Lianne Rood
Middlesex—London, Ontario · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, I am excited to welcome everyone to Middlesex—London this summer for the Canadian Plowing Championships in Strathroy. As the member of Parliament for this area, I am proud to extend a warm southwestern Ontario welcome to all of the competitors, families and visitors who have come from across Canada to take part in this nation…”
“Mr. Speaker, I just want to thank my colleague. I am one of the rare people in this chamber who had an opportunity to work with her as a staff member. Actually, I was a volunteer afterwards, when I left the Hill and being a staffer. She was chair of the National Prayer Breakfast for four years.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is the only G7 leader and Canada is the only G20 country that is currently in a recession. Full-time workers are living in RVs because they cannot afford homes.”
“Mr. Speaker, Liberal claims of success are completely detached from reality. Canadians are crowdfunding their way through this cost of living crisis, and the Prime Minister has blown nearly $1 million on luxury inflight catering on just 14 flights, including $175,000 on one single flight.”
“Mr. Speaker, every other G20 nation is facing the same global headwinds as Canada is, yet under the Liberal Prime Minister , Canada is the only G20 nation facing a recession. In the last few days, we have learned even more about the dire state of our economy under his watch.”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot trust the half-truths or honeyed words coming off the lips of any of the Liberals right now. The Parliamentary Budget Officer gives a less than 1% chance that the Liberal government will meet its own fiscal anchor. Banks forecast growth of 0.5% in 2026.”
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“Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague what he thinks of all of the job losses we are seeing in Ontario right now. We are weeks before Christmas. We have CAMI handing pink slips to people in southwestern Ontario. We have other job losses in the auto sector across southwestern Ontario. I know Middlesex—London, and all of southwestern Ontario, is being hit hard by these job losses. I would like to ask my colleague what we would do, what he would do, as Conservatives, to help with these job losses, and why he thinks the Liberal government does not seem to care about our workers in Ontario.”
“Mr. Speaker, food banks are seeing record demand, while the Prime Minister keeps shovelling taxpayer dollars at multinationals with zero job guarantees. At CAMI, pink slips are hitting kitchen tables, and it is just weeks before Christmas. Families across Middlesex—London are losing their paycheques and cannot afford to buy groceries. The minister said that she would get an update from GM, but it has been 40 days and she has nothing: no plan, no transparency and no jobs. Why does the Prime Minister keep making Canadians pay the price for his financial incompetence?”
“Shop local to lift up our small businesses and, if able, pick up an extra item for our community food bank so that no one is left out in the cold. Every act of compassion, large or small, is an example of Christ. I wish a merry Christmas from my family to all families. May the peace of Jesus Christ guard their hearts and homes, and may God bless them in the year ahead.”
“Mr. Speaker, Christmas is the season of hope, a light that breaks through even the darkest of days. During this time, we remember the true meaning of this holy day: the birth of Jesus Christ, the light of the world. As scripture reminds us in John 1:5, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” That promise is as real in Middlesex—London as it was in Bethlehem. This is the season to carry the light into our communities through kindness, generosity and cheerful giving. I thank everyone who brings warmth to our towns and villages: parade organizers, church choirs, first responders, volunteers and neighbours who show up quietly and faithfully. They make this season glow. Let us keep the support going strong.”
“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague talked a lot about housing. What I am hearing from the residents of Middlesex—London is that housing has become completely unaffordable. The Liberals talk about taking GST off for first-time homebuyers. The Conservatives' plan was to take the GST off all new home builds, because the reality is that it is very difficult to find homes under a million dollars now. A lot of people have purchased a home at some point in their life, and now they are looking at expanding their family and trying to purchase a larger home, perhaps, to house their family. I am just wondering if the member would comment on why the budget falls so short and why it does not include all new home builds with regard to the GST exemption.”
“Mr. Speaker, we continue to hear from the Liberals that this is a generational investment, but my constituents in Middlesex—London say they see it as generational debt. I would ask the member opposite what she would like to say to those young people out there, the university students, the college students, the apprentices, those who are still in training, who cannot afford to pay rent, who are still stuck in their parents' basement, as well as to the parents whose 28- and 26-year-olds are still living at home. Could the member look them in the eye and tell them why it is okay to have generational debt? What is she going to do to give them hope for a better future in this country?”
