44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2024 10:00AM
- May/3/24 11:38:19 a.m.
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Order. If I need to shut things down over here, then I need to shut things down over there. Let us try to keep the chatter down.
The hon. member for Langley—Aldergrove has the floor.
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- May/3/24 11:38:28 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the results are in. They are a disaster, with 2,500 deaths last year and six, on average, every day this year.
The Liberal minister responsible for hard drug use says that she is waiting for more information from B.C., but the B.C. government says that it has given her all of the information, as if 2,500 drug deaths in one year is not enough data to go on.
Canadians want to know why Liberals are misleading them. When are they going to put an end to this disastrous, failed drug use experiment?
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- May/3/24 11:39:07 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered. B.C. has been making adjustments to its pilot project. Of course, we are supporting that.
I had no luck with the last member. Let me ask this member if Conservatives will not rule out using the notwithstanding clause—
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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- May/3/24 11:39:24 a.m.
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Order.
As I have said before, if I need to shut the noise down in one corner of the room, then I need to shut it down in the other corner of the room. Please let the hon. member respond so that we can get on to the next question.
The hon. government House leader may continue, from the top.
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- May/3/24 11:39:38 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, of course, B.C. is making adjustments to its pilot project, and we are supporting it in that endeavour. The member should be under no ambiguity about that.
However, the member is ambiguous, just like his previous colleague, about which charter protections his party would rip up. Is it reproductive rights? Is it the right to a fair trial? Is it the right to free expression?
That member, that party and that leader need to get up to tell Canadians exactly which fundamental charter rights they will be taking away from Canadians.
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- May/3/24 11:40:30 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is clearly not worth the cost. His minister responsible for hard drugs on the streets is misleading Canadians.
She said that the Liberal government is waiting for more information from B.C. on if it should reverse its decision that allows cocaine, opioids and fentanyl in parks, playgrounds and hospitals. The B.C. NDP government confirmed that it answered, within hours, the government's request for more information.
Why is the Liberal-NDP government misleading Canadians, and why can it not just end its disastrous drug policy?
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- May/3/24 11:41:08 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that member needs to unplug from the wall, replug and reboot. He is not listening to the earlier questions.
We have told them, very clearly, that B.C. has requested changes, and we are working with B.C. to make those changes.
Maybe that member will tell us, specifically, which freedoms and which rights described in the 42-year-old Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which Canadians cherish, he will be advocating for removing from Canadian women and from Canadian people. Is it the freedom of expression? Is it reproductive rights?
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- May/3/24 11:41:49 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the member that his government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act, removing civil liberties from Canadians. After nine years of radical NDP-Liberal government drug policies, and with the toxic drug deaths in B.C. reaching a 380% increase, the number of children aged 10 to 18 who have died from overdoses has increased by more than five times. Opioids and illicit drugs are now the leading cause of death of youth aged 10 to 18 in B.C.
Will the Prime Minister end his radical drug policies, or will he continue to show he is simply not worth the cost?
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- May/3/24 11:42:57 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there are right ways to go about things, and then there are explosive, dramatic and catastrophic ways to go about things. In talking about using the notwithstanding clause, the Leader of the Opposition's response was, “All of my proposals are constitutional, and we will make them constitutional using whatever tools the Constitution allows me to use to make them constitutional. I think you know exactly what I mean”, he says. “They will happen, and they will stay in place.”
For anybody like me, who has a right that was afforded to him because of this charter in my lifetime, these are chilling words that they—
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- May/3/24 11:43:31 a.m.
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The hon. member for Repentigny.
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- May/3/24 11:43:40 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2021-22. That is why the advisory board appointed by the Minister of Environment himself is issuing a warning: Climate policies work when they exist.
In other words, they do not work when they do not exist, for example, in the oil industry, where emissions continue to rise. Emissions are going to skyrocket with the opening of the Trans Mountain pipeline, a new dirty oil pipeline, on Wednesday, given that there is no emissions cap on oil.
When will the minister rein in oil companies instead of opening pipelines?
