44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 4, 2023 11:00AM
Mr. Speaker, can this government listen to common sense? It has been in power for eight years. Can the Liberals get out of their bubble and worry about real people?
Voting for the Bloc Québécois is costly. Here is another example: Aided and abetted by the Bloc Québécois, the Liberals are blocking Bill C‑234, which would give breathing room to our farmers and our Canadians families.
Will the Prime Minister finally drop his plan to drastically increase the carbon tax on the backs of farmers and Canadian families?
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- Dec/4/23 3:01:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is important for me to say once again that there is no federal tax on carbon for farmers in Quebec.
Just like everyone in this House, I share the goal of ensuring the success of our Canadian farmers. That is why our government has created a rural top-up for rebates to directly return the proceeds of the price on pollution. Our government has already returned $120 million to farmers in the past year.
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- Dec/4/23 3:02:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, housing is top of mind for my community of Richmond Centre and all Canadians. For many, the rising cost of rent is causing stress and for others, they feel like they will never be able to own a home.
On this side of the House, we have a plan to address those concerns and get more homes built.
Can the hon. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance tell Canadians what our government has been doing to build more homes faster for British Columbians?
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- Dec/4/23 3:02:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by thanking the member for his hard work for the people of Richmond Centre and all the people of B.C.
Our government is stepping up to lead the national effort to build more homes faster. Just last week, I was at an affordable housing project in downtown Vancouver. That project next May will begin welcoming its first residents into 231 beautiful, new, affordable rental homes, and that is less than three years after shovels first went into the ground.
We are going to keep on working to build more homes faster for Canadians.
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- Dec/4/23 3:03:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years, the NDP-Liberal government has turned its back on Canadian labour. The government is bringing in 1,600 taxpayer-funded foreign replacement workers for the battery assembly plant in Windsor. That is $40 billion or $3,000 in taxes per household. Conservatives have been consistently demanding the release of these contracts publicly, but the NDP has flip-flopped and is working with the Liberals to keep the contracts secret, to hide these bad contracts.
When will the Liberals and the NDP stand up for Canadian auto workers and release the contracts?
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- Dec/4/23 3:04:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, either the Conservative leader takes us all for fools or he thinks the Canadian public was in a coma for the last 20 years. Either way, no one could take his claim to be protecting local jobs seriously. Not only is his track record as part of the previous Conservative government abysmal, consisting of the loss of over 300,000 manufacturing jobs, he has also proven to be one of the most anti-worker MPs, a legacy that he continues today by opposing legislation that would create good jobs for Canadian workers.
While Conservatives pretend to care about workers, we will continue to create thousands of—
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- Dec/4/23 3:05:00 p.m.
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The hon. member for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes.
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- Dec/4/23 3:05:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP has turned its back on Canadian workers to back the Prime Minister and his secret deal to bring in overseas replacement workers. It is clear that after eight years, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost to Canadians workers. The NDP member for Windsor West voted to keep secret the contracts from Canadian taxpayers. If the NDP-Liberal government has nothing to hide, then why not show Canadians the details that are going to cost them $3,000 per family?
Will the Prime Minister finally release the contract details so Canadians can see how many replacement workers $40 billion buys?
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- Dec/4/23 3:05:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, contrary to what the Conservatives claim, our government has always been clear regarding jobs created by investments like LG and Stellantis. In a recent article, Yakabuski writes, “These workers will only be here for a matter of months. The plant could not be built without them, or at least not in time for battery production to be up and running by 2025. They will not 'steal' jobs from Canadian construction workers nor occupy any of the 2,500 permanent jobs”.
I know the opposition leader has a hard time showing respect to journalists, but maybe the Conservatives should stop fearmongering and read The Globe and Mail.
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- Dec/4/23 3:06:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of this government, cover-ups have become the Liberal trademark.
At the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the Liberals filibustered for hours to avoid having to publicly disclose the battery factory contracts. It is easy to see why they are afraid. This Prime Minister has spent billions of dollars on temporary foreign workers for both Stellantis in Ontario and Northvolt in Quebec. He is absolutely not worth the cost.
Is he finally going to tell Canadians the truth and make the contracts public?
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- Dec/4/23 3:07:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as my hon. colleague is well aware, the committees are independent. They make their own decisions.
When it comes to the Stellantis investments, the Conservatives have their heads in the sand. We are talking about 2,500 Canadian jobs in Windsor. What the president of the union local is saying is that the Conservatives' proposal is putting future investments at risk. They should be more responsible when it comes to Canadian jobs.
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- Dec/4/23 3:07:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last week, Dow Chemical announced a multi-billion dollar investment in Alberta. While the Conservative members from Alberta voted against the policies that helped us land this job-creating deal, Liberals still made it happen. If the Conservatives were in power—
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- Dec/4/23 3:08:22 p.m.
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Order. There is a lot of yelling there. Let us keep the volume down so that the hon. member can ask the question.
The member for Calgary Skyview.
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- Dec/4/23 3:08:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if they were in power, the climate science-denying Conservatives would squander these investments with their alternative-facts-based agenda.
Can the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources update this House on how my home province of Alberta—
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- Dec/4/23 3:08:54 p.m.
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- Dec/4/23 3:08:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his consistent advocacy for Alberta and Albertans.
Any relevant and credible plan—
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- Dec/4/23 3:09:10 p.m.
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Order. I thought we were doing really well. We went quickly through these questions and it has been awesome up until now.
The hon. minister of natural resources from the top.
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- Dec/4/23 3:09:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to once again thank my hon. colleague for his consistent advocacy for Alberta.
Any relevant, credible plan must take climate change seriously and look to seize the economic opportunities that can come through a transition to a low-carbon future. Last week, Dow announced it was taking advantage of Canada's carbon capture hydrogen investment tax credit to build the world's first net-zero petrochemical facility. It is an $11-billion investment and will create 8,000 jobs in construction and hundreds thereafter for Fort Saskatchewan, but it is not just the credits that motivated Dow. The Dow CEO said that they invested here because Canada has a price on carbon pollution.
While Conservatives have no plan, they do not have a plan for the environment, they do not have a plan for the economy, our plan is working.
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- Dec/4/23 3:10:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people with disabilities are being renovicted and priced out of their homes. Disproportionately, it is women, who are also at risk of gender violence.
Over half of women with disabilities are living on less than $10,000 a year. This is not sustainable or safe. The skyrocketing costs of housing and food is hurting persons with disabilities. They need the Canada disability benefit yesterday. Will this Liberal government end its unnecessary delay and release the Canada disability benefit immediately?
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- Dec/4/23 3:11:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member opposite for her advocacy and for raising the issue of disability.
This is a very important concern. Our government is seized by this issue. Thankfully, this Parliament passed the disability benefit and made it into law. We are working on the regulations, we are consulting the community fully, and this will happen.
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