44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 30, 2023 10:00AM
- Nov/30/23 2:49:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we are here to continue building an economy that works for everyone. That is why we introduced a bill in the House today to build the economy for children, seniors and small businesses and to lower the cost of groceries.
That is our plan. I encourage everyone in the House to vote for our plan.
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- Nov/30/23 2:49:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in an interview with CFRA's Bill Carroll, Dr. Barry Dworkin reported the case of a United Kingdom doctor who came to Canada, fully qualified and ready to practise, who was denied the ability to take a work simply because she was self-employed, which is an obvious paperwork snafu.
She joins the 20,000 immigrants to Canada who are doctors who cannot work, and the 32,000 nurses. Why will the government not take my common-sense plan to bring in a blue seal professional standard that would allow immigrant doctors, nurses and other professionals to quickly prove they are qualified, get to work, earn powerful cheques and serve patients in need?
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- Nov/30/23 2:50:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are working in partnership with the Ontario government to help re-establish all foreign doctors, making sure they can get accredited.
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- Nov/30/23 2:50:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal-NDP government, it is not worth the cost.
While the U.S. economy is booming with a growth of 5.2%, Canada's economy is shrinking. Canada will have the worst GDP-per-capita growth in all developed nations. In fact, U.S. GDP per person will be $80,000 while Canada's will only be $50,000.
Never has a government spent and taxed so much on Canadians with so little to show for it. Will the finance minister stand up today to tell Canadians why she is taking more from them and making them poorer?
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- Nov/30/23 2:51:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, while the Conservatives continue to talk down the economy, I will ask members to allow me to add in a few more facts.
We have ensured that 1.1 million additional jobs are available to Canadians since the end of the pandemic. That is important because those are well-paying jobs. Wages have actually increased and outpaced inflation in this country. The report that my Conservative colleague cites indicates that there was a significant upwards revision of Canada's growth in the second quarter in this country.
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- Nov/30/23 2:52:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government, the financial gap between Americans and Canadians has never been larger.
The average GDP per capita in the United States is over $80,000. In Canada, it is merely $50,000. Unbelievably, the situation is getting worse. The growth in the United States was over 5% this year. In Canada, it is shrinking by more than 1%.
When will the government finally take responsibility for failing Canadians, and change direction to adopt a common-sense plan led by a common-sense leader?
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- Nov/30/23 2:52:39 p.m.
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Once again, I would encourage all members, especially the member for Timmins—James Bay, to wait their turn to ask a question.
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- Nov/30/23 2:52:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member gives me the opportunity to talk about an American investment that just happened yesterday. In fact, Dow Chemical made one of the largest investments in 126 years of history. It is going to invest more than $10 billion in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta for the first net-zero ethylene plant in the world.
We are going to be producing green plastics. We are going to create jobs. We are going to grow the economy. That is a plan for the future, and we are going to put it in place.
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- Nov/30/23 2:53:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is this. The more the government spends, the poorer Canadians get.
Over the last eight years, the government has imposed a record tax burden on Canadians, levels of debt and deficit never seen before in our country. The result is the worst per capita growth rate since the Great Depression. There is record food bank usage, with two million Canadians going to a food bank every month.
Why are those Liberals so hell-bent to bankrupt Canadians?
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- Nov/30/23 2:54:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our job as a government has been to balance compassion with fiscal responsibility, and that is exactly what we have done. We are there for Canadians with the Canada child benefit. We are there for families with supports. We are there for our seniors with supports.
When the member opposite talks about being there for Canadians, I wonder why that very member has been filibustering our motion on the Canada pension plan in the finance committee for weeks now.
We will continue to be there for Canadians.
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- Nov/30/23 2:54:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we learned that the American economy grew by 5.2%, while the Canadian economy shrunk by 1.1%. The American economy is booming and the Canadian economy is at a standstill. Americans are getting richer, while Canadians are getting poorer. Nothing has been working in Canada for the past eight years.
Given these numbers, will the government recognize that its economic plan is a failure?
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- Nov/30/23 2:55:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend my colleague for being brave enough to ask a question in French. It is not easy to be a francophone in the Conservative caucus.
Even though I do not often agree with him, all of the Liberals in the House will be there to defend his right to speak in French.
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- Nov/30/23 2:55:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to give a clear answer in French to the member here, who made this type of comment before on May 5, 2009, I would say that my colleague from Lethbridge apologized to the committee.
That being said, can the government tell me what it is thinking—
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Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus: Mr. Speaker, I will continue with my question. Children in Quebec have been sending their letters to Santa Claus to Opération père Noël since 1995. This year, instead of asking for toys, children are asking for winter boots and snowsuits. That does not make any sense.
Does the Prime Minister think it is normal for Santa Claus to be getting these kinds of requests from children?
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- Nov/30/23 2:56:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there are two official languages here, French and English. Both can be used. Both—
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- Nov/30/23 2:56:35 p.m.
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I would ask the members to be quiet when a member is exercising his right of reply in the House.
The hon. Minister of Transport may begin his reply again.
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- Nov/30/23 2:57:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, again, French must be respected in the House. Both official languages must be respected in the House. If a colleague chooses to respond in her mother tongue, she must be respected in that regard, whether it is English or French.
Once again, I commend my colleague's courage, because it must not be easy to be a francophone Conservative in the face of such tyranny from his colleagues. We will always defend his right to speak in French.
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- Nov/30/23 2:57:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, COP28 starts today and the Liberals have already had time to make another cowardly decision on climate change.
Just yesterday, Canada announced that it refuses to include in the final statement that we must one day give up fossil fuels. COP had not even started and Canada was already fighting alongside other petro-monarchies to pollute even more. According to Greenpeace, “The government is severely slowing the global fight against climate change”.
Why are the Liberals sabotaging the world's efforts to fight climate change?
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- Nov/30/23 2:58:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, COP28 is the important next step in our collective efforts to advance human safety, economic prosperity, health and the well-being of our planet.
We recognize that there are still some challenges to address. Canada is working with its partners to accelerate global efforts to keep within reach the objective of the Paris Agreement, namely to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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- Nov/30/23 2:59:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have bad news for the Liberals. Last week, the OECD criticized their carbon capture strategy, which is what they are hiding behind at COP28.
A report by the International Energy Agency warns that it is a mistake to rely too much on carbon capture. The agency warns that people need to drop the illusion that we will be able to capture unimaginable amounts of CO2. The agency insists that there is no alternative to switching to clean energy.
When will the Liberals finally understand that the carbon capture strategy they are talking about in Dubai is a mirage?
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- Nov/30/23 2:59:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I see that the Bloc Québécois recognizes that the federal and provincial governments each have an important role to play in projects with environmental impacts that fall under federal jurisdiction.
I find it rather ironic that the Bloc Québécois is asking the government to cancel projects that are supported by the provinces when their position is always to tell the federal government to mind its own business.
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