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Speaker 2: mister Bobier didn't get his way. The Quebec Bloc party
Speaker 2: stepped up and said that they would not vote for
Speaker 2: non confidence against the Liberal government, thus keeping the Liberal
Speaker 2: government in place in at least until election time comes
Speaker 2: around again. So we're gonna hear the question answer period
Speaker 2: on the rhetoric debate between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Pouvier
Speaker 2: as they continue to debate. Hey, he's the Justin Trudeau
Speaker 2: is the most expense of prime minister in history versus well,
Speaker 2: it's just rhetoric and no plan for the Conservative government.
Speaker 2: Again leading back to what I've all what I've been
Speaker 2: saying all along, they will Canada needs a plan and
Speaker 2: while and as we're looking at the election in the
Speaker 2: United States with mister Trump making accusations and the Vice
Speaker 2: President Kamala Harris as she does try to put policy
Speaker 2: in place, and we need to and as we head
Speaker 2: into the last few weeks of that election campaign that
Speaker 2: we need to look at seriously at some of the
Speaker 2: anti racism bills that Kamala Harris helped put together and
Speaker 2: send up for vote. We also need to look at
Speaker 2: the ghost gun policy that was developed using a lot
Speaker 2: of her research and know how as a prosecutor to
Speaker 2: send that into to set that those motions into law,
Speaker 2: so the ghost guns can no longer be legal or
Speaker 2: be legally attained in the United States. There are other
Speaker 2: things that that she has done that that actually push
Speaker 2: forward women's health care in in her history, and that
Speaker 2: those sort of things need to be taken account for
Speaker 2: and pushed forward as folks had head into into the
Speaker 2: polls to vote for the next president of the United States.
Speaker 2: Back to to to Canada, we're also gonna hear from
Speaker 2: a news conference about Jasper as Jasper, Alberta, as we know,
Speaker 2: during the summer, had a massive fire. I do heard
Speaker 2: from one particular was witness on a train as the
Speaker 2: train was sent backwards as they because they got close
Speaker 2: the train did get close to the flames and the
Speaker 2: the tracks were were impassable. The station was impassable because
Speaker 2: of the fire damage. Show was actually done to Jasper.
Speaker 2: It is a Canadian treasurer for one, the ice fields
Speaker 2: that developed there and as a national park in a
Speaker 2: mountain community that the glaciers and the tourism that actually
Speaker 2: goes through there are an important, very important gym to
Speaker 2: Western Canada and the western part of North America. The
Speaker 2: wildlife that is there as like driving through myself seeing
Speaker 2: the number of bear, the moose. Actually finally saw saw
Speaker 2: a moose up close and personal and in Jasper for
Speaker 2: the first time when I saw one is it's like,
Speaker 2: what what did majestic sight? To see such a grand animal?
Speaker 2: And even the the animals for the time being are
Speaker 2: displaced as nature tries to recover, and of course our
Speaker 2: human communities need to be rebuilt so that people can
Speaker 2: come visit and experience the majority of nature. So we
Speaker 2: also need to move forward. Okay, we aren't going to
Speaker 2: actually get to listen to we don't have a recording
Speaker 2: ready for the press conference that Antano Greer's, the Secretary
Speaker 2: General of the United Nations, had before the next you
Speaker 2: in General Assembly with the the seventh seventy ninth of
Speaker 2: General Assembly for the United Nations and mister Guerris had
Speaker 2: had a press conference where he talked about some of
Speaker 2: the importance of the of the General Assembly in the
Speaker 2: United Nations. He said the Summit of the of the
Speaker 2: Future is essential first step towards making global institutions more legitimate, effective,
Speaker 2: and fit for the world of today and tomorrow. The
Speaker 2: United Nations chief emphasized the critical role of the Summit
Speaker 2: of the Future as it was born out of cold
Speaker 2: heart fact international challenges are moving faster than our ability
Speaker 2: to solve them. Guerrera Is also says that many of
Speaker 2: the challenges the world faces today were not on the
Speaker 2: radar eighty years ago. When the multilateral institutions were born.
Speaker 2: The founders of the U n understood that times would change.
Speaker 2: He emphasizes and adding through through values, that the global
Speaker 2: institutions are timeless. The institutions themselves cannot be frozen in time.
Speaker 2: Garrera said, like our founders, we cannot precisely know what
Speaker 2: the future holds, but we don't need a crystal ball
Speaker 2: to see the twenty first century challenges require global problem
Speaker 2: solving mechanisms that are more effective, networked, and inclusive. That
Speaker 2: serious power and balances in the global institutions must be
Speaker 2: adjusted and updated, and that our institutions must draw on
Speaker 2: the expertise and representation of all humanity. The challenge will
Speaker 2: not be overnight, he says, but will start today. He
Speaker 2: also goes on to say, when we look at the
Speaker 2: work that was done already in preparations for the Summit
Speaker 2: of Future, we see a movement in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Gerre Is noted a strong language of the Security Council,
Speaker 2: reform in a generation and set the governance measures for
Speaker 2: technologies including artificial intelligence, a major evans in reform of
Speaker 2: international financial architecture, a step change in financing the Sustainable
Speaker 2: Development of goals, and a commitment to advance the SDG
Speaker 2: stimulus multiplying the resources available to developing countries. Simply put,
Speaker 2: the United Nations is, in comparison to the world that
Speaker 2: it still has systematically left out an entire continent of countries.
Speaker 2: Africa is dramatically underrepresented and has the fewge number of
Speaker 2: permanent representatives in the United Nations to date, the U
Speaker 2: n Security Council does not have near enough African votes
Speaker 2: to talk about issues that that are that are part
Speaker 2: of that continent and also as a result, part of
Speaker 2: our global community. When we look at certain things that
Speaker 2: are going on with the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Speaker 2: Sudan and other communities that have either been devastated by
Speaker 2: violence or natural disaster and are slow to come back
Speaker 2: come back around again. It is because of some of
Speaker 2: the resources that are limited to them, because they are
Speaker 2: not generally recognized as as prominent as say the United States,
Speaker 2: the Russian Federation, or other countries that are definitely a
Speaker 2: part of the United Nations Security Council and other and
Speaker 2: other institutions that are deep setted into the United Nations. So, uh,
Speaker 2: mister Guerra's I wish him lucky in making positive changes
Speaker 2: so that African nations and other underdeveloped nations in South
Speaker 2: America can also be part of that table that helps
Speaker 2: form a earthly community, a human community of the future
Speaker 2: as our twenty first century pushes forward. So why don't
Speaker 2: we move forward with today's segments as we're going to
Speaker 2: go to the question and answer period where we hear
Speaker 2: Rhetorican debate between mister Povier and mister Trudeau, and we're
Speaker 2: also going to hear what is new and happening from Jasper,
Speaker 2: what the federal government is actually trying to accomplish, and
Speaker 2: we'll hear more about immigration into Canada as refugees from
Speaker 2: once again back to Africa, UH and South America tried
Speaker 2: to seek asylum in Canada for a better what they
Speaker 2: think is going to be a better life. So here
Speaker 2: we go. Question answer period, First.
Speaker 3: World question, the honimble leader of the Opposition, We've just
Speaker 3: learned that the block will be voting to keep the
Speaker 3: most costly prime minister and most centralizing prime minister in
Speaker 3: history in power. A government that's doubled the cost of housing,
Speaker 3: doubled the national debt, increase the cost of groceries, broken
Speaker 3: our immigration system, pushing Quebec to the breaking point. How
Speaker 3: can the abandoned Quebecers to prop up this prime minister,
Speaker 3: the most costly and centralizing one in our country's history.
Speaker 3: Prison the right, honorable Prime Minister perform once again, mister Speaker,
Speaker 3: we see the leader of the Opposition is only concerned
Speaker 3: about his own political interests and not the interest of
Speaker 3: Canadians and Quebecers. That's why we're going to keep investing
Speaker 3: in Canadians. We're going to be there for Quebecers with healthcare,
Speaker 3: dental care, more childcare places. Instead of proposing cuts and austerity,
Speaker 3: which we know the Conservative leader would impose on everyone.
Speaker 4: The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.
