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Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: the Leader of the Opposition gets up in a government-funded bed in a government-funded house. He enters a government-funded car, where he is driven by a government-funded driver, where he goes to a government-funded office with government-funded staff. I wonder, when he gets on his government-funded phone and talks to big tech giants from other countries about how they can destroy the CBC and other public broadcasting or when he talks about his Twitter account, what percentage is publicly funded, given that he has worked his entire life for the federal paycheque. What is it, 99.8% or 99.9%?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan: they are more worried about Twitter than actually helping Canadians. Nobody believes the Liberals are there to help Canadians. Believing that is as ridiculous as believing the NDP is still an opposition party. This costly coalition would rather virtue signal with its carbon scam, forcing more into food banks and making one in five Canadians go broke. The Liberal environment minister finally admitted that the carbon tax was a scam all along, and the PBO backed that up by proving Canadians pay more into this scam than they get back in carbon pricing rebates. Why does the costly coalition not do the right thing to help Canadians and finally scrap the scam?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: every day, we listen to conspiracies from the Conservatives, and I wonder how they square this when they are on 4chan and subreddits talking about these various conspiracy theories. The Conservative Party of Canada is more than 40% funded by government funding. I wonder, when its members talk to these companies that are from other countries trying to destroy our public broadcaster, do they talk about what percentage the Conservative Party of Canada should say is government-funded, as well as its federal leader?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Alain Therrien: the Prime Minister keeps repeating that he has had no ties to the Trudeau Foundation for the past 10 years. Today, however, everyone is talking about his Christmas trip to visit friends from the foundation, but that is not all. In 2016, his office directly contacted the foundation, regarding the much-talked-about donation from the Chinese regime. Next, he appointed the foundation's former CEO to look into interference in our elections. Then, he appointed another member of the foundation as the special rapporteur. Does he not consider this to be a lot of ties to the Trudeau Foundation for someone who is not supposed to have ties to the foundation?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Alain Therrien: it is clear that the Prime Minister still has close ties with the Trudeau Foundation. That is a big deal because it is also very clear that China wants to build ties with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation through its very generous donation. Why? What is China's objective? That is the $140,000 question. Will we get an answer? The rapporteur who is supposed to give us one by conducting an inquiry into Chinese interference is a member of the foundation and a personal friend of the Prime Minister. Do the Liberals understand why we will never stop calling for an independent public commission of inquiry?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice: we have learned that this Liberal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to outsource the work of public servants: $200 million to Deloitte, $100 million to PwC, $45 million to Accenture. The Liberals are unable to negotiate a fair agreement with the federal public service, but when it comes time to write cheques to their friends at large firms, they are more than able, and the sky is the limit. Why is it so hard for the Liberals to put the interests of workers over the interests of their rich and powerful friends?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Gord Johns: Canadians were shocked when news broke of the government's reckless outsourcing to McKinsey. This week, we learned it was just the tip of the iceberg. In the last year, the Liberals handed out more than $200 million to Deloitte, $100 million to PwC and $45 million to Accenture for contracts with a single department. The Liberals seem to have no problem giving massive public handouts to their rich friends while delaying a fair deal for public sector workers. Will the Liberals put an end to this unchecked outsourcing and instead invest in Canada's public service by coming up with a fair deal?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mrs. Stephanie Kusie: it takes a special type of incompetence to spend 50% more on the bureaucracy yet have the largest public service strike in 40 years. It takes a special type of incompetence to have not only passport delays but also delays in immigration processes and tax returns. It also takes a special type of incompetence to spend $22 billion on outside consultants and still end up in the same strike position. When will the Prime Minister apologize for his incompetence and end this strike?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Karina Gould: unlike the Conservatives opposite, we respect collective bargaining, we respect the right to strike and we understand that negotiations need to happen at the negotiating table. The government has been extraordinarily engaged to ensure we get a fair deal for Canadians, a fair deal for the workers and a fair deal for government. We are going to continue to negotiate in good faith and to ensure that we can continue to serve Canadians in such an effective way.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mrs. Stephanie Kusie: the minister is part of the problem. We have a Prime Minister who never shows up. He does not show up for work, and he certainly does not show up for Canadians. It is no wonder that both rents and mortgages have doubled. It is no wonder that one in five Canadians is skipping meals. It is no wonder that, right outside these doors, we have the largest public service strike in 40 years. When will the Prime Minister show up to work and fix what he broke?