with the analysis that “the long cherished freedom of competition has reached the end of its tether and is compelled to announce its own palpable bankruptcy.”

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)

Nov/20/23 12:41:38 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-56

Madam Speaker, I have to hand it to the hon. member. I rather enjoy his analysis on monopoly capitalism. He has spoken at length about the ways in which the dominance of corporations have concentrated their power in this stage of capitalism. I wonder if the hon. member would find common ground with me and agree that the battle of competition is fought by cheapening of commodities. “The cheapness of commodities depends, ceteris paribus, on the productiveness of labor, and this again on the scale of production. Therefore, the larger capitals [defeat] smaller.” Further, “the credit system, which begins as a [modest helper] of accumulation,” soon “becomes a new and [formidable] weapon in the [competitive struggle], and is finally transformed into an enormous social mechanism for the centralization of capitals.” Would the hon. member agree with that economic theory? It could have been Adam Smith.

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Context: House Hansard - 251 - Nov/20/23

Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)

Nov/20/23 12:27:48 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-56

Madam Speaker, I heard the hon. member talk about how Liberals believe in the middle class. I would like to believe in Santa Claus too, but at the end of the day, it is the workers who make the presents for the kids. If Liberals believed in the middle class like he says they did, why is it that, as members will recall, they abolished the ministry of the middle class and those working hard to join it? How insulting is it to the working class to suggest that its members are not working hard enough to make ends meet? My question to the hon. member is this: Is it his assertion that working-class people are just not working hard enough to make it to the middle class?

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Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23

Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)

Oct/5/23 5:45:36 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-56

Mr. Speaker, we heard the hon. member speak about the housing crisis. I would like to suggest that what we have is a crisis of capitalism. We have the commodification of people's very existence, identified in the real estate investment trust that the member has highlighted. We have Vanguard, BlackRock and others. In my community, we have nine apartment buildings that are facing renovictions and demovictions. To the people who are going to be meeting in Hamilton in about an hour, from those nine apartment buildings, what do you have to say about the crisis of capitalism and the impacts it has on housing?

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