Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Quebec. I always enjoy debating with him in the House. Prime Minister When people in my riding ask me what we are doing to strengthen the Canadian economy, I am proud to tell them about our's and our government's leadership and about all of the work that we have done over the past 18 months to make Canada's economy stronger, more unified and [more]

Mr. Speaker, my riding is home to a number of projects and a great deal of momentum. The bill will provide a clear regulatory framework for people who want to invest in projects in northern New Brunswick. For example, responses about federal permits will be delivered within a year, providing predictability. When it comes to transport, we want to make our ports more efficient. New Brunswick has [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, in April 2025, we were elected with a clear mandate to strengthen, diversify and unite the Canadian economy. Over the past 18 months, ourand our government have shown real leadership in advancing these objectives. Last year, we began by establishing a framework to support major nation-building projects. In budget 2025, we put forward various tax incentives to [more]

C‑39 Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that we, as members of the House of Commons, have several days to discuss Bill. I am pleased that we can exchange ideas here, at the heart of our Canadian democracy. I am also looking forward to following the committee's work on this. Many witnesses will share their points of view. All members, including opposition members, will have an opportunity to comment. [more]

Thank you, Mr. Sorensen. You mentioned that you take the recommendations of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada very seriously. Can you give us some real examples of recommendations that were implemented following a commissioner's report?

Mr. Sorensen, I was referring more to the reports of the Commissioner of Official Languages. Under the Official Languages Act, there are obligations to meet and, when there are violations, complaints are filed and investigation reports are produced. In your first answer, you said that you take the recommendations of the Commissioner of Official Languages very seriously. I would therefore like to [more]

Thank you. Mr. Sorensen, the next CEO has been hired and is someone who masters both official languages. It would have been hard to do otherwise, given what happened last spring. Will you commit to ensuring that all future Air Canada CEOs are bilingual? Is that an essential condition? If so, could you make it a company policy so that we never again have an Air Canada CEO who doesn't speak French?

Mr. Sorensen, thank you for joining us. You've been chair of the board of directors at Air Canada for almost a decade now, so your testimony is all the more interesting in the context of today's meeting. There have been major linguistic controversies at Air Canada in recent years, including the hiring of a unilingual anglophone CEO, the speech he gave at the chamber of commerce and the [more]

We're not necessarily talking about a decision on the company's day-to-day operations here. We're talking about a policy. Under the Official Languages Act, an impact analysis must be conducted after a decision is made. In this case, the impact analysis doesn't seem to have been done. My question is not necessarily about current operations. Will the impact analysis of this decision be done in the [more]

Thank you, Mr. Sorensen. I'm sorry to interrupt, but we're running out of time. Finally, the commissioner tabled an investigation report in July 2026 following a complaint about flights between Montreal and Bathurst no longer being offered. One of its recommendations is to do an impact analysis of this decision in the next six months to see what can be done to mitigate the negative impacts. [more]

Thank you. I was really talking about the Official Languages Act, particularly the obligations under Part VII, not necessarily the Canada Transportation Act. Thank you for your testimony today. We appreciate it.

Mr. Speaker, my colleague began his remarks by talking about the kind of society we want and what we want for our country's future. On this side of the House, we have a plan that translates into concrete measures aimed at strengthening the Canadian economy and making it more resilient, to ensure we have a stronger Canadian economy that gives us the fiscal capacity to support measures like the one [more]

Mr. Speaker, in his speech, my colleague shared stories of constituents in his riding having to do with the cost of living. What does he tell people when they ask him, “Why did you vote against a tax cut that could help me if I am in the middle class? Why did you vote against the national school food program for my school-aged children? Why did you vote against affordable child care services for [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear my colleague mention that, for once, the Conservatives will support a measure that will put money back in Canadians' pockets. However, I cannot help but note some hypocrisy in my colleague's speech. She mentioned that affordability should not be simply a slogan. However, when we look at her voting record, we see that she voted against almost all of the measures [more]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to finish this discussion with my colleague. Tonight, we are talking about affordability; we are not discussing all the other points he could have raised in his speech. If affordability is important to him, why has he consistently voted against our measures, whether it be tax cuts for the middle class, Canada's national school food program or all the other measures we [more]

Mr. Speaker, my colleague is one of the most experienced members of the House in terms of years of service. In fact, she served for nearly a decade on the government side during the Harper years. In her speech, she was quite critical of our government's economic policies, which aim to strengthen the Canadian economy and make it more resilient. Her former leader, Mr. Harper, spoke at our recent [more]

Mr. Speaker, in her response to my question, my colleague talked about the need for more doing and less talking. However, over the past year and a half, we have implemented meaningful measures. We have made Canada's national school food program permanent. We have lowered taxes for more than 21 million Canadians. That is in addition to all the other measures we implemented in budget 2025 and the [more]

Mr. Speaker, the content of my Conservative colleagues' speeches will never cease to surprise me, I think, because there seems to be a real disconnect between what they say and reality. The reality is that Canadians expect us to work to make the economy stronger and more resilient. That means diversifying our economic partnerships abroad. We need to maintain a relationship with the United [more]

Mr. Speaker, this evening, I want to recognize that we are working together to pass this bill. This is a good example of what we can accomplish when we work together, something that we are not used to seeing from the Conservative opposition. I would therefore like to know whether this is a sign of things to come in this fall parliamentary session. Will the Conservatives finally understand that [more]