Gabriel Hardy

Mr. Speaker, Telesat has over $3 billion in debt that is coming due soon. The company itself is saying that it does not think it will be able to pay its creditors. Prime Minister Hold on a minute. They have a card up their sleeve. Mr. Goldberg, the CEO of Telesat, is a good friend of the. What is the result? The government just awarded Telesat the largest contract in the company's history. This [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, there are other facts to consider. We know that the CEO of Telesat is a long-time friend of the. He attended the Prime Minister's swearing-in and went to visit him in England. They even run marathons together. How nice for them. Minister of Artificial Intelligence Theis also a buddy of Mr. Goldberg's, but he had to recuse himself from matters involving Telesat to [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, the most alarming thing about all this is that these employees' potential conflict of interest is not subject to any independent oversight. The Privy Council Office is staffed by employees who work directly for the. The Major Projects Office is the Prime Minister's creation and tool. They are the ones who decide whether or not there is a conflict. When we asked for the [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, the way theis managing taxpayers' money is starting to become extremely worrisome. On one side, we have ordinary citizens who are affected by those decisions on a daily basis and who are paying the price every day. On the other, we have the people who make the rules and the friends of the people who make the rules. They are the ones reaping the benefits. We have [more]

Mr. Speaker, this week, three different reports have confirmed that our economy is slowing, that groceries cost a fortune for ordinary people and that people are struggling to make ends meet. It is clear what Canada needs to do to get its economy back on track: reduce regulatory and bureaucratic barriers; allow businesses to grow, particularly in the domestic market; focus on improving [more]

Mr. Speaker, the Bank of Canada raised its interest rate for the first time in three years. What does that mean for Canadians? It means that borrowing is more expensive, mortgages are more expensive and, once again, the financial pressure on families is increasing. Meanwhile, our economy is growing at half the rate of the U.S. economy. In fact, it is even worse than that. We rank 13th in the G20 [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is the new reality. Four-, six-, seven- or eight-year-old children are sometimes more adept with electronics than adults. Sometimes parents and grandparents do not know how to help young people. It is not about controlling them. It is about helping them. The child does not know that he or she is going down a road that is going to hurt them in the long run, that will put their [more]

Mr. Speaker, once again, I do not think that it is up to me, as some great thinker, to start telling people what they should do. I think that is what committees are for. We can bring in experts and make sure we listen to them. At the end of the day, it is not ideology that is important. It is results and what ordinary people are facing. What should we do? We can set up a committee, invite [more]

Cambridge Mr. Speaker, I am going to share my time with the member for. Every parent in Montmorency—Charlevoix and, I suspect, across all of Quebec and Canada has gone through the same experience. It is 10 p.m. and our teenager's bedroom door is closed. We see a faint blue light under the door. Sometimes we hear them laughing to themselves, or we hear strange noises from a video. When that [more]

Mr. Speaker, that is such a good question that I already answered it in my speech. When I say that children must be the priority in this bill, I mean it. We are doing all this for them. I also pointed out that, according to the Angus Reid poll, 75% of people agree that legislation should be passed to protect our children online, but 72% of people, so roughly the same number, said they want to [more]

Mr. Speaker, the bill appears to put off 50 decisions until later. Of those 50 decisions, 19 will be delegated to a minister, and 31 will be referred to a commission that does not exist yet. Given that this bill is so important and so eagerly awaited by Canadians, should we not ensure that these questions already have answers, rather than postponing them and relying on “maybes”, especially when [more]