44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 30, 2024 10:00AM
- Apr/30/24 2:18:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, budget 2024 promises to deliver a vision for Canada that is fairer and more affordable for every generation.
In my riding of Mississauga—Erin Mills, residents, especially younger generations, deserve a fair chance of purchasing their own homes. That is why budget 2024 proposes an ambitious plan to invest into more affordable housing initiatives to unlock 3.87 million more homes by 2031 for Canadians.
Budget 2024 is also investing $1 billion into the national school food program to the benefit of over 400,000 Canadian children, so no child in this country goes to school hungry. As we know, full bellies lead to sharper minds.
There are so many aspects of budget 2024 that work toward strengthening our middle class, and I encourage all members in the House to support this budget.
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- Apr/30/24 2:20:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister is not worth the crime and the drugs.
His extreme and radical policies on drugs, supported by the Bloc Québécois, have tripled the number of overdose deaths. In today's Journal de Montréal, we read “Syringes on the ground, degrading scenes and rowdiness: a chaotic setting near a supervised injection site steps away from a Montreal school”.
When will he reverse his radical policies that are causing deaths?
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- Apr/30/24 2:20:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the opioid crisis is terrible and is wreaking havoc across the country. However, what is required in terms of a response is not more Conservative ideology. We need responses that are rooted in compassion and based on health care, science and proven processes.
We will continue to work in partnership with the provinces and the communities to respond to this public health crisis in a rigorous but compassionate manner. That is what Canadians expect.
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- Apr/30/24 2:21:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is not worth the drugs and death. His extreme and radical drug policy has increased overdose deaths in British Columbia by 380%. In the year following his decriminalization of crack, heroin and other hard drugs in hospitals, transit buses, coffee shops and parks where children play, there has been a record-smashing 2,500 deaths.
Will the Prime Minister accept the B.C. NDP's demand to recriminalize those drugs?
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- Apr/30/24 2:22:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I just answered that question.
What has not been answered by the Leader of the Opposition is why he chooses to continue to court extreme right nationalist groups like Diagolon. He refuses to denounce these extremists who do not believe Canadians should coexist with each other. Instead, they call for war and tell people to follow their instincts accordingly.
The leader of the Conservative Party is actively courting the support of groups with white nationalist views. It is disturbing, and he needs to stand up and apologize now.
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- Apr/30/24 2:22:37 p.m.
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Colleagues, so soon in question period, it is important that we try to control ourselves.
I will ask the hon. member for St. Albert—Edmonton to please allow members to ask and to respond to questions.
The hon. Leader of the Opposition.
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- Apr/30/24 2:22:57 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I always condemn extremism and racism, including from the guy who spent the first half of his adult life as a practising racist, dressing up in hideous racist costumes so many times—
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- Apr/30/24 2:23:24 p.m.
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The hon. Leader of the Opposition knows that to make an accusation directly at the character of a single person is not appropriate.
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The Speaker: I am going to ask all members to control themselves.
I will ask the hon. Leader of the Opposition to rephrase his question and to start from the top.
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- Apr/30/24 2:24:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I also condemn the extremism of a prime minister who gives hundreds of thousands of dollars of anti-racism money to a Jew-hater who has proposed shooting Jews in the head. I condemn a prime minister who allows the IRGC, which murdered 55 Canadians, to remain legal. I condemn a prime minister who allows the open use of crack, heroin, meth and weapons in hospital rooms, which threatens nurses, and on school buses next to children.
Will the Prime Minister reverse his extremist policies and the death they bring?
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- Apr/30/24 2:24:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the leader opposite is showing us exactly what shameful, spineless leadership looks like. He shakes hands with white nationalists and then actively courts the support of those members who—
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- Apr/30/24 2:25:03 p.m.
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Order, please.
If the hon. member for Lethbridge has problems with the Chair, she should challenge the Chair, but as the hon. member knows, challenging the Chair is against the rules of the House. I ask the hon. member to please withdraw her remarks.
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- Apr/30/24 2:25:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I stated that the Chair is acting in a disgraceful manner—
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- Apr/30/24 2:26:17 p.m.
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Mrs. Thomas, I must name you for disregarding the authority of the Chair.
An hon. member: She withdrew it.
The Speaker: Pursuant to the powers vested in me under Standing Order 11, I order you to withdraw from the House and from any participation by video conference for the remainder of this day's sitting.
[And Mrs. Thomas having withdrawn:]
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- Apr/30/24 2:27:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the leader opposite is showing us once again what he will do try to earn votes through personal attacks. He shakes the hand of a leader of a white nationalist group then goes to actively court the support of the group's members and thinks he can get away with it. It is a group that advocates for violence against 2SLGBTQI+ Canadians, against Hindus and Sikhs and against Muslims and Jews. Diagolon stands against everything we stand for as Canadians, and yet he will not denounce its members or what they stand for. That is shameful.
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- Apr/30/24 2:27:30 p.m.
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Coming back to the original point, I am going to ask the Prime Minister to start again and to please, as I had asked the Leader of the Opposition to do, reframe his question in a way that does not call into question the character of an individual member of Parliament.
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- Apr/30/24 2:28:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that, like everything else the Prime Minister says, is false. He uses fear and falsehood, and this latest distraction, because he does not want to face the fact that he has become so extreme and radical that even the B.C. NDP is distancing itself from his decriminalization of crack, heroin, meth and other hard drugs in hospital rooms, which causes nurses to have to stop breastfeeding their babies for fear the contaminated air might end up in the breast milk for the baby.
Why will he not ban these drugs?
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- Apr/30/24 2:29:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition still will not condemn these groups. Any leader who needs the support of a far right, white nationalist group to fundraise and get closer to power does not deserve elected office. He is a 19-year career politician who knows exactly what he is doing and thinks he can get away with it. It was a choice to pander to white nationalists, not an accident, and it is a choice to continue to not condemn them and not condemn everything they stand for, in his quest for votes.
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- Apr/30/24 2:29:45 p.m.
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For the second time, I ask the hon. member for St. Albert—Edmonton to please withhold his comments until he has the floor.
The hon. Leader of the Opposition has the floor.
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- Apr/30/24 2:30:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a choice for the Prime Minister to implement extremist policies that have taken the lives of 2,500 British Columbians every single year. Since the NDP has asked him to reverse course on his and formerly the NDP's radical policy, 22 British Columbians have died of drug overdoses, but he continues to allow those drugs to kill the people in our hospitals and on our public transit.
When will we put an end to this wacko policy by the wacko Prime Minister?
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- Apr/30/24 2:30:50 p.m.
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No, that is not acceptable. There are a couple of things going on here today that are not acceptable. I would ask all members to please control themselves.
I am going to ask two things. The first is that the hon. Leader of the Opposition withdraw that term, which is not considered parliamentary.
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