44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 19, 2024 02:00PM
- Jun/19/24 2:15:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, today I pay tribute to my sister, Sylvie, who left us far too young at the age of 67. She was a caring woman who loved her family. She dedicated 37 years of her life to the Library of Parliament.
She loved her husband, Frank, deeply, she was a trusted confidante to her daughter, Giovanna, and she loved her granddaughter, Giada, unconditionally. Sylvie was my number one supporter. She was always there through good times and tougher times, also.
She was inseparable from her cousin Michel and so proud of her two brothers, one of whom was in business and the other in politics, as she used to say. To the family, she was much more than a sister. She was a loving mother and a devoted grandmother. She was everyone's heart and soul. Sylvie was a champion during election campaigns and a great leader to the volunteers.
I love you, sister. I will think of you always. Your memory and your love continue to live in each of us. We will miss your advice. Give a hug to mom, dad, and my two other sisters in heaven. We miss you terribly, but your spirit guides us every day. Rest in peace, sister.
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- Jun/19/24 2:17:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to celebrate the peoples whose land we call Canada. As settlers on Turtle Island, it is our job to stand up and attest to the genocide perpetrated by Canada against indigenous peoples, to acknowledge the truth and to seek reconciliation.
However, National Indigenous History Month is not just about the past; it is also about today, tomorrow and every day to come. Right now, indigenous people are sleeping on the street or in an encampment, if they are lucky and the police have not come to tear down their homes.
There will be celebrations. There will be glorious dances and the beat of the drum. There will be love and gratitude for all that the Creator has given. However, for me and for Canadians like me, there must also be a reckoning, a recognition not only of the genocide of the past but also of the racist systems and institutions that we have designed and built. They persist today to destroy indigenous peoples.
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- Jun/19/24 2:18:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in a few days, Quebec will be celebrating and will be celebrated.
Quebec will be proudly celebrated in song, in dance and in words, as well as in the tributes to the great Jean-Pierre Ferland and the great Karl Tremblay, who have sadly left us.
Quebec will celebrate each and every person who has contributed over the past four centuries to the diversity of a francophone nation in America, a nation founded on the lands of the first nations who had been breathing life into the continent for millennia and would breathe life into the country that would be.
Let us celebrate our country and its caring people. Let us celebrate our generous and welcoming nation, a nation of solidarity, a nation with its heart in the right place. Let us celebrate the French language, which only brings us closer together the more it is imperilled, the language that unites our way of life.
My friends, let us celebrate our Quebec, which is certainly a country in the making, and let us cheerfully make this a truly national holiday. Happy national holiday to all Quebeckers.
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- Jun/19/24 2:19:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last week, when the Edmonton Oilers were down by three games, just one game away from elimination, many people wrote them off. However, Oilers fans across the country knew it was not over yet. There was a hard-fought win in game four, and, last night, the Oilers pulled off another victory and dragged the Panthers all the way back to Alberta.
This team is firing on all cylinders. Edmonton-born Stuart Skinner, who played with the South Side Athletic Club in my riding, has been phenomenal in net. The third line has stepped up, with Connor Brown getting a crucial short-handed goal when they needed it. Of course, the team captain, Connor McDavid, is setting all new points records.
Now the Stanley Cup final is back in Edmonton for game six. Let us bring it home.
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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- Jun/19/24 2:20:25 p.m.
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Go, Edmonton, go.
The hon. member for Outremont.
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- Jun/19/24 2:20:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about women's health and the need for a greater understanding of how injury and disease present and are treated in the female body. I do so following my own experience after suffering a concussion. Reviews have shown that as few as 7% of the studies on brain injuries take into account gender differences and how women are impacted. I understand that women's bodies are more complex in a number of ways, but this is the anatomy of 51% of the population. Accounting for gender differences in health care is the next frontier. After gender parity, pay equity and the #MeToo movement, this is where we are going.
I am recovering from a concussion, which has been a difficult experience, but one from which I have learned so much.
I would like to address my constituents, my colleagues and everyone who has reached out to me to share their own stories. It is through them that I have learned to accept my own vulnerability. After all, being vulnerable is an integral part of being human. I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart.
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- Jun/19/24 2:22:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what this parliamentary session has taught us is that everything is broken in Canada.
After nine years of this Prime Minister, with the help of the Bloc Québécois, the cost of housing has doubled, two million Canadians have to use food banks and a record-breaking number of Canadians, 25%, are living in poverty.
Will the Prime Minister force Canadians to endure another year and a half of this costly hell or will he call an election today so that Canadians can elect a government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime?
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- Jun/19/24 2:22:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if the leader of the Conservative Party really cared about the affordability crisis Canadians are facing, he would be supporting our plan to provide dental care to seniors and young people under 18. He would be helping us provide school lunches to 400,000 more children per year. He would be supporting our measures to create child care spaces. He would be supporting our ambitious measures to create densification and build more housing.
However, he prefers to play political games rather than help meet Canadians' needs.
