Tako Van Popta

This is a good segue for me to quote a trusted institution—at least, I think it's a trusted institution—in Canada, and that is the Bank of Canada. I want to quote Carolyn Rogers, who is the senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada. This is a two-year-old speech that she gave about productivity or lagging metrics of productivity. “Productivity” is a term economists use in measuring how [more]

Thank you to all the witnesses for being here and for sharing your wisdom and knowledge and experience. Amanda Munday, I'll start with you. You were quoted in a CBC article by Natalia Goodwin on April 7, 2025, just three weeks or so before the election. In it, you are quoted as stating, “It is a misconception that youth don't want to vote,” and I agree that it is a misconception. Certainly in [more]

Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague from Peace River—Westlock that Alberta grain-fed beef is the best in the world. I love our friends from Great Britain, and I want them to benefit from Alberta grain-fed beef, but here is another thing. I love people from Ontario, and I want them to benefit from the best wine in Canada, British Columbia wine. I know it is not the topic of the day, but can my [more]

Mr. Speaker, a couple of weeks ago, I had a round of questions in question period about Canada's housing affordability crisis hitting young people particularly hard. Normally, supply meets demand, which is just economics 101, but the current real estate market is in such a state of imbalance that the new homes that buyers want and can afford are just not being built. That was the basis of my [more]

Mr. Speaker, if all that wishful thinking would actually solve the problem, we would not have a problem. I think the member will agree that we actually do face a housing affordability crisis. I just want to give a couple of examples of the government getting in the way. In a British Columbia setting, we have the provincial government chasing away investment dollars that drive the pre-sale [more]

C-13 Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, Billis about bringing the United Kingdom into the comprehensive trade agreement with the Pacific. The member for Courtenay—Alberni mentioned frozen pensions for U.K. pensioners who decide to retire here in Canada. It seems deeply unfair, particularly since the U.K. does not do that for other countries like the United States. As a matter of fact, it seems to be [more]

C-13 Mr. Speaker, Billis the bill by which the United Kingdom will be brought into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP. All of the other countries, and I believe there are 11 of them besides Canada, accept beef imports and pork imports from Canada, yet the United Kingdom is putting up non-tariff barriers to that. I wonder if the member could comment [more]

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech on Canada accepting the U.K. into the CPTPP. It is my understanding that Canada trades freely with the other countries in that agreement with respect to beef and pork. Do Canadians have a legitimate concern that the government has failed to come to that agreement with the United Kingdom?

I'm sorry to interrupt, but the scrum isn't peripheral issues. Those are the issues that the media think are important.

Okay. Now you're saying that the expenditures have been dropping over the last couple of years. To what do you credit that?

Thank you. I want to talk about bias in the media. I'm reading from your website. It's an excerpt from the “Quebec Press Council Guide of Journalism Ethics”. Point number 6.2 states, “The news media must under no circumstances let their commercial, political, ideological or other interests take precedence over the legitimate interest of the public in quality information, nor restrict the [more]