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With regard to government measures to monitor the border: (a) what is the total number of helicopters used at the border, broken down by those (i) owned, (ii) leased; (b) for helicopters leased, which companies are they leased from; (c) what is the total number of patrol boats in use, broken down by type of boat and whether the boats are owned or leased; (d) for patrol boats being leased, which co…
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With regard to firearms regulations: (a) how many and which makes, models and variants of the firearms classified as prohibited on December 5, 2024 and since, fire rimfire cartridges; (b) how many and which makes, models and variants of the firearms classified as prohibited on December 5, 2024, fire centrefire cartridges; (c) for the firearms in (b), how many are chambered in (i) .223, (ii) 5.56 N…
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Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding the member's speech, which conflated Bill S-245, which only deals with lost Canadians, with exactly what Bill C-3 is, which is much broader than dealing with lost Canadians, I have a hypothetical question for her. According to my interpretation of this legislation, if a person who came to Canada from another country and got their citizenship then decided to return to t…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the first speech that I have had an opportunity to prepare for since the last election, although I did speak spontaneously a little bit, prior to the House adjourning for the summer. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the voters of Ponoka—Didsbury. This is the seventh time I have been sent to this place. This is the third different constituency and area that I have …
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Mr. Speaker, of course, but it should not take away from the fact that every member in this place has the right and responsibility to speak to important legislation on behalf of their constituents. Not every member has the ability to conduct that same type of cross-examination and debate at the committee stage. It is a subset of the House, so until the House has adequately dealt with this, Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, the government is now moving closure on its piece of legislation in order to, as it claims, fast-track projects for our nation. However, without getting rid of Bill C-69, without getting rid of Bill C-48, without getting rid of the industrial carbon tax and without getting rid of the production cap, what is the point in fast-tracking legislation to have a one-stop shop where people ca…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, leaders of the G7 gather in Kananaskis. Top of mind at this summit are international peace and security. Canadian energy is a key part of this conversation. Our G7 allies, such as Germany and Japan, have spent years asking for ethically sourced Canadian oil and gas. Yet, this same Liberal government has stymied our allies for 10 years. When will the Liberals get out of the …
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of economic vandalism by the Liberals, Albertans want the walk to match the talk. It has been three months since the start of the campaign, four weeks since the throne speech, weeks since the meeting with the premiers and businesses, and yet the “no more pipelines” bill, the tanker ban, the production cap and the industrial carbon tax all still remain, and not a single …
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his excellent speech. He and I have both been here for a long time. We watched, for the last 10 years, as the Liberal government blocked and stymied pretty much every economic development opportunity, particularly in my home province of Alberta, and countrywide. As he sees the Liberals seemingly taking all of the ideas the Conservatives have had for …
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Mr. Chair, how many of these oil and gas pipelines are in the construction phase?
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Mr. Chair, Canada did not start on April 28. How many of these pipelines are at final investment decision phase?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister think there is a business case for LNG exports to Japan, Germany, Poland and Greece?
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Mr. Chair, the same people who have been in cabinet for the last 10 years are in cabinet today. How many crude oil pipelines have been proposed to the government since 2015?
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Mr. Chair, I am not sure where the minister has been for the last 10 years. Apparently, no bankers lost their jobs. How many of the crude oil pipeline projects that were applied for since 2015 have been completed to date?
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Mr. Chair, if that were the case, there are a whole bunch of projects that the previous government inherited. How soon is it until all of those projects are completed?
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Mr. Chair, if that were the case, the minister should be able to name them. Can he name them?
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Mr. Chair, what did Kinder Morgan have budgeted to complete that project?
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Mr. Chair, how many LNG export terminals did the government inherit from the Harper government in 2015?
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Mr. Chair, how many crude oil pipeline projects did the Liberal government inherit from the Harper government?
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Mr. Chair, how many non-nationalized projects has the Liberal government completed to date?
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Mr. Chair, how much did the Government of Canada spend to buy the Kinder Morgan expansion pipeline?