Speaker 3: Canadians interest is in cutting taxes, building houses, fixing the
Speaker 3: budget and stopping crime so that Quebecers can bring home
Speaker 3: bigger paychecks and pension that will be enough to afford
Speaker 3: housing and food. That's after nine years of the Liberal
Speaker 3: Bloc coalition. They've doubled the double the cost of living
Speaker 3: and broken our immigration system. Why is the Bloc propping
Speaker 3: up this expensive and centralizing government. The Honorable Prime Minister,
Speaker 3: once again we see the Conservative leader believes in slogans,
Speaker 3: but not in Canadians and Quebecers. He doesn't want to
Speaker 3: invest to help people with dental care. He doesn't want
Speaker 3: to be there to help our seniors, to help young people.
Speaker 3: He just wants to cut programs. He voted against our
Speaker 3: climate action, against checks that people need, but he wants
Speaker 3: nothing to do with that. He's obsessed with his own
Speaker 3: thirst for power. We're concerned about Quebecers and Canadians and
Speaker 3: we're working for them.
Speaker 5: The Honorable Leader at the Opposition, the NP leader sold
Speaker 5: out Canadians to so onto a costly coalition that doubled
Speaker 5: the debt, doubled the housing costs, sent two million people
Speaker 5: to food banks and eighteen hundred ten encampments. He voted
Speaker 5: twenty four times for the carbon tax, and since he
Speaker 5: did his dramatic video, he has refused to answer forty
Speaker 5: times whether he'd vote non confidence. Now that he knows
Speaker 5: that the block is going to keep the Liberals in power,
Speaker 5: he'll stand up and claim that he's voting against Mister Speaker.
Speaker 5: Why won't the NDP stand up when it counts so
Speaker 5: that we can end this costly coalition and elect a
Speaker 5: common sense.
Speaker 6: Government for the Prime Minister takes a coming to ask
Speaker 6: the Honible Member from U Westminster, Burnaby Peese to only
Speaker 6: take the microphone.
Speaker 7: In his voice of rector hands.
Speaker 8: The right Honorable Prime Minister, mister Speaker.
Speaker 9: Once again, we see that the leader of the opposition
Speaker 9: enjoys his political games, enjoys chasing after his own political interests,
Speaker 9: and has not a second to care for canadians interests.
Speaker 9: He's actually in a bad mood because inflation has come
Speaker 9: down for Canadians. He doesn't care about their interests. That's
Speaker 9: why we're going to continue to deliver for Canadians.
Speaker 10: We're going to continue to step up with.
Speaker 9: Investments that are going to support Canadians fight climate change
Speaker 9: and build the brighter future for.
Speaker 6: Everyone, the all of the leader of the All position.
Speaker 11: The Speaker.
Speaker 5: After nine years of this costly NDP carbon tax coalition,
Speaker 5: what's happened?
Speaker 11: What's up?
Speaker 5: Taxes up, costs up, crimes up, times up.
Speaker 11: Well Canadians need is hope.
Speaker 5: By choosing a common sense government that access taxes, builds homes,
Speaker 5: fixes the budget, and stops the crimes so they can
Speaker 5: earn powerful paychecks and pensions that buy affordable food, gas,
Speaker 5: and homes in safe neighborhoods protected by a strong military.
Speaker 11: Why can't we bring it home now?
Speaker 9: Right, Honorable Prime Ministry, Because that little performance shows just
Speaker 9: how much the leader of the Opposition loves his slogans
Speaker 9: but actually doesn't perforward any I'm.
Speaker 6: Gonna ask, as i'd ask a previous member before, to
Speaker 6: please not take the floor unless I recognize I'm going
Speaker 6: to ask all members please to allow Member two I
Speaker 6: lost Prime minist Right, Honorable Prime Minister, to start from
Speaker 6: the top.
Speaker 9: Why mister Speaker pointing out the performance of the leader
Speaker 9: of the Opposition and his colleagues get all upset because
Speaker 9: they know that he doesn't actually care about Canadians. He
Speaker 9: doesn't care about the programs we're delivering. He doesn't care
Speaker 9: about stepping up to support Canadian He's actually in a
Speaker 9: bad mood because inflation has come down to two percent,
Speaker 9: mister Speaker, and it ruins his little just inflation slogan.
Speaker 9: He is so upset because he's cared about his own
Speaker 9: interests and not the interests of.
Speaker 10: Canadian We're going to stay.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 8: He didn't for the runs us to go as slogan.
Speaker 8: We'll take this seriously like we always have.
Speaker 6: If anyone, if anyone had any doubt, it's definitely Wednesday,
Speaker 6: the honorable leader of the all position.
Speaker 11: Mister Speaker.
Speaker 5: The just inflation tagline works now better than ever after.
Speaker 10: He can try to.
Speaker 5: Call himself Rocky Balboa eye and play fight songs to
Speaker 5: a grandize himself as the star. But the people lined
Speaker 5: up at food banks, two million of them every month,
Speaker 5: no better. The people who are living in the eighteen
Speaker 5: hundred Ontario tent encampments no better. The thirty five home
Speaker 5: helmeless encampments and Halifax, the people there know better. They
Speaker 5: know that we need to fire this costly carbon tax
Speaker 5: coalition so we can elect a common sense government that
Speaker 5: will bring it home for them.
Speaker 8: The right Honorable Prime Minister actually speaker.
Speaker 9: He should loves to declaim about vulnerable people and perform
Speaker 9: his empathetic supposed concern. But the reality is he is
Speaker 9: using vulnerable people for his own political gains. If he
Speaker 9: actually cared about people, he wouldn't have voted against dental
Speaker 9: care for seven hundred thousand seniors. He wouldn't have voted
Speaker 9: against a child school food policy that's helping families with
Speaker 9: eight hundred dollars worth of groceries a year.
Speaker 10: These not making the investments of Canadians.
Speaker 9: He wants to cut programs make Canadians suffer so he
Speaker 9: can sit in the big chair.
Speaker 13: I love order order.
Speaker 3: Then, the Honorable Member for Beallet Chambli, the Prime Minister
Speaker 3: appointed a special Envoy to fight Islamophobia, and she felt
Speaker 3: that her terms of reference including it included criticizing Quebec's
Speaker 3: universities for not providing for student security. Perhaps we don't
Speaker 3: see islamophobia in the same way because some would say
Speaker 3: that this position is strictly speaking, a liberal activist and
Speaker 3: political position. So I'd like to ask the Prime Minister
Speaker 3: what is his definition of Islamophobia?
Speaker 4: The right Honorable Prime.
Speaker 3: Minister, Mister Speaker, this government recognized that there was a
Speaker 3: rise in intolerance of all kinds all across the country,
Speaker 3: and we had a duty to recognize that and fight
Speaker 3: against it. That's why we appointed a Special Representative against
Speaker 3: Islamophobia and also a Special rep against Anti Semitism. And
Speaker 3: we also recognize systemic discrimination in our institution. So we
Speaker 3: have lots of challenges to face in bringing Canadians together
Speaker 3: and in addressing our challenges together to create a more
Speaker 3: peaceful and respectful country, the country that we now have.
Speaker 4: A member for Ballet chamblee. This is no small thing.
Speaker 3: The Prime Minister does not know the definition of Islamophobia.
Speaker 3: Does he think that with out a definition, criticizing Quebec
Speaker 3: universities reduces Islamophobia somehow? Or does it rather polarize Canadians
Speaker 3: and pit them against one another. The right Honorable Prime Minister,
Speaker 3: Mister Speaker, as the member of opposite knows full well.
Speaker 3: I am a proud Quebecker and I am proud that
Speaker 3: the Liberal Party of Canada has more Quebec members than
Speaker 3: the block Kibiquada. So we are proud Canadians, proud Quebecers
Speaker 3: and we know that in every institution all across country
Speaker 3: there are challenges around racism, systemic discrimination and so on,
Speaker 3: and we need to address those issues. And that's the
Speaker 3: work we're doing because we know everyone should feel included
Speaker 3: and respected within our country, and unfortunately we're seeing a
Speaker 3: rise in intolerance all across the country.
Speaker 4: So it's our.
Speaker 3: Duty, all of our duties to come together and listen
Speaker 3: to one another, Honorable Member for Hosmond Le Petit Petri.
Speaker 4: Mister Speaker.
Speaker 3: All over the country, conservative governments are privatizing our healthcare.
