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House Hansard - 338

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 18, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:24:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney is just nine days into his role as the de facto finance minister, and he is already cashing in on his conflicts of interest to enrich himself at taxpayers' expense. Yesterday we learned that his firm is about to get a $10-billion sweetheart deal from his friends in the Liberal government to run his fund. We cannot even make this up. Every day, there are new questions about his conflicts. Just days after his official appointment, his close friend the CEO of Telesat got more than $2 billion of Canadians' tax dollars to build a broadband network that other firms could have built for half that price. While Canadians struggle to put food on the table, it has never been better to be a well-connected Liberal. It is time to come clean. How much does carbon tax Carney and his firm at Brookfield pocket in management fees from taxpayers in this new fund? If the Liberals do not plan on answering us, I am sure the Ethics Commissioner can shed some light on the brazen corruption of Canada's unelected finance minister, who is gunning for the PM's job. In the meantime, they get rich and Canadians get fleeced.
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Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 3:18:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney is already getting his way. Only days after he took on the unofficial and unelected role as finance minister, we learned that the company he chairs is now seeking 10 billion federal Canadian tax dollars, money to control Canadians' pensions. He has gone from carbon tax Carney to conflict of interest Carney and, now, coincidence Carney. Will the Prime Minister cut loose carbon tax Carney and call a carbon tax election so Canadians can choose their future?
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Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 3:20:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if carbon tax Carney has nothing to hide, then he would simply sign up and have an ethics clearance and an ethics committee review. We have tried to bring him to the ethics committee. However, the Bloc Québécois worked with the Liberals to prevent that from happening. We tried to get him to follow the conflict of interest law, but the Prime Minister refuses to swear him in as a public servant. If there is no conflict of interest, why will carbon tax Carney not do a full job as a public servant that can be scrutinized by our ethics committee, rather than fleecing Canadians?
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Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Sep/18/24 3:20:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, do not forget that the Leader of the Opposition is really cheesed that we did not hire him for the government payroll. That Mark Carney has chosen to step up to fight with the Liberal Party against the reckless and dangerous economic plans of the Conservative Party should be an example to all Canadians. People across the country are beginning to see how ridiculous and dangerous the ideas that the Leader of the Opposition is putting forward are, and are stepping up to roll up their sleeves and fight back against that brokenist, austere vision of not helping Canadians, of hurting Canadians, of going back to a time when Canadians did not have a bright future.
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