COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, how much will the downgrade of Canada's credit rating add to our cost to service debt?

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, what about a further downgrade?

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General tabled only three reports. Typically in a session they would table seven or eight. When will the government fully fund the Auditor General so the Auditor General can do her job?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity’s title: how does the minister define and measure prosperity?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, since the program was launched: (a) how many loans have been approved; (b) how many loans have been funded; and (c) how many loan applications have been withdrawn after approval but before funding?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the instruction in the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity’s mandate letter to “ […] better incorporate quality of life measurements into government decision-making and budgeting”: (a) which quality of life indicators will the minister consider; (b) how will the indicators in (a) be measured; (c) without a definition of the middle class, as noted in the minister’s answer to question Q-89, dated December 6, 2019, how will the minister determine whether the indicators in (a) apply to Canadians in given income ranges; (d) how many of the indicators in (a) must a Canadian demonstrate to qualify as middle class; and (e) to what degree or intensity must a Canadian demonstrate the indicators in (d) to qualify as part of the middle class?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the instruction in the mandate letter of the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance to “ […] ensure that the Department of Finance has the analytical and advisory capabilities that it needs to support and measure the impact of an economic agenda focused on growing the middle class and those people working hard to join it”: (a) which income, expense and lifestyle choice factors will the minister consider in measuring the effect of measures to grow the middle class and those working to join it; (b) without a definition of the middle class, as noted in the minister’s answer to question Q-89, dated December 6, 2019, how will the minister determine whether measures to grow the middle class and those working to join it are affecting the target demographics; (c) how does the minister define “those people working hard to join [the middle class];” (d) how will the Department of Finance support measures to grow the demographic in (c); and (e) relative to what will the minister measure growth of the respective demographics in (b)?

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, in the last Parliament the government enjoyed the good fortune of a booming global economy, and they squandered it with wasteful spending, massive deficits and broken promises. The Liberals failed to deliver their public infrastructure program, and major private infrastructure projects such as pipelines were either cancelled or had to be nationalized.

Auditor General of Canada  Madam Speaker, the answers we have received to those two questions are ridiculous. In 2011, the Auditor General voluntarily participated in a deficit reduction action plan. He told the NDP committee chair he had enough money then to do his job, but now he is saying he does not.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, the present bill goes significantly beyond the immediate task of addressing the Quebec Superior Court's decision. A scheduled broader review of the bill was built in to Bill C-14. The five-year period was deliberate. At that time, the government thought that to be an appropriate length of time to study the implementation of Bill C-14.

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I did support Bill C-14 and voted for it in the last Parliament. I thought that it did strike the right balance and that it had a very limited application. However, I was troubled at the time about the reasonable foreseeability words, which I thought would likely be litigated, and indeed they were.

Emergency Debate  Madam Speaker, I have a very short question for the member. His government made no decision on this. It went until literally the very last moment before there was a withdrawal from the applicant. Would the member have favoured approval, yes or no?

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of the member's speech, he picked up at the end of the intervention I made regarding the previous Conservative government as the government that brought in the universal child care benefit. I even looked up a headline from the CBC at the time that said, Liberal apologizes for saying that people will take their child care money and spend it on beer and popcorn.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am sorry to have interrupted the answer that was coming, but I think it is important that we always make sure that no member misleads the House. It is customary to give members a chance to withdraw and clarify. The parliamentary secretary, in answer to a question, claimed it was the Liberals who created the universal child care benefit.

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, layoffs from the illegal blockades are rising every day while the government does nothing. Does the Prime Minister know how many jobs have already been lost and how many Canadians will now have to struggle to rejoin the middle class because the government's failure to uphold the rule of law?