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Madam Speaker, the comments and questions from the member opposite are truly one of the greatest pleasures to experience in this House. Alberta beef, and Canadian beef worldwide, is noted for its quality. It is sought out by the world because it is the best beef in the world. However, I think the member misunderstood. I was not talking about the Philippines and the partners that we already have in…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak. Likewise, being an Alberta beef producer, I have some difference in opinion as to where the best beef in the world comes from. This is not an opportunity for a schism in the caucus, but it is a great discussion. Policy matters. That is what I was trying to get at in the gist of my speech, that it is about the people, their life and their attach…
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Madam Speaker, I have come to learn that a very common feature of questions in the House is for members to ask them repeatedly and still not get an answer. I apologize that I do not have a clear opinion. I am just not well versed in the circumstance of the previous reality. It seems reasonable, but I do not know for sure.
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Madam Speaker, today I rise to speak to Bill C-13 and the impacts it would have on cattle producers, especially in my riding of Bow River, but first I want to recognize the storied history and legacy of ranchers in southern Alberta. The beef industry has long been vital to the region. Since the late 1800s and the era of open grazing, the herds of the Circle Ranch, the Bar U and many others have gr…
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Madam Speaker, again, the member opposite knows full well it is fully up to the government and the House leader to convince this side of the aisle that the government has good legislation, or it could accept our amendments and incorporate them into the legislation. It is absolutely a no-brain circumstance, and that may be part of the problem on the other side of the aisle. Amend the legislation. M…
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Madam Speaker, the short answer is that the question answers itself. It is absolutely ridiculous that this is the circumstance seniors find themselves in after more than 10 years of the Liberal government. Thirteen and a half cents is a pittance and an insult to the people who have worked so hard and contributed their whole lives to the building of this country. It is absolutely not acceptable, no…
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Madam Speaker, it is two parts, two questions and too much time. With voting, it is up to the government to convince us how to vote and to bring in the amendments required to make this something that will actually help Canadians. It is up to the government House leader to earn the support across the aisle. As to the first part of the member's question relating to the Premier of Alberta, the grand …
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Mr. Speaker, last week, Liberal members scrambled to explain that their so-called MOU with Alberta was not the approval of a pipeline. It was just more consultations, and the B.C. Liberal caucus rushed to distance themselves from it entirely. The same agreement includes a massive increase in the industrial carbon tax, a hike that will raise the cost of everything for families and businesses alread…
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Madam Speaker, I am very thankful for the opportunity to rise today in the House to speak to Bill C-4, a bill respecting certain affordability measures for Canadians and another measure. I will not be speaking to the other measure, but I will be speaking to the first three. I am splitting my time today with the member for Richmond Centre—Marpole. Let me begin with a simple truth. Some elements of …
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Madam Speaker, taxes on goods make everything go up, and make everything more expensive in life. There is less—
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the hard-working families, farmers and forgotten rural communities of Bow River in southern Alberta to speak against a budget that will make life more expensive for every single Canadian. The government has delivered a spending plan that will drive up the cost of food, drive up the cost of housing, drive up the cost of energy and dig this country deeper and d…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government's gun confiscation scheme has been a failure from the start. Its Cape Breton pilot reportedly collected just 22 guns, yet the government continues to hold back the official results. It is likely because this dismal result is true. Now the Liberals want to roll this broken program out nationally, including in southern Alberta. To make things even worse, the polic…
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Mr. Speaker, I am shocked the member opposite did not state that I was right, like far right, even more right. An adage I have from when I was working in the field in the oil and gas industry is that, as one of the engineering staff, “The engineer is here, and he is here to help” was the biggest fallacy and joke in the system. A more poignant adage is “I am from the government. I am here to help a…
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Mr. Speaker, this is another example of the disconnect between our position and the Liberal position. The self-serving nature, apparently, of the transactions taking place have a very bad perception. The reality is that the Liberals are not going to help the Canadians on the street, day to day. We need to get government out of the way, programs reduced and taxes reduced so that people keep more mo…
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Mr. Speaker, I have been waiting for an opportunity to address this issue in the House for ages. The government's exorbitant price for the Trans Mountain pipeline had a direct correlation to its jeopardizing of the project and its exposure to a suit by the private proponent that was going to build that pipeline for a quarter of the cost, or less, of what the government spent. I do not believe, and…
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Mr. Speaker, as we enter the Christmas season and celebrate the birth of Christ, Canadians are reminded that this is a time not only of celebration and hope, but also of compassion and grace. Across our communities, local food banks and charities are working tirelessly to ensure that no family goes hungry and that every child feels the joy of Christmas. Their work reflects the best of who we are, …
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Mr. Speaker, every time the Prime Minister is wheels up, Canadian bank accounts go down. The Prime Minister has taken 28 trips, travelling far enough to circle Earth almost four times. What do Canadians have to show for it? There are no new trade deals and no concrete wins, just photo ops, fancy meetings and hollow letters of intent that never turn into real results. He met with China: higher tari…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is pushing ahead with a costly and misguided gun grab that ignores the real problem: illegal guns smuggled from the U.S. Instead, it is targeting the most responsible, law-abiding Canadians. In Cape Breton, the mayor says that he was not consulted. The local police union was blindsided, and the project is run by the brother-in-law of the local Liberal MP. Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe the Secretary of State for Sport was using unparliamentary language in describing a member of the House. I would ask him to withdraw it and apologize.