Speaker 3: They want people to have to pay to see a doctor,
Speaker 3: and it's no different in Quebec. But this Prime Minister
Speaker 3: is too weak to stand up to the Conservatives and
Speaker 3: the people are the ones paying the price. What's it
Speaker 3: going to take for him to stand up to defend
Speaker 3: the principles of universal public health care right, Honorable Prime Minister,
Speaker 3: Mister Speaker. We all know that the NDP is concerned
Speaker 3: about progressive values all across the country, but they can't
Speaker 3: deliver the goods. We were happy to work with them
Speaker 3: to deliver concrete things in healthcare, for in childcare for Canadians,
Speaker 3: but unfortunately they're the ones who decided to stop delivering
Speaker 3: the goods for Canadians. Progressive things are not always easy
Speaker 3: to accomplish, but we will continue fighting to do so.
Speaker 3: We will continue to defend our public health care system,
Speaker 3: and we will keep investing in the Canadian system.
Speaker 4: But unfortunately the NDP can't say the same.
Speaker 8: The Honorable Member for coachin Malahatt Langford.
Speaker 14: They are failing on healthcare and they are failing on
Speaker 14: groceries because one year ago today the Liberals met with
Speaker 14: Canada's grocery CEOs and promised to stabilize prices. A year later,
Speaker 14: prices are still up. Grocery CEOs are still gouging families
Speaker 14: struggling to put food on the table. Meanwhile, the Conservatives
Speaker 14: remain silent on grocery greed and they want to give
Speaker 14: even more taxpayer money to these CEOs. Canadians are fed up.
Speaker 14: They are working harder and falling further behind. Why does
Speaker 14: this Prime Minister keep caving to CEOs while Canadians pay
Speaker 14: the price?
Speaker 15: Here here.
Speaker 8: Right, Honorable Prime Minister speak.
Speaker 9: From Unfortunately, the NDP is taking a page out of
Speaker 9: the Conservative playbook and choosing slogans rather than the hard
Speaker 9: work that'll actually help Canadians. We've delivered some of the
Speaker 9: more most comprehensive reforms of the Competition Act in order
Speaker 9: to hold Big Grocer's account for the work that they're
Speaker 9: doing in terms of delivering for Canadians. We've also moved
Speaker 9: forward on a national school food program that's putting more
Speaker 9: food in the bellies of four hundred thousand kids across
Speaker 9: the country as provinces come on board, and is going
Speaker 9: to save parents up to eight hundred dollars on their
Speaker 9: grocery bills. These are things tangibly that we're busy delivering
Speaker 9: while they're playing politics.
Speaker 5: The Honorable Leader at the Opposition April thirtieth, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: Life in Canada, Home of the world's most affluent middle class,
Speaker 5: the New York Times. Yet today, almost a decade after that,
Speaker 5: NDP liberal Prime Minister has been what he calls the
Speaker 5: big Canada's gdpr P per capita is actually down while
Speaker 5: the American one is up nineteen percent. His carbon taxes
Speaker 5: are strangling growth. How could the solution possibly be to
Speaker 5: quadruple the tax to sixty one cents a leader and
Speaker 5: send more jobs and businesses south?
Speaker 8: The right, Honorable Prime ministrative.
Speaker 9: Signor renabed Leader of the Opposition doesn't believe in climate
Speaker 9: change and doesn't believe in putting more money in the
Speaker 9: pockets of Canadians.
Speaker 10: With the Canada Carbon rebate.
Speaker 9: How many wildfires, hurricanes, droughts are going to go after
Speaker 9: canadians lives and livelihoods before he understands, you can't have
Speaker 9: a plan for the economy unless you have a plan
Speaker 9: for the environment.
Speaker 8: The honorable Leader of the Opposition.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a plan for either, as evidenced by
Speaker 5: the fact that he came completely on glued and started
Speaker 5: spitting out personal insults and crying liar, liar liars on
Speaker 5: your radio station the other day when he learned that
Speaker 5: I had pointed to his own government report which showed
Speaker 5: that his carbon tax will blow a twenty five to
Speaker 5: thirty billion.
Speaker 11: Dollar hole in our GDP.
Speaker 5: This was from a report that his government tabled in
Speaker 5: the House of Commons. If in fact his government is
Speaker 5: lying about the true cost of the carbon tax to.
Speaker 11: Our economy, then what is the true cost?
Speaker 8: The right, honorable current minister, it's a speaker.
Speaker 9: The Parliamentary Budget Officer demonstrated that eight out of ten
Speaker 9: Canadian families do better with the Canada carbon rebate every
Speaker 9: three months than the cost of the Price on Pollution,
Speaker 9: And on top of that, Canadians note the Price on
Speaker 9: Pollution has brought down our emissions faster than any other
Speaker 9: G seven country at the same time as it is
Speaker 9: supporting Canadians in the middle.
Speaker 10: Class and working hard to join it.
Speaker 9: We're going to continue to fightlimate change and invest in
Speaker 9: a strong economy for the future while the leader of
Speaker 9: the opposition continues to deny clientate change and cut programs
Speaker 9: and services a Canadians rely on.
Speaker 8: That's great, The honorable leader is the opposition.
Speaker 11: Is mister speaker.
Speaker 5: You can't sit in the big chair if you can't
Speaker 5: read your own government document. The Environment and Climate Change
Speaker 5: Canada Carbon Pollution pricing data tabled in this House by
Speaker 5: his government said that it will cost between twenty five
Speaker 5: and thirty billion dollars in lost GDP.
Speaker 11: When this tax is implemented.
Speaker 5: A further document tabled by his Environment minister on Carbon
Speaker 5: Tax two says there will be another nine billion dollar hole,
Speaker 5: for a total of between thirty four and forty billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Now he screams that this is all lies. Again, if
Speaker 5: his government documents are lying what is the true cost
Speaker 5: of the carbon tax to our economy?
Speaker 8: The right, Honorable Prime Ministry city fare.
Speaker 9: Every Canadian except perhaps the Canadians in the Conservative Party
Speaker 9: of Canada, understand that the costs of inaction on climate
Speaker 9: change will be catastrophic, not just with wildfires, droughts, floods, hurricanes,
Speaker 9: but with lost economic opportunity, lost jobs, lost growth for Canadians.
Speaker 9: As we solve the challenges of the twenty first century,
Speaker 9: we are choosing to invest in a strong economy for
Speaker 9: the future.
Speaker 10: We're choosing to fight climate change and.
Speaker 9: Develop the solutions of the world's going to need to
Speaker 9: do that while the leader of the opposition offers a
Speaker 9: do nothing climate change, climate change plan that will cost
Speaker 9: Canadians billions.
Speaker 5: The Honorable Leader of the Opposition, his carbon tax has
Speaker 5: not stopped a single flood, single flood, or single fire
Speaker 5: in this country. He has not stopped any natural disasters.
Speaker 5: What he has done is driven Canadians into poverty. Quadrupling
Speaker 5: the tax to sixty one cents a leader will cause
Speaker 5: a nuclear winter for our economy, something that his carbon
Speaker 5: tax coalition partners in the NDP have voted to bring about.
Speaker 5: So if he really is so confident in a sixty
Speaker 5: one cent a leader tax, why doesn't he call a
Speaker 5: carbon tax election and let Canadians decide.
Speaker 2: The right?
Speaker 9: Honorable Crime Minister speak of The problem with the Leader
Speaker 9: of the Opposition is he believes in slogans.
Speaker 10: He just doesn't believe in climate change.
Speaker 9: The fact is our plan to fight climate change is
Speaker 9: not just putting more money in the pockets of eight
Speaker 9: out of ten Canadians across the country, but he's bringing
Speaker 9: down emissions and creating jobs and opportunity for Canadians for
Speaker 9: generations to come. His climate change denialism, his do nothing
Speaker 9: planned to fight climate change is going to hurt Canadians.
Speaker 9: We are going to continue to build a strong economy
Speaker 9: for the future because we know fighting climate change is
Speaker 9: part of it.
Speaker 8: The Honable Leader of the Opposition.
Speaker 11: But he's not flight of fighting climate change.
Speaker 5: He's driving production out of Canada to more polluting for
Speaker 5: foreign jurisdictions rather than our common sense planned to greenlight
Speaker 5: green projects that produce more energy around the world that
Speaker 5: displays emissions.
