Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I will say that the government does not have a monopoly on non-investment in the forces. That is not to say I agree with the premise of his question. I would go back to a previous Liberal government. We had a decade of darkness. We had the Prime Minister's father

Committees of the House   the case for increasing defence spending been more obvious, yet despite the state of the world, the NDP-Liberal government is cutting defence spending. This is not the first time the Liberals have led the CAF into a decade of darkness, but this time it is different. Even under

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, we know that, back in the day, the time under Jean Chrétien and the Liberals was called the decade of darkness. I had a veteran tell me here the other day that, under the current Liberals, this has been a decade of disaster. When we were in government, never did

Housing  . Countless Canadians remember what life was like during Prime Minister Harper's “decade of darkness”. Last week showed that today's Conservative leader is cut from the same cloth. On Thursday and Friday, Conservative MPs voted against funding indigenous housing, funding 15,000 permanent

National Defence committee  , because we don't have enough LAVs that are usable at this point in time. We heard during the Liberal decade of darkness that instead of giving our troops bullets, we're training them to go around and go “bang, bang”. Are we going back to that, especially with this billion-dollar cut

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, during the leadership of Prime Minister Harper, more money was spent on defence than there had been since the decade of darkness. The country is stronger and envied by many because of what we have in our professional military and the women and men who make Canada

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is actually repeating Liberal history, known as the decade of darkness. Soldiers and their families back then were forced to use food banks. There were slashes to training programs. They operated with old equipment and were sent to Afghanistan

Finance   about is what the Conservatives are planning to cut. What services and what benefits are they planning to cut that Canadians will no longer have access to? We saw under Harper's decade of darkness, if my colleague wants to continue with the alliteration, that they cut services

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, as someone who was here in the tail end of the decade of darkness and witnessed the Harper government run deficit after deficit after deficit, attempting to cut its way to economic growth and exhibiting a period of economic growth that was the worst since the Great

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  , but I am glad that, after a Conservative decade of darkness, Canada again has a government that is a willing partner in housing. While our government is focused on programs that make life more affordable for Canadians, such as dental care and child care, the opposition on the other

Labour  Mr. Speaker, we will take absolutely no lessons from the Conservatives when it comes to negotiating with unions or providing services to Canadians. Canadians well remember the decade of darkness under Harper. The Conservatives cut services, muzzled scientists and tried to crush

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   that there are still gaps in learning because of the gap having been so neglected for so long. I was talking about a decade of darkness. That was a decade of lost multiple generations of students, who were not funded comparably to their provincial systems and who fell behind. In fact, not only were

National Defence committee  Undoubtedly the Canadian Armed Forces is experiencing another...well, we did have a decade of darkness, and now, if we don't have an election by 2025, it will be a decade of decimation.

Vaccine Mandates   medical choices. Coupled with sky-high attrition rates, it is beginning to feel like another decade of darkness. These are our heroes. We owe them the dignity of service for which they have sacrificed so much. It is time for the government to end the vaccine mandates and restore

National Defence   that it was the decision of the Liberal Party to disband, during the decade of darkness at national defence, Canada’s rapid response light brigade. Its role was to defend Canadian Arctic sovereignty. When Canada lost the capabilities of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, the Liberal Party was in effect