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House Hansard - 114

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 20, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC)
  • Oct/20/22 2:05:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, runaway inflation is hurting Canadian students. The University of Alberta campus food bank is facing the highest demand ever. In the past year, the food bank has gone from serving fewer than 300 families to having more than 1,100 clients. Most of these new food bank users are international students. Four litres of milk is $1 more than last year, and it costs 60¢ more for a loaf of bread. That may not seem like much to the Prime Minister, but it is a hardship for students on fixed budgets. With price hikes already on textbooks and rent, it is no wonder students cannot afford to feed themselves. Why is the government making it so hard for students to be successful?
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Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Oct/20/22 2:36:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to our great surprise today, the Minister of Finance is now taking inspiration from the Leader of the Opposition's speeches. She realizes that budgets do not balance themselves and is asking ministers to find savings before proposing new programs. Hallelujah. The problem is that she should have listened to the member for Carleton much sooner. The Liberals added $100 billion to the national debt before COVID-19, and they added $500 billion to the national debt before Russia's war on Ukraine, $200 billion of which was completely unrelated to COVID-19. How can they be trusted to manage the inflation they themselves have created?
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Context: House Hansard - 114 - Oct/20/22
Mr. Blake Desjarlais (Edmonton Griesbach, NDP)
  • Oct/20/22 4:34:06 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, what I believe is an important piece to this, which was mentioned by the Conservative bench and I want to give it credit for that, is the fact that the current Liberal government has increased the production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with its plan. However, what we are also seeing on the other end is that its budgets are continuing to pad the pockets of rich big oil and making sure they can continue to increase production. These two are connected. When will the current government come clean and actually do the work?
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