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Mr. Chair, I beg to differ with the minister. I do not think she understands the question. There are three million non-permanent residents of Canada right now. What was the target for 2025?
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Mr. Chair, we have the preamble, so that is great. Now, you can just move right into the number. What is the actual number of non-permanent residents in Canada right now?
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Mr. Chair, the number is 7.2%. What was the target percentage for this year?
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Mr. Chair, you have exceeded the number because, according to StatsCan, we have over three million people. Your target was 2.5 million people. How are you going to achieve a 500,000 reduction in the balance of this year?
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Mr. Chair, the October annual report estimated the total Canadian population for 2025. Can the minister tell me whether that number was higher or lower than for 2024?
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Mr. Chair, I will help the minister. It was published in their report last fall, and it got a lot of coverage because it implied that the population of Canada was going to decrease. Therefore, the question is this: Are we on track to achieve that reduction in population?
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Mr. Chair, the minister said tonight, referring to the levels plan, “we have met and exceeded the target”. I want to dig into that a bit. By the way, I will be splitting my time three ways. What is the population of non-permanent residents expected to be at the end of 2025 according to the plan?
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Mr. Chair, could I get the answer to the question of how many non-permanent residents are expected to be in Canada at the end of 2025?
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Mr. Chair, I will advise the minister that, actually, her plan has more than one year in it. It has three years. Does she not know the number for the end of this year?
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Mr. Chair, the number seems to be eluding the minister. I will help her. It is two and a half million. As of right now, Statistics Canada knows that number of non-permanent residents in Canada. Does the minister know how many are actually here right now?
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Mr. Chair, I will help the minister again. The number is just a bit over 3 million. It is three million compared to two and a half million, that is 500,000 people over. Does the minister acknowledge that is the current state, and that that is what she means when she says they have met those targets?
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Mr. Chair, I will ask again. There are three million actual versus two and a half million planned. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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Mr. Chair, the actuals are higher. They are higher. How can that be achieving the plan? How is she going to achieve this plan by the end of the year?
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Mr. Chair, let us look at it a different way. The current population is 41.7 million according to Stats Canada, which is 200,000 higher than it was at the end of last year, 500,000 higher than the government's goal. Is the government on track to hit their population target for this year?
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Mr. Chair, in the minister's plan, what is the number of people who are supposed to leave in the next three years?
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Mr. Chair, the government's entire immigration plan is based on temporary residents' leaving Canada voluntarily. How many non-permanent residents does the government expect to leave Canada in the next three years?
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Mr. Chair, last year's annual immigration plan forecast that nearly 1.3 million non-permanent residents would leave Canada. How many have left so far this year?
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Mr. Chair, would the minister ever alter reports to remove data?
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Mr. Chair, they are actually increasing the population. Is that what the minister is saying?
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's energy sector and economy continue to be held back by Liberal anti-energy laws, like the industrial carbon tax and Bill C-69, which blocks all new energy infrastructure. This is compounded by Justin Trudeau's energy production cap, which will kill 54,000 jobs and gut $20 billion from the Canadian economy. The new Prime Minister likes to market himself as the anti-Trudeau. Wel…
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Mr. Speaker, the government has been very good at spending enormous amounts of money and driving our debt through the roof. Fiscal mismanagement is a hallmark of the government. In the Speech from the Throne, there was talk of a 2% increase in spending, yet at the same time legislation was introduced that actually increased spending by 8%. What are the member's thoughts on that, and what is her co…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring and returned with absolutely nothing, all while there are serious gaps in our immigration system. For example, there are over 260,000 unprocessed refugee claims right now in the system. The Liberals are paying out billions of dollars every year for hotels, food and medical costs for these claimants. They are even allowed to work…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government has broken our borders. It brought in three million temporary residents who need to leave Canada in the next year, but it has no way to know if they will actually leave. Will they go back home? Will they stay here illegally? Will they cross over the U.S. border? By the way, the President-elect has made it very clear that there are no more f…
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Madam Speaker, my dear mother was recently going through some old papers and found a poem from the late 1970s she had saved all these years. In those days, we had former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. I was shocked at the similarities between then and now. Here is the poem: The Prime Minister is my shepherd, I shall not work. He maketh me to lie down on park benches; He leadeth me beside still fac…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost. Taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up. Now they have broken Canada's immigration system. The Conservatives have learned that there are over three million people in Canada who need to leave by December of next year, and the government does not have a plan. When we pressed the minister on this at committee, he simp…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague gave a great speech. I think about all the scandals that have plagued the Liberal government over the years, such as the WE Charity, the recent other Randy fiasco and all these things that have happened. Could the member just take a minute to recount some of the ways we cannot trust the Liberal government to do anything?
