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Mr. Speaker, I had the honour to serve on the human resources committee with the member, and she has given a very eloquent speech. I think it is important for all of us to take note of her focus on people and some of the tragic situations that can happen in a heartbeat. We all have constituents who are in precarious situations, so I applaud the member on her tone tonight. I have a quick question. …
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked about supporting capitalism with guardrails. I just really wish this member would support a government that would keep fiscal guardrails. Moving more to a local level, the mayor, Steven Del Duca, former Liberal leader of Ontario, said that development charges are unfair on new homebuyers, something that I agree with. In fact, the City of Penticton, where I was a…
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With regard to the government's Oil to Heat Pump Affordability Program: (a) how many applications for funding have been (i) received, (ii) granted; (b) how many heat pumps have been installed through the program; and (c) what is the breakdown of (a) and (b) by province or territory?
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Madam Speaker, the member is absolutely correct. Government members who have debated today have been totally off topic. The member, in this case, gave a speech about why the SDTC process only helped insiders close to the Liberal government and those who benefited. I have spoken a number of times about how, in my riding, constituents who were ruled ineligible to receive the Canada emergency respons…
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Madam Speaker, the SDTC scandal, at its heart, is about those who have a path to the very heights of government. There are the insiders and the rest of us, and there are two sets of rules. We know that, during the pandemic, the government gave out money through the Canada emergency response benefit. Many individuals in my riding and, I am sure, in the member's riding were found to be ineligible an…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, you have ruled on relevance a number of times today. The parliamentary secretary continues to talk about anything but the privilege motion, and I believe he is being disrespectful to the Chair. I would ask you to rule accordingly.
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Madam Speaker, I will refer to the member as the member for Winnipeg North in future discussions, but I will point out the continued belief that members cannot use sarcasm or satire. How do we know we live in a free country? It is when we can criticize those in power openly and freely. If the Liberals have better ideas than mine, they should use them. The answer to free speech that one disagrees w…
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Madam Speaker, the oracle from Winnipeg talks about an idea that somehow a majority believes this should go to PROC—
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Madam Speaker, it is always a privilege to stand here on behalf of the good people of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola. Before I begin, I would like to remind the House why privilege is important. Privilege goes to the very core of how we as elected officials do our job and hold the government to account. It encompasses both the rights and the immunities that every member of the House requires …
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Madam Speaker, again, the member seems to think everyone shares his reality. I would point out that is not the case. We have different points of view. I enjoy his interventions, but if members on the other side are unhappy with what I have to say, they should respond at the appropriate time with their own counter-arguments.
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Madam Speaker, I would have hoped the NDP member from Quebec, who I believe came in 2011 as the official opposition, would respect that I made specific reference to the duties of the loyal opposition, something his former leader Thomas Mulcair did when he had the opportunity to hold Prime Minister Harper to account. As I said, Prime Minister Harper actually waived client-solicitor privilege when t…
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Madam Speaker, this is the proverbial challenge. The Auditor General, particularly under the current Prime Minister, has publicly asked for more funding to keep in line with the amount of spending that has happened. This is the same Prime Minister who has 40% more public servants and has seen a 200% increase in the use of consultants. For the program spending we have seen, some may think it was ok…
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Madam Speaker, as I have said before, there are some deeply held principles at stake here, and I for one, as a member, want to force the government to admit it was wrong and that it has to follow up with what Parliament has asked of it. As long as members want to get up and continue debate, I support that. This member can talk about the trade-offs, but that is something he should be talking about …
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Madam Speaker, I will say happy birthday as well. The question is completely fair. Canadians sent us here to be their voice and hold the government to account. Anyone who is not in cabinet has a role to play in holding the government to account. That is what we are doing here. I think it is time for members on the Liberal side to do the same. I made a reference to the foundation. If members are si…
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Madam Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to rise on behalf of the good people of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola. I thank the people who have taken the time to write out their concerns to the government in the form of this petition. I think members are no strangers to how the Chinese Communist government in Beijing views religious minorities, whether it be the Uyghur population or Falun Go…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader once declared that Liberals were “too weak, too selfish, and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” However, today, he is singing a different tune, backing a plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. With food bank visits hitting two million in a single month and a quarter of Canadians living in poverty, how many more Canadians need to choose b…
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Mr. Speaker, we cannot make this up. The Liberals are saying a PlayStation 5 is an essential good. With 30% of food banks running out of food, and 35% of Canadians feeling worse off financially, the government's appetite for higher carbon taxes seems to be the only thing that is well fed. Now, is the Prime Minister so desperate to cling to power that he is resorting to tax tricks, sending people p…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are suffering under the NDP-Liberal coalition that has doubled housing costs, doubled the debt, doubled food bank use and doubled gun crime. Food prices in Canada have skyrocketed 36% faster than in the United States due to the Prime Minister's carbon tax on farmers and truckers. Despite promising to stand up to the Prime Minister, the NDP leader and his obedient caucus have…
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Madam Speaker, common-sense Conservatives ask for a recorded division.
