Marc Miller

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 22nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we want to avoid what happened at Roxham Road.

Here we are again, with the feigned outrage of the Bloc Québécois rising in the House, while in April they opposed our asylum seeker reforms and the asylum system reforms we proposed in the budget plan. It is quite ridiculous.

If Bloc Québécois members were really being consistent, they would support the reforms to the asylum system that we plan to introduce very soon.

[Public Safety, November 19th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, as I said very clearly in my previous response, I will be pleased to address the House in due course and explain exactly what happened. If the allegations are true, that passport should not have been issued. We will conduct internal checks before speaking about this issue publicly.

[Public Safety, November 19th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, if the allegations are true, that passport should not have been issued. I am checking internally with Service Canada and the security agencies. I will be happy to report back to the House at the appropriate time.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, let us review the facts.

Since 2009, the Quebec government has tripled immigration to the temporary areas under its control. That is a fact. We will work together to bring that down.

The plan I presented last week proposes a 20% reduction. It is important and it is responsible. That is what Canadians and Quebeckers are asking us to do.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, let us talk about integration. If we had listened to the Bloc Québécois and the provincial governments, there might have been a significant increase because the last time the CAQ begged me to have more people, it was about welcoming people temporarily.

Quebec has its own challenges with international students right now. It is a shared problem.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I think the member may have spent too much time in Ottawa if he thinks that the federal government has total control over immigration. He knows full well that in Quebec, in particular, the provincial government controls over 50% of the volume.

We all share responsibility.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I do not think we will take any lessons from someone who has spent the last 20 years lighting fires in the House of Commons. We put forward a plan two weeks ago to reduce immigration levels by 20%. Canadians expect us to be responsible and to react to their needs. That is what we are doing with this plan. The parliamentary budget officer himself has said that this new plan will reduce housing needs by 50%. That is what Canadians want. It is responsible.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 18th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I think Canadians expect a responsible government to take decisive action.

We saw the plan for immigration levels that I tabled two weeks ago. It proposes a 20% reduction in the number of permanent residents. The Parliamentary Budget Officer said that the plan would reduce housing needs by 50%. It is a responsible plan.

The member opposite wants to call an election. He has no plan, except maybe to do some math. He said he was going to build six housing units. As far as I know, that is as high as he can count.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 7th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I thought the Bloc Québécois had rightly distanced itself from the CAQ government and was no longer fearmongering about asylum seekers, but it seems a leopard never changes its spots. We have always been able to manage the border effectively, and we will continue to do so. Everyone understands that it would be pretty silly of us to reveal our plans in the House of Commons.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the plan is to not be afraid of our own shadow, as the Bloc Québécois always seems to be.

We have a plan. We are working on it, no matter who the president turns out to be tomorrow morning, but we are not going to reveal it on the floor of the House of Commons 24 hours before the election. We will respect what happens tomorrow.

We can discuss it with the Bloc Québécois after the election.