Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2021-05-25 11:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore, CPC)",
        "fr": "Mme Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6735543\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to be here in the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735544\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Of course, when I speak from home, in my riding, it is important, but when I am here, I find that my words have even more importance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735545\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would just like to take a moment and thank my constituent, Paddy Bossert, for the beautiful pin she gave me. She and Dale Bossert have been big supporters of Calgary Midnapore for some time. The pin is a quill and ink, and she says it is because I have such lovely handwriting. I believe my staff would beg to differ with her, but nonetheless, I thank Mrs. Bossert very much for this beautiful pin I am wearing in the House today. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735546\" data-originallang=\"en\">I appeared on Alberta Primetime with the previous speaker, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"252961\" href=\"/politicians/heather-mcpherson/\" title=\"Heather McPherson\">Edmonton Strathcona</a>, where I quoted two articles regarding the budget that I am going to mention here again today. The first one was an Andrew Coyne article. Andrew is of course seen as somewhat Conservative but also seen as, I believe, a very reasonable individual. His comment in his opinion piece was that this was \u201ca budget about everything, except how [we are going] to pay for it\u201d. Those words really resonated with me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735547\" data-originallang=\"en\">The other article I referred to was a Rosenberg article in The Globe and Mail. This article indicated something I thought was very interesting, which is that the budget used to be an economic document. It used to be a document about the economic future of Canada. In fact, this is how I was raised, which is that one's family brings in so much money a month, spends a certain amount and then a certain amount is left for savings. It was really an education for me to arrive in the public policy world and find that it is about spending priorities for the fiscal year, whatever they are. Rosenberg's other point was that this budget was not even an economic document, it was a social engineering document designed to vote-grab, which really puts a sad commentary on the government and this budget.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735548\" data-originallang=\"en\">What makes me the most sad is that I really believe every Speech from the Throne and every budget is an opportunity to face the future with confidence and with possibility, especially at this time of coming out of a pandemic. Right now it is hard for Canadians to see the future and have hope. This document did not do that. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735549\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have seen the terrible vaccine procurement and distribution throughout Canada resulting in the delay of a return to life as we once knew it. What we need to do is restart Canada. Our economy is crumbling. Never mind the debt and the deficit my colleagues talked about previously, as well as inflation and money supply. In the last question, it was said that someone's daughter actually thought Canada could print money. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735550\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is just so much supply as a result of the government and a lack of goods. Trade is also failing under this economy. There is a container crisis affecting shippers, distributers and businesses. I actually had someone in my riding tell me that they paid $2,000 to ship a container from China prior to this pandemic and that the price has now gone up to $8,500 a container. This is a cost they are going to have to pass on to consumers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735551\" data-originallang=\"en\">Interest will start to go up. We will see it start with variable rates and it will increase and increase. With household debt, people are paying down their credit cards but now we are seeing them take on this debt with housing prices. As well, small and medium enterprises are struggling.