Justin Trudeau

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, if the Leader of the Opposition really wanted to put money in the pockets of Canadians, he would not have voted against the Canada child benefit, our initiatives to cut taxes for Canadians over the next two months and initiatives such as the Canada carbon rebate, which puts more money in the pockets of eight out of 10 Canadian families across the country as we fight climate change and reduce emissions.

The Leader of the Opposition continues to seek to divide and pick fights amongst Canadians while we are offering solutions to both support Canadians now and build a stronger and more prosperous economy into the future. That is what we are going to keep doing.

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we are seeing the clear pattern of the Conservative leader. He picks fights with journalists. He picks fights with mayors and city councils. He even picks fights with the team Canada approach, which is standing up for Canada's interests when we are faced with the real challenges from the incoming administration to the south. He is choosing to pick fights and divide Canadians at a time when we should be pulling together to solve the challenges of housing and the challenges being brought in by the new American administration. These are moments for us to pull together. Unfortunately, that is something the Conservative leader seems incapable of.

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, mayors across the country, including those in Conservative-held ridings, are speaking out about the reckless cuts that the Conservative leader is proposing to the money that municipalities need to increase densification, accelerate permitting and move forward on homebuilding faster and faster across this country. The Conservative leader is standing against what his own MPs are asking for when he is telling mayors across the country that he is going to pull billions of dollars away from investments in housing that would respond to Canadians' needs to grow the economy and live securely for the future.

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader has been having a rough few weeks since he promised he would be shutting down housing projects across the country. Even his Conservative MPs have been going behind his back to complain to the CBC that they can no longer advocate for their communities and that they are no longer allowed to stand up for their mayors, who need investments in housing in their communities. He prefers to muzzle his MPs than to allow them to be their constituents' voice for their communities.

The Conservative leader's commitment to cut billions of dollars of investments in housing will not help anyone. That is why we are delivering for Canadians.

[Justice, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it always comes back to interference in Quebec's jurisdiction. The Bloc Québécois believes that an initiative that allows seniors to go to the dentist is interfering in Quebec's jurisdictions. We are here to help seniors across the country, including in Quebec. We are here to increase old age security for seniors aged 75 and over. We are here to invest in those who need it.

Unfortunately, even when we wanted to create more child care spaces across the country, the Bloc Québécois said we were interfering in Quebec's jurisdictions.

We are here to help all Canadians, including Quebeckers.

[Justice, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Bloc has just demonstrated its openness. We would like to see a similar openness extend to initiatives to protect the health care system for the most vulnerable, but this work is being blocked by the Conservative filibuster. We would like to expand dental care, but that work is being blocked by the Conservative filibuster. We would also like the Bloc Québécois to unblock Parliament so we can work on our online harms bill, Bill C‑63, which will protect people across the country, especially children.

We would love to have all these debates in Parliament, but unfortunately, the Bloc Québécois continues to allow the Conservatives to obstruct the work—

[Mental Health and Addictions, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, once again, we see that the priority of the Leader of the Opposition is to exploit and use Canadians who are suffering to score cheap political points. Meanwhile, we are doing the serious work among parliamentarians, across different orders of government and with partners around the world to address this in a way that is grounded in science, not ideology, which works with frontline workers, makes investments in wraparound services and puts everything forward to try to save lives as best we possibly can.

That is what Canadians deserve, not the kind of cheap partisanship that the Leader of the Opposition continues to demonstrate every time he stands up in the House, which is absolutely irresponsible.

[Mental Health and Addictions, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, what has become increasingly clear through the Leader of the Opposition's little performances is that he does not actually care about Canadians and about people suffering. He is there for a clip and he is there for a photo op, but he is not there to do the work of delivering based on science, based on compassion or based on a public health approach on dealing with the toxic drug epidemic. He is instead continuing to try to score cheap political points on the backs of the most vulnerable. That is not serious. That is not responsible.

[Mental Health and Addictions, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, unfortunately we have seen that the Conservative leader's answer to the terrible tragedy fighting so many Canadians with the toxic drug epidemic is to stand for photo ops in front of encampments and try to use them for cheap votes. Exploiting Canadians is not the way to move forward.

We have anchored ourselves in science, working in partnership with municipalities, frontline workers and provinces; working with the United States on precursor chemicals; and working to invest in wraparound supports including housing for people suffering from homelessness and from the drug crisis. We will continue to be there for people.

[Finance, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, over the past few years, we have invested in measures to help Canadians who are struggling, whether it be the dental care program, the program to create more child care spaces or the school food program. All of these investments are aimed at helping Canadians, but they still made it possible to lower inflation and bring it back in the Bank of Canada's target zone.

Now, we are moving forward with a tax holiday for all Canadian families, for all Canadians, and the Conservative Party is voting against direct help for Canadians because they are just here to play politics.