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View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I do think if people want to speak about graceful or disgraceful behaviour, we have to be careful to follow the rules.
I think it is absolutely correct and legitimate, when it comes to talking about our entire relationship with China, to take into account issues of human rights and, in particular, the arbitrary detention of these two brave Canadians, and I certainly do.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, as I said, I think that we need to look very carefully, when we think about all aspects of our relationship with China and put as a priority the detention of these two brave Canadians, and we need to ensure we have the support of our allies in doing that.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, let me say how delighted I am to learn that the member opposite is concerned about the environment, and let me say I hope that he and his party will support the price on carbon our government has introduced.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I think it is very appropriate to raise the issue of the Uighurs, which was discussed just ahead of this meeting of the committee of the whole, and as I said at the beginning of this conversation, I absolutely believe that the appalling treatment of the Uighurs, the situation in Hong Kong and, first and foremost, the detention of two brave Canadians needs to be—
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, let me welcome the enthusiasm of the member opposite for a gender-based lens and for intersectionality, and let me offer to the member opposite and all members of his party a briefing on our government's approach to gender-based analysis in the budget process.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, as I said, and it would be interesting to hear the view of the member opposite, I am very glad to hear his enthusiasm for a gender-based analysis, and that is something that maybe we should all be talking about a little more.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I am indeed the finance minister, and I am aware of that. Let me simply say that when it comes to our relationship with China, I actually agree with some of the intent of the questions the member has been asking, and I do think we need to take into account particularly the appalling treatment of the Uighurs.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I am glad to hear finally a question about Canadian businesses, because it gives me a chance to remind all Canadians that more than 870,000 Canadian businesses have benefited from a program of our government, the CEBA loans.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, let me say what value for money is. Value for money is the government's investments in supporting Canadian businesses and Canadian workers. Our wage subsidy program alone has supported more than 5.3 million jobs—
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, let me say how delighted I am to hear the Conservatives supporting gender rights and a clean environment. I really hope we will see them supporting this budget, which is a feminist budget and makes unprecedented investments in a green transition.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I too have great respect for the member opposite. I was his critic when he was trade minister.
Let me say what I am disappointed by. I am disappointed by this faux concern for clean investment and a gender-based budget analysis. I am really disappointed by an unwillingness to tell Canadians the truth about our budget, which is that it makes unprecedented and essential investments in Canada's long-term growth.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we have done everything necessary to protect the lives and the livelihoods of Canadians, to help our businesses weather the storm and to position Canada for a robust, resilient and sustainable recovery.
As certain regions in Canada start to reopen, we must remember that we are not done fighting the virus. Our determination to win this fight and provide Canadians the support they need is stronger than ever.
This year's budget, which I tabled on April 19 and which Bill C-30 would enact, meets the three fundamental challenges facing Canadians right now.
First, we must defeat COVID. That means buying vaccines and supporting provincial and territorial health care systems. It means enforcing quarantine rules and it means providing Canadians and Canadian businesses with the help they need to get through lockdowns and to fully recover when COVID is defeated. COVID will be defeated. Vaccines are available to Canadians in ever-growing quantities, and they are working. More than 60% of adult Canadians have received their first dose of the vaccine. Canadians are doing their part and getting vaccinated. My thanks go to team Canada. Together we can do this.
Second, we must punch our way out of this COVID recession. That means making sure that hard-hit businesses can rebound, start growing and start hiring again. It also means helping the people who have been the hardest hit by this recession: women, young people, racialized Canadians, low-wage workers and small businesses. We are doing just that. When fully enacted, this budget will create nearly 500,000 new training and work opportunities for Canadians.
Our third major challenge is to create long-term economic growth and to build a more resilient Canada, a country that is better, more fair, more prosperous and more innovative. That is why we intend to invest ambitiously in the green transition and the new jobs that come with it, in digital transformation and innovation, and in infrastructure like housing, transit and the trade corridors that we need as a dynamic, growing country.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous pressure on our health care systems. That is why, in Bill C-30, we propose to provide $4 billion through the Canada health transfer to help the provinces and territories ease the immediate pressure on their health care systems.
Additional funds for health care will help pay for the many different procedures that had to be delayed because of the pandemic. This will help build the resilience of our health care systems. That is what Canadians deserve and need.