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Madam Speaker, that is a very good question and one we ask ourselves a lot. Why will the Liberal government not just provide the unredacted documents as the request was made by Parliament? It is really quite a simple thing to do. They have already produced the documents with all the redactions. Simply undo the redactions and send the same documents. They are not going to do this, because of what i…
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Madam Speaker, I rise once again to address the sweeping corruption that grips the NDP-Liberal government here in Ottawa. Parliament is consumed with the issue of the Liberal government refusing to turn over unredacted documents to the RCMP for a criminal investigation. These documents pertain to Sustainable Development Technology Canada, better known as the green slush fund. I have already spoken…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is quite right. From the moment the government came into power, scandals erupted. As I have spoken about many times before, the scandals are not new to the Liberal government. Scandals have always been in Liberal governments. My colleague does raise a very interesting kind of microcase, and that is of the minister who resigned today. In one person, there are multiple sc…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague raised a very good point. In many ways it does appear as though the government is just very happy to let things go on. The Liberals certainly do not want to provide the documents, as I stated in my last answer, because they are worried about what the documents contain. At the same time, I do not think they have anything better to do either. I think they have run out of …
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of His Majesty's official opposition, I have the honour to table the dissenting report to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration's closed work permits study. The Conservative Party of Canada values the role of temporary foreign workers in supporting our nation's agriculture and other essential industries. Through our contributions to the committee's study, Con…
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With regard to funding provided through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s Settlement Program, the Resettlement Assistance Program, the Interim Housing Assistance Program, the International Migration Capacity Building Program or the Francophone Immigration Support Program for the fiscal years 2015-16 to 2023-24 to any corporation, non-profit organization or other third party that opera…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Settlement Program, the Resettlement Assistance Program, the Interim Housing Assistance Program, the International Migration Capacity Building Program, and the Francophone Immigration Support Program, for the fiscal years 2015-16 to 2023-24, broken down by program and province or territory: (a) what organizations applied fo…
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With regard to a Statistics Canada report titled “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2022”, The Daily — Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2022, and the report that there has been a 43% increase in the rates of level 1, 2, and 3 sexual assaults between 2015 and 2022: (a) does Public Safety Canada acknowledge that level 1, 2, and 3 sexual assaults have increased 43% in that time p…
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With regard to the project “Board of Education of School District No. 62 (Sooke)” under Health Canada's Substance Use and Addictions Program, broken down by participating elementary, middle and secondary schools: (a) what are the names of the schools; (b) what is the cost of the curriculum, broken down by subject, which is being taught to the students; (c) what are the total number of materials th…
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Mr. Speaker, I was disappointed I did not hear all 68 of the scandals from the member in his great speech, so I think it would be great to give the member a little more opportunity to maybe pick out another scandal or two, or maybe three or four, because I would love to hear a bit more of the scandals he has uncovered.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North was here during previous speeches. Some of my Conservative colleagues talked about the KPIs of the CBC and the way CBC executives reduced the KPIs so they could achieve their goals and, therefore, get these incredible bonuses we have been talking about today. My colleagues did a great job of explaining how that is a level of incompetence at the CBC that…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an interesting question but is completely off of today's subject. It is something I would have expected from the Liberals, but perhaps the NDP is also trying to hide something. I do not know what is going on here. It is a very interesting situation. The reality of it, though, is that the whole event that is going on, this whole discussion and debate, could end immediately if the…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, we have more proof that the costly NDP-Liberal coalition is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. The Speaker has ruled that the government has violated an order of the House. The Liberals are paralyzing Parliament to hide $400 million of corruption. The Auditor General has found that 186 contracts went to Liberal appointees, contracts that must be turned over to …
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Mr. Speaker, that is a new one. It is very clear the Liberals are doing everything they can to avoid talking about the subject we are talking about today. They are trying so hard to hide behind other issues because they do not want to face the reality of the corruption in their party, in the government and among the people who are part of the government. I will play along a bit. Last week, we hear…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish a happy birthday to your father. I am sure he is excited to watch the proceedings here every day. Unfortunately, for me, this is not a happy occasion to be speaking in the House of Commons. It is my job to represent the electorate of Saskatoon West, to do things in their best interest and to put forward a positive vision of our great country. I can say to the people back home i…
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Mr. Speaker, it is quite rich for a member of the NDP to talk about how virtuous they are with regard to holding the government to account. The New Democrats have voted with the government to prop it up. They have voted for budgets hundreds of times. They are in a coalition. They have shut down debate in the House at the request of their Liberal masters. When the Liberals say “jump”, the NDP asks,…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a really simple solution to this, and that is a change of government. Of course, all of us on this side are eagerly working hard for Canadians to that end. If members can believe it, I did not have enough time in my speech to go through all of the scandals. I only picked out some of the big ones, but there are others I want to briefly mention. There was “elbowgate” in the Hou…
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Mr. Speaker, it is sad that we see this happening over and over again. The example the member raised is a really good one. I thought it was interesting that the internal email thread basically said that if the Liberals released this information, it could be really bad for them, so they tried hard not to do it. I am sure that email thread has happened on many occasions, including this one. There ar…
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Mr. Speaker, I think back to the early 2000s and the sponsorship scandal. It was one of the first things that made me understand how Liberals think and how they are always trying to put money into the pockets of their friends. I wonder if the member could remind this House of some of the scandals similar to that which have occurred under the Liberal government, where it has demonstrated its innate…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Saskatchewan premier said the carbon tax is costing Saskatchewan's health and education systems nearly $380 million. He notes, “That’s money that could be used for more teachers, more doctors, and more nurses.” The NDP-Liberal carbon tax is literally taking away teachers and nur…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to present a petition today on behalf of Canadian citizens regarding the Hong Kong pathways that have been established by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. There are two streams, stream A and stream B, and as of January 2024, there are over 15,000 permanent residency applications, leaving over 8,000 in a backlog. The processing time has exceeded the stipula…
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Madam Speaker, my second petition is on behalf of Canadians who believe the Islamic Republic of Iran is using extreme violence to terrorize political opponents, including the peaceful participants in the Women, Life, Freedom movement. The Islamic Republic of Iran has, alarmingly, increased executions. The petitioners are calling for the Government of Canada to redouble its pressure on Iran to prot…
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With regard to Policy Horizons Canada and the May 2024 report entitled “The Disruptions on the Horizon”: (a) which individuals or organizations, outside of the Government of Canada, contributed to the report; (b) were any of the individuals or organizations in (a) paid to participate, and, if so, how much was each paid; (c) what kind of format was used to gather opinions from individuals or organi…
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