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Government Business No. 12—Proceedings on Bill C-30

Bill C-30, Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act · Motion on how the bill proceeds · now law Where it stands

The House debated Bill C-30, the Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act, which puts into law measures from the government’s spring economic update, including changes to the Labour Mobility Deduction for tradespeople, a temporary cut of the excise tax on gasoline and diesel, extensions of alcohol excise duty caps, and various other tax, employment insurance, and regulatory measures. Conservative members opposed the bill, saying government spending and borrowing were raising costs and interest rates, that taxes and regulations were making life less affordable, and that the bill was not addressing housing; they also moved an amendment about the bill’s debate and argued it was being rushed without enough time for expert study. Bloc Québécois members criticized the government’s dropping of the digital services tax and suggested reviving job-preserving benefits, while also questioning Conservative spending priorities. Liberal members said Conservatives were delaying bills through filibuster rather than addressing the country’s challenges. Some time was also taken up with discussion of the Snowbirds aircraft being cancelled, military support, health care spending, and procedural exchanges about closure and speaking rules.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Warren Steinley

Conservative
“The Snowbirds are being grounded because the government failed to buy new planes for them. We want to do whatever it takes to get planes so they can keep flying.”

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Mr. Speaker, it is truly heartbreaking that, under the Liberals, the Snowbirds are going to be grounded. I remember, as a young kid, our driving to Moose Jaw from our farm in Rush Lake and watching air shows for the Snowbirds. Seeing those planes in the sky was a special moment. In Barrie, 150,000 people got to see that for the last time. The fact that the Liberals did not have a plan to make sure that the Snowbirds could keep flying and had proper jets to keep flying is a damnation on their record. They had 11 years to make a plan, and they failed. That is why we are not going to have the Snowbirds for the foreseeable future. We would do whatever we could and help them in any way to make sure we could get planes so the Snowbirds could keep flying. It is just really sad for our Canadian identity and our Canadian heritage.

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Andrew Lawton

Conservative
“That member should not be allowed to speak. Under the rules, members cannot speak more than once during closure.”
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 57, under closure, no member may speak more than once. I believe that the recognition of the member is out of order.

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John Brassard

Conservative
“Are you saying that your ruling stops the parliamentary secretary from speaking for the rest of this Parliament?”
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Mr. Speaker, does this mean that the Speaker’s ruling will censor the parliamentary secretary for the rest of the current Parliament? Am I hearing this correctly?

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