Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, the fall economic statement made announcements about social housing but did not really provide any money. I would like my colleague to tell us a little about the problems we can expect to see as we wait for the new funding to become available not this year, but do

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise at report stage to speak to Bill C-56. Some important amendments were made at the committee stage that were based on the good work of the NDP leader in his own private member's bill in respect of the Competition Bureau. Those amendments give t

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, of course, the best help that Canadians can get with affordability challenges is a well-paying job. We know there are 605 media workers who are going to be out of a job because Metroland Media decided that it would shut down 70 print community papers. One of the

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, one of the principle things Bill C-56 would do is that it would remove the GST off purpose-built rentals. That is a policy that is very much designed to incent the building of more market-based rental units. One of the ways the government could incent the building

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Bay of Quinte for raising again today the issue of open banking. I think it is really important that Canadians own their own data. We see a problem in the financial sector where financial institutions put up barriers to Canadians' being able

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, it is certainly a concern for folks in my riding as they have watched bank branches close and access to financial services get more difficult for those who care to do it in person. There are still a lot of people in Canada who want to have a d

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I would gently remind the member that we are actually debating my motion of concurrence today. I was very glad that they brought the issue forward at the finance committee with my support. I think that shows that it really is an act of true collaboration. As for con

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, one of the important issues at play in changes to the Competition Act, for example, if we look at the private member's bill of the NDP leader, the member for Burnaby South, is the question of killer acquisitions, which is when companies buy up smaller competitors bef

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I do support open banking. I think that is really important. For folks watching at home who may not be familiar with the term, open banking just means that one should own one's financial data. When one is banking with an institution, it should not be able to say tha

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. I think that one very important point raised by this acquisition relates to the environment. Clearly, RBC's strategy is based on endlessly increasing its investments in industries that produce greenhouse gases. I think that is

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, of course most companies in an oligopoly are sound and secure. That is kind of the point, is it not? They have the market power to ensure that their own business is sound and secure. The problem is they are doing that on the backs of Canadian consumers. We want to

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I move that the 12th report of the Standing Committee on Finance, presented on Wednesday, November 1, be concurred in. I am very pleased to have occasion to bring this important matter to the floor of the House of Commons, because there is an important decision pend

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I too was disappointed that, in the whole speech, we did not hear reference to the bill that the motion we are debating today actually talks about. I was also frustrated on the opening day of debate on anti-scab legislation, when the Conservative opening speeches did

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to the debate today. I have heard a lot of Conservatives talk about trying to hold the upper chamber to account, but of course they cannot, by design. Because senators are appointed by the prime minister, they never face the electorate and they

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, it has been a theme of this debate on anti-scab legislation that the Conservatives have tried to change the topic and talk about something else. They have talked a lot about temporary foreign workers in the context of this debate. I wonder if my colleague from Vanco