John Barlow

[Business of Supply, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, how many jobs in the construction industry will be lost as a result of the just transition?

[Business of Supply, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, how many jobs in agriculture will be lost as a result of the just transition?

[Business of Supply, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, how many energy jobs will be lost as a result of the just transition?

[Business of Supply, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time three ways.

Through you, does the minister know what Bill C-50 is?

[Finance, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, Canadians are struggling to put food on the table now, and it is because of the Liberals' inflationary spending. We all knew these were going to be the same old tax-and-spend Liberals, but we had no idea the Prime Minister was going to be worse. He promised Canadians he would cap increased spending at 2%; he has gone over 8%. That is putting Canadians in trouble, and they are the ones paying the price. We now have the highest food inflation in the G7.

Will the Prime Minister table a budget and end his inflationary spending so Canadians can afford to feed their families?

[Finance, June 11th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he will be judged by prices at the grocery store shelf. Judgment has been rendered, and by his own metrics, the Prime Minister has failed. For the third month in a row, food prices have skyrocketed. Apples, oranges, rice, chicken and beef are all up by more than 20%, and the Prime Minister's response is to pour more fuel on the inflationary fire, with half a trillion dollars in new spending. That is more than Trudeau.

Will the Liberal minority government listen to the majority of this House and put a budget on the table, so Canadians can put food on theirs?

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, my colleague made an excellent speech. According to Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, a professor at Dalhousie who is among the national leaders in food pricing, Canada's food inflation is the highest in the G7. This is not a global issue; it is a Liberal-made issue.

I would ask my colleague what impact Canada having the highest food inflation in the G7 is having on her constituents and the families in Oshawa.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that the member is the one who was questioning the data that is coming from Statistics Canada and Farm Credit Canada, the Liberals' own Crown corporation and their own agency. The statistics are coming from their own government. If they do not believe those statistics, maybe they should make some changes within their own bureaucracy. It is interesting that he is the one who talks about misinformation.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, absolutely, I would argue that it is going to get worse. An $800 tax cut is wiped away by food inflation that is going up every single month; it has done so three months in a row. It is only going to get worse when the Liberals implement their policies like the front-of-pack labelling and the P2 plastics ban. Those two policies alone will increase food costs, potentially, by $14 billion. Those are additional costs that are going to be put on produce growers, manufacturers and retailers. They will pass on those costs to consumers, which will continue to drive up food costs.

We are in a food security crisis here at home, and the Liberals need to step up and do something about it.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Speaker, I know that this is going to be shocking to my colleague from the Bloc, whom I respect a great deal, but the Liberals say one thing during a campaign and do something very different once they have been elected. The Liberals like to say that they are not ready and that it has been only three months.

The cabinet has been there for 10 years. It is not like the Liberals just came into a new House of Commons and have no idea what has been going on for the last 10 years. They have caused all the problems. Their overspending, high taxes and bad policies have put Canada in this financial situation.

I would argue that the Liberals do not want to table a budget because Canadians would be frightened to see the financial situation the Liberals have left us in.