The PM was actually present today, on the day the Conservatives have their Supply Day motion to pass Pierre Poilievre’s bananapants bill, so that was going to be a…stupid dynamic from the get-go. Poilievre led off in French, and went on a tangent that there were no prices visible at Carney’s grocery store event, and demanded they lower prices. Mark Carney wondered if this was the new spirit of cooperation, and praised his meeting with Doug Ford yesterday as cooperation. Poilievre chirped that Carney only has meetings with no results, and denounced Carney’s record on food prices. Carney insisted that they have done a lot, such as cutting taxes, making the school food programme permanent, and their new GST credit. Poilievre repeated his first question in English with added smarm, and Carney repeated his lines about cooperation with Ford. Poilievre repeated his line about meetings without delivering results, and listed his “hidden tax” nonsense. Carney praised the job numbers, wage statistics, and their tax cuts before returning to the GST rebate proclamation. Poilievre then pivoted to demanding they government pass his bananapants bill, and Carney said that how they move projects forward is collaborating with the provinces, and pointed out that the premier of Nunavut was present—and got warned by the Speaker he’s not allowed to do that. Carney insisted there were no shovels in the ground, and again demanded they pass his bullshit bill. Carney praised his MOU with Alberta and insisted it would build a pipeline to tidewater (which seems very presumptuous).

Yves-François Blanchet led for the Bloc, and he was worried there was no movement on negotiations or tariffs with the U.S. Carney declared that the world and Washington have changed, there is nothing normal in the U.S., and that he had a thirty-minute conversation with Trump last night. Blanchet said that he knew that the world changed, and they wanted diversified trade, but that they are still exposed to the U.S. market. Carney said they are all committed to NAFTA negotiations in a few weeks. Blanchet took a dig at Carney’s understanding of history before wondering about Chinese tariffs on Quebec pork. Carney said that things are in the works and those tariffs are to be lowered, and praised the agreement for canola.

Round two, and Melissa Lantsman worried there was a lack of action on new projects and made an appeal to pass Poilievre’s bananapants bill (LeBlanc: We were elected to get major projects done, and that is what we are doing; MacKinnon: We had an important debate last year on this called a general election and Canadians chose our plan), Raquel Dancho demanded they pass that bill (Joly: Hooray my meeting with Doug Ford to grow the economy and create jobs; Champagne: We are the second-fastest growing economy in the G7), Billy Morin took a swipe at yesterday’s pizza lunch before demanding they pass the bill (LeBlanc: The IMF report confirmed our plan), Bob Zimmer gave the same script about the bill (MacKinnon: We have one of the most vibrant mining sectors in the world, and our plan is working), and David Bexte made another demand (Zerucelli: We are building!)

MacKinnon: We had an important debate on this last year called a general election and Canadians chose our vision. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T19:34:53.504Z

All of the mindless scripts on Poilievre’s bananapants bill are going to make me insane. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T19:42:36.563Z

Andréanne Larouche worried about the new system delivering seniors’ benefits not working properly (Hajdu: We are working hard to ensure benefits go out on time and error-free; MacKinnon: IT bugs happen and we have software from the seventies that has been updated and we will iron out any issues).

Luc Berthold returned to yesterday’s script about grocery prices in French (Champagne: Hooray for our new benefit!), Gabriel Hardy read the same script (Provost: We cannot control every price but we are giving people purchasing power: Gull-Masty: We have passed new affordability measures that people in my riding will benefit from), Eric Lefebvre worried about delays for OAS cheques (MacKinnon: If individuals in your riding have issues, let us know, but we updated software from the seventies).

Round three saw questions on food price inflation (MacKinnon: Hooray for the Davos speech, while you leader said he would never go there; Long: We cut taxes and the carbon levy, and now we have announced a new GST rebate; Stop the obstruction; Valdez: Food Banks Canada welcomed our measures; Hajdu: You talked about helping families but now you are against the things that will help them; Dabrusin: There was a study on the impact of the war industrial carbon price and the result was zero; McLean: We listened to low-income seniors and have the new benefit that will help them; van Koeverden: The impact of the carbon price on food is zero, while the culprit is climate change), extortion cases (Fraser: You should support our bills; Sahota: Pass lawful access legislation; McKnight: Stop obstructing necessary legislation), housing prices (Champagne: There will be structural measures in our announcement that will benefits farmers in your riding), the challenges in the North (Chartrand: People in the North will also receive our new benefit) and engaging the Inuit in Arctic security (McGuinty: We are working together to expand our capacities including dual-use infrastructure). 

After two days of questions on food price inflation, it wasn’t until the end of today’s #QP that someone on the government benches actually pointed out that the cause is climate change.

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T20:08:42.836Z

Overall, it went about as well as could be expected, with the many paeans about that ridiculous bill that the Conservatives think they should get passed in spite of the fact that it makes absolutely no sense, and will only serve to delay any projects with decades’ worth of litigation because they would have destroyed any environmental regulation. The thing that gets me, however, is that nobody on the government benches could point this fact out, or to completely shred the credibility of the suggestion and instead just patted themselves on the back for the existing legislation and projects that they have announced, much like they could have also ridiculed the Conservatives’ apparent belief that projects can appear fully-formed overnight if they just wish hard enough.

On a similar note, we were back to questions on food price inflation for the a good third of the questions today, and it wasn’t until the very last one that someone on the government side—Adam van Koeverden—actually pointed out that the actual cause of food price inflation is climate change. This should be the first thing you mention, followed by the studies that have pointed out the the effect of the industrial carbon price on food is effectively zero, and furthermore, maybe they could suggest that the Conservatives actually read the StatsCan reports on food price inflation and not just pick out the headline figures without context. All of this would be so easy for any minister to actually do, and it would be great clips of them “owning” the Conservatives using facts and logic. But they don’t, and instead we continue to get lies that fester in the public consciousness, and I will never understand why this is the case.

Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to Mandy Gull-Masty for a dark eggplant jacket with black embroidery over a black top and slacks , and to Doug Eyolfson for a brownish-eggplant suit over a lavender shirt signa dark purple tie and pocket square. Style citations go out to Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay for black jacket over a blue-grey waistcoat with an open collared white shirt and a navy cravat beneath it, and to Melissa Lantsman for a boxy black felt jacket with cartoonishly oversized white stitching along the edges and pockets over a white collared shirt and black slacks. Dishonourable mention goes out to Rebecca Alty for a mustard yellow jacket over a white collared top and black slacks (and the overall look was like she has properties to show later in the afternoon), and to Buckley Belanger for a black jacket over a white shirt, khakis slacks, and a yellow tie.