Billy Morin

Mr. Speaker, Miranda Mamakwa died on September 8 due to complications from open-heart surgery because the Indigenous Services Canada non-insured health benefits program failed four times to organize her medical transportation to the south. She demanded justice in her final Facebook posts. Nothing in this budget addresses the excessive transportation costs or lack of doctors for remote [more]

Mr. Speaker, well, there is the real answer for Miranda's family regarding this budget: rhetoric through numbers to cover up their failure. Details show NHIB is frozen or less than next fiscal, which means more status quo and failure. Prime Minister It gets worse. Thepromised to end homelessness in 10 years in this costly credit card budget, but the real number it does not tell us is that when [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, after 11 years of Liberal reconciliation rhetoric, how can anybody trust the 1969 white paper-musing, who delays legislation for any interests other than his own and ignores court rulings that require him to uphold the government's commitments? S-2 On Bill, he is demanding that elders sign a five-year non-disclosure agreement because he does not trust the supposed [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, Conservatives believe in self-determination and first nations deciding their own paths for themselves. At Monday's first ministers' meeting, first nations helped determine the agenda on economic partnership, land, and treaty rights, but thecould not focus on that important conversation and instead resorted to speculation about abolishing the Indian Act, which was not [more]

Thank you. Building on what you said, I have a question for Mr. Hutchinson. We had Mr. McBryan here from Buffalo Airways. He had some great stories about how he services the north. He threw out something really tangible, which I like. I would categorize it as low-hanging fruit. He described how upgrading runways by paving and extending would tangibly bring down costs. It's just something that I [more]

Thank you.

Would you categorize tank storage as something that would be a tangible investment? I realize that the prices have gone up, but is this something that permanently, or at least for decades—like that $25-million one—would lower the cost of living across the board? Do you see it as a first, tangible priority versus maybe some of the other things that are being invested in?

Thank you, Chair. I'm going to go to Mr. Watson first. I liked what you said about how high diesel prices don't just hurt at the pump in the north, but they also hurt at home. Certainly, I'd like to see diesel taxes lowered for an extended period of time, but there are diesel taxes that have been lowered by the federal government, most recently. Would you categorize these as band-aids for a [more]

Madam Speaker, earlier my colleague spoke about “performative” with respect to the government. One of the biggest criticisms I have heard since the beginning of the new session of Parliament is that, as she mentioned, it took more than a year to reintroduce a bill that has some important distinctions from the last bill but in a lot of ways, probably in the vast majority of the bill, remains the [more]