Pierre Poilievre

[Leader of the New Democratic Party, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Halifax longshoremen unionized workers have just put out a statement, “On Monday the NDP has the opportunity to reinforce that they will not bring in back to work legislation by supporting their own leader's words.” Below that are those words, in a copy of the common-sense Conservative motion quoting the NDP-Liberal leader as saying, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”.

Will the NDP-Liberals stand with unions and vote non-confidence in the costly government?

[Carbon Pricing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, he is talking down to first nations people again. They said they have done the research and they “want to dispel any notion that lower-income first nations are better off with the carbon tax rebate.” In rural and remote communities where first nations live, the tax drives up their food, their heat and their transportation bills so much that the Ontario Liberal leader, Bonnie Crombie, has said, “I promise you, I will tell him when he’s wrong. Like on the carbon tax”.

Why won't he listen to Bonnie Crombie and other Liberals and call a carbon tax election?

[Carbon Pricing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we will fix everything he broke, as my great finance critic said. Let us start with the carbon tax. The Indian Resource Council announced today, they will be presenting a resolution at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly to take the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister's carbon tax to court. They say, “We will not stand by while our communities are pushed further into poverty by the tax we never agreed to.” They want to dispel any notion that lower-income first nations are better off with the carbon tax rebate.

Why not listen to our courageous first nations people and have a carbon tax election?

[Government Priorities, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, Canadians want to fire that costly Prime Minister. His MPs want to fire that costly Prime Minister. The only one keeping him in power is the NDP leader, who, again, says, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.”

Now the Liberals are complaining that Canadians might choose me if there were an election. That is not the Liberals' choice. It is not my choice. It is not any of their choices. That is the decision of the Canadian people. Therefore, why does he not turn the decision over to the people who run this country, Canadians, in a carbon tax election?

[Government Priorities, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control, but he is clinging to power with the help of his NDP-Liberal leader coalition partner, who said, and I am quoting the NDP leader here, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” He bemoaned the fact that the Teamsters and the ILWU were forced back to work, violating their right to strike.

How can the Prime Minister cling to power with the help of someone who says he is too weak and too greedy to govern?

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, taxes, debt and inflation to pay off politicians in exchange for press releases and photo ops will not solve the problem. What it has done is double housing costs and made Toronto and Vancouver the most expensive housing markets in North America, worse than New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and many other places with more people and money and much less land.

Here is a choice. The Prime Minister is afraid of a carbon tax election. Why do we not have a different kind? Why do we not have a housing tax election? When he proposes to give money to politicians, I propose to put it in the pockets of homebuyers.

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gives tax dollars to big-city politicians, and then he gives tax dollars to CBC to interview those big-city politicians to say that they liked getting the money. Well, if giving more money to big-city politicians were to solve the problem, we would have the most affordable housing in the world, after revenues for cities has grown twice as fast as inflation and population combined for two decades in a row.

We do not need more money for bureaucracy and politicians. We need money in the pockets of homebuyers and home builders. Why do we not go to my common-sense plan to axe the sales tax, the GST, to bring down housing costs by $50,000?

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we do not complain to the CBC; we complain about the CBC. However, I digress.

The Prime Minister says that, if he gives more money to local bureaucracies, they will speed up homebuilding, so he gave a half billion dollars to Toronto City Hall. What happened after that? Homebuilding slowed down by 40%. He gave Vancouver City Hall $115 million, and housing construction slowed down by 15%. He gave $176 million to Ottawa City Hall, and construction is down by 22%. When will we learn that what we need in this country is to build homes, not bureaucracy?

[Housing, December 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control of the cost of housing, which has doubled since he became Prime Minister. Just this week, the OECD published a report showing that Toronto and Vancouver are now the two most expensive housing markets in all of North America. Vancouver's housing is significantly more expensive than that of Seattle, even though Vancouverites make half as much money. Toronto's housing is more expensive than that of New York, even though New Yorkers make 50% more.

Will the Prime Minister call a housing tax election so that we can bring it home?

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

Mr. Speaker, what is not responsible is allowing 80% of the chemicals used in fentanyl manufacturing to come in unregulated and legally. What is not responsible is decriminalizing crack, heroin and fentanyl, and then, after seeing that it leads to a massive increase in deaths, two weeks ago, he, the Bloc and the NDP all voted in favour of a committee report to decriminalize fentanyl right across the country.

At a time when Canadians are dying and our border could be closed, will the Prime Minister confirm that he has reversed himself and now opposes decriminalization of fentanyl?