44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 2, 2023 10:00AM
- Jun/2/23 11:52:55 a.m.
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I cannot hear the answer, and I am sure the hon. member wants to hear the answer because he will probably want to pose another question. I would ask members to hold off on allowing their thoughts to be said out loud.
The hon. Minister of Tourism.
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- Jun/2/23 11:53:15 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I find it a little odd that the tourism critic for the Conservatives voted against supporting the tourism industry in the budget, yet he voted for a price on pollution when he ran in the last election. I am going to let him explain that to his constituents.
I was at Rendez-vous Canada in Quebec City this week, and the tourism sector in this country is going to be back, not in 2026, not in 2025 and not in 2024, but at the end of 2023. This is thanks to Canadians, thanks to what we have to offer and thanks to the international community for knowing that Canada is back and that people want to come to see us.
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- Jun/2/23 11:53:53 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, that is an interesting response. Surely our tourism minister knows that travel is a discretionary activity. Adding 41¢ a litre to gas through the first carbon tax will not help. A second Liberal carbon tax of 17¢ will hurt as well. If we add GST to that, we have a tax on a tax on a tax. Canadians need tax relief, not another tax.
When will the Liberal government axe the tax and help the tourism sector recovery fully this year?
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- Jun/2/23 11:54:35 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is so nice to have so many friends from the blue team from Alberta in the chamber on a Friday.
I can say to my colleague from Niagara Falls that, in this budget, $158 million is directly going to the tourism sector, and $1.8 billion will do exactly what he said, which is to get more people to come to Canada for CATSA and for modernization of the airports.
How did the member and the entire Conservative caucus vote? They voted against the tourism sector, against airports and against getting people to our country. “Shame on them”, I say.
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- Jun/2/23 11:55:07 a.m.
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Order. If members want to have cross-debate, they should leave the chamber.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes): Order on both sides.
The hon. member for Essex.
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- Jun/2/23 11:55:27 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals already have one carbon tax in place, which will add 41¢ to a litre of gas. Carbon tax 2 would add another 17¢ to a litre of gas. If we add the GST on top, that is an extra 61¢ added to a litre of gas.
When will the NDP-Liberal costly coalition realize that it is out of touch and that Canadians are out of patience and out of money?
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- Jun/2/23 11:55:56 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the Conservatives campaigned on putting a price on pollution, but what the Conservatives never want to talk about is the cost of climate change.
There are 1,600 fires burning in our country at the moment. People from the suburbs of Halifax are being evacuated. The costs of climate change are real and they are rising. When are the Conservatives going to get serious about climate change?
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- Jun/2/23 11:56:27 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, after eight years of this Prime Minister, Beauce businesses are struggling to find employees. SMEs and agricultural businesses are starting to close their doors because of the backlog at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the endless paperwork.
Since my arrival in 2019, I have been asking for the streamlining of labour market impact assessments. With an unemployment rate of 1.9% in my region, we need help filling important positions.
Why are the Liberals refusing to help Beauce businesses?
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- Jun/2/23 11:57:08 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the opposite is true. Agricultural producers in Quebec and across Canada know that our government is there to help them. I am in constant communication with them. Yesterday, I met again with the president of the Union des producteurs agricoles, and I can say that the process of bringing temporary foreign workers to Canada went quite well this year.
We continue to work with my colleagues at Employment and Social Development and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to improve this process.
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- Jun/2/23 11:57:32 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the Commissioner of Official Languages has once again been flooded with complaints. Air Canada is on the podium once again, with 276 complaints about its inability to serve customers in French.
Let us talk about this year's gold medalist, the federal government. Some 714 complaints were filed against Ottawa for ignoring French in its bilingual public service job postings. That is more than triple the number of complaints from last year.
How can we expect companies like Air Canada to do better when this is the example being set by the federal government?
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague for his question. I would also like to thank the Commissioner of Official Languages for the report he released this week. We accept his recommendations.
As Minister of Official Languages, I am very pleased with the work we have accomplished so far. We recently passed Bill C‑13. We were able to get all parties in the House onside to support this bill. Once again, we look forward to the final step in the legislative process, royal assent. Let us not forget that we have also made historic investments in our action plan, specifically $4.1 billion to support our official language minority communities and to combat the decline of French.
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- Jun/2/23 11:58:57 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, of course we will be monitoring the impact of Bill C‑13 on companies like Air Canada. However, in the case of the federal public service, the employer responsible is every single minister here in the House. They do not need Bill C‑13 to ensure that French is respected. All they have to do is stop treating their francophone employees like second-class citizens.
Will the Liberals send a clear message to the senior public service that there will be severe consequences unless the situation of French improves dramatically in the coming months?
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- Jun/2/23 11:59:39 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, let us be very clear. We are the first government to recognize the decline of French in this country. That is why we are moving forward with a bill that is ambitious, that has teeth. It does not stop there. We have made historic investments in our action plan, namely $4.1 billion to ensure that the federal government will do its fair share to protect and promote French across the country. Let us also not forget that the Commissioner of Official Languages will now have many more tools to do his job and to ensure that he plays the role of watchdog to protect our official languages.
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- Jun/2/23 12:00:15 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we all know the facts. Violent crime is up 32%. Gang-related killings are up 92%. Worst of all, 10 police officers have been killed in the line of duty in recent months.
It is clear that the Liberals' soft-on-crime agenda has failed again. The only thing the divisive Liberal government has united Canadians on is how bad the bail system is after it broke it.
Why is it that, every time the Liberals are in charge, hard-working citizens and law-abiding gun owners are punished, while dangerous repeat offenders get to ride the merry-go-round of the revolving door of justice?
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Madam Speaker, Canadians deserve to feel safe and be safe.
That is why introduced Bill C-48, a targeted reform to our bail laws, designed to focus on violent repeat offenders, gun and knife violence, and intimate partner violence. This bill is the product of collaboration with the provinces and territories.
I want to quote from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, which said, “We are convinced that the legislative changes put forth in Bill C-48 will go a long way to help eliminate the preventable harm and senseless tragedies attributable to violent and repeat offenders across Canada.”
I invite the Conservative Party—
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- Jun/2/23 12:01:35 p.m.
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The hon. member for Kelowna—Lake Country.
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- Jun/2/23 12:01:37 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, after eight years of the Trudeau government—
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- Jun/2/23 12:01:44 p.m.
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The hon. member knows that she cannot name individual members of Parliament or ministers, by either their first names or their last names.
The hon. member for Kelowna—Lake Country.
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- Jun/2/23 12:01:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal government, violent crime is up 32%, and our most vulnerable citizens are some of the most impacted.
People are in desperate situations, without being able to afford basic necessities, with high inflation, with rent costs doubling, and with mental health and addiction issues rising.
It was just yesterday, in the House, that I spoke about the issue of homelessness being on the rise and safety concerns surrounding homeless encampments. This morning, we heard about the death of a woman following a reported shooting at a tent encampment in Peterborough.
When will the government take public safety seriously?
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Madam Speaker, I would like to just repeat what I was saying earlier.
With Bill C-48, introduced a couple of weeks ago, we have nearly unanimous support from across provinces, as well as from police leadership. I want to quote again from the statement from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, which said that it commends the federal government for acting on the urgency for legislative change and for recognizing that the proposed amendments are important. The statement also says, “We are convinced that the legislative changes put forth in Bill C-48 will go a long way to help eliminate the preventable harm and senseless tragedies attributable to violent and repeat offenders across Canada.”
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