House of Commons Hansard #175 of the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was budget.

Topics

Fisheries and OceansOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Vancouver Quadra B.C.

Liberal

Joyce Murray LiberalMinister of Fisheries

Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to advancing first nations' treaty right to fish. The elver fishery is unique and the preferred approach remains a willing buyer and a willing seller. That is the way to create predictability in the market and allow all harvesters to adequately plan.

However, in keeping with the Ahousaht court decision, we acknowledge that there are times that there is not a willing seller at a market price. A decision for the 2023 season has not been made, and it will be shared soon.

Foreign AffairsOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Conservative

Melissa Lantsman Conservative Thornhill, ON

Mr. Speaker, more than 50,000 gathered in Toronto last Saturday to support a free Iran. Families of the victims of flight PS752 were there. Survivors of the regime were there, and people with loved ones suffering in Iran were there.

However, the member for Don Valley West stormed out in the middle of the speech of a world-renowned women's rights advocate muttering something that I cannot repeat in the House. Her crime was to call out the government for not banning the IRGC terrorists.

Does he have the courage to stand up to apologize for his embarrassing display of disrespect, or is he going to storm out of here too?

Foreign AffairsOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Don Valley West Ontario

Liberal

Rob Oliphant LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Speaker, I think I can say safely that, without exception, everyone in this House stands with the people of Iran and their struggles against the regime, making sure that they stand with human rights. Every one of us is incredibly aligned on that issue.

Canada is recognized as a world leader in leading the way against the regime and for human rights. We have announced the 10th package of sanctions this last week. We have also made sure that IRGC officials cannot come to this country. We will continue to work.

Let me say that we may have different strategies—

Foreign AffairsOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

The hon. member for Hamilton Mountain.

The BudgetOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Liberal

Lisa Hepfner Liberal Hamilton Mountain, ON

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance presented budget 2023, “A Made-in-Canada Plan”. Unlike the empty rhetoric of the Conservative Party, this is a real plan to deliver results for Canadians and one I am proud to share with my constituents of Hamilton Mountain.

Can the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance explain what this budget means for a strong middle class, an affordable economy and a healthy future for Canadians?

The BudgetOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

Edmonton Centre Alberta

Liberal

Randy Boissonnault LiberalMinister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Hamilton Mountain for her hard work on the file.

The budget aims to ensure that Canadians have more money in their pockets and invest in the challenges that we are facing today. It delivers on affordability by making sure there is a new grocery rebate that will help 11 million Canadians. It stabilizes and invests in our health care system in the long term, and it makes transformative investments to fight climate change, to build the economy of the future and to support Canadian businesses. That is what budget 2023 is about: delivering for Canadians.

EmploymentOral Questions

3:10 p.m.

NDP

Jagmeet Singh NDP Burnaby South, BC

Mr. Speaker, we need to fight the climate crisis like we actually want to win. There is an incredible opportunity. If we make the right investments to tackle the climate crisis and tie that to good jobs, good union jobs and good wages, we can actually create positive economic growth. We did that in this budget. We forced the government to have strings attached to investments so that any dollar that goes to a company has to be tied to guarantees for good wages, good salaries and good union jobs.

Will the government commit to having strings attached to good jobs, good pay and union jobs for any future investments to incentivize business?

EmploymentOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Edmonton Centre Alberta

Liberal

Randy Boissonnault LiberalMinister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance

Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. leader of the NDP for raising this question because we have done something in budget 2023 that is new and demonstrates leadership by our Liberal government. In the top investment tax credits, whether it is clean technology, hydrogen or the clean electricity grid, to earn the top credits, there needs to be labour participation. That labour participation needs to include apprentices. It will mean prevailing wages, as our labour partners asked. We are delivering for union workers, and we are delivering for Canadians.

Persons with DisabilitiesOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Green

Mike Morrice Green Kitchener Centre, ON

Mr. Speaker, people with disabilities deserve better from the government. When the government was serious about child care, first came a federal investment of $30 billion, then agreements with provinces and territories and then legislation. However, for Canadians with disabilities living in poverty, yesterday's budget told them to just keep waiting, putting billions for a car on the moon and new gifts for oil and gas companies ahead of their basic needs.

When will the government stop pretending agreements and legislation must be done before it puts some money on the table?

Persons with DisabilitiesOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Windsor—Tecumseh Ontario

Liberal

Irek Kusmierczyk LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment

Mr. Speaker, in Canada, no person with a disability should live in poverty. That is why we are creating the Canada disability benefit, a thoughtfully designed income supplement with the potential to seriously reduce poverty and improve financial security for hundreds of thousands of working-age persons with disabilities from coast to coast to coast. On February 3, Bill C-22 passed unanimously in this House, and it is currently being studied at a Senate committee. We look forward to its swift passage.

I am pleased to say that budget 2023 provides funding of $21.5 million to continue work on the Canada disability benefit.

Presence in GalleryOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I wish to draw the attention of hon. members to the presence in the gallery of the Honourable Derek Bennett, Speaker of the House of Assembly for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Presence in GalleryOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Some hon. members

Hear, hear!

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Kingston and the Islands Ontario

Liberal

Mark Gerretsen LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (Senate)

Mr. Speaker, yesterday just before we adjourned, you made it very clear to the House that we are only supposed to address people by their riding or their title. However, yet again today we have seen, and in particular from the member for Calgary Forest Lawn, the use of names. I am not going to repeat it. Basically, he did not use the minister's real title, but rather a fictitious title he decided to make up.

I wonder if you could once again remind the House of this very important rule and perhaps even ask the member to apologize.

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

Does the hon. member for Calgary Forest Lawn want to respond? No, he does not.

I want to remind everyone, regardless of what side they are on, to please use respectful language and show some respect to each other. When we show disrespect, it bleeds out and comes back to bite us.

We will check Hansard, find out exactly what was said and go from there.

The hon. member for Winnipeg Centre is rising on a point of order.

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

NDP

Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB

Mr. Speaker, in describing increased rates of crime on the streets during question period, the member for Carleton used the derogatory term “savage”, which is often used to describe indigenous people. Not only is that term racist, but it is also unparliamentary.

I want to invite the member for Carleton to retract that word and apologize.

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

Once again we will look into it, see exactly what the context was of the use and come back to it if we see it to be necessary.

We have another point of order, the hon. member for Edmonton Griesbach.

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:20 p.m.

NDP

Blake Desjarlais NDP Edmonton Griesbach, AB

Mr. Speaker, I want to speak to the previous point of order that was just raised and the use of derogatory language in this place. Right now as we speak, there are members of the Conservatives who are trying to speak over us on a really serious issue. The use of that unparliamentary language is not satisfactory to the members of the House, including many of the indigenous members.

I ask that the Speaker take seriously the consideration by the member for Winnipeg Centre and that this word be retracted.

Alleged Use of Unparliamentary LanguagePoints of OrderOral Questions

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I want to repeat what I just said. We will take a look in Hansard at the context of what was said, and I will get back to the House should I see fit.

The House resumed from March 23 consideration of the motion that Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice, be read the third time and passed.

National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice ActPrivate Members' Business

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

It being 3:20 p.m., pursuant to order made on Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of C-226 under Private Members' Business.

Call in the members.

(The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the following division:)

Vote #288

National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice ActPrivate Members' Business

3:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I declare the motion carried.

(Bill read the third time and passed)

The House resumed from March 27 consideration of the motion that Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, be read the third time and passed.

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing ActPrivate Members' Business

3:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

Pursuant to order made Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at third reading stage of Bill C-234 under Private Members' Business.

(The House divided on the motion, which was agreed to on the following division:)

Vote #289