The PM was away, having made a heat pump announcement in Sherbrooke, Quebec, while Pierre Poilievre was also absent, leaving it up to John Brassard to denounced that announcement as a conflict of interest with Brookfield. Steven MacKinnon took the opportunity to congratulate Ann Carson for her Nobel prize for literature. Brassard was snide about this, and again repeated the allegation of conflict. Nathalie Provost praised the announcement, and proclaimed how much it will save households and lower emissions. Jasraj Hallan recited talking points about grocery prices and Thanksgiving, and François-Philippe Champagne took the opportunity to also praise the heat pump announcement while mumbling about stabilising prices. Hallan demanded that the government vote in favour of their supply day motion on there being an affordability crisis, and Champagne listed supports that they have offered Canadians. Dominique Vien also decried the cost of Thanksgiving dinner, but en français, and Provost again read the praise for the heat pump announcement. Vien also demanded support for their motion, and Provost noted how much was sent to Vien’s riding for the enhanced GST credit.
Christine Normandin led for the Bloc, and trolled that a backbench Liberal had concerns about C-39, and wondered who else was going to wake up. MacKinnon trotted out self-congratulating talking points about becoming a clean and conventional energy superpower, and implored the Bloc to support the bill in order to speed up Churchill Falls’ approvals. Normandin noted that most Liberals ran against this kind of thing, and Champagne claimed that the Bloc used to be in favour of building in Quebec, and he again raised Churchill Falls. Gabriel Ste-Marie took over and he too worried about the “Big Beautiful Bill.” MacKinnon listed more projects that the bill would benefit.
Round two, and Pierre Paul-Hus denounced the Defence Investment Agency as just more red tape and bureaucracy (Fuhr: The Agency has done a lot over the past year, and C-40 will make them a more commercially-minded organisation; It still have safeguards for oversight and accountability), Jeff Kibble repeated the same denunciation in English (Fuhr: When your party was in power, defence spending fell below one percent; Here is a list of signed contracts), and James Bezan yelled about the government’s inability to procure (Romanado: you don’t want to talk about your lack of support for the Armed Forces; The minister was in Edmonton yesterday to highlight our new investments), and Gérard Deltell returned to the mournful Thanksgiving question en français (Desrochers: Rental costs are going down, housing is increased, and we just announced climate renovations, which are concrete actions).
Jeff Kibble accused Stephen Fuhr of “mansplaining,” and irony died.Cripes. #QP
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-10-08T18:36:12.586Z
Patrick Bonin decried that emissions have stopped going down (Provost: Hooray for our climate mesures; MacKinnon: The high speed rail project will be a huge emissions reduction project which you should support).
The very masculine Jacob Mantle quoted the Habitat for Humanity report on housing affordability (McKelvie: Habitat is great, and we have helped them build more housing, and we are working to bring down charges; We are making record investments in infrastructure that are helping youth get high-paying jobs), Tamara Jansen denounced Pierre Trudeau to somehow decry the economy currently (Champagne: We live in a very different time, and investment is up in this country; Hodgson: Hooray for all of the jobs at LNG Canada and other projects), and Vincent Neil Ho also decried housing affordability (McKelvie: I was happy to announce a project in your riding in the spring, and we are building across the province).
Round three saw questions on the alleged NATO spy (Anandasangaree: I share your outrage and law enforcement and intelligence agencies work closely with partners, and I can’t speculate on an ongoing investigation; You need to learn how due process works), the foreign influence registry’s low uptake (Anandasangaree: Hooray for this office; The registry is on target and will continue to “onboard” those who need to be registered; We have a system that is working), France’s snow crab announcement (Thompson: No license was issued; You are just playing cheap politics), Thanksgiving prices (van Koevereden: Your constituents received $7.9 million in the enhanced GST credit and you voted against it, like you voted against military raises; Fragiskatos: I don’t hear any constructive ideas coming from your side of the House, and you want to get rid of support people need; Belanger: Some insulting nonsense about the Saskatchewan members on the other side), the BC court ruling on drug supply (Fraser: The independent prosecutor will make their own decision on an appeal), demanding a return to the six percent health care escalator (Michel: I am meeting my provincial counterparts next week), and shutting down open net pen salmon farms (Thompson: The task force is engaging and we are reviewing the results).
Overall, I was surprised that we only got a mere eight Thanksgiving-themed questions ahead of the long weekend, and while it was not framed around diesel prices today, it was instead framed around today’s Supply Day motion of getting the government to admit that there is an affordability crisis after eleven years of Liberal government. No actual discussion of what the real drivers of food price inflation are, or complaints that government supports are inadequate, but no, it’s this is just a bit of theatrics that amounts to nothing of substance other than getting more clips and clicks online. It’s tiresome, but this is what we get in politics these days.
Otherwise, there were a few more questions on other topics that the usual talking points of they, so that was nice to see, even if some of those questions were some of the usual nonsense that doesn’t actually help with accountability. And some were downright bizarre—Tamara Jansen going on about her husband losing his job in the early eighties and blaming Pierre Trudeau rather than the massive recession that happened? Really? How is that relevant to the current government? I’m sure she thinks this is going to get her a great clip for Facebook, but come on.
Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to Marc Miller for a tailored dark grey suit with a crisp white shirt and a bright pink tie, and to Caroline Desrochers for a fitted black dress with half-sleeves. Style citations go out to Lisa Hepfner for a garish black, blue and violet floral-esque dress with a high neckline, and to Patrick Bonin for a dark grey suit with a black shirt and bright white tie. Dishonourable mention goes out to Sandra Cobena for a dark yellow jacket over a black top and slacks.