Public Services and Procurement  Speaker, it is no surprise that the Liberal minister would do everything to avoid talking about or even mentioning McKinsey in the response. This question is about McKinsey. The company supercharged the opioid crisis, advised totalitarian regimes and held a corporate retreat down the road from a concentration camp. It has a vile track record, yet the Liberals have constantly turned to this company, supercharging its profits.

Mental Health  I hope that all levels of government will realize what a critical solution integrated crisis centres are and will step up with the funding required to ensure that when a neighbour is in a mental health crisis, they will get the best possible care.

Business of Supply  We must be able to control the immense appetite of these corporations that have largely used the postpandemic period, this crisis that Canadians are facing, for their own particular benefit. We do not have to look all that far in Canada's own history to see that private megacorporations always do the same thing when crisis hits.

Criminal Code  In the last Parliament, the NDP member for Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke introduced Bill C‑247 in October 2020. In November 2021, during this Parliament, he introduced Bill C‑202, which is essentially a new attempt to revive the legal framework, definitions and criminal consequences relating to coercive or controlling violence.

Finance committee  We've seen that with the experimentation with the decriminalization of drugs, we have people dying from coast to coast in the opioid crisis. We've seen that so-called legal drugs, government-subsidized drugs, have been traded for harder and harder drugs, making the opioid crisis worse. Conservatives strongly stand against this amendment.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you will recall, before the 2008 financial crisis, the Superintendent of Financial Institutions required that banks disclose the assets they held in tax havens and report the amount of tax that they thus avoided paying in Canada. That requirement was lifted as a result of the crisis.

Business of Supply  Speaker, I completely agree that this government has failed to take the measures needed to deal with the climate crisis. We used our leverage over this minority government to force it to take measures that it never would have taken otherwise. I also want to point out that the main reason why grocery prices are so high is actually price gouging on the part of these grocery giants.

Foreign Affairs  Too many know of a hostage who is no longer coming home or a friend or family member who was killed on October 7 in Israel. Too many of us have been affected by the vandalism and violence directed toward our communities because of who we are or because of our beliefs and actions. While we, as Canadians, are out protesting, we must remember not to spread hate and fear through our words and actions, but rather to consider our fellow Canadians and how they might be impacted by them.

Business of Supply  Everybody seems to have a theory or some kind of an idea as to why grocery prices are inflated, but there are different reasons, and very complex reasons actually, because everything we shop for at the grocery store comes from somewhere else these days. We announced in October 2023 that our government would be tripling our investment in Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's contributions program for non-profit consumer and voluntary organizations.

Housing  It has been two years since the government finally announced that it was going to get back into the business of building co-ops, and it has not built any. We are in a housing crisis. This is not a time to be spending two years talking about getting co-ops built. It is time to actually get them built. Could the parliamentary secretary at least share some explanation with Canadians of what has happened over the last two years?

Housing  It said, “We recognize and support the important federal commitments detailed in today’s plan to ensure co-op housing is part of the supply response to this generation’s housing crisis”. While not part of budget 2024, I would also like to note that the housing plan launched just ahead of the budget includes a $1.5-billion co-operative housing development program developed with the CHFC that will commence this summer.

Business of Supply  They have utility boards that monitor and regulate the cost increases associated with energy. It is not a new concept, and it is something that has to be used in a time of crisis. France secured a deal with major companies to lower the price of groceries for 5,000 products, and the French government can hold those companies accountable to the public if they do not comply.

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  I find it shocking that the member for Saskatoon West, who has a high indigenous population in his area, is not standing up for his constituents. Turning a blind eye to systemic racism has resulted in the ongoing crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls. There are often reports of total neglect and either overpolicing or underpolicing by police forces, as noted in calls for justice 9.1 to 9.11.

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  It becomes okay to not hold those perpetrators accountable, and then it becomes normalized. What we are seeing in Canada, particularly for indigenous women, is a crisis that deserves true accountability and deserves true work to see justice done.

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  This is a major oversight in the bill, which common-sense Conservatives advocated for. Particularly in the midst of this cost of living crisis created by the Prime Minister, it seems especially cruel to punish these officers. As one stakeholder said, “When the allegations are not founded and it's found that there was no wrongdoing, we're told to file a grievance to recuperate the lost salary.