44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 18, 2023 02:00PM
- Oct/18/23 3:02:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to hear the member of the opposition speak about Seaspan. It is a very important member of the business community in my riding of North Vancouver.
I was very pleased, a couple of years ago, to join the Prime Minister to announce the commitment to build an additional 18 Coast Guard vessels, worth almost $16 billion, which will provide well-paid employment for the employees of Seaspan for decades to come.
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson: Mr. Speaker, we are going to create good economic jobs. We are going to ensure economic opportunities for Canadians. We are going to ensure affordability at the same time.
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- Oct/18/23 3:03:14 p.m.
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I am going to ask, once again, for members to please refrain from taking the floor when they have not been recognized by the Chair and to allow questions to be answered so colleagues can hear them.
The hon. member for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles.
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- Oct/18/23 3:03:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there is going to be a wave of mortgage renewals in the coming months. The Royal Bank of Canada, for one, will be renewing 41% of its mortgages. Non-stop interest rate hikes will make that difficult. Inflation is driving mortgage costs up by 30% every month. After eight years of the Prime Minister, everything is broken.
Can he explain to people how they are supposed to pay their mortgage and not end up homeless?
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- Oct/18/23 3:04:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Statistics Canada shared some good news: Inflation is down again here in Canada. Our government is working to help Canadians struggling to make ends meet. In fact, here in the House, we introduced a bill that parliamentarians are studying and that will stabilize grocery prices across Canada. The Conservatives are playing political games with measures that will help Canadians.
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- Oct/18/23 3:04:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know where she got that good news from. According to Statistics Canada, inflation in Quebec has jumped to 4.8%. Quebec has had the highest inflation rate in Canada for four consecutive months. Food price inflation stands at 6.7%. After eight years under this Prime Minister, supported by his Bloc Québécois friends, people are literally struggling to feed their families. Are these the sunny ways he promised eight years ago? This Liberal government is not worth the cost.
Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that it is shameful that, in Canada in 2023, people are having trouble feeding themselves?
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- Oct/18/23 3:05:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, affordability also means putting a roof over the heads of all Canadians. That is exactly what we are doing on this side of the House. Just this morning, CMHC reported a 98% increase in housing starts. The programs we have implemented will help all Canadians have a roof over their heads. That is exactly what we are going to do.
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- Oct/18/23 3:05:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights, Canada will be one of the global drivers of oil production in 2024. Forget about the green transition. Canada will be one of the largest oil developers on the planet.
The Conservatives applaud when we talk about this, but this is not their record. It is the Liberals'. It is under the Liberal watch that oil production is increasing by 10% in the midst of a climate crisis. It is under the Liberal watch that Canada will produce 500,000 more barrels of oil a day.
Is that really the legacy that the Liberals want to leave?
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- Oct/18/23 3:06:29 p.m.
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Before the minister answers the question, I would like to ask the member for Calgary Signal Hill to please wait his turn to be recognized by the Chair if he would like to take the floor.
The hon. minister.
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- Oct/18/23 3:06:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague knows that greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change. We must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in every sector of the economy.
We have a very detailed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and grow a prosperous, low-carbon economy. We will continue to do that.
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- Oct/18/23 3:07:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada will be a global driver of oil production in 2024, on the strength of Trans Mountain.
Thanks to Trans Mountain, Canada will shatter oil production records and, therefore, pollution records. However, taxpayers are footing the bill for Trans Mountain. It is costing us $30.9 billion, or roughly $800 per person, babies included. The Liberals are charging each of us $800 to pollute more, not including the cost of subsidies or natural disasters.
How dare the Liberals ask Quebeckers to pay more to pollute more?
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- Oct/18/23 3:08:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question.
I wonder why she has nothing to say about what the government has recently done. We recently announced the largest private investment in Quebec's history, known as Northvolt, precisely to manufacture batteries and electric vehicles.
My colleague should have focused on this issue, because Quebec will not only become a champion of the auto industry, but also a champion of the green economy. This is exactly what we are doing.
