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House Hansard - 175

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 29, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 175 - Mar/29/23
Hon. Randy Boissonnault (Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • Mar/29/23 3:14:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Hamilton Mountain for her hard work on the file. The budget aims to ensure that Canadians have more money in their pockets and invest in the challenges that we are facing today. It delivers on affordability by making sure there is a new grocery rebate that will help 11 million Canadians. It stabilizes and invests in our health care system in the long term, and it makes transformative investments to fight climate change, to build the economy of the future and to support Canadian businesses. That is what budget 2023 is about: delivering for Canadians.
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Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Mar/29/23 3:14:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we need to fight the climate crisis like we actually want to win. There is an incredible opportunity. If we make the right investments to tackle the climate crisis and tie that to good jobs, good union jobs and good wages, we can actually create positive economic growth. We did that in this budget. We forced the government to have strings attached to investments so that any dollar that goes to a company has to be tied to guarantees for good wages, good salaries and good union jobs. Will the government commit to having strings attached to good jobs, good pay and union jobs for any future investments to incentivize business?
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Hon. Randy Boissonnault (Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • Mar/29/23 3:15:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. leader of the NDP for raising this question because we have done something in budget 2023 that is new and demonstrates leadership by our Liberal government. In the top investment tax credits, whether it is clean technology, hydrogen or the clean electricity grid, to earn the top credits, there needs to be labour participation. That labour participation needs to include apprentices. It will mean prevailing wages, as our labour partners asked. We are delivering for union workers, and we are delivering for Canadians.
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Mr. Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre, GP)
  • Mar/29/23 3:16:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people with disabilities deserve better from the government. When the government was serious about child care, first came a federal investment of $30 billion, then agreements with provinces and territories and then legislation. However, for Canadians with disabilities living in poverty, yesterday's budget told them to just keep waiting, putting billions for a car on the moon and new gifts for oil and gas companies ahead of their basic needs. When will the government stop pretending agreements and legislation must be done before it puts some money on the table?
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Mr. Irek Kusmierczyk (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Lib.)
  • Mar/29/23 3:16:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in Canada, no person with a disability should live in poverty. That is why we are creating the Canada disability benefit, a thoughtfully designed income supplement with the potential to seriously reduce poverty and improve financial security for hundreds of thousands of working-age persons with disabilities from coast to coast to coast. On February 3, Bill C-22 passed unanimously in this House, and it is currently being studied at a Senate committee. We look forward to its swift passage. I am pleased to say that budget 2023 provides funding of $21.5 million to continue work on the Canada disability benefit.
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The Speaker
  • Mar/29/23 3:17:30 p.m.
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I wish to draw the attention of hon. members to the presence in the gallery of the Honourable Derek Bennett, Speaker of the House of Assembly for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Some hon. members: Hear, hear!
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Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (Senate), Lib.)
  • Mar/29/23 3:18:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday just before we adjourned, you made it very clear to the House that we are only supposed to address people by their riding or their title. However, yet again today we have seen, and in particular from the member for Calgary Forest Lawn, the use of names. I am not going to repeat it. Basically, he did not use the minister's real title, but rather a fictitious title he decided to make up. I wonder if you could once again remind the House of this very important rule and perhaps even ask the member to apologize.
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The Speaker
  • Mar/29/23 3:18:33 p.m.
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Does the hon. member for Calgary Forest Lawn want to respond? No, he does not. I want to remind everyone, regardless of what side they are on, to please use respectful language and show some respect to each other. When we show disrespect, it bleeds out and comes back to bite us. We will check Hansard, find out exactly what was said and go from there. The hon. member for Winnipeg Centre is rising on a point of order.
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Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)
  • Mar/29/23 3:19:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in describing increased rates of crime on the streets during question period, the member for Carleton used the derogatory term “savage”, which is often used to describe indigenous people. Not only is that term racist, but it is also unparliamentary. I want to invite the member for Carleton to retract that word and apologize.
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The Speaker
  • Mar/29/23 3:19:36 p.m.
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Once again we will look into it, see exactly what the context was of the use and come back to it if we see it to be necessary. We have another point of order, the hon. member for Edmonton Griesbach.
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Mr. Blake Desjarlais (Edmonton Griesbach, NDP)
  • Mar/29/23 3:20:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to speak to the previous point of order that was just raised and the use of derogatory language in this place. Right now as we speak, there are members of the Conservatives who are trying to speak over us on a really serious issue. The use of that unparliamentary language is not satisfactory to the members of the House, including many of the indigenous members. I ask that the Speaker take seriously the consideration by the member for Winnipeg Centre and that this word be retracted.
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The Speaker
  • Mar/29/23 3:20:02 p.m.
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I want to repeat what I just said. We will take a look in Hansard at the context of what was said, and I will get back to the House should I see fit.
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The Speaker
It being 3:20 p.m., pursuant to order made on Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of C-226 under Private Members' Business. Call in the members.
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The Speaker
I declare the motion carried.
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The Speaker
Pursuant to order made Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of Bill C-234 under Private Members' Business.
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The Speaker
I declare the motion carried.
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Ms. Monique Pauzé
Mr. Speaker, there were serious technical problems and I was unable to submit my vote for the first vote. I would ask for unanimous consent to do so now.
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The Speaker
Does the hon. member have the unanimous consent of the House? Some hon. members: Agreed. The Speaker: Consent is granted and the member may cast her vote.
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Hon. Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle, CPC)
  • Mar/29/23 3:48:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to add to the point of order that was raised by the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre, who took issue with the use of the word “savage”. I want to provide some context. On October 30, 2020, the member herself used that word in her intervention. On December 7, 2018, in Hansard, the NDP member for North Island—Powell River used that word as well. The Chair did not have any problem with that. The hon. member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie used it on June 7, 2021. I understand that the NDP likes to fake outrage, but it is ironic because this party has no problem propping up a government led by someone who has performed racist acts so many times that he has lost count— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • Mar/29/23 3:49:41 p.m.
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I think it started off as a point of order, but it kind of went into debate. As I mentioned, I will be looking into it to see the context of how it was said and then go from there. The hon. member for Winnipeg Centre is rising on a point of order.
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