A full recovery from COVID requires a new, long-term investment in social infrastructure. That means providing early learning and child care, student grants and income top-ups, so that the middle class can flourish and more Canadians can join the middle class. We know that without child care, parents, usually mothers, cannot work outside the home. That is more painfully clear now than ever. We intend to invest $30 billion over five years, reaching $9.2 billion annually, to provide high-quality, affordable and accessible early learning and child care across Canada. Our goal is an average cost of $10 a day across the country within five years.
In making this commitment, I thank Quebec's feminists, who have led the way for the rest of Canada. I am very grateful to them.
To minimize economic scarring and to power a robust recovery, we must bridge Canadian businesses through to the end of this crisis. The wage subsidy, rent subsidy and lockdown support had been set to expire next month. This budget extends these measures through to September 25, 2021.
In order to help those who still cannot work, we will maintain flexible access to employment insurance for another year, until fall 2022. Furthermore, to support Canadians who are not covered by employment insurance, the Canada recovery benefit will be extended by 12 weeks.
We are also proposing a four-week extension of the Canada recovery caregiving benefit, which would bring it to a maximum of 42 weeks at $500 a week. Similarly, the employment insurance sickness benefit period will be increased from 15 weeks to 26 weeks. These measures provide tangible and measurable assistance to the people who need help now.
As we build a resilient recovery, it is critically important that we help low-wage workers. They work harder than anyone else, for lower pay. They work on the front lines, and COVID has revealed to us all that the work they do is truly essential. We intend to expand the Canada workers benefit, extending income top-ups to about one million more workers and lifting nearly 100,000 Canadians out of poverty. We also propose to introduce a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage.
Young Canadians must be at the heart of our recovery, not just to help them bounce back from the COVID recession, but because their future success is critical to our success as a country. We intend to make college and university more accessible and affordable. We will create job openings in skilled trades and high tech, and we will double the Canada student grant for two more years, while extending the waiver of interest on federal student and apprentice loans to March 2023. This will mean lower costs for the approximately 1.5 million Canadians who are working to repay their student loans. Our budget will also make an important change so that nobody earning $40,000 per year or less will need to make payments on student loans, and the cap on monthly student loan payments will be reduced from 20% of household income to 10%.
We all know that no one has been hit harder by this health crisis over the past 14 months than seniors. The truth is that many seniors were relying on monthly benefits to make ends meet even before the pandemic.
We are therefore proposing a one-time payment of $500 in August 2021 for old age security pensioners who will be 75 or older in June 2022.
Furthermore, this budget provides for an additional 10% increase in old age security benefits for seniors aged 75 and over, as of July 2021. This will increase the benefits that some 3.3 million seniors are receiving and comes at a time when many are living longer and depleting their savings.
Small businesses have been hit very hard during COVID. We must create the conditions for them to recover and start growing again. This budget offers the Canada recovery hiring program to support business hiring. We will also invest up to $4 billion to help up to 160,000 small and medium-sized businesses buy and adopt the technologies they need.
In closing, allow me to directly address the opposition. Bill C-30, the budget implementation act, is the first major step in delivering jobs, growth and recovery. Vaccines are here, and Canadians want to get back to work. It is time for all of us to get back to work in the House as well.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the parliamentary secretary's question was very well-informed. I think it will surprise no one in this House that I agree with him very strongly.
For more than 50 years, since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women urgently urged the Canadian government to set about building a universal system of early learning and child care, early learning and child care has been a feminist cause across Canada. What I believe is different today is that there is a wide appreciation in our country, and indeed around the world, that a system of early learning and child care is also an essential economic strategy for driving growth.
In fact, today we are lucky to have the deputy minister of finance, Michael Sabia, with us. Deputy Minister Sabia and his team have calculated that, once we build a universal system of early learning and child care across Canada, that will drive economic growth more powerfully than any policy Canada has implemented since NAFTA, and it will increase growth by more than 1.2%.
In closing, I would like to once again salute the women and feminists of Quebec, who have shown the rest of Canada what can and must be done.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I thank the member for his question and for his work. He truly is an expert economist and always delves into the most complex aspects of the budget and of the work we do here.
As always, he asked a technical and important question. My quick answer is that we will work with all of the provinces and territories on this important issue. I would also like to tell my colleague that I really appreciate this specific and important question and that my team would be happy to set up a briefing to give him more details than what I can get into this evening in the House.
However, I do want to give him an answer. The Bank of Canada will be responsible for ensuring that payment service providers comply with the framework and it will maintain a registry of regulated payment service providers.
The proposed legislation would require payment service providers to establish a risk management framework to identify and mitigate risks. The requirements of the proposed framework would be based on international best practices. These requirements would be set out in the regulations, and may include, for example, reliability objectives; specific policies regarding physical security or information technology security to manage cyber risk; and continuity plans.
