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Mr. Speaker, in the camera shot that the public sees, there is someone in the background directly behind the member who is speaking. I would ask the Speaker to request that people be aware of when they are within the camera shot. It is very distracting for people who are trying to pay attention to the speech.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate our colleague on her maiden speech. She mentioned the Coast Guard, and I want to ask what measures the government must take to maintain all the services she outlined in her speech but be sufficiently protected when it comes into contact with a fully armed adversary? The People's Liberation Army Navy is not going to respect our civilian versus military desi…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition from the freedom-loving, maple-leaf-waving patriotic Canadians in my riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. My constituents are concerned over the Liberal government's decision to arbitrarily sign on to the WHO's Pandemic Agreement and the amendments made to the international health regulations, or IHRs. These changes were never brought to a s…
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Madam Speaker, I was wondering who started that rumour, but let us get back to the bill. Bill C-2 is a Trojan Horse. It promises security but delivers surveillance. It promises order but delivers control. It is not the kind of legislation that Canadians expect from a government that claims to respect the charter. Let us work together to craft legislation that truly strengthens our borders without …
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Madam Speaker, cash is legal tender in Canada. The way we can strengthen security in transactions is not through taking away cash. It is by FINTRAC taking the information that it gathers, all the forms people fill out every time they make deposits or transfer $10,000 or more, and actually acting upon it, not just collecting the paper.
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Madam Speaker, I am having trouble getting that out too. In the House, government members should be respecting, listening to and answering questions according to what speakers actually say. A small modicum of respect for opposition parties will build confidence not only in Parliament but among the people who watch us from home.
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Madam Speaker, Canadians have lost trust in the government. They did so during COVID when the Liberals refused to allow parliamentarians to see the contracts for the vaccines. They lost trust when different scandals came up. Canadians no longer trust the government. We certainly do not want to see the types of riots occurring across Europe and parts of the Middle East come to Canada. The Liberals …
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the freedom-loving residents of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke to speak to Bill C-2, the Liberals' so-called strong borders act. Conservatives will always support secure borders, the rule of law and the protection of Canadian sovereignty, but we must ensure those who enter our country do so legally, safely and with respect for our values. We support mea…
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With regard to government usage of Palantir hardware, software or other technology, and broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity, since January 1, 2016: (a) has the government ever owned or used any Palantir technology, directly or indirectly (e.g. Palantir drivers being used in SAP Concur programs), and, if so, what are the details, including (i) what eleme…
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With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada story from November 14, 2024, titled "CRA launched 'witch hunt' against whistleblowers who exposed millions in bogus refunds": (a) why did the Canada Revenue Agency launch a witch hunt or similar type of investigation against whistleblowers; (b) who ordered the investigation; (c) what resource…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's response was to repeat the same Liberal talking points. For Liberals, it is all about spending announcements, but as I said earlier, a budget is more than just about a list of Liberal spending. A budget is supposed to explain how much Canadians are going to be spending, how much the Liberals are going to be spending, what taxes the Liberals are going to h…
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With regard to Sustainable Development Technology Canada, as of June 10, 2025: (a) what was the amount of Sustainable Development Technology Canada's funding held back from innovators due to the certifier's absence for each milestone; (b) what is the total amount still outstanding to all innovators combined, for each milestone; (c) what is the total amount outstanding to innovators due to the tran…
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With regard to the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Forces Housing Agency, during each of the last five fiscal years: (a) how much money was deducted from Canadian Armed Forces members to pay for the rent of their accommodations on military bases; (b) of the money in (a), how much went to the Canadian Forces Housing Agency; (c) of the money in (a), how much was spent on repairs for accommoda…
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Mr. Speaker, last June I asked the minority Liberal government if it would respect the vote of Parliament and table a budget. The Minister of Transport and Internal Trade declined to answer. Instead, she praised her new Prime Minister's latest costly political gimmick. Nine months ago, that same minister resigned her position as Trudeau's finance minister. This saved her the embarrassment of tabli…
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Madam Speaker, with the allocations towards National Defence, what increase in salary can the members of the Canadian Armed Forces look forward to and, specifically, what type of equipment can they look forward to receiving and learning how to train on?
