Garnett Genuis

[Citizenship Act, June 19th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I believe this is a new member, so I welcome her to this place and thank her for her commitment to being a part of this important process.

This is a government bill that would allow many more people to become citizens of Canada. I assume that, in putting the bill forward, the government knows how many people it would affect and has an estimate of what additional costs it would impose on social services based on the right that these new citizens would have to access those services.

I wonder if the member could simply share with the House how many people this would affect and what the government's cost estimate for these new measures is.

[Housing, June 17th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I do want to be generous today and offer the housing minister one more opportunity to respond. The issue here is that the minister, who is supposed to be solving the Liberal housing crisis, actually has a personal financial interest in seeing that crisis continue. I think to most Canadians, that would seem to be a little bit of a problem.

How can we expect the penthouse minister to actually solve the Liberal housing crisis while the same housing crisis continues to make him even richer?

[Housing, June 17th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I would encourage the minister to come down from his penthouse and answer the question himself, rather than relying on the House leader. He has a $10-million real estate portfolio that includes multiple properties and a beautiful Vancouver penthouse. I am sure it is very nice. It is no wonder, then, that his first act as housing minister was to announce that he does not want housing prices to go down.

Why is the minister putting his personal portfolio ahead of his cabinet portfolio and abandoning young people who are stuck without jobs and are still living with their parents?

[One Canadian Economy Act, June 16th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I welcome my colleague back to this place.

There are many things I could focus on from her remarks, but I think it is worth drilling down on one piece of clear misinformation. She made the comment that Stephen Harper got nothing built, which is outrageous and verifiably false. Many pipelines were built under Stephen Harper. The northern gateway pipeline to tidewater was approved, and significant progress was being made on the east-west pipeline. The Liberals passed legislation designed to kill those projects, which were already approved or in the process of being planned.

Will the member maybe seek to clarify her false claim that nothing was built under Stephen Harper and identify the projects that were built under Stephen Harper?

[One Canadian Economy Act, June 16th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, we are at an interesting moment in Canadian politics, I think, because the Liberal government is trying to run against many things that were core to Justin Trudeau's governing agenda with the Liberal Party over the last 10 years. Part of the governing agenda under Prime Minister Trudeau was to set up an impossibly complex web of regulations and processes that made it very difficult for economic activity to proceed. In particular, it made it very difficult for major projects to move forward. Now we have the same people coming in and saying, “Oh my goodness. Since we have a problem with major projects not being able to proceed, we are going to pass a bill that will, in a limited and temporary way, allow some abridgement of that process for chosen projects.” Would it not be better to simply undo the mess Justin Trudeau created rather than abridging that process through this bill?

[Business of Supply, June 12th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, the minister referred a number of times in his testimony to the 2024-25 estimates as being what he is testifying about. I wonder if he wants to clarity that or if he is—

[Business of Supply, June 12th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, very respectfully to the President of the Treasury Board, there is nothing virtuous or public service-minded about ignoring serious questions from members of the opposition and repeating lines that have absolutely nothing to do with those questions. This is not a “gotcha”; this is a basic question of government policy. Is—

[Business of Supply, June 12th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, the question, again, is this: Is the government planning a major overhaul of the indigenous procurement program?

[Business of Supply, June 12th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, with all due respect to the minister, this is embarrassing. I would be embarrassed. I am almost embarrassed for him.

Is the government planning a major overhaul of the indigenous procurement program?

[Business of Supply, June 12th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, the minister did not listen to the question I asked. He repeated his non-answer from the previous question. I invite him to come up with a new non-answer to the new question.

The new question was this: Does the minister think that companies that do work for hostile foreign regimes should be able to simultaneously do work for the Government of Canada?