“I have so many wonderful colleagues. I'm going to praise them now. My colleagues are great champions. Let me ask a question. We need to change how we regulate food and pesticides. Many powerful agencies are involved. We want to add economic costs to their decisions. There are lots of important factors to balance. This is part of our broad economic plans. Our party is really focusing on this. We support farmers by looking at how our regulations work. Regulations are important to our plans. I want the minister to talk about this. This is part of our big agenda.”
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A wide-ranging bill to implement the Spring 2026 Economic Update, touching on everything from tax deductions for tradespeople to aviation fuel taxes to beer excise duty rates. In 5 hours of debate, MPs mostly grilled the Finance Minister on unrelated topics like ride-sharing regulation, StatsCan data collection, and election promises from 2015. Some substantive questions were asked about domestic investment levels and the bill's housing provisions, but mostly talk went in circles without many direct answers.
“I want to praise my colleagues at length. They are so amazing. The hour is late but the questions are so good. I want to especially praise the member for Peterborough. She is such a great farmer. Thank you for your expertise. All the farmers in this country should feel good. We celebrate you. Food security is very important. We know that there are many connections between food security and other kinds of security. We import a lot of our food. But we have plans to grow more food in Canada. I want to thank my colleague for showing me some greenhouses. Both of my colleagues are so amazing.”
“I want the minister to say Canada's finances are good so Canadians will like us.”
“I'm filling time with kind words and saying nothing anyone could pin down later.”
“I want to praise my party and talk about how we are helping the fishing industry in Atlantic Canada. The government should spend a lot of money on small craft harbours.”
“The member for South Shore—St. Margarets came to my office and demanded we spend more money on small craft harbours. I listened to her and agreed to spend the money.”