44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 7, 2023 02:00PM
- Jun/7/23 3:10:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have answered this question a few times, but the Leader of the Opposition continues to ask it because he refuses to go outside and see what is actually happening in Canada.
Forest fires are raging. It is the worst year on record for forest fires already. The fact is they are going to get worse in the coming years because climate change is real, and yet the Conservative Party continues to stand against the climate action we have been taking and stand against the investments we are making to support families and to support first responders. They continue to stand against help for Canadians who are losing their homes, losing their families, losing their—
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- Jun/7/23 3:11:30 p.m.
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The hon. Leader of the Opposition has the floor.
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- Jun/7/23 3:11:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, has he really sunk to the low of exploiting these fires for political gain to distract from his inflationary and high interest rate policies? Is that what it has come to? Is he so ashamed of his economic policy and record—
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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- Jun/7/23 3:11:48 p.m.
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I am going to have to interrupt this, because I am getting noise from both sides.
I know the member can handle it, and he does it well, but I want to hear what is being said and I am sure both sides want to hear what is being said.
I ask him to start from the top, please.
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- Jun/7/23 3:12:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has just lowered himself to the worst depths. To try to distract from his disastrous economic record, he is now using the forest fires to change the channel. This is even lower than I would have expected from him.
Canadians are going to sit down tonight to discuss how they are going to move into a small apartment because they are going to have to give up their homes after his inflationary policies have driven up interest rates on Canadian mortgage holders, who have record debt.
Will the Prime Minister keep the promise he made six months ago to balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates before folks go broke?
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- Jun/7/23 3:12:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have answered that question a dozen times. For the Leader of the Opposition to consider the forest fires that are taking people from their communities and destroying their homes are a mere distraction and not top of mind for people from coast to coast to coast is shameful. The fact of the matter is he does not have anything to say about that because he refuses to put forward any real plan to fight against climate change and he does nothing but fight against our plan to fight climate change. If he has a better plan, let him say it, because we have been waiting a long time for it. He has no plan to fight climate change. He still questions whether it exists while Canada is burning.
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- Jun/7/23 3:14:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is known for its rich biodiversity. However, both here at home and around the world, climate change crises are jeopardizing global biodiversity.
It is Canadian Environment Week, so could the Prime Minister tell us what our government is doing to protect Canadian fauna, flora and biodiversity?
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- Jun/7/23 3:14:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Madawaska—Restigouche for his important question and his hard work.
Canada is committed to the goal of conserving 25% of our land and oceans by 2025 and is working to conserve 30% by 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a major victory for the planet and for all humanity.
Since 2015, our government has been working tirelessly to conserve approximately 300,000 additional square kilometres of land. Protecting species at risk is a job that has only just begun.
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- Jun/7/23 3:15:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has caused the mortgage crisis we now face. Back in 2021-22, he flooded the economy with cheap and excessive cash that went into the mortgage system. It bid up the price of housing. House prices had doubled under his leadership and then Canadians were forced to take on massive, and in some cases, million-dollar, mortgages in order to buy a home.
He promised them that rates would be low for long but then his deficits juiced inflation, which pushed up interest rates and now, over the next three years, many of those same families will face 40% increases in their mortgage payments.
How is he going to save their homes now that he put them in peril?
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- Jun/7/23 3:15:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, 2021-22: what was happening around then? What was happening in 2020-21?
It was the investments we made to help Canadians get through the pandemic, investments we made to support small businesses, to support our frontline health workers, to ensure that we got through this extraordinarily difficult time in one of the best situations with some of the fewest deaths of all of our peer countries, and the Conservative Party continues to say it would have done far different.
It would have allowed people to be more vulnerable. It would not have been there to support Canadians—
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- Jun/7/23 3:16:38 p.m.
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The hon. Leader of the Opposition.
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- Jun/7/23 3:16:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, 2021-22: I will tell us what was happening. I will tell us what he was doing. He was trying to stuff a half-billion dollars into the WE Charity to help a group that had paid off his family.
We know that he gave money to Frank Baylis's company. We know that 40% of all of the deficits he added had nothing to do with COVID, according to the PBO. We know that he added $100 billion of debt before COVID ever happened and now he is adding hundreds of billions more now that COVID is done.
He has got to stop using the COVID excuse and start answering the question. People do not know how they are going to pay their mortgages. That is why I have had to ask 20 times about that question.
Will he finally answer it?
How will they pay their mortgages?
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- Jun/7/23 3:17:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, over the past years, we have been investing in Canadians, in targeted, non-inflationary ways, with things like the doubling of the GST credit, with dental supports for families with children under 12, with investments that have cut child care fees in half.
These are all things that the Conservative Party stands against and, indeed, says it would cut.
I ask us: how would cutting programs for Canadians help them in this difficult time?
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- Jun/7/23 3:18:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let me break it down. I have been trying with 20 questions to get him to understand.
Here is the domino effect. His spending causes deficits, which cause inflation, which causes interest rates to go up, which causes defaults. How do we reverse that?
We stop the deficits, which stops the inflation, which stops the interest rates from going up, which stops the defaults.
What part of that does he not understand?
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- Jun/7/23 3:18:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, once again, never letting the facts get in the way of a good political argument is the Leader of the Opposition's modus operandi.
He says that if we were to raise child care fees in Canada instead of cutting them in half, if we were to not deliver dental care for young kids across this country, then, suddenly, inflation, which is impacting the world all over, would drop, that Canada is so important in the world that our lowest deficits in the GDP are contributing massively to this global inflation context.
It is complete garbage from the Leader of the Opposition.
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- Jun/7/23 3:20:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government believes that close collaboration with our provincial and territorial counterparts is essential. When we put partisan differences aside and the interests of Canadians first, anything is possible.
I understand that the Minister of Rural Economic Development was in Newfoundland and Labrador last week hosting a federal-provincial-territorial meeting on rural economic development.
Can the Prime Minister share with the House the significance of this meeting and what it means for rural Canadians?
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- Jun/7/23 3:20:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for St. John's East for her question and her hard work.
Last week in Newfoundland, we hosted the first-ever FPT meeting dedicated to building strong and thriving rural communities. Indigenous leaders and rural experts discussed how to continue building a collaborative and coordinated approach to helping rural communities succeed. Whether it be on connectivity, workforce issues or climate resilience, we owe it to Canadians to work together. When we do, we can make transformational changes to all communities, and that is what we will continue to do.
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- Jun/7/23 3:21:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Punjabi international students who placed their trust in unscrupulous consultants in India have been defrauded and are now facing the devastating consequence of deportation.
I will be asking for a unanimous consent motion later on to support these students, but my question is for the Prime Minister: Will he stay the deportation of all these students who are impacted and provide a pathway to permanent residency for them?
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- Jun/7/23 3:21:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are deeply aware of cases of international students facing removal orders over fraudulent college acceptance letters.
To be clear, our focus is on identifying the culprits, not penalizing the victims. Victims of fraud will have an opportunity to demonstrate their situations and present evidence to support their cases.
We recognize the immense contributions international students bring to our country and we remain committed to supporting victims of fraud as we evaluate each case.
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- Jun/7/23 3:22:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is right about one thing, which is that climate change is real, but the policies of the current government do not meet the requirements of the moment.
We are in a climate emergency. Our eyes are burning in this place. The Ottawa parliamentary bubble has been pierced by the forest fires across this country, yet in this place the debates are inane.
Please, will the Prime Minister commit to cancelling the Trans Mountain pipeline and protecting the Northeast Newfoundland Slope Closure from oil and gas development now?
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