“Gerry, from Middlesex—London, thanked us for standing up and bringing forward Conservative bills. They are exactly what Canada needs to restore peace and prosperity after years of Liberal mismanagement. He agrees with the direction we and our leader are taking and believes these are common-sense solutions that will finally start to turn this country around. Hope is out there. I want to tell the folks in Middlesex—London to keep the faith and keep up hope, because Conservatives are going to keep fighting for them here every day.”
“Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for visiting Middlesex—London a couple of weeks ago. I am going to read something. I have constituents who write in quite often. Carrie, from Middlesex—London, says things are so bad right now that she actually asked if someone could apply for MAID just because they can no longer afford to live in Ontario. No one should be driven to that point in a country like Canada, but that is what 10 years of Liberal policies have done. Chris, from London, wrote he's terrified by what he is reading about rising violent crime and extortion across the country. He used to feel safe in my own neighbourhood, but now he worries every day, and it seems like the Liberal government is more interested in excuses than fixing the laws.”
“Mr. Speaker, Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world. If we tapped into our oil and gas sector and put Canadians to work in good-paying jobs, this country would be amazing. We would be making money and taxpayers would be paying taxes, but we need to put people to work and we need to get the oil out of the ground. We need to get the economy going, because the Liberal government keeps overspending, and we need to find ways to bring down that deficit and create jobs in this country for our own people.”
“Mr. Speaker, when a government expands faster than the economy and it borrows more without discipline, the result is baked-in pressure, prices and interest rates. This keeps mortgages unaffordable. Mortgage payments have doubled. Rent has doubled. Businesses are having a hard time. If we add energy uncertainty, slow approvals and trade, we will get a higher embedded cost in absolutely everything, especially food.”
“They are asking to bring discipline to government so families can bring dinner to the table. They want to make more here at home, such as food, energy and materials, and build homes and industry so we are not at the mercy of foreign supply chains and foreign governments. That is real resilience. That is the Canadian way. (1555) This budget is a glossy brochure for a product that keeps breaking, and Canadians have tried it for 10 years. The Liberal lemon costs more, delivers less and leaves future generations with the bill. Enough is enough. To the families in Middlesex—London, we—”
“We will end catch-and-release for violent repeat offenders; enforce at the border to stop the smuggling that fuels organized crime and drives up costs through theft and insurance; focus police resources on criminals and not on law-abiding citizens; have a credible fiscal anchor; publish a clear and independently verifiable path to balance; stop shifting definitions to game the ledger; and invite the PBO to audit the government's capital and operating methodology so that Canadians and markets can trust the numbers once again. In Middlesex—London, farmers, processors, truckers, shopkeepers and families are not asking for utopia. They are asking for the government to stop getting in the way: predictable rules, faster approvals, real competition and honest books.”
“A Conservative plan means we will bring home lower costs and cut wasteful spending; unleash homegrown energy and industry; approve and build energy infrastructure, pipelines, power lines, LNG, nuclear and mining; streamline permits with firm timelines and a “one project, one review” rule; restore competition and fairness in the food supply chain; remove expensive hidden taxes on food such as the industrial carbon tax, front-of-pack labelling and the plastics registry; maintain safe streets, secure borders and get serious about justice.”
“Conservatives do this. We keep policy simple, demanding that the government scrap hidden and cascading taxes that inflate the cost of producing and transporting food, fast-track logistics and processing capacity so harvests move more efficiently and cold storage is available, increase real competition in grocery retail and wholesaling by ending the supply chain bullying that feeds higher prices and green-light energy and critical infrastructure to reduce embedded costs in every product on the shelf. That is what a real plan looks like. Canadians want a plan that measures success by lower prices, more paycheques and safer communities, not by how many failed programs were renamed.”
“Local food banks are stretched thin and are often forced to reduce what goes into each hamper. That should not be the normal in a country blessed with farmland, energy and ingenuity. It is the consequence of Liberal political and policy failures on competition, supply chains, energy and taxes that pile on costs every step of the way. However, the Liberal government thinks it can trick people. The budget inserts the word “affordability” into more programs and more announcements, but the structure is the same: centralize, spend, label it investment and hope prices somehow come down. Here is a news flash: They will not, not while we constrain energy, choke approvals, fail trade negotiations and add costs at each link in the supply chain from farm to fork. Families need less government in the checkout lane and more common sense in policy.”
