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Joël Lightbound

Liberal on Major Projects Office 2026-11-04

Replying to Gabriel Hardy (Conservative)

“Mr. Speaker, the way the Prime Minister is managing taxpayers’ money is starting to become extremely worrisome. On one side, we have ordinary citizens who are affected by those decisions on a daily basis and who are paying the price every day. On the other, we have the people who make the rules and the friends of the people who make the rules. They are the ones reaping the benefits. We have learned that many of the employees of the Major Projects Office are there on loan from private companies and banks. These are the people who are responsible for deciding which companies will receive billions of dollars from the Liberals. They get to choose the winners, and their boss might be one of them. How can we expect Canadians to have confidence in our institutions when transparency—”

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Mr. Speaker, what I do not understand about the Conservatives is the way they talk about helping ordinary people and then systematically vote against those people’s interests. That member specifically voted against 19,223 children who are receiving an average of $5,000 through the Canada child benefit, in addition to the 19,000 people in his riding who are benefiting from the Canadian dental care plan. The confusion and hypocrisy across the way do not stop there. Yesterday, the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis accused us of helping businesses too much. However, when we were in her riding, visiting Prevost and helping businesses deal with the trade war, they were quite happy to be there on the sidelines and applaud the announcements we were making to support Canadian businesses.