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735552\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mental health during this pandemic has been horrible. I was very proud to host a session with a psychologist in my riding last week on parenting teens in a pandemic, in an effort to help the next generation of Canadians who are looking for some hope in this pandemic, a way out of this pandemic, which this budget did not provide. I received so many sad notes from seniors, who told me they are completely depressed and even contemplating suicide. We need to restart Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735553\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I have advocated tirelessly for the aviation sector within the House. The National Airlines Council of Canada put out a statement, which said that:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735554\" data-originallang=\"en\"> As vaccination rates continue to climb globally countries are announcing plans for the safe restart of their travel and tourism sectors, drawing on analysis provided by the European Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the US Centres for Disease Control...\u201cYesterday the National Airlines Council joined with over 60 other industry organizations in writing to the Prime Minister on the urgent need for Canada to move forward with a restart plan for the overall economy and for the travel sector. Countries that successfully plan will not only safely restart aviation and their overall economy, they will take jobs and investment from countries that do not. We must get moving now on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians in every region of the country whose livelihoods depend on travel and tourism\u201d.... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735555\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is not just here, but other jurisdictions are restarting. They have a restart plan. I will point out some examples brought forward to me by the Business Council of Canada, which said that:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735556\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Other jurisdictions have paved the route for us to follow. In February, the United Kingdom unveiled a four-stage \u201croadmap out of lockdown\u201d, with clear guidelines to mark the journey back to a more normal life. For example, in \u201cStep 3\u201d, most businesses in all but the highest risk sectors are allowed to reopen while adhering to public health guidelines. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735557\" data-originallang=\"en\">We need to restart Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735558\" data-originallang=\"en\">The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance for those who are fully vaccinated and outlines which activities are now considered safe, including domestic travel without the need for testing or quarantine. Right here within Canada, here at home, Saskatchewan recently unveiled a three-step reopening road map that clearly links the lifting of restrictions to vaccination milestones. For example, once 70% of those 30 and older have received one dose, 150 people will be permitted to gather in public, indoor settings provided they adhere to physical distancing and mask guidelines. We need to restart Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Further along that reopening plan for Saskatchewan, in phase 1, May 4 to June 1, we see reopening previously restricted medical services; phase 2, reopening retail and select personal service facilities; phase 3, reopening places of worship, increasing indoor, public and private gatherings of 15 people and outdoor gatherings to 30 people; and phase 4, reopening child and youth day camps, outdoor pools and spray parks as well as libraries, museums, galleries and it goes on and on. Canadians are waiting for this. We need to restart Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735560\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, we need to be smart about this restart. We need not only the government but Canadians to think about the restart. I want every Canadian to think about, when the pandemic is over and when their benefits run out, whether they will they have a job, and if not, why? Did their restaurant close? Did their retail store close? Why? If a person owns a business, is their business safe? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735561\" data-originallang=\"en\">The next question I want Canadians to ask themselves is: What did they not get to do this winter or spring because of no vaccines as a result of this government with no vision and no restart plan? Did someone around them pass away? Was there a surgery that was denied? Did someone have to quit their job in an effort to home-school? Did they have to quit their beer league? Was it like my son who had to go without his hockey league, which gives him so much exercise and happiness? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735562\" data-originallang=\"en\">More importantly, I want Canadians to ask themselves what they want their future to look like. Do they want to own a home? It is not going to happen under this government in the direction that we are going. Do they want to have a family? They might not be able to provide food for them because of inflation and the price of groceries and gas, which is at 127.9 cents a litre in my hometown of Calgary. Do they want to have a car? Why does it have to be an electric car? Why can it not be a car run on diesel? By the time this government makes any effort to get the infrastructure up for electric cars, we will have moved on to hydrogen.