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- Jun/19/24 2:23:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have nine years of experience with these policies that have caused the misery I was just talking about. Now, the Prime Minister wants to issue an order for Quebec to shut down the forestry sector.
Today we learned from Quebec's ministry of natural resources that this is going to kill between 2,400 and 30,000 jobs, but the Bloc Québécois remains silent.
Will the Prime Minister reverse this radical order so that we can save the jobs of 30,000 Quebec workers?
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- Jun/19/24 2:24:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the leader of the Conservative Party, Quebeckers know full well that the only way to build a stronger future is to protect the economy and the environment at the same time. That is how we are going to create a more prosperous future for Quebeckers and for all Canadians. Again, we are seeing the Conservative Party's anti-environment approach.
We will continue to work with the Government of Quebec. We will continue to work on protecting forestry jobs and protecting caribou. That is what people expect from a responsible government.
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- Jun/19/24 2:25:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what this session of Parliament taught us is that, after nine years under the Prime Minister, everything is broken. There are 25% of Canadians now living in poverty, with two million lined up at food banks; 38% more people are homeless, and housing costs have doubled. It was not like this before, and it will not be like this after the Prime Minister is gone.
Will he put us through another year and a half of this costly hell, or will he call a carbon tax election today so that we can elect a common-sense government to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime?
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- Jun/19/24 2:25:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if the Leader of the Opposition actually cared more about Canadians than he does about his own political interests, he would be supporting the 400,000 kids we are going to help with the national school food program. Instead of opposing it at every turn, he would be voting in favour of the dental care program that has already helped over 200,000 seniors and will, as of next week, start helping young people and Canadians with disabilities. He would be standing with us on expanding child care spaces instead of campaigning against it.
However, he does not care about Canadians. He cares only about himself.
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- Jun/19/24 2:26:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, these are the same promises that he has been making for nine years. Instead of the theoretical utopia that he has promised, what Canadians are living through is hell. There are tent cities popping up across the country in places they never existed before. There are two million people lined up at food banks, with one in 10 Torontonians included in that number. Toronto is a town where, right now, it is impossible for almost anyone to afford a home, and there are 256 tent cities.
Why will he not recognize that these are the very real consequences of his policy of wackonomics?
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- Jun/19/24 2:27:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our plan is to invest in the most ambitious housing plan this country has ever seen and to invest in supports for seniors, supports for young people and supports for Canadians with disabilities. The Conservative leader is choosing to demonstrate what everyone knows Conservative parties do, which is protect the wealthiest and let everyone else fend for themselves. While we are asking the wealthiest Canadians to pay a little more by raising the capital gains inclusion rate for anyone making over $250,000 in a given year on selling properties, he is standing with the wealthiest, not with the middle class and people working hard to join it.
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- Jun/19/24 2:27:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the middle class does not exist after nine years of the Prime Minister. Here are the facts: Of young people, 76% believe they will never afford a home. There are 38% more homeless people, and, in Toronto alone, 256 homeless encampments. Two million people lined up at a food bank, and one in four Canadians is skipping meals because they cannot afford the price of food.
Is this what he meant when he said sunny ways for the middle class?
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- Jun/19/24 2:28:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen throughout this session, and indeed throughout his career, which covers more than 19 years as a parliamentarian, that the leader of the Conservative Party is very quick to use sound bites that use Canadians, that exacerbate, exaggerate and indeed amplify the real concerns people are facing, but he is nowhere on solutions for them. He is standing against dental care, against pharmacare, against investments in the middle class and people working hard to join it, and against investments to create jobs and a future for Canadians because all he cares about is himself and his future.
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- Jun/19/24 2:29:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, according to Canada Post, employees do not need to speak French to deliver or sort mail in Quebec. The reason given is that letter carriers do not talk to anyone, not even the dogs chasing them, not at the post office, not on the street, not at people's homes, never.
Will the Prime Minister call Canada Post to order and demand that its employees in Quebec speak French?
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- Jun/19/24 2:29:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government has always been there to defend official languages in Canada. We were the first federal government to recognize that we have a special responsibility to protect French, including in Quebec. That is why we will continue to ensure that the Official Languages Act is respected across the country, including in federal institutions like Canada Post. We will follow up on this issue, because it is important that we continue to defend our two official languages across Canada.
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- Jun/19/24 2:30:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to French, the Liberal government is a false advertiser. In public, with their grand gestures and ridiculous rhetoric, more reminiscent of Molière than Shakespeare, the Liberals love the French language, save for a few outliers in Montreal. The truth is that the government is looking on as French declines everywhere, all the time, yet it invests in protecting English.
Does the Prime Minister recognize that his policies are causing French to decline?
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- Jun/19/24 2:31:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Bloc Québécois is constantly trying to pick fights over identity issues. The truth is that no previous federal government has done more than we have to protect and support official languages across the country, including to protect French in Quebec. We will always be there to defend official languages, and we will always be there to defend linguistic minorities. I know that the Bloc Québécois cares nothing about francophone communities in Canada outside Quebec, but we will be there for the official languages across the country.
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