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by the health-conscious residents of my riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. The petitioners are calling out this government's hypocrisy after it recently and covertly signed on to the WHO's so-called Pandemic Agreement, just prior to the opening of the 45th Parliament. The Prime Minister had repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to defen…
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Madam Speaker, with respect to EVs and internal combustion engines, the tariffs that have been imposed on us and the tariffs imposed by the government are making new cars unaffordable altogether, so anything left of auto parts manufacturing in Canada is going to be driven out of the country. There are even fewer EV manufacturers, so Canadians are not going to have anything to drive in the next 10 …
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the hard-driving Canadians of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. The Liberal plan to ban the internal combustion engine is an act of pure economic vandalism. When this Soviet-style car sales mandate is combined with Trump's auto tariffs, it would mean the death of domestic car manufacturing. This is government-assisted suicide for the Canadian automobile ind…
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Madam Speaker, even hybrid electric cars would not qualify, and if there are still internal combustion vehicles on the roads or owned by people, they would not be able to get fuel because the new fuel standards are eliminating the gasoline that would fuel ICE cars, those with internal combustion engines. Even if we cannot afford an EV and all we have is gas power, the gas will not be available.
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Madam Speaker, what car salespeople have to do is reach the mandates that are required by government, and if they do not reach the sales limits required on electric vehicles, they will have to pay a $20,000 fine on every gas-powered vehicle as opposed to electric vehicle. All that being said, at least where I live, there may be a few electric vehicles in the lots, but nobody wants them because the…
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Mr. Speaker, the average battery in an electric vehicle contains about 286 kilograms of aluminum. The United States only makes 1% of its aluminum and also has 25% tariffs on imported aluminum. Right there, from the very beginning, we have a large proportion of an EV that has an extra 25% added to it because of a tariff. Then if Canada is importing an electric vehicle, or any vehicle for that matte…
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Madam Speaker, I know that new homes have 200 amps or more, but in Newfoundland, what percentage of homes would have less than 200 amps? To have a plug-in installed for an EV, 200 amps or more is required. If the case is that the majority do not have sufficient amperage and transformers around the province, will the member be asking for an “auto-immune system” for the province of Newfoundland and …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour John Yakabuski, the recently retired MPP for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Following in his father Paul Yakabuski's footsteps, John was first elected in 2003. His 22 years of service left an indelible mark. I heard him called Paul as often as John. He always took that as a compliment, having lived up to his father's standards. John was the singing MPP, not just O Canada…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General's investigation into the Liberals' purchase of the F-35 fighter jets is shocking. It is over budget and behind schedule. Costs are up 50%. The new facilities to house the jets will not be completed until 2031. That is three years too late, forcing taxpayers to spend even more money on temporary hangars. The investigation also confirmed what we have known since 2018…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are pleased with the deathbed conversion the Liberals had in cancelling the carbon tax, but Canadians are left with a carbon tax hangover because what the Liberals neglected to do was include a mechanism requiring prices to come down. Instead, the marketers have left prices for groceries the way they are instead of taking into account the reduced carbon tax. The Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition signed by the health-conscious residents of my riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. Last month, the Liberal government covertly adopted the WHO's so-called Pandemic Agreement, just prior to the opening of the 45th Parliament. This legally binding treaty that it has signed on to never received a single debate, nor was it brought to a vote in …
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Mr. Speaker, the House has spoken: Parliament is demanding a budget this spring. The Liberals have already broken their promise of a spending cap. A budget is more than a big book of spending. It tells us how much things are going to cost. How much are they going to raise taxes? How much are they going to borrow? The Liberals have no plan to manage the debt. Will the Liberal minority government li…
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Mr. Speaker, I am most interested in hearing more about the access to medical care for the families of soldiers. Do they have to live on a military base to get access? What does that look like? Who do they call to get access? This is very serious, and every summer it gets worse because there are postings from one to the next. Tell us how it works.
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I would like to thank the residents of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke for the trust they have placed in me for a ninth time. It is their hard work and their determination to build communities in the Ottawa Valley that inspire me to work just as hard for them. I would also like to thank His Majesty King Charles III for visiting Canada and delivering the throne speech. One o…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not insult or attack the CBC. If we do not want to have a paid-off legacy media, we can just stop paying it off.
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Mr. Speaker, my biggest fan on that side of the aisle mentioned the budget. I did not see the budget or any dollar signs attached to anything in the throne speech. Once I have the numbers to demonstrate what each of the initiatives in the throne speech is going to cost, then I would be able to say something positive.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister himself said that a slogan is not a plan. Plans involve precise measures and the amount each measure is going to cost. Therefore, when he said he had a plan, his only plan was to pick the pockets of our policies, which we are happy about. However, he should make sure that he puts the full policy we proposed in, because that would be a responsible response for the go…
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Mr. Speaker, no, I do not think that is responsible.
