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House of Commons Hansard #42 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was c-12.
House of Commons Hansard #42 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was c-12.
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Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act Second reading of Bill C-12. The bill aims to strengthen Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system, addressing public safety concerns. It seeks to modernize immigration processes, enhance border security against drug and auto trafficking, and combat organized crime. While some provisions from its predecessor, Bill C-2, infringing on Canadians' individual freedoms and privacy were removed, opposition members still raise concerns about impacts on asylum seekers and refugees, and the government's soft-on-crime approaches. 42400 words, 5 hours in 2 segments: 1 2.
Keeping Children Safe Act Second reading of Bill C-223. The bill C-223 amends the Divorce Act to better protect children and victims of family violence. It aims to give children a voice in divorce proceedings, prevent forced "reunification therapy," and address domestic violence. While Liberals emphasize the bill's focus on children's well-being, the Bloc Québécois argues that parental alienation is a recognized concept that should not be dismissed. Conservatives raise concerns about equal parental rights and broader issues like the cost of living. 8600 words, 1 hour.
YouthOral Questions
The Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia
I do not think I even need to say it. I think everyone knows.
The member may go ahead.
Patty Hajdu Liberal Thunder Bay—Superior North, ON
Mr. Speaker, the speech yesterday from the Prime Minister really freaked the Conservatives out, because they heard the ambition in that speech. Not only did they hear it in that speech, but today, as the Prime Minister stood with the premier, investing in new nuclear to ensure the jobs of today and of the future, they know that the—
YouthOral Questions
Sandra Cobena Conservative Newmarket—Aurora, ON
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister told a roomful of students that they were going to have to make sacrifices, but after 10 long years of failed Liberal policies, they already have sacrificed their dream of owning a home and sacrificed their dream of starting a family, because they cannot afford it. They have watched food prices skyrocket, and housing starts in Toronto are at a 30-year low. Canada has everything it needs to thrive, but it is failing because of the Liberals' policies.
Will the Liberals stop breaking their promises and get their spending under control so young Canadians can finally afford to dream?
Patty Hajdu LiberalMinister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Mr. Speaker, the youth in my riding are dreaming, and not only that; they are working and are entering the workforce in extraordinary ways.
Let me talk about the young welder I met at Thunder Bay Hydraulics just a few weeks ago. She approached me the other day and said that because of the programs that the province and the federal government worked together on to ensure that she had work-integrated learning, she was now a welder with that company.
We are investing in jobs. We are investing in youth. Every time we look across the aisle, the Conservatives are voting against the interests of youth. It is very rich for them to talk about this.
Grant Jackson Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister told a roomful of students that they have to make sacrifices. Students and young people in this country have already sacrificed enough to the Liberals. They have sacrificed the dream of home ownership, they have paid the price at the pump and for the cost of food, and they have spent summers without jobs. Now the Liberals get up and say that their big achievement is three new apprenticeship Red Seals. They must be kidding me. Canadians have sacrificed enough over the last 10 years; they should not have to sacrifice more for Liberal failures.
Will the Liberals get their spending under control in the November 4 budget and restore the promise of hope for young Canadians?
Maninder Sidhu LiberalMinister of International Trade
Mr. Speaker, young Canadians vividly remember when the Conservative Leader of the Opposition stood up and voted against the removal of interest from Canada student loans that saves young Canadians thousands of dollars every year.
The new government will always stand up for young Canadians. Yesterday the Prime Minister announced that we will double non-U.S. exports by $300 billion. That means thousands of new opportunities for young Canadians to produce the goods that the world wants to buy.
Gabriel Hardy Conservative Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister told a room full of students that they would have to make sacrifices, but they have already been making sacrifices for the past 10 years. They are sacrificing the dream of owning a home. They are spending too much of their money on groceries. Many of them could not even find a job this summer.
My question is simple. Will the Liberals finally stop breaking their promises, get their spending under control and enable Canadians to put food on the table at a fair price and actually dream of buying a home someday?
