Michelle Rempel

[Points of Order, December 16th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, there are businesses trying to think about making decisions based on what was supposed to be in the statement today. We have senior economists who have been waiting for this information. Literally, the entire nation's business has been waiting for this. All of us in this place have the right to see these finances. This is why we are here. It is almost to the point of a violation of our privilege to not be able to see this, frankly.

We are being asked to vote on things, without a finance minister, on the day that a budget was to be tabled. This is not what a serious government does. We need to have this information today. It is borderline privilege. Again, as the opposition House leader said, presumably, this is a contempt of Parliament, of the utmost magnitude.

[Questions Passed as Orders for Returns, December 16th, 2024]

With regard to the National Advisory Council on Poverty, broken down by year for each of the last five years: (a) what were the expenditures of the council, in total and broken down by line item; (b) how much remuneration did members of the council receive, in total and broken down by member; (c) what are the details of all hospitality expenses incurred by members of the council, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) location, (iii) vendor, (iv) amount, (v) purpose of the event; (d) how much was incurred in travel expenses by the council; and (e) what are the details of each trip expense by council member, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) origin, (iii) destination, (iv) total cost, (v) breakdown of the costs, (vi) purpose of the trip?

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

Mr. Speaker, women are facing violence in the streets. They cannot afford groceries. They cannot afford to buy presents for their kids for the holidays. They cannot afford anything. Canadian women are far worse off under the fake feminist Prime Minister. He has now fired Canada's first female finance minister because she dared question him. That sounds pretty familiar. No strong woman exists in that caucus.

Why would any woman defend this man instead of calling for an election?

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

Mr. Speaker, on Friday, the Prime Minister told Canada's first female finance minister that she was fired, but to keep sweet and present their wildly overspent budget on Monday so that he and an unelected man, Mark “carbon tax” Carney would not have to take the blame for their broken budget. He then, unbothered, released a video of him making cinnamon buns to get the womenfolk's vote.

How can any woman in that caucus defend that man instead of calling for an election now?

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

Mr. Speaker, for weeks the Prime Minister has been repeating over and over again that a team Canada approach is about knowing the time to do the right thing, but he sure does not understand that point. Multiple cabinet ministers have resigned, including the finance minister on the day she was supposed to deliver the disastrous Liberal budget update. In her resignation letter, she said the government needed to issue “costly political gimmicks” and that the Liberals are focused on themselves and not working for Canadians, yet the Prime Minister refuses to call an election.

The weak and self-interested NDP and Liberal backbench are complicit in his decimation of our country, propping him up while he pulls Canadians from one disaster to another. How many more deaths in the streets will it take for them to admit that it is over? How many violent demonstrations, business closures, lost jobs, lost homes, encampments of refugees in Canada's suburbs and tariff wars with allies will it take?

One man's ego is not worth this cost. No single person matters more than our country. Team Canada wants the Prime Minister to take his own advice and do the right thing and call an election now. Let us bring it home.

[John Horgan, December 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion, given that Bill C-63, the so-called—

[Finance, December 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the fact remains that after months of reports that the Prime Minister wanted to turf Canada's first female finance minister, we find out today that he is in talks to put an unelected man riddled with conflict of interest into the role. The Globe and Mail story must have really stung for every single Liberal backbencher who has carried the water of the scandal-plagued Prime Minister for years. Why would they not be getting the job?

Does the Prime Minister really think that there is no one in the elected Liberal caucus who could be the finance minister? Is there anybody; is there no one?

[Finance, December 12th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, who has long described himself as a feminist, starting in July and through anonymous sources, has repeatedly maligned Canada's first female finance minister by undermining her competency. This week, reports have suggested that the finance minister has been at odds with the Prime Minister, who has been bullying her to blow past her already exorbitant $40-billion deficit.

There are now female cabinet ministers defending the Prime Minister's decision to bring in an unelected man to replace her job. Why is that?

[Government Priorities, December 9th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, to be very clear, the leader of the NDP has gotten up and railed against the Liberals for the GST measures, for being against workers, for every possible thing. The NDP has said the government is incompetent. New Democrats have said they cannot vote for it, yet every time there is a confidence motion, New Democrats stand up and do what? They vote for the government, so it is the business of this place.

How much is this costing Canadians? What has the administration promised the NDP to get its members to vote against their leader's own words?

[Government Priorities, December 9th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, every time there is a ruling about the government on this issue, there is an absolutely material question. The NDP members say one thing over and over again, and then come in and support the Liberals. What have the Liberals promised the NDP in favour of their support? After time and time again saying all of these things, they keep supporting the government.

What has the government promised the NDP to avoid a carbon tax election?