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Mr. Speaker, I know my colleague had some reservations when the issue of the near-surface disposal facility arose. The member who asked a prior question from the Bloc talked about a catastrophic failure. I do not believe he has actually gone there or understands that there is no active reactor on site. Did my colleague take the time to go to Chalk River to have all his questions answered? It does …
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition signed by the great people of Pickering, Ajax and Whitby. Petitioners call on the Government of Canada to end all wasteful spending that is fuelling inflation and the cost of living crisis, confront the bureaucrats and the gatekeepers who prevent new housing construction and ensure all federal infrastructure funds be earmarked for increased h…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague continues to mention $400 million that is missing. Is it not correct that the Auditor General chose a selection of 58 files that the SDTC had granted money to and, potentially, the number is much bigger?
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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 member started off by saying the world is on fire, Canada is on fire. It was revealed that Parks Canada had wanted to do controlled burns for Jasper since 2022 yet was denied by the government. Did the Liberals intentionally allow Jasper to burn to justify their carbon tax that is sending a million Canadians a month to food banks?
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Madam Speaker, an individual working around the near surface disposal facility will receive less exposure to radiation in a year than an individual taking a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. What insurance company is denying, or potentially denying, coverage to anyone along the Ottawa River on the basis of the building of this near surface disposal facility?
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Madam Speaker, I have two points to make. First, the member opposite and her party are propping up a government that was involved in trying to get SNC-Lavalin off the hook for all its corruption. Second, the real big piece of misinformation or disinformation, whichever we choose, is that the Government of Canada sold it off. AECL still owns Chalk River Laboratories. The company that came in to ope…
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With regard to privacy breaches that occurred since March 1, 2023, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity: (a) how many breaches have occurred; and (b) what are the details of each breach, including (i) the date, (ii) the number of individuals whose information was involved, (iii) the summary or description of the incident, (iv) the government program or service that was imp…
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With regard to government policies that prohibit working with certain vendors or contractors: (a) what are the names of all vendors and contractors who are either currently, or have at some point since November 4, 2015, been prohibited, banned, or otherwise deemed ineligible from doing work with (i) the Department of National Defence, (ii) the Canadian Armed Forces, (iii) NATO’s Defence Innovation…
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Mr. Speaker, reports on the death of the NDP-Liberal coalition have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the leader of the NDP's prank on the voters of Elmwood—Transcona, Canadians see the truth. Like an unkillable zombie from a Halloween horror show, the Marxist coalition is coming for our souls. The NDP's support for the Liberal agenda is making life deadly. The NDP voted for the carbon tax 24 time…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the democracy-defending constituents of the autumn-coloured riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Today, we are debating a subamendment to the amendment of the motion. That is about as parliamentary a sentence one could say in this chamber. This motion calls for the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to complete a report on the governme…
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Madam Speaker, when my hon. colleague said that it must be something really bad, it got me to thinking. I had a constituent who came, very meekly, about something he wanted to get off his chest. He was a consultant and successful in obtaining a multi-million dollar grant from the government. It was his job to read through the contract, and in reading through the contract, part of the requirement w…
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Mr. Speaker, the member may recall that the second thing we did as government when the Conservatives were in power was to enact a law to end corruption. While it has worked well so far, it does need to be augmented. We would bring in amendments to improve the Federal Accountability Act, which our current leader shepherded through Parliament.
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite knows that, if the Leader of the Opposition receives a classified briefing, he cannot speak with respect to the contents thereof without contravening the Official Secrets Act. If one does so, one faces years in prison. The member for Papineau never applied for security clearances. Considering he has admitted to not disclosing his blackface past or his sexual assaul…
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Mr. Speaker, I would have to agree with my colleague that the government is beyond redemption. Unless the Liberals table those documents as Parliament requested, they are in contempt.
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Mr. Speaker, it depends on everybody's perspective, where they were sitting at that point in time and what they saw that evening. In terms of the Reform Act, yes, I have to thank my colleague from Wellington—Halton Hills, who drafted it. Had the Liberals exercised that themselves in a way where no one was controlling the outcome and no one was bullying anyone else, they would now see, with what is…
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Mr. Speaker, we will get to the punchline. We will be able to vote once the Prime Minister produces the documents that Parliament has asked for.
