Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I know that the member for Louis‑Saint‑Laurent likes facts. I will share some with him. Canada's population is 60th in the world in number of residents, but we rank 11th in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. We go from 60th to 11th place. If we think of it in term

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Edmonton Strathcona for her hard work standing up for workers in Alberta. I think that we need to be able to make this transition, which will create sustainable jobs in sustainable energy sectors. This means that people could go through

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question, for her long-standing concern for environmental issues and for her work on this file. I wanted to make an important point. Canada is a laughingstock right now. Successive Conservative and Liberal governments have not been abl

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for acknowledging my indignation over climate change. Everyone knows that we are pushing the Liberals to do more on a lot of files, including the climate crisis and the housing crisis, because they are not doing enough in either of those areas.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I understand that, today, the Conservatives are on a partisan mission to attack the Bloc Québécois. They can do what they want. It is their choice and their interest. I would simply like to point out that there are people like Rich Kruger, the president and CEO of

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, first, I will be sharing my time with the super, dynamic, experienced, highly knowledgeable and learned member for Timmins—James Bay. I am tired of constantly talking about the carbon tax. I have reached my limit. The Conservatives have circled back to this nonsen

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, historically, thanks to Jean Lesage and René Lévesque, Quebec has used its hydroelectric resources to produce green, clean energy. There is no oil production in Quebec, although the leader of the Bloc Québécois was once briefly tempted by a project on Anticosti Isl

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I cannot believe my Conservative colleague's speech. What planet is he on? We have only one planet, and we are destroying it with the kind of pro-oil and pro-pollution ideology he is advocating for today. The goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit global warming

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, for months now, large grocery chains have been ripping off consumers. People are paying crazy prices while the companies make record profits. Now, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is going on bended knee to the CEOs of those companies to ask if they

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question, but I find it strange that he is saying that we should be pleased that the bill does not preclude the construction of affordable housing. It would be incredibly ridiculous if the bill precluded the possibility of building soci

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague's analysis and how she sees things regarding the current emergency. We see the situation deteriorate every July 1. Homelessness is getting worse not only in Montreal, but throughout Quebec. I am convinced that my colleague is seeing this

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I rise in the House to express my sadness and shock over events unfolding on the international scene. For several days now, Azerbaijan has been waging a brutal military attack against the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which the people there call Artsakh. T

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, on July 6, 2013, a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, killing 47 people in one of the worst rail tragedies in our history. Philippe Falardeau made a documentary entitled Ceci n'est pas un accident or this is not an ac

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the housing crisis is the result of Liberal and Conservative budget cuts to social housing and co-operative housing programs. Now we are learning that the elimination of the GST on housing construction does not include a definition of affordable housing. It is absolu

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the IT sector’s staff vacancy rate in the government as of June 1, 2023, broken down by department: what is the amount of vacant information technology (IT, Treasury Board code 303) positions, for each of the classification (i) IT-01, (ii) IT-02, (iii) IT-03, (iv)