Melissa Lantsman

C-5 C-39 Madam Speaker, the member is certainly right that there are concerns with the legislation. A major concern with the legislation is it is not going to deliver what it says it is going to deliver. We saw that in the past. We see that with the Major Projects Office. We see that with Bill. Now we see it potentially with Bill. As I said before, we are going to take the time to scrutinize the [more]

Madam Speaker, if the Liberals' past behaviour is any indication of their future behaviour, I am not sure we have much to look forward to. As an opposition, we are going to fight to get projects built and we are going to fight for every single Canadian to live an affordable life in this country.

C-5 C-39 Madam Speaker, the Liberals can change their leader, they can change their buzzwords and they can change the legislation number from Billto Bill, but they cannot change a record. They cannot change the legacy that Stephen Harper left in this country and I am glad to talk about it. Prime Minister Under Stephen Harper's government, we had the richest middle class in the world. A young [more]

C-39 Mr. Speaker, let us talk about Bill, the building Canada strong act, not to be confused with the Building Canada Act or whatever act was before that. Prime Minister C-69 C-48 C-5 Nearly 18 months ago, thepromised that we would build “at speeds not seen in generations”. A year and a half later, the situation is dire, and I think most Canadians would agree. Not a single major project has gone [more]

Madam Speaker, it is not about whether we are friends with labour. It is about whether labour supports a party that supports it. In the last election, it certainly came over in droves and the member knows it. I wish the member would speak this vigorously against the inflation that is driving down the paycheques of every single worker in this country. I wish he would stand up for labour when it [more]

Mr. Speaker, if any of those plans worked, we would not hear story after story of struggling Canadians. The numbers are the numbers, and no amount of Liberal promises without results is going to change that. However, it is not just about the numbers. It is about real people, and that is why one in four employed Canadians is now living paycheque to paycheque in this country. That is why I hear [more]

Mr. Speaker, despite the assurances, the endless commitments and the half measures from Liberal Ottawa, Canada's affordability crisis is bad and is getting worse. The National Payroll Institute just revealed that half of employed Canadians now spend all or more of their net pay, with no savings and more debt. Meanwhile, the OECD is cutting Canada's growth forecast while raising forecasts for [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is rare when I agree with my NDP colleague, but a clock is right twice a day. He is right about one thing. This place was shut down for three months, and nobody from the government, including a whole bunch of backbench Liberal MPs who probably do not know the answer because they are not in the know either, along with a number of ministers, would answer to the Canadian people on [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is a day into the session, and there is nothing from the government to fix the affordability crisis on rent, on mortgages and on groceries. This is at a time when Canadians pay more in taxes than they do for bare essentials: Canadians such Olesya, who told me that she is going into credit card debt just to cover rent and food for her family, or Ariella, a student who wonders if [more]

Mr. Speaker, I will start off where I ended just before question period, just to say that one tax cut on one product does not undo an affordability crisis 11 years in the making. Let us just be clear about where Canadians actually stand today. Nearly one in four families cannot afford the housing they live in. One in 10 people in Toronto relies on a food bank. Gas still sits over $1.80 a litre [more]

Battle River—Crowfoot Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for. It is good to be back in the House doing the work that Canadians sent us here to do. I think everyone agrees that it has been a long summer for the Canadian economy, for our trade relationships and for families, especially for families watching their bills climb faster than their paycheques. For three months, the [more]

Mr. Speaker, again, we get all talk and no results. The minister does not need to take lessons from us, but he should take lessons from or at least listen to Olesya and Ariella. We believe that money belongs in the hands of the people who earned it instead of in the hands of the government that continues to tax it. We have identified $150 billion in irresponsible spending here in Ottawa on [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is still all talk and no results, and we will continue to see no results. What we cannot do with commitments on projects that cannot get built in this country is fill a car full of gas. We cannot put food on the table. We cannot pay our mortgage. Every single Canadian who is scratching their head wondering what these summits and MOUs mean for affordability in this country is going [more]

Mr. Speaker, the answer is simple: It is a whole lot more. What I want to say is, on this side of the House, for the last 11 years, we had members turning themselves in circles, screaming about burning the earth down because we would lower the price of gas in this country. Let us make no mistake about it, they can go a lot further. They can scrap the clean fuel standard and make sure to take 15¢ [more]

Mr. Chair, I have a point of order.

I'm wondering if that member's prepared notes have anything to do with the motion, because we've heard a lot of this but nothing yet on the motion.

I'm moving that the motion be amended, after the words “Bridge Authority”, with the following: “e. Additional witnesses that will help the committee fully understand the economic impact of the deal, including from impacted businesses and workers”. I think with that, you can probably support the motion.

What we don't know—

I'm just wondering if there's anything in the member's notes relevant to the motion.