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Mr. Speaker, we all remember that Thursday in March, just over two years ago, when our travel plans were hastily cancelled, when our children came home from school, when we rushed to the grocery store to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer. We knew then that this virus would disrupt our lives. But few of us realized quite how much or for quite how long.
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We have now signed agreements with provinces and territories – across this whole country – to deliver $10-a-day early learning and child care to Canadian parents and families.
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Remarks by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance regarding Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
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Remarks by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance regarding Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
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Remarks by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance concerning sanctions against the Russian Central Bank
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Today, we woke up to a changed world.
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Let me begin by unequivocally condemning Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s actions are a violation of international law and of the rules-based international order. This is an attempt to replace that rules-based international order with a world in which might makes right, where the great powers have the authority to redraw the borders, dictate the foreign policies, and control the governments of sovereign democracies whose only fault is that they are smaller and that their militaries are not as powerful.
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I want to first provide a brief update on the financial measures that we introduced through the Emergencies Act to target the illegal blockades and those who fund them. As I said yesterday, information is already being shared between our law enforcement agencies and Canada’s financial services providers.
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For nearly three weeks now, our economy, our democracy, and Canada’s international standing in the world have contended with sustained and coordinated threats.
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Around the world, liberal democracies have been facing serious and sustained threats. We may have thought – we may have hoped – that Canada would be spared. Over the past two and a half weeks, we have learned that it is not.
