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Madam Speaker, we know that, when mandatory minimum penalties are removed, the instances of repeat criminals, not just people who commit one crime and are rehabilitated, increase on our streets. When I talk to law enforcement, they tell me that they are apprehending the same people over and over again. We need tough penalties to get tough on drug dealers who are peddling death in our communities. …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of crime, chaos and disorder, the legacy of the NDP-Liberal government's radical soft-on-crime policies is in tatters. The Prime Minister's hug-a-thug recklessness has caused violent crime to surge, and Canadians were shocked to see a violent armed carjacking on our streets. It is time to put Canadians' safety first. When will the government admit its failure, crack…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is scrapping the iconic Royal Canadian Navy march Heart of Oak, the song of our navy for over 100 years. No one is asking for this change, except the out-of-touch Liberal elites. Meanwhile, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, the Canadian Forces lacks the subs, ships and sailors needed to fulfill its mission. Instead of going woke, the government sho…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for bringing up that question. Technology is absolutely going to be essential in the fight against not only smuggled guns but also stolen vehicles. However, we cannot view technology as a crutch or an entire solution when we have a policy that lets repeat violent offenders or repeat car thieves out on the street in months. Humans are very capable of adapti…
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Madam Speaker, it is quite telling that we have a Liberal member over there who is unhappy that Conservatives want to do more work. That is what we are here to do: We are here to talk about the issues that are important to Canadians. All the issues that the member cited are important to Canadians. However, if the Liberal government set out to implement a series of justice and public safety policie…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the crime or the chaos that they have unleashed on Canada's streets. This study on gun and gang violence was conducted back in 2022, two years ago. In rereading our common-sense Conservative recommendations and conclusions that were made at that committee and in that report, I see that everything we said at the time has come to pass. …
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Madam Speaker, I would just ask members to look at the public accounts from the time. Conservatives were investing in our border. We were supporting our border agencies and giving them the technologies and the support they needed. However, I think it is also somewhat of a simplistic solution to say that we need to hire more people. Of course if there are people who are ready and willing to do the …
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Madam Speaker, on the same point of order, I think you have made the absolute correct ruling in this case, but the fact is that the point of order in your ruling would not have been necessary at all if the member for Timmins—James Bay had not misinformed the House and attributed a false statement to my colleague. I am happy to apologize—
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Mr. Speaker, now that the Prime Minister's minister in charge of Jasper's recovery has resigned under a cloud of suspicion, who is going to oversee the rebuilding of this beautiful community? Will it be the radical environment minister, who ignored warnings for years from forestry experts that the dead forest around Jasper was a powder keg waiting to blow? Will the Prime Minister assure Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, what do five Range Rovers, two Porsche Cayennes, a post office box co-owned by a suspected drug trafficker, a warehouse full of medical supplies destroyed by arson, millions of dollars in fraud and a company falsely claiming to be indigenous all have in common? The Liberal member for Edmonton Centre. The Prime Minister continues to stand by his MP. He sees nothing wrong with these sca…
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Madam Speaker, I have to admit that I am somewhat confused because I am never sure which New Democratic Party I am going to see in the House today. When my colleague from Edmonton West was speaking, there were members of the NDP standing up and holding the government to account. When I get up to speak, there are members of the NDP looking like they want to join the Liberal Party and parroting its …
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Madam Speaker, I would just like to give a round of applause to my colleague, the member for Edmonton West Edmonton Mall, as he often says, for an excellent speech. I am thankful to participate in this debate because this is what Parliament is all about. It is about debating these very important issues. I am very proud to come here, not only as a representative of Sturgeon River—Parkland but also …
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to push back against the member's assertion. I think members can check the record. I have raised issues numerous times on behalf of my constituents, including my indigenous constituents, related to the Enoch Cree Nation. It has made multiple attempts to access rural broadband funding, housing funding and waste-water funding from the federal government, o…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister keeps explaining himself, but the answers are not coming. The minister is facing multiple scandals. We know that his company has been charged with fraud. We know that he was illegally involved while he served in cabinet. We know that the minister for years claimed he had indigenous heritage, and we now know that is a complete fabrication. Today, we learned that the minist…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, it is clear that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost or the corruption. Now we have a Minister of Employment who says he sees nothing, he hears nothing and he knows nothing, but there is too much here to pass up. First he claimed he was not the other Randy implicated in his business partner's text messages. We now know that he was. Then he claimed that h…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great parliamentarian. Sadly, John Glass Williams passed away in July. A 15-year veteran of the House of Commons, John served the people of St. Albert with class and distinction. Born in Scotland, John immigrated to Canada as a young man to continue a career in finance, working for the Royal Bank before starting his own accounting business. In 1993, he…
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Madam Speaker, as I said in my speech, the rights of Parliament have been violated. That is not just my opinion. That is the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons, somebody who was elected by a vote of all the people in this place. He has ruled that the government violated the rights of Parliament by refusing to hand over documents in a fully unredacted form, as Parliament requested, rela…
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Madam Speaker, I am always pleased to rise in the House on behalf of the great people of Sturgeon River—Parkland to talk about their priorities in Parliament. After nine years, the evidence is clear that the NDP-Liberal government has proven too costly in terms of crime, taxes, corruption and just plain incompetence. I am proud to rise in the House once again to hold the Liberal government to acco…
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Madam Speaker, I go out and talk to my constituents. I had a senior couple reach out to my office. During the pandemic, the government told everyone to take CERB money, saying, “Just take the money. We will deal with the issues afterwards.” This senior couple did not really know what they were doing, but they took the money. Once the government decided to claw that money back because it was not ap…
