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House of Commons Hansard #67 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was hate.
House of Commons Hansard #67 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was hate.
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École Polytechnique de Montréal Members mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, commemorating the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. They highlight the ongoing crisis of gender-based violence, noting a woman or girl is killed every 48 hours. Speakers discuss its disproportionate impact on Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, which the NDP calls an ongoing genocide, urging collective action to end violence and ensure safety for all. 4700 words, 45 minutes.
Instruction to Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Members debate a Conservative motion for the Justice Committee to travel across Canada to hear testimony on Bill C-9. Conservatives argue the bill and a proposed amendment to remove the Criminal Code's religious exemption threaten religious freedom and accuse Liberals of obstructing committee work. The Bloc supports removing the exemption, citing public consensus against incitement to hatred. Liberals accuse Conservatives of filibustering to delay hate crime and bail reform legislation, and spreading misinformation. 26200 words, 3 hours.
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 Second reading of Bill C-15. The bill implements budget provisions, drawing criticism from opposition parties. The Bloc Québécois rejects it due to insufficient support for Quebec’s demands, increased fossil fuel subsidies, and environmental backsliding. Conservatives denounce the bill for failing to address the affordability crisis, soaring food prices, and record national debt. They also criticize government spending and the impact of taxes on families, seniors, and key economic sectors. Liberals defend the budget's investments in social programs and the economy. 22800 words, 3 hours.
Criminal Code Second reading of Bill C-246. The bill would mandate consecutive sentencing for those convicted of sexual offences. The sponsor argues it would strengthen the justice system and ensure each crime and victim receives full recognition, as current practices allow multiple sentences to be served concurrently. While the Bloc Québécois supports sending the bill to committee, the Liberals argue it is unconstitutional and overly rigid, preferring their own legislative reforms that aim to address similar issues. 7500 words, 1 hour.
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Some hon. members
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
I heard.
I would ask that we be respectful of one another and stop calling each other names.
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Conservative
Arpan Khanna Conservative Oxford, ON
Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We sit in the House and listen to, a lot of times, pure nonsense from the member on a regular basis, but we have never called it “garbage”. We respect the member's right to speak his mind, even though he says a lot of words but does not say much.
For him to say that the member's speech was “garbage” is absolute nonsense and unparliamentary. Every member—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
I understand what the hon. member is trying to say, and it will be seen as a point of order because it caused disruption. That is the rule.
The hon. chief government whip.
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
Madam Speaker, the Conservative shadow critic for justice yelled across the way to the member speaking, saying that he was garbage. You said you heard it. At the very least, the member needs to stand up, apologize and retract that—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
I am going to use an expression that I think fits the situation, which is “pot and kettle”. If one starts calling something garbage, they will get an answer of garbage.
I ask that we be respectful of one another and stop using those terms, because it will cause disruption and the speeches will never be done properly.
The hon. parliamentary secretary.
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Some hon. members
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, the members across the way should be a little courteous.
I started off by saying that there are two concerns. The first was in regard to what type of information the Conservative Party of Canada is using. I have not verified it yet, but no doubt it will appear on social media, because the Conservatives are trying to give a false impression, based on fear, to people who are faithful to the religions they believe in and the leadership of those religions. I find that very disturbing, because it is definitely misleading; there is no doubt about that. That is the primary concern I have about the content of the legislation.
Now let us talk about the motivation of the legislation. Why is the Conservative Party choosing to do this on the floor of the House of Commons? They have options, but the Conservatives choose to use this as their motivation, in order to prevent government legislation from passing.
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An hon. member
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, we are supposed to be debating the budget implementation legislation today, but what we hear from the Conservatives is a bunch of crying: “waah, waah, waah”, to quote the member opposite.
The member opposite might not care, but every Canadian in every region of the country cares, because this is a budget to support Canadians. It is a part of a plan the Prime Minister has presented to Canada to build a country that is stronger and healthier and that works toward making Canada the strongest country in the G7. That is what the budget implementation act is all about.
If we factor in the efforts of the Prime Minister and the government in pursuing trade opportunities that can even go beyond the Canada-U.S.A. border, members will find that they complement each other. All the members of the House, have a responsibility to co-operate and to actually serve our constituents first and foremost.
Time and time again, far too often, I witness the Conservatives' being more interested in serving the Conservative Party of Canada as opposed to serving Canadians, and we see that in their behaviour. Let me give a tangible example, dealing with Bill C-9. There is a committee that is supposed to be dealing with Bill C-9, but we have gone through hours of filibustering coming from the other side.