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Karina Gould: the members on this side show up to work every single day to work for Canadians. Let us talk about the public servants who showed up to work every single day throughout the pandemic to deliver CERB to eight and a half million Canadians. Let us talk about the public servants who worked overtime to make sure they could help Canadians access the services they needed. We respect collective bargaining. We respect the right to strike. We respect the fact that we are at the negotiating table having hard conversations. In the end, we are going to get a good deal for Canadians.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Ms. Leslyn Lewis: we are experiencing the largest public service union strike in over 40 years, even though the government has spent 50% more, $21 billion more, on bureaucracy. That is some special kind of incompetence, and still the public service is demoralized. The government has wasted $22 billion on Liberal-connected contracts and outside consulting firms. When will the Prime Minister get to work and fix the mess he created?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Karina Gould: it is important for us to compare and contrast with what the Conservatives did, because since 2006, they did not increase vote A funding for core services to any of the services we provided to Canadians. That means that, as the population of Canada has continued to grow, we actually have been spending, since we came into government in 2015, to deliver services for the population we have. Unlike the Conservatives, we know we need to deliver good services for Canadians. We have made those investments and we are seeing those investments delivered to Canadians. The Conservatives can talk about cuts and they can talk about austerity, but we are going to continue to invest in government and, most importantly, in Canadians.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Ms. Leslyn Lewis: Canadians need leadership and accountability from the Prime Minister . Canadians are paying for the lack of leadership by the Prime Minister. Maybe he does not care about passport lines because he has never had to wait in one. Maybe he does not care about broken airports because he flies on a private jet. Maybe he does not care about small businesses because he has never had to balance a budget. When will the Prime Minister get down out of his ivory tower and start serving Canadians?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: I am not sure what the member opposite is saying. Is she saying the Prime Minister should not have security or should not be flying in such a way that his security is protected? Of course, the Conservatives are playing games, as they usually do. They try to mis-characterize things that have to happen, to try to twist them for partisan advantage. However, what has happened is that Canada is now leading the world in terms of economic growth and job production. At a time when the world is going through the most difficult time humanity has faced since the Second World War, the only things the Conservatives have to offer are fear and despair.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. John Barlow: let me get this straight. The Prime Minister has increased the spending and the bureaucracy by 50%, and increased the cost of the public sector by more than $21 billion, yet the vital services Canadians rely on, whether immigration, passport or airport services, have never been this dysfunctional. In fact, we now have 150,000 public sector workers on strike, the largest job action in more than 40 years. Who can possibly be that incompetent? Only the Prime Minister can spend so much to achieve so little. Will the Prime Minister stand up, do his job and fix the government he has broken?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Pascale St-Onge: it is not really surprising today to hear the Conservatives attacking the investments we made in the public service, because who can forget the fact that, when they were in power, they slashed the public service like never before with austerity measures and unprecedented cuts. That is without counting the number of laws they tried to pass to limit the actions of unions and destroy unions in Canada. It is not really surprising today to hear them complaining about the public service strike.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. John Barlow: why is the Prime Minister not the one standing up and answering for his own failures? Why is the Prime Minister not standing up and doing his job? I will tell members why. He is not worried about lines at passport offices, because he has never had to stand in one. He is not worried about the chaos at the airports, because he has a private jet. He is not worried about skyrocketing food prices or Canadians scavenging from dumpsters to feed their families, because he does not have to pay for it. He is certainly not worried about struggling small businesses, because he has never had to balance a budget. When will the Prime Minister stand up, do his job and douse this dumpster fire he has created?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Sean Fraser: if my hon. colleague is asking what the Prime Minister is standing up for, he is standing up for the people who live in my community, like the low-income families who now receive more through the Canada child benefit than they did when the Conservatives were in power. He is standing up for workers' rights to collect their Canada pension plan, which the opposition leader has criticized as being too expensive to properly fund. He is standing up for workers who have been impacted by natural disasters on my coast and in Atlantic Canada to make sure they are supported by EI when they lose their job as a result of conditions beyond their control. Every day of the week, we are going to stand up for working families and communities like mine. I invite the Conservatives to join us one day.