Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals acknowledge that French in Quebec is under threat; it is even in Bill C‑13. That is nice, but they have not changed a single thing in the federal strategy for promoting English in Quebec. Despite their lofty words, their action plan for official languages 2023-2028 is basically crumbs for French in Quebec and $700 million for English.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his very inspiring speech. I asked a question earlier for which I did not receive a satisfactory response from another NDP friend. Housing is a top priority in this country. The financialization of housing is a growing phenomenon, where large financial conglomerates are buying more and more rental housing in Canada.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. My question was for the NDP member who spoke before him, since she talked a lot about housing, but I think my colleague should be able to answer. As I said earlier, we have an acute housing crisis in Canada. One of the issues we do not hear that much about in the House is the financialization of housing, which is something really important.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it needs to be said: We always get the impression that the NDP is in the wrong Parliament. There is a party in Quebec called Québec Solidaire that is proposing this type of measure. It is working out quite well because when we talk about dental care, that is part of Quebec's responsibility for health care.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, is it not against the rules to accuse another member of spreading misinformation in the House? My speech was completely accurate. My colleague is talking about women who are victims of domestic violence. Every day in Quebec during the pandemic, women who are victims of domestic violence were being turned away from shelters because there were no resources available.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, encouraging Quebeckers to have more babies is a trap. They will not have more babies. Let us be honest, people in the west are not having babies. One way or another, we need to encourage francophone immigration to address the language crisis throughout Canada and Quebec.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, unlike Émile Zola who, a hundred years ago, wrote an open letter accusing all the intellectual and government elites of his time of racism, I will turn the camera around and accuse myself. I accuse myself and admit that I am guilty of being naive when it comes to political and public life.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I have a fairly simple question for my colleague. Throughout my time in the House, so over the past three or four years, I have been hearing the government voice its concern about the French issue and say that it is very important to protect minority languages in Quebec and Canada.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, there is something quite interesting in Bill C-47 that has passed under the radar because it is hidden in a pile of measures. In division 31 of the bill, which is in part 4 and on page 325, the government introduces a measure that has absolutely nothing to do with the budget.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, in 2019, when the Liberals got elected, there was one key promise that was very prominent in the election campaign, particularly in Quebec. It was repeated everywhere. They were going to plant two billion trees. Here we are, four years later. After four years, 800 million trees should have been planted, considering that they were talking about two billion over 10 years.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, since we began debating the budget bill, I have asked government members many questions about the housing crisis. There is absolutely nothing in the budget to address the housing crisis. They themselves admit it and say that they invested in housing last year. Yes, but there is still a crisis this year.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I have been touring Quebec recently, travelling all over the place to talk about the housing crisis, because I think it is a very serious issue. I have heard from a lot of people. In Joliette, for example, an adult living with an intellectual disability found himself on the street, homeless, in other words, and he ended up committing suicide.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, my colleague talked a little bit about housing, and I thank him for that, because it is a pretty important topic. Unfortunately, when we listen to the Conservatives, it is not really clear what their solutions are and what they are going to do about it. The Liberals are terrible, and they are getting nowhere.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. She spoke a lot about climate change. It is true that the government is making a lot of direct and indirect investments in the budget to help oil companies greenwash their record. The government is giving them money for carbon capture, a technology that is very controversial in the field.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, as usual, my colleague's delight over his government's budget is patently obvious. However, on one topic he was silent, and I know why. Of the budget's 250 pages, only one page addresses the housing crisis. That in itself is completely unacceptable. In the week after the budget was tabled, the National Housing Council, the body created by the federal government to oversee its grand national housing strategy, brought up a very interesting point.