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Madam Speaker, when I door-knock in my riding, people say to me, “Just get rid of the Prime Minister. We need to get rid of the Liberal government.” That is what they want, and that is what Canadians across this country are saying. They are sick and tired of nine years of Liberal costs, Liberal carbon taxes and Liberal corruption, and they want a carbon tax election. They want a confidence vote. W…
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Madam Speaker, it is mighty generous of the member to ask me for one. I could name several. The GDP per capita in this country has been collapsing under the Liberal government. It sounds as if the Liberals are saying that Canadians have never had it so good. I said in my speech that two million Canadians are going to the food bank. If that is not an economic indicator, I do not know what is. There…
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Madam Speaker, this issue is not relegated to just one part of our country. We are seeing this issue across the country. As we go into Remembrance Day next week, it is very relevant to talk about veterans' food banks. There are veterans' food banks in this country that are seeing a massive increase in the number of veterans who are reporting homelessness and food insecurity. The way the Liberal go…
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Madam Speaker, I will tell you what is not okay. The Salvation Army released yet another devastating report on rising food costs. The Liberals' tax and spend policies are driving up costs for farmers who grow the food, for truckers who ship the food and sadly, for families who eat the food. With malnutrition on the rise and scurvy making a comeback, it is no wonder that Canadians are dissatisfied …
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals' cap on Canada's prosperity is a threat to the livelihood of all Canadians. All Canadians benefit from the support of our oil and gas sector, in terms of jobs, investment, royalties, taxes and, perhaps most importantly, our dollar. This production cap will mean fewer jobs, less investment, less taxes to fund hospitals and schools and higher inflation on everything, as o…
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Madam Speaker, speaking of misinformation from this Liberal, the Environment Commissioner confirmed that the Liberal government is not on track to meet its own emissions reduction targets. Canadians are paying the cost of the Liberal government's carbon tax, and it is all pain and no gain. Under the Conservatives, Canada's economy grew and emissions actually went down, but under the Liberals, Cana…
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Madam Speaker, the Canada we knew nine years ago seems so far away. It was a Canada where we did not have widespread foreign interference in our elections. In the 2021 election, my colleague Kenny Chiu, a Conservative who lost his seat in this place, faced significant foreign interference that was not dealt with by the Prime Minister and the government. They allowed it to happen because they benef…
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Madam Speaker, it is not going to take me much of a minute to outline what Canadians already know, which is that the government is too costly and too corrupt to be trusted to continue governing this country. We need a carbon tax election. We need an election to deal with the government's corruption and waste. The Liberal government is undermining our democracy. Throughout this scandal, the Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, indigenous people are outraged that government contracts meant for indigenous businesses are being scooped up by shady companies with no indigenous connection. Today we learned that the Minister of Employment's fraud-ridden company, Global Health Imports, claimed to be indigenous in order to try to secure millions in lucrative government contracts. This all happened while the Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to table a petition from Canadians who have expressed very serious concerns about serious proposals to expand the medical assistance in dying regime in Canada to infants under the age of one. They are very concerned about recommendations relating to the expansion of MAID for infants with severe deformities or a very serious syndrome. The proposal is very concernin…
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Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to rise to table a petition from Canadians who are concerned about the practice of forced organ harvesting that has been taking place in China. Members of the Falun Gong community have been disproportionately targeted by the government for forced organ harvesting. Petitioners are calling on the Canadian Parliament to pass a resolution to establish measures to stop th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government's record on violent crime is abysmal. The situation has become so bad that police officials across the country are fact-checking the Prime Minister's fake news. The Peel chief of police said, “Approximately 90 per cent of (the) firearms that we seize are directly traced back to the U.S. And I can say in reality the remaining 10 per cent are likely also from the …
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Mr. Speaker, whistle-blowers are an essential part of democracy. Any time we have whistle-blowers who know something is going wrong in their department, there are always appropriate channels. Maybe going to the media is not the first thing they do, but in these cases, I am sure that these people have exhausted all the possible avenues that they have to try to get things right within their organiza…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think the member from the Bloc Québécois was listening to my speech because I dealt with that issue head on. In 2011, when the government of the day refused to hand over documents, there was a privilege debate in the House of Commons. An election was called, and we went to the people for a mandate. What did the people do? They gave the government a majority mandate. Ultimatel…
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Mr. Speaker, if we study economics, we study incentives. There are good incentives and bad incentives. Unfortunately, at the time the ethics rules were put in place, it was thought that they would not have to be used very often. Members of Parliament would not want to be named and shamed or to be on the wrong side of ethics rules. Therefore, we have smaller fines. However, after nine years of the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to speak in the House on behalf of my constituents of Sturgeon River—Parkland. I want to wish every member of the House and the Canadian people a very happy Saint Crispin's day. I am going to start with a small excerpt from a speech in Shakespeare's Henry V, in which the King, before the Battle of Agincourt, said: By Jove, I am not covetous for gold.... But if it be …
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Mr. Speaker, nobody in this party is afraid to test the Canadian people in the next election. Nobody in this party is afraid to stand up for what we have been talking about or to fight for what the Canadian people have been desperately wanting, to fight against the corruption of the Liberal government. We are not afraid to keep asking questions and to get down to the truth. We are not afraid to st…
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Mr. Speaker, I always appreciate being buttered up before giving a response. I am glad the member asked this question. The Leader of the Opposition would be happy to take a briefing. He would be happy to take the same kind of briefing that The Washington Post received from the government. It appears the government selectively gives briefings to whoever it thinks can benefit it the most politically…
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Mr. Speaker, we do not know if he has been vetted.
