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| November 3, 2023 — — That, given that, |
| (i) the infrastructure gap for Indigenous communities is $349.2 billion, |
| (ii) the federal government has only spent $9.92 billion since 2016 to end it, |
| (iii) as a result of this chronic underfunding, the government will miss its 2030 deadline to end the infrastructure gap, |
| (iv) gutting public services is a long-standing tradition of successive Liberal & Conservative governments with disastrous effects for people, |
| (v) maintaining the underinvestment in infrastructure goes against reconciliation and all governments must endeavour to meet the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, |
| the House call on the government to reverse the planned $7.6 billion in cuts to Indigenous Services Canada. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| November 3, 2023 — — That, given that, |
| (i) 123 corporations avoided paying over $30 billion in taxes in one year alone, |
| (ii) the Liberals are threatening $15 billion in cuts across the board, |
| (iii) gutting public services is a long-standing tradition of successive Liberal & Conservative governments with disastrous effects for people, |
| the House call on the government to reverse the $15 billion in cuts and instead close the loopholes billionaires and large corporations rely on. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| November 3, 2023 — — That, given that, |
| (i) the Liberals have consistently underinvested in the North, resulting in the highest rates of food insecurity in the country, |
| (ii) food insecurity is disproportionately worse in the North than elsewhere in the country, with rates of household food insecurity reaching 16.9%, 21.6% and 57% in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut respectively, |
| (iii) the lack of investments in healthcare, housing, overall infrastructure has resulted in lack of opportunities in the North, |
| (iv) among Northerners, Indigenous peoples are particularly at risk of being food insecure, |
| (v) recent research from the University of Toronto Mississauga has shown that grocers are failing to distribute the full benefits of the Nutrition North food subsidy to consumers, |
| the House call on the government to turn the Nutrition North food program into a subsidy that goes directly to people, not corporations, and make further investments to connect Northerners with local hunters, trappers, and other sources of country food. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| November 3, 2023 — — That, given that Canadian seniors’ retirement income is increasingly at risk due to attacks on their pensions and a continued cost-of-living crisis, the House: |
| (a) condemn Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to withdraw Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan, a move that would jeopardize the retirement security of Albertans and of working people throughout the country; and |
| (b) call on the government to |
| (i) maintain an age of retirement at 65, |
| (ii) expand the 2022 increase to Old Age Security to all seniors, rather than only those above 75 years of age, |
| (iii) reaffirm that Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance deductions are not taxes, and that cutting them would amount to a massive corporate handout that would hurt Canadian workers. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| November 3, 2023 — — That, given that, |
| (i) 2023 saw a record fire season due to climate change, in which the area burned was double that of the historic record, and hundreds of thousands of Canadians were evacuated from their homes, |
| (ii) Canadians continue to struggle with dramatic increases to the cost of living while Canada’s biggest corporations, including oil and gas corporations, post record profits, |
| (iii) federal government programs aimed at supporting energy efficient retrofits such as heat pumps are hard to access, especially for low-income Canadians, |
| (iv) effective climate action must also address the very real affordability concerns of ordinary Canadians, |
| the House call on the government to: |
| (a) remove the GST from all forms of home heating; |
| (b) make eco-energy retrofits and heat pumps free and easy to access for low-income and middle-class Canadians, regardless of their initial home heating energy source; and |
| (c) finance these changes by putting in place a tax on the excess profits of big oil and gas corporations. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| November 3, 2023 — — That the House: |
| (a) accept Scotiabank's January 2023 finding that Canada must at least double its social housing stock just to achieve the OECD average; |
| (b) condemn the October 30, 2023, comments made by the Conservative leader characterizing the construction of new social housing as "a Soviet-style takeover of housing"; |
| (c) concur with the October 30, 2023, testimony of the Governor of the Bank of Canada at the Standing Committee on Finance that the cost of housing is an important driver of inflation and that government investments to increase housing supply do not constitute inflationary spending; and |
| (d) call on the government to take immediate action in the Fall Economic statement by |
| (i) replenishing the Co-Investment Fund and the Rapid Housing Initiative to increase the development of social and co-op housing supply, |
| (ii) providing stable, long-term, below-market interest rates to non-profit housing providers to support the development of new social and co-op housing, |
| (iii) extending the GST rebate to the co-op sector as well as non-profit housing projects already approved for funding by the federal government to ensure the viability and affordability of the projects. |
| Notice also received from: |
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