I have a lot more to say, but I will cede the floor to the member for Joliette. If he would like, I could get back to what I was saying after he speaks.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I want to point out that the requirements will be set out in the regulations.
Knowing that it is important for the Bloc Québécois, I would also like to add that the federal government conducted extensive consultations with the provinces and territories when preparing this bill. The proposed new law takes into account the fact that the federal government and the provincial and territorial governments have complementary objectives and powers with regard to business risk management and safeguarding funds.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, once again, I thank the member for his question.
I want to point out that consultations, especially with the provinces and territories, will be very important in ironing out the details, such as the ones the member asked about in his questions.
Discussions with the provinces and territories revolve around business practices for payment service providers. Federal public servants, under the leadership of Mr. Michael Sabia, will continue to work closely with the provinces and territories on issues related to business practices like disclosure, accountability and dispute settlement mechanisms, and will review options regarding consumer protection, which is of great interest to my colleague across the way. All these discussions will take place in a way that respects provincial, territorial and federal jurisdictions.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, that is an important question. The member opposite has highlighted exactly what our work and our consultations should be all about, specifically the consumer's position.
We must always ensure that consumers will be protected if they use a traditional bank or other mechanism. That is why we really need to pay attention to all the details of these regulations. That is why we will hold consultations to lay out the legislation in detail.
My team and I will be more than happy to listen to specific suggestions from the member opposite.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I can assure the hon. member that our government and all members of the House are committed to consumer protection. We understand the need to create space for new technologies in the Canadian economy, but we must also ensure that consumers are always protected. That really is our goal, and I think that goal is shared by all members of the House.
I would be quite happy to continue discussing this with the member, to listen to and understand his ideas on how to ensure that consumers will always be protected, even in the 21st century.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, it may be his last question, but it is a very complicated question that covers multiple subjects.
I will start with the last part of his question, that is cryptocurrencies. In my view, this is an important issue that must be addressed. We must have a conversation about this with our international partners and allies. In the G7, for example, finance ministers and central bank governors have already begun discussing this at their meetings. I agree with the member that we need to do this.
In my opinion, we must do two things at the same time. We must ensure that Canada's economy is ready to embrace these new technologies. Canada has fantastic technologists, scientists and researchers. We also need to have some ground rules that make it possible to innovate and use new technologies.
However, with regard to the financial sector, we must ensure that we encourage the use of new technologies while continuing to protect consumers and their rights, privacy and personal information. To be frank, it is going to be difficult, but I am convinced that we can do it.
To conclude, I would like to point out that this must be done in close collaboration with our international allies, including the European Union. That is exactly what we are doing.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, let me also congratulate you on the tech support you just offered.
Let me say to the member opposite that I really believe, strongly, that we are all in it together. I share his conviction that everyone needs to pay their fair share. We have introduced measures in this budget to ensure that is the case. That is why we have introduced a luxury tax. That is why we have introduced a digital services tax. That is why we have introduced a tax on vacant property owned by non-resident, non-Canadian owners, and that is why we have introduced the most aggressive measures to fight tax evasion and tax avoidance that have ever been introduced by a Canadian government.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, as the member opposite knows, our government strongly agrees with him that the first priority during the fight against COVID has been to support Canadians and Canadian workers. I am so pleased that 5.9 million Canadians have been supported through the CERB, 1.95 million Canadians have been supported through the CRB and 5.3 million Canadian jobs have been supported through the wage subsidy, including 621,000 jobs in the member's province of B.C. As the member opposite also knows very well, his province of B.C. and other provinces across the country are making great strides in the fight against COVID. They are opening up the country. They have put forward clear and strong plans, and our programs have to adapt accordingly.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I am very pleased that in the budget we were able to keep our campaign commitment to raise the OAS for seniors 75 and older by 10%. We appreciate, as I think do all members of the House, that as a person gets older, their needs are greater, their savings may be running out and their ability to work diminishes. I am very pleased that for Canadians 75 and older we are able to offer this additional support.
The member points out something else, though, which is so important to me, to our government and I believe to all Canadians. In addition to supporting seniors in our budget, we need to invest in young Canadians. This pandemic has hit our youth hard and they have sacrificed for us. They have sacrificed to preserve the lives and health of their parents and grandparents. That is why I am so pleased that this budget makes an unprecedented $5.7 billion investment in young Canadians. That investment will double the Canada student grant for two additional years, it will extend the moratorium on federal interest and it will mean that 450,000 low-income student borrowers will have access to more generous repayment assistance.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I actually agree with the member opposite that it is essential for us to take action against tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance schemes.
