Thank you for listening to Depictions Media Radio. Welcome to Policy and Rights the show US welcomer Policy, Human Joys. Welcome back to Policy and Rights Here Depictions Media Radio. I am your ho Michael clocks. So there are a number of things happening. Well, as Parliament had a session, of course, we're still hearing Pierre Poviier talk about the
economy and how things are so affordable for Canadians. Well, he may have a point that some things are getting kind of pricey, but one of the things that I have noticed is the price of gas. And the reason why I bring up the price of gas is because the price of being able to fill a tank on a vehicle also affects some of the costs of deliveries of things like food, other clothing products and things that
we wear that they do actually have an effect. Way, when those prices start to go down, you might see some other prices start to fall. Maybe not in this in the same proportion, but when fuel prices go down, other prices do tend to fall. So we have to ask our question. Ask this question is what Pierre Paubier is saying about the unaffordability of Canada. Propaganda or truth.
We do have to decide that for ourselves. If you decide that as propaganda, you get a different set of answers then if you see it as strict on adult created truth. There are some other things that that are are looming. One that we still haven't seen this be completely being removed off the board filling tankers off the coast of British Columbia, and the path that they want those tankers to take in order to get to the
port where they will be filled. One the path that the Conservative Party is saying this should be taken to the path that Alberta is saying should be taken, does not match what the path of the British Columbia, who knows their coastal waters better than anyone else, doesn't. The two paths do not match. There is a what one group of people with Alberta and the Conservatives are saying is a very fast path path and can get product straight out into the ocean and around the world faster
is the most dangerous path. That path is a path that they could lead to potential disaster for the coastal businesses of British Columbia, rendering some of the tourism that
actually draws people into British Columbia. Well, there would be no business left because if there is a Tarsan spill in those coastal waters, the Tarsan would take well longer than we have to be alive rate now in order to clean it up, which means that there would be how many businesses lost, beaches lost, tourism dollars lost to
British Columbia, all because of a Tartsan beachumen spill. David Ebe at this point has has been steadfast with it, but there are some other things flowing around in Parliament that could affect how effective David eb could be in stopping these tankers from being off the coast of British Columbia and ruining the the beaches, the businesses and one
of the British Columbia Lower mainland way of life. Not to mention the wildlife that would be affected, the the the orca, the and other other marine mammals such as seals, the BirdLife that would that would be affected because of the the lack of fish. Oh, we mentioned the fish too, and the and possibly the the the salmon that would be affected. So there's a lot of a lot of disaster that could happen if they take the path that
Alberta once. One of the things that is looming around Ottawa right now is a bill that would fast track projects and eliminate a lot of conversation, a lot of planning.
The project would just move forward with reckless abandonment. And that that bill does need to not be put in place, But if that bill is put in place, it could circumvent other environmental arguments because it would eliminate some of the environmental studies that would be done in order to make a project viable under the idea of fast tracking, so that we protect the economy and that we caused
more economic growth in the world. If we're causing more economic growth in the world, but we're ruining the land that we need to live on, then that is a sacrifice isn't worth having. And this is some of the issues that we're going to hear. We might hear some of that from Elizabeth may As. She is one of the people who we have recorded. We also have a
Liberal MP that there's recorded. He's talking about another set of bills that are that are out there, and we're going to hear of some of the debate that happened on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. So why don't we get started, And we're going to listen to Elizabeth May first as she talks about some of the things that with some of the bills that she thinks are kind of scary if they're put into law.
So thank you, bon to lamone and someone uncle EZI. So we're back in happy twenty twenty six. It sure isn't twenty fifteen anymore. And as the head of the IMF said recently in Davos, We're not in Kansas anymore. I'm as leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May and Member Apartment for Sanatigo Violence. Wanted to address the immediate concerns we have for this session. It was funny how my friend Steve McKinnon didn't mention the bill that worries
me the most right now is we're gathered together. Although I think Chaponscu de la Lampleymantacion de bouge Uh the Budget Implementation Act. Unfortunately, I do carry it with me to make sure I can point out the sections that bother me. But it is over six hundred pages long. It is the ultimate of omnibus budget bills. It changes twenty other laws, and it hasn't been properly studied at all.
There were a number of really controversial pieces of legislation that carried at second reading through the fall, and members of the Ottawa Corps will know what it means when I say they passed on division vote le vote de de Deputy Shaka, so I wasn't allowed to vote against or for Bill C twelve, one of the ones that the government House Leader just identified as one of their big priorities. Bill C twelve doesn't ensure safe borders, but it does ensure that refugee rights are infringed.
And I'm not alone.
The Association of Refugee Lawyers of Canada has said also that this violates Canada's international commitments to international refugee law. In any case, that bill went through quote unquote on division at second rating, which meant I couldn't register my vote against it, and when it was ultimately bundled together with other bills on the last day when Parliament met, which was December eleventh. Our last day was supposed to
be December twelfth. You'll recallably adjourned a day early based on the unanimous consent motion that rushed through a number of bills altogether by unanimous consent. All I could do was say to mister McKinnon's office and others, I'll be voting no. This created some amount of concern because unanimous consent means what it sounds like, and one member of Parliament who doesn't agree means your unanimous consent motion isn't
going to work. So in negotiating with Liberal House Leader and Deputy House Leader, they said, would you what's the problem. My problem isn't that I don't want everybody to catch the planes they've now booked to go home a day early. My problem is that it seems wrong that I don't get to record my vote against Bill C twelve and on other bills that where I would see four where
I would register concern and vote against them. So what happened was they amended the unanimous consent motion to end with noting the opposition of the Honorable Member for Sanategulf violence. But there's been a degree an erosion of parliamentary democracy
in this place since the election. That passes mostly unnoticed because parliamentary democracy doesn't get a lot of attention even in the best of times, and this isn't the best of times, bills are passed without proper study, notably Bill C five, which had a programming motion that was breathtakingly
anti democratic back in June. We now have the passage also of Bill C twelve first on division, which means for viewers that when debate collapses, in other words, there's no more speakers to speak to it, the speaker says,
so it now passes on division. And the only members of Parliament who can object and say we want a recorded vote on this are members of what's called a recognized party, which in this case is in this parliament Liberals, Conservatives or the block in Anton pass a home is the DUIs de deputy sank deputy to sank deputy Ultra pati de pati plu petit ensemble so ex vote register. So when I was first elected in twenty eleven, I
never knew I was lucky then. But there were four members of the block Quebecua not a recognized party, and me Green Party, not a recognized party. But the rule then was five members of apartament could stand up and demand a recorded vote. We can't do that anymore. Those rules changed during COVID, so we have seven dpmps and me who generally on these votes on division. Who knows how people would have voted, because on division means it's gone through now. You can't do on division at third
reading and at report stage. But they bundled those together in the unanimous consent motion on December eleventh, So the House ended quickly on December tenth, the debate on this monster. Bill C fifteen, the Budget Implementation Act, past second reading on division. Now I hope that the Speaker and the Government will agree that a bill that touches this many other pieces of legislation need to go to more than
one committee. As things now stand, since Bill C fifteen, the Budget Implementation Bill, passed on division on December tenth, it's now ready to second reading. It's now ready to go to the Committee for study. The Committee to study it is designated as the Finance Committee. But there are many sections in here that should go to other committees
for proper study. And if I can point out one thing that's of concern, and I did see just this week a coalition of organizations from and individuals David Suzuki but also Council of Canadians and also Sierra Club and a Greenpeace, a number of organizations saying what's this here? Does Division five of Bill C fifteen is amendments to
the Red Tape Reduction Act. If you're unfamiliar with them, you find the pages three or I did have this my question and Question period on December ninth, So I am the only member of Partiment who's raised this so far in this place to say, can the Minister of Finance explain why any minister is going to be aglowed to exempt any entity from the operation of any federal
law within their area. A minister, any minister can exempt any entity from any federal law in their jurisdiction if they think it's in the public interest, and there are no criteria in the bill to tell us what would direct the minister's attention to think it's in the public interest. I won't go on about it at this point, just to say it's a priority for me to the Green Party and I think for Canadians across the country to have amendments to Bill C fifteen, the Budget Implementation Act.