Speaker 11: That's a common sense approach.
Speaker 5: And he still won't to answer the question though, on
Speaker 5: the full cost of his two carbon taxes. I've cited
Speaker 5: government demart documents tabled in this House that say that
Speaker 5: it will total between thirty four and forty billion dollars
Speaker 5: per year in lost GDP and jobs. If his government
Speaker 5: documents are wrong, then what is the true loss of
Speaker 5: GDP as a result of his sixty one cent a
Speaker 5: leader carbon tax?
Speaker 9: The art honable crime, Minister Speaker, he talks about driving
Speaker 9: investment out of Canada, he must be remembering his own
Speaker 9: time as minister, because since twenty sixteen, mister Speaker, foreign
Speaker 9: direct investment is up sixty percent in this country. Last
Speaker 9: year we were third in the world after the US.
Speaker 10: At Brazil, which.
Speaker 9: Makes US number one for foreign investment.
Speaker 10: In the GS. Wendy Perhapita, The.
Speaker 9: Reality is, mister Speaker, we are continuing to show the
Speaker 9: world that they can have confidence in Canada and in Canadians.
Speaker 9: Why doesn't he have confidence in Canadians? Why will he
Speaker 9: invest in Canada?
Speaker 5: The Honorable Leader the Opposition, Mister Speaker, the Deputy Governor
Speaker 5: of the Bank of Canada said, of Canada's investment problems.
Speaker 11: Emergency break glass.
Speaker 5: Canadian workers get fifty five cents of investment for every
Speaker 5: dollar American workers get in only sixty five cent for
Speaker 5: every dollar that a OECD worker gets. The gap between
Speaker 5: the Canadian and US economy is now at one hundred
Speaker 5: year high after nine years of the NDP liberals. So
Speaker 5: one last time, his own documents showed that his sixty
Speaker 5: one cent a leader carbon tax will blow a forty
Speaker 5: billion dollar hole.
Speaker 11: In our economy. If that numbers not right, what is
Speaker 11: the real number?
Speaker 8: The right on a book part, Minister, it's just speaker.
Speaker 9: Once again, we see that the leader of the opposition
Speaker 9: is frustrated that international economists, climate experts, academics all back
Speaker 9: our plan to both fight climate change and grow a
Speaker 9: strong economy, while he's stuck with late night far right
Speaker 9: conspiracy YouTube videos. The reality is, Misspeaker, we are delivering
Speaker 9: concretely to build a stronger future for Canadians, to fight
Speaker 9: climate change and to grow the economy, while he is
Speaker 9: hiding his head in the sand and refusing to admit
Speaker 9: even the climate change is real.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have the animal member for Chambli a unanimous
Speaker 3: motion by the Quebec Assembly that education comes under Quebec's
Speaker 3: exclusive jurisdiction and hiring professors should be based on merit
Speaker 3: and certainly not based on religion. They reiterate that hiring
Speaker 3: based on religion is not only discriminatory, but it goes
Speaker 3: against state sacralism, and the National Assembly repeats its request
Speaker 3: to have the Special Envoy on Islamophobia fired. Un I
Speaker 3: just like to remind all members. I know there was
Speaker 3: a lot of content in that question and it's difficult
Speaker 3: for our interpreters to interpret all of that, and so
Speaker 3: we should speak at a speed that's reasonable for our interpreters. Right,
Speaker 3: Honable Prime Minister, mister Speaker, let me the crystal clear.
Speaker 3: The universities have to hire the best possible people for
Speaker 3: the job.
Speaker 4: That's their job.
Speaker 3: But we also recognize that universities have policies that they've
Speaker 3: put in place to ensure that their staff reflect the
Speaker 3: diversity of the communities they serve. So I have full
Speaker 3: confidence in our universities and we must always keep fighting
Speaker 3: systemic discrimination in all our institutions, from coast to coast
Speaker 3: to coast. The Honorable Member for Ballet Chamblie, does it
Speaker 3: take nine years to learn not to answer questions? The
Speaker 3: National Assembly of Quebec unanimously said that your person has
Speaker 3: insulted all of us. We're calling for her resignation. Are
Speaker 3: you on Miss Gaywabi's position against Beck? Are you on
Speaker 3: her side and against the National Assembly of Quebec with
Speaker 3: all its elected representatives?
Speaker 4: If not let it, let it, let it be known,
Speaker 4: says that I have prime minist the right holeve. A
Speaker 4: prime minister.
Speaker 3: To suggest in this place that a member from Quebec
Speaker 3: elected by quebecers does not represent his constituents is an
Speaker 3: insult to this very place, and the bloc which was
Speaker 3: elected to this place should be ashamed of saying such
Speaker 3: a thing.
Speaker 4: Then a have chef to Pezition, the leader of the opposition.
Speaker 5: Twenty to twenty fourteen, Canadians attracted thirty to one hundred
Speaker 5: billion dollars more of American investment than the reverse. In
Speaker 5: the last nine years of this NDP liberal government, there
Speaker 5: have been four hundred and fifty billion more Canadian dollars
Speaker 5: invested in the US.
Speaker 11: Then the return.
Speaker 5: That's Canadian money building US pipelines, US minds, US businesses
Speaker 5: paying American workers with Canadian money. That is the consequence
Speaker 5: of a high carbon tax and a high energy price
Speaker 5: that drives jobs away. Why when will the Prime minister
Speaker 5: learn that is radical plan to hike the tax to
Speaker 5: sixty one cents a leader will destroy our economy further, the.
Speaker 8: Very honorable Prime ministry.
Speaker 9: The problem with that argument, mister speaker, is that the
Speaker 9: leader the Opposition doesn't understand that the International Monetary Fund
Speaker 9: and others have projected Canada have stronger growth than the
Speaker 9: United States next year despite the fact that we have
Speaker 9: a price on pollution, or perhaps because of the fact
Speaker 9: we have a price on pollution, that is drawing an
Speaker 9: investment from around the world in the growing sectors of
Speaker 9: the economy to ensure good jobs in mining, an environmental
Speaker 9: research in various industries, because we know the.
Speaker 10: Future is greener.
Speaker 8: The honorable leader at the Opposition.
Speaker 5: Our per capita GDP is smaller than it was ten
Speaker 5: years ago, perhaps the first time since the Great Depression that.
Speaker 11: That has happened.
Speaker 5: He's had the worst economic growth since the depression.
Speaker 11: The OECD says.
Speaker 5: Canada will have the worst economic growth this year and
Speaker 5: for the next three decades. Our economy has dropped more
Speaker 5: for capita since before COVID than any other G seven country.
Speaker 5: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
Speaker 5: expecting a different result. This Prime Minister wants to quadruple
Speaker 5: the carbon tax to sixty one cents a leader, which
Speaker 5: will be an economic catastrophe for this country.
Speaker 9: The right, Honorable Prime Minister Speaker, with that little performance
Speaker 9: just showed is that the leader of the opposition is
Speaker 9: using his brokennest argument around Canada to explain why he
Speaker 9: would cut dental programs, cut childcare, step away from any
Speaker 9: climate action, withdraw support to draw and investment.
Speaker 10: That's his excuse.
Speaker 9: The problem with that argument, however, mister Speaker, is Canada
Speaker 9: actually has the strongest fiscal position of any of the
Speaker 9: world's advanced economies, and our choice is putting that strong
Speaker 9: fiscal position in service of investment in Canadians, in dental,
Speaker 9: in childcare, in pharma, in.
Speaker 8: The honorable Leader at the all position.
Speaker 5: There he goes again, telling Canadians they've never had.
Speaker 11: It so good.
Speaker 5: It's never been so good for those two million people
Speaker 5: lined up in food banks, for the one million people
Speaker 5: every month that go to food banks in Ontario, records
Speaker 5: smashing increases in homelessness. By his own admission, after he
Speaker 5: promised a food program that hasn't delivered a single meal
Speaker 5: despite millions spent on bureaucracy, One in four kids lineup
Speaker 5: at food banks, and now the worst, he proposes to
Speaker 5: quadruple the carbon taxes on heat, housing, fuel and food.
Speaker 5: How much, how much and how much will that take
Speaker 5: from our.
Speaker 8: Gail the right owner.
