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House Hansard - 276

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 6, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 2:29:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, more competition means lower prices, more choice and more innovative products and services for Canadians. Our government has just passed new legislation that empowers the Competition Bureau to hold grocers accountable and prioritize consumers' interests. The fall economic statement also cracks down on predatory pricing. I urge all parties to vote in favour of that. Canadians are watching and counting on each and every single one of us in the House of Commons to keep supporting them.
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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 2:30:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, more competition means lower prices, more choice and more innovative goods and services for Canadians. Our government just adopted legislation that allows the Competition Bureau to require grocery chains to be accountable to it and promote consumer interests. The fall economic statement also addresses predatory pricing. I strongly encourage all parties to vote in favour of it. Canadians are watching us. They are counting on the support of each and every member here in the House of Commons.
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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Hon. Arif Virani (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 2:37:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, but I would ask him to reflect seriously on the vote he is going to cast on the fall economic statement. The fall economic statement deals directly with the money laundering that is fuelling organized crime. We know that auto theft and so many other crimes right now are being committed and orchestrated by organized criminals. We have the ability to get tough on their financing structures and break down those organizations. The member hopefully has the rectitude to address that issue, vote against his leader's instructions and vote in favour of the fall economic statement.
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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 3:11:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this fall we put forward a comprehensive economic plan that included generational changes to Canada's competition law that will bring down grocery prices. The Conservative leader described that plan as a “disgusting scheme”. His actions make a lot more sense now that we have learned that he is advised by a Loblaws lobbyist and that his deputy leader used to work for Walmart. The Conservative leader talks a lot about powerful paycheques. Who is paying his advisers?
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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Mr. Ben Carr (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 7:33:07 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I see that we are surrounded by folks who are about to be riveted by the exchange, and I do not want to delay too long the late show, which I know is about to take place between my two colleagues. I would just like to ask my hon. colleague from Regina if he could comment on the shift in economic policy we are seeing in places such as the European Union, where they are beginning to incorporate tariffs on imports from jurisdictions that are not seriously tackling a price on pollution. I would be curious to know what he or his leader would do, should they find themselves faced with having to create policy on behalf of the Government of Canada, in relation to our trading partners, on imports and that very critical component of a price on pollution, which they are starting to take seriously.
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