Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, the answer is that the government did not even try to have talks with Quebec because it is not shopping for dental insurance, but majority insurance. The sole purpose of this cheque is to shore up its majority. In order for the NDP to support it, the government coul

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, if the government wanted to help families with young children cope with inflation, it could simply have increased the Canada child benefit. That would have been way too easy though, so it decided to write cheques to pay for dental care for kids 12 and under. Today,

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like things to be really complicated. If they wanted to help families, they could have increased supports to families, but no, that is too simple. If they wanted to help with dental care, they could have reached an agreement with Quebec and transferred m

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 2  This is another slap in the face of parliamentarism, Mr. Speaker. It is a two-handed slap, one hand being Liberal and the other New Democrat. Again, it seems as though we are in a bad movie. Bill C‑31 is ill-conceived. We should have worked on this bill because it was scribbled

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we finally learned that the lucrative Roxham Road contracts awarded to a Liberal donor were worth $28 million. I say “finally” because we have been asking about this for a year. The government has been dodging questions and denying access to information re

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, the government is withholding information about the Roxham Road contracts on the grounds of “national security”. What nonsense. In order to offer untendered contracts under the pretext of national security, the law states that there must be a disaster or a threat to

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, last week in Washington, the Deputy Prime Minister announced Canada's new foreign policy on energy to the world. What is Canada's new policy? Well, it is the same as the old one: sell more oil and gas. Sorry, planet, the Deputy Prime Minister announced that Canada w

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Natural Resources is answering my question, and that really says it all. The policy that the Deputy Prime Minister announced in Washington reveals that Canada was basically just looking for a pretext to sell even more oil and gas. It found one. So mu

Gravité Média  Mr. Speaker, last week, I had the opportunity to take part in Gravité Média's fifth anniversary celebration. Five years ago, Julie Voyer and her business associates founded Gravité Média and acquired five weekly newspapers in the Montérégie region, including our riding's local p

Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, we need to talk about employment insurance. The government's decision to scrap the temporary measures is a disaster for seasonal workers. At the very end of their season, Ottawa changed the rules of the game and increased the minimum number of hours from 420 to 700.

Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, she talked about the pilot project, which is fine for workers who qualify. The problem is that seasonal workers no longer qualify because the government changed the rules by removing the temporary measures. The federal government is essentially condemning

Quebec Election  Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers have just under six hours left to go and vote. I encourage everyone who has not yet done so to go and vote right away. I urge everyone to go, whether on foot, by bike or by car, whether alone or with friends, but do go and vote. Quebeckers must choose who

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, we have duly noted my colleague's comments and we reserve the right to reply or respond at a later date.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the CBC reports that the federal government is transforming Roxham Road into a permanent crossing and that this has already cost more than $500 million. The federal government has signed contracts up until at least 2027 for hotels, land and trailer leases, for goodne

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, let me explain who benefits from making Roxham Road permanent. It benefits the smugglers who traffic people. It benefits the criminals who see the families' desperation and figure there is money to be made. It benefits Liberal donors who get all kinds of contracts f