House of Commons of Canada

Like the House of Lords, I want an upper chamber that is conscious of its subordinate and somewhat dubious place in the democratic process.

A democratically elected and empowered Senate would duplicate the work of the Commons, and the resulting gridlock would be a constitutional nightmare.

The only E of the old triple E Senate proposal that I endorse is the principle of equality.

If I thought the Senate could be reformed to provide either equal representation for each province or regionally balanced representation, then I would vote to keep the Senate.

C'est un député de Charlevoix-Montmorency.

Pis ce que j'aime de cet individu-là, c'est qu'il vient, euh, nous exposer la vérité sur qu'est-ce qui se passe à la Chambre des communes.

Entre autres, il est sur le comité d'éthique, Gabriel Hardy.

Salut.

He said it's never going to get built, and if it does, it'll cost a trillion dollars.

He told the House of Commons no one contradicted him, but there were some harumps.

The Alto train is fascinating.

$90 billion is the estimate for 1,000 kilometers.

No one believes that figure.

We've seen some documents tabled in the Commons, Ben, that suggest that management of the high-speed train venture looked at actual costs in California, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

decided not to mirror the average or any of actual costs spent on bullet trains abroad, and picked a figure out of the air to come to $90 billion.

So when MP Baber says, this dog is going to come in at a trillion for a thousand kilometers, he may not be far off.

This story out of Canada is wild.

An explosive investigation revealed that up to 20% of all speeches delivered in the Canadian House of Commons were synthetic.

One fifth of all debate.

They were not written by the members of parliament or their staff.

Um, and that's happened when presidents have undergone, like, you know, their colonoscopies, and they formally transfer the president while they're under, uh, to the vice president.

These images, whether we're talking about, um, Donald Trump kind of, you know, fall- falling asleep during meetings at the White House-

Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep?

That's false.

Yeah

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while the average age of the Canadian House of Commons is in its early 50s.

Um, why is there such a disparity when compared to a body like the US Senate, for example, or, or even Congress generally? In, in the US Senate, I mean, the average age is closer to sixty-six years old.

I mean, they showed a lot of independence.

So, you know, if you want to talk about was it a majority or a minority government, I would come down on the side of minority because it really depended upon how many votes Mackenzie King could count on in the House of Commons.

And if you can't rely on those votes, then...

You're really working with a minority.

Quebec liberals, and he won a solid slate of liberal MPs in 1921.

All 65 seats went liberal.

And then on the other hand, you get the progressives in the West, mostly in the West, and he needs their support in the House of Commons to prop up his government, but they're very much anti-tariff.

while you have Quebec's business community, the Montreal group, as they called them, who are adamantly in favor of continued protectionism, protection for Canadian industries.

But yes, Which one of these kind of become reality is another question.

Many of them will, but many of them may, of course, you know, hit opposition, whether that be in Canadian House of Commons, whether that be, you know, intransigent EU members or whatever.

But something is going to come out of these.

Yeah, it is fascinating to