Joël Lightbound LiberalMinister of Government Transformation
Mr. Speaker, while the Leader of the Opposition spends his time on YouTube peddling conspiracy theories, defaming the RCMP, attacking the justice system and saying his opponents should be jailed, I am 100% behind the Prime Minister, who will explain how we are going to build the strongest economy in the G7. We will do it by building major projects across the country, by making life more affordable, by cutting taxes for 22 million Canadians and by removing the GST on homes to make housing more affordable.
That is what those of us on this side of the House are doing. That is the difference between an opposition party with a narrow vision for the country and an ambitious and purposeful government.
Gabriel Hardy Conservative Montmorency—Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Speaker, it is not that we have a narrow vision for the country; we simply have a fair vision for our young people, who are no longer able to access affordable housing, who cannot find work and who are being hit hard by inflation and rising grocery costs. Those things put very real pressures on their physical and mental health and on their hopes for a bright future.
Just yesterday, in a sombre speech, the Prime Minister asked them to make sacrifices. When will the Liberal government stop crushing our young people under the weight of its mismanagement and allow them to have a better future?
Joël Lightbound LiberalMinister of Government Transformation
Mr. Speaker, our ambition on this side of the House is a serious one. We want to build the strongest economy in the G7 and unleash the power of the Canadian economy by building one Canadian economy, lowering taxes for 22 million Canadians, eliminating the GST on new homes for first-time buyers to make housing more affordable across the country and investing to build an unprecedented number of homes across the country.
That is our ambition for Canada. That is what we are going to achieve for young Canadians.
Patrick Bonin Bloc Repentigny, QC
Mr. Speaker, Ottawa just announced $2 billion to build a nuclear plant in Ontario. For years Quebec has been offering to sell them real clean electricity, but Ontario and Doug Ford refuse.
Today, the federal government announced that it will make Quebeckers pay for a nuclear power plant in Ontario that will enable it to compete with Quebec's truly clean energy. Quebeckers are losing three times over. We are losing in terms of the environment and trade, and we are losing our tax dollars.
Will the government reconsider?
Julie Dabrusin LiberalMinister of Environment and Climate Change
Mr. Speaker, I want to be very clear that we are building a country for the future, and we are doing so with clean energy. As someone from Ontario, I can say that nuclear energy has helped us move away from coal, which means we have clean air for our children.
It is very important to keep working to ensure we have clean electricity across the country. We already have the cleanest electricity, and we are going to keep doing the work.
Patrick Bonin Bloc Repentigny, QC
Mr. Speaker, the federal government is not content to force us to pay so that Ontario can compete with Hydro-Québec. It goes beyond that.
If Ontario develops its nuclear sector, it will generate more radioactive waste too. What might happen to that waste? Most likely, it will get stored at Chalk River, where it is stored now, on the shores of the main source of drinking water for millions of Quebeckers: the Ottawa River.
The federal government is making us pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put our drinking water at risk. Does the government seriously think we will put up with that?
Julie Dabrusin LiberalMinister of Environment and Climate Change
Mr. Speaker, we should be very proud that 84% of this country's electricity is clean from coast to coast to coast. Our work with provinces across the country continues and we intend to keep at it.
It will be very interesting to see how Quebec will work with Newfoundland on hydroelectricity. Nuclear energy and wind turbines are also very interesting. We are going to keep this work going. It is important for our future.
Aaron Gunn Conservative North Island—Powell River, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just told a room full of young Canadians that they are going to have to make sacrifices. After 10 years of the Liberal government, they have already had to sacrifice the dream of owning a home. They have already had to sacrifice their modest expectations of living in a safe community, and they have already had to sacrifice an economy where the cost of living is manageable and good-paying jobs are easy to find.
My question for the Prime Minister is, when he made these comments, what additional sacrifices for young Canadians did he have in mind?