I have some other concerns with other sections of this Act, but certainly I want to see Division five the Red Tape Production Act substantially amended, if not deleted, Division five of Bill C fifteen. We're looking at a lot of other bills that we still have not had properly studied. In this place, things moved fast, as I said, with decisions on division and no study or virtually no study
in committees. I hope that as mister Carney gets more accommodated to his role as a parliamentarian, that Parliament will be more respected. I'm particularly concerned as well, and I'll
be asking the Auditor General to look into this. A number of the newly created entities that have been created since the election, things like the Build Canada Homes and the Major Project's Office and the Office to Organize Defense Procurement, are not organized as one would expect within a relevant department reporting to a minister, but are special operating agencies under Treasury Board regulation and thus are under Treasury Board
confidentiality for things like their work plans, their budgets, their special operating agencies, which is of concern for me because of the lack of transparency that goes with being a special operating agency. I certainly will be pressing this government to see where is the climate plan. I heard there was reference to it today that it's not just that the current climate plan has been changed. There is no
current climate plan. Much of what the previous government had in place has been removed, nothing new has been added. And regardless of what we may say about the MoU with Alberta's, the current government doesn't have a climate plan and that's quite unacceptable this far into their mandate. So I think at that point out having really skimbling the surface of the things we'll be pushing for, will remain vigilant on human rights. That's why I can't support Bill
C twelve. I was horrified that that be the one bill, one of the three bills that our government House Leader friend Steve McKinnon mentioned that one needed proper study, particularly in the ways it infringes on refugee rights. But don't forget that C twelve took portions of what was originally
introduced as Bill C two. Bill C too. The Strong Borders is still on the order paper, and now that they have forced through with the unanimous consent motion the last stages of C twelve in this place, one would expect that they're going to because Gary and Desangri said C two isn't dead, it's not being withdrawn. Those were the portions of the Strong Border Act that remain once you take out what passed in C twelve for warrantless
opening of mail and warrantless access to Internet information. So I expect that we'll also see a new version of C two but for the ones that I'd also say that Steve McKinnon is very busy and I hope that in his role as Transport Minister, he will bring back the bill that died on the order paper, Bill C thirty three, that was ready to go to be passed. It had gone through clause by clause and committee that would ban the export of thermal coal from Canada and
give us more protection for inland waterways. The job of a Minister of Transportation is a full time job, and it's obviously I have a lot of sympathy for mister McKinnon and his role. I also have sympathy for the Prime Minister who wants to be dealing with the President of the United States, who's petulant and sends out notices that are on his social media account to say I'm now uninviting you this take this letter. I think what it says, take this letter is representing that you've now
lost your I mean, I don't know. Donald Trump obviously writes his own tweets. I suppose he's imagining that he ever went to law school and he thinks this is how somebody who's smart would write a letter. It's not. But that's all right. I do accept that our Prime minister is very smart, and I'm sure he wrote his own speech for Demos. It was well written, it was well constructed, it was rightly celebrated. But it does not represent a vision for Canada, and no cinep vision mondial
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The government should do for Bill C nine.
Bill C nine, I think the parts that are offensive to me, Okay, let me break it up. I don't see any problem with Bill C nine in terms of and I'm getting inundated. A lot of constituents, a lot of Canadians are outraged at the idea that people are no longer protected from hate speech if they're citing from sacred texts. That doesn't trouble me as much. I think that can be amended and clarified in terms of what
ways in which you're protected or not protected. The part that bothers me more is the delegitimizing of lawful charter protected rights to protest if without your knowledge, you happen to be within blocks of a place of worship that you didn't know was there, and behind you someone's holding a flag that you didn't know was there. So I think that Se nine could use reworking for sure. But
the parts, I mean, there's sections of Leviticus. As a practicing Christian, I would never stand up and say these are my beliefs. This section of Leviticus, which is horrific. I mean there's lots. You can find anything you want. The Bible's big, so you can beat your swords into plowshares, or if you feel like it, you can beat your plowshares into swords. They're both in there. So cherry picking from the Bible to defend hateful speech isn't a good
idea any more than it is from a Quran. It's important to respect religious freedoms and every Canadian's right to worship as they wish to worship. And I think that C nine has become a flashpoint for the wrong reason.
If you were heading to a snap election in the spring.
I don't think so, primarily because well, the Liberals would. I thought, okay, in the back of my head as I was struggling with this bill. Obviously the twenty twenty five budget, which they didn't use disappearing inc it still says the things they promised me. They're gone in the mlu But never mind. When I was struggling with that, I thought, in the back room somewhere, the Liberals want an election. Not necessarily, mister Carneie, not necessary, it's just Champagne.
But it would suit them to be able to say we only got elected in April. These awful people in Parliament, and I think most Canadians would agree Parliament looks pretty awful. Have kept us from fulfilling our mandate. Surely we should have been given the benefit of the doubt. In that context, that snap election in December I think would have resulted in a Liberal majority, so I think some of them were looking for it, but they were meanwhile counting up
their votes on people who would cross the floor. There may be more floor crossers still. I think that might be a preferred mo for the Liberals at this point, is to get a majority through floor crossing. We know they worked aggressively over it on specific MPs over the holidays. We'll see what happens if more joined them through floor crossings. But they've got a more imminent problem, which is that they've with Christian Freeland's resignation from Parliament, they're going to
need a by election. There are other Liberals rumored to be leaving soon. A set of spring by elections. I think we can take that to the bank. But a snap election a spring possible, but I don't think likely. There's enough reasons that the Liberals wouldn't want to take the chance. Uh And as things now stand, their polling so high and Mark Karney is still wearing teflon, so it'll take a while for that to wear down.
