Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I wonder if my colleague realizes that he spent much of his speech talking about pharmacare and the fact that the Liberals have been promising universal pharmacare for nearly 25 years now. In his speech, the member asked Canadians and the House to wait a bit longer f

Financial Institutions  Mr. Speaker, that was not the question. The fact is that the banks and the Minister of Finance influenced the agency that is supposed to be monitoring them. Is anyone really surprised? This independent agency is actually funded by the banks themselves. Do we really think the ban

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his work on this issue and his expertise in the area of bankruptcy and insolvency. Very few changes are ever made to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, an important piece of legislation that is exclusively under federal jurisdiction and that

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I have no remorse about voting against the changes they proposed. These changes do not benefit the middle class. The Liberals' definition of middle class is people who earn $180,000 a year. Those people are the ones benefiting the most from the so-called middle-clas

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  No, Mr. Speaker. Unfortunately, it is nowhere near enough. My colleague himself admits that the government is taking half-measures and that it can do better. He knows that realistic and documented solutions exist, but that the government lacks the courage to implement them. That

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the short answer is yes, absolutely. The federal government quite simply ignored some very specific demands from the Government of Quebec. The member mentioned a few files. This clearly shows that the Prime Minister could care less about Quebec's requests, even thou

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to add my voice to the debate that just began on Bill C-97, another budget implementation bill from the Liberal government. I rise for the first time as the finance critic for the New Democratic Party. I thank my leader, the member for Burnab

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to ask my colleague a question, and I will not judge the quality of her speech. I wonder if she would care to comment on the fact that this is the government's last chance to implement its budget plan. This being the spring of 2019, this is probably the

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. It is important to point out that, today, we are debating what is likely to be this government's last budget implementation bill. This was the government's last chance, but it still proposed what is essentially a budget of half-m

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, a petition signed by the people of Sherbrooke and the surrounding area, calling for an independent public commission of inquiry into the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. The signatories are still worried about rail safet

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, a petition regarding the Government of Canada's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline at a cost of $4.5 billion. The signatories strongly oppose this purchase as well as the oil and gas subsidies that the Go

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Mr. Speaker, I was saying that there has been a form of unanimity on the bill, and that we must be careful with tax treaties on the whole. The bill was introduced and debated because we want to modernize tax conventions to prevent them from being abused, as the government itself

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to have these 11 minutes to speak to Bill C-82 and share my opinion on it as part of the debate and before it is eventually voted on at third reading in the House and sent to the other chamber. As we saw at report stage, this bill has the unanimous sup

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring the debate back to the issue before us today, tax treaties. Does my colleague have an opinion on concluding tax treaties with administrations where the tax rate is extremely low compared to the tax rate in Canada? These tax treaties can become

Claude LeBlanc  Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to pay tribute to Claude LeBlanc, a great man from Sherbrooke who passed away recently. He was taken from us far too soon. Mr. LeBlanc spent his whole life, right up to the very end, working to improve the quality of life of the people