Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, that was a wild speech with a lot of hot air, to put it as politely as I can. Anyone who goes to the trouble of the putting the words “French”, “extreme right”, “Bloc Québécois” and “Pierre Karl Péladeau” in the same sentence deserves nothing short of my contempt.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the same federal government has outsourced core government responsibilities to that same McKinsey, which is the intellectual soul behind the Century Initiative. The basic idea is to put things off until long after our kids have retired and imagine how wonderful it wi

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure we talked about reducing that number. I will jump right to the logical conclusion. In my opinion, Canada will do whatever it wants. If Canada wants to divest itself of an entity that is already weakened by its proximity to a cultural giant that swallo

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, that is a completely different but extremely interesting question. The Bloc Québécois believes in generous immigration, which is not to be confused with opportunistic immigration. We are not here to provide cheap labour to businesses, but rather quality jobs to peop

Business of Supply  That, given that, (i) the Century Initiative aims to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100, (ii) the federal government’s new intake targets are consistent with the Century Initiative objectives, (iii) tripling Canada’s population has real impacts on the fu

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the idea of a larger and therefore cheaper workforce is a McKinsey specialty called “breaking workers”. This is the same McKinsey that made no mention of French or Quebec in their proposal. The so-called progressives in this House should be ashamed of this policy. I

Intergovernmental Relations  Mr. Speaker, we have a Prime Minister who is about to speak about himself in the third person, who says he consulted 3,000 organizations or people, but not Quebec, because those they intend to harm do not get consulted. What does he have to say to this growing number of people w

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, it is rarely a good idea to go after the diligence, independence or integrity of a media outlet. It is rarely very democratic, especially when the head of said outlet is Pierre Karl Péladeau. The next person I want to mention needs to be handled very carefully. Géra

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt that the folks at McKinsey are great at preparing answers. In Quebec, the CAQ, the PQ and the Liberals are against it, while Québec Solidaire is uneasy about it at best. In this Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is the only party that is against the t

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the Quebec government has taken a firm position against the federal government's plans to bring 500,000 immigrants into the country every year. There are challenges related to the cost for the health care system, the cost for the education system, the cost for child

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, Coalition Avenir Québec is opposed to the idea of 500,000 immigrants a year. Our own cousins in the Parti Québécois are obviously against it. Québec Solidaire, cousins to their NDP bedfellows, are very uncomfortable with the idea. The Liberals in Quebec City, the blo

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, I ask the Prime Minister a question and he replies by reading a Heritage Minute. Quebec would have to take in 110,000 more people per year, but it cannot afford to do that because of the cost of services. Of course, it cannot do it because of the need to integrate i

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, let us talk about interference. What interference are we talking about specifically? Are we talking about China's interference in Canada or McKinsey's interference in Canada? McKinsey is behind the proposal to increase Canada's population to 100 million by the end o

Democratic Institutions  Mr. Speaker, I find it irresponsible at best, and perhaps imprudent, for the Prime Minister to say he knew nothing and to systematically attack the quality, integrity and service of Canada's intelligence officers. Heaven knows that coming from a sovereignist, this is no trivial s

Democratic Institutions  Mr. Speaker, that is fine, but let me try to clarify something. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said that he has had no contact with the foundation for 10 years. Let us assume we are a naive bunch and say that is true. That is not what I was asking yesterday. It was a supplement