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House Hansard - 271

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Mr. Fraser Tolmie
  • Jan/30/24 12:35:57 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-59 
Mr. Speaker, this is right up my alley as a former mayor of the City of Moose Jaw, where we attracted over $1.3 billion, going aggressively to the open market to attract business, to build a school where there would be a community surrounding it. We had no help from the Canada Infrastructure Bank. That was money that was just sitting in a bank that we could not access. Municipalities spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on bureaucracy and red tape to try to access money that should be going directly to them.
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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Mr. Denis Trudel
  • Jan/30/24 1:38:42 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-59 
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague. I did not mention it in my speech, but I too, like many Quebeckers, was truly insulted by the Conservative leader's remarks. Together, Montreal and Quebec City make up roughly half of Quebec's population. The mayor of Montreal and the mayor of Quebec City are therefore two elected representatives of half of Quebec. As a solution, or as an approach to these elected officials, the Leader of the Opposition of this country insults them. He says they are incompetent. How can anyone think that this man, once in power, would have any solutions? At some point, he will have to sit down with decision-makers from other levels of government to find solutions to this crisis. I do not see how he could possibly find any solutions.
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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)
  • Jan/30/24 4:48:17 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-59 
Madam Speaker, I find it interesting that the member just said that Ottawa is not in the business of telling municipalities what to do, when the leader of the Conservative Party just recently called two municipal leaders incompetent: the mayor of Montreal and one other. I wonder if the member has had the opportunity to talk to his leader about how inappropriate those comments were.
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