Sandra Cobena

CPC-4 is an amendment to clause 208 to amend proposed subsection 14(1) of the Red Tape Reduction Act.

Individually, yes, but this is in terms of my remarks.

CPC-2 amends clause 208 to add proposed section 12.1 to the Red Tape Reduction Act.

It amends clause 208 and would add sections 14.1 and 14.2 to the Red Tape Reduction Act.

That sounds good. Thank you. I am pleased to put forward amendments to division 5 of part 5 of this bill. As you all know, as it is currently written, this provision grants individual cabinet ministers the extraordinary power to exempt hand-picked individuals or entities from any federal law, with the exception of the Criminal Code. This is an immense concentration of power. It is clear that [more]

Madam Chair, if I may, in the interest of time, I will be speaking to CPC-1, CPC-2, CPC-3, CPC-4 and CPC-5. Is that okay with you? It's just to save time in making some remarks on the changes.

CPC-3 amends clause 208 to amend proposed paragraph 12(3)(b) of the Red Tape Reduction Act.

Mr. Speaker, when it comes to taking responsibility, the Liberal government has a long record of making excuses and getting very few results. After 10 years, Canadians are carrying record household debt, they are facing the highest food inflation in the G7 and they are living in the only shrinking economy in the G7. These are the consequences of policy choices that have driven up costs and made [more]

Mr. Speaker, according to Statistics Canada, over 100,000 jobs were lost in the first two months of this year. Today, Algoma Steel will be laying off 1,000 workers. These are families who are now left wondering how they are going to pay their bills and put food on their tables. After years of warning signs, the Liberal government continues to impose policies that weaken our competitiveness and [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. Ms. Ryan, I like one of the comments that you made at the beginning, in which you said that it is your intention to make an analysis that is well understood by the public. I particularly paid attention to that because, of course, we are in a scenario where you have two different accounting practices being used by the government. We have budget 2025, which was presented [more]

In your words, the budget is more of a political statement or a political paper. You have a government that ran on a slogan of “spend less and invest more”, but then, when Canadians were not looking, it changed definitions to reallocate $94 billion from expenses to investments. Would you agree that it was just for political reasons, then? There's no real benefit to the country in doing that, [more]