44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 10, 2023 02:00PM
- May/10/23 3:01:52 p.m.
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The hon. Leader of the Opposition.
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- May/10/23 3:01:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to be blunt, his policies are killing people.
The number of overdose deaths that have happened in this country, in British Columbia in particular, where the policies of this government and the NDP are most advanced, are up by 300%. Those deaths were 75% lower before these policies came into place. Worse, beyond just subsidizing deadly drugs, now he wants to decriminalize crack, heroin and cocaine in partnership with the NDP government in B.C.
This policy is insane. It is killing people. Will the Prime Minister reverse it before it is too late for more Canadians?
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- May/10/23 3:02:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the ideological fearmongering coming from the Conservatives is all too typical and too unfortunate.
We have seen this kind of rhetoric before—
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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- May/10/23 3:02:50 p.m.
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I am sorry, but I am going to have to stop everything again. We will wait a few seconds.
The hon. Prime Minister, since you had just started, please start from the top.
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- May/10/23 3:02:57 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the ideological fearmongering from the Conservatives is alarming. It is the kind of rhetoric that we have seen all too often from the American far right and now here in Canada.
We need to stay grounded in what the frontline responders are telling us, in what the frontline doctors and health experts have been doing to save lives across the country.
We will continue to work on a harm reduction approach. We will continue to work with frontline partners. We will not be swayed by the ideological approach of the Conservatives on supporting people as we fight this epidemic.
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- May/10/23 3:03:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what is truly alarming is a walk through many of our inner-city streets. There he will see tent cities where people are lying face-first on the ground, because he has flooded those streets with taxpayer-funded drugs and has signed a deal with the NDP to decriminalize crack, heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs. He has imported this ideological and extremist policy from failed big American cities where the result has been exactly the same.
Will he finally abandon his reckless and extremist policies in favour of a common-sense plan that gives recovery and brings home our people?
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- May/10/23 3:04:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it feels like it is déjà vu all over again.
We spent years in opposition fighting against the Stephen Harper ideological approach that stood against harm reduction, that allowed people to die in the streets and that criminalized drug users.
That failed. Canadians chose a different path in 2017, one grounded in evidence, science, compassion and a health approach to treating addictions, not a justice-system approach to treating victims.
We will not take any lessons from that ideologically driven, fact-free Conservative Party of Canada.
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- May/10/23 3:05:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the idea of a larger and therefore cheaper workforce is a McKinsey specialty called “breaking workers”. This is the same McKinsey that made no mention of French or Quebec in their proposal. The so-called progressives in this House should be ashamed of this policy.
Is the Prime Minister saying that he will bring in 500,000 immigrants a year as cheap labour, yet we are the ones who will pay?
He will be able to read his answer in tomorrow's Journal de Montréal.
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- May/10/23 3:05:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, entrepreneurs across Quebec and the country need workers. Our communities want to welcome new families who can come and fill the needs for the economic growth that is on the horizon.
We are here to welcome not just newcomers, but new Canadians and new Quebeckers who will continue to help build our country for generations to come.
Yes, we are going to continue to be there to defend French and to deliver on francophone immigration, but we are also going to be there to create opportunities for all, in both official languages, to achieve solid economic growth.
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- May/10/23 3:06:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have a Prime Minister who is about to speak about himself in the third person, who says he consulted 3,000 organizations or people, but not Quebec, because those they intend to harm do not get consulted.
What does he have to say to this growing number of people who realize, say and write that the only solution is Quebec's sovereignty?
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- May/10/23 3:06:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is immediately obvious what the Bloc Québécois is focusing on and always ends up arguing about.
They just want Quebec and Ottawa to argue. They only want to bicker with the federal government because they are not interested in Canada's economic growth, or in creating bilingual communities with two flourishing official languages, and they are not interested in having a stronger Canada.
They have already lost two referendums, but we will continue to be there to work with Quebeckers and the Government of Quebec to provide a more prosperous future in French.
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- May/10/23 3:07:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, here are the choices: The Prime Minister is generally outside the country and the Bloc Québécois wants a referendum to break up the country. There is only the Conservative Party who wants things to be more affordable and for people to have bigger paycheques and a better country. That is the choice.
Let us talk about choice. The Prime Minister wants to bring in a second carbon tax that will increase the cost of fuel.
How much will Canadians have to pay for the second carbon tax that the Prime Minister wants to bring in? How much?
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- May/10/23 3:08:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, years ago we decided that here in Canada it is no longer free to pollute. We made sure there was a price on pollution across the country.
In doing so, we also put more money in the pockets of average families in the country to ensure that while we fight climate change we continue to invest in the cost of living for families.
This is working, not just in terms of lowering our emissions, which is happening, but also for creating economic opportunities, economic growth and good jobs for the middle class.
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- May/10/23 3:09:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister's government spread false information about the number of belugas in the St. Lawrence River to justify the rejection of the GNL Québec project, which would put bigger paycheques in the pockets of people from Saguenay.
We know now that that information was false and that the number of belugas is double what the government said it was.
Will the government reverse its position to give jobs and paycheques to the people of Saguenay rather than sending that money to Vladimir Putin?
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- May/10/23 3:09:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party leader is once again demonstrating that he understands nothing about what is happening in Quebec. That is a real problem for him, but it is his problem.
We were working with the Government of Quebec on the GNL Québec project, and we know very well that the Government of Quebec was the first to reject that project. Then, the federal government did its job.
The reality is that we need to work hand in hand with the provinces rather than picking fights and refusing to understand how things work in a federation.
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- May/10/23 3:10:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the difference is that I would rather see that money go towards a paycheque for a Jean‑Marie Tremblay or a welder from Saguenay than to Vladimir Putin.
In fact, the Japanese Prime Minister and the German Chancellor both asked the Prime Minister for LNG. He said, “No, call Putin. He'll provide it to you instead,” claiming there was no business case. Nobody told the Americans who have built six LNG plants at the same time that the Prime Minister blocked 18.
Will the Prime Minister get out of the way so that we can turn dollars for dictators into paycheques for our people?
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- May/10/23 3:11:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know well that clever buzzwords is not a plan to grow the economy and create opportunities for the middle class right across the country. Energy workers in Alberta, forestry workers in Quebec and miners right across the north know that with the opportunities we have, while fighting climate and while building a cleaner economy by getting to that net-zero economy the world expects, we are going to be able to create more great jobs for the middle class. Meanwhile, they continue to stick their heads in the sand and refuse to accept climate change is real and that one cannot build an economy—
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- May/10/23 3:11:41 p.m.
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The hon. member for Lac-Saint-Louis.
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Mr. Speaker, local news is vital. Voters rely on local news outlets to keep them informed. When the Liberal government passes legislation to ensure fair compensation for the use of community news content, Facebook responds by censoring the news.
The Conservative leader, a friend of big tech, is happy to parrot the excuses offered up by the billionaire web giants, at the expense of Canadians' right to access news content.
What are the Prime Minister's thoughts on this disregard for Canadians' right to information, a fundamental right in any democracy?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member from Lac-Saint-Louis for his question and for his hard work. Facebook's tactics failed in Australia, and they will fail in Canada. The saddest part is seeing the Conservative members continue to rally around the web giants, regurgitate their arguments and rush to help American billionaires attack local news.
While the Conservative leader stands alongside big tech, we will keep standing alongside francophone and rural communities, who consider access to the news as something essential.
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