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moved that Bill S-217, An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (reporting on unpaid income tax), be read the first time. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to sponsor this bill in this chamber. I would like to congratulate Senator Downe on his third time sending this bill, which deals with increased transparency at the CRA, into this chamber. The names of those who are convicted of ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to rise on behalf of the people of Simcoe North, and it is always an honour to rise in the chamber to speak about issues that matter to Canadians. Before we get into the opposition day motion, the supply day motion, it is important to discuss, with respect to electric vehicles, how we came to be here today. For years, the Liberal government was chasing an …
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Mr. Speaker, there is no evidence to suggest that the rebate will protect Canadian jobs, because that rebate is going to go primarily to automakers who do not produce vehicles in Canada. What is even worse is that the rebate is actually higher in the upfront years, the next one or two years, and tapers off. By the time Canadian automakers might actually be producing electric vehicles, that rebate …
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Mr. Speaker, we have an integrated auto market in North America. Part of that means we need to make sure our regulatory environment is harmonized. If we are going to decouple the regulations and align our tailpipe emissions with the European Union, we will not be able to send our vehicles into the U.S. I have a newsflash for the government: It will not be economical for us to ship vehicles from Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I think that was the member's first question of me, and I am pleased to serve in this chamber with him. I am not sure I would agree with the premise that there is $10 billion in subsidies to the oil and gas sector. I do believe that in a resource-constrained and fiscally constrained environment, we need to question every single dollar that is spent, and why we would subsidize the purc…
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Mr. Speaker, the auto sector is half the size today as it was when the Liberals took office. President Trump has launched a sustained and unjustified attack on Canada's auto sector. His stated goal is to take Canadian auto jobs and put them in the U.S. Now the government is going to use taxpayer money to subsidize electric vehicles made outside of Canada. Thousands of these rebate cheques will end…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in the House, but it is also a pleasure to rise on Bill C-230, a private member's bill I drafted. I want to thank all of my colleagues, obviously the ones from my own party who spoke in favour of this bill today but also colleagues in other parties who have expressed a willingness to see this bill sent to committee, which I hope we will be able to do …
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I request that the motion be carried on division, Madam Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, of course we denounce those tariffs, but with all due respect to the minister, she has had 10 years with her Liberal colleagues to protect the auto sector here in Canada. Now it is being reported that the government is going to reintroduce subsidies for Canadians to purchase electric vehicles. Really? Does the government really think the way to save Canada's auto sector is to give tax…
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Mr. Speaker, in 2016, Canadians built 2.3 million vehicles. Just last year, that number dropped to 1.2 million cars. Last week, there was more devastating news for Canadian auto families as General Motors laid off 1,200 employees. When will the government stop telling people it is eventually going to be okay and start delivering results for Canadian auto workers?
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Madam Speaker, I always listen intently when the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands speaks in this chamber. The member opened the door on trading with democracies. She mentioned China by name. I wonder if she would offer an opinion on the Prime Minister's recent deal, if we want to call it a deal, or agreement with the CCP.
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Madam Speaker, I believe I need to seek unanimous consent to split my time with the esteemed member for Wellington—Halton Hills North.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend for his partnership, which was for a long time, on the finance committee. We did such a good job, they actually moved us to other committees. He is a very thoughtful individual, and I am proud to serve with him in this place. I do think it is important to consider labour rights, especially for young people. I note that the Bloc has a bill regarding forced lab…
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Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague has brought to this chamber a bill that, on its face, may receive some positive reviews from our side, but we will have to wait to hear and see the bill and examine it at committee. The minister mentioned rules-based trade. I wondered if he would state for this House whether he agrees with the Prime Minister, who said the rules-based trading system is dead, or whet…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise in the House of Commons. I consider it a distinct privilege every time I am given the opportunity to use my voice in this place on my constituents' behalf and on behalf of the country and Canadians. It is also a pleasure to rise on a bill on which I think there is general consensus that, speaking for myself, we should send this bill to committee for further …
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Mr. Speaker, from the very early days of this country, and even before it was formed, Canadians and those before us realized the importance of trade. We cannot satisfy ourselves with exactly everything that we need, but it is not just that; we actually have many things that the world needs, and we can trade those things for what we need here at home. From the earliest days of the founding members …