Speaker 9: Their Prime Ministry is the speaker of the problem that
Speaker 9: he will not talk of. The problem he has is
Speaker 9: that he cannot admit that the price on pollution puts
Speaker 9: more money back in the pockets of middle class Canadians
Speaker 9: and those working hard to join it. He continues to
Speaker 9: spew the line that Canada is broken and whenever I
Speaker 9: point out that we have a strong fiscal balance sheet
Speaker 9: that we should be putting in service of programs and
Speaker 9: supports for Canadians, he says, no, oh, we need cuts.
Speaker 9: That is not the path forward for Canada.
Speaker 10: And that's the.
Speaker 9: Choice Canadians get to make. Do we go with austerity
Speaker 9: and cuts to programs, or do we invest in Canadians
Speaker 9: and their future parents?
Speaker 8: He humble d at the opposition.
Speaker 5: Canadians who can't eat, heat or house themselves are living
Speaker 5: in austerity now. And as to his false PMO talking
Speaker 5: point about eight out of ten Canadians being better off,
Speaker 5: it conveniently excludes the twenty five billion dollars per year
Speaker 5: in economic costs that his own government admits that the
Speaker 5: carbon tax imposes on Canadians and that's why six and
Speaker 5: ten Canadian families and one hundred percent of the middle
Speaker 5: class are worse off with his carbon tax.
Speaker 11: So his documents show Canadians are worse off.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't have confidence in his own government documents,
Speaker 5: how can this House have confidence in his government.
Speaker 6: To work.
Speaker 8: The right, Honorable Prime Minister.
Speaker 9: Millions of Canadians across the country have received the Canada
Speaker 9: Carbon Rebate checks that puts more money in their pockets
Speaker 9: every three months than it costs them on average, climb
Speaker 9: on the price on pollution.
Speaker 10: That allows us.
Speaker 9: Not only to fight climate change and boost our economy
Speaker 9: in strong ways that create the innovative solutions that the
Speaker 9: world is going to increasingly rely on, but it helps
Speaker 9: Canadians with affordability at a challenging time. He would eliminate
Speaker 9: those Canada Carbon Rebate checks and put forward no plan
Speaker 9: to fight climate change. That's not how you build the
Speaker 9: future for Canada.
Speaker 8: The Noble Number from Winnipeg Center, Mister Speaker.
Speaker 16: Under the Liberals, housing prices in Winnipeg are out of control.
Speaker 16: The average rent for a one bedroom suite in Winnipeg
Speaker 16: increase over twenty two percent. It's last year the largest
Speaker 16: jump in the country. Corporate landlords are buying up affordable
Speaker 16: housing and jacking up rents because they know they have
Speaker 16: support of both the Liberals and the Conservatives. Why, I
Speaker 16: can tell you one thing, mister Speaker. They are not
Speaker 16: the answer to our housing crisis. So my question to
Speaker 16: the Prime Minister, why is he allowing corporate landlords to
Speaker 16: price people out.
Speaker 10: Of their homes?
Speaker 15: Here?
Speaker 8: Here, here, the right honorable Prime Minister is the Speaker.
Speaker 9: I very much look forward to working with the NDP
Speaker 9: Premier of Manitoba on renter's Bill of Rights. We just
Speaker 9: presented a number of measures that will directly help renters,
Speaker 9: like ensuring.
Speaker 10: That rent is counted.
Speaker 9: Towards calculation of credit scores so people can get a mortgage.
Speaker 9: By protecting renters from landlords. We recognize, as I'm sure
Speaker 9: do the NDP, that that is largely a provincial jurisdiction.
Speaker 9: But I'm very glad to hear that the Premier of
Speaker 9: NDP at the premium, the NDIP Premier of Manitoba, we'll
Speaker 9: be stepping up to work with the federal government on
Speaker 9: delivering for Canadians in Manitoba, and indeed right across the country.
Speaker 2: We're here.
Speaker 8: Beyondable member from Edmonton, Gresba.
Speaker 15: What is in provincial jurisdiction is what's happening in Edmonton, Grisba.
Speaker 15: Whether federal government is set to bold those hundreds of
Speaker 15: homes in my community so that developers get rich. These
Speaker 15: homes are on public land and are some of the
Speaker 15: last affordable units in my city due to decades of
Speaker 15: liberal and conservative cuts. Families like Kim's, a single mom
Speaker 15: raising a child with a family with a member with
Speaker 15: a disability, is scared she will be homeless. Will the
Speaker 15: Prime Minister stop the demovictions, stop selling off land to
Speaker 15: rich developers, and build the homes that people can actually afford?
Speaker 8: Oh right, honorable Prime Minister is the Speaker.
Speaker 9: Our government put forward one of the most ambitious investments
Speaker 9: in housing that this country has ever seen.
Speaker 10: We are happy to work.
Speaker 9: Hand in hand with the NDP to make sure that
Speaker 9: public lands get used for affordable housing.
Speaker 10: That we're doing everything we can to push.
Speaker 9: Back against provinces that are attacking a public affordability of homes.
Speaker 9: We would very much like to continue working with the
Speaker 9: NDP on this matter.
Speaker 10: They're choosing to.
Speaker 9: Play politics with the Conservatives and put politics first. We're
Speaker 9: going to continue to work to make sure that his
Speaker 9: residence in Edmundon Greasebach and indeed right across the country
Speaker 9: get better affordability, better homes, because that's what this federal
Speaker 9: government is focused on.
Speaker 17: Afternoon, everyone, Mono, Steven Dilbuche Compagni, the michel Le Ministre,
Speaker 17: Arjit sa Johan Minister, the Ripon Lemnister, Randy Boissonnaut and
Speaker 17: seek Andrew Campbell, the Vice President the.
Speaker 8: Technique.
Speaker 17: I would like to start by acknowledging that the land
Speaker 17: on which we gathered today is on the traditional and
Speaker 17: unseated territory of the Algonquin and Shnabi people who have
Speaker 17: lived on these lands since time immemorial. Jasper residents and
Speaker 17: local businesses owners continue to face the effects of the
Speaker 17: wildfire that devastated the municipality of Jasper and Jasper National
Speaker 17: Parks Park almost two months ago. In July. I saw
Speaker 17: with my own eyes the incredible devastation, but also the
Speaker 17: incredible spirit of cooperation and resiliency from Jasper Rights and
Speaker 17: Looks Visity, Jasper Constat Distriction Fruit for Laos die the
Speaker 17: fruit Fortune de demonstration machematic irik and svaer di Batsima
Speaker 17: Da Municipality Predo tran detruit na endomagen. Now the community
Speaker 17: is recovering and rebuilding and they need our help. That's
Speaker 17: why today in the House of Commons, the Government of
Speaker 17: Canada introduce a bill entitle an Act to amend the
Speaker 17: Canada National Parks Act. This important legislation would begin the
Speaker 17: transfer of land use, planning and development authorities from Parks
Speaker 17: Canada to the Municipality of Jasper and help ensure streamline
Speaker 17: decision making where locally elected officials are empowered to make
Speaker 17: decisions regarding their community. This puts those important decisions of
Speaker 17: the rebuild of Jasper squarely back into the hents where
Speaker 17: it belongs in the community. With close support and collaboration
Speaker 17: from Parks Canada. Following the devastating wildfire in July, our
Speaker 17: government made this a legislative priority for the first week
Speaker 17: of the parliamentary session. By enabling the transfer of planning
Speaker 17: and development authorities to the municipality, it will make it
Speaker 17: possible to give the town of Jasper, businesses and residents
Speaker 17: more say to shape the future of the town. Were
Speaker 17: committed to remove any and all barriers that impede these efforts.
Speaker 17: Propos poor de montrill language, superti, the community, le comerce,
Speaker 17: locunational ac depression. So men in one along content the
Speaker 17: claim municipality, the jasper lansande, the objectify that surin if
Speaker 17: he has the lesponse, the guarantee, the conservation, the minims
Speaker 17: digital Melbane to maximiz only possibility economic social e, community
Speaker 17: pat inspected, the pum vendor responsibility see to see it
Speaker 17: up clip or guarante Circuly decision. Jasper lev the inspected,
Speaker 17: the population. Many of us have been lucky, at one
Speaker 17: time or another to visit the Jasper and witness the
Speaker 17: majestic beauty of the town and it's surrounding countryside. Rebuilding
Speaker 17: isn't easy, but step by step we will get there.
