House of Commons Hansard #53 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was investments.
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Financial Statement of Minister of Finance Members debate the government's budgetary policy. Conservatives criticize high deficits, inflation, and taxes, arguing it harms small businesses and affordability. Liberals defend generational investments in social programs, infrastructure, and defence, claiming it builds a stronger economy. The Bloc Québécois criticizes insufficient provincial transfers and continued oil subsidies. The NDP raises concerns about mental health and veterans' support. 14500 words, 2 hours in 2 segments: 1 2.
An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to survivor pension benefits First reading of Bill C-256. The bill aims to eliminate a "gold digger clause" denying survivor pension benefits to spouses of veterans and federal civil servants who married after age 60, described as "archaic" and "sexist." 400 words.
Jail Not Bail Act Second reading of Bill C-242. The bill, C-242, aims to amend the Criminal Code to prioritize public safety in bail decisions, especially for repeat violent offenders. It proposes repealing the principle of restraint, expanding reverse onus, and tightening risk assessment. Conservatives support it for safer streets. Liberals call it constitutionally questionable and redundant, citing their own Bill C-14 as a responsible alternative. The Bloc Québécois raises constitutional principles and prison capacity concerns. 8300 words, 1 hour.
Immigration, Refugees and CitizenshipOral Questions
Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park Ontario
Liberal
Gary Anandasangaree LiberalMinister of Public Safety
Mr. Speaker, Canada has a robust system of removals and inadmissibility that enables us to take action. I will commit to the member opposite to looking into it and will get back to her.
The circumstances behind the incident she refers to are abhorrent, and I condemn it wholeheartedly.
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Mr. Speaker, the problem is that we have an immigration minister who is so weak that she will not even stand up to answer questions like this. I asked about the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, but she will not stand up, so I will ask again.
The case I referred to is so disgusting. There have been so many cases like it: serious criminals and non-citizens who need to be deported.
Will the immigration minister stand up and commit to strengthening the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to make sure that non-citizens who are convicted of serious crimes are actually deported?
Lena Metlege Diab LiberalMinister of Immigration
Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we are delivering for Canadians every day. The government's highest priority is the safety and security of Canadians.
Let me be clear: A foreign national who has been convicted of a crime is inadmissible to Canada. We work with the IRB, we work with CBSA, we work with CSIS and we work with the RCMP to ensure that we deport anyone who needs to be deported.
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Mr. Speaker, that excepts a Pakistani national who was convicted of raping his niece. He came into Canada while being on the U.K. sex offender list. It also excepts Simba's abuser.
The government does not take the issue seriously. In fact it is so bad that this week the Liberals admitted that they did not even know how many convicted criminals they gave citizenship to. Seriously, they put that in an Order Paper question.
I will give the minister one more opportunity. How many citizenships did she issue to criminals in Canada? Her department could not answer that this week.
Lena Metlege Diab LiberalMinister of Immigration
Mr. Speaker, let me be clear: Foreign nationals who are convicted of a crime are inadmissible to Canada.
On this side of the House, we take the safety and security of all Canadians very seriously, and we act. We work with our RCMP, policing partners and CBSA to ensure that we act in accordance with the law and with the immigration and refugee protection regulations and act.
Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, while many Canadians are looking at the $78-billion deficit number in the budget, many others, while concerned about that deficit, are also wondering about our children and grandchildren and the growing ecological deficit from lack of action on climate and lack of action to protect nature. We look at this budget and want to weep.
Those of us who are grandparents and seniors right across this country, and young people, want to know if the government will step up and tackle the generational ecological deficit.
François-Philippe Champagne LiberalMinister of Finance and National Revenue
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for her advocacy.
In the throne speech, we said we must fight climate change, and our new climate competitiveness strategy includes measures to reduce emissions, including by strengthening industrial carbon pricing, incentivizing investments to reduce carbon and mobilizing private capital.
We are also creating a new youth climate corps to empower young people in the fight against climate change. We are committed to protecting nature by halting and reversing nature loss and biodiversity loss through reinforced efforts to conserve 30%—
The EnvironmentOral Questions
Tamara Kronis Conservative Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have introduced the most costly and largest budget deficit in history outside COVID. It will drive up the cost of food, housing and everything else that Canadians buy. In Nanaimo—Ladysmith, food bank use is up and donations are down, in part because the people who formerly supported these services now increasingly need to use them to make ends meet.
Liberals had the chance to lower food costs for Canadians by scrapping the industrial carbon tax, but they increased it instead, driving up the cost of everything needed to grow our food.
Why is the Prime Minister making food more expensive?
Rebecca Alty LiberalMinister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Mr. Speaker, jobs, housing and infrastructure are what the budget has, including through our investment and commitment to accelerating the additions to reserve process. In October I was in Nanaimo, celebrating with the Snuneymuxw First Nation the addition of 195 acres. With this, the first nation is looking to build a $2.3-billion mixed-use development. That means great housing for youth and for everyone on reserve. That means great jobs during construction, and after, on reserve.
