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View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to understand why our beef producers say they are going bankrupt. I would like someone to explain to me why they are coming into my office saying we have to do something, otherwise they will go bankrupt. It seems they are not getting their fair share.
As for consumers, it is all very well and good for you to show us these nice specials, which are probably from out west, but the fact remains that the price of beef has not fallen significantly. We are paying about as much as we were before the mad cow crisis. In any case, the price of beef has not come down in Quebec, it really has not. Sure, there have been specials, which have lasted about three hours, but we often got the impression that it was simply because the beef was past its best before date or just about there. So, I would like to understand this situation.
Who can explain this? What exactly is going on in your industry?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
Whom are you referring to when you say “we”, the producers or... ?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
Excuse me for a moment. When you buy in bulk, is the cattle dead or alive?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
I am missing something here; there is something I do not understand. You, the retailers, buy in bulk.
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
But in three weeks, you might come back and say that you are only interested in filets mignons.
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
When you say that you plan three weeks in advance, that is precisely what you do: you try to buy cheap and that is what you put on special in your flyer in three weeks time. But in the meantime, consumers will pay full price for the rest.
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
When you buy your cuts, how old are the animals from which they are taken?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
You do not buy any cuts coming from other animals. Are there retailers who may be interested in those?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
What about organic beef, natural beef, traceabililty and GMOs? You are a retailer. Do you agree with that? Do you stay on top of these types of trends? Do they play any role in your business?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Minister, I would like us to take a few minutes to try to understand a reality. The Liberals are in power because they got 38% of the votes of the Canadian public, coast to coast to coast, just 38% of votes. So 62% of the population thinks differently, has different political ideologies than the Liberal Party.
There is also 38, 39 or 40%—it depends on which numbers you look at—of the unemployed who get employment insurance benefits. The rest do not; they are not eligible. You can no longer deny that reality, and you cannot claim, as your predecessor always did, that 80% of the unemployed get employment insurance benefits. That is false. At any rate, in our regions, we meet with the unemployed, we see them in our offices. Maybe ministers do not. Maybe in the urban centres, MPs do not see them either, because they go straight to the EI office. But in our ridings, the unemployed come to our offices, and we see them every day. Every day, they are there.
So, in my opinion, you have taken funds that belong to them. You have created a hidden tax on employment. You have misappropriated funds. When do you plan to treat the unemployed fairly?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
I will interrupt you, Mr. Minister, because you cannot talk about the unemployment rate that way. It is a mathematical poll. One thousand fifty-eight people were polled, they were called on the phone and asked whether they were looking for a job on that day, yes or no. If the individual says no, he is not considered as being unemployed. You have presented us with a fantasy figure.
If you talk about the rate of participation in each region of the country, you will see that your numbers are wrong. I think you have gotten together with Statistics Canada to come up with numbers which suit you, the government, and if you were in the opposition, you would be saying the same things we are now. That is the problem with politics today. Everything is false, everything has become rooted in outrageous, systemic lies. You cannot tell people the truth. Tell them the truth and give them the rate of participation, rather than the rate of unemployment.
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
He does not even know that the unemployment rate is based on statistics, which in turn are based on monthly polls, even though he is the minister. Really, it does not make any sense.
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Minister, for 35 years, I helped train preschool teachers in the province of Quebec. I am an expert in preschool education and when I was a student in Quebec, Boston and London, I was taught a fundamental precept: children need to be taught, from kindergarten on, basic life skills so they can function in society.
In Quebec, since 1960, the kindergarten program, as well as the grade school program, is based on teaching children basic skills. The last part of the reform program basically brought everyone on board, including high schools. The program involves the acquisition of skills, transversality, transferability, and other such things.
Therefore, as Minister of Skills Development, you also have a hidden role as education minister. How are you going to live up to your double role, which makes you a little schizophrenic? You are minister of this and minister of that. The question is: how are you going to fulfill your role as Minister of Skills Development while respecting the Constitution of 1867, which gives the provinces full jurisdiction over education?
View Suzanne Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
I am interested in skills.
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