Speaker 10: Together.
Speaker 17: We will rebuild Jasper back to being a beautiful mountain
Speaker 17: community in a national park that meets the needs of
Speaker 17: local residents, business owners and visitors from all around the world.
Speaker 17: I think all members of Parliament can agree to the
Speaker 17: importance of this work, regardless of political stripes. That's why
Speaker 17: I'm urging all members of the House of Commons to
Speaker 17: stand with us to support jasperights. Thank you Mercibuku. I
Speaker 17: did forget to introduce Mayor Richard Arlind who's with us
Speaker 17: virtually we can see him on screen.
Speaker 8: My apologies, Richard, but.
Speaker 17: He's here's here with us.
Speaker 11: You go Arch, Thank you, Steven, thank you.
Speaker 18: I just want to take this opportunity to give a
Speaker 18: storemind Canadians on the impact that climate change has had
Speaker 18: on our country and sadly the community Jazzper it was
Speaker 18: a victim of this this year when we've seen the
Speaker 18: devastating impact of climate change and wildfire the result of
Speaker 18: what's taken place. But at the same time I want
Speaker 18: to reiterate, uh, just a brave action that was taken
Speaker 18: during Jasper and the cooperation that was taking place at
Speaker 18: all levels of government, all the different agencies, especially when
Speaker 18: especially within the Unified Command that actually saved majority of Jasper,
Speaker 18: and they deserve the credit for for what they did,
Speaker 18: and especially parts Canada for the amazing work the Unified
Speaker 18: Command that took place, the heavy urbanstarch and Rescue team
Speaker 18: out of Calgary cantask for us too, and or of
Speaker 18: Wildfire Service. I do want to also stress that Jasper
Speaker 18: was probably the most fire spark fire smart community in
Speaker 18: the country. And there are also training exercises that were
Speaker 18: also conducted in the previous years that resulted in the
Speaker 18: amazing coordination work that actually took place. And the reason
Speaker 18: I want to mention this is because it takes significant
Speaker 18: effort to making sure that we're going to deal with
Speaker 18: the effects of climate change as we move forward. And
Speaker 18: during that time, and had the opportunity to drive with
Speaker 18: Mayor Ireland to Jasper during during that time, also with
Speaker 18: the Premier and many other folks of ministers within and
Speaker 18: MLA is from the Alberta government and one of the
Speaker 18: things we committed to is making sure that we're going
Speaker 18: to deliver for the community of Jasper, and that's exactly
Speaker 18: what we did. We run the phone almost immediately with
Speaker 18: folks removing red tape very quickly. And that's what today
Speaker 18: is about. It's about working together to making sure that
Speaker 18: we can move as quickly as possible and do the
Speaker 18: rebuild of Jasper. But once again I just want to
Speaker 18: take this opportunity to thank all the brave firefighters for
Speaker 18: their amazing work for what they did, and also just
Speaker 18: for mind Canadians that it does come at a loss
Speaker 18: that we did lose one fire firefighter who was battling
Speaker 18: the flames in Jasper at this time. So again we
Speaker 18: will continue to work work together. There's a lot more
Speaker 18: work today and then a lot of good lessons out
Speaker 18: of Jasper will be uh talked about and we'll work
Speaker 18: together across the country.
Speaker 11: Thank you, however, are you ready?
Speaker 12: Thanks her Messi, Stephen Messi, harj Andrew Tujo and Plesive
Speaker 12: Mayor your worship, thanks for joining us today. Chelles at
Speaker 12: me de Jean Jasper always when newle what business. What
Speaker 12: Minister Guibaut and Minister Gould put on the table on
Speaker 12: the on the floor of the House today is a
Speaker 12: bill that will provide equity to jasperights.
Speaker 10: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 12: It's going to put into Mayor Ireland and his Council's
Speaker 12: hands the ability to fast track the permitting and really
Speaker 12: remove any vestige of red tape as it comes to
Speaker 12: Jasper rebuilding and beyond that, baff already has these abilities.
Speaker 12: It was take it had taken some time to get
Speaker 12: Jasper to that point, but as Stephen said, these conversations
Speaker 12: started in twenty twenty two, and the the ability to
Speaker 12: have these municipal permitting and the ability to manage municipal
Speaker 12: lands is critical. Inside the park, Benfits demonstrated that Mayor
Speaker 12: and council know how to do this work, and we
Speaker 12: want to equip Mayor Ireland and his counselors.
Speaker 10: With the ability to do that.
Speaker 12: Why because we want to rebuild Jasper quickly, efficiently, safely,
Speaker 12: and to do that, we want to make sure that
Speaker 12: we put in Mayor Ireland's hands all of the powers
Speaker 12: he can have as a municipality governed by the Municipal
Speaker 12: Governance Act in the Government of Alberta and following all
Speaker 12: the rules and regulations that apply. But we need to
Speaker 12: give Mayor Ireland the flexibility he needs to get jass
Speaker 12: rights back on their feet. And I want to thank
Speaker 12: Harje and your team and the swift work that you
Speaker 12: did in your role as Minister of Emergency Preparedness, like
Speaker 12: you worked very closely with Minister Lowen, with Minister Ellis,
Speaker 12: with the Premier. And I have been now twice to
Speaker 12: the Unified Command. It was something to behold. Andrew, I
Speaker 12: think you and I were both there there twice. Steven,
Speaker 12: you and I were there once and to see everybody
Speaker 12: rowing in the same direction, regardless of where they come
Speaker 12: from and Parks Canada, personnel from every corner of this
Speaker 12: country leaning in and demonstrating what it means to stick
Speaker 12: up for a community that was devastated, losing thirty percent
Speaker 12: of its buildings, a disproportionate effect on the residents. And
Speaker 12: now they need parliamentarians to row in the same direction.
Speaker 12: We need every single party to give us unanimous consent
Speaker 12: so that we can get this bill over the line,
Speaker 12: turn it into law and give Mayor Island the powers
Speaker 12: that he needs to support Jasper. This is an important
Speaker 12: step along the road to rebuilding. We're going to rebuild
Speaker 12: Jasper better than ever before. As a former Minister of Tourism,
Speaker 12: I can say and as a kid growing up in Alberta,
Speaker 12: in Edmonton, Jasper was our closest national park. I remember
Speaker 12: going with my grandparents to Jasper. I remember being in
Speaker 12: Whistler campground. We didn't have a lot of money. We
Speaker 12: had tents, and then then we got it. We upgraded
Speaker 12: to like a tent trailer and we thought we won
Speaker 12: the lottery. And quite frankly, those are the memories that
Speaker 12: I want for future generations. I want Jasper back. It
Speaker 12: is a gem in the Crown of our national parks.
Speaker 12: It is our second most popular park, largest by land mass.
Speaker 12: We owe it to Mayor Ireland Jazz rights in the
Speaker 12: world to bring Jasper back.
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Speaker 19: Own of Paloma Api Dicapo sible And with that I'd.
Speaker 4: Like to turn over to his worship Mayor Richard Ireland.
Speaker 8: Well, good afternoon.
Speaker 20: Thank you very much Minister Bosso for that kind introduction,
Speaker 20: and and thank you minister Administers Gigo and Sajan for
Speaker 20: your previous visits to Jasper and for your continuing sported.
Speaker 20: It really is appreciated on behalf of the entire community
Speaker 20: of Jasper. I want to take this opportunity to fake
Speaker 20: thank the federal government for today's really significant initiative. As
Speaker 20: a municipality, we have always valued the opportunity to increase
Speaker 20: our role in planning and development in a matter of course,
Speaker 20: consistent with our unique form of shared jurisdiction with our
Speaker 20: federal partners. That partnership has been instrumental in shaping the
Speaker 20: Jasper that we know today, a community deeply rooted in
Speaker 20: its national park heritage. Today we so welcome a legislative
Speaker 20: change that will set the stage to allow us to
Speaker 20: take on greater responsibilities in land use planning and development.
Speaker 20: This is a tremendously significant step forward for Jasper and
Speaker 20: it comes, as you know, an absolutely crucial time for
Speaker 20: our community. As you all know, this summer's wildfires have
Speaker 20: severely tested our resilience. But now with this legislative support,
Speaker 20: so we are in a much stronger position to continue
Speaker 20: our work with Parks Canada to recover, rebuild, and restore
Speaker 20: our beloved community and it's surrounding natural and built environment.
