The PM was absent, preparing to depart for the Commonwealth meeting in Antigua and Barbuda. Pierre Poilievre was present, and he led off in French demanding that the government eliminate all gas taxes in the budget. Julie Dabrusin noted that the heat pump programme will help people save money from coast-to-coast-to-coast, and that bio diesel will help farmers in Poilievre’s riding. Poilievre suggested that heat pumps help Brookfield and biodiesel subsidies aid American companies, and repeated his demand. Dabrusin wonders why Poilievre can’t help farmers in his riding provide canola for biodiesel. Poilievre switched to English to make the same demand again, and Dabrusin repeated her same points about canola and biodiesel, which is supported by the clean fuel standard. Poilievre called her out of touch, and wailed about the cost of diesel for farmers, and this time Wayne Long stood up to recite some good news talking points about Thursday’s budget release. Poilievre mocked the government’s record, with particular attention to food banks and housing, and Long repeated his same praise for the upcoming budget. Poilievre repeated his same faulty math about gas taxes, and this time, Tim Hodgson listed government support programmes that Poilievre voted against.

Christine Normandin led for the Bloc, and she listed agenda items on the Canada-EU talks that were in areas of Quebec’s jurisdiction and demanded a seat at the table. Steven MacKinnon praised how good this agreement is for Quebec and Canada. Normandin demanded some transparency about these items rather than just leave everything in the PMO, and MacKinnon said that transparency was having a meeting in Montreal attended by six former Quebec premiers, which…missed the point. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe demanded the doctrine that claims to allow Quebec a seat at the table, and MacKinnon insisted that they are engaging all provinces with discussions in areas of their jurisdiction. 

Round two, and Melissa Lantsman read some nonsense about inflation before demanding the removal of all gas taxes (Turnbull: We have the strongest fiscal position in the G7; The economy is going through shocks, but we are doing things to help), Jasraj Hallan recited some insulting nonsense before making the same demand (Church: We cut taxes from day one and suspended the fuel excise tax; Hooray for the school food programme, which is an example of compassion), and Andrew Lawton yelled about fuel taxes (van Koeverden: People must think that this Question Period is a rerun), and Eric Lefebvre read some condemnation of the deficit en français (Provost: We have worked to restore purchasing power to Canadians).

Mario Simard denounced the government’s plans to build data centres in Alberta to create a market for natural gas (Dabrusin: We have plans for clean energy, and we have guidelines for digital asbestos; MacKinnon: Hooray for all the jobs high speed rail will create).

Roman Baber read some inflammatory bullshit about the recent home invasion in Toronto (Fraser: We listened to police and provincial governments and not the Conservatives), Michael Guglielmin demanded the government support their tough-on-crime bills (Fraser: We already passed tougher laws and they’re the law of the land), and Frank Caputo made the same demand (Anandasangaree: We have already passed transformative legislation).

Do Conservatives actually believe that criminals thumb through the Criminal Code to look for offences with lower sentences?Honest to Zeus, this is so stupid. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-02T19:48:48.026Z

Round three saw questions on  the Auditor General’s report on emergency stockpiles (Michel: Yes some masks were expired but it doesn’t happen often; We have learned lessons from the pandemic), steel tariffs (LeBlanc: It’s good we didn’t follow the weak-kneed approach of the Conservatives; You resisted our measures for retaliation or to protect key sectors; We will talk to the Americans to get the right deal for Canada; I understand you have a fear of the by-elections coming, with good reasons, but nothing has changed with the Americans; Leitão: The deal we’ll get will be the right deal for Canada, not just any deal; Turnbull: All you do is political theatre), the CRA security contract (Sudds: We are focusing on Building Canada Strong™), a clinic not serving Indigenous patients (Gull-Masty: We want to ensure that these people get the services they need and let’s work together on this), and labour agreements on taxpayer-funded projects (Zerucelli: We are building more with unionised labour!)

Shivaloy Majumdar thinks a steel “deal” can happen overnight. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-02T19:53:00.645Z

As he leaves the Chamber, Poilievre saunters slowly down the aisle, flashing a thumbs-up to members of his caucus. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-11-02T20:02:42.631Z

Overall, today was a somewhat mind-numbing day with two major themes from the Conservatives—the complete bad-math nonsense about how gas taxes will somehow be the key to affordability for families, which is the budget demand that they repeated over and over and over again; the other being this weird conspiracy that the Conservatives started spinning about how the prime minister called the by-elections and immediately claimed there was progress on trade talks so that he could somehow spin up the fear machine for those votes. It doesn’t really make any sense, other than the fact that they opened themselves up to the accusations of hypocrisy when it comes to political performances, but these are the things that got focused on, with a sprinkling of tough-on-crime bullshit. It was tiresome and repetitive, but this is all that QP is these days.

Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to Peter Fragiskatos for a dark grey three-piece suit with a crisp white shirt, matching pocket square, and a pink paisley tie, and to Maggie Chi for a short-sleeved black dress. Style citations go out to Chi Nguyen for a long-sleeved orange top with grey florals and a pussy now with black slacks, and to Harb Gill for a dark blue jacket over a blueberry-hued shirt, grey slacks and a light blue tie.