The Budget   meeting with businesses and not-for-profit organizations and attending all kinds of events. I had days with back-to-back meetings with people who reached out. Not one person said they were happy with the Liberals' budget. One resident said the budget is like throwing spaghetti

The Budget   homes. While building new homes is a longer-term solution to bringing down the cost of housing, there are other ways that budget 2024 would aim to help young Canadians buy and keep their first homes. The budget proposes to enhance the Canadian mortgage charter in several ways

Points of Order   from members of the place that the Speaker decides the day before so that there is order in the House and it is no longer controlled by party whips who have an agenda other than decorum.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   no longer house, educate or even feed. Yes, Quebec society is also about integration, because we have a duty to provide these people with all the necessary tools to welcome them properly. Will the minister finally announce an equitable distribution of asylum seekers among Quebec

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   will no longer be able to access education. Hong Kongers will be sent back to face an escalation of arbitrary detentions and arrests because of the draconian safeguarding national security bill. Will the minister resume the six-month priority processing average for Hong Kongers

Homelessness  Mr. Speaker, the homelessness crisis in northern Ontario has become a social disaster. Municipalities, agencies and health care systems are stretched to the breaking point, yet the government is telling frontline agencies to get ready for massive cuts. The Reaching Home

The Budget  , they solved that problem with their budget: Jurisdictions no longer exist for the Liberal government. The solution was simple. They just made daddy's Constitution go poof. Being Prime Minister is not enough for the member for Papineau. He decided to become premier of all 10 provinces

The Budget   for our region. Our commitment to fairness for every generation is also seen in our fight against homelessness. I am sure I am not giving members any news when I say that it is not a level playing field for everyone here in Canada. That is why Reaching Home, Canada's homelessness

The Budget  . It is interesting to note that women’s participation in the workforce reached record levels after the system was implemented. However, even today, too few families have access to affordable child care. That is why we are building more spaces, as well as taking measures to ensure that even more

The Budget   approaches its responsibility to manage the nation's finances. No longer does the government think it is possible to pluck numbers out of thin air, put them in a spreadsheet and magically produce a budget that balances itself. Fifth graders could tell us that a deficit is not just

The Budget   then. Canada will not reach par growth with other developed countries until 2060. Why is that? It is because this government's out-of-control spending has created an economic black hole that we will not be able to dig out of for 36 years, according to others' words. Again, members need

Bill C-318 An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (adoptive and intended parents)

under subsection (3) may result in the period being longer than 104 weeks. Extension of period — special benefits (5) The period referred to in subsection (2) is extended so that benefits may be paid up to the applicable maximum number of weeks referred to in paragraph 12(3)(a.1

Finance  -wide early learning and child care system. While it allows parents to save thousands of dollars per year on child care, it has also allowed Canada to reach a record high for working-age women's labour force participation in our history. I am proud to say that we are in the process

Finance   remained on track and delivered a balanced budget in 2015, all while cutting taxes 180 times to their lowest levels in 50 years. Canada was looked to for leadership in the world. Canadians were in control of their lives. Cut to today, and we have lost our way in Canada. We no longer

National Defence   defence spending by $8.1 billion over the next five years and $73 billion over the next 20 years. This translates to 1.76% of GDP spent on defence by 2029-30, which is a significant step toward reaching our NATO commitment of 2%. We developed the policy based on extensive consultation