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Mr. Speaker, that is my first question from that member, although I do hear him often in question period. I welcome him to the chamber. I would agree with the member in the sense that there are opportunities for Ontario, especially as it relates to agriculture. This is also something that applies across the country. Indonesia is poised to become one of the largest markets, not only by population b…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to just let the member's comment stand and correct the record. I appreciate that, but I do appreciate her judgment when she said that she has been misled by the government in what she has read and what its actions are.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank our pages for all the great work they do to keep us on the straight and narrow. Before I start, I would like to mention that I am splitting my time with the wonderful, esteemed member for Northumberland—Clarke, who has a new riding name. I am sure his speech will be absolutely excellent. It is important that we are here today at this moment to discuss areas in which the govern…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to update the member on some developments. We are working with the government. In fact, we just had the Minister of International Trade at committee today to help the Liberals fast-track their bill on the U.K.'s accession to the CPTPP. We have also told them that we will help them get their Indonesian trade deal passed. However, Canadians voted for a minority government. …
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question from a wonderful MP. It is the first time I have received a question from her in this chamber, and it definitely will not be the last. Forty-one per cent of Canadians voted for the Conservative platform in the election. That is a substantial number of Canadians, and a record, in fact, in this modern age. I think the government would be well placed to take some…
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Mr. Speaker, in other countries, including Israel, if a company has been subsidized by the government for the research and development of its intellectual property, when that company is purported to be sold or the IP is transferred out of the country, the company is required to send a payment back to the government that is a multiple of the subsidy it received. That money then provides additional …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals committed $15 billion to Stellantis only to have it ship 3,000 jobs south of the border. In fact, just in the White House yesterday, Stellantis says it is investing $13 billion in the U.S. to create 5,000 jobs. Every time the government makes a deal, it seems like executives get taken care of while employees get overlooked. When will this Liberal government prioritize job…
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Madam Speaker, I spent a number of hours with my hon. colleague at the finance committee as he made sure that the previous government got its budget bills passed all the way through. It might have been a painful process, but the Liberals did get through it in the end. I would say that I am open to reasonable suggestions. It was not my intention to create additional problems with respect to partner…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Calgary Crowfoot for his diligent work on this file and for helping me in my quest to draft this legislation. Absolutely, I do not believe that a corporation deserves any privacy when it owes the treasury or the CRA any money that is all of a sudden waived. There should be no expectation of privacy when that occurs, especially as those amoun…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my fellow colleague from the Bloc. He always has a very thoughtful question and intervention in this place. As I mentioned in the speech, transparency is very important. In terms of cost, I would just say that much of the work is already being done in these departments to understand what corporations owe what money. This bill would just require some of that information …
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moved that Bill C-230, An Act to amend the Financial Administration Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (debt forgiveness registry), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Madam Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to rise on behalf of the people of Simcoe North and to advance an issue that has been of great importance to me, which is increasing the level of …
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Mr. Speaker, it has been reported that the government is considering lifting the tanker ban to support an east-west oil pipeline. The problem is that some Liberal MPs, and even cabinet ministers, do not support this proposal. Who speaks for the government? Will the minister finally clear it up today whether the government is going to do what Conservatives have called for all along to scrap the emi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are not on a sustainable track, because they have more than doubled the amount we spend on debt service costs. It is only going up, and that is if nothing changes. It was six cents in 2015; it is going to be 13¢ in just a couple of years, and that is if absolutely nothing changes. I do not believe that this is a sustainable path. Even former bank governor David Dodge says…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise on behalf of the residents of Simcoe North. I will be splitting my time with the wonderful new member for Souris—Moose Mountain, who I am sure will make—
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I apologize to our wonderful friends in interpretation. If it continues to be an issue, please let me know. Let us get right into it. It must be really difficult to be a Liberal member of Parliament today, because here are the headlines following the budget, which is how we measure how the budget is being taken: “Budget shows Carney doesn’t know how tough it is out there on Main Street”. Another—
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Mr. Speaker, we absolutely need to improve the services for Canadians, but I would caution the government when it wants to increase services that do not exist today for Canadians while there are still two-hour waits on hold at the CRA when people call. I am not sure that giving the CRA additional things to do is going to provide the service the Liberals think. The CRA has already been trying to fi…
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Mr. Speaker, I apologize. Old habits die hard. The headline says, “Budget shows [the Prime Minister] doesn’t know how tough it is out there on Main Street”. Another headline reads, “The Liberals' growing deficit of trust”. Another one says that, after all the hype, the Prime Minister’s “first budget fails to meet the moment”. Another says, “Once again, [the Prime Minister] doesn’t quite live up to…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I did not hear the intervention from my hon. colleague, and I am not sure of the stat he was referring to. I believe there have been some credible sources suggesting that because certain oil is being mixed from certain jurisdictions in the world, some shipments of oil around the world may contain Russian oil. That is obviously something that would be very concerning if …
