44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2023 10:00AM
- Dec/7/23 2:58:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my Bloc Québécois colleague for his question.
The public broadcaster, which is supported by public money, is accountable to Canadians for its decisions. I encourage the CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada to answer the questions people are asking about the compensation policy.
What I can say is that our government will always be there to support a public broadcaster that is strong from coast to coast to coast. We understand how important it is, especially in Quebec and in all francophone communities, so we will always stand up for it.
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- Dec/7/23 2:59:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that the minister also wants answers from the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, but I would remind the minister that it is her responsibility to appoint the CEO.
Ms. Tait's 18-month tenure was supposed to focus on combatting disinformation. However, she is doing the opposite. The loss of 600 jobs will mean less news. We need to send a clear message. There should have been zero layoffs announced on Monday, not 600.
No layoffs should have been announced, or maybe just one. If Catherine Tait does not back down on those cuts, will the minister fire her?
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- Dec/7/23 2:59:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since we took office in 2015, our government has shown that we have always been there to support the public broadcaster. We gave back the $115 million that the Conservatives cut, despite the fact that the Bloc Québécois, which was the official opposition at the time, failed to prevent the Conservatives from making those budget cuts.
We gave that funding back to the CBC. We will continue to be there despite the media crisis, despite all the difficulties that our Canadian media are facing right now. We will continue to support our public broadcaster, and I would invite all the parties here, except the Conservatives, who want to axe CBC/Radio-Canada, to help us find good solutions.
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- Dec/7/23 3:00:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, released today, the food price report shows that a family of four is going to pay $700 more for food next year. Meanwhile, overall dollars for food spent are going down because of the cost of everything else. That means Canadians are reducing the quality or quantity, or both, of the food they buy.
This morning, Walmart and the CEO of Loblaws, Galen Weston, said the carbon tax charged to the farmer, to the trucker, to the retailer and then to the food producer will get passed on to the consumer.
After eight years, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost. When will the Prime Minister repeal the carbon tax on farmers, first nations and families?
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- Dec/7/23 3:01:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, being a farmer and part of a government that understands there is a problem with the climate, I know we have climate change. Climate affects the weather. Destructive weather destroys farms and destroys farm crops.
Quite simply, we have a program in place. Unfortunately, the Conservative Party of Canada does not have a plan to deal with the environment. With our plan, we are able to deal with the agricultural sector in clusters and with provincial governments right across the country to help farmers deal with climate change and become innovative.
We have more to do and we will continue to do it.
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- Dec/7/23 3:01:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is no plan.
A desperate, panicking Prime Minister spent last weekend calling senators, pleading with them to kill Bill C-234, which would lower grocery prices for Canadians. On Tuesday, those supposedly independent senators voted to gut Bill C-234, betraying farmers and keeping food prices high.
After eight years of rising prices and lower paycheques, Canadians know that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. Will the Prime Minister listen to Canadians and take the carbon tax off farmers, first nations and families?
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- Dec/7/23 3:02:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear the member does not agree with climate action. I wonder if his children would agree with climate action. It is going to impact next generations more than it affects us. When Conservatives show Canadians who they are advocating for, they take notice.
I would pose a question back to the Leader of the Opposition. As a family of four, he would have received $976 in climate action incentive payments. He lives in a taxpayer-funded mansion and gets driven around, so he does not buy very much gas himself. Did he cash the cheque?
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- Dec/7/23 3:03:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last night, under the cover of darkness, the NDP-Liberal government rammed through its anti-energy unjust transition and job-killing agenda at the natural resources committee. It broke every rule of parliamentary procedure and denied MPs the chance to be heard as it rammed through its anti-energy agenda.
On the agenda of the committee, I ask the chair of the natural resources committee this: When will the committee consider this matter again, and how does the chair justify another gross betrayal of Canadian workers?
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- Dec/7/23 3:03:42 p.m.
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As members know, this question was put to the chair of the committee. I do not see the chair of the committee, but I see the vice-chair standing up.
The hon. member for Lakeland.
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- Dec/7/23 3:03:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the chair, the MP for Calgary Skyview, should be ashamed and will pay for his choice to betray his constituents.
Bill C-50 is the top-down global just transition that will end 170,000 jobs—
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- Dec/7/23 3:04:07 p.m.