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Bill C fifteen, the Budget Implementation Act, is currently in the committee and if it doesn't have the amendments that you are demanding, would you would you support the bill.
And not a chance I don't support. The ministers of this government get the right as individuals to exempt anyone they see fit to exempt from the operation of a federal law. And then the bill says, I read it, we'll make this public as soon as it is feasible, there's no deadline on that, and will provide the reasons we did this. But we don't have to provide all the reasons. We don't have to say anything we think
is confidential. This is not cabinet. C five was bad enough that Cabinet as a whole could decide this is a project of national significance and therefore it can break other laws. This is an individual minister. There's not a chance in the world that if Division five the Red Tape Production Act in C. Fifteen reads as it does now, that I could possibly vote for it. But there's also
other sections that concern me. I don't know why they're amending the International River's Improvement Act or the Wildlife Act, why these things need to be amended in C. Fifteen, But we will certainly be digging into it and providing multiple amendments. But again, it's only to the Finance committee that touches many other areas of public policy. I also can't support Bill C fourteen which has had which is
the reverse onus on bail provisions. And I certainly can't support Well, we'll see what happens with how they reintroduced Bill C two, which was the Strong Borters Act. There's a lot that the government has put forward and the ones that still remain to be reviewed. I could support C sixteen, especially as it relates to intimate partner violence, but the idea in C fourteen and this passed on division.
By the way, Bill C fourteen that puts a reverse onus on someone requesting bail violates fundamental principles that go back hundreds of years of British common law understanding of innocent until proven guilty. So there's a lot here to deal with. It's in some ways it's been a very thin legislative agenda. It's the election, but the things that have been carried so far are quite appalling. I think we're going to need much more time in the committee.
Not that I'm against it, but by the way, if you look at C fifteen, at the expropriation rules around high speed rail, those should take a full amount of study, and they should be in the Transport Committee and not in the Finance Committee. But there's it's long, complicated and it requires more than the kind of non review we've had in committees up to this point. And in any case,
C fifteen is the Budget Implementation Act. Is appalling in thinking that it's okay to put forward the notion that in order to cut red tape, an individual minister can exempt an entity from the operation of federal law.
You use teflon to describe Prime Minister Carneie. Do you really feel that way given the fact that it's possible that looks like he's being pleased by both China and the US at the same time, And how do you think he'll do well?
I think what I was talking about is domestic politics. Canadians want a leader that can stand up to Trump. We wanted elbows up. I think for a while there it looked like mister Karney had lost his elbows and he found them in Davos in rhetorical sense, so that's good. Being squeezed by China and indiot doesn't have anything to do with teflon. Within the Canadian public opinion polling, mister
Carney is doing extremely well. Canadians are giving him their confidence and as he climbs, mister Qualia falls further behind. And it's not a two party system as much as the Liberals and Conservatives would like that. We need to see who does the NDP choose as their next leader. The Green Parties in good shape. I'm really pleased that we are important my colleagues and the NDP. It'd be a while before they consider, but we have We're debt free, got money in the bank. If there's an election, so
be it. We have candidates nominated, especially in those ridings like my deputy leader, Mike Morris and Kitchener Center. A snap election would benefit us because we could get more Greens selected more quickly. But in the meantime, the Canadians don't want a snap election and I think that will constrain. Never forget where mister Sheer and Scott Read, my dear friend, were during the budget vote in hiding behind the curtains.
That wasn't a bad move because given that we can now have remote voting on our voting app, it's no longer easy to count up the votes and figure out which way things are going. So the number of MPs who weren't in the room to stand and be counted as they voted on the budget, which is why I was physically in the room to stand and be counted.
I think that there'll be enough people who would the notion of a spring election will be either in real life hide behind the curtains, or in some other way make sure there's no election, because particularly the NDP and the Conservatives don't want one right now. The party that would want one would be Greens or Liberals.
That's fere not Minister Mckinnonnham saying that he thinks Parliament can function, but he lays all that responsibility with Pierre Pouliev. Just what do you make of that framing coming from the Government House leader.
Well, it's not a surprise. I mean again, the Liberals and the Conservatives both would like this to be a two party system. And the way the April election carried out and played out the narrative, and I'm not blaming the people's standing for everybody, You'll agree, the narrative in the media and the narrative in the large party advertising
was here are your choices. As if we're a presidential country where you go to the polls and you expect a ballot, it says Mark Kearney Pierre Produev that ballot doesn't exist anywhere on the planet or certainly nowhere within Canada. So it will be an ongoing problem to remind Canadians. Look, it's critical that we keep this a multi party parliament. It's been a multi party parliament since the late eighteen hundreds, it always has been, and minority parliaments can serve us well.
So again, anytime that a Liberal wants to reinforce, it's us or quaiev and anytime the Conservatives want to emphasize, it's us or the Liberals. Again, it's typical. No surprise.
Updates on Green Parties leadership race in becoming meet.
So oh yes, well, I'm not on the committee that's making those decisions, but I know they're meeting regularly, so there will be an announcement and I don't know when, but I would I think it's I don't want to go out and a limit say something that I'm my guess would be, and I have to be honest with you as a guest, is that the leadership race will
be in and done within calendar twenty twenty six. And I'll be very happy at an in person convention to stand there and say I'm now passing the torch to either a team of co leaders or a new sole leader. And with having used the leadership race to expand and build the party more so, I'm looking forward to it. But I don't know the dates because they haven't been
selected yet. Yeah, Mercy, and please have a look at pages three oh one to three oh four of the six hundred page plus Bill C fifteen and see if if you don't think it's quite a shocking approach to governance to say any individual minister can exempt any entity from a law in their jurisdiction if they think it's in the public interest by themselves one minister. Shocking. Thank you very much, Mercy.
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remtna al ris. Last week in Davos, Prime Minister Carne delivered a speech on the international stage that was both forthright and honest. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev effectively said the Prime Minister's speech was quote, well crafted and eloquently delivered unquote. Mister Polieve added that Conservatives are as always willing to work with the Prime Minister to to quote, turn these words into action. Well, now he has an opportunity to do just that, to work with us in the House
of Commons, to collaborate. We will take him at his word and accept his outreached hand to work together at this very challenging time in our nation's history.
Now that means some tangible things.
He's going to have to apply himself to this, to work constructively on legislation and not obstruct to move ahead with legislation in the House and in committees, including quickly adopt a bill to provide immediate grocery relief to Canadians. In his letter to the Prime Minister last week, mister Polyff stated that he would fast track ideas that make food affordable. He has that chance with these brand new affordability measures that you heard the Prime Minister announce moments ago.
He also has an opportunity to quickly expedite the Carnie Plan. The Budget Implementation Act, an act to grow our economy, to create opportunities in new markets, and to get and secure a trillion dollars of new investment in this country. We want mister Polyev to commit to a reasonable timeline for debate at report stage and third reading in the House of Commons. This legislation provides important assistance to grow our economy, to create jobs and help Canadians with these
challenging times. Additionally, we call on mister Polyev to tell Conservative Senators to stay out of the way of passage of Bill C four, which provides an income tax cut to Canadians, a GSC housing rebate, and which formally eliminates the consumer carbon tax. We want Conservative senators to stay out of the way of this legislation. The Conservatives slow walk to this bill as all of you know in Parliament in the fall, and we want to make sure Conservative senators don't do the same thing.