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Mr. Speaker, in 2015, six cents of every dollar was used to pay interest on the national debt. Yesterday's budget confirms that that number will double to more than 13¢ of every dollar, which is almost $76 billion going to bankers and bond holders to pay interest on the national debt. That is even more than the government will receive from taxing and GST. When the finance minister says that he is …
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Mr. Speaker, the difference is that every Liberal finance minister seems to keep breaking their fiscal promises. They said that the deficits would be low and temporary, but they were long and very large. They said the deficit would be capped. They said the debt-to-GDP ratio would continue going down. The ratio went up, and the deficits blew through the cap. Now, we have a new finance minister with…
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Mr. Speaker, Andrew Moor was a warrior for more competition in the financial services sector and the most respected and passionate advocate for open banking. Under his leadership, Equitable Bank grew from $3 billion in assets to $125 billion. It was deemed Canada's challenger bank. Andrew and EQ Bank challenged more than their competitors. They challenged the system, they challenged bureaucracy an…
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Madam Speaker, I guess we will have to get a ruling on whether we can say a member is intentionally misleading the House, but I cannot believe the government broke its own trade agreement with Ukraine. Do members know what it did? It got rid of the carbon tax. It broke its own agreement. It is unbelievable. I appreciate the member mentioning that we have all of this wonderful gold production in Ca…
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Madam Speaker, I thought my hon. colleague was also going to ask about the gold standard, but maybe that is for another day. He is correct. About 48 million dollars' worth of U.K. beef comes into Canada, and virtually zero, or a very small amount, leaves Canada and makes it into the U.K. This is solely on the basis of non-tariff barriers related to trade and unscientific questions about the use of…
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Madam Speaker, I might be younger, but I was not born yesterday. If Canada had not sold its gold, we would have $125 billion U.S. of extra money in the government coffers. I appreciate that the member might question that strategy, but it is entirely reasonable to ask why we have been selling gold, why we do not hold any gold and why central banks are borrowing it. With respect to the member's fund…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to ask my colleague some questions. I have had the chance to meet and work with him on the trade committee. He has wonderful insights, but I think he is missing a key component. Canada has agreed to allow the U.K. to join the CPTPP, but what did Canada get for allowing the U.K. to join? There are outstanding trade disputes with the U.K., especially with …
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for using the opportunity to discuss process in this place, which is very important. There is actually no reason why there seems to be a rush to have the bill come to the table today. The Liberals could have provided the appropriate notice, as my colleague points out. This place and the level of debate would be improved if we had further scrutiny and an …
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today. Before I get into my speech, I have to chuckle a bit about the last intervention by the member for Winnipeg North. At every opportunity, whenever there is anything negative to be said about the legacy of the last 10 years, the Liberal government says that was an old government and this is a new government. However, whenever there is something it wants…
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Madam Speaker, mark the time and the date, because I agree with my hon. colleague in the NDP in his intervention with respect to U.K. pensioners. This is the moment that the current government has let pass to negotiate on behalf of U.K. pensioners. If and when the bill is passed, we will have lost negotiating leverage with the U.K. to support U.K. pensioners living in Canada, and of course I have …
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Mr. Speaker, I had the wonderful opportunity to work for finance minister Jim Flaherty, who said what everybody knew at the time: Quantitative easing is inflationary and harmful to the overall economy. The central bank never did quantitative easing until COVID. It is doing quantitative tightening now. The government's fiscal policies are putting the bank in a very difficult position whereby it may…
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Mr. Speaker, as Conservatives, we want to make sure that a government spends its money properly so that it has money to spend on health care and social services for those who need them the most, including seniors, young people and those with families. We have to be judiciously focused on every single line item so that the government has the money to spend on vulnerable people and those in low-inco…
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Mr. Speaker, never before in history has there been an example of increasing taxes on businesses resulting in lower prices to consumers. I do not think we are going to get to a full discussion of that issue here today, but I welcome follow-up discussions with the member at a future date.
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Mr. Speaker, the risks he raises are important. The reason we had quantitative easing in the first place is that no one else who was willing to purchase our debt. That might happen again. With 40% of those who purchased our debt being hedge funds or financial speculators, if they are unable to purchase our debt, who is going to? We will see rates increase or we will see the Bank of Canada forced t…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot help but weigh in on the most recent intervention. I have heard many great things about the hon. member who just spoke, but surely he would know what happens to the money supply when the Bank of Canada purchases the debt that the government issues. While there is no money printer printing physical bills, the money supply increases substantially, which is, in effect, like prin…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today, along with my colleague in the Liberal Party, to present a petition representing the voices of many parents across the country who are concerned about social media use and smart phone use by children, especially those much younger than 18 years old. These parents have recognized that smart phones have become a direct gateway to harmful content for child…
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