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I would do more. Mr. Speaker, I would keep the Crown accountable. I would keep the bureaucracy accountable. We would keep the system working for the benefit of the people and would ensure fair treatment of refugees and that people fleeing persecution and abuse worldwide have a safe haven in Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, mail is one of the most sacrosanct private communication methods we have in society. There is a presumption of privacy in our mail, and the bar must be exceedingly high to have a judicial review on any attempt or ability of the government to interfere with it or surveil it. I am very concerned. Any weakening of privacy conditions is problematic and prone to abuse.
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Mr. Speaker, I am not a scholar of the Standing Orders. I understand that two items cannot be debated at the same time, but from that perspective, I cannot comment. I would like to thank the member for correcting me on the notion that Conservatives are the only ones who stand for the right thing to do. Every member of the House has the potential to cross the aisle and join the Conservative Party.
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Well, Mr. Speaker, there may be some we would have to be more selective with, just like a very good asylum system.
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Mr. Speaker, the RCMP indeed had a reputation globally of being absolutely top-shelf, but like any institution, it is subject to the potential of management weaknesses—
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question from my esteemed colleague, whom I highly respect. Bill C-12 is going in the right direction. It has merit, but on the reinforcement of accountability measures and the punishment and treatment of people abusing the system who are outright criminals, we need to ensure there is no more bail and that we fully follow through on all of these things. Otherwise, soc…
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Mr. Speaker, there are very good analogies all over government and all over private industry, but we have seen management weakness in previous governments and even in the most recent Parliament. That is what has brought us to this place today. I think all of us could ask for the best performance possible from our institutions globally.
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Mr. Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to speak to Bill C-12 today. Conservatives have forced the Liberals to back down from Bill C-2. That bill would have given the government broad powers to access Canadians' personal information from banks, telecoms and other service providers without a warrant. The Privacy Commissioner confirmed that the Liberals did not consult him before proposing th…
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Mr. Speaker, this is exactly what Canadians are expecting, but they do not trust that the government is going to follow through on accountability and responsibility measures to ensure that is the outcome that will be achieved. We are absolutely in support of stronger mechanisms, stronger controls and better accountability. I hope that a committee will be able to address enforcement and get those i…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really disturbing to see this kind of thing. I hazard to speculate on where the sources might be, but it is very obvious that a lot of agencies and people will benefit from advertising this kind of behaviour and will profit from this kind of behaviour. I would not want to say that this was deliberate, but we need to establish a system that ensures abuse like this does not take p…
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Mr. Speaker, I will not agree with my colleague. We do not believe that the changes would go far enough. Yes, change needs to happen, but the bill would not go far enough.