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Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to rise to present a petition on behalf of the great people from the healthy-living riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke who are calling on the government to refrain from endorsing the so-called pandemic treaty drafted by the World Health Organization, which had never received a single debate or vote in the House of Commons. The concern is that, by agreeing to this l…
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With regard to chip technology and devices containing chip technology imported from foreign countries, specifically those with which Canada is not allied: (a) what safeguards, if any, are currently in place to ensure that such technology is safe and does not contain any elements, such as remote code execution elements, which could be detrimental to Canada at some point in the future; (b) what is t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by the great people of Pickering—Uxbridge, Whitby and the Liberal Minister of Health's very own riding of Ajax. They call on the House to immediately repeal sections 500 to 504 of Bill C-47, which was passed last year. These amendments made to the Food and Drugs Act are new regulatory constraints on natural health products that millions of Can…
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With regard to the government's approach to fentanyl: (a) when did the government first become aware that Canada's domestic supply of fentanyl was surpassing the demand; (b) how much fentanyl does the government estimate has been exported out of the country, broken down by year for the last five years; (c) what are the circumstances, if any, in which fentanyl is permitted to be included as a "safe…
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Mr. Speaker, today Feed Ontario released its annual hunger report. Over one million Ontarians had to access the food bank in the last year. That is more than double the number from the last four years. Every day, more Canadians struggle to afford food because of the actions of the Prime Minister. Higher prices are the official policy of the Liberal Party. The Liberals plan to quadruple the carbon …
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the security-conscious residents of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke to speak to this amendment to the amendment to the motion. The motion calls for an investigation into the Liberal government's ongoing failure to follow an order of the House to produce documents. When I last rose in the House to speak to a subamendment to the motion, I highlighted how the…
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Madam Speaker, this is about the demand for the production of documents. The Liberals may wish to hide everything off in a committee someplace, but by keeping it at the forefront, Canadians are reminded, and some for the very first time, that the Liberals will not hand over documents. The corruption we have seen in a fraction of the documents that the Auditor General audited is just the tip of the…
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Madam Speaker, there have been several bills before the House, including the one to tax the Internet. There have been many censorship bills, such as Bill C-11, which restricted what we can see and hear on the Internet. With all of this, be it the carbon tax or anything that makes life more expensive, it is the goal of the government to make life less affordable. All that is meant, as the Prime Min…
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Madam Speaker, they have to stop taxing Canadians and taking that tax under the guise of being able to change the weather, and they have to stop giving that tax money to the friends of Liberals, so they can invent alternative forms of energy production that end up costing taxpayers and homeowners even more. We went through this already in Ontario. People had to decide whether they would heat their…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals deny, distract and delay, and that is exactly what that question was doing. We are here today because there is every indication that the government is hiding corruption. We have seen a bit of what has already surfaced in the papers, but we want to see how deeply it runs. That is what this debate is about. As soon as the Liberals produce the documents required by Parliam…
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Madam Speaker, the climate has been changing since earth was first created. We have gone through hundreds of millions of years. In fact, this place where we are now used to be a desert at one point, and at another point it was buried by a glacier. It is really insulting to ask whether or not somebody believes in climate change, unless of course they are referring to the church of climate change, s…
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Madam Speaker, had the member been listening, the question asked of me was whether or not there was climate change, to which I said of course there was. If the other member wants to dream up some other conspiracy theory, she is quite welcome to.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague said that things were not this bad before the Liberals came into power and they will not be that bad if everyone who wants to get rid of the corrupt government comes out in person and votes in the next election for a Conservative government. Would the member tell the assembled members what steps a new Conservative majority government would take in order to ensure that t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition signed by the great people from the freedom-loving riding of Kanata—Carleton. They are calling on the Government of Canada to refrain from endorsing the so-called pandemic treaty drafted by the World Health Organization that has never had a single debate or vote in the House of Commons. This concern is that by agreeing to this legally binding…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a second petition here, if you would allow me. I would also like to present a petition signed by the people from Whitby, Ajax and Pickering—Uxbridge, who are devastated by the government's carbon tax, which is making their lives more expensive by increasing their costs for fuel, food and housing. Now this government plans to quadruple the tax that would only make lives more exp…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the nuclear-supportive residents of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke to speak against the Bloc's dissenting report recommendations that put my constituents' health and safety at risk. The Bloc calls on the government to pull the plug on over a decade of work toward securing low-level radioactive waste located on the grounds of Atomic Energy of Canada Limi…
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Madam Speaker, the debate we are having today is in respect to an environmental statement that is wrong-headed and totally full of disinformation. We are correcting the record now. Quite apart from that, the fact that at least $400 million was misappropriated and Canadians want it to be paid back just goes to show us what little disdain the Liberals think Canadians have for their waste of money. C…
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