Gabriel Ste-Marie

Mr. Speaker, we are currently witnessing a spike in hateful acts and hate speech. Promoting hate is a criminal offence. The first groups targeted by hate speech and hateful acts are members of the Jewish faith followed by members of the Muslim faith. In October 2024, preacher Adil Charkaoui called for the death of Jews in a prayer he gave at a protest. Under the Criminal Code, this constitutes [more]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the House that the offence of promoting hatred involves publicly communicating with the wilful intent to target a group. I would like to hear my honourable colleague's thoughts on that.

Mr. Speaker, freedom of expression and freedom of religion are fundamental rights. However, we have collectively agreed that freedom of expression cannot extend to the offence of promoting hatred. These are not trivial matters, differences of opinion or insults. Promoting hatred is no trivial matter. The issue here is eliminating the religious exemption in the Criminal Code for this offence. [more]

Mr. Speaker, why do they want to put an end to transportation electrification when every country in the world, except the United States, is working toward that? Also, as another member just said, would we not just be playing into Donald Trump's hands by reinstating the 1960s auto pact?

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleague for his remarks. I could not agree with him more. The entire transportation electrification industry brings into focus one fundamental principle, which is predictability. While the transition to the electrification of transportation is under way in Europe, China, and everywhere else in the world other than the United States and Canada [more]

Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague on his speech. Times of crisis are known to bring about rapid change and opportunities for growth. We saw this during the first oil shock in 1973, which led to the rise of more fuel-efficient vehicles, such as the Japanese cars that are still on the roads today. In 1979, the second oil shock left Chrysler and American Motors bankrupt. We are probably going [more]

Repentigny Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my friend from. Back to the Future Back to the Future Part II Today's debate makes me think of, a movie that was popular when I was a kid. The characters used a car to go back to the 1960s. A few years later, Hollywood came out with. The movie was no good, but at least they thought of using a car to propel themselves into the future. That is [more]

Mr. Speaker, Quebec no longer has any automobile manufacturing. There was a plant that made Camaros in Laval's north end a few decades ago. When that closed, Jean Chrétien decided to abandon that industry on the pretext that auto manufacturing belonged to Ontario. The Liberal legacy lives on. I recognize that these are very important jobs and that this is a very important industry for Ontario. I [more]

Mr. Speaker, what we need to do is seize this crisis as an opportunity to modernize by adopting the next-generation economic model adopted by Europe and most of the rest of the world, with the exception of Donald Trump's United States and, unfortunately, our own country under our government's excessively timid measures. We must accelerate transportation electrification. One of the most promising [more]

Thank you very much. That is very clear and very complete. I am grateful to you. I have another question, which is still about the use of artificial intelligence to increase productivity in small and medium-sized businesses, and large businesses too. In your view, which sectors have the greatest potential for adopting this technology? What could the government do to help those sectors adopt [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Bengio, I will ask my two questions together. First, we have just been talking about autonomous weapons and the use of artificial intelligence in defence. What should the ethical rules and international treaties on this issue be? Second, is the government looking at replacing public servants with artificial intelligence applications? What cautions, what advice should [more]