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Mr. Chair, that is one, and it needed an exemption from Bill C-69, Bill C-48 and the carbon tax. I am going to ask the minister this again. How many projects are they going to be cutting the ribbon for that did not need an exemption from the laws of the Liberal government of the last 10 years?
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Mr. Chair, did the Government of Canada spend $34 billion to build a pipeline that Kinder Morgan was going to build for $9 billion?
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Mr. Chair, how many of these LNG projects were completed without having to bypass the laws passed by the previous government, Bill C-69 and the carbon tax?
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my common-sense Conservative colleague from Cloverdale—Langley City for the part of her speech that focused on agriculture. I was very fortunate as a youngster to grow up in Lacombe County. I grew up on a mixed farm in the early seventies that eventually became a cow-calf operation. I remember going to town with my grandpa when I was about five years old. We would leav…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think the member has already been admonished once, in a joking spirit, but perhaps we should start taking these rules a little more seriously.
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Mr. Speaker, it is official: the new Liberal Prime Minister refuses to present a spring budget even though Canadians have been without one for over a year. In that time, students have had budgets, families have budgets, small businesses have budgets, towns and cities have budgets, provinces and territories all have budgets, banks have budgets and I am pretty sure Brookfield has a budget. Why does …
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Mr. Speaker, I was hoping to split my time with the member for Barrie South—Innisfil, but you just told me that it is probably not going to happen. I am not going to get into some procedural wrangling with you about the close of the day. I want to thank my colleagues in the Conservative caucus for using this opposition day to highlight a very serious matter about just how incompetent this start is…
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Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today to honour the life and legacy of my friend Blair Vold of Ponoka, Alberta, who passed away on May 11. Born on October 13, 1955, Blair embodied what it means to be Albertan: hard-working, resilient and devoted to community. He was best known for his life in cattle sales and service on local boards, including being president of the Ponoka Stampe…
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Mr. Speaker, congratulations to you on your new role as Deputy Speaker. You and I are fellow Albertans who have been in this place for a long time. My colleague from Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek gave us quite the list of things Liberals had said that they would do, just for us to find that they were going to do the exact opposite once they were elected. That seems to be pretty much the way the Libera…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to welcome my new colleague to the House of Commons. My understanding is that he is an experienced legislator. He has, I believe, served in the National Assembly of Quebec and was even the finance minister. Unfortunately, he has been overlooked for a cabinet appointment with the new government. I am a little surprised and I am wondering whether he too is surprised that after th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister launched his leadership to great fanfare as a self-professed feminist. Since the time that he proudly announced his gender parity cabinet, and all of the other things he clings to for whatever reason, for photo ops or whatever the vanity project happens to be, we have seen a trail of women's careers and reputations damaged by this individual. It started with Jody Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask my colleague the same question I just asked the last speaker. The Prime Minister touts himself as a feminist, yet time and again throughout his leadership, the axe has fallen on women he had appointed to his cabinet, including Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott, special adviser Celina Caesar-Chavannes, and now the former finance minister. How many more women will en…
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Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague and I have been colleagues together here for quite some time in the House of Commons. He is a fine representative not only of Quebec but of Canada, with lots of experience. One of the things that I found deeply disturbing about this, as somebody who has a background in environmental science, as I worked in that field when I was a much younger man, is the fact that …
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Mr. Speaker, I have already answered this question. In fact, the assertions the parliamentary secretary just made are simply not true, because the leader of the Bloc Québécois, when speaking to the media outside of this place, said that he cannot be as frank with people as he was before. I am paraphrasing in English, of course, but it is due to the fact that he has the security clearance and has h…
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Absolutely nothing, Mr. Speaker. The leader of the Conservative Party was once a minister of the Crown in this place, in which case he would have had to get a security clearance. He was, obviously, capable of getting a security clearance. The leader has been very clear in his remarks. Once he subscribes to the Prime Minister's plan for him, the Prime Minister would decide what information the Lead…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Tobique—Mactaquac for bringing his words of wisdom into this place. I want to talk to our lobby desk assistant and ask that they please never make me follow the member for Tobique—Mactaquac again. I do not know how I am going to top that. Every time I go to midnight mass now I will be thinking about the speech he just gave. To all the pastors out th…
