Happy Wednesday!
Short week again, the focus is still on Opposition Motions. One from last week was voted on and there’s a new one to look at.
Opposition Motions
Passage of Bill C-242
Arpan Khanna (Conservative, Ontario, Oxford)
Last week we looked at Arpan’s Motion to speed up the passage of Bill C-242, an attempt to make it much harder to get bail before the Liberals could present their own bail reform. A vote has now been held on the Motion and it failed with 142 voting in support and 196 against.
| Party | For | Against | Paired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | 0 | 167 | 1 |
| Conservative | 142 | 0 | 1 |
| Bloc Quebecois | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| NDP | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cost of Deficits
Melissa Lantsman (Conservative, Ontario, Thornhill)
Melissa has a Motion regarding Trudeau’s deficits. It’s worth remembering that our current Prime Minister is in the process of across the board cuts, something we didn’t see under Trudeau, but Melissa is going to try to pretend that nothing’s changed here.
That, given that,
- in 2015 the Liberals promised that deficit spending would fuel investment, yet investment per worker fell by 10.8%,
- Liberal deficits fueled inflation and drove up interest rates, while Canada had the worst economic growth per capita in the G7,
- the current Liberal Prime Minister is following the same plan and is already yielding the same results, with 86,000 net job losses, the second highest unemployment rate in the G7, food inflation doubled the Bank of Canada’s target and $53.9 billion in net investment leaving the country,
- every dollar that leaves the country means lower wages and lost jobs for workers,
- every dollar the government spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians,
the House call on the Liberal government to stop plagiarizing Justin Trudeau’s failed policies and recognize that deficits drive investment and jobs down and the cost of living up.
I’m not going to go into much other detail here. It hasn’t even been a year and it’s been made clear to anyone watching that Carney’s financial policies aren’t the same as Trudeau’s. Suggesting otherwise is just lying and using the House’s time to harvest sound bites. Worth noting though that when Melissa was asked how the government should invest money her response was, of course, oil pipelines.
No votes have been held on this Motion yet.
Closing Fun
And that’s all for the week! The House is on break this week so there will be no Wednesday post next week.
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