The member opposite began his round of questions by asserting something I disagree with. He said we are really not in this together. Here I part ways with him, because I think we really are in it together. However, to be in it together, it is essential for us all to pay our fair share and for Canadians to know everyone is paying their fair share. That is why I am so proud of the extensive measures in this budget to close loopholes, to make popular tax avoidance schemes no longer permitted, to provide significant additional resources to the CRA to go after illegal tax evasion and unprecedented measures to shine a light on beneficial ownership schemes.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, as I said, I actually agree with the member opposite about a lot. He has a very sincere and many years' worth of commitment to supporting working people in Canada, and I strongly share that commitment. That is why one of the budget measures that are most important to me personally is the Canada workers benefit.
However, I part ways with the member opposite when it comes to what seems to me embedded in his question, which is a lack of concern about the stability of the financial sector in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. When COVID first hit Canada and the world, we were plunged into the greatest depression since the Great Depression. The government and the Bank of Canada and OSFI acted with urgency to maintain the stability of our financial sector. That was the right thing to do.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, there are a lot of questions there, so let me go through them quickly.
I know the member opposite sincerely cares about workers, seniors and students. So do I, and I know that a collapse of the financial sector would hurt each one of those groups. That is why, in a once-in-a-generation crisis, the government, the Bank of Canada and OSFI acted as they ought to do and as they needed to do.
Let me point out that when it comes to disabilities, the budget includes important measures to provide additional support to students with serious but temporary disabilities. I am really glad that it is there.
When it comes to the wage subsidy, the most important thing for us to bear in mind is that it has supported 5.3 million jobs across the country.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, briefly, it is simply not correct to overlook the very significant support that Canadian students with disabilities are getting in this budget. That is going to transform lives, and I am glad that it will.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I am delighted the member opposite is drawing attention to student loans, because support for students is one of our government's priorities. This budget commits $5.7 billion to Canadian students. That includes doubling the Canada student grant for two more years. It includes extending the moratorium on federal interest and ensuring that 450,000 low-income student borrowers will have access to more generous repayment assistance.
I trust the member opposite supports that.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I struggle to understand the sincere intent behind the member's question. Is she implying that somehow we should not be making student loans available to young Canadians? If that is her implication, I could not more strongly disagree. Student loans are essential to our young people. They are an essential investment in our future.
I am so proud that this budget strengthens the student loan program and that, thanks to this budget, young Canadians earning less than $40,000 do not have to start repaying their student loans.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, again, I would like to probe a bit the intent behind the member's question. She has been asking about the wage subsidy. That is a program that has supported 5.3 million Canadian jobs. In her native province of Manitoba, it has supported 175,000 jobs alone.
Our priority is Canadian students and Canadian workers, and we will do whatever it takes to support them.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, what I will commit to is an important measure in Bill C-30 and I hope the member opposite will support. This measure applies to publicly listed corporations that received the wage subsidy for any qualifying period after June 5. These corporations would be required to pay the amount by which the remuneration of their top executives in 2021 exceeded their remuneration in 2019 up to the amount of wage subsidy received for active employees for this period. That is an important measure and I look forward to support from the other side of the House for it.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, to answer a collection of flaccid talking points is a bit tough, but let me simply point out that it took a full decade before labour force participation in Canada recovered to its previous levels after the 2008-09 recession. We are not going to repeat that mistake. We are going to support Canadians, we are going to support Canadian workers, and Canada is going to come roaring back.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I absolutely see housing as a key economic issue for our country. It is an issue for the federal government, it is an issue for provinces and it is an issue for municipalities. In fact, the member is a B.C. MP, and I had a great conversation with Kennedy Stewart, the mayor of Vancouver, just last week about this.
We have done a lot of work, and we need to keep on working on this essential issue.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the government is here to support that young family. We are working hard with provinces and municipalities to build more homes for young Canadian families. For a young family, early learning and child care is going to help it a lot.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I have a lot of respect for the member opposite, but there is a factual error in his question.
There has been significant emphasis on housing in our government's policies for years and in this budget: $70 billion in the national housing strategy; the rapid housing initiative was a billion, the budget adds $1.5 billion additional dollars; $300 million in the—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, let me encourage the member opposite to vote for the budget, because there is another $1.5 billion in it for the rapid housing initiative. I agree that it is a great program, and that is why we believe in expanding it.