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735563\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We need to do this restart plan intelligently. However, Canadians' lives do not have to be how the government designed them. They have an opportunity for change. They have an opportunity for choice. This government had an opportunity and it failed. We need to restart Canada. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6735543\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, cela me fait toujours plaisir d'\u00eatre pr\u00e9sente \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735544\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Bien s\u00fbr, quand je parle de chez moi, dans ma circonscription, c'est important. Or, quand je suis ici, je trouve que mes mots ont plus d'importance. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735545\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais prendre un instant pour remercier ma concitoyenne, Paddy Bossert, de la tr\u00e8s belle \u00e9pinglette qu\u2019elle m\u2019a offerte. Elle et Dale Bossert soutiennent depuis un moment la circonscription de Calgary Midnapore. L\u2019\u00e9pinglette repr\u00e9sente une plume et de l\u2019encre, et elle dit que c\u2019est parce que j\u2019ai une belle \u00e9criture. Je ne crois pas que mes collaborateurs seraient de cet avis, mais je remercie n\u00e9anmoins Mme Bossert de cette tr\u00e8s belle \u00e9pinglette que je porte \u00e0 la Chambre aujourd\u2019hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735546\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019\u00e9tais \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mission Alberta Primetime avec l\u2019intervenante pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d\u2019<a data-HoCid=\"252961\" href=\"/politicians/heather-mcpherson/\" title=\"Heather McPherson\">Edmonton Strathcona</a>, et j\u2019y ai cit\u00e9 deux articles sur le budget que je vais de nouveau mentionner aujourd\u2019hui. Le premier est un article d\u2019Andrew Coyne, qui est \u00e9videmment plut\u00f4t conservateur, mais qui passe aussi, me semble-t-il, pour quelqu\u2019un de tr\u00e8s raisonnable. Il dit dans son \u00e9ditorial, et je cite, qu\u2019il s\u2019agit d\u2019un budget tous azimuts, mais qui ne dit pas comment nous allons payer tout cela. Ces lignes ont vraiment trouv\u00e9 \u00e9cho en moi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735547\" data-originallang=\"en\">L\u2019autre article dont je parlais est un article de Rosenberg paru dans le <em>Globe and Mail</em>. Il y dit quelque chose que je trouve tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant, \u00e0 savoir qu\u2019avant, le budget \u00e9tait un document \u00e9conomique. C\u2019\u00e9tait un document sur l\u2019avenir \u00e9conomique du Canada. En fait, c\u2019est ce qu'on m'a inculqu\u00e9 enfant, \u00e0 savoir qu'une famille gagne une certaine somme par mois, qu'elle en d\u00e9pense une partie et qu'elle \u00e9pargne ce qui lui reste. J\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s surprise en arrivant dans le monde des politiques publiques de d\u00e9couvrir qu\u2019il s\u2019agit des d\u00e9penses prioritaires pour l\u2019exercice, quelles qu\u2019elles soient. Rosenberg souligne par ailleurs dans son article que ce budget n\u2019est m\u00eame pas un document \u00e9conomique, mais un document de sociologie appliqu\u00e9e destin\u00e9 \u00e0 recueillir des voix, ce qui est vraiment triste \u00e0 dire au sujet du gouvernement et de ce budget.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735548\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce qui m\u2019attriste le plus, c\u2019est que je suis convaincue que chaque discours du Tr\u00f4ne et chaque budget est une occasion d\u2019aborder l\u2019avenir avec confiance et avec des possibilit\u00e9s, surtout au sortir d\u2019une pand\u00e9mie. Les Canadiens ont du mal en ce moment \u00e0 voir l\u2019avenir et \u00e0 esp\u00e9rer. Ce document ne les y encourage pas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735549\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous constatons \u00e0 quel point la fa\u00e7on lamentable dont ont \u00e9t\u00e9 men\u00e9s l'approvisionnement en vaccins et leur distribution dans l'ensemble du Canada retarde le retour \u00e0 la vie d\u2019avant. Nous devons red\u00e9marrer le Canada. Notre \u00e9conomie s\u2019\u00e9croule, sans parler de la dette et du d\u00e9ficit dont mes coll\u00e8gues ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9, tout comme de l\u2019inflation et de la masse mon\u00e9taire. Dans la derni\u00e8re question, on a dit que la fille de quelqu\u2019un pensait que le Canada pouvait