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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from the Bloc raising that because our part of eastern Ontario has the Cornwall port of entry. We have one of the most complex borders and complex logistics to go with that. We have the community of Akwesasne in Ontario and Quebec, and in both Canada and the United States. The member is absolutely correct to highlight the challenge and the frustration with pa…
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Mr. Speaker, when we go through the whole of part 4, which I was alluding to, under no clause does it make reference to a warrant. That is part of the issue we have with this piece of legislation. This is where we are going again. There have been so many times in my nearly six years here in the House when the Liberals have said, “ Just trust us.” This is what we mean. I do not trust them and Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to be back in the House of Commons. Just like with our back to school week, we call it “getting back into routine”. I want to take this opportunity, this being my first chance to be on my feet here on the floor, to speak on more of a sad note, which is to report and acknowledge in the House the passing of my predecessor, who served as the member of Parliament for Storm…
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With regard to restitution agreements related to overbilling or fraudulent billing practices in government contracts, as mentioned during the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on November 6, 2024: (a) since January 1, 2022, what is the total number of restitution agreements that have been reached with suppliers or subcontractors; (b) what is the total dollar amount involved …
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Mr. Speaker, this being my first opportunity to be on my feet for an extended time, I just want to take the opportunity to thank the great people of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry for giving me the honour of coming back to the House of Commons for a third time. I am extremely proud to serve as their federal member of Parliament. I want to welcome the residents of North Glengarry, who are new to th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have finally agreed with many others whom they attacked and degraded for so many years, and are saying that the immigration levels and targets they set were way too high. People came into Canada, and many became Canadians, but we did not have sustainable measures. We made a promise, Liberal and Conservative governments for generations, decades, that if a person immigrated…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the absolute opposite. I would reference the court ruling and the legislation we introduced here, and passed, to meet what was required, which does provide the opportunity for a substantial connection test. What we are saying is that 1,000 non-consecutive days is not acceptable. However, the government has the right to put that section in the legislation. There are parts of the …
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Mr. Speaker, not knowing their numbers, not knowing their facts, not having a plan is the definition of insanity after 10 years of the Liberal government. This is what the Liberals do. They do not plan properly, do the accounting or do the math. We just get continued chaos and disorder, as we see in our current immigration system. I will tell members that the number one group of Canadians that I h…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has been here for several years. I have to chuckle because he is saying the Prime Minister said we need sustainable immigration levels. That is acknowledging the Liberals have not had sustainable immigration levels for many years. That is the record they are going on. This is not a new government; it is a continuation of the same government. We have seen the Liberals break …
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Mr. Speaker, under the current law, I believe that, yes, that is the way it would be. However, the challenge in the legislation is that multiple generations, the children of children who live in another country, may not have that same connection, which comes back to the substantial connection test. This could go on for multiple generations. Eventually, there would be people applying for citizenshi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is trust. This is not the first version of the bill that we have seen. We had Bill C-71 in the last Parliament. We also had Bill S-245, a Conservative Senate private member's bill go through, which was gutted and hijacked by the Liberals and the NDP. I will use the example of the criminal background check's being a requirement. We have advocated for that multiple times, but we have…
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Mr. Speaker, today's Auditor General reports show the true extent of Liberal incompetence and waste. Taxpayers are on the hook for $14 billion in F-35 fighter jet overruns, the arrive scam report confirms that a two-person firm received $64 million in contracts for little to no work, and zero dollars have been returned to the taxpayer. What does the Prime Minister do? He promotes the very minister…
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Madam Speaker, the latest job numbers are out, and they are bad. Unemployment is up 7%. It increased to 14% from just one year ago and is the highest it has been in a decade, outside of COVID. There has been virtually no growth in employment in 2025. One in every five students is unemployed and looking for work. Stats Canada itself confirmed just how bad things have gotten in our economy: “People …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control hours before delivering a fiscal update. The finance minister resigned, joining one-fifth of the Liberal caucus and saying she does not have confidence in the Prime Minister either. There is only one person left keeping the Prime Minister in power, and that is the leader of the NDP. The fall budget is scheduled to be tabled in 54 minutes, and we do …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control of spending and his cabinet. Next week's fall update is teeing up to be yet another dramatic disaster because, at this point, we are not even sure who the finance minister is going to be by Monday. The Globe and Mail reports that tensions between the Prime Minister and the finance minister have never been worse and are getting more intense by the da…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians now know that all of the NDP's tough talk is worthless. Yesterday the New Democrats voted against a non-confidence motion in the Liberals that used the NDP leader's very own words against him. It meant nothing when he said he had ripped up his coalition deal with the Prime Minister. It meant nothing when he said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to co…
