Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, what is most expensive in Quebec right now is housing and rent. That is what is needed right now. I listen to the Conservatives here in the House and I try to find solutions. I listen to what they are proposing. All they want is to punish cities. They say that cities

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right; that is unacceptable. The government seems totally clueless about this problem. As I have said, we need to build 1.1 million housing units in Quebec and 3.5 million in Canada. A GST break alone is not going to make a big difference.

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to know why Bill C-56 does not include an affordability criterion as part of the eligibility for the GST credit. Including it would have made things simple. The government could force private builders to make housing truly affordable. However, it was not inclu

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I was saying that we are at the end of the continuum of service for homelessness. As we saw, there are 10,000 homeless people in Quebec. That was a snapshot of the situation in October 2022, and every organization told me that it was likely just the tip of the iceber

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech, particularly the part about Bill C-56 that he handled so well. He spoke intelligently, very eloquently and passionately, as always. I am a little uncertain about how to approach today's debate. Over the past few years, I have tal

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I am curious. At the end of her speech, my colleague said that we need 3.5 million housing units by 2030. It is almost 2024. That is a lot to accomplish in just six years. I listened to my colleague, but I am not sure that we are going to meet that goal by provid

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, with regard to housing, we approved the housing accelerator fund as part of budget 2022. It is a $4-billion program to help the municipalities. It is strange because this program is called the housing accelerator fund, but not a single penny has been spent in Quebec

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague from Winnipeg North. Let us drop the debate on the relevance of today's motion. I think we have talked about it enough since this morning. However, the answers have not been clear. Essentially, Canada is a small player on the international

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, no one is disputing the fact that Canada should be more vocal in denouncing what is happening right now in Nagorno‑Karabakh, but I keep coming back to the same question. I have to wonder about the relevance of proposing this debate today, when we were supposed to be

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent speech. He explained the situation in a very clear, straightforward and informative way. I agree with him. I cannot get over the fact that we are discussing this motion this morning. We have been hearing the Conservatives com

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to repeat the question I asked this morning because I did not get an answer. I have been listening to the debate since this morning, and I am not sure what to make of it. We are dealing with a bit of a catch-all bill on ports and railway companies. However, t

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, since we are discussing railways, ports, and so on, I would like to bring up the fact that last year we learned that CN, the largest railway company in Canada, had no francophones on its board of directors, a flagrant contravention of the Official Languages Act. The

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I am trying to understand what we are doing here this morning. I am sincerely interested in having the government's agenda explained to me because I am having a hard time following. There is currently a global climate crisis and this summer there were forest fire

Inclusion of Students with Disabilities  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to speak to this issue. I would like to thank my colleague who moved the motion today. It feels a little like Groundhog Day with this motion. I was listening earlier to the speech by my colleague from Beauport—Limoilou, as well as the speeches fr

Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, this summer, I had the honour of being showcased in a Conservative ad campaign. I am happy to know that I was on TV across Canada. My agent will send them the bill. Given that I am a member of the Union des artistes, a bill will definitely be coming. The problem is