We look forward to working with first nations to accelerate more additions to reserves. We hope all parties will support this and the budget.
Alexandre Boulerice NDP Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal budget is deeply flawed in many important areas, but the climate plan has become a sick joke, at a time when our collective home is on fire. It abandons the greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030. It eliminates the emissions cap for the oil and gas sector. The Liberal climate strategy boils down to tax credits for critical minerals and carbon capture, which basically amounts to subsidies for mining and oil companies.
How can the Liberals call this a generational budget when it ignores the future of generations to come?
Julie Dabrusin LiberalMinister of Environment and Climate Change
Mr. Speaker, let me be clear. This government will continue to fight climate change, and we will do so across our government. This budget makes it clear that we are going to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, reduce methane emissions and implement the clean fuel regulations. Furthermore, we are going to have tax credits for clean electricity. That is good for all Canadians and especially for Quebec.
Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC
Mr. Speaker, friendship centres are lifelines for indigenous people in urban communities, providing food, housing, safety, culture and belonging. The urban indigenous population is growing rapidly, and friendship centres are already stretched past the breaking point. Their core funding runs out in March. Budget 2025 offered nothing. Without stable permanent funding, programs will be cut, and doors will close. This is not reconciliation; it is abandonment.
When will the government commit to renewing the critical funding to support indigenous peoples with long-term, secure and stable funding?
Indigenous AffairsOral Questions
November 7th, 2025 / 12:05 p.m.
St. Boniface—St. Vital Manitoba
Liberal
Ginette Lavack LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services
Mr. Speaker, we put indigenous children, families and essential services first.
The new government is innovating to better serve Canadians by improving efficiencies and by coordinating across all departments, but the federal government has a distinct duty to indigenous people and a key opportunity to strengthen a renewed, respectful relationship. That is why the priority in budget 2025 is to protect critical services like water, housing and infrastructure in community and to ensure that changes made strengthen service delivery.
Kurt Holman Conservative London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am asking for unanimous consent to redo my S. O. 31.
Statements by MembersPoints of OrderOral Questions
Kurt Holman Conservative London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, this week the Liberal government released its 10th budget, the costliest deficit outside COVID and double what the Prime Minister’s predecessor left behind.
The Prime Minister broke every promise he made. He promised to keep the deficit at $62 billion, a level the Parliamentary Budget Officer had already called “unsustainable”, yet it has now ballooned to $80 billion. He said that he would lower the debt-to-GDP ratio, but both debt and inflation are rising. He promised to spend less, but he added $90 billion more; that is $5,400 in extra inflationary spending per household.
Families in London are paying the price. Groceries, gas, rent and mortgages keep climbing while paycheques fall further behind. Canadians already spend more on debt interest than on health care. The budget at this time is simply irresponsible.
Conservatives stand for an affordable budget and an affordable life. Londoners deserve hope, homes and a future they can afford.
A message from Her Excellency the Governor General transmitting supplementary estimates (B) for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, was presented by the President of the Treasury Board and read by the Speaker to the House.
Supplementary Estimates (B), 2025-26Routine Proceedings
Brampton—Chinguacousy Park Ontario
Liberal
Shafqat Ali LiberalPresident of the Treasury Board
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the supplementary estimates (B), 2025‑26.
Shafqat Ali LiberalPresident of the Treasury Board
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to table, in both official languages, “Public Accounts of Canada 2025”. The Auditor General of Canada has provided an unqualified audit opinion on the Government of Canada's financial statements.
Auditor General of CanadaRoutine Proceedings
The Deputy Speaker Tom Kmiec
It is my duty to lay upon the table, pursuant to subsection 8(2) of the Auditor General Act, a report of the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons entitled “Commentary on the 2024-2025 Financial Audits”.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), this document is deemed to have been permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Departmental Results Reports 2024-25Routine Proceedings
Brampton—Chinguacousy Park Ontario
Liberal
Shafqat Ali LiberalPresident of the Treasury Board
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to table, in both official languages, on behalf of 90 departments and agencies, the departmental results reports for 2024-25.
Kevin Lamoureux LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8)(a), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to 11 petitions. These returns will be tabled in an electronic format.
Marie-France Lalonde Liberal Orléans, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the following reports of the Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie, or APF.
The first report concerns the Bureau meeting of the APF and the Parliamentary Conference on Francophone Cooperation in the Areas of Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. This meeting was held in Can Tho, Vietnam, from January 21 to 24, 2025.
The second report concerns the meeting of the APF Political Committee. This meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal, from April 28 to 30, 2025.
The third report concerns the meetings of the APF Network of Women Parliamentarians and the Network of Young Parliamentarians. These meetings were held in the city of Québec, in the beautiful province of Quebec, from May 20 to 21, 2025.
The fourth report concerns the Bureau meeting and the 50th annual session of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie. This meeting was held in Paris, France, from July 9 to 13, 2025.
The fifth report concerns the parliamentary diplomacy mission to Costa Rica, which took place in San José, Costa Rica, from October 1 to 3, 2025.
