Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I too know people from Mégantic. They are inspecting the rail lines themselves. Some might say that they do not have the right to do so, but the work will not get done otherwise, and they do not want to go through that again. That is obvious. No one wants to go thr

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I am not sure I understand what downloading of responsibility my colleague is talking about. As I understand the bill before us, elected officials have the power to impose requirements on companies. However, if my colleague's question is about giving companies gre

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, Bill C‑33 comes at the end of a series of initiatives taken by the Canadian government over the past six years. Beyond the various committees that could have addressed the matter in previous Parliaments, let us consider the following initiatives. In 2018, there was

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned world leaders that humanity is at the “gates of hell”. Meanwhile, big oil defenders like Canada are sitting in the ticket booth, ready to make money. There is often talk of protecting the environment for future genera

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have to say that the motion paints an accurate picture of the difficulties faced by Canadians and Quebeckers. However, there is a problem with the solution. For the Conservatives, the solution is to eliminate deficits. They think that when the deficits are elimin

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I joined the debate 15 or 20 minutes ago. I heard part of my colleague's speech. I would like to take him back to what we call the “fiscal imbalance” and what I could also call “federal paternalism”. This refers to the fact that the federal government uses the money

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, the environmental motion that the Bloc Québécois got the House to adopt was about the forest fires. The Prime Minister himself supported the motion, which recognizes that the federal government must do more to combat climate change. I would like to remind him how he

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Winnipeg North for his speech. He talked a lot about the Conservative Party's position, but also about time allocation. I would like to talk about the Bloc Québécois's position. A royalty fund financed with the revenues from Facebook and Goo

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I was so eager to hear the end of my colleague's speech because he is proposing solutions. In the Bloc Québécois, we do not just pick fights. We propose solutions and stay positive. Now, we know that there is filibustering going on. We know that the official oppos

Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights  Madam Speaker, my goodness, I have so much to say to my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent. It is going to take a glass of wine or a beer to talk about it. The Bloc Québécois supports the principle of Bill C‑219. We believe that it really needs to be studied in committee. At fir

Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his bill and the care he took to ensure that it did not affect Quebec's environmental sovereignty. Can he clarify how his bill goes much further than the study we did in committee on Bill S‑5 with respect to the right to a healthy environm

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, we have reached a point at which even the middle class is having trouble finding housing. Imagine how bad it is for more disadvantaged or economically vulnerable households. People are on the verge of homelessness. This is a big deal. There is one recommendation t

Government Business No. 26—Amendments to the Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, earlier, in his speech, the House leader of the official opposition referred back to a time where, to make a change, there had to be consensus in the House. I will share a little story. Between 2015 and 2018, the government, which had a real majority—it was not a fa

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, this morning, more than 11,000 Quebeckers were evacuated because of the forest fires. Everyone else also felt the impact of the fires, if only by breathing the ambient air. Climate change is here. We have a duty to support the victims, but we also have a duty to be

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, I understand, but the government keeps repeating that it could accelerate the fight against climate change if it did not have to fight the Conservatives. That is true, but things would also move more quickly if it stopped imitating the Conservatives. Not only is it