Justin Trudeau

[Liberal Party of Canada, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, for well over a year in the House, just about every question from the Leader of the Opposition was about national security, about foreign interference. We called a commission of inquiry. We have offered security clearances to all leaders. Indeed, the leaders of the Green Party, the NDP and the Bloc have all done the responsible thing; they got their security clearances and top-secret briefings from our security services.

The leader of the Conservative Party chooses to play the pettiest form of politics instead of stepping up on his responsibilities as leader: protecting Canadians, protecting his MPs and protecting our institutions.

[Democratic Institutions, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, now we are getting somewhere. The Leader of the Opposition is actually engaging on the issue of national security. Unfortunately, he is willing to put at risk the agents, the officers and the sources who are putting their lives at risk to keep Canadians safe.

There is a reason we do not disclose classified information in places where our adversaries are watching and paying attention, but we can release many names and much information to him if he would only get his security clearance so he will be able to keep his own team members safe from foreign interference.

[Government Priorities, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, no responsibility by the government is more important than keeping Canadians safe. That is why our security services every single day take actions and work hard to keep Canadians safe.

It is inexplicable to our security services that they cannot let the leader of the Conservative Party know about the threats facing him, his party and our democracy because he refuses to get a security clearance. I have asked the security agencies to look at ways to share at least some information with him, and perhaps some names, so he can protect his colleagues.

[Government Priorities, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, watchers of Canadian politics will remember that last year, Conservative Party members got up pretty much every time they could to talk about national security, to talk about it in a partisan way but to talk about it every chance they could get. Now that we have offered the Leader of the Opposition a security clearance so he can be fully informed on national security, all they have been able to do is to make political attacks and ask questions of other parties.

Why has the Leader of the Opposition chosen to not get a security clearance when the safety of his own MPs is in the balance?

[Housing, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I pointed it out in English, but I will repeat it in French. We know that one of the fundamental responsibilities of every elected member of the House is to protect the safety and well-being of all Canadians. However, having inexplicably decided not to get his security clearance, the Conservative leader is putting Canadians at risk, including some of his own MPs.

That is why I have asked intelligence services to share as much information as they can with the Conservative leader so that he can better protect his MPs, despite the fact that, for some unknown reason, he is still refusing to get his security clearance so he can learn what exactly they need.

[Housing, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I want to follow up on the first part of my hon. colleague's question about the fact that the Conservative Party continues to attack women's rights.

I have questions concerning Conservative members from Quebec who stand silently by while anti-choice members of the Conservative Party attack women's rights. We are witnessing the regression of women's rights all over the world, and the Conservative Party is encouraging that through the members it elects.

[Health, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we are the government that has stood up for women's rights unequivocally across this country, including pulling back transfers to provinces where abortion services and reproductive health were not being delivered. At the same time, we are moving forward with more ways to protect women's rights.

Just yesterday, we presented a ways and means motion that would mean that pregnancy crisis centres would have to disclose whether or not they are actually offering the full suite of reproductive services and rights to women, or whether they would to leave women without support and without choices at an extremely delicate time.

[Seniors, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it is understandable for Quebeckers to be worried when they see that the Bloc Québécois has the support of the Conservative Party.

The reality is that we are here to invest in seniors. We were there with dental care, though the Bloc Québécois and the Conservative Party voted against it. We were there to increase the GIS by 10% for the most vulnerable seniors. It was one of the first things we did as a government. The Bloc Québécois and the Conservative Party voted against it. We were there to increase OAS for seniors aged 75 and over, because they have more costs to bear. The Bloc Québécois voted against it.

[Seniors, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, our government invested in seniors by enhancing the guaranteed income supplement by 10%, by increasing old age security for seniors aged 75 and up and by putting in place a dental care program for nearly one million seniors across the country, which is making a huge difference. The Bloc Québécois chose to vote against that dental care program.

If the Bloc Québécois is taking suggestions on how to be popular in politics, I would suggest that it provide dental care to seniors who need it. That might be a good thing to do, rather than following the Conservatives' lead and voting against our seniors.

[Housing, October 30th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Conservative Party just put forward a plan to cut billions of dollars of investment in housing across the country.

However, in regard to issues of national security, it is extraordinarily difficult to have a leader of the Conservative Party refuse to get the necessary security briefings that will allow him to protect his own MPs and indeed protect our Canadian democracy. Therefore I have asked security services to figure out a way to share some information, perhaps even some names, with the leader of the Conservative Party so he can take action and protect his members.