44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 17, 2024 10:00AM
- Sep/17/24 2:26:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about housing, because there is more good news Canadians should know about, and that is that we have extended to 30-year amortizations for all first-time homebuyers. That means more young Canadians can buy a first home and afford a mortgage. We have extended to 30-year amortizations for all new homes. That is to encourage what we know we all need: more homes built faster. However, the weak and spiteful Conservatives cannot celebrate good news for Canadians, because it is bad news for their partisan interests.
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Mr. Speaker, I would have liked to answer the leader of the official opposition's questions, but I will answer them with this. His party came fourth in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, with 12% of the vote.
That said, nothing has changed, except that we will have to make room for one more seat. We continue to work on the seniors file. Will the government follow through on its vote in favour of Bill C-319 and implement this legislation, which everyone in the House voted for?
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- Sep/17/24 2:28:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Our government understands the importance of supporting seniors. That is what we have been doing all along. That is what we did after 10 years of the Conservatives punishing seniors. That is why we added measures to support our seniors, especially the most vulnerable. We will continue to do just that.
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C‑319 is a Bloc Québécois bill that eliminates discrimination in the retirement benefits granted to seniors 65 to 74 and those 75 and over. It allows them to earn $6,500 instead of $5,000 without losing the guaranteed income supplement.
In committee, the Liberals voted in favour of the bill, the Conservatives voted in favour of the bill and the NDP voted in favour of the bill. Now we need to ensure that the bill is implemented with something called a royal recommendation. Will the Liberals secure the royal recommendation and help seniors?
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- Sep/17/24 2:29:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we obviously recognize that older seniors, people 75 and up, face higher costs. They are more vulnerable and that is why we added measures to support them. I share the Bloc Québécois' concern for our seniors. That is why I am calling on the Bloc Québécois to support us on dental care. It is an important program for all Quebeckers, especially vulnerable seniors.
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- Sep/17/24 2:30:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have let people down again and again, and they are done. That is clear from the results of the elections last night. The Liberals are done. Maybe it is because they keep teaming up with the Conservatives to let greedy CEOs continue to rip off Canadians. In fact, inflation numbers show that grocery greed has driven up food prices more than 21% in the past three years.
Why did the Liberals team up with the Conservatives to protect greedy CEOs from a price cap on food essentials?
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- Sep/17/24 2:31:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I hope the NDP and indeed all members of the House will set partisanship aside for one moment to congratulate Canadians on the light at the end of the tunnel, on the fact that after an extremely challenging time with COVID and its economic aftermath, inflation is back to where it was before COVID first hit. When it comes to taxes, we believe that those who have the most capacity should pay their fair share. We have acted on that.
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- Sep/17/24 2:31:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have continued to team up with the Conservatives to let grocery greed drive up the price of food, and that has to stop.
Yesterday, people showed that they are fed up with the Liberals. Clearly, this is because the Liberals worked with the Conservatives to let real estate moguls raise rents by more than 22%.
Why do the Liberals continue to work with the Conservatives to let the giants gouge people?
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- Sep/17/24 2:32:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think anybody listening to question period today, or frankly any day, imagines that the Liberals are teaming up with the Conservatives or that we agree with them about very much at all. They are the party of privilege and austerity; we are the party of people. That is why we have asked those at the very top to pay their fair share so that we can support Canada and Canadians.
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- Sep/17/24 2:33:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is day two in the House as the first female finance minister again has been publicly humiliated by the fake feminist Prime Minister. What is worse is that she has been replaced by an unelected man outside her own caucus, whom her boss is now shielding from conflict of interest laws that allow him to take her job and keep his money, a man who works against our resource sector and who exports jobs to China while championing higher carbon taxes on heating and eating for Canadians.
Why will the finance minister not talk to her boss about ending the personal attacks on her own credibility?
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- Sep/17/24 2:33:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am so glad to have the chance to talk about feminism, because I know what a feminist government looks like. A feminist government builds the first national system of early learning and child care in this country. A feminist government makes contraceptives free, and a feminist government ensures that every single woman in Canada has full control of her body.
Until the Conservatives stand up for that, they have no right to talk about feminism.
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- Sep/17/24 2:34:36 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the fake feminist Prime Minister has thrown his finance minister under the bus with all of the other ministers. The real record of the finance minister is record smashing: A million people are visiting a food bank in her province in Ontario. One in four Canadians is living in poverty. Canadians now spend more in taxes than they do on housing, food and clothes combined.
No wonder they are putting the training wheels back on for her. She can tell that to the Prime Minister.
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- Sep/17/24 2:35:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have stood up to Trump and I have stood up to Putin. Juvenile playground insults from the wannabe MAGA, “maple syrup” Conservatives do not frighten me at all. What I think is really interesting is that they do not actually want to talk about the economy, and that is because good economic news for Canadians is bad news for them. How pathetic it is that they put their own partisan interests first.
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- Sep/17/24 2:36:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, taxes are up. Costs are up. Crime is up. Now time is up. The self-proclaimed feminist Prime Minister has repeatedly shoved aside strong women who have stood up to him. Now the Prime Minister is replacing the first-ever female finance minister with an unelected Mark “carbon tax” Carney.
Why is the finance minister allowing herself to be publicly humiliated in this manner?
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- Sep/17/24 2:36:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a bit rich to hear a member of the Conservative Party pretend to care about feminism, when their own leader was using misogynistic hashtags on videos to attract men who hate women.
It was anything but feminist when the Conservatives brought forward backdoor legislation to ban abortion and to take away a woman's right to choose, or when they all voted against increased funding to combat gender-based violence or support survivors. Their leader does not care about women or equality; he cares only about himself.
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- Sep/17/24 2:37:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are not even allowing the finance minister to answer her own questions, because they all know that the carbon tax is a failure. Canadians are suffering. There are over 1,800 homeless encampments in Ontario alone. Twenty-six per cent of Canadians are saying that they are considering leaving the country because it is too expensive. A single mother in Kingston reported paying 100% of her income in rent.
Will the finance minister admit that the Prime Minister has lost confidence in her and that Canadians have lost confidence in the government?
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- Sep/17/24 2:38:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives keep talking about women, but they do not support policies that support women. Why are they against affordable child care? If they care about that single mother, they should be supporting affordable child care. If they care about women's economic freedom, they should be supporting child care. If they care about women's rights, they should be supporting a woman's right to choose. The real fake feminists are the people who sit on that side of the aisle.
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- Sep/17/24 2:39:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up. Costs are up. Crime is up, and time is up. The Prime Minister's new de facto finance minister, “carbon tax” Carney, has massive conflicts of interest, including multiple foreign investment firms. Canadians do not know how much he personally stands to profit from the advice that he is giving to the Prime Minister. It is more blatant corruption from the NDP-Liberal government.
Will the Prime Minister simply have “carbon tax” Carney sworn in as a public office holder so that the full extent of Canada's disclosure laws apply to him too?
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- Sep/17/24 2:39:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the Conservatives, we do believe in listening to experts from across the country. Let us talk about where the Conservatives get their ideas. The Conservative leader gets his advice on helping Canadians with their grocery bills from a Loblaws lobbyist. He gets his advice on Ukraine from Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. He has courted the support of misogynists and cozied up to the far right. Those are the advisers Canadians should be really concerned about.
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- Sep/17/24 2:40:36 p.m.
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The hon. member for Regina—Qu'Appelle has stood in this place and understands the importance of calling members to order so that those who do have the floor have the opportunity to address the House.
The hon. member from Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes.
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