“The Liberals want to privatize major airports, ports, and security jobs that employ veterans. They are hurting workers' rights. I want the member to tell me if the Conservatives support this plan or if they would privatize even more public services.”

“Madam Speaker, we have seen the Liberals are privatizing, or are talking about privatizing, four of Canada’s largest airports, which produce a half a billion dollars in revenue. They are talking about modernizing Canadian ports, which we know basically means they are going to privatize them. They are even privatizing and putting out to tender the contract that the Commissionaires, which hires veterans, gets. Now the Liberals are undermining workers’ rights. We hear a lot of people say that the Liberals have taken on the Conservative agenda, but I will ask my colleague, is this the Conservative agenda? Would the Conservatives have even gone this far, when it comes to privatizing Canadian public services?”

“I want to know who decides when consultations with Indigenous nations are finished. Will these nations have a real say in whether their concerns were addressed, or will the government just decide for itself?”

“Madam Speaker, the government says it will coordinate consultation through a new Crown consultation hub, which is what they have called it. Ultimately, who gets to decide if and when that consultation is complete? My colleague talked a lot about first nations. Will indigenous nations have a meaningful say in determining whether their concerns have actually been addressed in that consultation process, or will the government be the one marking its own homework? Who will decide when that is complete and what that timeline looks like?”

“I want to know why the government is rushing consultations with Indigenous peoples to meet strict deadlines. Rushing consultations caused courts to stop past projects. Doing it again will only lead to more court battles and waste time and money.”

“Madam Speaker, I want to go back in time. The northern gateway pipeline was rejected by the courts in part because the Crown’s consultations with the affected first nations were found to be inadequate. The lesson of that should have been clear to the government, and that lesson is that rushing consultation can delay projects rather than get them built. My question is this: Why is the Liberal government repeating the same mistakes of the Harper Conservatives by prioritizing an arbitrary timeline over getting consultations with indigenous peoples right the first time? The government is repeating the same mistakes, and this will just end up in the courts again, wasting everybody’s time and money.”

“Unions want the government to stop forcing people back to work. But this bill's changes could make workers' bargaining power even weaker. Nobody knows who asked for these changes. I want to know if the Conservatives support them.”

“Madam Speaker, over the summer, the government consulted with labour, unions and different organizations. Federal unions have been calling for section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to be removed after governments, especially the Liberal government, have used it to order workers back to work and undermine their collective bargaining rights. The government is proposing new language, as we know, around section 107, and calling these changes “guardrails”. However, unions are telling us these changes could actually weaken workers’ bargaining power. Organized labour still has no answer on who brought these ideas forward and who asked for these changes. The Conservatives are saying they are friends with labour. Do they support these changes or do they know who asked for these changes?”

“The Liberals claim Canadians voted for their plans. But they never promised to sell our airports and ports, pay for a pipeline, outsource veterans' security jobs, or let Alberta privatize health care. I want to know where any of this was in their election platform.”

“Madam Speaker, the Liberals keep talking about their mandate, but nowhere in their election platform did they talk about privatizing Canada’s airports, selling off Canada’s ports, building a publicly funded pipeline, outsourcing the Commissionaires’ contract that supports veterans or turning a blind eye when the public health care system is being attacked by Alberta and being privatized. Where in their election platform is any of this? They are outsourcing the—”