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Madam Speaker, I certainly appreciate the member's speech today. I wanted to talk about the ineligible companies that received monies from SDTC despite the Auditor General saying they were not even eligible to receive the monies in the first place. In my riding, there were constituents who either were paid too much CERB or were found to be ineligible, after the fact, for CERB. They had to pay it b…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I greatly regret interrupting the proceedings, but I think that if you look for quorum, you will find that we do not have it. We should take care of that.
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Mr. Speaker, my constituents have told me in no uncertain terms that they want a carbon tax election. There is only one person left who prevents that by keeping this Prime Minister in power, and that person is the leader of the NDP. That is the same leader of the NDP who made a big stunt when he told Canadians he had ripped up his coalition deal with the Liberals. It was a perfectly timed scam on …
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Mr. Speaker, it is an excellent point, because the Auditor General has publicly said that their office has asked for more funding because under the Liberal government, spending has gone up by unbelievable amounts and has effectively doubled our debt. Canadians may not feel that they are getting better results for it, but more money has sloshed through the system through Parliament, and the Auditor…
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Mr. Speaker, in a free and open society, people only make decisions if they know there is certainty. How do we know that when we get out of bed in the morning we are not going to get run over? We trust that the system is going to operate as it should. This is one of the reasons we have representative democracy, where we are not all voting on an app, like perhaps some jurisdictions do. In places li…
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Mr. Speaker, the member's question touches on a number of things. The commitment to a rule of law means it is not up to the judgment of the men and women who are in positions of authority to ultimately decide whether a case is right or it is wrong. That is decided by laws, as they are laid out. In this place, the government serves the House of Commons, and when a majority of the House of Commons a…
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Mr. Speaker, this gives me an opportunity to rail a little bit about the Trudeau Sr.'s use of the charter to essentially Americanize our system and to remove some of the supremacy of Parliament. I do not believe the trust that was given to those members of Parliament at that time was honoured because, essentially, the supremacy of Parliament when it comes to certain elements of law-making is no lo…
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Mr. Speaker, it is truly a privilege to stand here on behalf of the wonderful people of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola. When we talk about privilege, we must remember that our work here representing our constituents is an honour, not an entitlement. Privilege is something that we as parliamentarians have inherited through the centuries to ensure that we can speak and exercise our roles as gra…
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With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the CBSA Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) digital initiative: (a) what are the start and end dates of the cutover period during which there will be no activity related to the processing of accounting for imported goods or processing of refunds of duties and taxes; (b) what are importers supposed to do during this period; (c) what …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the good people of Central Okanagan. I present a petition today in regard to Canadians who are concerned about the Communist government in Beijing and its targeting of the people of the Falun Gong community, specifically for human forced organ harvesting, which is an incredibly disgusting practice. I think that, as Canadians, we would all a…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member of Parliament for Courtenay—Alberni mentioned corporations not operating with Canadians in mind. I raised, in my intervention previously, how the Liberals, through their process, gave funds, through SDTC, to companies that were not eligible to receive it. My constituents who were found to be ineligible for CERB had to pay it back. Does this member believe that they sho…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to tell the member of Parliament for Chilliwack—Hope that the Auditor General actually found that a number of ineligible firms received money from SDTC. That was a big issue. I know that, when people in my riding of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola were found to be ineligible for CERB payments, they had to pay that money back to the CRA. Does the member for Chilliwack—…
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With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency: (a) for the Income Tax Act, what was the total number of notices of objection filed from January 1 until August 31, 2024; (b) of the objections in (a), how many were determined in favour of the tax payer; (c) under the Income Tax Act, what seven sections received the most notices of objection from January 1 to August 31, 2024; (d) for the Excise Tax Act or…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The former minister of immigration and MP for Central Nova has been responsible for the population growth of 200% in the past several years. Worse, he saw international students living in homeless shelters and cramped quarters while ignoring departmental warnings that immigration levels were …
