Tracy Gray

[Finance, December 17th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, his Liberal MPs and Canadians, as he clings to power.

The former finance minister said, “To be effective, a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it.” It is clear that the fake feminist Prime Minister threw the former finance minister under the bus, just as he did with other women who previously stood up to him.

Will the fake feminist Prime Minister take responsibility for his economic vandalism and call a carbon tax election?

[Finance, December 17th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, of his Liberal MPs and of Canadians, as he clings to power.

Hours before she was set to release the fall economic statement, the finance minister quit, saying, “On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the Cabinet.” The fake feminist Prime Minister and conflict of interest, carbon tax Carney forced her to blow through the $40-billion guard rail with a massively irresponsible $62-billion deficit, making her take the blame.

Will the fake feminist Prime Minister take responsibility for his economic vandalism and call an—

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, in the intervention from the Liberal member, he talked about trade and he talked a lot about jobs. I wanted to ask him specifically about all of the forestry workers who have lost jobs in Canada, especially in British Columbia, where I am from. The government failed to negotiate a softwood lumber agreement as part of CUSMA. It also failed to negotiate a separate softwood lumber agreement over the last nine years of the government under three U.S. administrations.

I would like to ask the member why the government does not consider a softwood lumber agreement important with the United States, especially considering the thousands of jobs that have been lost in Canada.

[Petitions, December 16th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I am rising today to table a petition on behalf of residents from Kelowna—Lake Country and surrounding region. To summarize, the residents state that due to bureaucratic impediments to passport issuance and unavailable consular services to many Ukrainians, Ukrainians under CUAET cannot apply for their open work permit extension, as many temporary resident statuses are linked to passport validity. As Ukrainians cannot return to Ukraine due to the war, without a passport and without a valid work permit they become undocumented residents without a legal authorization to work or study in Canada.

The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to resolve the situation with work permit extensions for Ukrainians in Canada whose passports have expired or are expiring in 2025 or 2026 and allow displaced Ukrainians who came to Canada under CUAET to continue working in Canada legally for another three years regardless of their Ukrainian passport validity.

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

With regard to successful business applicants to the Employment and Social Development Canada Apprenticeship Service Program between June 1, 2022, and October 28, 2024: (a) how many successful applicants had a qualified first-year apprentice, broken down by the 39 Red Seal trades of the apprentice; (b) how many of the successful applicants had a qualified first-year apprentice (i) complete their apprenticeship and become a full-time employee with the applicant, (ii) complete their apprenticeship, (iii) start, but not complete, their apprenticeship, (iv) not start their apprenticeship; and (c) how many of the successful applicants had their grant refunded for failure to fulfill an apprenticeship agreement?

[Questions on the Order Paper, December 13th, 2024]

With regard to successful applicants to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's (ISED) Canada Digital Adoption Program between March 1, 2022, and October 25, 2024: (a) how many complaints were received by ISED staff against or by recipients or advisors of the Grow Your Business Online grant, and what was the nature of the complaints; (b) how many recipients of the Grow Your Business Online grant had their funding cancelled after their application was approved; (c) how many recipients of the Grow Your Business Online grant were required to refund the grant to ISED after their application was approved; (d) how many complaints were received by ISED staff against or by recipients or advisors of the Boost Your Business Technology grant, and what was the nature of the complaints; (e) how many recipients of the Boost Your Business Technology grant had their funding cancelled after their application was approved; and (f) how many recipients of the Boost Your Business Technology grant were required to refund the grant to ISED after their application was approved?

[Finance, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we have seen the fake feminist Prime Minister do this before, pushing strong women out of cabinet. The Prime Minister's hypocrisy is on display as he lectures about his being a proud feminist. The Globe and Mail reported on the Prime Minister's aggressive recruitment of conflict of interest, carbon tax Carney as tensions increased with the current finance minister.

Will the fake feminist Prime Minister park the hypocrisy and admit his inflationary spending is forcing the finance minister to break her $40-billion deficit promise?

[Finance, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the finance minister admitted that deficits cause inflation. She promised she would cap Canada's deficit at an already crazy $40 billion and would not go a penny over. Now the Prime Minister is pressuring her to spend even more, by pushing through her own guardrail and making her fall off a fiscal cliff.

Is the Prime Minister going to pressure the female finance minister to read conflict of interest, carbon tax Carney's fiscal update, and blame her for breaking the $40-billion deficit promise?

[Finance, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are set to crash through their so-called $40-billion deficit guardrail, which will add to Canada's already sky-high debt.

Incredibly, the fake feminist Prime Minister is going to blame this on the finance minister, setting up her firing in order to replace her with conflict of interest carbon tax Carney. The finance minister admitted that deficits cause inflation and promised she would cap the deficit at $40 billion and not go a penny over. Despite this, the Prime Minister came along and is forcing her into spending more.

The fake feminist Prime Minister has been working overtime behind the scenes to fire Canada's first female finance minister and bring in his guy, carbon tax Carney, conflict of interest Carney. This is an insult, especially when he stated just a few days ago that, “I am and always will be a proud feminist”.

Canadians deserve better than that, and the incompetent Prime Minister is forcing the finance minister into blowing through an already crazy $40-billion deficit.

[Questions Passed as Orders for Returns, December 11th, 2024]

With regard to Employment and Social Development Canada: (a) what are the details of travel expenses incurred by the government related to third-party management-consulting contractors since January 1, 2019, including the (i) dates, costs, and flight details of all flights expensed by third-party contractors, (ii) dates, costs, and locations of lodgings expensed by third-party contractors, (iii) dates, costs, and items charged as per diems expensed by third-party contractors; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a)(i) to (a)(iii) by (i) month, (ii) quarter, (iii) third-party contractor?