Adam van Koeverden LiberalSecretary of State (Sport)
Mr. Speaker, what the leader of the Conservatives does not seem to get is that Canadians use hope, hard work and sacrifice every single day to build up our country and our communities. When the failed former MP from Carleton lost his seat, he did not have to make any sacrifices or be accountable. He did not even learn a lesson, clearly. When his constituents fired him, he should have maybe paused and reflected a little bit. Since he did not lose his home in taxpayer-funded non-market housing, I guess that is why he continued to deny it to millions of Canadians.
Maybe that failed and flailing Conservative leader should join some students in a class because it seems like, after 20 years in the House, he can learn a thing or two about hard work.
Aaron Gunn Conservative North Island—Powell River, BC
Mr. Speaker, I guess one of the things we also have to sacrifice are answers in question period.
After 10 years of Liberal government, we have had a cost of living crisis. We have had an addictions crisis that has left 50,000 Canadians, mainly young Canadians, dead from drug overdoses. Now we have a growing youth jobs crisis, with youth unemployment surging to 14.7%, the highest level in 15 years.
If young Canadians can barely afford to put a roof over their heads and food on their tables when they are working, how are they going to be able to afford it when they are out of a job?
Kody Blois LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, pardon us if we find it a bit rich that the Conservative Party is going to stand up and talk about youth, when its members consistently vote against the measures the government has introduced that actually matter to young Canadians in this country. They voted against budget measures that actually support young skilled trades workers. They voted against the Canada child benefit. They vote against national school food programs. They vote against programs that are ensuring dental programs and the Canada housing benefit.
We have a plan to build up this country. We have a plan to build major national projects. There is a bright and hopeful future for youth in this country, notwithstanding the fact that Conservatives do not want to join us in those measures to make it happen.
Jacob Mantle Conservative York—Durham, ON
Mr. Speaker, despite all of these programs, the Prime Minister still went to students yesterday and gave them a message: They must sacrifice more.
Well, the next generation has sacrificed enough. They have sacrificed the dream of home ownership. They have sacrificed the dream of starting a family. He might as well have said, let them eat cake.
If the next generation has sacrificed enough after 10 years, will the Prime Minister reverse course and get his spending under control so the next generation of young Canadians can afford to feed themselves and own a home?
Maninder Sidhu LiberalMinister of International Trade
Mr. Speaker, our new government is supporting young Canadians with the skills and opportunities they need to build their futures. This is why, when the Prime Minister announced on campus just yesterday that we will double Canada's non-U.S. exports over the next decade, it mattered. We are talking about two-thirds of our economy driven by international trade. It means millions of jobs and more careers in communities across Canada producing the goods the world wants to buy.
Jacob Mantle Conservative York—Durham, ON
Mr. Speaker, the only thing the government is doubling is the debt the next generation will have to pay. So-called generational investment is just generational debt and generational inequality. In fact, Habitat for Humanity now says 70% of Canadians say owning a home is impossible, and for those who rent, they saw a 5% increase year over year. This is the result of Liberal policies.
Will the Prime Minister sacrifice his policies rather than the future of the next generation?
Leslie Church LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Labour
Mr. Speaker, when we talk about making generational investments in our upcoming budget, it is because we believe, on this side of the House, youth and young people are the drivers of our future economic growth, and we have a responsible plan to ensure they have the skills and opportunities to succeed. We built on the work we are doing to support apprenticeships and Red Seal trades, co-ops and access to post-secondary education and training. Most importantly, we are creating thousands of new career-starting jobs, investing in major projects and making it more affordable for young people to buy a home.
Housing starts, construction investment and wages are up. This is part of our plan. We have more to do.
Frank Caputo Conservative Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola, BC
Mr. Speaker, the public safety minister’s job is to keep Canadians safe, yet just today we learned that 32,000 foreign nationals have warrants pending their deportation. This means they are lost. They are wanted. There are 32,000 people, and the minister does not know where they are. We have him on secret recording saying his gun confiscation will not work. We have crime absolutely skyrocketing, and now he has lost 32,000 foreign nationals.
The question is this: When will the Prime Minister fire the public safety minister for failing to keep Canadians safe?