Taxation   tax and excess profits tax. In this pandemic, billionaires have gotten $37 billion in new wealth and banks have gotten $750 billion in liquidity supports. Why is it with the Liberals that banks and billionaires always come before Canadians? Why is the message to regular Canadians

Canada Pharmacare Act   saw $750 billion going to banks in a heartbeat. Now is the time to provide the same level of support to regular Canadians. We can do that through universal pharmacare.

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, the member for Hamilton Centre is one of a number of key members of Parliament who have been standing up for regular Canadians throughout the course of this pandemic, and he has been doing a very strong, eloquent job standing up for regular people. They cannot

Business of Supply   companies, got a handout from the Liberal government for $50 million last year. The government has to stop rewarding banks and people like the Westons and Loblaws and start looking after regular Canadians.

Canadian Heritage committee   measures in support of journalism under the Canada periodical fund, $25 million for independent broadcasters investing in news and community broadcasts, and $52.1 million to arts and culture organizations that were not previously eligible for funding from regular Canadian Heritage

COVID-19 Emergency Response   required to quarantine for 14 days. What followed was buck-passing from public safety to health, only to learn, too late to help Darren, that appeals are to be made to PHAC. To the Minister of Public Safety, how is it that U.S. billionaire executives clear the border, while regular

Finance committee   for us to go forward, when we know that all of these documents are already public. Regular Canadians are going to say, “This doesn't feel like openness and transparency to me.” Again, as I say, it's going to take weeks. Can you imagine how long this is going to take? The clerks

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   Canadians can make a positive change in their environment every single day. Creating new parks and expanding our urban forest will have concrete and tangible effects on the livability of our cities, but there is still much more that we can do to make them work for regular Canadians

Health   to start standing with regular Canadians. They are the ones who are making the sacrifice. The only sacrifice the Prime Minister has made is Bill Morneau. He is costing Canadians their lives and their jobs. When is he going to get his act together, and when are Canadians going to see

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   of the throne speech. They are not, as the Prime Minister likes to say, all there. In fact, they have seen many times that “all in it together” for the current government means the friends and family of the Liberal Party first and regular Canadians second; connected lobbyists for big

Proceedings on the bill entitled An Act relating to certain measures in response to COVID-19  , many families across the country impacted by its decisions over the last few weeks. The Prime Minister wanted to avoid the controversy of the many scandals that we have seen erupt around COVID funding, but the government did not think about the impact on regular Canadian families

Government Business No. 8   jobs, and we cannot borrow our way to prosperity. True success comes from investing in people, but the only people the Liberals are interested in investing in are the wealthy elites. While regular Canadians continue to struggle, the Prime Minister is passing buckets of money around

Health committee   own mask by upper management.” Again, you need to understand that this was a regular Canadian sending me an email on January 29 asking me to beg that we take this more seriously. Who do I...? You tell us we have to trust the experts, but I'm concerned that the experts were giving

Health committee  With due respect, I think we need to face the fact that these delays in decisions, allowing people to wear masks or even recommending it, closing the borders, seriously impacted the health of Canadians and the spread of this coronavirus. Had we listened to the concerns regular

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Minister, one of the things there's been a lot of discussion on lately is the systematic racism within the system. Mi'kmaw people and indigenous people across Canada don't feel that they're getting the same treatment in the justice system as regular Canadians. We know