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House Hansard - 144

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 8, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 144 - Dec/8/22
Mr. Mark Strahl (Chilliwack—Hope, CPC)
  • Dec/8/22 2:36:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal program and plan is a total and complete failure. Food inflation is at a 40-year high. One in five Canadians are skipping meals to try to make ends meet; 1.5 million Canadians used the food bank in one month alone, and 500,000 of them were children. Canadians cannot afford these Liberal inflationary policies. They cannot afford to feed their families. Why do the Liberals not stop with the inflationary spending, stop making everything more expensive, and let Canadians get back to providing for their families?
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Hon. Karina Gould (Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:36:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what Canadians cannot afford is bad financial advice from the Conservatives opposite. If Canadians had taken their advice and invested in crypto, they would have seen their savings wiped out. Instead, on this side of the House, we have been there to support Canadians. The Canada child benefit has lifted over 450,000 children out of poverty since 2015. Two million fewer Canadians are living in poverty thanks to the investments that the government has made in Canadians. We trust Canadians; we believe in Canadians, and we are going to keep investing in them. I just wish the members opposite would do the same.
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Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • Dec/8/22 2:37:36 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, urged banks to join the fight against climate change. He wants them to do one simple thing: Come up with verifiable plans for a swift transition to renewable energy. Meanwhile, Canada's big banks are among the top 20 fossil fuel backers in the world. A lot of oil money comes from Canadian banks. Will the government implement measures to encourage banks, our banks, to focus on renewable energy?
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Ms. Julie Dabrusin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:38:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about everything we are doing for the environment. We said we would stop putting money into fossil fuels. We are also working hard to conserve and protect our lands and waters. We are doing that now. We are talking about it here, in Montreal and internationally. Everyone came to see what we are doing. We are proud of what we are doing to protect the environment.
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Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • Dec/8/22 2:38:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the federal government subsidizes the oil industry, but so does the Canadian banking sector. In two years, the Royal Bank of Canada's investments in oil rose from $19 billion to $39 billion. That is a lot of money. It more than doubled its investments in two years. If the government was truly committed to fighting climate change, it would do two things. It would make it harder to obtain funding for polluting energies and it would provide incentives for investing in renewable energy. It has done neither. What is the government waiting for? Will it take action only when there is not one drop of oil left to siphon?
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Mr. Terry Duguid (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:39:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the hon. member, we are committed to concerted climate action, and that is why we have the most ambitious climate plan in Canada's history: $100 billion have been invested since 2015; we have a $9.1-billion emissions reduction plan, and we are working to cap emissions from the oil and gas sector. We are going to be eliminating fossil fuel subsidies. We are introducing a clean electricity standard. We are going to reach our climate goals while building a clean economy.
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Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Dec/8/22 2:40:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, at COP15, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a million square kilometres of protected areas. That is extraordinary. The animals will be able to live in peace and the plants and trees will be protected. What a nice gesture for biodiversity. The only thing is that these protected areas must not interfere in the development of natural resources. The areas will be protected unless there is an oil, gas, or mining project. If protected areas can be used for any kind of development at any time, how exactly are they being protected?
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Ms. Julie Dabrusin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:40:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I will say again that we are doing a lot to protect biodiversity and our environment. We have the oceans protection plan and we are making investments in that. I am very pleased that members opposite talked about what we did for the indigenous-led area-based conservation program. A big investment in that program was announced just yesterday. That is important for reconciliation and for the environment.
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Mr. Dane Lloyd (Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC)
  • Dec/8/22 2:41:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, just moments ago the Assembly of First Nations, which represents indigenous people across Canada, issued a declaration publicly opposing the Liberals' Bill C-21. This Liberal hunting gun grab is not only a threat to the livelihood of hunters, trappers and sport shooters but a violation of the treaty hunting rights of all first nations. When will the Prime Minister end his attack on law-abiding hunters and indigenous treaty rights and stop Bill C-21?
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Mr. Vance Badawey (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:41:52 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, today Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, alongside the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, requested two urgent meetings to be held immediately. The premise behind this is to work together with the Bloc and the NDP. Unfortunately, the Conservatives continue to be part of the problem versus being part of the solution. The mission here is to get guns off the street—
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Ms. Raquel Dancho
  • Dec/8/22 2:42:23 p.m.
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You are lying. Some hon. members: Oh, oh! An hon. member: Do not let us hear that again.
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The Speaker
  • Dec/8/22 2:42:23 p.m.
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Does the hon. member for Kildonan—St. Paul want to withdraw the statement she made, please?
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Ms. Raquel Dancho
  • Dec/8/22 2:43:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the statement.
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The Speaker
  • Dec/8/22 2:43:12 p.m.
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Will she apologize? Some hon. members: Oh, oh! The Speaker: I am going to ask one more time for the hon. member for Kildonan—St. Paul to apologize. She is not going to apologize.
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The Speaker
  • Dec/8/22 2:45:23 p.m.
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Ms. Dancho, I must name you for disregarding the authority of the Chair. Pursuant to authority granted to me by Standing Order 11, I order you to withdraw from the House and video conferences for the remainder of this day's sitting. [And Ms. Dancho having withdrawn:] The Speaker: The hon. parliamentary secretary may finish what he was saying.
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Mr. Vance Badawey
  • Dec/8/22 2:46:31 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity, as well, to thank the Bloc, and in particular its MPs, those who are on the committee and the one who brought the motion forward. I thank them for that, and I also thank the NDP. The key here is that we work together with different organizations and different members of the House to ensure, once again, that we get those dangerous weapons off the streets.
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Mr. Dane Lloyd (Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC)
  • Dec/8/22 2:47:05 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, consultation at this late stage in the process is an act of bad faith by the government. It is a slap in the face to reconciliation. The government needs to go back to the drawing board and consult with first nations and hunters across this country before coming up with any new legislation on this matter. It is black and white. The Assembly of First Nations knows it; the Conservatives know it, and all other parties know it. The government denied it for weeks, saying it was not going after hunting rifles and shotguns, but now it is finally admitting it. It knows it was misleading the House. When will the government stop going after law-abiding hunters and sport shooters?
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Ms. Pam Damoff (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety, Lib.)
  • Dec/8/22 2:48:02 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, the government has been very clear that it is not targeting the guns commonly used for hunting. I applaud the members of the Bloc— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • Dec/8/22 2:48:11 p.m.
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Order. I would ask the parliamentary secretary to continue.
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Ms. Pam Damoff
  • Dec/8/22 2:48:16 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, I applaud the members of the Bloc and the NDP for working with us to try to come up with solutions while the Conservative Party is just looking for problems. The committee is doing the important work it needs to do on this legislation. I invite the hon. members from the Conservative Party to join us in finding solutions and supporting our emergency motion for a meeting to invite witnesses to come to committee.
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