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I invite the hon. member for Lakeland, to make sure there was no misinterpretation of her answer, to start again from the top. I would ask her to be careful in the language she uses.
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- Dec/7/23 3:04:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the constituents of Calgary Skyview will hold their MP to account for his betrayal, and he will pay at the ballot box.
Bill C-50 is the top-down just transition that will end oil and gas in Canada in favour of dictator and U.S. oil. The NDP-Liberals know it will kill 170,000 oil and gas jobs immediately and hurt 2.7 million Canadians working in transportation, construction, agriculture and manufacturing on top of it. It will make power and fuel prices skyrocket. The NDP-Liberals also know it will hurt indigenous and visible minority Canadians the worst.
It has never been more clear that Canadians cannot afford the colluding costs of the cover-up coalition.
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- Dec/7/23 3:05:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our bail reform bill received royal assent this week. This legislation is the result of consultations with and close collaboration between our government, all the provinces and territories, and Canada's major police associations. Canadians need to have confidence in our justice system and know that it will protect them from harm. My question is for the Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
How will this bill improve the safety of Canadians?
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- Dec/7/23 3:06:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Alfred-Pellan for his question and his dedication.
As a minister, a father and a Canadian, community safety is one of my top priorities. Bill C-48 has now received royal assent. This bail reform bill will keep repeat violent offenders off our streets. Our government will continue to fight crime and its root causes to keep communities safe.
All of Canada's premiers, police forces and municipalities called for action, and we acted.
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- Dec/7/23 3:07:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have just learned that the RCMP plans to cut staff at the Quebec border even though we know that Mexican cartels are becoming increasingly active, that illegal weapons are flowing freely across the border into the hands of dangerous criminals, and that more and more people are dying of drug overdoses. One RCMP officer noted that criminals are not stupid and they do monitor what is going on, adding that the border is said to be a priority, but that is simply not the reality on the ground.
Will the Minister of Public Safety outsmart the criminals and maintain the number of RCMP officers at the border in order to protect Quebeckers and Canadians?
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- Dec/7/23 3:07:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have obviously had a number of discussions with senior RCMP officials about the importance of strengthening our position at the border. The integrity of our borders is obviously an issue that the government takes very seriously. I have discussed this with my American counterpart, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas.
I can assure my colleague that the number of RCMP officers, for example in his province, Quebec, who are dedicated to organized crime and border security will not decrease.
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- Dec/7/23 3:08:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, China's economic cold war of taking over strategic industries in Canada has claimed another victim. After eight years, the NDP-Liberal government has turned a blind eye to this national security threat. First, China got the Prime Minister to fast-track its acquisition of Neo Lithium and three other lithium companies. Now China is trying to buy Canada's only rare earth mining company, Vital Metals. China will take all the product to China, leaving Canadian firms without a supply.
Will the Prime Minister invoke the Investment Canada Act now, review this deal and protect Canadian resources?
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- Dec/7/23 3:09:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government will always stand up for Canadian workers in Canadian industries.
Our government has been clear from day one that we will always welcome foreign investment and trade that encourage economic growth, innovation and employment opportunities in Canada. We know that economic security is national security. Bill C-34 would implement the ICA and bring forward improvements so our government can act more quickly when required.
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- Dec/7/23 3:10:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are out of money and the Prime Minister is out of touch. At a time when energy security is crucial, this makes life harder for Canadians and our allies. An emissions cap would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in exports and would make life more unaffordable for Canadians.
Instead of supporting powerful paycheques for our people, the Prime Minister supports dollars for dictators. When will the Liberals' costly coalition stop supporting dirty dictator oil and make Canada export the resources the world so desperately needs?
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- Dec/7/23 3:10:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I will start by noting that the importation of oil is at half the level now than it was under Stephen Harper, so maybe he wants to check some of his facts.
A cap on oil and gas production is about reducing emissions in line with what science tells us we must, but doing so in a manner that will enhance the economic competitiveness of the sector while ensuring that we are decarbonizing the industry such that the barrels of oil and natural gas that Canada will sell to the world will have the lowest carbon content in barrels of gas.
I would point to the successes recently of an $11.5-billion Dow facility, a net-zero petrochemical facility in Alberta and many others.
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