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Mr. Speaker, what I know is that every member of every opposition party agrees that we have to have the documents in question tabled in the House of Commons. I have not done a one-on-one interview with each member to see whether we want this to go forward. Ultimately, we want the documents to come forth so that we can see what the Prime Minister is hiding; it is so much worse than what we already …
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Mr. Speaker, when that was quickly rejected, the Liberals still kept Parliament hobbled for months. That is how it is related. Let us recall that the biggest scandal at that time was the Prime Minister's decision to hand a billion dollars to a couple of guys who had hired his mom to give some speeches. Those well-connected Liberals from WE Charity, with their billion-dollar made-up program, were t…
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Mr. Speaker, on that day, the NDP were acting a little silly. They were lightheartedly trying to delay the vote by blocking Gord from coming down the aisle. The NDP were not being out of line or in any way aggressive. Anyone who knew Gord knew he could stickhandle his way past any opponent if he wanted to. However, that is not what the Prime Minister saw. He saw the NDP blocking his agenda, grew i…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the extraordinary achievement of Canadian paralympian, Jolan Wong, who proudly brought home a bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Paralympics. As a dedicated and resilient athlete, Jolan has become a symbol of strength and perseverance, both on and off the court. Jolan has inspired countless Canadians with her determination and dedication to sitting volleyball. …
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Mr. Speaker, I am just so excited about presenting this dissenting report. The reason we are doing it is that the report from the entire committee did not explain how the government was going to actually fix the housing shortage. The housing shortage applies to the recruits and the lower ranks, so “the barracks” is what we call them; in Petawawa, they are called “the shacks”. Two buildings have to…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, may I have unanimous consent to table a dissenting report for the 14th report of the Standing Committee on National Defence?
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have lived this nightmare before, this nightmare on Wellington Street. We had a situation where two doctors at the level four laboratory in Winnipeg took deadly viruses to Wuhan, China. In 2019, they were arrested. By the time 2020 and 2021 rolled around, we finally had enough to establish that we needed the production of documents. At that time, the government also refused …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member opposite made reference to people not being in this chamber, particularly women. I believe that, if we did a count, which we will not, we would have just as many if not more women than men in the chamber.
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Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise on behalf of the overtaxed people of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Like the overtaxed Canadians across the country, residents of the Ottawa Valley want a carbon tax election now. The socialist-separatist coalition has made its position plain for all to see: There will be no relief for Canadians until the Marxist members secure their pensions. The need for an electi…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a dump truck to remove all the trash I just heard. Conservatives do not support the Liberal carbon tax. Provinces do not support the Liberal carbon tax. Canadians do not support the Liberal carbon tax. Even the tax-happy socialists in the NDP do not support the carbon tax. Canadians are not as stupid as Liberals think they are. Unlike the government, Canadians know how far the…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would like to comment that continuing this debate to bring these documents forward, to demand that the Prime Minister provide the documents, is the business of His Majesty's loyal opposition. We will continue until they provide the documents or until a carbon tax election is called. Given that there are so many cases of conflict of interest in SDTC, and that it funnell…
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Mr. Speaker, I mentioned SNC-Lavalin, and I thank my colleague for being able to continue this. There are all of these scandals, this litany of scandals, from the several allegations of the corruption of officials in Canada and around the globe for the engineering construction firm SNC-Lavalin to the Prime Minister himself applying pressure to the former attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to …
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Mr. Speaker, the fact that one of my colleagues in the Bloc would ask why we even need to continue demanding these documents gives me pause, and I want to explain further the SNC-Lavalin situation. The former attorney general was not of the opinion that SNC-Lavalin met the criteria in the provisions added to the Criminal Code just months before, but the Prime Minister sent his most trusted adviser…
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Yes, Mr. Speaker, I withdraw that word. I thank my biggest fan in the Liberal government for pointing that out. To finish up with my colleague from the Bloc, it is important that we drive the message home. We must make sure that every Canadian who has tuned in to Parliament, or not, hears by word of mouth how corrupt the government is. We should not let another piece of business go until this has …
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Mr. Speaker, the member is sticking up for the Liberals and propping them up. This probably explains why, during one of my constituency clinics in Renfrew, I had a couple come all the way from her riding to make an appointment to see me. They had grown up in Renfrew and, from time to time, they had seen the writings that we had handed out to their family members. They wanted to tell me first-hand …
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Mr. Speaker, the best step to take at this point is to have the documents produced, so we can see how deep the corruption goes. We should then have the member who just spoke and his party stop propping up the government and have a carbon tax election so we can get to work on what needs to be done. Then we can deal with the appointments.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what Charter of Rights he thinks is being impeded, but let us go to what he started to ask, which was to tell us about the actions that have already being taken. They froze things. In this instance, SDTC had existed since the early 2000s, and it had run fairly unproblematically until the government took power. It was providing money to companies that provided jobs and gr…
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Madam Speaker, for anyone just tuning in now, I will recap the issue. The Liberals chose a group of well-connected elites to give out money on behalf of the government. Those chosen elites then gave the money to companies they either owned or had a financial interest in. When these acts of blatant corruption were reported to the Liberal minister, Liberals tried to cover it up. Parliament investiga…
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Madam Speaker, I believe the member for Humber River—Black Creek provided the title for this speech: “Corruption, corruption, corruption”. The member for Edmonton Griesbach gave the theme and the reason behind the whole debate, and that is to pay for the consequences of bad actions. I am pleased to rise on behalf of the industrious and innovating residents of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Today we a…
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Madam Speaker, the member said that the SDTC abuse was similar to the revolving door for criminals. We have the end the revolving door act for criminals. What would the member suggest for the solution to the revolving door of this dark green money?
