Justin Trudeau

[Oil and Gas Industry, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, when we stood up for Canadian jobs, Canadian oil producers and Canadian steel and aluminum workers, the Conservative Party called that dumb. We will always stand up and defend Canadian jobs, as we have in the past, as we create more opportunities for Canadians right across the country and as we protect our national security.

What the Americans will not understand is why the Leader of the Opposition, who desperately wants to become prime minister, refuses to get the necessary security clearances so he can keep his party safe.

[National Defence, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, obviously, I may not always agree with the leader of the Bloc Québécois, but facts are facts, and I have to thank him for getting his security clearance so that he, like all the other party leaders, except for the Conservative Party leader, can live up to our responsibility to protect our democracy. Indeed, the Conservative Party leader, for some inexplicable reason—I do not know what he is hiding—refuses to get his security clearance and receive the secret security briefings that will enable him to protect his party and, therefore, protect democracy.

For some unknown reason, he refuses to take this seriously.

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it is rather ironic to be asked a question like that by someone who approved oil and gas exploration in Anticosti.

The reality is that we are well aware that we need to build a greener economy and protect the environment at the same time. That is why we are setting a cap on greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil and gas industry. We put a price on pollution while putting more money back in Canadians' pockets. We have continued to reduce our emissions while creating economic growth, a first for Canada.

We will protect the environment and we will create jobs.

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we just heard very clearly from the leader of the Conservative Party that he would not have built the TMX pipeline. We know how important it is to make sure we get a good price for our oil so we can invest in the kinds of solutions and technologies that will continue to create prosperity and opportunity for energy workers not just in Alberta but right across the country. We will continue to be there to invest in a stronger future by understanding that renewables are an important part of the future, but we need to be able to pay for them.

The Conservative leader does not understand how to build a strong future or how to build a strong economy.

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, once again we see that the Conservative leader will not stand up for workers across the country. He will not stand up for Albertan oil workers. We got the TMX pipeline built because we know that getting a better price for our oil by being able to ship it across the Pacific is a way of creating jobs and prosperity, allowing us to build strong jobs and an economy for the future.

The Conservative leader does not understand that we need to invest in workers to build a stronger future, not offer them cuts.

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader just admitted he would not have invested in TMX. He would not have gotten it built.

However, on this side of the aisle, we will stand up for Alberta. We will stand up for our oil and gas workers across the country because we know that getting overseas markets for our oil and gas is—

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition just admitted that he would not have put a penny into TMX. He would not have made it happen.

This matters to Alberta. It matters to the oil workers there—

[Natural Resources, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, what this little performance was designed to distract from is the fact that under the Conservative government of Mr. Harper and the current leader, they could not get anything built. We built the Trans Mountain pipeline extension. We built TMX. We understand that getting good prices for our oil was important, not just for Alberta but for the entire Canadian economy.

We are moving forward to make sure that even as oil companies are making record profits, we are putting a cap not on production and profits but on emissions because Canadians care.

[Housing, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers see very clearly what the Conservative Party is offering, and that is cuts and austerity. The Conservative leader is saying he would cut $900 million in joint investments with Quebec that are intended to create roughly 8,000 affordable housing units.

That is what he wants for Quebeckers, to make cuts. He wants to scrap an agreement with Quebec so that he can play his political games. That is not what Quebeckers need. They need housing. They need investments. Those are what he wants to cut.

[Housing, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. The Conservative leader's housing plan involves scrapping housing projects and investments across the country. In Quebec, his solution is to tear up the agreement that we signed with the province that will provide $900 million for affordable housing projects. This would affect about 8,000 housing projects.

Even the Quebec finance minister thinks that this Conservative leader is costly and ineffective. Quebeckers cannot count on the Conservative leader. All they will get from him is cuts and austerity.