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- Oct/18/23 3:08:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, over and over, the Liberal-NDP government promised interest rates would not go up, but after eight miserable years of the Prime Minister, Canadians know that is not true. Mortgage defaults and forced home sales are on the rise.
Lindsay is one of hundreds who wrote to me to tell me about her skyrocketing mortgage rate. She is paying an extra $1,250 a month. She does not have an extra $1,250 a month.
The Prime Minister is just not worth the cost, so when will he stop his inflationary spending so Canadians like Lindsay can keep their home?
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- Oct/18/23 3:09:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last week I had the opportunity to visit Peterborough, that member's riding, where I announced $42 million for the construction or renovation of over 1,100 units of housing. What is interesting is that the member voted against every program that made that funding possible, and then she tried to take credit for it. It is astounding what the Conservatives continue to do.
What Canadians need is a government to be behind them to see more construction built and to see the Canada child benefit continue to have an effect, as well as dental care and child care. They are against all of those.
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- Oct/18/23 3:10:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal government, the deficit continues to rise. In March, the finance minister said that this year the deficit was going to be $40 billion. The Parliamentary Budget Officer just told us that she was off by at least $6 billion.
Earlier this month, in a Senate committee, finance officials could not even say what the Liberal-NDP government is spending on debt interest charges.
The Prime Minister is simply not worth the cost, so when will the Prime Minister come up with a plan to balance the budget so Canadians can keep their homes?
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- Oct/18/23 3:10:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I find it highly shocking that Albertans from the Conservative Party in the House are absolutely silent on a matter that really affects the middle class in Alberta. We are talking about the Government of Alberta trying to take Alberta pensioners out of the Canadian pension plan, destabilizing the pension plan for Canadians from coast to coast to coast.
They talk a big game in this chamber, but when it comes to actually defending Albertans, they sit on the sidelines while we have their backs.
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- Oct/18/23 3:11:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of inflationary spending, the Prime Minister has literally killed young Quebeckers' dreams of becoming homeowners.
Imagine. A young person in Montreal has to earn $116,000 a year if they want to buy a house, and that is not counting the down payment of 20%. How many years will it take a young person to earn that kind of salary and save enough money?
After eight years, do the Liberals realize that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost and that middle-class young people can no longer afford a Prime Minister who is mortgaging their future?
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- Oct/18/23 3:12:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what Montrealers do not understand is why the Conservatives are delaying the implementation of measures that will help build more apartments and houses across the country.
We have a bill and the Conservatives, even those who stated publicly that they would vote in favour of this measure, do not want to move forward. We are behind schedule and we cannot do our job because the Conservatives are holding up a bill in the House.
That is shameful.
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- Oct/18/23 3:13:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals could have put the bill on the agenda for yesterday or today so we could discuss it, but they did not. They are the ones holding up the bill.
After eight years, the consequences of the Liberals' policies have been disastrous. Quebec has the highest inflation rate in the country. It is close to 5% for the fourth month in a row. Like all parents in Quebec, I am worried about the future of my children, who are facing the highest interest rates in 40 years. Food is too expensive, rents are unaffordable and interest rates are skyrocketing.
When will the Prime Minister stop mortgaging our children's future?
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- Oct/18/23 3:13:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as everyone knows, the Conservatives always claim to have the strongest economic record and want to lecture us on the economy. The reality is that the last time they were in power, not only did they burn through the budgets left behind by the Liberals, but they also managed to never balance the budget, despite all their cuts to pensions, employment insurance, border security, the army, federal prisons, science and research.
On this side of the House, we support economic growth. The Conservatives may be good with an axe, but they are not so good with a calculator.
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- Oct/18/23 3:14:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, city of Toronto housing advocates have warned that unhoused people will die as the weather gets colder. Toronto's shelter system, the largest in Canada, is beyond capacity. Hundreds of people are being turned away every day, including refugees and asylum seekers. Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have walked away from housing and left the city scrambling to house people in need. Toronto is pleading for support.
Will the Liberals step up to provide the funding required to the city of Toronto so no one has to sleep or die on the streets this winter?
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