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Mr. Speaker, I think what the member just illustrated is what has happened over these nine years under the NDP-Liberal government. Taxes are up, costs are up and violent crime continues to go up. The Liberals' gun ban does nothing to stop violent crime on our streets. In fact, violent gun crime is up 116% across Canada since the Liberal government took power. The Vancouver police association agree…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government and the Liberal minister, RCMP recruitment is at all-time lows. They should be the ones looking in the mirror. The Liberals' record on violent crime and car theft is abysmal. The Insurance Bureau of Canada published a report showing that car theft claims are up 138% since the Liberal government took power. Whenever the Liberals get up to brag about their a…
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Mr. Speaker, the member raises a really good question. The Liberals talk in the House about how the Leader of the Opposition needs to get a security clearance, yet we have a Prime Minister who has access to this classified information and has done absolutely nothing. In fact, in one case, a member of his caucus left caucus of his own volition, and the Liberals were looking forward to him returning…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Employment denied being Randy. He claimed that he had no business dealings with his fraud-ridden business partner. He said that he never even spoke to him in Vancouver while he was at the cabinet retreat. He said it was impossible. However, after handing over his phone to the Ethics Commissioner, he finally admitted that he did text and call his business partner while …
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Mr. Speaker, who is Randy? It is a question that has gripped the nation, and we have yet to receive a truthful answer. Text messages reveal that the Minister of Employment's fraud-ridden business partner was working with Randy to shake down a medical supply company. The text shows that Randy was in Vancouver the same day as the Minister of Employment was there attending a cabinet retreat. The mini…
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Madam Speaker, I know that some members of the House who were here in 2004 will remember my former mentor and predecessor, member of Parliament John Williams. He was the chair of the public accounts committee during the ad scam scandal. I know everyone will be very sad to hear that, sadly, John passed away this past summer. However, in our many meetings together, John always told me that one of th…
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Madam Speaker, I would say that the Liberal government has a responsibility to tell Canadians the truth. The minister, only after turning over his phone to the Ethics Commissioner and only after months of relentless pressure, finally admitted that he did indeed talk to his business partner, which is something he is not allowed to do under law. The minister admits that they discussed business. This…
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Madam Speaker, the member dodged the question the first two times, so let us give him a third time. The Minister of Employment and his business partner, Stephen Anderson, have refused to co-operate with an investigation into their fraud-ridden company. For months, this minister claimed that he had no communication, that he was not the one referenced in the text, and that he had nothing to do with …
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Mr. Speaker, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Minister of Environment says he is proud of his preparations for the catastrophic Jasper wildfire, but one-third of Jasper was destroyed, there are $1 billion in damages and 2,000 people are homeless. This is not something to be proud of, yet this is the record of failure that the NDP supports. Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper a…
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Madam Speaker, the government may claim it cares about Canadians, but Canadians across this country have told us loud and clear that they do not care for the Liberal government. If it cannot even win seats in downtown Toronto and downtown Montreal, how much longer can the Liberals hold on? Canadians did not give them a mandate for exploding food prices. They did not give them a mandate for doublin…
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Mr. Speaker, I would just ask, perhaps, if the member could bring the debate back to what we are discussing about chronic homelessness, which is a serious issue. I was not aware that we were back to debating the military justice system—
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Madam Speaker, just a few short weeks ago, the NDP leader, in a desperate attempt to stave off an imminent Conservative victory in a once-safe seat, told Canadians that he would no longer support the Liberal government. Fast-forward two weeks and the great magician has performed a reappearing act, resurrecting his coalition with the Liberals. Canadians did not give the NDP-Liberal government a man…
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