Charlie Angus

[Liberal Party of Canada, December 17th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, thanks to this Prime Minister, our nation has become the laughingstock of the narcissist at Mar-a-Lago. Our country is facing an unprecedented level of political coercion, and Canadians deserve a strong and proud defence of our values and our jobs. We are not going to get that from the Liberal gong show or from the predatory and pusillanimous Conservatives who would sell us out in a second. Our NDP leader called for a war room, bringing together labour and business leaders to defend Canada.

Will the Liberals stop their squabbling? It is time to drop the gloves, go over the boards and fight for our country instead of fighting amongst themselves.

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, as someone who was an altar boy, I find it very offensive that people use witch burners as examples of what Christians should be.

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, we are talking about trade and yet the Conservatives are acting like sock puppets for the narcissist in Mar-a-Lago. They will repeat any falsehood he says because they think it will score them points.

We need a vision of a nation at this time that stands taller than this high school cafeteria, juvenile behaviour because the threat of 25% tariffs is very serious. Our leader has offered the very challenged front bench the idea of a war room, of bringing together business and labour leaders, leaders from across the country, so we have a unified position. Otherwise, we are standing here looking like fools while the guy down in Mar-a-Lago is pushing us around.

I would like to ask my hon. colleague what she thinks.

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, there is a member abusing the House by taking photographs.

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I have enormous respect for my colleague, but I do have to correct the record. He said that the member who lives in a 19-room mansion, Stornoway, has never put forward any legislative agenda. I have been here for 20 years and he has put forward one; it was against vaccines. I note that because we know how many of his backbenchers believe that vaccines are some kind of George Soros conspiracy.

However, it is not a joke, because Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s key lawyer has now just pushed to get rid of the polio vaccine, and there is a guy who has no life experience and who lives in a 19-room mansion who is pushing against basic health care protections, in order to feed his QAnon base and his QAnon backbenchers.

I would like to ask the member what he thinks about the threat being posed by attacking something as basic as the polio vaccine.

[Privilege, December 16th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I know truth hurts, so I withdraw.

[Privilege, December 16th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We know that the opposition member will say anything and do anything to get attention, but the leader of the New Democratic Party does not drive a Maserati. Lying does not help further the member's argument. I ask for him to withdraw the comment.

[Privilege, December 16th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we have a situation in which, on the eve of the fall economic statement, the Prime Minister announces privately he is going to deep-six his finance minister. Now she has quit.

We are seeing an ongoing level of the dysfunction and the failure of all political parties to stand up for Canada at a time of uncertainty. We have now seen the Conservatives spend three months filibustering their own motion in order to stop Parliament from working; they do so because they do not care about defending the Canadian people. We have a Prime Minister who is missing in action as his ship is hitting the rocks.

It is really like watching kids in a sandbox throwing sand at each other as the tsunami comes. Everyone is warning that the tsunami is coming, but they would rather throw sand at each other. The world needs to know whether Canada is ready to stand up to Trump. We certainly know that the guy who lives in Stornoway will never show up. The Prime Minister has failed the Canadian people in a significant way today.

[Housing, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, temperatures are plunging in northern Canada and the ongoing housing crisis on northern reserves is putting families and children at serious risk. Carol-Ann Ballantyne lives in a mouldy trailer with three children in Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan. For years she has pleaded just for a simple home to keep her children safe and warm, but to the Liberals, she is just another name on an ever-growing backlog of heartbreak and homelessness in the north, a crisis they continue to ignore.

I have simple question: Why is the government refusing to help this family? Why is it refusing to step up and deal with this crisis?

[Privilege, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it was Jolynn Winter and Chantel Fox, age 12, who died in Wapekeka First Nation, that changed how Jordan's principle was supposed to be administered because the community was begging for support to stop a suicide crisis. That report sat on the bureaucrat's desk and nothing was done.

The Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada could no longer refuse to turn around Jordan's principle, because children were dying. Unfortunately, we see a situation that was started under Stephen Harper, the millions he spent against Jordan's principle. The spying he did against Cindy Blackstock, who was the champion of Jordan's principle, was carried on by the Liberals. What the Liberals have learned is that they cannot defy the courts. They can just let the system continue to do what it has always done, which is to deny rights by ignoring them. Children are continuing to die. The system is not broken, my friend; this is how it was built. It was built by the likes of Stephen Harper and it has been continued by the government, and first nations children continue to suffer.

The idea that this guy who lives in Stornoway, who ridiculed residential school survivors, will actually do something for indigenous children is a whopper that I do not think anyone is going to believe.