44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 17, 2023 02:00PM
- May/17/23 2:38:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his question.
This is a very serious and difficult issue. As my colleague said yesterday in response to the same question, she is working closely with indigenous leaders.
We know that we need to work with indigenous leaders to resolve this issue, which is very serious and critical.
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- May/17/23 2:38:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is an ecological crisis as well as a safety crisis.
The government is the only one that is unaware of the crime, the threats and the violence that prevented a legal solution. More than 2,000 indigenous people are living in fear, as are the non-indigenous people in the surrounding area.
After years of turning a blind eye to the situation, when will the government act with the resolve this situation warrants?
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- May/17/23 2:39:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with the leader of the Bloc Québécois that this is a serious situation. It is a serious and difficult situation in terms of the environment and safety.
I want to assure the House and all Canadians that my colleague, the minister responsible, and I are working closely with indigenous leaders to resolve the situation.
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- May/17/23 2:39:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is acting like the skyrocketing cost of rent is not a crisis, when it is one of the biggest challenges faced by Canadians right now. For example, in London, Ontario, we have an increase, for a two-bedroom apartment, of 23%. For a single mom, that means an increase of $394 a month. Over a year, that is almost $5,000.
How does the minister think a single mom will be able to afford that increase of $5,000 a year on her expenses?
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- May/17/23 2:40:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a very important issue, and one way that single mother will be able to afford the cost of living more easily is through our investments in early learning and child care. Her fees across Canada have been reduced by 50% this year. So many moms across the country have told me that child care costs are like a second mortgage. We are bringing those costs down. That is real help for real people, and we are glad to be working with provinces and territories to deliver it.
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- May/17/23 2:41:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that does not address the problem of high rent. We need action clearly on that, and we need it now.
It is also clear that inflation is affecting more than just rent. It is also hitting families by increasing the cost of groceries. In April, grocery prices increased by 9%. That is a huge increase for families.
At the same time, CEOs are earning huge salaries and the big grocery stores are raking in massive profits.
When is this government finally going to fight inflation and tax these companies' excess profits?
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- May/17/23 2:41:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we agree with the NDP leader that we must help the less well off and do more to make sure that the wealthy pay their fair share. This is exactly what our government is doing.
We invested $2 billion in the one-time grocery rebate that is going to help 11 million Canadians by paying for their groceries, and we introduced a tax on certain luxury goods.
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- May/17/23 2:42:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister has misled Canadians like Jeff for years. The latest time was when she gave false hope, saying she would show fiscal responsibility and balance the budget by 2028. It took her only 144 days after that statement until she did a massive flip-flop and proved her budget will never be balanced and will run massive deficits forever. It is these massive deficits that gave Canadians the highest inflation and bank interest rate hikes in a century. Even random Liberals like Mark Carney and John Manley agree with us.
When will the finance minister stop misleading Canadians, get off Jeff's back and stop her inflationary spending?
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- May/17/23 2:42:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Jeff is a real person, and he told me how glad he is that the government is investing in a green industrial policy and how glad his wife, Cheryl, is that we are investing in supporting our health care system.
We are making those essential investments while maintaining the strongest fiscal position in the G7. Our AAA rating has been reiterated, and we have the lowest deficit in the G7. That is compassion and responsibility at the same time.
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- May/17/23 2:43:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad the minister did not tell Jeff that the solution was to cancel Disney+. Because of her high-tax-and-spend government, Canadians like Jeff cannot even afford Disney+, and are skipping meals. She is going to give Canadians like Jeff higher gas, grocery and home heating bills with her second carbon tax.
Can she tell Jeff how much more it is going to cost him to heat his home and fill his tank?
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- May/17/23 2:44:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind our hon. colleagues on the other side of the room that in their platform in 2021, the Conservative Party of Canada campaigned to put in place carbon pricing that would go up to $170 a tonne. That is exactly what our government is doing while investing in Canadians and building the economy of the future.
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- May/17/23 2:44:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, before tabling the budget, the finance minister said that “by exercising fiscal restraint” and by not pouring fuel on the inflationary fire, the Liberals would ensure they could responsibly invest in Canadians. However, we need to pay attention to what the government does and not what it says, and what the government did was increase spending by $60 billion, or $4,300 for every family in Canada.
When will the government take its own advice and realize its spending is making life more unaffordable for Canadians?
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- May/17/23 2:44:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, instead of believing partisan hacks reading their talking points, I think Canadians should listen to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
When the—
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- May/17/23 2:45:11 p.m.
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I am going to interrupt the hon. Deputy Prime Minister. I am tired of getting too much noise from this side, so I am going to ask her to start from the top. I will also ask for the heckling to not happen.
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- May/17/23 2:45:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, instead of listening to partisan hacks reciting their canned talking points, I think Canadians tend to trust the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
In testimony before the finance committee, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said, “When looking at G7 countries, Canada compares very favourably on net debt-to-GDP.” He also said that, having spoken—
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- May/17/23 2:45:57 p.m.
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The noise is starting to rise again. I do not want the hon. member for Simcoe North to end up at the end of the list, so I am going to ask everyone to stop. Members know that the process is to take whatever side is causing the problem, and we switch those members with the ones at the end. Then hopefully—
An hon. member: Mr. Speaker—
The Speaker: I am talking.
An hon. member: Oh, oh!
The Speaker: Does the hon. member for Banff—Airdrie want to say something to me? No? Now keep it quiet or else you will suffer the consequences.
I will ask the hon. Deputy Prime Minister to please continue.
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- May/17/23 2:46:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad to share with the House that, further on in his testimony before the finance committee, the Parliamentary Budget Officer described a conversation he had had with an individual from the credit rating agency Moody's, who had said that Canada's deficit should make us “quite happy because by European standards that's very low.”
Canada's economy is strong, and our fiscal position is strong. No one should believe the Conservatives when they say otherwise.
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- May/17/23 2:47:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it takes a hack to know a hack.
Last fall, the finance minister said that new spending needed to be matched with government savings. She said that the government needed to exercise restraint to not pour fuel on the fire. She also said that the debt-to-GDP ratio was the red line. That seems all pretty clear to me, except the government did not take the finance minister's advice.
Only one thing can be true. Either the finance minister is being overruled by the Prime Minister or another leadership contestant, or Canadians cannot take the promises she makes seriously. Which one is it?
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- May/17/23 2:47:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I wanted to rise because I think it is important to add some context here.
We know the party opposite was in power for 10 years, and during that period of time, it was the worst growth record we had seen since R.B. Bennett. Do members know what is different—
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- May/17/23 2:47:57 p.m.
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I am sorry, I am having a hard time hearing the answer because of the shouting. I am going to ask everyone, including the opposition leader, to keep it down. Maybe to lead by example would be a very good thing.
I will ask the hon. government House leader to please proceed, but not from the top.
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