Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to salute my colleague and fellow member of the all-party juvenile diabetes caucus. The vaccination rollout did not get off to a good start, but we do believe that the government will meet its goal of vaccinating the entire po

Port of Montreal Operations Act, 2021  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague. That was not so much a question as a comment. As he said, the right to strike is guaranteed by the courts and is a fundamental freedom that cannot be taken away except in cases of extreme necessity. In this case and in the cases the member ment

Port of Montreal Operations Act, 2021  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Saanich—Gulf Islands for her question. This morning, the member for Beloeil—Chambly proposed a solution that was so simple that I wonder why no one had thought of it before. The union's hands are tied. The government could simply reach out

Port of Montreal Operations Act, 2021  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. When negotiations get tough, the Prime Minister's Office should step in. We have a Prime Minister who did not act and could not pick up the phone. As for the member for Beloeil—Chambly, he did phone Mr. Murray and really listen

Port of Montreal Operations Act, 2021  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The government is eroding workers' rights by preventing them from exercising those rights. This is not the first time. I would like to point out that, in 2018, the government did the same thing to the postal workers' union. Wor

Port of Montreal Operations Act, 2021  Mr. Speaker, I wish to inform you that I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Joliette. I sit here and wonder what we are doing here tonight. Why exactly are we here, when the Prime Minister has had all day to do what needs to be done? Despite the late hour, the B

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his speech. In the previous Parliament, when the same party was in power, Canada Post employees went on strike. That strike, too, ended with special legislation. Would my colleague care to comment on that?

Proceedings on a Bill Entitled An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Operations at the Port of Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Louis-Saint-Laurent for his speech. Rather than talking about unionized workers, I will focus on employers. Is the member aware that, from the moment an employer learns of the government's intention to introduce legislation, they will no long

Proceedings on a Bill Entitled An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Operations at the Port of Montreal  Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for her speech, but I disagree with her claim that the government did everything it could. Certain sections of the Canada Labour Code would have allowed the government to intervene in special circumstances. For example, the government could have

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I listened closely to my colleague's speech, in which he talked about my favourite topic: the environment. Canada has the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the G20. On the one hand, the government allocates $17.6 billion in the budget to the green recov

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. My question is about the budget more generally. The government wants to impose standards in long-term care facilities and seniors' homes, but it seems to me that, before it can impose standards, the government should be setting a

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Niagara Falls for his speech. He talked a lot about the pandemic. Yesterday, the Conservative Party members refused to vote in favour of the amendment to the amendment moved by the Bloc Québécois to increase health transfers. By so doing, the

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois has spoken a lot about how health and seniors have been left out of the budget, and rightly so. However, there is another more inconspicuous victim, and that is the fight against climate change. In the budget, the federal government announced $17.

The Environment  Well, Mr. Speaker, I would not be so quick to criticize if I were a government member because Canada keeps missing its greenhouse gas reduction targets. It invests money to combat climate change and then it invests heavily in fossil fuels. It was the same under Stephen Harper. T

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I see that the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie has become the environment minister. This morning, the commissioner of the environment released a report that illustrates this phenomenon. In 2015, Canada joined the UN plan for sustainable development, but six years la