Sitting 130 — June 5, 2026

The sitting focused primarily on Bill C-20, the Build Canada Homes Act, which occupied 65 speeches across two debate segments. The Bloc's Yves Perron delivered a detailed critique, arguing the bill added a layer of federal bureaucracy to an area of provincial jurisdiction and questioning whether the new Crown corporation would deliver results faster than existing programs. The Conservatives' Marc Dalton characterized the bill as more bureaucracy, more regulation, and more cost to the taxpayer without guarantees of housing starts. Government speakers, including Tim Watchorn and Kristina Tesser Derksen, emphasized the bill's flexibility — it would allow the new agency to deploy a range of financing tools including low-cost loans, grants, and land acquisition to accelerate affordable housing construction.

Question period was dominated by the economy, with 56 exchanges across three separate segments. Conservative MP Luc Berthold opened by highlighting Canada's recession status and three quarters of GDP contraction out of the last four. The government's responses focused on regional good-news announcements — northern Ontario job creation, the $10-billion Quebec infrastructure agreement, and the Contrecoeur port expansion creating 8,000 jobs. The Bloc raised culture and language issues, accusing the government of capitulating to Washington by abandoning a levy increase on streaming platforms and failing to protect Quebec's cultural sector. Official Languages Minister Marc Miller responded aggressively, accusing the Bloc of showing up in Ottawa only to "destroy my country" — a comment the Bloc immediately challenged as unparliamentary.

Statements by members touched on the 55% increase in violent crime under a decade of Liberal government, the Canadian Plowing Championships in Strathroy, and a second consecutive month of declining housing starts. The Minister of National Defence, David McGuinty, in a notable exchange, expressed astonishment at the opposition disparaging positive economic news, saying he had never seen such behaviour in 22 years in the House. A Conservative private member's bill (C-263) on firearms was introduced, and the sitting concluded with adjournment proceedings on employment and the Canada Summer Jobs program.