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Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I am neither a Quebecker nor a francophone, but I really want to assure my colleague opposite that our government believes French across the country is very important. We understand that French is in decline in Quebec and across the country, and that is why our government supports francophones in Quebec and across the country.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Grocery Industry  Mr. Speaker, like a few other members of the House, we understand that we need to invest today to support Canadians. That is what we are doing. We also understand that to do so in a fiscally responsible way, we need to ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share. That is what we are doing.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Grocery Industry  Mr. Speaker, our government absolutely understands that now is the time to invest in Canada and Canadians, to invest in housing, to invest in affordability and to invest in economic growth. We know we have to do it in a fiscally responsible way, which is why we are asking those at the very top to pay a little bit more through an increase in the capital gains inclusion rate.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Finance  Mr. Speaker, I am really delighted to hear the Conservative House leader talk about the rights of Canadians and how important they are. I am a woman. I am a mother. The most fundamental right of every woman and girl in Canada is the right to control her own body. It is time for the Conservatives to stand up and clearly say whether they are going to defend a woman's right to choose, because what we are hearing from them is that they want to end it.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Housing  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that a member from Quebec is asking a question today. Obviously, I am not a Quebecker, but I admire Quebec feminists and women. Quebec women still understand the importance of the right to choose for every woman across Canada. Are the Conservative members from Quebec prepared to reaffirm the right of every woman in Canada?

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Housing  Mr. Speaker, I am so glad the opposition member is raising the issue of the rights of Canadians, the rights of Quebeckers. What is affecting every woman in Canada, Quebeckers and Canadians alike, is our right to control our own bodies. This week, a Conservative member of the House said she was against this.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by thanking the member from the Bloc Québécois who spoke a few minutes ago about the importance of women's rights in Canada. She was very eloquent and we support this. We understand and agree that French is in decline across Canada, in Quebec and in the other provinces.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Finance  Mr. Speaker, given that it is my first opportunity to speak in the House today, I want to speak about a very grave threat to Canadians. Last week, the Conservative leader said he is going to ignore our charter rights. This week, a Conservative MP stood up in the House and said he is opposed to a woman's right to choose.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Finance  Mr. Speaker, there was a lot of shouting, while I was speaking, from the other side of the House. That is because they are afraid that Canadians are starting to understand the Conservatives' real plan. Canadians have seen that they hang out with white supremacists and do not disavow them.

May 9th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered, but I will tell members what has not been answered that deeply concerns Canadians. It is that over the past few weeks we have seen the leader of the Conservative Party openly associate with white supremacists and refuse multiple opportunities to disavow their views.

May 7th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered, but I will tell members what the Conservatives really do not want to answer. They do not want to answer why their leader openly flirts with white supremacists and refuses several opportunities to disavow them. They do not want to answer why their leader openly talks about an à la carte charter of rights.

May 7th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Finance  Mr. Speaker, yet again, this is just basic disinformation from the Conservatives. What the Governor of the Bank of Canada said to the finance committee last week, speaking about our budget, was “I don't expect that it's going to have a significant macro impact relative to our previous [fiscal] forecast.”

May 7th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, our budget is about generational fairness and investing in young Canadians: investing in the housing, the affordability and the economic growth that they urgently need. Do members know what else young Canadians need, especially young Canadian women? It is control over their bodies.

May 7th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I noticed that the deputy leader of the Conservative Party did not clarify her own position on a woman's right to choose. Canadian women deserve to know. Canadians cannot trust any of the Conservatives to actually tell the truth, because the Governor of the Bank of Canada in fact said that our budget was helpful because we stuck to our fiscal guardrails.

May 7th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, the details of tax policy changes, including their projected fiscal impact by year, are published in the budgets and fall fiscal updates in which they were announced. These publications are available on the Department of Finance Canada website at www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/federal-budget.html and www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/fall-economic-statement.html.

May 6th, 2024House debate

Chrystia FreelandLiberal