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WATCH: Housing Minister Sean Fraser schools Pierre Poilievre in the House of Commons

Jason Pugh Oct 29, 2024

So, this happened during today’s Question Period:

Oh, this really got under Pierre’s skin, but more on that in a bit.

This exchange started earlier, so let’s go back to the beginning.

Yesterday, the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, held a presser in which he announced he would drop GST on building new houses under $1M.

Watch here:

Here’s the big takeaway from that presser:

Yesterday, Sean Fraser responded to Poilievre’s proposals:

“Every time I look at what his policy proposals entail, whether it’s housing, whether it’s healthcare, whether it’s affordability, it’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.” – Housing Minister Sean Fraser

That leads us to today’s exchange between Poilievre and Fraser.

First, I want to address how Poilievre starts his question.

“The very angry Housing Minister has been up all night trying to dream up some snarky comment in response to the very popular announcement common sense Conservatives made yesterday to axe the federal sales tax on homes under a million dollars.”

It sounds like PP is projecting here. He must have been lying awake all night, worried about facing Sean Fraser during today’s QP.

Well, it looks like Pierre knew what was coming.

Watch:

“Mr. Speaker, with all the time and energy he spends on me, I’m gonna have to send him a cheque for the time I’ve been living rent-free in his head.” – Sean Fraser

That was the zinger that Pierre Poilievre knew was coming. (And possibly kept him awake all night last night, quivering in fear.)

Then Mr. Fraser stated that some of Pierre Poilievre’s MPs have been asking for funding in their ridings.

“What he doesn’t know is his caucus colleagues have been going behind his back writing me letters advocating for their communities to receive funding for the housing accelerator fund.”

Well, I’m sure THAT got under Pierre’s skin.

Poilievre tried to hit back:

“Mr. Speaker, it’s the only rent he hasn’t doubled.” – Pierre Poilievre

Yeah, OK. That was kind of funny. But did Pierre Poilievre just admit that Sean Fraser is living rent-free in his head?

Poilievre then reads off a quote from Fraser using a silly voice and bobbing his head back and forth. You know, as the very serious-minded Prime Minister in waiting should be doing over such a serious matter.

Because that’s what we want representing us on the world stage. Right?

So that led to the exchange that I tweeted out:

“He opposes investments in affordable housing. He borrows lessons from his cousins south of the border when he opposes birth control for women. During the ‘January 6th of Canada,’ the convoy, he wasn’t just telling people to stand by. He was bringing them coffee in the streets.”

Surely, that will be made into a Heritage Moment.

As Dean from Winnipeg recently tweeted:

So Sean Fraser must have really gotten under Pierre Poilievre’s skin. So, PP tried to get personal. (Well, more than the two already had been up to this point.)

Just, just watch:

“Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader asks how arrogance and incompetence can live so comfortably in one man; he manages to show us every single day.” – Sean Fraser

Amazing.

The exchange between the two ended there with Pierre asking one more question that the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller answered:

“Mr. Speaker, the leader of the opposition, has said there’s been consensus on immigration for a hundred and fifty years. That means he’s OK with the Chinese head tax. That means he’s OK with not letting Jews in after the Second World War. That means, Mr. Speaker, that he’s OK, and we know it already he was in Cabinet, he was OK with the barbaric practices snitch line.” – Marc Miller

Just yesterday, Andrew Coyne tweeted this about Liberals going on the attack:

See, as Marc Miller proved, pushing back against Pierre Poilievre is easy. Just use his 20-year record as a Member of Parliament against him.

Conservatives like to use the House of Commons, QP and committee meetings as mere backdrops for shooting their rage-farming fundraising videos. (Instead of, you know, actually working to make lives better for all Canadians.)

Well, the Leader of His Majesty’s LOYAL Opposition has been providing footage for attack ads against him for the last twenty years.

That’s quite the (and his only) accomplishment!

A little later, CPC MP Michelle Rempel Garner rose to ask questions about the exchange from earlier. Acting as though the poor, innocent Conservative leader was acting like an adult and them darn Liberals just weren’t taking things seriously! (PP’s funny voice and head bobbing aside. Apparently.)

Fraser was having none of it:

“While she has portrayed herself as having a moral high ground in her question, I would remind her that it is the Conservative leader who showed up in Niagara with a video crew so he could call a woman’s home a shack.”

“Mr. Speaker, people who are unhoused are not political props. They are human beings that deserve to be treated with respect.” – Sean Fraser

Rempel Garner followed up with this:

Again, Mr. Fraser states that Con MPs are writing to him to ask for funding for their ridings.

Hmm. I can’t help but wonder who those MPs of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party are.

With all due respect, all I have to say to Mr. Fraser is;

RELEASE THE NAMES!

JP

Buy me a coffee!

Jason Pugh

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