Michelle Ferreri

[Privilege, December 16th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, my colleague's speech was passionate. He dedicates his life to his riding, his country and this place, to ensure that Canadians get the election they desperately need right now.

We talk about $400 million of a green slush fund that was supposed to help with environmental projects, but not one was done; in fact, Liberal insiders got rich. My question to the member is as follows: What could $400 million do if it were used properly in this economy to help the Canadians who are suffering so much? What difference could $400 million, which the Liberals misused and gave to their friends, do?

[The Economy, December 16th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is spiralling badly and his obsession for power is dangerous. It is actually dangerous and it is killing people every day. In Peterborough and area, families are suffering the greatest rates of food insecurity ever recorded. Do members know what food insecurity means? It means starvation, hunger, children. It is enough. This is as serious as it gets.

The finance minister quit hours before she was supposed to do this, and she does not have confidence in the Prime Minister. No one does. This man is a disgrace and we need an election now.

[Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, December 16th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, Jody Wilson-Raybould wrote that she is mad at herself now for having once thought the Prime Minister is “an honest and good person, when, in truth, he would so casually lie to the public”. This is a direct quote from former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who learned that the Prime Minister is a performative and fake feminist. She resigned.

It was just a week ago that the Prime Minister stood on stage to tell women what a great feminist he is. Today, we learned that the Prime Minister told the first ever female finance minister to do as he says or lose her role. She resigned. Even the former finance minister does not have confidence in the Prime Minister. Celina Caesar-Chavannes, former parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, felt reduced to a prop for the Prime Minister's image rather than valued for her voice. She resigned.

How many women will the Prime Minister throw under the bus before the leader of the NDP pulls his pathetic support for the weak Prime Minister? Canadians are done. Let us call an election and get rid of this fake feminist, narcissistic Prime Minister, who is destroying this country and Canadians' lives.

[Questions Passed as Orders for Returns, December 13th, 2024]

With regard to funding provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: (a) how much money has the PHAC provided to the task force, broken down by year for each of the last five years; and (b) in the last fiscal year, what is the breakdown of how the task force spent its funding allotment by line item?

[Finance, December 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, on the Conservative side of the House, women stand here because we are skilled and are allowed to use our voice. Jody Wilson-Raybould is testament to this.

There is a fake Prime Minister, but that is not the point. We are not here to talk about gender; we are here to talk about the economy, and it is destroyed under the fake feminist Prime Minister.

Again, if the finance minister is not a token, will she stand up to him and say no and that she will abide by her $40-billion deficit guardrail to help the economy get back on track and save Canadians' lives?

[Finance, December 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the fake feminist Prime Minister is determined to decimate Canadians' lives by destroying the economy, and he will throw anyone under the bus to do it, including his token female finance minister. Canadians know he is weak. They know he has lost control of his cabinet and his spending.

The question is this: Will the first-ever female finance minister have the courage to stand up to the fake feminist Prime Minister and stick to her promised $40-billion deficit?

[Questions on the Order Paper, December 11th, 2024]

With regard to the cap imposed by the government on the percentage of for-profit spaces as part of its Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement with Ontario: (a) is the government going to accept the request from the province of Ontario to remove the cap, and, if not, why not; (b) if the answer to (a) is negative, how does the government justify removing the cap for certain other provinces, including New Brunswick; (c) what is the government's reaction to reports that the Peel Region had to turn down 2,000 child care spaces as a result of the cap; and (d) what is the government's estimate of the number of child care spaces throughout Ontario that have had to be turned down or otherwise not brought to fruition as a result of the cap?

[Finance, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we cannot spend our way out of debt. The fact that Conservatives have to say that to the finance minister speaks volumes as to why we have record-high usage of food banks in this country. She has a choice today. Everyone knows there is tension. She promised a guardrail of $40 billion, which in itself is outrageous. Bill Morneau, the former finance minister, was in the same position. He would not abide by the weak Prime Minister and quit.

The question is, will she have the courage to do the same and stand up for Canadians, not the Prime Minister?

[Finance, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, according to The Globe and Mail, the finance minister herself said that radical Liberal spending risks blowing past her promised fiscal guardrails. She has a choice. She can break rank and join the Liberal minister graveyard, like former finance minister Bill Morneau, or she can abide by the weak Prime Minister and drive Canadians off of a fiscal cliff.

Which one?

[Committees of the House, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it is always a delight to hear from my hon. colleague as he represents his constituents. I would love to hear him share some stories of what the opioid crisis and what fentanyl has done, in particular, to his community.