Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, no one can really explain this. No sane person in Quebec thinks that climate change is not real. We are living it. I am living it in my riding with coastal erosion. It is a scourge and we need to do more to fight it. One of the first things we can do is put a price

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member who just spoke. I dream of having that kind of presence and the skill to deliver that kind of speech. What I want to do is present the facts that were recently reported by Radio-Canada about the whole carbon tax issue. I think it is extremely rele

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, former environment minister Catherine McKenna, who worked to implement the carbon tax, spoke to the media yesterday. She said that the Liberal government had done a poor job of selling its own environmental and economic measure and that it was a shame the Conservati

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the Conservative motion today is very short, clear and concise. They are relying on numbers, and I imagine that the Conservative Party is very thorough and does not pull numbers out of a hat. They claim that 70% of Canadians oppose the 23% tax hike that will take eff

Impact Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, before I begin my speech, I want to offer my deepest condolences to the entire House of Commons staff and to the loved ones and family of the staff member we lost last week. I was going to say that I am pleased to debate Bill C‑375. I had planned a speech in good fa

Impact Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, this seems like a very useful bill. It gives precedence to measures that already exist in the provinces. For example, if we look at Quebec, its environmental measures are stricter, I believe. There is no reason for the federal government to conduct an environmental

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois’s position has not changed since the bill was introduced. Obviously, we are in favour of it, since it is consistent with initiatives aimed at strengthening the justice and police systems in their fight against all forms of violence, including repea

National Strategy on Flood and Drought Forecasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to rise today to talk about Bill C-317, because floods have always been part of our lives, but they are happening more and more frequently as a result of climate change. This is true in Quebec, it is true in the rest of Canada, and it is true pretty

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I know that my colleague is very familiar with this file. He said that criminal groups are using this money to fund other criminal activities, including terrorism. Earlier I was talking about human trafficking and illegal arms trafficking. He says that the Conservat

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I think we all agree that auto theft is a scourge and needs to be addressed. I would like my colleague to comment on the rhetoric, the reasoning behind today's Conservative motion. They claim that the explosion in auto theft is because of the Liberal government. The

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, what I can say is that some housecleaning is definitely in order at the Canada Border Services Agency. The Customs and Immigration Union has appeared before us a number of times and in a number of fora to underscore things that are happening that maybe should not

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, one of my Conservative colleagues was honest enough to tell me how he felt about this. These are tactics. The Bloc Québécois is an opposition party. As everyone knows, the Bloc Québécois will never come to power in Ottawa. We are here to represent the interests of

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, one thing I really like about the Conservative motion is that it says we need to provide the Canada Border Services Agency with the resources it needs to operate. Something in the earlier discussions caught my attention. Liberal Party members said the Conservatives

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am concerned, and I do not think I am the only one. Most of my colleagues and the people in our ridings are concerned to see the Conservatives proposing such simple solutions to problems that are always a bit more complex. We need to take the time to analyze the

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, that is an interesting question. If we had been able to study the subject at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, I think that my colleague from the NDP would have had a chance to tell me about that proposal. For months now, however, the