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Mister Poliev should also support the quick passage of Bills C fourteen and C sixteen, important justice legislation before the House currently and before committees, obviously to protect victims of crime, reform the bail system, address extortion and child pornography.
He should finally.
Support giving police the tools they need with a fair and reasonable lawful access regime. It's time for the Conservatives to put up or shut up on crime. A suite and historic suite of legislation to deal with crime in our communities is before Parliament and we are telling mister Poliev get out of the way, free your MPs to vote for this legislation that will deal with.
Crime in Canadian communities.
We also call on mister Pouliev to ensure to assure Canadians that Conservative senators do not hold up passage of another piece of crime legislation, Bill C twelve, which secures our borders and improves our immigration system. Now, all of the issues that I've outlined are things that Conservatives have called for, including Canadians, maybe especially Canadians in Conservative ridings.
These are tangible things that mister Pouliev could do right now if he is serious about working together for Canadians. We are willing to have the house sit extended hours this week, next week, as long as it takes, if required, to make progress. This is a time of anxiety for many Canadians. Start anxiety plas amb de canadien. Throughout our towns and cities, many of our neighbors share the same worry.
How will I afford the cost of living? How secure is my job an economy and a trading environment that is rapidly changing. Safe am I on the streets of my community? And how safe is my country in a world where instability and conflict has become all too commonplace? And how does Canada adjust to a new world where we can no longer count on trading relationships of the past that brought us economic prosperity here at home. Voila
de casac These are all important questions. Last week in Davos, Prime Minister Carne outlined Canada's approach to the new world reality, one that is both principled and pragmatic. And since taking office last spring, our government has moved rapidly to improve the lives of Canadians and strengthen our place in the world.
Among other things, the Carney Plan cuts income taxes for millions of Canadians, cuts taxes on capital gains and business investment, removes all federal barriers to enter provincial trade, fast tracks a trillion with a t dollars of investment in energy, AI and critical minerals. Doubles are defense spending by twenty thirty and rapidly diversifies trade markets abroad. We have a brand new comprehensive strategic partnership with the European Union on defense.
We've signed twelve other trade and security deals on four continents. In recent days. We have concluded new strategic partnerships with China and cutter and we are currently negotiating free trade packs with India, Assian, Thailand and Philippines. In short, the Prime Minister has outlined to his fellow world leaders the path we are now on as Canadians. The primimnist at Patajeevich leschevdeta Ottolgemone Lavois and nustrevan at Tulma Antanka Cannadie.
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Poliev to make good on his promise. Beyond the bills I've mentioned, there will be many more pieces of important legislation to implement mister Carney's plan for Canada in the coming weeks. Just earlier this morning, the Prime Minister announced a broad package of measures to make groceries and other essentials more affordable. That includes legislation for the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit formerly known as the GST credit.
The government is increasing its amount by twenty five percent for five years beginning this July, and in addition to that, we're providing a one time payment equivalent to a fifty
percent increase this year. Combined, that means a family of four will receive up to eighteen hundred and ninety dollars this year and about fourteen hundred dollars a year for the next four years, and a single person will receive up to nine hundred and fifty dollars this year and about seven hundred dollars a year for the next four years. The new benefit will provide additional significant support for more than twelve million Canadians. There should be no delay, no
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Minister, Kay, you didn't mention Bill C nine the hate speech lines one of the bills you want conservative help on. There's been a lot of pushback from religious communities saying this bill goes too far. They're worried about a trampling on their rights. Is this a signal from the government that this bill needs more work or you need to retool the bill to get people on board with.
What you want to do.
I remember when conservatives talked about protecting synagogues, mosques, other churches, other places of worship in this country.
That build is exactly that. We hope they pass it very quickly.
Proposal though, to put C nine to the side in order for them for them to say fast track bail the bail bill C fourteen, C sixteen in their other crime legislation.
Here's what I'm open to, Conservatives getting out of the way of the most ambitious crime agenda and a generation a series of measures, a series of bills that would deal with extortion, that would deal with child pornography, that would protect victims and particularly women and victims of intimate partner violence, that would protect places of worship. This is a broad and expansive crime agenda. Conservatives used to be
for that. We are going to be telling Conservatives that they have a suite of crime measures in front of them that they can pass today, to.
Say, hey, you know, you know, work with us on these crime bills. They're raising issues with one particular piece of legislation. Why not just push out the side in this spirit of cooperation and help get things passed.
Look, we're for our bills. They want to pass the bill, We'll pass the bill. How about that.
You've spoken a lot about the Conservatives.
You've spoken a lot about the Conservatives.
Can you talk about whether or not the Block is prepared to work with you to pass the Budget Implementation Act through committees.
I have no idea. You'll have to ask the Block. Quebec WUA.
Obviously people in Block writings, and I live in Quebec represented Quebec writing. Quebecers did not vote for what they're hearing coming out of the mouths of sovereignists right now. They're vote They want to vote for day to day essentials, help with their groceries, and to protect our country, all of our country against the trade and other threats that we see on the news every day.
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Why is your government?
You know? And when so many religious communities from multi Face have said they are uncomfortable with bill, they did not feel that this was the initial intention of it. Why is that not a signal to you to slow down and prioritize some of your other crime legislation.
I remember when Conservatives were for protecting synagogues, mosques and.
Place a consertaives.
I'm talking about religious leaders in this country that are expressing concern about this bill.
Well, we're obviously sensitive and we'll listen to all Canadians as we do on all bills, but we very much think it's important the principles that are in Bill C nine. We are going to continue to put them, along with other key pieces of legislation, as part of the most ambitious crime fighting agenda any government has put in place.
In a generation.
Mister Rickinn, has your government considered snap election if you're unable to convince more floor crossers to come over to the Liberals? Is that in play at all? How was that discussed?
No, As I just said, I think this parliament can work. I think Canadians express themselves only last April, the end of April on the Carni Plan, on the plan to diversify trade markets, to create opportunities, to attract a trillion dollars of investment and to make life more affordable. There is no reason that plan will cannot get unless mister Polyev continues with his obstruction there's no way that that plan should not receive the approval of this parliament. There
is a majority in that room for that plan. Mister Polief has to get out of the way and allow his MPs to vote on an ambitious crime fighting agenda, to vote on a plan to grow our economy, and to vote on a plan to make life more affordable to Canadians. That's what we're calling on him to do today.
Unity, what is your government going to do in regards to the two separatist movements right now in Alberta and the possible referendum in Quebec as well. What kind of focus will national unity and containing these separatist movements be this time?
You know what we're going to do. We're going to grow our economy.
