Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, the federal government needs to send a clear message to victims of CERB fraud. In the House, the minister said that victims will not be held responsible for the fraud. We all agree on that. However, when victims call her department, they are being told to pay taxes on the fraudulent amounts and that they will eventually be reimbursed.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, it is really difficult to get answers to simple questions. The minister also needs to take action to prevent victims of CERB fraud from being deprived of assistance from her government because the fraudulent amounts are being added to the victims' actual income. Government assistance benefits are calculated based on people's income, particularly the Canada child benefit, the Canada workers benefit and the GST credit.

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague. She always has a positive attitude and a smile on her face. I would like her thoughts on this. At present, the Canada Elections Act prohibits the transmission of surveys or any form of advertising on polling day. Given that this bill proposes a three-day polling period, does my colleague agree with our interpretation that the Canada Elections Act will have to be amended to reflect that?

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I just want to remind our colleague that, even though the budget was positive, we voted against it. However, we will be supporting this Bill C‑30. We voted against the budget for two reasons. First, the health funding it contains is not enough. We want recurrent funding, and we want it to go up from 22% to 35%.

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, who is always passionate and eloquent. My colleague is right. The fact that the government does not want to improve the old age pension is causing a lot of frustration. Everyone agrees on that. We owe seniors so much more than this. We have seen a rather odd phenomenon playing out at our constituency offices over the past few weeks, ever since the budget was brought down.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, fraud victims should not have to pay the price for being defrauded, but that is exactly what the Minister of National Revenue is doing to victims of fraud involving the Canada emergency response benefit, or CERB. The minister is making them pay taxes on money they did not request or receive.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable. Why is the Minister of National Revenue unable to simply tell victims of fraud to hang onto their money until the investigation is complete? Why is it so hard for her to tell them not to pay taxes on income they did not receive and to wait for the outcome of the investigation?

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, first of all, it is very difficult to get someone on the line. Furthermore, this fraud is causing a second major problem that the Liberals do not seem to have seen coming. People will lose government assistance because fraud increases their annual income in the eyes of the federal government.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I have had some difficulty following today's debate at times. I am hearing statements about toxic masculinity that I absolutely disagree with coming from one side of the House, and I am utterly baffled by the level of patience and tolerance demonstrated by the Liberal women on the other side of the House who spoke today about the allegations of sexual misconduct.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very emotional speech. Earlier I was wondering: If this is what a self-styled feminist Prime Minister does, what would be happening if he were not a feminist? There is one aspect of these allegations of sexual misconduct that I think is very important and is not mentioned much, but I think it makes General Vance's case even worse.

Café Parenthèse  Mr. Speaker, during this National Mental Health Week it is important to remember that the vulnerable are being hit hard by the pandemic. We were therefore very pleased to welcome a new project in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, the Parenthèse café. The project seeks to provide an open, welcoming and safe community where people coping with with social disorganization or emotional stress can benefit from counselling services and feel less isolated.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, last year, Revenu Québec collected more money from tax havens thanks to information in the Panama papers than the Canada Revenue Agency collected in all of Canada. I have a suggestion for the minister. Rather than harassing victims of CERB fraud, as she is doing now, perhaps she could leave them alone until the investigations are complete and focus her energy on tax havens, instead of ruining the lives of honest people.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, the tax filing deadline has passed, and victims of CERB fraud are worried. They should not have to pay taxes on money that they did not apply for and did not receive. That seems obvious to me. However, the Canada Revenue Agency is telling people to pay now and that an investigation will be done.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, I guess that was an answer. This time, the minister needs to give the victims a straight answer. She could have extended the tax deadline to allow for an investigation. That is obvious, but she refused to do it. She could have been clear and told people to wait before paying taxes on fraudulent payments, but she refused to be clear with the victims.

Marcel Charest  Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a former vice-principal of Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes because I want to highlight the retirement of a pillar of this school, Marcel Charest. Marcel has been a full-time volunteer for two decades and has also held the honourable position of president of the Fondation de la Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes, which Antonio Lavigne and I founded in 1997.