Government Programs  Madam Speaker, the CRB is part of a comprehensive suite of emergency and recovery measures to support Canadian workers and businesses. Through the CRB, if opposition parties support Bill C-30, Canadians can have access to up to 50 weeks of benefits. They could also have access to

Employment Insurance  Madam Speaker, our government is very committed to supporting new mothers and parents who face unique challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. We launched the CERB and provided support to more than eight million Canadians, introduced a credit of 480 hours to increase access to mate

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, the CRB is part of a comprehensive set of emergency and recovery measures to support Canadian workers and businesses. Through the CRB, if opposition parties support Bill C-30, Canadians can have access to up to 50 weeks of benefits. Canadians can also have access to

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, the CRB is helping and has helped two million Canadians, and at present Canadians have access to 38 weeks under the CRB. If opposition parties do not support Bill C-30, Canadians will end their benefits in the weeks to come. We can reverse that. We can pass Bill C-30

Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Newmarket—Aurora for his advocacy for persons with disabilities. The enabling accessibility fund is an important program that empowers communities and businesses to become more accessible for persons with disabilities. That is wh

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, our emergency support and recovery measures are helping to buffer the most serious economic impacts and continue to help Canadians put food on the table. In order to continue supporting workers during this pandemic, we presented in budget 2021 a plan to extend the C

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Canada recovery benefit, Canadians have access to up to 50 weeks of benefits to help them in times such as the one the member opposite is describing. For the first 42 weeks of their benefit received, they can get $500 and for the last eight weeks, it is

Post-Secondary Education  Mr. Speaker, over 700,000 students had help through the Canada emergency student benefit last year and just last week, Statistics Canada released a report saying that our lower wage workers, women and racialized Canadians were all supported at rates higher than their counterparts

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, we delivered a $600 one-time payment during the pandemic to over 1.7 million Canadians who were eligible for federal disability support programs. This was an automatic payment. No one had to apply for this. They got it if they were eligible for the disability tax cre

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Châteauguay—Lacolle for her advocacy for people with disabilities. This week is indeed National AccessAbility Week. We have accomplished more than any other government for inclusion and accessibility. Budget 2020-21 builds on our

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I do not know where to begin. We have championed the fact that everyone should be able to access information and reading materials. That is why we developed the first-ever and have been implementing a long-term strategy for the production of alternate format materia

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, as I have said, we have done more to support Canadians with disabilities than any other government in the history of our country. We are working now on a very exciting disability inclusion action plan, which we laid out the parameters of in the fall economic statem

COVID-19 Emergency Response  Mr. Speaker, as we have delivered our emergency and recovery benefits to Canadians, we have absolutely reviewed them. We have made changes as we have course corrected as the pandemic threw different balls into our court. Eight million Canadians got access to the CERB; 700,000 s

COVID-19 Emergency Response  Mr. Speaker, we have taken a disability inclusive approach to our pandemic response since the beginning. We created a one-time payment that 1.7 million Canadians received. No one had to apply for this payment; it was based on eligibility for federal disability supports. Yes, ther

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, our government recognizes the importance of temporary foreign workers for our producers and our food processors. We are working tirelessly to ensure that temporary foreign workers can arrive safely in Canada, by supporting employers with additional costs incurred to