We're going to create jobs, we're going to diversify trade markets, we're going to make life more affordable, and we're going to put an ambitious crime fighting agenda before this Parliament.
That's what we're gonna do. Thank you, kiss.
Oral questions the honor the leader of the oppositions.
Canadians deserve affordable groceries, but today we have learned that food inflation in Canada is by far the highest in the G seven. It's growing twice as fast as in the US, and food inflation has doubled since this Prime Minister came to power. These are If it truly were external factors behind this, we wouldn't be the worst in
the G seven. When will the Prime Minister reverse his deficit inflationary taxes so that Canadians can have affordable groceries, the Honorable Minister of Finance, Mister Speaker, it's a pleasure to be back, and this Monday we have good news. The Canadian Groceries and Essentials Benefits will help twelve million Canadians.
And my Conservative friends are happy in their hearts, mister Speaker, because they know this represents roughly eighteen hundred dollars for a family of four and roughly nine hundred and fifty for a single person this year. The Liberals support this and Canadians do well. The Conservatives do as well, the
Honorable Leader of the Opposition, Mister Speaker. After food inflation has doubled under this prime minister, and with the worst food inflation in the G seven, the checks that the Liberals are announcing today won't even pay for just one grocery shop. Yes, the reality is that the average family will have to spend seventeen thousand dollars a year for grocery costs. WI will the Prime Minister reverse his taxes and inflationary references so that Canadians can eat the honorable
Government House Leader, Mister Speaker. First and above all, we we'd like to all express our solidarity with the leader of the Opposition in this decisive week for him. I am certain he'll be able to convince a majority of his constituents to support his leadership. Second, we welcomed his openness with respect to the legislative measures before this House. And there is a bill that is where the Prime Minister's plan for our economy to create jobs and opportunities
in Canada. Can he give us a date when we'll be able to vote through reading of the Budgetment Implementation Act.
Canadians deserve affordable groceries, but under this Prime Minister's watch, food price inflation is the highest in the G seven.
It's twice as high as in the States, twice as high as.
What he took office.
He can't blame global factors when it's rising faster than any other G seven country.
The real cause is his rising taxes on farmers.
For I'm going to I'm going to allow the Honorable Leader of the Opposition to start that question over. I mean, we need started over there and started over there, the Honorable Member of the Oppositions.
The Speaker.
The Canadian people deserve affordable groceries.
Liberals might laugh that off, but they've given Canada the worst food price inflation in the G seven. It's rising twice as fast here in Canada as in the United States of America. Two point two million people lined up at food banks. And since this Prime Minister said that he would make groceries affordable, they've actually the inflation rate
has actually doubled. Will the Prime Minister finally reverse his inflationary deficits and taxes so Canadians going to a fourteen house government healthy us.
Mister Speaker, we certainly want to wish the Leader of the Opposition well in this very decisive and important week for helping Manaul, that he will have success at his party's convention. The Prime Minister's plan to grow our economy, to create a trillion dollars an investment, and to protect our workers and our industries from trade threats is before this House Bill C fifteen. Now we take very very well the leaders openness on working with us on legislation.
Can you give us a date, just a date the words out of his both give us the date where we could have third reading on the BIA Mister.
Speaker, the honorable Leader of the Opposition.
Well, mister Speaker, in the spirit of solidarity, why won't they agree with the Canadian people that we should get rid of all the hidden taxes that they've been.
Posed to approach.
There's the liberal fuel standard tax, which is seven cents a leader on farmers, truckers and those who bring us our food. There's the industrial carbon tax on farm equipment and fertilizer. All of this has given Canada the worst food price inflation in the g seven Our food costs are rising twice as fast as in the United States of America. And now they promised to recycle a Trudeau era rebate that won't even cover one trip to the grocery store.
Mister speaker, lammisitly pre honorable Minister of Finance.
I know that it's a particularly challenging week for the Leader of the Opposition.
But let me help baby us today.
We have good news for Canadians, mister speaker, it's called the Canada Grocery and Essentials Benefit. Mister speaker. I know in ar he's rejoicing, mister speaker, because he's been asking question at this house. Now we have delivered for Canadians, mister speaker, the real question all the Liberals, if you are going to vote in favor Canadians orry favor? Will the Conservative is good for their work and book us to help Canadians.
The honorable leader of the oppositions, if you're only the Liberals would look at the seventeen thousand, six hundred dollars that the average family has to spend on groceries and say that it's a time to rejoice.
They say that Canadians should be grateful that to be lined up in record numbers at the food bank. They think Canadians should thank them for having the highest food inflation in the g seven twice as bad as the United States of America.
They think that Canadians should give.
Them great give Liberals gratitude for having double food price inflations. Since this Prime minister was elected promising to be judged by the prices at the grocery store, why won't they reverse their liberal taxes and debt so we can review.
The Honorable Minister of Gods and Family.
Mister Speaker, it's a good news for Canadians who are struggling today. In fact, up to nineteen hundred dollars more for Canadian family to help with those costs of living that the Conservatism have been talking about all fall, Mister Speaker. In fact, the memp from Edmonton, Manning, told a story about end who was struggling with the costs of groceries. Is he going to vote against Enid's desire to have more money to buy grocery.
The Honorable leader of the opposition, Mister speaker.
The reality is that Eden is paying and his family are paying a record high price. If Eaton is part of a family of four, that family will spend over seventeen thousand dollars on groceries this year.
That's one thousand dollars more than they did last year.
That's the fastest increase in the g seven and now the Prime Minister has reb the Trudeau era rebate which will let pass that will barely cover a few trips to the grocery store, while the average family spends seventeen thousand plus dollars. Why don't the guys, why doesn't the Liberals stop increasing grocery prices by getting rid of their inflationary depthicits and taxes on food menus.
To the Honorable Minister of Finance.
Your speaker, I know that the leader of the opposition is a bit concerned about the week ahead, but let me quote the letter he sent us.
On January twenty fourth.
Mister Speaker, we wouldn't assume that it would be good for his words.
He said, if you have other ideas that make.
Food affordable, we will fast truck dead. Mystery speaker, Well, I have been news for him. It's called the Canada Grocery and Essentials Benefit. Mister speaker, helping twelve millions Canadians the puestion we have on this side.
Will you stand up in this house?
Will we be good for his word and support twelve million Canadians that are expecting dis government and disaster.
Support the.