Speaker 20: The changes which this legislation enables will permit us to
Speaker 20: plan for Jasper's future with more local input, ensuring that
Speaker 20: decisions may truly reflect the needs of our residents, while
Speaker 20: of course preserving the unique character of our iconic national park.
Speaker 20: And together we can rebuild a stronger, more sustainable community.
Speaker 20: So I really do appreciate this initiative. I appreciate so
Speaker 20: much this opportunity to join you here today.
Speaker 7: So this afternoon we have Mark Miller, the Minister of Immigration,
Speaker 7: Refuse and Citizenship, and the Honorable Randy Bazzano, the Minister
Speaker 7: of Employment, and they are here to make an announcement
Speaker 7: about strengthening our temporary the temporary residence programs and migration pathways.
Speaker 7: I'll leave it to you guys. Thank you so much.
Speaker 10: Over to you, Thanks Jean Paul, thanks everyone for being
Speaker 10: with us today. MESSI to.
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Speaker 12: And so what we did is we accelerated hiring, We
Speaker 12: created jobs, We supported UH Canada's small businesses, and it
Speaker 12: also meant that we brought in more temporary foreign workers
Speaker 12: and we brought in we welcomed those temporary foreign workers
Speaker 12: to fill hundreds of thousands of job vacancies. Coming out
Speaker 12: of the pandemic, we had a million job vacancies and
Speaker 12: the entire ecosystem was asking us to bring in more
Speaker 12: workers so we could jump start the economy.
Speaker 4: We did that.
Speaker 12: Now we're close to the five hundred thousand job vacancies.
Speaker 12: And you have heard the Prime Minister, you've heard me
Speaker 12: on this matter. And now Canada is fully recovered from
Speaker 12: the pandemic. We have the strongest economy. In the G
Speaker 12: seven foreign direct investment per capita is tops in the world.
Speaker 12: And so what we're doing today is making sure that
Speaker 12: the measures that we introduced stick and that we actually affect,
Speaker 12: we actually reflect today's economic realities.
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Speaker 12: So in English, let me state that I've always been
Speaker 12: clear that the temporary foreign worker program is and has
Speaker 12: always been a last resort measure and should never be
Speaker 12: used to replace Canadian workers who want the jobs, and
Speaker 12: it should not be used to suppress their wages. And
Speaker 12: so last month the PM was clear and announced changes
Speaker 12: to the Temporary Foreign worker program, and those changes will
Speaker 12: come into effect September twenty sixth, and I want to
Speaker 12: just review them because it's going to be important for
Speaker 12: the substance of my comments today. So these changes included
Speaker 12: releasing the cap from twenty percent to ten percent, and
Speaker 12: in census metropolitan areas where the unemployment is higher than
Speaker 12: six percent, there's a refusal to process in the low
Speaker 12: wage stream. I've also undertaken over the next now sixty
Speaker 12: days to come back to you all with our plans
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Speaker 10: As I've said.
Speaker 12: Before in the stated again, the temporary foreign worker program
Speaker 12: is an accordion. It's meant to flex with the economy.
Speaker 12: When we have a high number of vacancies, we can
Speaker 12: bring in more people. And as the economy titans, we
Speaker 12: close the accordion and we make it harder for people
Speaker 12: to come in because Mark and I and our government
Speaker 12: want those jobs to go to Canadians. We want them
Speaker 12: to go to people who live here. We want to
Speaker 12: go to students, we want them to go to newcomers.
Speaker 12: We want them to go to people who want to
Speaker 12: take those jobs. And so we're working hard every day
Speaker 12: to make sure there's more jobs for Canadians. We're seeing
Speaker 12: a slight increase in unemployment, which is a natural result
Speaker 12: of the high interest rates which are also coming down,
Speaker 12: and now with inflation at two percent and having come
Speaker 12: down over eight months, that's a critical piece to see
Speaker 12: a turn in the economy. And today we're making good
Speaker 12: on our promise to actually reduce the numbers in the
Speaker 12: temporary foreign worker program and to make sure that the
Speaker 12: program applies across the country. Messi wiku and I'll turn
Speaker 12: out to my colleague Mark.
Speaker 21: Miller Randy in Bourgeois Messi randi de Mila Tad. Less
Speaker 21: than a year ago, we announced three big measures when
Speaker 21: it comes to international students. One a national cap and
Speaker 21: a redistribution of the student permits out of a spirit
Speaker 21: of fairness across the provinces and territories. To a very
Speaker 21: important limitation on spousal permits. And three, as part of
Speaker 21: making sure that the system is dealing with the fraud
Speaker 21: that we had seen a process of letter of acceptances
Speaker 21: that involves the provinces certifying that the institutions that students
Speaker 21: international students are coming into are indeed that we see
Speaker 21: on the applications. Those were very important and additional in
Speaker 21: addition to some of the measures that I announced in
Speaker 21: December with respect to with respect to the solvency requirements
Speaker 21: of students that have to come to Canada, Canada is
Speaker 21: not an inexpensive place to live in. And in addition
Speaker 21: to the work hour amendments that we have made that
Speaker 21: limit the work hours to twenty in now coming up
Speaker 21: twenty four hours for students working full studying full time.
Speaker 21: We expect students to be doing exactly that. But let's
Speaker 21: set the table further a little. When you look at
Speaker 21: the growth that we have seen in people that are
Speaker 21: temporary residence of Canada, that's something that has grown almost
Speaker 21: exponentially over the last few years, from about four hundred
Speaker 21: and thirty seven thousand individuals in twenty nineteen alone to
Speaker 21: about one point two million in twenty twenty three. That
Speaker 21: comes with consequences, but let's not also forget the importance
Speaker 21: that immigration generally, the importance of people that are here
Speaker 21: on a temporary basis, has done for the economy. The
Speaker 21: Bank of Canada set at the International Monetary is Fund
Speaker 21: to set at the immigration writ large, has been in
Speaker 21: part responsible from preventing us from going into a recession,
Speaker 21: has been important for the net growth in the gross
Speaker 21: domestic product. Again, this has been important and it's been
Speaker 21: important to the growth of the country. But I think
Speaker 21: it's safe to admit that we have allowed certain aspects
Speaker 21: of this to get overheated and probably for too long.
Speaker 21: We made I made in March an announcement an important
Speaker 21: one to reduce the number of people that are here
Speaker 21: temporarily from seven percent to five percent over the next
Speaker 21: three years. The Bank of Canada rightly highlighted that the
Speaker 21: number of the measures that we have taken, while important,
Speaker 21: we're not sufficient in order to address that number and
Speaker 21: to give people the satisfaction that those numbers were going
Speaker 21: to come down in that period. Today, along with the
Speaker 21: announcements that RANDI is making, we are announcing further measures,
Speaker 21: specifically importantly with respect to international students and a few
Speaker 21: other ones that I will go through here shortly. First,
Speaker 21: I'd like to say that the measures on that we've
Speaker 21: taken with respect to international students and again taking a
Speaker 21: step back, international students and the postgraduate work permits that
Speaker 21: come with it occupy about fifty percent of the temporary
Speaker 21: workers that are here in Canada. The programs that Randy
Speaker 21: administers about ten to fifteen percent, depending how you're counting.
Speaker 21: So the growth in the international student space, along with
Speaker 21: the postgraduate work permits that come with them, the espousal
Speaker 21: permits that come with them, are ones where we owe
Speaker 21: it to Canadians, and in the context of an economy
Speaker 21: where the labor market in some areas is constricting, we
Speaker 21: need to adjust accordingly. I would say that the measures
Speaker 21: that we've taken up to now are working. You have
Speaker 21: seen more than anecdotal evidence that there is been an
Speaker 21: impact on certain rental markets where students are more prevalent.
