Gabriel Hardy
- Career
- Owner and CEO of Gym Le Chalet and Tonic Gym & CrossFit
- Political Experience
- Elected Member of Parliament for Montmorency—Charlevoix in the 2025 Canadian federal election; candidate for Québec 21 in the 2021 Quebec City municipal election
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Caroline Desbiens won with 19,970 votes (33.6%)
Total votes cast: 59,407
How does Gabriel Hardy's voting record line up with your values?
Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, thesaid here in the House that the cost of living is the best it has been in a decade, but that has not been Canadians' experience. According to a CBC article, some people have even resorted to starting GoFundMe campaigns to pay for basic necessities. Roughly 15,000 crowdfunding campaigns have been launched to help people pay for their groceries, rent and even some
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals rise here to talk to us about programs when we are asking them to stop doing what is not working and to make decisions so that Canadians can finally make ends meet. Let us look at one of their programs. Their groceries program will pay out $16.50 twice a year to Canadians who earn $53,000, yet the cost of groceries has increased by $1,000 in one year for a family of
So the commissioner doesn't have the power to do that. Actually, my question was a bit odd, because I already knew the answer. The question I wanted to ask though is the following: How many times has a lobbyist who has not complied with the act gone to jail or received a fine? When the RCMP came to testify here the last time, we were told on a number of occasions that it didn't happen
It simply shows that your work is important, because you are responsible for something that nonetheless serves to maintain trust in our institutions. Earlier, you talked about the trade-off between the pressure on lobbyists to register and show all the work they do, on the one hand, and the administrative burden involved on the other. One might say it's a question of the balance of convenience.
I suppose we agree that, if a person does this on a full-time or part-time basis, whether they are paid or not, if the ultimate objective is to change public policy decisions by lobbying, they must be subject to the same rules. Whether I am rich or poor, if I drive down the highway at 200 kilometers per hour, I will be stopped and will suffer the same consequences as everyone else. We were just
Let's talk about what you just said. In 2012, your department, the Treasury Board Secretariat, said that lobbyists met the deadlines, with no incidents and minimal administrative burden, in particular thanks to a website that was perfected, among other things. If your site has improved over time and, in 2012, there wasn't a problem with the structure or the way it looks, what has happened since
Yes.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here. Mr. Gear, I listened carefully to what you said at the outset. The Treasury Board Secretariat is responsible for the Lobbying Act. So it's your responsibility. You said that the goal was to improve public trust in the work we do here in Parliament and in our institutions. Is that correct?