While the prime minister was present for Question Period today, Andrew Scheer was elsewhere, leaving it up to Candice Bergen to lead off, and she read a statement of condolence for the shooting in Pittsburgh, and asked the PM about what is being done to combat anti-semitism in Canada. Trudeau read a statement of condolence of his own, and offered whatever assistance was required. From there, Bergen asked the story about StatsCan requesting personal banking information, to which Trudeau read that anonymised data would be used for statistical purposes only, and that they were working with the Privacy Commissioner to get it right. Bergen demanded the \u201cintrusion\u201d he stopped, and this time, Trudeau dropped the script to say that Canadians expected agencies to work with the Privacy Commissioner, before he took a swipe at the Conservatives for killing the long-form census. Alain Rayes took over in French to read the same thing, but insinuated that this was the Liberals getting the data. Trudeau read the French version of his script, and when Rayes tried a second time, Trudeau accused them of trying to create fear, and accused them of attacking data and information. Guy Caron led off for the NDP, worrying about the rise in extremism, and Trudeau read his statement of condolence again. Caron then worried about only one by-election being called while there are other vacant findings, and Trudeau read that he was proud to call the by-election he did, and would call the others in due course. Peter Julian repeated the question with added invective, and Trudeau reiterated, sans script, that they were only vacated a few weeks ago and would be called in due course. Julien tried a second time, railing about all the issues that these voters should weigh in on, saying Trudeau was afraid of them, and Trudeau hit back by noting that if someone wanted to get technical, voters elected representatives to sit for four years in those ridings and they left early.<\/p>\n
Round two, and Ed Fast and Pierre Poilievre worried about carbon taxes (Fraser: We have a plan, you don\u2019t; There is an output-based pricing system). Cheryl Hardcastle and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Laverdi\u00e8re worried about the LAV sales to Saudi Arabia (Goldsmith-Jones: We are reviewing the existing permits and are putting a more robust process in place). Ted Falk, Larry Miller, Cathy McLeod, and Leona Alleslev demanded carbon taxes to individual ridings in their ridings (Fraser: We are moving forward with our plan to ensure that pollution isn\u2019t free, and giving rebates to families; MacAulay: Farmers are responsible stewards of the land, and have additional relief for them). Brian Masse and Scoff Duvall worried about steel and aluminium tariffs (Bains: We are defending our industries, with $2 billion in support).<\/p>\n
\nStop. The. Tortured. Halloween. Jokes. #QP<\/a><\/p>\n
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n