Speaker 21: And this is an announcement in advance of the annual
Speaker 21: level plan that I know a number of you are
Speaker 21: eager to hear me on that I will be announcing
Speaker 21: on November first, and integrating for the first time ever
Speaker 21: a fuller picture of what immigration looks like in our
Speaker 21: country and what we are projecting for the economy, for Canada,
Speaker 21: for our social cohesion for the next three years. So
Speaker 21: today I am announcing six additional measures and I'll go
Speaker 21: through them in a little bit of detail, because I
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Speaker 21: I announced its higher. As part of the first measure
Speaker 21: I'm taking, and that's because of Measure two, in which
Speaker 21: we are carving in masters and pH d programs. So,
Speaker 21: simply put, the international student cap is here to stay.
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Speaker 21: changes to yield approximately three hundred thousand fewer study permits
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Speaker 21: and c LB five for college graduates will be required
Speaker 21: for anyone applying for post graduation work permit on or
Speaker 21: after November one of twenty twenty four. We know that
Speaker 21: people that can speak the language are better equipped to
Speaker 21: succeed in Canadian society. This is a more stringent requirement
Speaker 21: that I think is very important if we are going
Speaker 21: to continue the successful story of integration of some of
Speaker 21: these people into Canadian Society fourth for prospective students applying
Speaker 21: HO or No after November one. Postgraduation work permit eligibility
Speaker 21: will depend on the level of study. Graduates from bachelors, masters,
Speaker 21: and doctoral degree programs will remain eligible for a work permit.
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Speaker 21: These graduates are more likely to acquire transferable knowledge and
Speaker 21: skills and be able to adapt to changing economic circumstances
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Speaker 21: Three years, we expect these changes to yield approximately one
Speaker 21: hundred and seventy five thousand fewer post graduate work permits.
Speaker 21: In the near future, will also take further measures to
Speaker 21: restrict eligibility to spousal open work permits.
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Speaker 21: The fifth measure that I'm announcing today will be the
Speaker 21: further limit work permit eligibility to spouses of students in
Speaker 21: doctoral and certain masters select professional programs in certain pilot programs,
Speaker 21: and over the next three years, we expect that measure,
Speaker 21: and these changes to yield approximately fifty thousand fewer work
Speaker 21: permits for the spouses of students groups and sixth unrelated
Speaker 21: to students and postgraduate work permits will also be limiting
Speaker 21: work permit eligibility to include only spouses of highly skilled
Speaker 21: specialized workers such as C suite executive scientists, engineers, lawyers,
Speaker 21: professors and technicians, or of workers and sectors where there
Speaker 21: are those key labor shortages. Spousers of workers and critical
Speaker 21: sectors like healthcare construction will also obviously continue to be
Speaker 21: eligible for those work permits. As a quantitative measure, again,
Speaker 21: over the next three years, we expect these changes to
Speaker 21: yield approximately one hundred thousand fewer work permits. Again, I
Speaker 21: do stress that these are estimates and obviously will need
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Speaker 21: Those measures that we have taken internally to be a
Speaker 21: little more restrictive on who gets visas UH looking at
Speaker 21: countries where we are seeing people exploiting the visa system.
Speaker 21: That is to say that those that are claiming for
Speaker 21: asylum are not legitimate asylum claimants. Is a challenge to
Speaker 21: the system, particularly given the volume of people that are
Speaker 21: looking to come to Canada. Again, as I said in French,
Speaker 21: it is a privilege to come to Canada, it is
Speaker 21: not a right. If you compare the numbers of people
Speaker 21: that have come in, for example, in one country where
Speaker 21: we have had some of those challenges, from India, we
Speaker 21: have seen those visas jump down from around fifty thousand
Speaker 21: in January to less than ten thousand in August. Again,
Speaker 21: these are preliminary numbers, but it is an indicative sign
Speaker 21: that the measures that we have taken over the summer
Speaker 21: after discussions with my provincial colleagues are working. There's more
Speaker 21: work to do, and again there are a number of
Speaker 21: measures that we need to take to make sure that
Speaker 21: when asylum seekers come to this country they get due process,
Speaker 21: but that there is no abuse in the system, and
Speaker 21: it is incumbent on the federal government to act when
Speaker 21: it controls the levers, particularly at the border. I want
Speaker 21: to say one final word on what I believe to
Speaker 21: be at least that the initial stage is a productive
Speaker 21: working group with a number of my colleague ministers of
Speaker 21: Labor and Immigration Skills Training, depending on the title they
Speaker 21: hold in the province that they represent. Over the course
Speaker 21: of the summer, at the Council of the Federation, all
Speaker 21: of the premiers got together and said that we needed
Speaker 21: to work as a group to deal with the asylum
Speaker 21: challenge that this country is facing and that a lot
Speaker 21: of countries in our position are facing, particularly with respect
Speaker 21: to the unsustainable numbers of asylum seekers coming into Quebec
Speaker 21: and coming in to Ontario. All premiers at that time
Speaker 21: agreed as a parallel process had been had already started
Speaker 21: the idea of a working group with my colleagues from
Speaker 21: the provinces to deal with this. We asked ourselves a
Speaker 21: fundamental question as part of our working group is what
Speaker 21: does a fair asylum system look like? That started first
Speaker 21: and foremost with the responsibility of the federal government to
Speaker 21: make sure that we are doing our role when it
Speaker 21: comes to bringing in addressing the number of asylum seekers
Speaker 21: coming into the country. But also the roles of the
Speaker 21: provinces that have the effect of jurisdiction on some of
Speaker 21: the services that these asylum seekers seek to do their part,
Speaker 21: and they all agreed to do so, and with the
Speaker 21: chairmanship of the Government of Canada and the Government of
Speaker 21: Nova Scotia, we work throughout the summer to look at
Speaker 21: different models of what would could this system look like.
Speaker 21: I'm taking a little bit of time to give you
Speaker 21: some background because I currently no longer think that that
Speaker 21: working group is actually helpful. I don't blame the bureaucrats
Speaker 21: in question. I don't blame the civil servants of our
Speaker 21: respective provinces and territories for having done their work. I
Speaker 21: don't blame my colleague ministers for putting their hearts into it.
Speaker 21: There was a lot of good faith at that table,
Speaker 21: but sadly, three particularly conservative ministers have stood up, the
Speaker 21: premiers of Nova Scotia, of New Brunswick and Alberta, and
Speaker 21: decided to weaponize this working group. They took a theoretical
Speaker 21: number of asylum seekers based on the last year's number
Speaker 21: of asylum seekers, divided it up by the populations as
Speaker 21: they would, and assumed that the federal government would impose
Speaker 21: a number of asylum seekers on them. Let me restate,
Speaker 21: Ontario and Quebec are doing more than their fair share,
Speaker 21: and the other provinces need to step up. But there
Speaker 21: was no point in time where anyone said that the
Speaker 21: federal government was going to impose thousands of asylum seekers
Speaker 21: on unprepared provinces. I should probably give you the documents
Speaker 21: that they themselves leaked, because it would probably be quite
Speaker 21: helpful for your analysis. But this was a productive working
Speaker 21: group that has been weaponized by three premiers in particular
Speaker 21: for their reelection or their.
Speaker 22: Or their leadership review.
Speaker 21: And I think it's really irresponsible those provinces come knocking
Speaker 21: at my door for more immigrants. They are responsible for
Speaker 21: about twenty percent of permanent residency numbers through the provincial
Speaker 21: nominee program. Quebec has the entire control over it's permanent
Speaker 21: residency program based on the Quebec Canada a Court, and
Speaker 21: there is a responsible way of doing things. This was
Speaker 21: not responsible, and they threw their own ministers under the bus,
Speaker 21: and they've made this productive working group much less productive.
Speaker 21: It doesn't mean we're giving up. I questioned the pertinence
Speaker 21: of this group given the fact that the documents have
Speaker 21: been leaked. It's unfortunate, but I do think there was
Speaker 21: a good faith around the table and we can work
Speaker 21: on an individual basis with these provinces to see which
Speaker 21: ones will stand up. There's money on the table, there's
Speaker 21: over a billion dollars that we've committed to making sure
Speaker 21: that we have a system that makes that make sense.
Speaker 21: There are countries in Europe that have a system that
Speaker 21: makes sense, and indeed the European Union has a system that,
Speaker 21: while they are facing different challenges than us, at least
Speaker 21: has some semblance of sense. So this is about these
Speaker 21: This is about a bunch of premiers who decided to
Speaker 21: weaponize the issue. Unfortunately, it's undermined the credibility of this
Speaker 21: committee and obviously that atering dissolving.
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