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Rene Villemure: the Prime Minister has told us that he has not had any ties to the Trudeau Foundation for ten years. Let us assume that is the case. However, one year after he became Prime Minister, China thought it was a good idea to make a $140,000 donation in honour of his father. We know that nothing is free in this world. What did China have to gain by making a donation to a foundation that hands out scholarships to Canadians? Did it want to help students or act out of altruism? Excuse me if I laugh. Could it be that it wanted to get close to Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son, who had just been elected Prime Minister?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Rene Villemure: it would be impossible for anyone looking at this situation not to wonder. We are in the midst of a crisis over Chinese interference. On one side, we have a Prime Minister who is still intimately associated with the Trudeau Foundation. On the other side, we have China, which has paid a lot of money to get as close as possible to the Trudeau Foundation. In the middle, we have an arbitrator, the special rapporteur chosen by the Prime Minister, who is a friend of the Prime Minister and a member of the foundation. One has to wonder. How can the government hope to restore trust without an independent public commission of inquiry?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Ms. Marie-Helene Gaudreau: Morris Rosenberg, the author of the independent report on foreign interference in the elections, wants an independent public inquiry. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, a former chief electoral officer of Canada, wants an inquiry. Gerald Butts, the former adviser to the Prime Minister, wants an inquiry. The House of Commons wants an inquiry. Canadians want an inquiry. Now, Michael Wernick, a former clerk of the Privy Council, also wants an inquiry. Actually, apart from the Liberals and the Chinese authorities, there are not a lot of people who do not want an inquiry. What are they waiting for?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Ms. Pam Damoff: foreign interference is an issue that we take seriously and it is not a partisan issue. That is why we appointed David Johnston, a non-partisan, experienced professional. It is unfortunate the members opposite laughed when I mentioned his name. He is a gentleman who has given his life to this country and will provide us with information that we will be acting on, including whether or not we hold a public inquiry.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mrs. Tracy Gray: Canada is now faced with the largest public sector strike in 40 years, despite the government spending $21 billion more on the bureaucracy. More Canadian jobs were created in 2021 by the government, yet service levels are down. It takes a special kind of incompetence to have more spending and less results. The Prime Minister is failing taxpayers, who deserve access to public services. When will he fix the government that he broke?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Randy Boissonnault: our government respects collective bargaining. Our government respects having a negotiated settlement at the negotiation table. Let me take this opportunity to talk about exactly what is in our budget that was prepared with, and by, public sector workers with our own government members. In my home city of Edmonton, Heidelberg Materials is going to create the world's first net-zero cement plant, with $1.36 billion worth of investment. Why? Because the tax credits are right in the budget. It will produce thousands of jobs, shows national leadership, and is an international first in Edmonton thanks to our government.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mrs. Tracy Gray: why does the Prime Minister not get up and answer questions? Because he does not care. Canadians are getting sick and tired of hearing about the Prime Minister 's free, lavish vacations while at the same time hearing about Canadians diving into dumpsters looking for food. They are getting sick and tired of waiting in lines for services. They are getting sick and tired of trying to balance their home budgets. It is a special kind of incompetence to be failing so badly. When will the Prime Minister get to work to fix the problems he created?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Francois-Philippe Champagne: I am very pleased to respond to my colleague. The kind of competence we have on this side of the House is that we listen to Canadians. That is exactly what we did in the last budget, something Conservatives do not like to talk about. What did they say? To help them with groceries. That is why we came out with the rebate on groceries, and 11 million Canadians will benefit from it. That is listening. The second thing they said was that they want a family doctor. That is why we invested in health care. The third thing they said was to build the economy of the future. That is why we got Ericsson to invest close to half a billion dollars here in Ottawa. That is how we build an economy.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mrs. Dominique Vien: the Prime Minister went on vacation with his family to Jamaica. That is not the issue. Where things go sideways is that he went to a villa that rents for up to $9,000 a night, a villa that belongs to his wealthy friends, who are also donors to the Trudeau Foundation. How can this Prime Minister be so out of touch? Why did he not follow the precautionary principle? Here is an opportunity for him to restore his already badly tarnished reputation. Can the Prime Minister tell the House that he used his own funds to pay for his and his family's accommodations?