Don Davies

To put it most bluntly, we think the Carney government is using taxpayer dollars to mislead Canadians and greenwashing. And not only is that unethical and inappropriate, but it’s also illegal.

Obviously the climate crisis is right in everybody’s faces. Canadians are being evacuated from communities, we have a typically horrific and increasing wildfire season, Europe is experiencing all sorts of wildfires, Japan flooding, the…

As Canadians watch their communities burn, the Carney government is spending millions of tax dollars to mislead them.

The Prime Minister has admitted that emissions will rise under its energy plan, yet his government is running ads claiming it will lower them.

Collective bargaining has always been the best way for workers to bring home a fair, livable wage.

Having followed every step necessary to ensure their strike is legal and legitimate, CUPE cabin crew workers should not have to fear that government will intervene on behalf of WestJet to force them back to work.

We don’t really have a housing crisis. We have an affordable housing crisis, and that’s a key distinction. There’s not a shortage of the kinds of product that wealthy people or investors may want.

It’s not that we have a lack of supply — we have a lack of affordable housing supply.

I think that’s just going to reignite the housing crisis, just when it was starting to maybe soften up a bit.

I’m very proud of my caucus colleagues, as this is the third consecutive week in a row that we have introduced legislation to strengthen unions in Canada and also to support workers.

I think it'll cost jobs. And until there's measures that are in place that will address that, I don't think the strategy is complete.

When a parliamentarian crosses the floor to join a different party than they were elected with, they are unilaterally — at the very least — altering the will of their electorate.

The prospect that MPs have been enticed by backroom deals emerges.

You can floor cross. You just have to make the case to your constituents, and if you think you have good reasons for it, you’ll get a mandate from voters. If you don’t, then you won’t.

The idea that only government members get resources for their constituencies brings pork-barrel politics to the table.

The onus should not be on the voters to try to rectify a negation of their voting preference.

We have a problem with voter turnout in elections, and this contributes to that.

We can harness the best parts of AI and use that technology for positive purposes, but at the same time I think it’s … completely unregulated and terribly dangerous if we don’t get some guardrails up on it soon.

While that may not be illegal, it is inherently undemocratic.

So that’s another reason I’m more concerned about this bill now than I used to be, because now you have MPs who cross the floor openly saying that they think they can get more government pork in their riding.

I think our government is asleep at the switch, as it were, because I think that technology is moving much more rapidly and we don’t have any guardrails.

We can harness the best parts of AI and use that technology for positive purposes, but at the same time I think it’s... completely unregulated, and terribly dangerous if we don’t get some guardrails up on it soon,

I think political opportunism has gotten to such a point in this place that it’s overriding fundamental respect for democracy.

Whether or not there’s a majority government is fundamentally a decision of the Canadian people at the ballot box, and it should happen that way, not through backroom deals cut behind closed doors in Ottawa.