Just last week, I spoke to the mayors of Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto and Montreal specifically about housing. They told me they love the rapid housing initiative, so let us get the budget bill passed and get them more money for this great program.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the national housing strategy is an unprecedentedly fast program that has moved more people out of homelessness into housing.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I am going to quote something that Kennedy Stewart said to me, which I found very moving. He said he felt that thanks to the rapid housing initiative, formerly homeless people in Vancouver now have a place to—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, as I said a moment ago, the national housing strategy will build up to 125,000 affordable units. However, I want to talk about another program that is particularly relevant as we are recovering from the pandemic. That is the $300-million—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I am going to quickly finish talking about the $300 million for the rental construction financing initiative. This will convert empty office space that has appeared in our downtowns into affordable housing. It is a great program and a reason to support the budget.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, we are hopscotching each other, but I owe the member an answer on money laundering. This budget takes unprecedentedly strong action against tax evasion and aggressive tax—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, on money laundering, let me point to one of the measures that I think is important in the budget: the measure on beneficial ownership. It brings transparency to this area. Many activists in the area of transparency have been directly in touch with me to say—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the new registry needs, as a first step, all of us to vote for the budget, so let us do that.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the budget makes unprecedented investments in reconciliation with the indigenous people in Canada, with $18 billion over five—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I have had exchanges with the member opposite about this issue.
When we created the emergency relief programs, our immediate objective was to support the businesses that were up and running that had no choice but to try to keep going when the pandemic hit. We absolutely understand the particular situation faced either by businesses that have been created since the pandemic or businesses that were on the verge of launching when the pandemic started.
I will finish in my next answer. I realize my time has run out.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, Bill C-30 and the budget contain a huge amount of support for all Canadian small businesses. I will start with the digital adoption program, which is going to be a huge productivity boost. There is also talk about the tax incentive—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the question was asking if there are measures to support new businesses. In fact, in the budget, there are so many measures to support all small businesses across the country. I spoke about the digital adoption scheme. I would like to talk about an essential tax measure that will encourage businesses to invest in themselves.
I will finish discussion of that—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I will just finish by talking about this tax measure because I think it is one of the most productivity-enhancing measures in the budget.
For the next three years, businesses will be able to count, as a tax expense, up to $1.5 million of investment in themselves in each of those three years. All Canadian businesses can do that.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I think it absolutely makes sense that businesses that were already up and running, and that had no choice but to continue, have been the priority of our government's support measures. I think that is absolutely right.
I absolutely agree with the member opposite that we need to have continued support for all Canadian businesses into the recovery, and this budget makes unprecedented investments in small businesses that will do exactly that.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, Mitacs is a very reputable, long-standing Canadian government program that has done tremendous work in supporting innovation in the Canadian economy.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, some measures in the budget, such as the continued support of Mitacs, are continuations of and further investments in existing highly successful programs. I think that is the right approach to take, particularly in this urgent moment when we all need to devote our attention to the recovery. That is the approach we have been taking here, to take a program that is already working and to double down on it.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, as I said, this is a tried, tested and well-known Canadian program. It is absolutely right in this budget, when we need to invest in innovation, to use systems that work.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the rent subsidy is one of the big success stories of our government's efforts to support Canadian businesses throughout the pandemic.
I will remind the member of how many businesses have been supported through that program. There are 182,000 businesses across the country that have benefited from the rent subsidy.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I have a lot of respect for the member opposite, especially late at night, but he has to get his lines straight.
Either he can claim credit for the rent subsidy and say it is great, or he can criticize it. He cannot have it both ways.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, one of the elements of the budget is that EI sickness benefits will increase from the current 15 weeks to 26 weeks. That is a good thing.
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I will speak about my personal experience.
My mother died of cancer and, during the pandemic, my father had cancer. He is all right now.
I have personal experience with cancer, and that is why I supported increasing EI sickness benefits from 15 weeks to 26 weeks.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I think it is excellent that our government chose to increase EI benefits from 15 weeks to 26 weeks and—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I would like to add something about the EI sickness benefits. The Conservatives need to pick a lane. On one hand the member asks questions about the debt, on the other he asks questions on the lack of programs. He has to—
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, I am proud that our government kept its promise and increased the old age security pension for people 75 and up. That was one of our campaign promises.
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Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, the interpretation problems may be related to the fact that it is hard for the interpreters to follow us. I thank them for their work.
No one has been abandoned in our budget.
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