Caroline Desrochers

Mr. Speaker, I know that the city of Hamilton, which my colleague represents, is home to a port that is really pivotal to the commerce of the steel industry, just like the port of Trois-Rivières in my own riding, and is supporting thousands of jobs in his riding. I am wondering if my colleague could tell the House how this bill is going to accelerate the development and expansion of trade [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much, Mr. Bains, for your leadership in bringing this bill to the House. One Canadian Economy Act I think it's a very important project. As parliamentary secretary for housing and infrastructure, I think it's very timely. We know that we are looking to double the rate of construction in the housing sector over the next 10 years. To do that, we'll [more]

Would you say this bill is also about bringing efficiencies, not to the construction but to the building industry at large and the skilled trades workers?

Would you say that in this uncertain environment we're facing, this is going to make sure that skilled trades workers have every opportunity to pursue work across Canada and not be limited to one province?

C-38 Mr. Speaker, we are here today to talk about Bill. Everyone knows that we have been experiencing tumultuous times for over a year now. During the 2025 election, we made a firm commitment to be there to help Canadians, and that is what we have been doing since our new government took office. We have introduced measures to improve affordability for Canadians. We are also laying the foundation [more]

Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question. We actually just made an announcement today regarding the Canada rental protection fund. We have now opened applications for the Canadian housing acquisition fund, which will preserve existing affordable housing to ensure that it is not put back on the market at a higher rent after being renovated. We are investing $1.5 billion in the Canadian housing [more]

Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we listen to Canadians. We held pre-budget consultations. We travel around our ridings and listen to what people have to say. Canadians elected us in 2025 based on the plan, the real plan that we submitted to them, with figures no less. They elected us on that basis. We made a commitment to Canadians that we would keep moving these measures forward, and [more]

Mr. Speaker, I talked about the Canada groceries and essentials benefit in my speech, as did some of my colleagues. These are all measures that are helping Canadian families cope with higher grocery costs. On top of that, we also created a national food security strategy, which will really help the food processing sector and help lower grocery costs.

Mr. Speaker, the new school year is well under way in Trois‑Rivières, and I want to wish all of our students, teachers and staff a wonderful school year. Again this summer, the Canada summer jobs program provided about 250 young people in Trois‑Rivières with their first work experience and the opportunity to get involved in organizations that make a real difference in our community, including [more]

Mr. Speaker, I was very curious to hear my colleague talk about how the Conservatives have been keeping up the fight to maintain affordability for Canadians. I find that a bit ironic. If that is the case, I am wondering if my colleague could explain why they voted time and time again against all measures of affordability for Canadians, including the dental care plan, the tax break for 22 million [more]

Mr. Chair, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak again. Out of respect for the members who have travelled to be here, but who should be in their ridings right now and speaking with their constituents, I would just like to make one point. Some members have suggested that we are filibustering, but that's not at all what we're doing. I thank my colleagues for proposing the [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I thank my colleagues for convening this important meeting. It is indeed important to discuss everything the opposition wants to talk about, so this is welcome. I'd like to start by correcting a few points. First of all, I know this was raised during the points of order, but the agreement has been released. The original 2012 agreement was made public quite a [more]

Thank you for that latitude, Mr. Chair. The bottom line is that this was the best course of action for taxpayers in the current context. The agreement in principle, as the members can see.... Going back to the motion, I know the motion is calling to see all the clauses. It's been public since July 22. Again, I invite my colleagues to go online and read it. It also explicitly preserves the 2012 [more]

I have a point of order.

I'd just like to remind the member that all of the documents she's talking about are actually public. They were made public.

Mr. Speaker, I do not know where my colleague is getting his information, but I would encourage him to refresh his search skills, because then he would see that we added 88,000 new jobs to the economy, that the cost of rent is starting to drop and that wages are on the rise. However, we know that too many Canadians are still unable to cope with the high cost of living. We cut taxes for 22 [more]

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Boozary. Mr. Miles, thank you again for sharing your experience and for the work you do every day in your community and with your peers as you try to support them. You talked about the difficulty in accessing information and in figuring out where someone is on the list. What would have been helpful when you were going through this? We're trying to be better at integrating and [more]