“If the Liberals let people keep more of their own money, they would not have to play saviour and feed their kids for them. They created the problem, and now they want us to pat them on the back and say “good job” for refusing to fix it. I want to share some of the many voices from Middlesex—London, anonymized because Conservatives believe people deserve privacy from their government, but their words deserve the House's attention. I quote: “We're choosing between groceries and gas this month. If something breaks, we're sunk.” I quote: “Both of us work full-time. We've never used a food bank before. Now we do twice a month.” I quote: “I don't want a one-time cheque. I want my weekly grocery bill under control.” Food bank use is up sharply across this country. Major urban centres are reporting record visits.”
“(1550) Let us put this in family dollar terms. In 2025, a typical family of four is expected to spend about $16,800 and change on food, which is up roughly $802 from last year. Over the past several years, the cumulative climb is now in the thousands of dollars. Many families describe it as hundreds more each year, with the steepest jump happening right now. In Ontario, staples keep getting higher. Sirloin is up 33%; canned soup is up 26%, coffee 22% and sugar 20% in recent months. A rebate cheque is not a food policy. A school meal press release does not reduce the price of groceries for a two-income family just trying to keep the lights on and gas in the car. When government policy drives up costs then offers taxpayers their own money back, that is not help; it is a headline.”
“We build it on a stable, bankable framework that gets things approved and built, like pipelines, power lines, LNG terminals, critical mineral processing and housing at scale. Conservatives have been saying this for years. We have actually invited the Liberal government to steal our ideas. The offer is still open, because clearly they still do not know what they are doing. The Prime Minister said Canadians would judge him at the grocery checkout. In Middlesex—London they have, and the verdict is not good. By the end of summer, headline inflation was 1.9%, but food inflation was 3.5%, year over year, still outpacing the overall basket. Meat rose by 7.2% and beef was up 12.7%, compared to last year. We cannot view food inflation as a graph. It is supper, and the portions are getting smaller. This is after years of compounded increases.”
“Interest on the debt is crowding out the very things Canadians care about: health care capacity, community safety, national defence and infrastructure that actually gets built. We are already spending more just to service the public debt than we are on critical priorities. This budget accelerates that trend. Investment goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated, but this budget doubles down on uncertainty with ever-changing rules, surprise levies and vague megaproject announcements with no shovels in sight. I look at how our dollar is crashing right now. We are witnessing capital choosing clarity elsewhere. Energy, mining and manufacturing projects and payrolls are drifting to jurisdictions with predictable timelines and real competitiveness plans. We cannot build national prosperity on catchphrase-filled press releases.”
“Why the sudden innovative accounting to make numbers look less bad? When the government changes the ruler, its measurements become meaningless. The Prime Minister likes to wave around his résumé, but even a first-year student has learned that the rampant spending is not strategy. In a period when inflation has eaten household savings and interest rates remain elevated, this budget piles on new borrowing with no credible path to balance. This is not compassionate assistance to those in need; it is intergenerational transfer, stealing the futures of people's kids and grandkids to fill today's political promises. Every extra billion dollars borrowed today is a future tax hike or a program cut.”
“I say, when the referee says the scoreboard can no longer be trusted, the game is in trouble. Markets hear that. Rating agencies hear that. Families living paycheque to paycheque will end up paying the price in higher interest, weaker growth and fewer opportunities. This budget takes a bad habit and makes it worse, labelling routine spending as investment, backloading costs and burying off-cycle decisions in footnotes. It is typical of the Liberals' playbook to shift the definitions, claim victory and hope that no one reads the fine print. Unlike them, I know Canadians are smarter than that and will not be fooled. They are the ones who are left reading the receipt at the grocery checkout counter, and they see through it. If the plan is so strong, why the constant need to redefine the terms?”
“With $365 million in this budget for advertising, Canadians are literally left paying for Liberal talking points. Conservatives seek to give them results. I do not expect people to just take my word for this, so here is what our country's top expert has to say on these matters. The Parliamentary Budget Officer told the parliamentary committee that he does not know if the government currently has fiscal anchors, calling that “a considerable degree of concern”. He further cautioned that the government's shifting definitions between capital and operating spending make it “impossible” to assess whether any target will be hit and that “the deficit will absolutely be higher.” He also warned that playing accounting games risks higher borrowing costs for Canadians.”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadians asked for relief, but with this Liberal budget, all they got was spin. Families asked for stable prices, safer streets and a clear plan to grow paycheques and bring investment back. Instead, they got the largest deficit in Canadian history outside of COVID, more debt and more creative accounting from a government that keeps saying, “Trust us”, while going out of its way to make life harder and less affordable. The public reaction has been telling. Business groups called it directionless. Economists flagged the risks. Community leaders asked where the affordability plan actually is. Even more telling is that the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed what Canadians suspected: The government's numbers do not add up in a way that builds confidence or credibility.”
