Sandra Cobena

Mr. Speaker, yes, I share those thoughts. Prime Minister We are talking about an affordability crisis. The funny thing is that the country is in a massive deficit, but thehas changed accounting definitions so that he can take a marker, cross off those expenses and label them as investments. Canadians do not have that luxury. Unfortunately, under the Liberal government, that luxury is reserved [more]

Mr. Speaker, I think the member is missing the point. I wish the Liberals would listen. The member, again, is saying to these families they should be happy they have this government program to depend on. He is not saying the government wants them to provide for themselves, it wants their hard work to mean something and it wants them to get back on their own two feet. He and the Liberals are [more]

Montmorency—Charlevoix Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for. The Liberals have been in power for 11 years. Canadians are living through an affordability crisis and they deserve a government that acknowledges it. Whenever we stand up for Canadians who cannot afford their groceries or rent, the Liberals respond with a laundry list of programs. They tell us how much money they [more]

Mr. Speaker, there have been two questions from the Liberal benches and not once have the Liberals recognized that there is an affordability crisis, which is at the heart of the problem today. The Liberals can get up and list all of the government programs, but what Canadians are saying, which the Liberals refuse to listen to after sharing hundreds of stories from Canadians, is they want to be [more]

Mr. Speaker, the reality is that if a CEO invented new financial definitions that were used nowhere else in the world and then applied them inconsistently, shareholders would wonder if he did not know how to budget or if he was trying to manipulate the budget. Prime Minister Thestood in front of international investors and said that he would balance the operating budget a year early, but he is [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, thesold Canadians on his financial credentials, and then when they were not looking, he took advantage of that trust by inventing financial definitions used nowhere else in the world. He relabelled $94 billion of expenses as investments. This is like calling a grocery bill an investment. The former PBO and the IMF called them out, and now the new PBO has gone even [more]

Mr. Speaker, if a CEO took control of a company and invented new financial definitions to make the books look better, shareholders would have questions, but if he could not even apply those definitions consistently, they would ask if he even understood his own definitions. This is exactly what is happening with Canada's finances. Prime Minister Theinvented new definitions used nowhere else in [more]

S-209 Mr. Speaker, there should be some things in this House that rise above politics, and protecting our children is one of them. That is why Billhas earned support from across party lines and across political traditions. Whether we sit on the government benches or the opposition benches, or whether we are Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Bloc or independent, surely we can agree on something this [more]

When you look at the decision and how it was made, it was, of course, made confidentially because of the concerns around stakeholder reactions. What are your thoughts on how this decision was made, and how veterans and veterans organizations were apparently not even openly told about the transfer?

I agree 100%. We think about this broadly too. What message does it send to our youth when they see the government giving up on veterans at the end of their careers? What incentive is there for youth to join and serve?

Absolutely. Thank you for that. I have a couple of questions for Ms. Blackburn, if I may. They're along the same lines of this news that $3 million intended to help homeless veterans was transferred out. What is your reaction? You run the food bank for veterans.

Of course, the explanation that the department couldn't find enough veterans in need to spend the money is contrary to what we see in our communities. Is that the reality? Are there not enough veterans in need who could have used this funding?

Thank you, Chair. My questions are for Mr. McKay. Mr. McKay, you're a veteran. Thank you for your service, sir, and for being with us today. As you may already know, $3 million was transferred out of a program to aid homeless veterans after it was claimed that it couldn't find ex-military personnel in need. Could you please give us your reaction to that, and what the veteran community feels [more]

What message do you think transferring this money sends to veterans who are currently struggling to find stable housing?

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the Liberals are driving the economy down. Thehimself said that we are in a trade war, but the projects we need to fight it are years, if not decades, away. The port of Churchill has no firm completion date. Gull Island hydro is 2037. Major LNG projects are into the 2030s. The Vancouver port expansion is years away. We cannot fight a trade war with [more]