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Madam Speaker, my colleague mentioned ad scam, the sponsorship scandal, and back then they still could not find $40 million after the Gomery inquiry. We had a gentleman who used to stand up every day asking, “Where is the $40 million?” Now there is $400 million missing, that we know of. That was what happened with that $40 million during the last decade of darkness. Now, we have had almost another…
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite was trying to pose a question to the opposition about what he wants us to explain. He will get his chance to ask questions of the government when he is sitting in opposition. The reason we do not have any confidence in Bill C-63 is that the government would be choosing the censors, and the government has failed at everything it has attempted to do. The people have …
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I think the Speaker should ring the bells because we only have a few Liberals here and do not even have 20 members in the whole chamber.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, do we have quorum?
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Madam Speaker, the member who spoke previously mentioned the name of a soon-to-be MP in this chamber. I thought that was against the rules. Could you please clarify that?
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, a bunch of Liberals ran in when I raised my last point of order, and I counted again and there are fewer than 20 members. Some may come in from behind the curtains, but right now we do not have 20.
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With regard to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry being listed on the Bilderberg Meetings website as a participant at the 2024 Bilderberg meeting in Madrid, Spain: (a) did the minister attend the meeting; (b) what was the minister's detailed itinerary while in Spain for the meetings; (c) what were the agenda items at the meeting; (d) did the minister meet with fellow participant Mark…
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With regard to the Climate Action Incentive Payment or the Canada Carbon Rebate, broken down by province or territory and by fiscal year, since the introduction of the carbon tax: (a) how many individual tax filers opted in to receive the rural supplement; and (b) how many individual tax filers were eligible to receive the rural supplement?
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With regard to the construction and planned construction of all ships under the Canadian Surface Combatant procurement project of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, since the program was introduced: (a) for each ship, what percentage of all materials and equipment was initially planned to be of Canadian manufacturing and origin, and what was the percentage at the time of completion; a…
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With regard to Health Canada's (HC) signing of the contract with Pfizer on October 26, 2020, and the subsequent release of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to the Canadian public: (a) was HC aware of a presentation made to the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on October 22, 2020, where Dr. Steve Anderson at the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evalu…
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Madam Speaker, I am not a comrade yet. I know the dental community in Renfrew, Nipissing and especially Pembroke well, and I can tell members that I get nothing but complaints across the valley about this so-called dental program. The Liberals did not plan anything. It is not a plan. They just threw money out there and signed people up. There is not a single dentist in Pembroke signing up to this …
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Madam Speaker, the member mentioned that we sit on the defence committee together. Tomorrow, the Secretary General of NATO, who has served us well for a decade, will be coming to visit. What is truly an embarrassment for all of Canada is that we are not doing what we should to protect North America. The budget is devoid of funding for the protection of our nation. The Prime Minister has no pride o…
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Madam Speaker, the government has been been shovelling money to third party influencers since 2015. It refuses to put any frameworks or limitations on artificial intelligence. We know for sure that during the 2019 and 2021 elections, the Prime Minister knew about foreign interference against the official opposition and did nothing about it. How can the Liberals be trusted? How can we trust them to…
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