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Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, I am another Alberta MP here, watching $1 trillion going out of the country. The Prime Minister keeps breaking his promises. He said Canada would be an energy superpower, yet he will not green-light a single pipeline. He promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7, but now we have the fastest-shrinking one. He said he would create jobs, but 86,000 are gone. Enbridge is calling out …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's speech to the House, but I cannot help but be frustrated, and my constituents are frustrated, by the release of criminals back into society. He stated that people who are arrested must be detained if there is a risk of reoffending, yet we see evidence time and time again that they are let go. I visited detachments and police in my riding. They are afra…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister said that Canadians should judge him by the price of groceries. Well, the verdict is in, and the Liberal government is guilty. In Vulcan, the local food bank is overwhelmed. Hampers have doubled year over year. Families are driving at least half an hour just to pick up food, and the food bank is spending thousands on gas cards just so that people can afford the tr…
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Mr. Speaker, I would absolutely agree. The Prime Minister has failed. The Prime Minister is quotable and quoted. It is indelible. He made it absolutely clear how he would be measured by the prices at the till. He failed. Prices are increasing by every measure and in every category across the country. For every demographic and for every person in remote communities and in urban centres, life has co…
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Mr. Speaker, seniors are probably some of the most vulnerable members of the population, especially low-income seniors. That still does not change the fact of the decline of the value of the Canadian dollar due to inflation, the overspending of the government over the last decade and the continued projection to double the deficit and thus increase the printing of money. That is what is further red…
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Mr. Speaker, teaching is a job, but is a drama school job a real job? The current Prime Minister has an elitist attitude and does not buy his own strawberries. It does not change the attack from the across the aisle on food affordability. Canadians are suffering. That is related to inflation, and the inflation, by and large, is from all the policies of the previous decade of Liberal governments. T…
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Mr. Speaker, that is awfully rich coming from those across the aisle. They had a past prime minister with drama school experience and have a current Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time. As we have heard today and repeatedly over the last little while, we know that Canadians are struggling desperately to put food on the table. This past August, food inflation managed to outpace overall inflation by 84%. The average family of four is now spending nearly $17,000 a year just on groceries. That is over $800 more than last year. Abacus Data fou…
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Mr. Speaker, just yesterday, the Liberals voted to keep the Liberal energy production cap in place, a move that kills Canadian jobs and weakens our economy. This is not just bad policy. It is common sense ignored. The Liberals are choking off Canadian energy. The Prime Minister pats Beijing on the back, a regime building two new coal-fired power plants every week. The Parliamentary Budget Officer …
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With regard to the government's policy on pipeline approvals: (a) what is the government's policy, including which specific parties or entities must agree or consent before an approval is given; and (b) how long will it take for the government to approve or reject any new pipeline proposal?
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I am fantastically proud. I love it. Madam Speaker, getting back to the subject, I would say this is a first step. We have seen this game play out before, time and time again. I know it is gas vehicles today, but all internal combustion engine-derived equipment is on the block, and it is just a matter of time.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate your indulgences in a new House with new members who are just learning the ropes. We talked about range anxiety with EVs a lot in the debate, but grid anxiety is something that is emerging. Blackouts all over the world, not just in Alberta and western Canada, are showing that the combination of different input sources to electricity are not balanced, and we have not qui…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for the comments and for taking the time to respond. Actually, I expected that the Liberals would not have copied so much of the Conservative platform. It is all a question of half measures, but we are the party of building, we are the party of cutting taxes and we will not hold up tax cuts. It is a pleasure that the Liberals are supporting the Conservative platfo…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the member opposite's comments because the last time he had a question for me, he acknowledged I was right, so I really thought that was good. In this case, he thinks I am far-right, farther right or more right.
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Miramichi—Grand Lake. I rise today to speak for the people the Liberal government has forgotten or maybe never understood to begin with: the people who make this country run. They are up before the sun, coffee in hand, long before the world starts moving. They drive into town for feed, parts and mail. There is no home delivery here. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, could the member expand on the damage to the road system that the EV mandate might present?
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Mr. Speaker, I think that, without a doubt, the oil and gas industry is probably the most nimble high-value and high-impact industry that can react to an opportunity, yet the lost Liberal decade was the result of the same obstructionist members from the previous 10 years who, by and large, still reside in the front bench across the aisle. They would like us to believe they can conduct a ballet pir…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government looks to the last 10 years on indigenous relations to reinforce its record, but it will not look to the last 10 years for its economic record. Can the member comment on why the highest-impact item, oil and gas, has not been included in the economic plan?
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