We cannot deal with Bill C-14 until we are finished with Bill C-9. Bill C-14 is the bail reform legislation. The Prime Minister made a commitment to Canadians to bring forward bail reform legislation. Provinces, law enforcement, other stakeholders, and Canadians as a whole want bail reform legislation. The biggest roadblock, the only roadblock, in Canada today to prevent that from happening is the Conservative Party of Canada.
I say shame on each and every one of the members who continue to filibuster to prevent Canadians from getting substantial changes to our bail reform legislation. They should be ashamed of themselves, because that was in the election platform. Time and time again, Conservative member after Conservative member is preventing the passage of important legislation, whether it is at the committee stage or on the floor of the House of Commons.
This is the type of thing we see from the Conservative Party far too often. That is the motivation for today. Conservatives do not want to debate the budget legislation, again. It is not like this is the first time they have brought in concurrence reports. They cry, and they say they want more time and more debate on legislation. The other day I stood up and I said, “Well, Canadians work overtime. Canadians work past six o'clock in the evening.” I asked if the Conservatives would be prepared to sit until midnight. They said, “No, we do not do that.”
Conservatives do not like to work hard. They like to talk and complain. The next word I was going to use is a little unparliamentary, so I will not say it. At the end of the day, they do not like working for Canadians.
Instruction to Standing Committee on Justice and Human RightsRoutine Proceedings
An hon. member
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, the member says, “Come on.” I will challenge any member on the other side to stand up and tell me that they are prepared to work until midnight for the next two weeks in order for us have more debate on the floor of the House of Commons.
I would ask for unanimous consent to allow the House to sit until midnight for the rest of this session. Can they—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
I have to interrupt the hon. parliamentary secretary.
The hon. member for Nanaimo—Ladysmith is rising on a point of order.
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Conservative
Tamara Kronis Conservative Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
Madam Speaker, I apologize if I do not have this right because I am a new member, but we are having this debate because the Liberals cancelled a meeting, and the member is actually—
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
That is not a point of order. The members have a lot of latitude.
The hon. parliamentary secretary.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, I would ask for unanimous consent to enable the House to sit until midnight for the rest of the session.
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Some hon. members
No.
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, wow, that is truly amazing. I just finished challenging them to sit until midnight, and they all jumped up to say that they would sit until midnight. I called their bluff and asked if there was unanimous consent to sit until midnight. What did we see? The people who were jumping up then said, “No, no.” This proves the point. Do we not see it? The Conservative line is, “Do not allow legislation to pass. Let us do whatever we can to prevent that from happening and continue to deny Canadians bail reform legislation.” This is what the Conservative Party's position is.
We have Bill C-2, Bill C-9 and Bill C-12, all of which would make our communities safer, and all of which the Conservative Party of Canada is preventing from passing. Then, when I say, “We should debate it”, they say they do not have enough time because they have more members who want to speak. They cry us a river. When they are provided with an opportunity to have more time to debate, what do they do? They sit on their hands and say nothing except, “No, no, we do not sit past six o'clock.” Do they know how many Canadians work past six o'clock across the country? It is a whole lot of Canadians. Let me leave it at that.
I will tell the House something: The only thing here is a Conservative Party of Canada that does not see the merit. If they really want more debate, why would they not agree to unanimous consent? Seriously, why would they not do it? It is not as if all of them have to be present for it. It just means they have to debate it. After all, that is kind of what they wanted, but they avoid it.
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An hon. member
Their single speechwriter is going to have to write more speeches.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Yes, but now they have AI. They have ChatGPT. Those will help them with their speeches if they are running out of speeches to give.
Madam Speaker, when it comes to the interests of Canadians, what we hear from the Conservative Party is something purely focused on one thing: what is in the best interest of the Conservative Party, not what is in the interest of Canadians. This is what we find unfortunate. We see it during question period. During question period, it is all about personal attacks. It is about character assassination. It is not about substantive questions. They attack the Prime Minister with personal attacks whenever they get the opportunity and prevent anything from passing in the House of Commons. Then they will say that the government is unable to pass anything. Well, duh. If they gave me 12 students from Sisler, Maples or any high school in Canada, I would be able to filibuster a bill indefinitely.
