44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 1, 2024 02:00PM
- May/1/24 5:30:46 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question, but I am not sure I captured the beginning of it.
However, this budget will have about $40-billion deficit. The focus is on maintaining, but we are continuing to invest in new programs, yet drawing in enough revenue so that the deficit will not be as high as predicted. We are now moving downwards on the deficit.
We will continue to do our work, and we will be there for Canadians. I talked about young people and people with disabilities, and we will continue to support—
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- May/1/24 5:31:19 p.m.
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The answers must have, more or less, the same time as the questions.
The hon. member for Shefford.
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- May/1/24 5:31:30 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. He addressed the issue of social housing and focused on homelessness in particular.
Last week, during our constituency week, I had the chance to attend the unveiling of the City of Granby's action plan for fighting homelessness. The city's request for the federal government is clear: The federal program that can help deal with homelessness is Reaching Home.
Granby is still considered a rural community, yet homelessness is on the rise throughout the entire region.
Is the government willing to review this program so that more communities like Granby can be deemed “designated communities“ in order to address the needs of the homeless?
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- May/1/24 5:32:15 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I believe it will be expanded, because this situation exists everywhere, not just in urban centres. We will need to do a little more, but the investments that we have made to work with organizations on the ground will help us overcome this challenge.
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- May/1/24 5:32:42 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I really appreciate the member's energy and I am going to ask for some of it to come to Port Moody—Coquitlam.
I know that the member is the parliamentary secretary for Veterans Affairs. There is a piece of federal land very close to the legion in Port Moody, on 45 Mary Street. It was outlined in the budget. How can I get some conversations going around this piece of land? I am getting a bit of a runaround. It is not in infrastructure and communities and now it is over to procurement.
Where am I supposed to find this information about 45 Mary Street, because we are very interested in Port Moody—Coquitlam?
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- May/1/24 5:33:18 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I will share with my colleague that I am no longer the parliamentary secretary for Veterans Affairs. I am the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Rural Economic Development. However, my heart and soul are still in supporting veterans.
This, of course, is a new initiative. My understanding of Canada lands is that we will have a drawing of all the vacant lands that belong to the federal government and conversations will be had. I believe the first step would be to speak with the minister about the possibility and identify that land, because that is exactly what we want. We want various people from the municipality and the province, or any member of Parliament, to share where they feel this would be appropriate and have those discussions so we can move forward very quickly. By 2031, we want to have 250,000 homes built.
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- May/1/24 5:34:12 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to ask the member about what his views are on the importance of some of the national programs we have rolled out, and continue to roll out, in the last few years. I am talking about dental care and pharmacare, but also the national child care plan, and how they meet the affordability needs of Canadians in this moment.
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- May/1/24 5:34:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I stated in my speech how proud I was, as a member of Parliament representing my constituency but also representing Canada, of the investment in making our social safety net even stronger: supporting people with disabilities, who are the most impoverished; bringing in the first phase of the pharmacare program, which is extremely important; bringing in dental care that nine million people will have access to; talking about more spaces for kids in day cares, which is extremely important, and the national school food program.
These are major, fundamental investments in our country, and I am so proud of our government for moving forward on them.
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Madam Speaker, we are talking about budget 2024. The Liberal government claims that its ongoing investments are making life more affordable for Canadians and improving access to housing. That claim is straight out of the budget report. I was very surprised to hear that, because what I have heard from people in my home community, as well as from Canadians right across the country, is exactly the opposite: that the government's mismanagement of the economy is leading to making life less affordable for Canadians.
Think of the two million people who now regularly go to food banks. Food banks are even turning away people because there is so much demand. Those people do not think that life is becoming easier or more affordable.
How about improving access to housing? Housing is now twice as expensive as it was when the Liberal government first took office.
Munir is from my community. Together with his brother and his parents, they bought a house two years ago. With a low interest rate, their mortgage payments were $4,000 a month. Just last month, they had to renew their mortgage for $8,200 a month. They do not think that life is becoming more affordable.
Common-sense Conservatives have three demands to fix the budget and bring Canadians the relief that they desperately need. First, we say to axe the carbon tax on farmers and food by immediately passing Bill C-234 in its original and unamended form. Second, we need to build homes, not bureaucracy, by requiring cities to permit 15% more homebuilding each year as a condition of receiving federal infrastructure dollars. Third, we are demanding a cap on spending with a dollar-for-dollar rule to bring down interest rates and inflation.
The Liberals chose not to take our advice on that. Therefore, we cannot support this budget. There will be a non-confidence vote coming up, and we will vote non-confidence because we do not have confidence in the government.
We want an election. We are ready for it.
An hon. member: Canadians want an election.
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- May/1/24 5:38:32 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is time to turn the hurt that the Liberals have inflicted on Canadians into the hope that they so desperately need.
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- May/1/24 5:39:13 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, there are many pieces within the budget that speak to affordability issues. The member opposite brought up an issue from his own constituency where a family is going through a challenging time. Would he not agree that some of the affordability measures, such as the student nutrition program, the dental program, these pieces that we have built on, like child care in the past, are good for people in his community? How can he stand here talking about affordability and not support those measures?
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- May/1/24 5:39:17 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the best support the government can give to Canadians is to make life more affordable again, bring interest rates down, bring inflation down. Munir and his family should not be paying $8,200 a month for their mortgage; $4,000 should be enough.
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- May/1/24 5:39:37 p.m.
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It being 5:40 p.m., it is my duty to interrupt the proceedings and put forthwith every question necessary to dispose of the ways and means Motion No. 20.
The question is on the motion.
If a member participating in person wishes that the motion be carried or carried on division, or if a member of a recognized party participating in person wishes to request a recorded division, I would invite them to rise and indicate it to the Chair.
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- May/1/24 5:40:04 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I request that the motion be carried on division.
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- May/1/24 5:40:13 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I think we should have a recorded division.
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- May/1/24 5:40:18 p.m.
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- May/1/24 6:23:23 p.m.
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I declare the motion carried.
The hon. member for Winnipeg South Centre on a point of order.
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Mr. Speaker, I was having technical difficulties earlier this afternoon during the vote on Bill C-351.
I am asking for the unanimous consent of the House for my vote on the bill to be recorded as a nay.
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- May/1/24 6:23:46 p.m.
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Is it agreed?
Some hon. members: No.
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- May/1/24 6:24:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in response to the question of privilege raised on April 29 by the hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan regarding the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. I would like to offer some clarification as it is critically important that members have the facts about and chronology of this matter.
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