Melissa Lantsman

Mr. Speaker, Amanda Todd held up flashcards because she believed that the people who would know her story would then act. In the case of Carson Cleland, also from B.C., his parents spoke out during the hardest days of their lives because he had hoped that people would act. They did their part. I think it is incumbent on this House to truly look at this legislation very carefully and make sure [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am going to split my time. The Kids Are Alright The Kids Aren't Alright In 1965, The Who sang. In 1998, The Offspring answered that with. That was before Instagram and Snapchat and before strangers across the world could come into a child's bedroom. Today, that answer is truer than ever, and I think most would agree in the House the kids are not all right. They are being hooked [more]

Mr. Speaker, the legislation is really unclear about the commission, and that is the answer we are trying to seek in the House. It could be three to five and it could be one, and that one is left up to regulation after the legislation. minister The question that we have in the House is to make it clear. I know the member opposite has read the legislation so I am not suggesting that he has not, [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is very much agreement with the member who just asked the question. It is hard to vote on something that you know halfway. We do not know anything about this commission. We do have a very live example in one of our country's closest allies, where pieces of this did not work. We know that putting 20 different social media companies into a piece of legislation just drives people [more]

Mr. Speaker, in just the time that it took the member to answer that question, Canadian taxpayers were forced to pay $112,000. That $112,000 will not pay for one of the government's social programs. In five out of the last six quarters, investment has been down in this country, despite what the member says. That is Liberal hypocrisy in a nutshell. Their fiscal recklessness means less money today [more]

Mr. Speaker, if the budget looks like the last budget, then I understand completely why government members would not want to be questioned on it, not on a Friday and not on a Monday. The government introducing a budget on a Thursday before a break week, and then taking that next week, tells us everything we need to know. That is why this motion is so important. Prime Minister It is important to [more]

Mr. Speaker, the deputy leader of the Conservative Party says that the House leader is a failure. His answer was a failure, and all of those programs that he has introduced in the House are failures, because everything is worse than it was before he started.

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, the member opposite can absolutely ask that question of thewhen he comes to committee.

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, the Canada health transfer child benefit, EI, the child benefit and equalization payments do not have much in common, but they do have one thing in common: Canada spends less money on each of those than it does on interest on the debt. After the Liberals doubled the national debt, thedoubled the deficit in his first year alone. Eleven cents of every federal dollar is [more]

Mr. Speaker, the member just listed a grand list of failures. Everything the government has put forward in a program has failed Canadians because there are more Canadians eating food from a food bank than there were before the government started its food program. Everything is getting worse under the government, and all of those programs are a drop in the bucket compared to what those families [more]

Leader of the Opposition Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the. I want to set the scene. It is Friday night in a kitchen somewhere in this country. The kids are asleep. A mother sits alone at a table, with a paycheque in one hand and a stack of bills in the other. She lays them out side by side, and she adds them up once. Then she adds them up again, and then a third time. On the [more]

Mr. Speaker, we certainly want to reduce taxes for every single Canadian family for as long as possible, and we want to do it by cutting the frivolous spending of the Liberal government, the spending that continues to go up and that charges Canadians interest on its borrowed dime.

Mr. Speaker, we voted on a very simple motion in the House today. Again I will remind other members that they stood up and voted against it, recognizing that Canada is in an affordability crisis. There is a problem with these temporary measures that do not go far enough. Coupled with the vote today, if someone does not recognize and does not admit to themselves that we are in an affordability [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, thepromised the fastest-growing economy in the G7, and it is actually shrinking. He should read his briefing notes. In 2021, the interest on the debt cost $25 billion. This year, it is nearly $60 billion. That will be $83 billion by 2030. That is not money for nurses. It is not money for housing or groceries. It is interest. The minister knows that Canadians cannot [more]

Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for. I want to bring members back to a couple of hours ago when the House voted on a motion. We had a very simple vote on a very simple motion earlier today. I will read the text for everybody watching at home just so they see how simple it was. It reads: That the House officially recognize that: (a) [more]

Mr. Speaker, I wish the member had listened to my speech before he asked the question. Of course we will vote for affordability measures. Of course we will vote for tax cuts. It is a small piece of relief for families that need it. However, we want the Liberals to recognize that a whole lot more needs to be done. It was needed well before the member got here and will be needed well after he is [more]

Mr. Speaker, I know that the member came here with a prepared speech to read to another member without listening to their speech, but I will just make something clear to the member opposite: One of the biggest reasons is that the government, in less than 10 years, went from a $25-billion deficit to a $60-billion deficit, only to go to an $83-billion deficit by 2030. That is a 232% increase. It is [more]