Honorable Member for Saint Jean, mister speaker. Quebecer's and French Canadians learned something new last Thursday. According to the Prime Minister, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham was not a conquest by the English. It was the beginning of a great partnership. According to him, the ancestors of Quebecers and English Canadians rose from the battlefield that morning and said to each other, guys, let's stop fighting, celebrate our differences,
and build Canada. Mister speaker, if the Prime Minister wants to create some new heritage minutes, will his he review his history rather than rewrite it. The Honorable Government House Leader, mister Speaker, English Canadians and French Canadians built a very great country, one that is the best in the world. We created great prosperity in mutual respect for our official languages and human rights. Seaker. No one, not the block
will even will minimize this accomplishment. Nevertheless, mister speaker, we're going to continue to work with what concerns Quebecer's i e. Affordability, job creation, prosperity, creation together, mister Speaker, the Honorable Member for Saint Jean, mister speaker, if you listen to the Prime Minister, when French was banned from being taught in the Maritimes, in Manitoba, in Saskatchewan, in Alberta and in Ontario, it wasn't to erase us. No, it was to bring
us together. When Quebecers were excluded from power and business, it was for their own good. When the founder of Canada said that Louis Reelle would be hanged even if all the dogs in Quebec bart in his favor, we just misrepresented his love of Poocha's mister speaker, when is this Prime minister going to learn our history for real?
The Honorable Government House Leader, Mister speaker, she's talking to a Government House leader of that is the proud ancestor of Scottish immigrants who studied in French in Prince Edward Island, who did his undergrad at the Acadian University in Moncton, and who lives his life in French, and who was elected four times in a writing that is ninety percent Francophone. That is possible in Canada when we have mutual respect between Anglophones and Anglophones, and we've created the best country
in the world. Vive la Canada, the Honorable Member for Saint Jean, mister speaker. A little reminder, historically, there's a reason why these questions are being asked in a parliament here in Ottawa. It's because English speakers preferred to burn down the Parliament in Montreal rather than compensate French Canadians who had their farms burned during the eighteen thirty seven
rebellion with a terrible partnership. The Liberal Lieutenant from Quebec defended the Prime Minister by saying that it was just a different perspective on history. Well, history is facts, not opinions. So instead of defending these alternative facts from the Prime Minister, will we teach him our history lovely, the Honorable Minister of Finance, mister Speaker, I've noticed that my block colleagues
were talking about history. But I can tell you one thing that Canadians want to talk about in Quebecer's want to talk about. That's talking about their city right now. Those people on my writing in Quebec, they want a government that is building the future. They want investment and support for families because Quebecer's first priority is affordability. And today we're showing up with the Canadian a grocery benefit
to put food on the table. Will always be here to defend Quebec and Quebecers join a koppel.
The aske be judged on inflation, on grocery prices well.
Food inflation has doubled, the highest in the G seven and has doubled the US rate. This is a homegrown problem of high liberal taxes on farmers, fertilizer and food processors and rampant inflationary deficits. Today's recycled Trudeau Ara rebate will barely cover one trip to the store for the average family. They now need to spend over seventeen thousand dollars a year on groceries. It didn't work when Trudeau tried it.
Prices kept rising.
There's nothing in today's announcement that will make anything cost less. So instead of temporary measures, why not permanently scrap liberal hidden taxes that drive up food costs.
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While that leader focuses on hanging on to his leadership, we're focused on affordability for Canadians. Our new Groceries and essentials benefit will help more than twelve million Canadians with food inflation. That's ninety hundred dollars for a family of four. Mister speaker, it's time for the Conservatives. It's time for Canadians. Thanks to Tell Conservatives to stop the obstruction. Let's build Canada together.
Thank you, nonable member for Regina Kappel. Plan didn't work for Justin Trudeau.
I don't know why they think it will work today and earlier today, the Prime Minister tried to blame inflation on global factors, but all the other countries in the G seven have lower food inflation than Canada. The liberal fuel standards tax didn't invade us from another country that already at seven cents a leader and is set to rise to seventeen. The industrial liberal carbon tax didn't come
from away either. Working families who can't afford beef know that today's announcement won't even cover.
One trip to the grocery store.
So why not stop trying recycling failed Trudel policies and adopt common sense conservative measures to scrap liberal taxes on food?
Yeah, the Honorable Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister.
Of Maffies too speaker, speaking of recycling, We've got the twenty fifteen playbook here in twenty twenty six, and it's just not going to work. Canadians know that the environment, economy, trade reconciliation, these are all related and Canadians and conservative writings. Expect better than obstruction and speak and spell politics where we get one of five answers to every problem.
Listen on this site.
There's new programs for affordability, economic growth, building big things, and this is a big moment for this country. I invite the members opposite to join us, to see the world as it.
Is and to build Canada strong.
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Kalduis So in Canada first in the G seven for food inflation. Canada's food inflation is double the US at six point two percent. Essentials like lettuce, beef, baby formula and apples are all hit with liberal inflation. Conservatives will fast track any proposal double reverse. Having the highest food inflation in the G seven that includes eliminating the industrial carbon tex, liberal fuel standards, cutting red tape, and boosting competition. Will the Liberals introduce this immediately?
The Honorable Minister of Agri Agamster.
Speaker, and government is focused on delivering support where it's needed. I can't understand why the opposition is so against that, Mister Speaker.
By taking action now, we're helping.
Farmers manage essential costs, improving portability, strengthening a more resilient food system.
Mister speaker, twelve.
Million Canadians are going to be affected by this, mister speaker. It's going to help our domestic production, it's going to help our farmers and ranchers, and it's going to help our economy.
Thank you, Member for Calgary East.
Giving the Canadians the money back the Liberals took from them in the first place doesn't lower grocery costs. The Prime Minister can't blame global factors either. When all other G seven nations have lower food inflation than Canada does, Liberals raise taxes on farmers, fertilizer, food processors, all while doubling the deficit. Well, the Liberals reverse these failed policies, or is having the highest food inflation in the G seven the only Liberal promise they're willing to keep.
The Honorable Minister for Digital, Artificial Intelligence and Digital inn.
Well, the Party of No, mister speaker, keeps standing in the way of bringing down the cost of living for Canadians. We're saying yes today the Groceries and Essential Benefit will give twelve million Canadians support to put food on the table, saving the average family a four almost nineteen hundred dollars in the average individual almost nine hundred dollars.
We're saying yes to supporting families.
We're saying yes to making life more affordable.
We're saying yes to real solutions.
Why doesn't the Party of No support Canadians and start saying yes as well?
The Honorable Member for Leeds Grenville thousand Islanders, the.
Prime Minister said, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. And he's right, and Canadians are looking for the Prime Minister's words to match his actions. Now tomorrow, Conservatives are going to introduce a motion to pass the Canadian Sovereignty Act. It's going to cut taxes and it's going to let investors invest
in builders build. The question is very simple, at this critical time for our country, will the government say yes and will they support the Canadian Sovereignty Act?
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So, mister Speaker, there is a bill before this Parliament that lets investors invest, that lets builders build, and in fact attracts one trillion with a t trillion dollars of investment in our country that will protect our workers and build our industries it is the Budget Implementation Act. Now Canadians and Conservative writings are telling us they want this Parliament to work, that they want to endorse the Prime
Minister's plan to create growth in this country. Can that member give us a date, just a date where we will have third reading and pass the Prime Minister's plan for prosperity and capa no.