This is the type of mischief we see day in and day out coming from the Conservatives. We tried to get a commitment. Weeks ago, I was standing here and saying to members opposite, “Bail reform legislation is before us today.” I was debating it that day and all I asked for were commitments to allow the legislation to pass before the end of the year. It is not an unreasonable thing to ask for.
One of the Conservatives brought forward a private member's bill. It has a substantive change. He is standing up saying that he wants unanimous consent to pass it all today. “It is out of second reading, so there is no need for a committee meeting. It is out of report stage and third reading, so let us send it over to the Senate. We do not need to debate the legislation.” This is what Conservative members talk about for their private member's bills.
When it comes to government legislation, they say, “Oh, just hold on a second.” They want to give the false impression that the government does not know how to handle legislation, so they filibuster here on the floor of the House of Commons. They filibuster in the committee. They work on trying to come up with creative amendments in certain situations to prevent legislation from ultimately advancing. This is the behaviour we see from the Conservative Party. How productive is that?
Let us remember that, in the last federal election, Canadians told all of us, not just the government, that this was going to be a minority government. The expectation was that all parties would work together. That does not mean they have to support everything the government does, nor does the government have to support everything the opposition wants. However, there was an expectation that, when things are good for Canadians and in their best interest, there would be a sense of co-operation.
Do we see that today? We do not see an official opposition that is prepared to co-operate. How many times have we brought forward the budget implementation bill because Conservative after Conservative wanted to speak to it? They will not sit late so that more of them can speak to it, but they want to be able to speak to it. Why not allow the bill to pass to committee? If it goes to committee, it can be broken down, and several committees can go into it in great detail. They will not, though, because it is not in the Conservative Party's best interest. It might be in the interest of Canadians or Parliament as a whole, but it is not in the best interest of the Conservative Party. As a direct result, they are not going to deal with it. They have made the determination that they want to prevent the legislation from passing.
I can already imagine it today. We see the wind-up as the fall session comes to an end. My recommendation is that we come back for Christmas. I am okay with doing that. My colleagues might feel a little uneasy about it, but I will put the interests of Canadians ahead of my personal interests and the interests of Parliament. If it means we need to put in extra days, we should do that. If the Conservatives really and truly want more debate and are concerned about debate time, I am prepared to advocate that we sit longer hours and more days. They will not get any opposition from me on that. I can tell members that, at the end of the day, chances are that I will probably be around more than most others in order to listen to and participate in that debate.
Therefore, I look to my Conservative friends on the opposite side and appeal to them to look at the substantive legislation we have today, which has been filibustered. I ask them to work with the government, as the government will work with the opposition, so that we can in fact have substantive legislative changes, such as the bail reform legislation. That would be one for me personally, and it would also be an awesome thing to happen for Canadians. We could actually do it before Christmas, but everyone here knows it can only happen if the Conservative Party participates in it fully.
In the spirit of being a parliamentarian who has a deep amount of respect for the process, I apologize to the member opposite for saying that his speech was garbage. I respect all speeches delivered inside the House.
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Conservative
Larry Brock Conservative Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, ON
Madam Speaker, the election was at the end of April. We returned to Parliament at the end of May. We had approximately five to six weeks of sitting. We then broke for the summer. Approximately six months have passed since the election, and the very first piece of criminal justice legislation brought forward by the Attorney General is Bill C-9. The Liberals are prioritizing it. We had our debate. We got it to committee. Members heard, in my speech, about delays, cancelled meetings or meetings ending abruptly, which was all done by the Liberal chair at the time, who is now a minister. I listened to the member talk about obstruction and delays. He is a master of hypocrisy.
We were prepared to sit until midnight this past Tuesday. We are prepared to sit until midnight today to get to the heart of Bill C-9. Why did your government cancel the meeting abruptly?
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Alexandra Mendès) Alexandra Mendes
The hon. member is supposed to be speaking through me.
The hon. parliamentary secretary.
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
First of all, Madam Speaker, I appreciate the work the standing committees do. I recognize that, as a government, we are a minority. If the Bloc and the Conservatives choose to take certain actions, at times that could cause some issues where the government might need to see some sort of adjournment.
I think there is a practicality in what takes place at committee. I do not sit on that committee. I spend a lot of time inside the chamber. That is the reason I made the suggestion that we could, from my perspective, sit until midnight. That is why I asked for unanimous consent. I do not have a problem doing that. I will even go beyond that if it makes the member happy enough. I know we can get some legislation passed. It would be a wonderful thing for Canada and all Canadians.