44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 26, 2023 02:00PM
- Apr/26/23 2:50:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, members just witnessed, once again, the demagoguery of a Prime Minister who divides to distract. He calls indigenous Canadians in Nunavut, who hunt for sustenance, Americans. He calls our patriotic farmers, who use rifles for pest control, Americans. He calls decent, hard-working, law-abiding citizens, who have never broken a law in their lives, Americans because they disagree with his plan to ban hunting rifles.
Will he stop dividing to distract and start going after the real criminals?
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- Apr/26/23 2:50:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the length to which the Leader of the Opposition will go to try to pretend that he is not in the pocket of the NRA is quite humorous. The reality is that the talking points they are putting out there are completely disconnected from any reality.
Three years ago, we made the decision to render assault-style weapons, weapons designed to kill the largest number of people as quickly as possible, illegal in our communities in this country. We banned them from being bought, sold or used. This is what we are continuing with. This is what he stands against.
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- Apr/26/23 2:51:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he put all the resources into going after licensed law-abiding, trained and tested firearms' owners, who are statistically the least likely people to commit a crime. Meanwhile, he has turned loose onto our streets repeat violent offenders who have committed literally dozens of violent offences. In Vancouver, under his bail regime, the same 40 people had to be arrested 6,000 times. That is what he has brought to our streets: crime, chaos, drugs and disorder.
Why will he not start going after the real criminals with common sense in our justice system?
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- Apr/26/23 2:52:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if Conservative Party members were serious about going after crime, they would support our freeze on handguns. They would support the fact that we have banned assault-style weapons, which is something they continue to avoid, dodge, and spread misinformation and disinformation on.
The reality is that we have continued to invest in police when the Conservative government before me cut services and funding to police. They cut services to CBSA. They cut initiatives that actually kept Canadians safe, and now they are just in the pockets of the NRA.
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- Apr/26/23 2:52:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he banned BB guns, paint guns and the hunting rifles of indigenous and rural Canadians, but enough about that. Let us just have the facts. Under the Conservative government, violent crime went down 22%. Under the Prime Minister, it has gone up 32%. There has been a 92% increase in violent gang crime under the Prime Minister. Those are the facts.
Will he listen to the facts and the common sense and go after the real violent criminals, instead of targeting law-abiding rifle owners and hunters?
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- Apr/26/23 2:53:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if the member opposite wants to look at numbers, he should perhaps look at the number of assault-style weapons purchased by Canadians under the 10 years of Stephen Harper's government. He would see the challenges we are facing right now.
The fact is—
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- Apr/26/23 2:53:43 p.m.
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I am sorry. I am going to have to interrupt the Right Hon. Prime Minister again. I am having a hard time hearing his answer. I know there are some people who get excited when we talk about certain items. I would like for them to take a deep breath.
Now that everybody has taken that breath, the Right Hon. Prime Minister can begin from the top, please.
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- Apr/26/23 2:54:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, members cannot be serious about keeping our communities safe if they stand against gun control. That is consistently what the Conservatives have done, by spreading misinformation and disinformation when we are going after assault-style weapons, putting a freeze on handguns, and not going after law-abiding hunters and fishers.
They are using that to try to scare people, when the reality is that keeping Canadians safe requires a multi-faceted approach. It means investing more in CBSA, which has doubled the number of interdicted guns coming across the border.
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- Apr/26/23 2:54:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, public service workers have been waiting for over two years for a fair contract. Liberals like to talk a lot about workers' rights, but when they offer workers in the public sector what is effectively a pay cut when they are asking for salaries that keep up with inflation, they are no better than Conservatives.
Will the Prime Minister get serious about these workers, cancel his trip and get these workers a fair contract?
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- Apr/26/23 2:55:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we take seriously the responsibility of engaging constructively with labour unions. That is why we are, right now, at the negotiating table. That is why our negotiators have put forward an offer that is aligned perfectly with the recommendation of third-party experts as a pathway to solution, and it is certainly something that we are going to be able to build on together and see built on at the negotiating table.
