The PM was freshly back from his trip to the UN General Assembly, and was stopping into the House of Commons before meeting with the President of Indonesia, who was dropping by Parliament for a visit. Pierre Poilievre led off in French, and he accused the government of taking money away from border officers and police for the gun buyback, and then switched to English halfway through to call for the public safety minster to be fired. Mark Carney said that they were going to do a voluntary buyback the right way. Poilievre repeated the accusation of “ripping money away” in English, and railed about hunting rifles. Carney said that he didn’t know where to begin that intervention, that Poilievre voted against gun control, and that the government was doing things the right way. Poilievre said that he voted against soft on crime policies, complained about the “broken border,” and implored the government to “leave Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle alone.” Carney said that he doesn’t know any hunters who use AR-15s, and that the government was strengthening the border. Poilievre listed guns used by farmers to kill gophers being banned, and implored Carney to read his briefing books. Carney insisted that they providing fair compensation for illegal weapons, and that they were tightening the border. Poilievre again listed guns that are being banned, and accused the government of harassing farmer and duck hunters while gun crime rages in the streets. Carney said the RCMP gets this, and that they want these guns off the streets. Poilievre moved onto food prices, and declared Carney to have been a failure. Carney patted himself on the back for cutting taxes and cutting the carbon levy. 

Yves-François Blanchet led for the NDP, and he calmly spouted absolute rot about the factum before the Supreme Court on the Quebec “secularism” law challenge. Carney cited that the Charter protects everyone, and it was the government’s responsibility to defend it. Blanchet declared that Liberal applause was an insult to Quebeckers, and Carney again praised the Charter and that it was the government’s job to defend it. Blanchet insisted that the constitution was “imposed” on Quebec (not true) and demanded that Carney withdraw the factum and apologise to Quebeckers. Carney declared that the government would not backtrack on this.

Round two, and Kyle Seeback demanded Anandasangaree’s resignation (Anandasangaree: I was proud to launch the compensation programme; Incompetence is thinking that AR-15s are used for hunting), John Brassard thundered about 600 individuals facing deportation not being tracked, and demanded Anandasangaree be fired (Anandasangaree: CBSA has increased removals and we are hiring more officers), Harb Gill insisted that a thousand CBSA officers could have been hired over the course of the summer (Sahota: We are hiring more officers while your government just made cuts), and Gérard Deltell read the French version of the script (Fraser: We have put measures in place to ban guns used in mass shooting and you don’t take that seriously; Provost: I survived École Polytechnique and women have since been calling for these guns taking off our streets).

Joe Clark is in the Gallery!This is not a drill! #HoC #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T18:39:33.462Z

Patrick Bonin worried the government was turning against climate action (Dabrusin: Our prime minister was at the UN talking about climate change and Canada doing its part), Bonin listed the effects we are feeling (Dabrusin: We will build a strong country).

John Barlow worried about food prices (Hajdu: Here is a list of supports for Canadians the Conservatives voted against; I see promise in that member maybe supporting the budget in a few weeks), Scot Davidson says Carney was too busy shaking hands at the UN to notice food prices (Champagne: You were missing in action this summer when people got a tax cut; Slogans won’t feed children), and Jason Groleau gave the same script in French (Joly: the Bank of Canada did reduce its rate last week, and we have cut taxes for the Middle Class™).

Round three saw questions on food prices (McLean: We are supporting seniors who need it; Gainey: Hooray for our school food programme; Chartrand: Nutrition North is showing real progress; van Koeverden: The Food Banks Canada report has recommendations and you voted against programmes they suggested; Long: Canadians chose a leader with economic and business experience, and we are focused on building the economy; Zerucelli: You voted against programmes to help people; Belanger: You complain without one solution; Lightbound: You keep voting against supports; Hooray for our tax cuts), housing prices (Robertson: Housing starts are up in August, and Canadians are building while the interest rate is dropping; Your government ignored housing for a decade while we have reinvested), the ostrich cull in BC (Michel: My office has been working with the minister of agriculture), letting Indigenous Services take over Indigenous housing instead of CMHC (Gull-Masty: This programme will catalyse investment in home building).

So, per the Conservatives, the government needs to get shovels in the ground to build houses? Is that what they’re saying? #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T19:08:16.586Z

Gull-Masty just patted herself on the back for being appointed as minister. I wish I was kidding. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T19:11:53.934Z

Overall, I can’t say that there were any shining moments today, as Carney was unable to adequately respond to questions about either the gun buyback or food price inflation, when the latter should have been something he could excel at schooling Poilievre on. But he doesn’t, and won’t. The second half of QP, meanwhile, was just a clip-harvesting exercise on both sides of the aisle, as a rotation of Conservative MPs all delivered similar overwrought scripts about food prices, while a rotation of Liberal ministers, secretaries of state and parliamentary secretaries each delivered liens that may or may not have had anything to do with the questions that were asked. What took the cake, however, was the back-bench suck-up question asking what the government was doing for Indigenous reconciliation, and Mandy Gull-Masty praised that she got appointed as minister. No, seriously. What are they even doing?

Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to Leah Gazan for a light grey dress with a repeating black zig-zag across it pattern under a dark grey jacket, and to Gregor Robertson for a tailored navy suit with a crisp white shirt and a lavender tie. Style citations go out to Burton Bailey for a taupe grey jacket over a white shirt, grey tie, and black slacks. and to Anita Vandenbeld for a black smock top with wizard sleeves and bright pink florals. Dishonourable mention goes out to Anna Roberts for a mustard yellow sweater with a fringed bottom edge over a white top and black slacks.