“Can the member opposite comment on whether she and her government would like to change policies to actually put money back in the pockets of Canadians so that parents can afford to feed their kids?”
“Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the secretary of state 's speech. In my community of Middlesex—London, I am hearing from parents all over, I am hearing from seniors and I am hearing from all kinds of people who say they cannot afford food. The reason they are having a hard time paying the bills, paying for heat and buying food is that the Liberal government's policies over the last 10 years have put them in this financial situation. People are struggling because of the policies of the Liberal government. Parents would not need to use and rely on a school food program if it were not for the fact that the government has put them in the position of having to choose between heating and food.”
“While the Prime Minister and his Bay Street buddies hide money at a Bermuda bike shop, he tells young Canadians to tighten their belts. This is unacceptable. Conservatives demand an end to this insider game. We will close the loopholes and put Canadians first by cutting taxes for real growth and hope.”
“Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal government, Canadians cannot afford another Prime Minister who cashes in while they line up at food banks. As Brookfield Chair, the Prime Minister helped funnel $6.5 billion through Bermuda and Cayman tax havens, dodging Canadian taxes for his personal benefit. That is not public service; it is self-service. Every dollar hidden offshore is a dollar not building homes, funding health care or supporting veterans and seniors who did everything right and are now falling behind. Canadians see the pattern. The Prime Minister doubled Trudeau's deficits, cooked up the second-most expensive budget in history, fudged the numbers to hide how bad it was, and now, we learn that he helped the biggest tax dodger in Canada shelter billions.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition to the House that comes from firearms owners who are concerned about past legislation and new orders in council in which the government targets law-abiding firearms owners. The petitioners say that Bill C-21 does nothing to tackle firearms violence, but rather adds red tape to law-abiding Canadians. They also describe how the bill does little to tackle the true source of firearms violence: gangs and organized crime. The petitioners are calling on the government to repeal Bill C-21 and devote greater resources to police so they can combat the sources of illegal firearms.”
“Mr. Speaker, let me spell this out for the Liberals: no farms, no food. The food professor warns, “we're the only country within the G7 which has seen four consecutive months of [rising] food inflation”. The industrial carbon tax is driving up wholesale food prices, full stop. The Liberals have introduced another of the most costly and largest deficit budgets in Canadian history. When Canadians are already struggling to put food on the table, why is the Prime Minister so intent on increasing the industrial carbon tax to make food more expensive?”
“Mr. Speaker, the current government is the most expensive in Canadian history. The Prime Minister does not seem to understand that the more he spends, the more things cost for regular Canadians. Liberals had a chance to lower food costs by scrapping the industrial carbon tax, but they chose to increase food costs by increasing the industrial carbon tax. That drives up input costs of things like fertilizer and farm equipment. Why is the Prime Minister increasing the industrial carbon tax and making food more expensive for Canadians?”
“If accountability is the new way forward, the international development budget should cover this initiative. Let us see if this becomes a model for other departments to follow or if this will be another scandal that Conservatives will need to unearth down the line. For now, we are going to give co-operation a chance, and I look forward to working with the member on his motion going forward.”
“Canada is a generous nation, but there is room to strengthen our leadership. The motion is in no way innovative; the actions highlighted within should never have been abandoned in the first place. When dealing with taxpayer funds, accountability should be the first consideration, not an afterthought. Global Affairs Canada has rightly earned the reputation for being one of the highest wastefully spending departments. Motion No. 14 could be a signal to the end of that. There is a right and wrong way of stewarding the public purse. Conservatives have a strong record of doing it the right way; the Liberals, not so much. Given the history of Liberal waste, I cautiously give my support for this motion. The economic partnerships window should not cost the taxpayer more.”