We have full confidence, not just in our negotiators and our minister, but in the union negotiators, who are fighting for better opportunities for their folks, and we know that is how we get to the right deal at the table.
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- Apr/26/23 2:55:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is starting to get ridiculous. In our country, Galen Weston earns over 430 times what the median income of an employee at his company—
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- Apr/26/23 2:56:07 p.m.
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I would ask everybody to keep it down.
If the member for Burnaby South could start from the top, please, I would appreciate it.
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- Apr/26/23 2:56:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this situation and the Conservatives are getting ridiculous. We have a situation where Galen Weston is earning over 430 times the median income of an employee at his company, and the Prime Minister wants to do nothing about that, but a janitor working in the public service cannot even have a salary that keeps up with inflation. What is going on with that picture?
I know that the janitor cannot offer the Prime Minister a fancy vacation, but the Prime Minister should agree that the janitor deserves respect. Will he cancel his trip and negotiate a fair contract for these workers?
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- Apr/26/23 2:57:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the very first things, no, the very first thing we did when we came to office was lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest 1%. Unfortunately, not just the Conservatives voted against that. The NDP voted against that back when we first got elected.
The reality is that we will continue to step up for the middle class. We will continue to invest in things such as child care, dental care, public health care, and supports for seniors and students. We know that one builds a strong economy from the bottom up and the centre out. That is exactly what we are doing.
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- Apr/26/23 2:57:45 p.m.
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Everybody is excited today. I have found something that has worked in the past. I have a list here that has been worked on by both sides. This is the only tool I have. I can work with this list and follow it, or I can bounce around wherever. The folks in the back, who are at the end of the list, might want to prepare because they may be called on for a question.
The hon. member for Guelph.
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- Apr/26/23 2:58:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, workers and families in southwestern Ontario still remember the Ford plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, being shuttered in 2011. It put thousands out of work, and it left the region's once thriving auto sector on life support. These types of closures were just all too common under the Harper Conservatives, which is one reason why this week's historic announcement with Volkswagen has come to them as such welcome news. Of course, not everyone in this chamber welcomed this historic investment.
While Conservatives may choose to attack the deal, could the Prime Minister update the House on what it means for our communities, our economy and our environment?
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- Apr/26/23 2:58:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Guelph for his extraordinary hard work.
Volkswagen's decision to build its first North American battery facility in Canada is a generational investment in jobs and clean growth. The plant will create thousands of direct and tens of thousands indirect jobs in St. Thomas and across Canada's battery and EV ecosystems.
While the Leader of the Opposition continues to bet against Canada and our workers, and prefers to call it a waste, on this side, we will continue to push for a strong economy, good-paying jobs and cleaner air.
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- Apr/26/23 2:59:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the average Canadian household would have to spend 63% of its pre-tax income to make monthly payments on the average home, something that is mathematically impossible. Some are now having to pay $2,400 to rent a room in a townhouse, not the whole townhouse, but a room, and the privilege of having five or six other roommates with them, after house prices and housing costs have doubled under the Prime Minister.
How did he spend so much to achieve such bad results?
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- Apr/26/23 3:00:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of a Conservative government's underinvesting in housing if investing at all, we brought forward in 2017 a national housing strategy that has created new opportunities for millions of Canadians to get into homes. We have continued to invest in things like the housing accelerator that works with municipalities to create hundreds of thousands of new homes over the coming years. We are doubling housing creation over the next 10 years with investments like the rapid housing accelerator, with direct supports for homebuyers and with tax-free savings accounts. There is no one silver bullet on this, but we are delivering them all.
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- Apr/26/23 3:00:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he has an accelerator. I have news for him: People cannot live in an accelerator; they have to live in a house or apartment.
Under the Prime Minister's leadership, the cost of an average two-bedroom apartment has doubled from $1,172 to $2,205. The cost of an average mortgage payment has doubled to over $3,000 and now the share of their monthly income that people have to spend to own the average home is two-thirds, which is by far a record-smashing number. Again, how did the Prime Minister spend so much to achieve such horrible results for homebuyers?
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