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Protection Against Extortion Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this bill. I also appreciate the member who brought this forward. I know there is concern in his community with respect to the rise in certain types of crime. If we look to the United States and the extensive use of mandator

April 17th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to the Green and Inclusive Community Buildings, or GICB, Program and the decision to not fund the Municipality of Red Lake, Ontario, with regard to (a), the Corporation of the Municipality of Red Lake submitted an application to the GICB’s second schedule

April 15th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to government funding for highway or road projects, a list of projects submitted under the investing in Canada infrastructure program, or ICIP, is available on the Infrastructure Canada, or INFC, website at: https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/icip-proj

April 10th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act  Madam Speaker, the topic that the member is dealing with is particularly important. One of the arguments that he is making is with respect to taking down this heinous material online. I agree with him. However, the bill does not make any provisions for it. Bill C-63, which is g

April 9th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to evictions data collected by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, since January 1, 2006, Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation, or CMHC, does not have a database containing this type of data. There is no authoritative source of this data acro

April 8th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker. with regard to the Housing Accelerator Fund, or HAF, and the decision to not fund the city of Windsor, Ontario, Ontario’s application, Budget 2022 announced $4 billion in funding until 2026-27 to launch the HAF. The target is to permit an additional 100,000 net new h

April 8th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to the Canada housing benefit, broken down by federal electoral district since the program's inception, CMHC and the Canada Revenue Agency undertook an extensive preliminary search in order to determine the amount of information that would fall within the

April 8th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the Province of Quebec has shown us how effective a price on pollution has been, which was in existence well before the federal price and well before we got elected. Some members of the Conservative Party were members of a British Columbia Conservative Party that bro

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, we are doing it. We are ending fossil fuel subsidies. We are engaging in serious plans on technology and on other issues. It is not just a price on pollution; it is a comprehensive plan. We are working on it, and we are happy to work with the NDP on this issue. We ha

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, again, the rebate is not mentioned, which covers the things he is talking about. Farmers are exempt. Farm diesel is exempt from the price on pollution. We can incentivize car companies, for example. The auto industry is one of the most innovative in the world when i

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I expect a little better from the member in the seriousness of this debate. I know he believes passionately about this. Speaking about farmers back home, just a couple of years ago we saw a 25% loss of vines in the grape industry in Niagara. We are seeing catastroph

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member heckled me that it is not a carbon tax. The way to fix it was to price pollution, to price the thing one did not want so one has less of it. This is cognitive dissonance. They cannot get it through their heads that this works. They can yell and try t

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is disappointing that we are again discussing this today, after we have discussed it time and time again, but I think it was telling for the member for Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek when the member for Milton said, which is quite reasonable, that we need to have a pla

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, she is heckling me now because she is quite upset that I am calling her out. She thinks she can heckle and not be called out on it, but clearly, it is climate denial. She is trying to shout me down at the moment.

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member yelled what I said she said. You can check Hansard and go back to the tapes. I am happy to come back if it was not what the member said. It was loud and clear, and it was caught by Hansard. I suggest you go back to check because it was very clear. To all

March 19th, 2024House debate

Chris BittleLiberal