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Mr. Speaker, it never ceases to amaze me that the member for New Westminster—Burnaby conflates issues the way that he does. The Harper government probably spent money in a way that the NDP did not agree with but it actually led to one of the most prosperous times in Canadian history. As a matter of fact, at the end of the Harper era in government, the Canadian household income was every bit as wea…
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Mr. Speaker, there is some pretzel twisting we have to do to follow the logic of the question from the hon. colleague. I will just let Canadians know how this works, basically. He was found in contempt by a vote of Parliament. It was a minority Parliament for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, and I was a member of the Conservative Party. We had 124 members of Parliament. We do not have any nat…
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Mr. Speaker, we would notice that I did not interrupt the member when he was asking his question, which was full of so many falsehoods, I could not even begin to name all of them, but I am not afforded the same courtesy back when I am answering the question. I will continue on. The difference between the median household income of a Canadian versus that of an American has never been wider than it …
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Mr. Speaker, whenever it comes to standing up and lecturing or trying to appear virtuous, the NDP always tries to appear to be doing what it says it is doing, but, every time the rubber hits the road, when it comes to the point of decision, when it really matters, which is when we vote, the NDP always votes the opposite of everything it says. We witnessed it this week. We actually put the words of…
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Madam Speaker, it is too bad the hecklers were not listening. Corruption and decay go hand in hand. As such, when we say that everything feels broken, we say it because we mean it. The country is in decay, and the government's rotten influence is running rampant, spoiling every single thing it touches, including even those programs and services for which there is consensus in all corners of the Ho…
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Mr. Speaker, will the NDP leader stand by his words or is he just a walking, talking pile of contradictions? Do members remember when the NDP leader said he was going to rip up his supply and confidence deal? That was just a stunt for the Elmwood—Transcona by-election. As it turns out, the Prime Minister names the tune, and the NDP leader is happy to sing along. The NDP leader was happy to sing al…
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With regard to the executive committee or EXCOM meeting held by the Correctional Service of Canada in Banff, Alberta, from October 8 to 10, 2024: (a) how many people attended the meeting; (b) what were the costs incurred by the government related to the meeting, including any travel costs, in total and broken down by type of expenditure; and (c) what are the details of each expenditure related to …
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With regard to prescribed fires in Jasper National Park between January 1 and July 22, 2024: what were the dates, locations, and sizes of each such prescribed fire?
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Madam Speaker, I want to ask my friend this: In his capacity as chair of public accounts, how many times have the NDP and the Liberals collaborated to ensure that transparency and access to document requests to bring this issue to light have been shut down at committee?
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Madam Speaker, I am rising to ask a question on behalf of a business owner in my constituency who has three dollar stores. He has about 3,000 items per store that he will have to change. Given 30 seconds per item to go through, that is 90,000 seconds. That is 1,500 minutes. That is 25 hours. Between 9 p.m. that night and 9 a.m. the next morning, he has to pay somebody 25 hours, likely overtime, so…
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Mr. Speaker, let us play a little game of true or false regarding the former minister of employment, the member for Edmonton Centre. True or false, the former minister deceived Canadians and his caucus colleagues about his indigenous heritage. That is true. True or false, the former minister from Edmonton's business deceptively advertised itself as indigenous-owned. That is true. True or false, th…
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Madam Speaker, here we are again discussing this privilege motion dealing with Liberal corruption at Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC. For those watching at home who are asking why we are here, the answer is simple: The Liberal government simply refuses to comply with an order from the House to produce unredacted documents in regard to the $400-million green slush fund scandal at…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Robert Sopuck, a former member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa, but more importantly, my friend and mentor. I had already been here four years when Bob showed up. He caught my attention immediately with his keen interest in all matters of hunting, fishing, trapping and the outdoor way of life, and we became fast friends. It was not long befo…
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