Justin Trudeau

[Employment, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we see once again right now the Conservative leader constantly talking down the members of the Canadian Armed Forces, talking down and nickel-and-diming our veterans. They shuttered nine veterans services offices; cut thousands of staff, people helping veterans; and made cuts to the Canadian Armed Forces that brought our spending on defence to below 1%. He will not even commit to our timeline to get it up to 2%, and he will not get his security clearance so that he can get the briefing necessary to keep all Canadians safe.

[Employment, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we stood up and protected Canadian jobs, Canadian industry and Canadian trade. We know the American government cares about creating prosperity in North America, and we are going to do it together. What the American government, and particularly this President, also cares about is defence and national security.

The leader of the Conservative Party was sitting around the cabinet table when Conservatives dropped spending on defence to below 1%, and the Americans will not understand any more than Canadians do why the Leader of the Opposition refuses to take national security seriously and refuses to get his—

[Employment, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, when we successfully renegotiated NAFTA and protected Canadian jobs, protected steelworkers and aluminum workers, protected our supply-managed sectors and agricultural workers, protected Canadians from coast to coast to coast, the leader of the Conservative Party at the time referred to our approach as dumb.

Successfully standing up for Canadians is not dumb, but what is dumb is someone refusing to get their security clearance so they can actually protect members of their caucus, protect Canadians and get the briefings necessary on national security.

[International Trade, November 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader is talking nonsense. We stood up for supply management. We stood up for our aluminum and steel workers. We stood up for NAFTA by improving it for people on both sides of the border.

What is more, we know full well that the Americans are concerned about national security and defence. It is that Conservative Party and that Conservative leader who sat at the cabinet table and lowered defence spending to less than 1% of the GDP. He still refuses to take national security seriously and refuses to get security clearance and protect Canadians.

[Health, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, unlike the NDP, we understand and we respect the fact that the delivery of health care falls under provincial jurisdiction. However, the federal government is responsible for ensuring that our health care systems remain public and for providing investments. That is why we are making $200 billion in investments over the next 10 years, so that the provinces can hire more family doctors, reduce wait lists and provide more support for mental health and for health care workers.

That is what all Canadians expect.

[Health, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we recognize that it is the provincial area of jurisdiction to deliver health care in this country, but it is the federal responsibility to make sure that health care remains public, universal and single-payer. That is exactly what we are doing by investing a record $200 billion in health care over the coming years that will oblige the provinces to invest in public health care; to hire more doctors, particularly family doctors; to reduce wait times; and to improve mental health services.

These are things that Canadians expect, including the federal government expecting it of the provinces.

[Oil and Gas Industry, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I know full well that the Bloc Québécois shares the same perspective on this as we do. No sector should be able to pollute as much as it wants. That is why we put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector. We know that this sector contributes nearly a third of Canada's annual emissions and therefore has the greatest capacity to be able to reduce our emissions. These companies are making record profits. We expect them to reinvest in the technologies that are going to help lower their emissions and help them do their share of the effort.

[Oil and Gas Industry, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, as a government, we have always made every effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to protect Canada's prosperity and to safeguard the future of Canadians.

That is why we are capping greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector. This sector is making record profits. This sector already has technological solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With this emissions cap, we expect the sector to invest in ways to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that everyone is doing their part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the planet.

[Public Safety, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, people watching that last answer will know and note the assuredness with which the Leader of the Opposition declared all the causes and the sources of the terrible violence we are seeing. The reality is that he refuses to take the necessary briefings that our security agencies are offering him to understand the threats to Canada. Why will he not get the security clearance necessary to protect Canadians?

[International Trade, November 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the silence of the Conservative leader is deafening when it comes to what is happening in the South Asian communities right now, and it is a real shame. Not only is he not stepping forward to talk about how all Canadians must stand together and all South Asian Canadians, Sikh, Hindu, Jain and Buddhist, are celebrating together this weekend, but he even refuses to take the issue seriously enough to get the security clearance necessary to be briefed on threats to Canada and to Canadians. That is not leadership.