Caroline Desrochers

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]

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]

I have a point of order.

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]

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, Mr. Chair. Firstly, I would like to thank the witnesses for joining us this morning, in particular Mr. Miles and Mr. Thiessen. I thank them for sharing their experiences with us. I also want to thank my colleague, the member from Parry Sound—Muskoka, for his opening statement and his willingness to work together across parties on this key issue. I really appreciate it. I want to [more]

I'll continue on this. In a previous conversation, you and I talked about the cost. The provinces have a limited amount of fiscal capacity, but there are costs of homelessness outside of the human costs—which are the most important—in terms of hospital stays, ER visits and incarceration. How can we better make the case there? Do you have data that you could share with the committee on that, or [more]

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

Thank you, Mr. Joseph. As we can see, this is quite an emotional moment. I would like to thank all the witnesses who have shared their experiences with us today. I had a question for Mr. Thiessen earlier. How can the system, at all levels, better help? We talked about prevention. Who could have caught that you were in the situation you were in when you were young? How could we have done [more]

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]

Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 250th anniversary of the battle of Trois‑Rivières, a historic milestone that occurred on June 8, 1776, in my beautiful riding. At the time, the American colonies were trying to make Canada and Quebec their fourteenth colony. However, they suffered a crushing defeat at Trois‑Rivières and retreated. That battle marked a turning point. It helped to preserve our [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am curious about something. If the Conservatives are so constructive, I would like the member to tell me, of the hundreds of hours the Conservatives spent speaking on this bill in committee, how many minutes, because, yes, we are talking in terms of minutes, were spent discussing the actual subject at hand.