“It should also be funded from the current international development budget and not require the taxpayer to shoulder more debt. The required parliamentary report from the Minister of International Development is a welcome addition to this motion. The Liberals put up frequent roadblocks and have maintained a general, pervasive mentality away from transparency that has made it difficult for the official opposition to hold the Liberal government accountable and give Canadians the information that they deserve. Name the scandal or issue, whether it is inflation, the economy, crime or food prices, the Liberals have shown no accountability for anything or remorse for the harm they have caused. If this motion is serious, it will usher a shift in Liberal policy, championing transparency over secrecy and issue avoidance.”
“In the text of the motion, we read that the government will be, “establishing a dedicated Economic Partnerships Window to support projects that align poverty reduction abroad with economic security at home”. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the last 10 years, the Liberal government has a habit of creating more bureaucracy. Consider the newly announced Build Canada Homes, a new government body that plans to build 4,000 factory-built affordable homes at a price tag of $13 billion, or $3.25 million a house. If the government is serious about producing results, it will ensure that the economic partnerships window is not another opportunity to balloon the government. The mission, expectations and outcomes for the economic partnerships window need to be crystal clear.”
“This assistance, delivered as loans and grants, helped the new Ukrainian government pay its bills and implement reforms during a pivotal moment of transition. Canada also deployed hundreds of election observers and provided technical support to bolster Ukraine's fragile democracy. The message was clear: Canadians stand with those fighting for their freedom and self-determination. Canada currently spends over $8 billion annually on foreign aid. At a time when so many Canadians are struggling to make ends meet, this number should be much lower. We should also be transitioning from government handouts to partnerships that benefit Canadian interests and bolster our economy. This is something the motion proposes, but we will have to wait and see if the government can follow through.”
“Canada once led the way in mobilizing support among G8 and non-G8 leaders, key donors and private foundations to tackle this challenge. This legacy guides our vision. We will target aid to where it makes a measurable difference, in this case the health of mothers and children, while insisting on transparency and effectiveness in every dollar spent. Another example of international development done right was in 2014, after Russia’s first incursion into Ukraine. When Ukraine’s sovereignty came under attack, Prime Minister Harper took swift action, condemning Russian aggression and backing words with aid. (1750) In March 2014, Canada announced a package of over $220 million to help Ukraine stabilize its economy and support democratic development.”
“He announced this with a rigorous framework to measure progress and ensure aid dollars are used effectively. That accountability paid off. Alongside other donors, Canada’s push helped save countless lives by expanding vaccination programs and maternal care, contributing to a significant drop in the under-five mortality rate globally in the early 2010s. I have seen first-hand the benefits of freshwater well sites and maternal health clinics and the positive impact they have had in the communities in Tanzania. The people are grateful, and they want more of this type of support. Because of a Conservative initiative, their lives have been measurably improved permanently. The Muskoka initiative demonstrated how a Conservative government’s focus on a clear priority, coupled with demand for results, could mobilize the world.”
“In the face of high mortality rates among mothers and young children in developing countries, Canada rallied global partners to take decisive action. The Harper government committed a total of $2.85 billion over five years to improve maternal and child health, including $1.1 billion in new funding and $1.75 billion in renewed support, establishing this as a long-term Canadian priority. This infusion of resources went to practical interventions like training health workers, funding immunizations and building clinics in some of the world’s poorest regions. Just as important as the money was an emphasis on outcomes. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced, “Accountability for results will be an integral part of Canada’s contribution”.”
“As Canadians struggle with high taxes, record food bank usage and an unaffordability crisis, the Secretary of State for International Development recently announced nearly $140 million in overseas funding. Motion No. 14 serves as a request for the oversight the Liberals neglected when they got into power 10 years ago. Canada’s commitment to international assistance is rooted in decades of real-world impact. Conservative governments in particular have often pioneered focused, high-impact initiatives. By examining a few historical case studies, we can draw lessons on what works and what a Conservative-led development policy should champion. One of the clearest examples of focused Canadian aid delivering results was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s maternal, newborn and child health initiative, launched at the G8 Muskoka summit in 2010.”
“Under Conservative governments, these were not merely words, but pillars in the Conservative approach to international development. The Prime Minister is looking to “rein in spending”. As our Conservative leader has said, that is a goal worth co-operating on. Under the Liberal government, international development programming has been seen as overly generous, to the point of being wasteful. Programs have not been yielding results and have been ideologically leaning toward woke causes. There have also been reports of abuse and of development funding being misappropriated by terrorist groups or organizations sympathetic to terrorist causes. The words and actions of this government are at odds.”
“Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of this Liberal government, we have seen nothing but consistent reckless spending. From arrive scam to the green slush fund of the last Parliament, Liberals just cannot seem to stop giving away taxpayer dollars to their friends and allies. We are six months post-election, and nothing has changed. With conflict of interest breaches circling the current Prime Minister , Canadians are in for another season of more Liberals getting rich off their wasted taxes. I say all this as a preamble to the discussion at hand today on Motion No. 14, which is about Canada’s international development assistance. After I read the motion, I reflected. This is from our current Liberal government. Words like “accountability” and “effectiveness” seem distant from the actions of the current and previous Liberal administrations.”
“Mr. Speaker, the text of the motion says it would establish a “dedicated Economic Partnerships Window to support projects that align poverty reduction abroad with economic security at home”. I am just wondering if the member could comment on that a little further and expand on the intention of that part of the motion.”
“Mr. Speaker, that is just more talk from the Liberals that does nothing to help people. CAMI workers in Ingersoll are worried about paying their mortgages and putting food on the table. After handing out billions in subsidies, CAMI's indefinite layoffs come at the cost of the Liberals' failure to negotiate protections for workers. When CAMI bleeds, so do parts suppliers, tool and die makers, truckers, diners and other small businesses across Middlesex—London and southwestern Ontario. Will the Prime Minister look auto workers in the eye and explain to them why he failed to protect their jobs?”
“Mr. Speaker, CAMI families are getting pink slips, and the auto sector in Canada is hanging by a thread. The Liberal EV mandate is a bumper sticker, not a plan. It is a pipe dream that costs billions in taxpayer subsidies, and all for nothing. Over 6,000 Canadian families' livelihoods are at stake right now as auto manufacturers move their businesses to the U.S. Will the Prime Minister tell unemployed auto workers why his failed policies helped send their jobs south?”
“Mr. Speaker, I am hearing from constituents from across Middlesex—London, and here is one example. They said: ...it has become evident to me that the government's response has fallen short in proportion to the severity of the challenges faced by our communities. To be clear, there is nothing normal about what is happening in Canada, and these issues must be approached with the urgency they require. Families, seniors, students, and new Canadians are being forced to make impossible choices between putting food on the table and paying for other basic necessities. Therefore we need to see less money spent by the government in deficits, we need to stop the money printing and we need to give Canadians policies that will make—”
“If we want to talk about the P2 plastics ban's getting rid of plastic packaging, I will say that it would take more GHGs and more trucks on the road to deliver paper packaging to places versus—”
“Mr. Speaker, I do miss working with the member on the agriculture committee. It was great working with him on the committee, but he raises really great concerns. When the government continues to have a commercial carbon tax on fuel for trucks that transport our food, whether from the farm field to a farm or to be washed, sorted, graded, packaged and sent again on another truck to a food distribution centre that then sends it on another truck to a grocery store, all the added fuel cost adds cost to the food itself. It is no wonder that when food arrives at the grocery store, retailers have to put up the price, because the price has gone up all along the value chain and the supply chain before it ever reaches the consumer at the grocery store.”
“Mr. Speaker, the reality is that a GST holiday for a short period of time does not actually solve a long-term problem that the Liberals have created with affordability in Canada after 10 years. Conservatives believe that the government should not have to pay for kids to eat; parents should be able to provide for that, but it is government policies that are forcing people to go to food banks, because it is increasing taxes. The Liberals continue to punish farmers with an industrial carbon tax that puts the cost of fuel and everything for food inputs higher. If the member truly did want to help people in Middlesex—London afford food, perhaps the Liberals would look at some of their policies and actually do things that would bring the cost of living down for Canadians.”
“Conservatives call on the Prime Minister to stop taxing food, by eliminating the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment; the inflationary money-printing deficits; carbon tax 2, the so-called clean fuel standard; and the food packaging plastics ban, packaging requirements and the plastics registry that will drive up both costs and waste.”
“The bottom line is simple: Banning plastics would not solve the problem; it would create more problems. The current Liberals have continued Trudeau's legacy by holding a disastrous record on making Canadians poorer and food more expensive. Current Liberal spending and deficits today are only getting worse. Canadians deserve better, and we will deliver. Effective policy will focus on better design, recycling and responsible use, not on swapping materials for food to spoil faster, break in transit or drive higher transportation emissions per kilogram of product delivered. If we care about climate and affordability, smart plastic packaging is part of the solution, not the scapegoat.”