Greg Fergus

Voting Yea means supporting a statutory increase in GST/HST credit amounts and the creation of deemed-payment mechanisms to deliver larger and periodic GSTC transfers to eligible low- and modest-income individuals and families (including shared-custody parent adjustments).

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Support government spending package for 2026

Voting Yea means approving the government's supplementary appropriations and allowing the outlined federal spending for 2025–26 to proceed.

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Support government spending package for 2024

Voting Nay means opposing the creation of a targeted tax deduction on grounds that it reduces federal revenue, creates a tax preference for a specific occupational group, may add administrative complexity or be open to misuse, and that employer responsibility or other tax provisions should address the issue.

Voting Nay means opposing using the tax code as a mechanism for worker protection in this instance, arguing that employer responsibility, collective bargaining, or direct labour standards would be the appropriate mechanisms, and that this approach may unevenly benefit specific worker groups.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger public mechanisms to resolve commercial disputes between platforms and news organizations to ensure fair outcomes and protect domestic news markets.

Voting Yea means supporting a law that creates a formal bargaining framework to rebalance bargaining power between large digital platforms and news organizations, seeks to secure payment/terms for news content and to sustain Canadian journalism.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support government spending package for 2022

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specific allocation of supplementary funds to the listed departments and programs, permitting those agencies to proceed with the funded activities.

Support expanding tax relief for northern residents by increasing optional travel expense claims

Support compensating farming businesses in backstop jurisdictions for fuel charge impacts via a refundable credit

Support providing direct financial support to businesses for ventilation upgrades via a refundable tax credit

Support capping the recovery period for CEBA loan amounts, providing certainty for borrowers and administrators

Support clarifying and limiting EI benefit durations for certain seasonal workers to adjust program parameters

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Support continued federal wage subsidy to help employers retain employees through May 7, 2022.

Support granting the government limited regulatory flexibility to extend supports until July 2, 2022.

Support independent audit and parliamentary reporting to improve program accountability and effectiveness.

Support aligning budget implementation law with newly enacted labour protections and expenditures.

Support adding statutory leave to protect workers unable to work for COVID-related health reasons.

Support creation of a federal lockdown-specific income support for affected workers.

Voting Yea means supporting the government's supplementary spending allocations and enabling the specified departmental expenditures and transfers for 2021–22.