Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for saying that he believes in climate change. We can no longer deny this phenomenon. Young people from across Canada have taken to the streets to demand that the federal government take much stronger action than what the Liberals are doing. How

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member opposite keeps repeating that there are new investments in budget 2019, but has he really read the budget 2019 announcements? There is no requirement for big companies to serve rural areas, which means that rural areas do not have high-speed Internet acces

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Sherbrooke for his very informative speech and for calling out Liberal members when they are being disingenuous about omnibus budget implementation bills. These days, in 2019, rural communities are extremely under-serviced. With all due res

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I do not see what the government has to brag about, given that we know 63% of rural regions do not have access to high-speed Internet. This has been a source of frustration for years. Internet service is becoming a must for farmers, students and all rural business

Suroît Beer Festival  Mr. Speaker, the association for people with intellectual disabilities in Suroît, known as APDIS, is hosting the 5th annual Festi-Bières festival, which will be held at Delpha-Sauvé park in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield from June 7 to 9. Festival-goers will be able to taste beers, cid

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, in my opinion, and that of many young people across Canada, the most important issue is the environmental crisis. The government recognized that there is a climate emergency. Today, a group of young people called ENvironnement JEUnesse is in Montreal to launch a la

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Longueuil—Saint-Hubert for defending this cause so passionately and articulately all these years. I would like to hear what he has to say about the impact on jobs in the regions. There is a lot of talk nowadays about information democracy.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have here a petition initiated by the Elizabeth Fry Society that calls on the Government of Canada to respect the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and recognize that some children are being excluded. These children are facing discrimination wit

Members Not Seeking Re-Election to the 43rd Parliament  Mr. Speaker, I was first elected on May 2, 2011, as part of the famous orange wave. It came as a shock, but it was also an honour and a privilege to represent the people of my riding and stand up for my values in this honourable House. I would like to thank the people of Beauhar

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague, who is also a young MP. Does he think the government is doing enough on the environment? The government boasts that it is going to meet its targets, yet all the reports released to date, including one from Environment and Climate

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I find it unfortunate that we are being imposed a 69th time allocation motion. This time, it is a 370-page budget implementation bill. If this is not a mammoth bill, I do not know what is. When the Liberals were on the opposition side, they condemned the actions of

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the Beauharnois company Terrassements MRD Inc. has been waiting for the results of the labour market impact assessment it requested since December 2018. The usual turnaround time is 102 days according to Service Canada, but it has taken 160 days in the case of Terras

Accessible Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question. Given that the bill includes standards that the government is not required to implement, it could take several years before anything is done. Does the member agree that we should add, as the NDP proposed, deadlines for i

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns.  With regard to the 12 benchmark tax measures specific to the fossil fuel sector identified by the Department of Finance: (a) has the department finished assessing the measures and, if not, why did the department not respect the December 2018 deadline established in its action pla

The Environment  Madam Speaker, with their weak targets and their sector-by-sector regulatory approach, the Conservatives never met Canada's greenhouse gas reduction targets. They withdrew Canada from the Kyoto protocol, and they never regulated the oil and gas sector, Canada's dirtiest sector.