Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her speech, which I enjoyed. I have a very specific question for her. It is about something that comes up a lot in my riding. I heard her say something about a fairer and more equitable budget. In the economic update last Dec

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. He clearly indicated how the Liberal budget overestimates the impact of stimulus spending on the economy. That is what the Parliamentary Budget Officer thinks. He said that there is only $69 billion in economic stimulus. In my

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech, which I greatly appreciated. It reminded me of a headline I read yesterday in Le Devoir that said Ottawa sees the offshore oil industry as a net-zero partner. Reading that, I felt my eyebrows go up, because I often say in the Hou

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I think he would agree that it is hard to listen to the Liberals say that we would have ended up in a recession after the pandemic and that they needed to invest a hundred billion dollars. The Parliamentary Budget Officer believe

Health  Mr. Speaker, nearly one-third of travellers are being deemed exempt from the hotel quarantine requirement. Obviously, exceptions should be made for certain people, such as essential workers, but one-third of travellers seems like a lot of exceptions. The problem is that Health C

Health  Mr. Speaker, the tests that quarantined travellers are required to take are poorly managed as well. The Prime Minister contracted a private company called Switch Health to manage travellers' screening tests. It is the only company authorized by the Prime Minister to do these tes

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to speak today on the Bloc Québécois's opposition day. Opposition days are few and far between, and therefore it is important to choose a very specific topic to debate. Most of the time, we ask ourselves the following questions. What do electors wa

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. If we had had more than four hours over five months to debate and discuss this bill, maybe we would have been able to delve into the finer points. We could have made changes to what the government initially put forward, and th

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would like to explain why the Bloc Québécois does not support the amendment and why it is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure that an election is not called. Who has the power to decide to dissolve Parliament? Is it the government or the oppos

Support of Oil and Gas Sector  Madam Speaker, it is obviously always a pleasure to speak on behalf of the Bloc Québécois and my constituents in Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia. Honestly, I do not even know where to start after reading the terms of the motion. I am certainly not the first to do this, but I s

Official Languages  Madam Speaker, while legislation to protect the French language is being introduced in Quebec City, the decline of services in our language continues in Ottawa. We see this at the RCMP. Access to information requests take a very long time at the RCMP. It is far from a model of t

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I would like him to share his thoughts on the budget's green recovery funding, which is around $17 billion. That sounds like a heck of a lot of money, but it is actually exactly what the government will have spent on the Trans Mou

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. This budget makes it clear that the Liberals prefer flashy announcements about big things and national programs that seem really great, like child care, to investing in areas that really need support. We already have programs th

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy being here in the House to talk about various bills. I have to say it has been a while. I feel a bit rusty, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank the House of Commons staff who support us and make these hybrid sittings possible. When we ar

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his extremely relevant question. I have to say that I have seen some extremely brave people in my riding who decided to open a business in the midst of a pandemic, or just a few months before, and who managed to get through it, but that is n