imprimer de l\u2019argent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735550\" data-originallang=\"en\">L\u2019offre est limit\u00e9e en raison des actions du gouvernement et du manque de biens. Le commerce se trouve \u00e9galement dans une mauvaise situation dans la pr\u00e9sente \u00e9conomie. Une crise touche actuellement les exp\u00e9diteurs, les distributeurs et les entreprises qui utilisent des conteneurs. Une personne de ma circonscription m\u2019a affirm\u00e9 qu'elle payait 2 000 $ pour exp\u00e9dier un conteneur de la Chine avant la pand\u00e9mie. Aujourd\u2019hui, il en co\u00fbte 8 500 $ par conteneur. Ce sont des co\u00fbts qui seront refil\u00e9s aux consommateurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735551\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les int\u00e9r\u00eats vont commencer \u00e0 grimper. La hausse touchera tout d\u2019abord les taux variables, qui ne cesseront d\u2019augmenter. En ce qui concerne la dette des m\u00e9nages, les gens r\u00e9duisent le solde de leurs cartes de cr\u00e9dit, mais s'endettent davantage en raison du prix des maisons. De plus, les petites et moyennes entreprises \u00e9prouvent des difficult\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735552\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pendant la pand\u00e9mie, la situation en sant\u00e9 mentale a \u00e9t\u00e9 horrible. La semaine derni\u00e8re, j\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s fi\u00e8re d\u2019animer une s\u00e9ance, avec un psychologue de ma circonscription, sur l\u2019\u00e9ducation des adolescents pendant une pand\u00e9mie, afin d\u2019aider la prochaine g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de Canadiens qui souhaitent voir une lueur d\u2019espoir pendant cette pand\u00e9mie, une fa\u00e7on d\u2019en sortir. Il s\u2019agit l\u00e0 d\u2019initiatives que le budget ne pr\u00e9voit pas. J\u2019ai re\u00e7u tellement de messages tristes de personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es, qui me disaient \u00eatre compl\u00e8tement d\u00e9prim\u00e9es et m\u00eame envisager le suicide. Nous devons red\u00e9marrer le Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735553\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je d\u00e9fends sans rel\u00e2che les int\u00e9r\u00eats du secteur de l'aviation \u00e0 la Chambre. Voici un extrait d'une d\u00e9claration publi\u00e9e par le Conseil national des lignes a\u00e9riennes du Canada: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735554\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Alors que les taux de vaccination continuent de grimper dans le monde, les pays annoncent des plans pour le red\u00e9marrage en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de leurs secteurs du voyage et du tourisme, en s\u2019appuyant sur les analyses fournies par les Centres europ\u00e9ens de contr\u00f4le et de pr\u00e9vention des maladies ainsi que par les Centres am\u00e9ricains de contr\u00f4le des maladies. [...] Hier, le Conseil national des lignes a\u00e9riennes s\u2019est joint \u00e0 plus de 60 autres organisations de l\u2019industrie pour \u00e9crire au premier ministre sur le besoin urgent pour le Canada d\u2019aller de l\u2019avant avec un plan de red\u00e9marrage pour l\u2019\u00e9conomie globale et pour le secteur du voyage. Les pays qui r\u00e9ussissent leur plan ne feront pas que relancer en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 l\u2019aviation et leur \u00e9conomie globale, ils prendront des emplois et des investissements aux pays qui ne le font pas. Nous devons agir maintenant au nom des centaines de milliers de Canadiens de toutes les r\u00e9gions du pays dont le gagne-pain d\u00e9pend des voyages et du tourisme. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735555\" data-originallang=\"en\">La situation du Canada n'est pas unique. D'autres pays ont un plan de red\u00e9marrage et sont en train de red\u00e9marrer. Je mentionnerai quelques exemples qui m'ont \u00e9t\u00e9 signal\u00e9s par le Conseil canadien des affaires, qui a dit ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735556\" data-originallang=\"en\"> D\u2019autres pays et gouvernements montrent d\u00e9j\u00e0 le chemin que nous devons suivre. En f\u00e9vrier, le Royaume-Uni a d\u00e9voil\u00e9 une feuille de route, qui comprend quatre \u00e9tapes et des indications claires pour un retour \u00e0 une vie normale. Par exemple, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tape 3, la plupart des entreprises, sauf celles dans les secteurs les plus risqu\u00e9s, peuvent rouvrir tout en respectant les lignes directrices de la sant\u00e9 publique. