Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2026-06-02 10:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Jeremy Patzer (Swift Current\u2014Grasslands\u2014Kindersley, CPC)",
        "fr": "Jeremy Patzer (Swift Current\u2014Grasslands\u2014Kindersley, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9374737\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, it is always an honour and a privilege to be able to rise on behalf of the great people of southwest and west central Saskatchewan. I rise today to talk about the opposition motion that we have put forward, but before I do, I just want to take a few moments here to offer our sincere condolences to the families in Pelican Narrows who were impacted by a shooting that happened up there yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with the community and the family of the victim up there. I wanted to start off by acknowledging that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374738\" data-originallang=\"en\"> What are we doing here today? We are talking about a recession. The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> himself, in an interview with the BBC when he was over in England, said \u201cthe technical definition of a technical recession is...two [straight] quarters of flat or negative [GDP] growth\u201d. That is it. It is pretty simple.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374739\" data-originallang=\"en\"> What do we have here in Canada? Let us take a look. Real GDP fell 0.1% in Q1, and the quarter before that, it fell roughly 1%. Based on the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>'s own words, that meets the definition of a technical recession, so that is what we have.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374740\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> has been in power for a little over a year. He is supposed to be the grandmaster economist who is going to save Canada. He was bold enough to stand at the microphones and say that the United States was on track for a recession, but Canada was not. There might be some impact from what is happening in the States, but it was headed for a recession, and we were not. That is what he said. That was right around the time of the last election, so that was one of the first things he was trying to sell to Canadians. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374741\" data-originallang=\"en\">Okay, so let us look at his track record. When he was over in England, he said that Brexit was going to cause a massive recession. Well, he was wrong. I just talked about what he said about the United States. He was wrong. He said Canada was not going to enter a recession. Guess what. He was wrong, because here we are right now. The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>'s very own definition has been met: two straight quarters of negative or flat growth.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9374737\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, c'est toujours un honneur et un privil\u00e8ge de prendre la parole au nom des formidables habitants du Sud\u2011Ouest et du Centre\u2011Ouest de la Saskatchewan. Je prends la parole aujourd'hui au sujet de la motion de l'opposition que nous avons pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e, mais auparavant, je tiens \u00e0 prendre quelques instants pour offrir nos sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances aux familles de Pelican Narrows touch\u00e9es par une fusillade survenue l\u00e0\u2011bas hier. Nos pens\u00e9es et nos pri\u00e8res accompagnent la communaut\u00e9 et la famille de la victime. Je tenais \u00e0 le souligner d'entr\u00e9e de jeu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374738\" data-originallang=\"en\">Que faisons-nous ici aujourd'hui? Nous parlons d'une r\u00e9cession. Dans une entrevue accord\u00e9e \u00e0 la BBC lors de son passage en Angleterre, le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> lui-m\u00eame a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que, selon la d\u00e9finition technique, une r\u00e9cession technique se produit lorsque le PIB stagne ou recule deux trimestres de suite. C'est tout. C'est assez simple.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374739\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'est-ce qui se passe ici, au Canada? Examinons les faits. Le PIB r\u00e9el a recul\u00e9 de 0,1 % au premier trimestre, et d'environ 1 % au trimestre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Selon les propres mots du <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a>, cela correspond \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition d'une r\u00e9cession technique, et c'est donc ce qui se passe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374740\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> est au pouvoir depuis un peu plus d'un an. Il est cens\u00e9 \u00eatre le grand ma\u00eetre de l'\u00e9conome qui va sauver le Canada. Il a eu l'audace de dire devant les micros que les \u00c9tats\u2011Unis se dirigeaient vers une r\u00e9cession, mais pas le Canada. Il se peut que la situation aux \u00c9tats\u2011Unis ait quelques r\u00e9percussions, mais le pays se dirigeait vers une r\u00e9cession, contrairement \u00e0 nous. C'est ce qu'il a dit. Il a fait ce commentaire aux alentours des derni\u00e8res \u00e9lections et c'\u00e9tait l'un des premiers points qu'il a essay\u00e9 de faire valoir aupr\u00e8s des Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9374741\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tr\u00e8s bien, jetons donc un coup d'\u0153il \u00e0 son bilan. Lorsqu'il \u00e9tait en Angleterre, il a dit que le Brexit provoquerait une r\u00e9cession massive. Eh bien, il avait tort. Je viens de parler de ce qu'il a dit au sujet des \u00c9tats\u2011Unis. Il avait tort. Il a affirm\u00e9 que le Canada n'entrerait pas en r\u00e9cession. Devinez quoi? Il avait tort, car voil\u00e0 o\u00f9 nous en sommes aujourd'hui. La situation r\u00e9pond \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition m\u00eame du <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a>: deux trimestres cons\u00e9cutifs de croissance n\u00e9gative ou nulle.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2026/6/2/jeremy-patzer-1/",
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    "source_id": "13541564",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Economic Policies",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les politiques \u00e9conomiques"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2026/6/2/",
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