No Janill remember for Charlburg or Saint Shall. Mister Speaker. The Prime Minister seems open to our proposal to move faster to help Canadians. That's fantastic, but has also promised affordable groceries for Canadians. On the side of the House, we're eager to quickly pass proposals and aimed at reversing food inflation, such as measures that stimulate competition in the food chain. Tomorrow, will table emotion to pass the Canadian
Sovereignty Act. Will your government table legislation to reduce the cost of groceries? The Honorable Parmitary Secretary, Mister Speaker, I'm very happy to rise and wish everyone a happy new year. And it's already a good year for Canadians. Today, more than twelve million Canadians will see their purchasing power increase. That's what they need to face rising prices in grocery stores, greater purchasing power, and that's our objective. I hope my
colleagues will support us in this action. I'd like to thank you, mister Speaker, the Honorable Member for Charburg Shall. Mister Speaker, we already said we'd pass this, but we need to go further and it's time to reward businesses and workers who build an invest in Canada, and we
must protect Canadian innovation. We are proposing creating a tax credit for reinvestment in Canada to stimulate domestic industrial activity and protecting Canadian innovation by requiring the Minister of Industry to present a plan to prevent the sale of Canadian innovations, discoveries and innovations to other countries. Will you support our motion and introduce a bill to this effects of Vision
News Services. Hello everyone, Happy new year, mister Speaker. We're working together on new measures to help families and to put food on the table. In my writing, a single mother of a family will see her purchasing power increase and also will be new members measures rather TELP provide use and pay for daycare after school, won't just be helping people on my writing, but also it'll be the same thing on the other side of the house in their writings. So it asked them to work with us
and inaudible, the Honorable Member for Drummond, mister speaker. It was on a sunny day in September seventeen fifty nine that the beautiful partnership between the French and the English began. This beautiful friendship, born on the plains of Abraham, would
give rise to moments filled with affection. The ban on French and schools, the hanging of the Patriots, the Durham Report, the execution of lu Reelle, the Quebec City riot during conscription, the War Measures Acts, the Night of the Long Knives, and the failure of the meach Like Accord and so on. Could it be that this Prime Minister is unfamiliar with the history of Quebecers and Francophones. He has no knowledge of it in Canada, Love the Honorable Minister of Canadian
Identity and Culture. Thank you, mister speaker. First, I'd like to wish a happy New Year to the Block or their militant arm of the party Quepequa. Well, I think what bothers them. The most is the Prime Minister's message was a national one. But I'd like to ask them a question. Did they ask permission from mister Plumondaut to ask their question? Because he's going to move on to something else. He is having an argument with the Bunama of the Quebec Carnival. You can't invent that, the Honorable
Member for Drummond, mister speaker. They're rewriting the facts. It's concagious, and it's contiguous and is spreading through the entire Liberal caucus. And according to the Prime Minister, Montcombe declared on his deathbed, I die disappointed because I will not live to see the surrender of English in Quebec. The truth is that we were contract conquered and since then the Federal government
is just trying to keep us in line. But the Prime Minister has chosen to rewrite history and serving that Quebecers do not know it. And instead of spouting nonsense about the Plains of Abraham and insulting our intelligence, what is the Prime Minister waiting for to pick up a
book and learn a bit more about Quebec. It's about time the Honorable Government House Leader mister speaker, Quebecers have been telling us out loud to work on affordability and help them make ends meet at the end of the month.
To take efforts on rent on lodging, and to protect our industry such as softwood, lumber, aluminium and in general, to prevent them from tariff threats in a very complex world, while still protecting their culture and language, mister speaker, and that is what the federal government and the Liberal Party are doing this year.
The Honorable Member for Long Range Mountains, mister speakers.
Stats Canada confirms what Canadian families already know.
With the checkout.
Food inflation has jumped by six point two percent in the last year. Grocery prices are up five percent, and Canada now has the highest.
Food inflation in the G seven.
Newfoudlanda Labrador has the second highest food inflation rate in the entire country, and higher transportation costs mean local families are hit even harder. Conservatives are ready to fast track measures to bring food prices down. So will the government eliminate the industrial carbon tax and the seventeen cents of lead fuel standards tax so Canadians can afford the basics.
The honorable industry fictions.
And thank you, mister Speaker.
And I wish the Member of officeite the opposition member from New Calinda.
Labrador, happy New Year.
And I want you to just give a couple of stats the Canada groceries and essential benefit specific for our province.
A family of four this year will get over.
Eighteen hundred dollars, and then the next four years fourteen hundred dollars a year, a single person nine hundred and fifty dollars with the top up, and then seven hundred.
Dollars going forward.
Circunstantoints are telling me they want action, stop the obstruction and work for.
The noble member for long range multima.
They are ready to work with the government on real long term solutions instead of recycled temporary Trudah arrow rebates. Canada has been called the food inflation capital of the G seven. Mister Speaker. That's real hardship. People back home ask me how far does this have to go before it stops? The Prime Minister can't blame global factors when all other countries have lower food price inflation than Canada.
It's a homegrown problem of high liberal taxes. So will this government focus on actually bringing down food prices or will it defend policies that make food more expensive?
The Ministry, how your wants recycled and it's hired, notes that the Conservative numbers as fund of Plana Labrador as well just contain here to repeat the point is they consistently both against support families, help the people that they talk about in their.
Riding that I hear from the one them to support.
Stop the nonsense, work together and let's growth Canada.
Remember for Cambridge.
Mister speaker, Canada is now the inflation capital of the G seven. Food prices are rising faster than families can keep up twice the rate of the US and recycle trude tou Era rebates do not fix the problem. Canadians can't eat the paper on which this Prime Minister's empty promises are written. Restaurants are being squeezed out of business with higher food costs, and Canadians are cutting back because they can't afford to eat. Conservers are ready to work
on long term solutions. Canadians can feel at the checkout like cutting the industrial carbon attacks and the few those stand or tax to bring prices down. Will the Prime Minister work with us or does he consider the food bank the new order of fine dining for Canadians.
The Honorable Parliamentary Secretary to the.
Prime Minister, mister Speaker. Nineteen hundred dollars per family is real money that will help Canadians pay for groceries, pay for schools, pay for their activities for their children. Mister Speaker. Canadians and Conservative health writings want to benefit from this support from our government. Why are the Conservatives blocking systematically every time we want to help Canadians.
Here, the Honorable Member for le'vy Lubigne, Mister Speaker. It's expensive to eat in Canada, and it costs a lot more here than elsewhere. There's no other country in the G seven where it costs more to eat than in Canada. Ground beef, you can't afford it anymore. It's seventy percent more expensive. Apples are up by ten percent, let us by thirteen percent, oranges up by fifteen percent, ground coffee forty two percent.
Mister Speaker.
Is the Liberal government in the tomato business because that's the only thing that's gone down. The Honorable Minister of Finance, Mister Speaker, coming from a star on a fol Man, I'm not surprised to hear that question, mister speaker. But you know, I have a lot of admiration for that colleague. But he's a bit behind. He's a few days behind. Because now we have the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit.
