Gabriel Hardy

Mr. Speaker, according to Le Journal de Québec, the Liberal government has paid out over $211 million in cost overruns to Accenture, an external IT consulting firm. Accenture recruits developers for the Cúram system and outsources the jobs to India. Both there and here in Canada, Accenture is one of the largest tenants of a company the Prime Minister knows well: Brookfield. Prime Minister Has it [more]

Mr. Speaker, according to the Auditor General, the immigration system for international students is completely out of control. In just one year, as many as 150,000 fraudulent international student applications may have been submitted, and less than 3% were investigated by the government. This is not complicated: The Liberals have completely lost control of immigration, but they continue to issue [more]

I'm going to draw a parallel. There's a striped bass fishery In Montmorency—Charlevoix. Fishers are telling us the same thing. They can't believe how many fish they're seeing, they're catching a ton of it, but they don't have the right to keep it. They call the department, and they're told that what they're seeing is an illusion, that there aren't enough fish and that they shouldn't catch them. [more]

I'll stop you for two seconds: If they don't have the right to fish or fishing is limited, their data is limited as well, so that skews your calculations, doesn't it?

I'm going to start with some questions for Mr. Robert. Thank you for being with us. This is one of my first times on this committee, and I notice that the science and the fishers who actually do the work don't seem to agree. In my riding, Montmorency—Charlevoix, fishers regularly tell me that there's a huge abundance of striped bass, but officials tell them there aren't enough and they have to [more]

So these aren't just perceptions.

My children are still in school, and in the math equations, if they start off wrong, the result won't be right at the end. At school, they give points for effort. In your case, however, for fishers, it's costing them their careers; they don't get any points for effort. My question is for both of you. Do you think that scientists see your knowledge as science as well or, conversely, do you get [more]

As Mr. Barlow was saying earlier, I sometimes get the impression that people think you're pulling estimates out of thin air. However, these are not just perceptions. You have data. You have sonar. You have equipment, after all. It may not be high science, but it's still data. You're able to show that the resource is there.

I agree with you. However, what they are telling us here is that, in a few minutes, they're able to reach your limits, and then they're no longer allowed to fish any other species; after that, they're told that there isn't enough stock and therefore that they can't fish any more. In a way, there's a disconnect. I think it's extremely important that one day we connect with fishers and listen to [more]

Mr. Speaker, at a time when families are struggling to pay their bills, oddly enough, the Liberals are able to find tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to help their well-connected friends. There is nothing confusing about that. Anyone who wants to be successful in Canada today has to be a Brookfield shareholder or has to have Liberal friends in the federal Parliament. The Liberals gave a [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is because of news like this that folks are losing faith in our institutions. The Liberals are saying that everything was done properly and that there was no favouritism. That is great. They should have no problem proving it. Can the Liberals confirm today that no ministers, no members of cabinet and no Liberal insiders were involved at all in this matter? Will they commit to [more]

Mr. Speaker, in Montmorency—Charlevoix, like everywhere else in the country, families are working hard and making the right choices. People get up every morning and go to work. They pay their taxes. They want to build a better life for their children. Today, however, there is one vital thing that eludes far too many young families, workers, and seniors: the ability to find suitable, reasonably [more]