The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I will say the following: I sit on the finance committee, and it is a privilege to do so. We hear, all the time, from experts across the country about how to resolve the housing crisis. One thing we hear, time and time again, is that it will not be resolved at just

Employment Insurance Act   by the Association des parents adoptants du Québec, which represents adoptive parents in Quebec. Bill 51, which was passed on October 27, 2020, and assented to on October 29, gave equitable treatment to adoptive parents as of December 1, 2020, through the creation of welcome and support

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act   drug crisis, there is a very clear sentiment that I hear across this country, and it is that the failed policy that the Liberals and the NDP are pushing upon Canadians is not something that Canadians support. This needs to end, the free drugs and, in many cases, taxpayer-funded

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  Mr. Speaker, I take umbrage with a number of comments, starting with respect for the police. At the health committee, we had police testify on the toxic drug crisis, and as soon as the Conservatives did not get the answers they liked, what did they do? They tried to test

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to rise here today to present petition e-4673, a very important petition with over 5,000 signatures from across the country. The petitioners point out that Canada and the world face a biodiversity crisis with one million species facing extinction

Finance committee  I would like to amend the date, “October 1, 2023”, to “October 1, 2024”. I have a question for officials, since they're here. In the last few years, I've noticed an interesting trend, which is to make tax increases retroactive. The bank dividend tax was retroactive to a tax

The Budget   that will have a significant and direct impact on my community of Ottawa—Vanier and the national capital region. Like many of my colleagues, I have been hearing from my constituents about how concerned they are with the current housing crisis. Students, young professionals and newcomers

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, I will say this again: We have to approach the opioid crisis and the illegal toxic drug supply with compassion, science, evidence and health care. On this side of the House, we all want the same thing, which is public safety and access to public health care services

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, for the past six months, Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to daily bombings. More than 34,000 people have been killed, including more than 14,000 children. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding before our very eyes. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced

Mental Health and Addictions   to this crisis. When will the Prime Minister stop dithering and end his radical experiment? We want a date, please.

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the young people my colleague mentions, gen Z, millennials and so many Canadians are facing a double crisis: the crisis of affordability but also the crisis that climate change presents. These two crises together present an immense mental health challenge, and $500

Justice committee   and encampments celebrating the atrocities of Hamas against innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, and denying Israel's right to defend itself against an enemy dedicated to its destruction. That's a very important study and I thank Mr. Housefather for bringing that motion forward. Instead

Indigenous Affairs   the high costs of a poorly planned energy transition and the crisis we now face in first nations. Many of our communities rely on diesel generation. People have to drive for hours to get to doctors appointments or a grocery store. A lot of people aren't on the grid, and even those who

Committees of the House   government and asking for a change. They are asking for it to recognize what they are doing and experiencing. Every time we do that, the pressure is turned up. The carbon tax is increased. Inflation is getting out of control, and the cost of living crisis is getting out of control

Finance committee   experts have said, we are in a productivity crisis. Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, said that one of the key reasons that is, when she mentioned “break the glass” in the break-glass speech, is a lack of competition. I think that's echoed by many economists