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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Mrs. Anna Roberts (King—Vaughan, CPC)

May/24/24 11:11:28 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a D- is what the NDP-Liberal government scored in the 2024 Food Banks Canada report card. A D- is a failing grade for a failing government. Poverty and food insecurity continue to climb. The Sai Dham Food Bank, which services 26 municipalities in the GTA, reported an increase of 36% in visits by seniors. In the month of April, the food bank serviced 60,000 families, a jump from 29,000 in February. This is shameful. Seniors need help. Canadians need help, but the Prime Minister is not listening. If children came home with a D-, any parent would hold them accountable. The NDP-Liberal government needs to be held accountable. The Prime Minister is just not worth the cost. Listen to Canadians, get out of the way and let Conservatives fix what you have broken.

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Ms. Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)

May/24/24 11:13:53 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, many youth in Winnipeg Centre face unimaginable hurdles to success. We have one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country, at almost 40%, but Winnipeg's frontline organizations are leading the way and rising to this challenge. This includes Resource Assistance for Youth Incorporated, otherwise known as RaY, which provides support, services and training programs to youth who are most marginalized by systems, such as the Level Up! education and work placement program, which has empowered 775 youth to join labour markets or post-secondary education. However, funding delays by the Liberal government are putting this program at risk, forcing layoffs for 12 staff members and eliminating services for 80 youth at risk. Lives are on the line if we fail to get this funding in our community. All young people deserve opportunities to thrive, and the Liberals must end funding delays and give RaY the resources it needs to empower Winnipeg's youth.

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of National Revenue, Lib.)

May/24/24 11:22:47 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it seems that my colleagues on the other side of the House are unaware of what we have been through in recent years. Yes, it is true that people need help, and we are there for them. All the Conservatives know how to do is make cuts. Everywhere they have been, they have made cuts. We are addressing food security. We are setting up a food program in schools, in partnership with the provinces. We have also introduced the Canada child benefit. Let us keep in mind that under the Conservative government, all families with children of the same age were given the same cheque. Ours are based on salary. We have lifted 500,000 children out of poverty with this program.

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and to the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, Lib.)

May/24/24 11:43:50 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Food Banks Canada and its member organizations right across this country do essential work and important research, and I want to thank them for that. It has actually made some recommendations in its report, which the Conservatives have clearly not read. It recommends more supports for the working poor, like our Canada workers' benefit. It recommends improved social security, which Conservatives gutted when they were in power, while we have increased, improved and modernized the Canada child benefit and brought forward the Canada disability benefit. While the Conservatives continue to put words in the mouths of poverty elimination experts and Food Banks Canada, we will continue to put food on the table with the national school food program, improve the national Canada child benefit and put money in pockets with the Canada carbon—

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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24

Mr. Colin Carrie (Oshawa, CPC)

May/24/24 11:53:23 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. According to the 2024 poverty report, 44% of Canadians are paying more than 30% of income on housing, which is a big F for the government. The NDP-Liberal government gets an A+ only when it comes to creating disastrous policies. The member for Whitby previously stated that we “are going to have to shift our lifestyles, and that is going to be painful”. Is this the kind of pain he was talking about? How much more pain will the Liberal-NDP government intentionally inflict upon Canadians before it axes the carbon tax?

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