Young people are happy about it, mister Speaker, and I know that in his heart the member is happy that we have it as well. But is he going to rise in this House and help the twelve million Canadians of vote in favor of that measure and say that the Liberal government's doing good things for Canadians, The Honorable Member for l'vy lu mignere, Mister Speaker, you don't buy votes, you earn them. The most recent data shows that food inflation is up by six point two percent, putting Canada
first place in food inflation in the G seven. The Prime Minister can't blame the rest of the planet. This is a home grown problem caused by high liberal taxes on our farmers, Mister Speaker. The will the government immediately commit to tabling a law which will eliminate the hidden taxes.
On food.
Love these the Honorable Minister of Indigenous Services, come on, Collegg, mister Speaker, I would like to ensure that my colleague understands that we're here to help Canadians not just with food, but also with the cost of living. For example, daycare costs, costs that are hard to plan for. Mister Speaker, we ask our colleagues to follow what their leader said in his open letter. I asked them to be open to working with the government to help twelve million Canadians.
Please the Honorable Member for Self Shore Saint Margaret's, Mister Speaker.
When I was back home in my writing, I had many conversations with people in my community about how important the school food program was to families. In my writing of South Shore Saint Margaret's, can the Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature please update the House on how the government will deliver real near term relief for Canadians facing higher costs of living.
Thank you, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and the Nature.
Thank you Mintion for me and I think it's great because the Member from Shore Saint Mark's can to be able to go back home this weekend and talk to families about the Canada Growthries and Essentials benefit that is going to help a.
Family of four with almost ninety one hundred dollars a year. That's going to help over twelve million in pales people right across the country. It's her hard work, it's delivery needs results. Not only that, we have made the National School Food Program permanent, the Dental Benefit Supporting Family, Canada Childcare, and the Canada Child Benefit.
There's such a long list I could go on forever.
We're going to continue working for Canadians.
The Honorable Member for Best Chasley's at Jermaine Levi. Eating healthily has become a luxury, mister Speaker. The numbers hurt. The price of beef is up by sixteen point eight percent. Let us twelve point eight percent apples ten percent Under this government, Preparing a simple salad has become a major investment,
mister speaker. Even coffees forty one percent more expensive. When will the government stop taxing our farmers and our truckers and will it commit today to cutting the industrial carbon
tax and the tax on fuel standards? The Honorable Minister of Health, Well, I would like to thank my colleague for her question, and as Minister of Health, I absolutely want Canadians to eat well and that is why we've put in place this measure today that will give Canadians more money in their pockets to help them get through these difficult times. So, as I was saying in my writing, a family of four needs this help and they'll receive almost nineteen hundred dollars this year. So we are taking
measures to help Canadians transition through this difficult time. The Honorable Member for bet Chess The's at Jamain Levi, Mister speaker, the Liberal announcement this morning is just a band aid. It's not a real solution for the two point two million Canadians who are going to continue to go to food banks. Canada has the highest food inflation in the G seven because of liberal taxes, and it's killing local businesses. Seven thousand restaurants closed in twenty twenty five. Four thousand
more will probably close this year. Will the government eliminate the tax that is making transport more expensive and making food more expensive? Plesion, the Honorable Secretary of State for Youth, Thank you, mister speaker. We are helping Canadians with the cost of living by reducing costs with a rebate of
almost nineteen hundred dollars for a family four. That's on top of other investments like the tax cut for twenty two million Canadians and a savings of eight hundred dollars for children with young kids who benefit from the school food program. We're there to help Canadians and families go forward. The Conservative Party should stop with these games of obstruction in Parliament and support these initiatives.
None all Member for Oshawa.
Mister speaker, If we judge the Prime Minister by prices at the grocery store, as he said, he's failed, Canada's food inflation now sits six point two percent, the highest in the G seven. Conservatives are ready to fast track real relief by scrapping the industrial carbon tax, eliminating the ever increasing fuel standards tax, boosting competition and grocery stores, and cutting red.
Tape for farmers.
When will the Prime Minister stop offering band aid solutions and work with Conservatives to bring food prices down once and for all, sure.
Secretary of Stape to Spot, thank you very much, mister speaker. The Canadian Groceries and Essentials Benefit will put food directly onto the tables of hard work in Canadian families and not just a few, mister speaker. We're talking about twelve million Canadians. Mister Speaker, But only Conservatives are willing to stand in the way of affordability for families that need a little bit of help. Mister speaker, this liberal government
has the backs of Canadians. Will that Conservative leader turned us back on helping Canadians a long long time ago? Now, mister speaker, I know that that Conservative leader is obsessed with his grip on power right now and probably can't focus on much else. But you could focus on what Canadians need and helping them out at the grocery store.
We could use his vote. Thank you very much, mister speaker.
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Mister speaker.
Enough with the temporary and recycled Trudeau era rebates, and enough with blaming global factors when all the other countries have lower food price inflation than Canada.
This is a home grown problem and we need long term solutions. My recent visit to Simple Hall food Bank with the Conservative leader was yet another reminder that more working families are struggling and visiting food banks. Will the Prime Minister stop treating the House of Commons as the House of elites and finally work with Conservatives to bring food prices down for Canadians.
Yeah, nonable Secretary of State for Sport, mister speaker. It's always pretty fresh to hear the Conservatives talk about elitism when they're talking down supports for hard working Canadians, mister speaker. Twelve million Canadians are going to benefit from the Canadian Groceries and Essentials benefit, mister speaker. And from a personal perspective, my hard working single mom got that benefit four times a year. That meant running shoes for me and my brother.
That meant guitar lessons for me and my brother. That meant fresher food and maybe a trip to Swish La, mister speaker. But those Conservatives have never cared about affordability or lower income families, mister speaker. They're only here to help. They're rich oil and gas friends. With this nonsense on hidden taxes that doesn't exist, mister speaker.
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Canada now faces the highest food inflation in the G seven. The government's response has relied largely on short term relief measures that may ease pressure temporarily but do nothing to address the underlying drivers of rising food costs. Food affordability requires deeper structural action Conservatives that put forward practical solutions, including eliminating the industrial carbon tax and fuel standards tax, boosting competition in the grocery sector, and cutting red tape
for farmers. So will the government work with Conservatives to deliver lasting relief for Canadian familiest.
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Our focus has been on lowering costs for families and putting money in their pockets. Today's announcement of the new CANDID Groceries and Essentials Benefit will give Canadians the relief they need. But more than that, mister Speaker, we have delivered a tax cut. We have protected the CANDID Child Benefit and grew it. We reduced childcare costs. We have cut the carbon tax, mister Speaker. We've delivered dental care, building Canada homes. We're building low affordable housing. Mister Speaker,
made the National Food School Food Program permanent. Mister Speaker, My question is voters in Vaughn want this stuff. Why is a member obstructing get.
Out of the way, the Honorable Member for Battle for Lloydminster Middle League.
Well, mister Speaker, if those measures weren't Canadians would actually be able to afford their groceries.
Let us take up twelve percent.
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