Commons debates Canada-Ukraine ties as free trade deal passes

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1. deflected
   Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer promotes rebate and climate goals without addressing deficits, tax hikes or non-confidence vote.the Canada carbon rebate puts more money in the pockets of eight out of 10 families across the country in areas where the federal tax applies.
2. deflected
   Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer shifts to costs of inaction on climate without engaging PBO testimony on net household impacts or Bloc voting.if the Leader of the Opposition listened to Canadians once in a while, he would realize that they understand full well that the cost of inaction against climate change is enormous.
3. deflected
   Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer repeats rebate claim and attacks Conservatives instead of addressing PBO economic impact or April tax hike.the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report lays out clearly that eight out of 10 Canadian families across the country, where the price on pollution applies, get more money back every year.
4. deflected
   Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer restates rebate benefit and climate plan without responding to PBO quote on majority negative impact or tax hike.Eighty per cent of Canadian households, in areas where the federal carbon tax applies, get more money every year from the Canada carbon rebate than they pay in the price on pollution.
5. deflected
   Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer ignores provincial table and PBO economic impacts, pivoting to rebate and future benefits instead of calling an election.the Parliamentary Budget Officer clearly spelled out that eight out of 10 Canadian families in areas where the price on pollution applies get more money back every year than they pay in the price on pollution.
6. partly answered
   Immigration, Refugees and CitizenshipMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer affirms collaboration and existing powers but does not explain refusal of full immigration powers or address the friendship premise directly.I sat down with Premier Legault last Friday to say, yes, let us work together to meet the objectives of Quebeckers and the Government of Quebec.
7. deflected
   Immigration, Refugees and CitizenshipMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer defends Liberal representation of Quebeckers and health spending without addressing the $1 billion reimbursement request.
8. answered
   Indigenous AffairsMr. Blake Desjarlais (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.Answer directly lists investments and actions on housing, water, compensation and reconciliation in response to the commitments question.We have tripled investments in indigenous housing, mental health, access to clean drinking water and jobs, to contribute to economic reconciliation.
9. deflected
   Indigenous AffairsMr. Blake Desjarlais (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer highlights past investments without addressing the timeline or specific new resources requested.we have made historic investments in housing and indigenous communities after decades of wrongful underfunding by previous governments of all stripes.
10. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer explains the backstop system but avoids stating the rebate amount for Nova Scotia families.Every single province had and continues to have the option to replace the federal price on pollution with its own program, as long as it is as rigorous and stringent as the federal price on pollution.
11. misdirected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks the Conservative leader's motives instead of providing the requested rebate figure for Nova Scotia.The Conservative leader does not care about fighting against climate change and he does not care about affordability either, because he would rip up the rebate cheques and he would do less on fighting climate change.
12. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer criticizes Conservatives for misleading Canadians but does not give the Ontario rebate number asked.The Parliamentary Budget Officer himself admitted and said that we cannot take his words out of context, because he did not calculate the costs of inaction on fighting climate change.
13. answered
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer directly states the rebate amount for Alberta families as requested.$1,800 a year, for an average family of four, is the Canada carbon rebate.
14. partly answered
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer provides an alternative net benefit figure rather than confirming or addressing the specific rebate versus cost comparison.It turns out that for an average income quintile group with an average household of 2.5 Canadians, the average net benefit per household in Alberta is $723 a year.
15. partly answered
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer gives a net benefit stat for Ontario but avoids stating the direct rebate amount requested.the average net benefit per household in Ontario is $255 a year.
16. deflected
    Intergovernmental AffairsMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer pivots to past election results and investments without addressing the question about contempt for Quebec.The Liberal Party has won more seats in Quebec than the Bloc Québécois in the last three elections.
17. deflected
    Intergovernmental AffairsMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer ignores requests on health transfers, immigration and judges and pivots to unrelated dental care.More than a third of those seniors live in Quebec. That means hundreds of thousands of Quebec seniors will be getting free dental care thanks to federal investments in dental care.
18. answered
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer directly states the net benefit figure requested.the average net benefit per household in Newfoundland and Labrador is $303 a year.
19. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer avoids the PBO numbers and election challenge by restating general talking points.We had three, and we won them all.
20. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer ignores the election call and economic criticisms by listing unrelated programs.We are focused on supporting Canadians with things like child care, dental care and a plan to fight climate change that puts more money in the pockets of eight out of 10 Canadian families right across the country.
21. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer sidesteps the $2 billion claim and election demand by attacking the Conservative position.the Conservative leader is now complaining about $2 billion that he would never give to Canadian businesses, would never give to Canadians, because he would scrap the Canada carbon rebate.
22. deflected
    The EnvironmentMr. Alexandre Boulerice (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer ignores the pollution ranking claim and pivots to partisan attacks on Conservatives and NDP.The Conservative Party wants to step back from our fight against climate change.
23. partly answered
    Women and Gender EqualityMs. Leah Gazan (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer addresses investments in care wages but does not address shelter cuts or consultants.we have demonstrated from day one that we are there to work with the provinces to invest in the care economy, whether it is commitments to raise personal support worker wages to $25 an hour
24. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer avoids the GDP and election questions by restating carbon rebate benefits.The reality is that our price on pollution puts more money in the pockets of eight out of 10 Canadian families in the backstop provinces.
25. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). rhetorical question.The answer promotes the carbon pricing plan without addressing the claimed GDP hole or overall cost to Canadians.the price on pollution returns every dollar it collects to the jurisdictions in which it is collected.
26. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer corrects a factual claim about BC but avoids addressing whether the federal government will allow cancellation of the tax hike.It is a simple error of fact that the leader of the Conservative Party is trying to share with the House.
27. deflected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer explains provincial flexibility in climate plans but sidesteps the request to end the federal carbon tax requirement for BC.Every single province has the ability to put forward its own plan to fight climate change as long as it is sufficiently rigorous to be fair to the other provinces that are also doing the same.
28. misdirected
    Intergovernmental AffairsMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer addresses old age security and pharmacare but ignores the Canada community-building fund and municipal autonomy request.We increased old age security for seniors 75 and up because we know that they have more expenses than other families.
29. deflected
    Intergovernmental AffairsMr. Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer discusses the housing accelerator fund but does not address allowing municipalities full discretion over the community-building fund.Our housing accelerator fund gives money directly to municipalities across the country so that they can build more housing more quickly, except in Quebec, where we gave the Government of Quebec $900 million.
30. deflected
    Public SafetyPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer highlights government spending on organized crime but avoids committing to the proposed port scanning and sentencing plan.cracking down on auto theft starts with going after organized crime.
31. misdirected
    Public SafetyPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks past Conservative cuts and labels the plan nonsense instead of engaging with current CBSA staffing or container scanning.The common sense that the Leader of the Opposition is putting forward is nonsense.
32. misdirected
    Public SafetyPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks the asker and lobbyists rather than addressing CBSA officer numbers or the container scanning proposal.I will let the Leader of the Opposition's high-priced corporate lobbyist friends, who give him so much money at fancy cash-for-access private events, explain to him the impact on supply chains and shipping in Canada to try to scan 600,000 containers a day.
33. misdirected
    Public Services and ProcurementPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer ignores the fraud amount query and instead attacks the asker over an unrelated Ukraine vote.However, everyone in the House noticed how quickly the Leader of the Opposition pivoted from the question on Ukraine.
34. deflected
    Foreign AffairsPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer dismisses the question with a sarcastic remark and shifts to praising Zelenskyy without addressing the export claims.that is pretty weak sauce from the Leader of the Opposition .
35. misdirected
    Carbon PricingPierre Poilievre (Conservative) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). loaded question.The answer avoids the carbon tax election question and instead repeatedly attacks the asker for voting against Ukraine.He stood in the House and voted against Ukraine, and he is now trying to do anything he can to hide from it.
36. partly answered
    Families, Children and Social DevelopmentMs. Lisa Marie Barron (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer gives a partial preview of budget items including school food programs but withholds specifics until April 16.There will be support on housing. There will be help on affordability for Canadians.
37. partly answered
    Persons with DisabilitiesMr. Mike Morrice (Green) asked Justin Trudeau (Liberal). substantive question.The answer defends past investments and promises more details later but does not commit to full funding in the 2024 budget.we have invested more in people with disabilities over the past eight years than ever before, and there is more to do.