Adam van Koeverden on Government Business No. 43—Proceedings on Bill C-78

In the House of Commons on November 28th, 2024. See this statement in context.

Government Business No. 43—Proceedings on Bill C-78Government Orders

November 28th, 2024 / 7:25 p.m.

Milton Ontario

Liberal

Adam van Koeverden LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and to the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity

Madam Speaker, it is nice to be here late into the evening talking about an important measure to support affordability for Canadians.

Before I start, I would like to say that I will be sharing my time with the member for Beauport—Limoilou.

I would like to just say that I think this is a good measure to support affordability at the right time. Measures like this are all about timing, and if we go back a couple of years, just three years in fact, to when Erin O'Toole was the prime minister, he suggested that we do a GST holiday back in 2021. That was at a time when our inflation was over 4%, and it was going up.

Indeed, over the course of the ensuing months, it went up to 8%, so that idea probably would have had a negative impact on rising inflation rates at the time—

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