Housing  Every other day we are making announcements either to build new affordable housing units or repair existing units, or to introduce the Canada housing benefit in yet another province. We have no lessons to take on affordable housing and housing affordability from the Conservatives.

Human Resources committee  That's the choice we're offering parents, not sending cheques to millionaires, which is what the Harper Conservatives did when they were in office.

Human Resources committee  London is a major regional hub for a lot of transient folks who come from northern Ontario, as well as from Windsor. We're proud of the fact that we have worked with Mayor Ed Holder, a former Conservative member of Parliament, who is very supportive of the rapid housing initiative because he feels that this is a rapid housing solution to London's homelessness challenge. It will translate to roughly....

Human Resources committee  Parents are facing as high as $2,000 a month for child care. The Conservative vision does nothing to address that challenge of affordability, while doing nothing—

Human Resources committee  Quebec is a model but so are other like-minded OECD countries that have moved forward on this. Speaking of choice, it is the Conservative vision that removes choice from women. When you deny people access to affordable and high-quality child care, what happens is that mainly female parents are not able to access the workforce, so by providing affordable child care—

Families, Children and Social Development  We are committed to creating a national system of child care that is affordable and is high quality for all parents. This time, I hope the NDP does not join the Conservatives and derail something we should have done a long time ago.

Human Resources committee  The Liberal government at the time was trying to put in an affordable national program, and it was the Conservatives who were joined by the NDP and they killed that.

Child Care  We have created over 40,000 spaces since 2015, we are on track to invest an additional $7.5 billion, and I want to remind the hon. member that the last time a Liberal government tried to set up a national, fully funded child care system, it was the NDP that joined the Conservative Party to sink it.

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, I know the Harper Conservatives have difficulties with independent government agencies, but it was the Canada Mortgage and Housing Agency, CMHC, that was chosen as the appropriate partner for the federal government to implement CECRA.

COVID-19 Pandemic committee  Madam Chair, it is really unfortunate for the Conservative Party to dump on our amazing world-class civil servants. They are doing an amazing job. They have processed benefits for Canadians in amazing time. They have redeployed and done heroic work to get benefits to Canadians.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the unfairness the member opposite speaks of is what Conservatives put Canadians through in their version of the immigration system. They left a broken system. Spouses were kept apart for years under the Conservative Party. The Conservatives want to talk about the parents and grandparents program, but they deleted that program for two years.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  We have eliminated the backlog and we have reduced the wait times to under two years. So they do not forget, this is exactly what the Conservatives said about this program, a party that now pretends to care about family reunification—

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, this is what the Conservative Party recently said about the parent and grandparent program. The party describes this program as a “burden” on the federal government in terms of support as well as a drain on provinces.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It will hurt the most vulnerable. I'm disappointed, but I'm not quite surprised. We have seen the track record of Conservatives, in all levels of government, targeting cuts precisely against community services that serve the most vulnerable in our society. The previous federal Conservatives, when they were in office, cut refugee health care, a practice that was deemed by the courts to be cruel and unusual treatment.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Speaker, the chaos that the member opposite refers to is the chaos that that party put parents and grandparents through. The Conservatives deleted the program for two years. They kept people waiting five to seven years. We are the ones who cleaned up their backlog of 167,000 cases, and we have quadrupled the number of spaces available to Canadians to sponsor their loved ones.