Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my colleague from Jonquière. We have heard a lot today about the financial situation of seniors. I would have liked to have all day to talk about all of the calls my office gets from constituents. Although our riding offices are closed

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the answer is yes. They received a one-time payment of $500. That was short-term relief. What else can they expect? A simple calculation shows us that they ended up with just a few bucks. It is not for nothing that we are asking for an increase of $110 a month. It

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am not going to get into statistics because I gave enough of them in my speech. However, I do want to point out that the amount given to these seniors, who opened doors for us and to whom we are indebted, is equivalent to 1%. If we take into account all of the mo

Business of Supply  Let us look at the facts, Mr. Speaker. People are being told that, if they do not have enough money, there are other resources available to them, such as food banks and community services and support. Come on. It is shameful how these people are being treated when they do not ha

Health  Mr. Speaker, here is another example of the government's mismanagement of the hotel quarantine process. The rules apply to travellers arriving by plane, but not to those arriving by land. The upshot is that people are flying to Burlington and then taking a bus across the border

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, we are trying to do whatever we can to save our businesses and reduce this unprecedented debt. I have a question for my hon. colleague. My question is about the Conservative Party's solutions and promises around economies of scale. The member's own leader said it

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague two questions about the benefits of the Canada emergency wage subsidy. First, how can my colleague boast that the improvements were proposed by the Conservative Party, when they were actually proposed by the Bloc Québécois at the Sta

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be brief. Earlier I asked my colleague opposite about the wage subsidies for struggling organizations and businesses. All of the political parties, with the exception of the Bloc Québécois, received wage subsidies. My colleague opposite said that they would p

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform you that I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Salaberry—Suroît. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment, on this national day of remembrance for the victims of COVID-19, to express my sympathy to everyone who lost a loved o

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his question. As I just said, we need to collaborate. To do that, we must do the work and know what is going on so that we can make proposals and adjustments. Right now, we are not ready for an economic recovery. I did not tal

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my esteemed colleague for her comment. She just raised another reason many people want to improve the well-being of the community. I daresay that we all want that. We must work to improve lives. To improve lives, we need to plan. To plan, we ne

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I think that members know exactly what the Bloc Québécois's stance on this is. To manage a pandemic, we must make use of each province's strengths. This is what we have been asking for and will continue to ask for. We need a permanent 35% health transfer. The govern

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I am concerned. I have experience working with community organizations that focus on delinquency prevention. My concern is this: What ever happened to a change that would target basic prevention needs to avoid minimum sentencing? I would like to hear my colleag

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, let us talk about our job as legislators. I encourage all of my colleagues on both sides to talk to outreach workers and organizations. Pierre Laporte is an outreach worker for L'Écluse des Laurentides who is helping us understand the consequences of the crimes that

Dr. Pierre Lapointe  Mr. Speaker, today I want to pay tribute to Dr. Pierre Lapointe from Val-David, in the wonderful Pays-d'en-Haut RCM. Dr. Lapointe has been a rural physician for nearly 40 years, playing an invaluable role in the community. He started his career in Rivière-Rouge, before moving t