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- May/3/24 11:44:18 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite my colleague to carefully read the report that was published yesterday because it states that Canada's greenhouse gas emissions are 44 million tonnes less than they were before the pandemic in 2019. That is equivalent to taking 13 million vehicles, or half of Canada's vehicle fleet, off the roads.
The last time that greenhouse gas emissions were so low in Canada, Connor McDavid from the Edmonton Oilers had just been born, O.J. Simpson was on trial and the google.com domain name had just been purchased.
Our plan is working. We need to continue to fight climate change.
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- May/3/24 11:45:00 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the minister was quite proud to say that Canada was “the only major oil producer in the world that has proposed putting a cap on these emissions”. The key word here is “proposed” instead of “imposed”.
I would remind the minister that he once was more ambitious than simply being better than Russia or Saudi Arabia when it comes to progressive policies. While he is proposing to do better than them, he is opening a brand-new pipeline: Trans Mountain.
When will there be any action on reducing, not increasing, emissions?
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- May/3/24 11:45:37 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague that if she bothered to read the report, she would see that our record between 2019 and 2021 is the same as Germany's or even Italy's and that it is better than that of the United States of America.
We are not talking about Russia or Iran here, but the United States of America. Our performance on fighting climate change is better than our neighbour to the south.
We have tabled the consultation document to impose a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. I have said that we would have draft regulations this year and final regulations by next year.
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- May/3/24 11:46:15 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the crime, chaos, drugs and disorder that he has unleashed on our streets. After nine years, the Prime Minister's radical experiments with legalized hard drugs is turning our hospitals, beaches and schoolyards into one giant drug injection site. Our children are witnessing drug abuse, discarded needles and overdoses as they play and learn, and the Prime Minister's taxpayer-funded drugs are now ending up in the hands of our children.
When will the Prime Minister stop treating our communities like his own personal woke petri dish and end his radical experiments on Canadians?
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- May/3/24 11:46:48 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, once again, that question has been asked many times and answered. I wonder about the hon. members' hearing over there.
We get mail. One example reads, “Canada's significant credit strengths will continue to preserve its AAA-rated sovereign credit profile, underpinned by its high economic strength and very strong institutions and governance. Together, these factors provide Canada with a strong foundation for future growth and a very high degree of economic resiliency to potential shocks”.
I am thankful for Moody's credit rating.
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- May/3/24 11:47:28 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are struggling, and rampant crime, drugs and disorder have become the norm. Instead of offering treatment and support to those who need it, the Prime Minister is jeopardizing the safety of Canadians by allowing hard drugs to be used openly in public: on buses, in hospitals and right in front of children and their families. That is enough.
Will the Liberals end their radical drug policies, or will they inflict elsewhere the same chaos seen in B.C.?
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- May/3/24 11:48:05 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered, but the letter goes on: “In addition, Canada's credit profile has very limited susceptibility to event risks, supported by stable political institutions, a strong and well-regulated banking system, and reserve currency status which underscores the government's deep and unfettered market access. At the same time, despite an initial sharp deterioration in the government's fiscal position from the pandemic, Canada's debt ratios have since materially improved and the government is pursuing a gradual path of...fiscal consolidation.”
I am thankful for Moody's credit rating.
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- May/3/24 11:48:47 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard over and over again that Canadians have never had it so good. During Wednesday's question period, the Prime Minister guaranteed to the Canadian public, those people who are counting on interest rates going down, that they will start coming down in the next few months. That is great news. The problem is that the Bank of Canada, the organization that actually decides what the interest rates will be, says it has not decided that yet.
I have a simple question for the government: Who is lying, the Governor of the Bank of Canada or the Prime Minister?
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- May/3/24 11:49:19 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, based on what the Conservatives are saying, they are going to need to explain to Canadians how Canada is rated number one for budget balance by the International Monetary Fund; maintains a AAA credit rating, which was reaffirmed by Moody's just yesterday; has the best net debt-to-GDP ratio and the lowest deficit in the G7; has been projected by the IMF and the OECD to have the strongest economic growth in the G7; and is number one in the world when the per capita adjustment is made for foreign direct investment.
On this side of the House, we continue to lead. On that side of the House, they continue to mislead.
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