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Ms. Rachel Blaney: Canadian families are worried about accessing services during the PSAC strike. The union is ready to work with the departments to ensure that veterans can maintain that access, but the minister refuses to talk to them. In fact, the minister has not met with the union president for over two years. This is disrespectful and puts our public servants and veterans at risk. What is he scared of? Will the minister do his job by talking to the union or will he continue to ignore his responsibilities to both veterans and the union?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Matthew Green: while the government refuses to give public sector PSAC workers a fair deal, the Prime Minister enjoys complimentary luxury family vacations courtesy of his billionaire friends. Do not be fooled by the Conservatives. When the leader of the official opposition was in government, he always sided with big CEOs. At a time when families are struggling to put food on the table, the Prime Minister ignored red flags from inside his own office. Why does the Prime Minister keep showing bad judgment by cozying up to billionaires instead of fighting for everyday Canadians?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: again for the third day in a row, I am happy to talk about this if this is the members' priority. Yes, the Prime Minister went on vacation with his family over Christmas. This is a home that he had been at when he was one year old. It is a friend whom he has had for his entire life. It is a family friendship that has gone on forever. I do not know if the member opposite has stayed at a friend's before over Christmas or done something like that, but in any event I have answered this question. I would imagine that there are other more pressing things that Canadians are facing than spending three days asking about whether the Prime Minister took a family vacation over Christmas.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Marcus Powlowski: sadly my kids spend half their lives on the Internet. Even my two-year-old, Miguel, needs his daily dose of PAW Patrol or of his or my favourite, Peppa Pig . However, the Internet is not just for kids. I think all of us, in our daily lives, would have a hard time getting by without access to the Internet. I know our government has done a lot to help rural Canadians access the Internet. Can the Minister of Rural Economic Development please update this House on her recent broadband announcement and what this will mean to us in northern Ontario?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Gudie Hutchings: I want to thank my colleague for his advocacy on behalf of his constituents and for all rural and remote Canadians. Last month, we made, in partnership with the Government of Ontario, an announcement of $61 million. That is going to bring high-speed Internet service to over 16,000 homes throughout 47 rural communities and three first nations communities in northern Ontario. Therefore, Miguel can tell his friends who live in Hymers and Moose Hill and surrounding Thunder Bay areas that they are now going to have better access to essential services with more opportunity to grow their business and keep in touch with loved ones and their friends.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Michael Barrett: for eight years, the Liberals have repeatedly broken ethics laws: the Prime Minister caught breaking ethics laws twice, the trade minister , the intergovernmental affairs minister and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister . They got so sick of getting found guilty that they appointed the sister-in-law of the intergovernmental affairs minister to be the new Ethics Commissioner. The only problem is that they got caught and so she resigned. Will the Prime Minister stand today and assure Canadians that he is not going to appoint any more friends, family or Trudeau Foundation members to this important position?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: the person whom they are referring to had worked in the Ethics Commissioner's Office for 10 years. She was number two in that office. She was appointed or came into that position when Stephen Harper was in fact prime minister. What happens when they attack people and engage in these partisan attacks is, yes, those people do leave because this is what happens. Their partisan attacks, whether on CBC or on the Ethics Commissioner or on wherever they go, yes, has an impact. That position is now vacant. It is an extremely important position. We will work as quickly as possible to get a replacement.
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Mr. Michael Barrett: Woe is them, I suppose, Mr. Speaker. They are probably just sad that they could not get that family and friends discount. They tried to get the bulk purchasing discount or the frequent flyer discount with the Ethics Commissioner's office and that did not work. Maybe this time, though, they will just leave the job empty so that when there is the next conflict of interest there is no one there to investigate it. Following that path, perhaps they will just eliminate the position of the Ethics Commissioner altogether. The question is very simple. The member was not able to answer it, so we will put it this way: Which will it be? Will they appoint a family member, a friend or a Trudeau Foundation board member to be the next Ethics Commissioner?
Labour
Date: 2023_04_20
Chamber: HOUSE OF COMMONS
Hon. Mark Holland: as always, we will appoint qualified people who are working in those positions with expertise. That is assuredly what we are going to do in the future. With what we have seen over the last three days, as we are going through some of the most difficult times in human history around the planet, as there is a war in Ukraine, as our planet is being ravaged by climate change, I wonder, 20, 30 years from now, when people are looking back on these question periods and watching the priority of Conservatives, if they will wonder where the heck they were on the issues that actually affected Canadians, and why they were not talking about, or asking questions about, the budget or Canadian finances or the environment. I certainly wonder that.