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Mr. Speaker, after another week of a paralyzed Parliament, a $400-million Liberal scandal is proof that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost, crime and corruption. You have ruled that the NDP-Liberal government has violated a House of Commons order to turn over evidence to the RCMP for a criminal investigation into this scandal. The government's refusal to respect your ruling has paral…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, when the member ran to become the leader of the NDP, I do not recall any announcement or Tweet saying that he would not take up residence in Stornoway. I also never saw him do that with his previous leader, Thomas Mulcair, who was at one point looking to be prime minister. Let us dispose of this: The only security clearance a prime minister needs is to become the leader …
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Madam Speaker, someone just said “corrupt”. It could be, but if the Liberals will not come forward to tell otherwise, to show their work and to show the RCMP that they have dealt with the House order, then we are left to wonder. That is on them; it is not on us as members. I know we have had many days of debate on this, and it is unfortunate because there are lots of things we could be debating, l…
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Madam Speaker, you put the right kind of pressure on all of us. I would hope that the member would only rise if there was the occasion of a real point of order. As I said, we have been debating this so long we may have forgotten why we are having this debate. We must not forget we are talking about over 180 conflicts of interest involving $330 million. I know other members have said it is more tha…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know if the member has just been here too long, but he has become cynical. He reminds me of Don Quixote. Don Quixote had all the right intentions, but because he could not perceive reality properly, he strode off at windmills, just to prove the point that he was a knight. Sometimes, the cowboy should go off into the sunset. I would suggest this member from Ontario do that.
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in this space to speak to the issues that are important to the good people of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola. I was speaking with a constituent in the Nicola Valley, who raised an issue with me about how they were starting to feel about the fact that after the next election there will be changes to our riding boundaries; the Nicola Valley will be …
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for North Okanagan—Shuswap for his intervention. As a fellow British Columbian, it is always good to see someone from B.C. in this chamber. The question is simple. The government says that there are charter issues around privacy with giving the RCMP documents that they have withheld from this production order that was voted on and passed by the House of Commons. I…
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Madam Speaker, let us bear in mind the facts. The minister responsible knew about this for 40 months and did not say anything. It was only when this became public that Liberals started taking action. If the government was really serious about taking action and making this whole process accountable, why does it continue to stonewall the chamber on all of its other business because it will not give …
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Madam Speaker, I certainly appreciate the intervention from the member from Quebec. Anyone who says they agree with me in a public is a brave person. I referred earlier to the difference between the public interest and the public trust. I believe this motion is on the public trust, because Parliament has its fundamental role of accountability and the government has its role to be accountable. That…
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Madam Speaker, there will be a lot of discussion about Liberal accountability in the next election. As my colleague said, the problem right now is that the Liberals are not providing the information that is required of them. The government has no respect for Parliament. We need to stand firm on our decision to force this government to be accountable. We will press, not just because the order deman…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, we know that taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. David Eby has flip-flopped on the carbon tax in time for his provincial election. This means that both parties contending for government want to axe the tax before winter. Just as it has with so many provinces, the NDP-Liberal government will simply impose a federal ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I like that the minister dumped on David Eby, but they just do not get how much more expensive everything in British Columbia has become under David Eby and this NDP-Liberal government. Food is up 29%. Transportation is up 23%. Natural gas is up 49%. Gasoline is up 45%. Rented homes are up 23%. Owned homes are up 29%. British Columbians need a change. If it is truly the people's time,…
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division, please.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that my fellow British Columbian came to this place to debate a very serious issue. However, I have to say that, hearing the cartoon talking points coming out of the Liberal Party, it has totally lost all reality. I am just going to address one small sliver here. The Leader of the Canada's Conservative Party has publicly responded to the Supreme Court's decision that so…
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Madam Speaker, the member is making the point that her leader made: It is the people's time. Her leader rips up an agreement and says how terrible the Liberal government was, as she also does here, but when it comes time to put rubber to the road, they stand with the Liberal government and the Liberal Prime Minister. My constituents have asked that we get them off the track the government has put …
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Madam Speaker, I am very happy you have put your foot down on this. It is clear that there is a vexatious use of the Standing Orders here to interrupt what should be a legitimate debate on a non-confidence motion. I hope the Speaker will continue to punish those who are utilizing the opportunity to come to their feet and to use a standing order to cast an allegation against another member. Madam S…
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