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6735557\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous devons relancer l'\u00e9conomie du Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735558\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Les Centres for Disease Control and Prevention am\u00e9ricains ont \u00e9mis des directives pour les personnes qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 enti\u00e8rement vaccin\u00e9es et ont d\u00e9fini quelles activit\u00e9s peuvent reprendre en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9, ce qui comprend les voyages int\u00e9rieurs sans tests ou p\u00e9riode de quarantaine. Ici m\u00eame, au Canada \u2014 chez nous \u2014, la Saskatchewan a r\u00e9cemment annonc\u00e9 sa feuille de route en trois \u00e9tapes vers la reprise \u00e9conomique qui \u00e9tablit un lien direct entre la lev\u00e9e des restrictions et les progr\u00e8s de la vaccination. Par exemple, d\u00e8s que 70 % des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es de 30 ans et plus auront re\u00e7u une premi\u00e8re dose, les rassemblements publics int\u00e9rieurs pouvant aller jusqu'\u00e0 150 personnes seront permis, \u00e0 condition de respecter la distanciation physique et les directives applicables au port du masque. Nous devons relancer l'\u00e9conomie du Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toujours au sujet du plan de d\u00e9confinement de la Saskatchewan, la phase 1, du 4 mai au 1<sup>er</sup> juin, pr\u00e9voit la r\u00e9ouverture des services m\u00e9dicaux jusque-l\u00e0 restreints; la phase 2, la r\u00e9ouverture des commerces et de certains services \u00e0 la personne; la phase 3, la r\u00e9ouverture des lieux de culte, des rassemblements publics et priv\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur d'un maximum de 15 personnes et \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur, de 30 personnes; et la phase 4, la r\u00e9ouverture des camps de jour pour les enfants et les jeunes, des piscines ext\u00e9rieures et des parcs \u00e0 jets d\u2019eau ainsi que des biblioth\u00e8ques, des mus\u00e9es, des galeries d\u2019art, etc. Les Canadiens ont h\u00e2te. Il faut r\u00e9inventer le Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735560\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais il faut n\u00e9anmoins \u00eatre prudents. Si le gouvernement doit penser \u00e0 la reprise, les Canadiens aussi doivent y r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir. Quand ils cesseront de recevoir des prestations, il faut que les Canadiens, s\u2019ils n\u2019ont pas d\u2019emploi, se demandent pourquoi il en est ainsi. Leur restaurant a-t-il ferm\u00e9? Leur commerce a-t-il ferm\u00e9? Pourquoi? Il faut que les propri\u00e9taires d'entreprises se demandent si leur affaire repose sur des bases solides.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735561\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici la question suivante que les Canadiens devraient se poser. Qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019ils n\u2019ont pas pu faire pendant l\u2019hiver ou le printemps parce qu\u2019ils n\u2019\u00e9taient pas vaccin\u00e9s, cons\u00e9quence de l\u2019imp\u00e9ritie d\u2019un gouvernement sans vision et sans plan de relance? L\u2019un de leurs proches est-il mort? L\u2019une de leurs connaissances s\u2019est-elle vu refuser une chirurgie? Quelqu\u2019un a-t-il d\u00fb quitter son emploi pour faire l\u2019\u00e9cole \u00e0 la maison? Quelqu\u2019un a-t-il d\u00fb quitter une association quelconque? Par exemple, mon fils a d\u00fb cesser le hockey, qui lui faisait faire de l\u2019exercice et lui procurait beaucoup de plaisir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735562\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais surtout, je voudrais que les Canadiens se demandent vraiment ce qu\u2019ils veulent comme avenir. Est-ce qu\u2019ils veulent \u00eatre propri\u00e9taires de leur maison? Un tel projet me semble tr\u00e8s compromis, vu la direction que nous fait prendre le gouvernement. Veulent-ils fonder une famille? Ils auront peut-\u00eatre du mal \u00e0 la nourrir \u00e0 cause de l\u2019inflation et du prix des aliments et de l\u2019essence, laquelle est \u00e0 127,9 cents le litre chez moi, \u00e0 Calgary. Veulent-ils acheter une voiture? Pourquoi faudrait-il que ce soit une voiture \u00e9lectrique? Pourquoi pas une voiture di\u00e9sel? D\u2019ici \u00e0 ce que le gouvernement ait mis en place les infrastructures n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 la voiture \u00e9lectrique, nous serons d\u00e9j\u00e0 pass\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019hydrog\u00e8ne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6735563\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il faut que le Canada red\u00e9marre de fa\u00e7on intelligente. Cependant, les Canadiens n\u2019ont pas \u00e0 organiser leur vie conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 ce que le gouvernement a pr\u00e9vu. Ils peuvent l\u2019envisager diff\u00e9remment. Ils ont le choix. Le gouvernement aurait pu bien faire les choses, mais il a failli \u00e0 la t\u00e2che. Il faut faire red\u00e9marrer le Canada.</p>"
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