Proceedings of the House and Committees  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her speech and say that we share her concerns about seniors, especially those living in long-term care homes. This situation has been dragging on for years, along with underfunding, worker shortages and gruelling working condition

Proceedings of the House and Committees  Madam Speaker, the Conservative Party is the official opposition here in the House, and, to be perfectly honest, I have had just about enough of its childishness and obstruction when people are dying out there and others are risking their lives to care for the sick, including eld

Proceedings of the House and Committees  Mr. Speaker, you almost moved me into the riding of the Bloc Québécois leader. I am not the member for Beloeil—Chambly, I still represent the riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie. I have a question for the government leader in the House. Our parliamentary system is based on minis

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I have a specific question for her. If a business wants to receive the emergency wage subsidy, it will have to prove a drop in revenue. Community groups, non-profit organizations and food banks may have a hard time proving a drop

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. I was wondering whether what he was really asking was that I turn down the volume during question period from now on. Individually and collectively, we need to learn from this crisis in order to make better decisions for what ha

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent suggestion. Sometimes there is a completely indecent accrual of profit and capital, while there are people living in poverty who do not have the bare minimum they need to survive. It is a give and take. If the government helps banks to prevent

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, that statement carries a lot of historic weight. I hope that we will have the wisdom to come to the same conclusion. Taking an exclusively neo-liberal approach erodes a society, a community.

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I believe my colleague spoke earlier about the difficulties being experienced by small and medium-sized businesses in his riding and across the country. What can the federal government do to help them pay their rent since about 70% of them will likely be unable to p

COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I would first like to emphasize the severity of the crisis that we are all experiencing. Neither we nor our parents have ever seen its like. The only comparable situation seems to be the Spanish flu, which hit just over a century ago. Tens of thousands of people are

COVID-19 Pandemic  Mr. Chair, I realize the government has good intentions and wants to do the right thing, but the criteria are unclear and a moving target. The information is contradictory. Would it not have been simpler to implement a universal measure and then get money back from people who di

COVID-19 Pandemic  Mr. Chair, can a group of artists or a group of musicians who get their income from performing at festivals or selling recordings, for example, but whose members are not officially wage earners, apply for the 75% wage subsidy?

COVID-19 Pandemic  Mr. Chair, the government recently announced a bailout for the oil and gas sector. During the 2008 crisis, some of the bailout money was used to enhance CEO bonuses or to pay out dividends. Our concern is that the workers are the ones who need to benefit from the bailout in the c

COVID-19 Pandemic  Mr. Chair, I would like to start by taking a moment to thank my team in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie for their amazing work. I am certain that all of the MPs' teams are busy trying to help the public by providing services and answering questions. On behalf of all of them, I want to

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Minister of Finance's trip to Calgary to speak to members of the Economic Club of Canada on February 10, 2020: (a) who travelled with the minister, excluding security personnel and journalists, broken down by (i) name, (ii) title; (b) what was the total cost of

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to expenses on photographs or photography services by Canadian Heritage, or any other department, for visits of members of the British royal family from the month of November 2015 until now: (a) what is the total of these expenses; (b) what is the name of each supplie