Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Madam Speaker, the member for Sherbrooke is correct. Witnesses at the Standing Committee on Finance said that the government will be playing the stock market with part of people's homes. We have no details on how this will work or how much it will cost. The president and CEO of

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Madam Speaker, one of the things we heard from stakeholders who presented at committee was that 200,000 Canadians will not see a job created because of these changes by 2021. We know that the residential construction market is one of the areas where a lot of people work. We can

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  I hear the parliamentary secretary saying they are. This tool is not the answer to it. When I questioned people at Mortgage Professionals Canada how long it would take the brokerages to get their IT systems ready to go, because they need IT systems to do their underwriting, se

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I do not want to start a Yiddish proverb battle on the floor of the House of Commons. I do appreciate the member because he is thoughtful and an adept chair of committees. He stickhandled the last committee he was assigned quite nicely. However, this is an issue

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, maybe to the chagrin of my Liberal colleagues across the way, this is not my farewell statement. They will have to put up with me a little longer. I listened to a lot of the statements made by retiring members and, again, I offer a heartfelt thanks for their service

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am usually the one rising on points of order about too much noise in this new interim chamber, which is beautiful but not very functional, as I like to remind members. I have been quoted in the Hill Times as having said that. To return to budget 2019, as I mention

Criminal Records Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague, the member for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, began his speech by talking about all the work done by the committee. Some of his comments are the same ones we often hear when undertaking studies in committee. The Conservative members proposed amendme

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for the speech he gave, which was kind of a summary of what is going on in his riding, as we are all expected to do on behalf of our constituents, asking what the budget has for our constituencies. I noticed that he failed to mention

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am glad the member brought up the government's Bill C-2, which was in fact the cut to the middle income bracket, not to the middle class. I have had this exchange with the member several times now, probably more than several times over the past few months and year

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, on the first-time homebuyer incentive, the shared equity mortgage program, I looked up Brampton and I could find only 98 listings that would qualify for this particular initiative, because it caps at $120,000, the maximum price of the home is $480,000, and it is 5% d

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, to continue with what the member for Surrey—Newton mentioned on the B-20 stress test, we know that people all across the country have been heavily impacted. None of the measures in the budget will help offset the impact of the B-20 stress test on young people and you

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. I agree that the government introduced this legislation at the last minute, not to mention the fact that the government slipped it into the omnibus budget bill. We will be debating this matter in the final weeks of this Parliamen

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, so far in this debate, several government caucus members have said how worried they are about fake news on social media. They could just listen to their member here spread misinformation all day long; it is pretty much the same thing. That so-called middle-class in

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be joining the debate at this late hour. It has given me the chance to listen to everything other members have said on the matter and their contributions.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I hear the member for Kingston and the Islands chirping away at me. I know he will not like the rest of what I have to say about the government's media bailout. He will not appreciate it, but he can always ask me questions afterward. This motion started with two for