Justin Trudeau

[Finance, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, again, he is eager to hear our fall economic update and we will share it with him in due course. In the meantime, the House has work to do on passing legislation that would support school food programs, moving forward on delivering dental care for more Canadians who cannot afford it, expanding child care spaces and putting money in people's pockets at a time when it is needed. Instead, he is crossing his arms and forcing his MPs, because we know he forces his MPs to do whatever he wants, to block the passage of bills in the House because he does not want to see Canadians helped right now; he wants to see Canadians hurt because he only cares about himself.

[Finance, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, obviously the Leader of the Opposition is keen to hear our fall economic statement, but the reality is, he is only looking forward to it because he wants to vote against it. He is going to vote against measures that support Canadians: measures to be there for Canadian families who are struggling, to invest in things like school food, to invest in more support for dental care for vulnerable people, and to invest in jobs and growth creation right across the country. These are the things he has consistently stood against because he believes in cuts, austerity and a trickle-down that gives benefits to the wealthiest, but nothing for everybody else.

[Finance, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I know the Leader of the Opposition is keen to see our fall economic statement, which will talk about measures that are there to help affordability, to support Canadians, to be there to invest in them. He is looking forward to seeing all these great measures we are putting forward to support Canadians in their time of need, because he cannot wait to vote against them. He cannot wait to slash services and programs that are helping Canadians. He cannot wait to stand in the way of us helping Canadians through this difficult time by putting the best balance sheet in the G7 in service of Canadians who need a little more support. He has voted against supports for Canadians. He is going to continue to do so.

[Finance, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we just heard it once again from the Conservative leader. The foundation to his entire economic argument is that delivering programs to help Canadians in times of need somehow makes everything worse for everyone. He is proposing cuts to dental care, cuts to child care, cuts to the school food program, cuts to money responding to the housing crisis in municipalities. His only answer to Canadians hurting is to cut services to them while he exploits their fears for his own personal gain.

[Democratic Institutions, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Alfred‑Pellan for his work. Canadians send each and every one of us to the House, in part to ensure their safety. However, the Leader of the Opposition does not care much abut national security. He refuses to get the security clearance he would need to protect Canadians from foreign interference. He is going to cut resources from the police and the border, and he wants to put guns back on our streets.

Canadians deserve a government that protects them and that does not put their safety at risk with dangerous cuts.

[Northern Affairs, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, qujannamiik to my colleague. I agree: We need to move forward on protecting clean water and on delivering. That is why we are asking the NDP to stop slow-walking the clean water bill and to work with us to get it through the House so we can actually deliver the water Canadians need from coast to coast to coast, including in Nunavut.

[Taxation, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate my NDP colleague's bringing up the school food program and her support for it. If she really wanted to support it, she would help us stop the obstructionism by the Conservative Party that is preventing us from moving forward on delivering concretely for Canadians the way they need.

Canadians need help and investments, and Conservatives did not have enough in blocking and voting against school foods, voting against and blocking dental care, and voting against and blocking pharmacare, so they are now blocking any capacity in the House to deliver for Canadians. The NDP needs to work with us and stop this obstruction.

[Carbon Pricing, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, once again the Leader of the Opposition is entirely misrepresenting the facts for his own gain, for his own interest. That is really all he cares about. If he cared about Canadians, he would not be standing against dental care. He would not be standing against more spaces in child care. He would not be standing against putting more money in Canadians' pockets with a price on pollution that is bending our emissions down faster than those of our other G7 neighbours. At the same time, it is helping with affordability for eight out of 10 Canadians in areas in which it lands. The Canada carbon rebate is an affordability measure that is protecting future generations, and he is standing against it.

[Carbon Pricing, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, once again, the Leader of the Opposition is just not telling the truth. The reality is that the Parliamentary Budget Officer said that eight out of 10 Canadians get more money back from the price on pollution than it actually costs them in paying that price on pollution. The cost of inaction on climate change is astronomical. That is exactly what he is proposing.

The Leader of the Opposition should stop misleading Canadians and actually understand that we cannot fight for affordability and we cannot fight against climate change unless we are investing in Canadians.

[Carbon Pricing, November 20th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I invite Canadians to actually watch the remarks I made down south, where I was talking exactly about the importance of putting affordability first for Canadians, even as we are fighting against climate change.

The Leader of the Opposition can invent things that he thinks I might have said. That is not what I said. What I pointed out was that even as we are fighting climate change, even as we are creating incentives to grow our economy in cleaner, greener ways, we are putting more money back in the pockets of eight out of 10 Canadians with the Canada carbon rebate, a fact that he's busy gaslighting Canadians against.