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The king of gaslighting just called people gaslighters a second—
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Madam Speaker, they are doing it now. We can see the irony of that. If they could let somebody finish their sentence, we could go on. I will make the point again that where they are doing—
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Madam Speaker, we stand in solidarity with the victims and their families as always, each and every year. The New Democrats, though, have to answer for what is going on with the NDP motion, because they will not back up their own words, what they have said in recent months. It was the NDP leader who said, “The Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for …
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Madam Speaker, I would encourage the Speaker to start ruling members out of order when somebody gets 10 seconds into a question and members do not like the preamble. The part that matters in question period is the actual question that comes at the end. Whenever they start yelling and going off at 10 seconds in, that is not fair to the members asking questions. Lastly, I will point to the irony of …
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Madam Speaker, it is a great title to be the member of Parliament for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, one I have held proudly. As a person who asked two questions today in the disruption that you were trying to deal with, I just want to add exactly what some other colleagues have said, for consideration going forward. It gets disruptive when somebody does what the NDP did today with the two quest…
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Madam Speaker, the New Democrats will once again sell out Canadians, on Monday, by refusing to stand by their own words. Here is the deal: The NDP leader gets his pension, the Prime Minister gets the power, and Canadians get the bill. Those bills are ever-increasing, when we look at the carbon tax that is going to be going up again on April 1, 2025, on the Liberals' way to quadrupling it. “Canada'…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour—
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Mr. Speaker, that is right in the motion. The NDP is calling out the Liberal failure and the Liberal Minister of Labour for what he has done when it comes to not respecting the right of union workers to strike. It is that minister and those members of the Liberal government who have answered the question that took away union workers' right to collective bargaining. They talk a big game and their a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour, and it is a tough act to follow the Leader of the Opposition, Canada's next prime minister. I am sorry for the noise on this side of the House, but we are fired up for a carbon tax election, which the NDP has the opportunity to allow for today. We are going to, on the floor here now, debate to call the NDP out. The leader of the NDP is so mad that he has had en…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to welcome that new member to the chamber. I remember that during that by-election campaign the hon. member, alongside her leader, said they no longer supported the carbon tax. What are we doing to support workers in this country? We are going to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. Union workers and other workers in this country are using food banks…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's reminder to Canadians about the question that the NDP is going to be voting on. We are putting their own words to a vote. I did not make anything up. I am not even putting my words in there. Those are not even Conservative words in this opposition day motion. We are being non-partisan and letting the NDP finally let that stress relief out. If they have ripp…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc-Liberal coalition with the NDP is alive and well. The member is saying the House has been paralyzed, but the Liberals are holding back on the $400-million green slush fund documents that should go to the RCMP. If Bloc members tried to negotiate with the Liberals and got nowhere, it is their credibility that is shot, no one else's.
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Mr. Speaker, despite 25% tariffs threatening to kill Canadian jobs and crush the economy, the Liberals have created border disorder between Canada and the United States. Yesterday the Minister of Public Safety said that bolstering the power of CBSA to secure our borders is “not a priority.” After nine years, the hands-off approach is no surprise. There are half a million people here in Canada ille…
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Mr. Speaker, here is further proof of the Liberals' border disorder: Today at committee, the Minister of Public Safety was asked whether more CBSA officers will be deployed on our border. The minister does not know. Will CBSA officers be authorized to patrol between border crossings? The minister does not know. Will RCMP officers be redeployed to patrol the border? The minister does not know. The …
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Mr. Speaker, we have millions of dollars in fraud, the other Randy still in hiding, numerous lawsuits, business addresses connected to cocaine trafficking and people being held in contempt of Parliament. What a few weeks it has been for the disgraced former minister from Edmonton Centre. After he arrogantly lectured other members in the House about their morals and integrity when it comes to their…
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Mr. Speaker, they are still defending the member for Edmonton Centre. How unethical does someone have to be to get the boot out of the Liberal Party of Canada these days? It is crazy. He says he is indigenous. He is not. He says he is not the other Randy working at his company. He is. His company is not supposed to get contracts from the government. It did. Now his business is under multiple crimi…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to serve in the House of Commons and have done so for the last five years. The thing we know and Canadians know is that Parliament reigns supreme. When Parliament speaks, it has the right to order persons and papers. In this case, it is the production of documents. We have the right and have exercised that right. Multiple parties have voted in favour of doing it. The S…
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Madam Speaker, the Kool-Aid over there must taste really good to the member, holy mackerel. Again I will put right here before the House the words of the Speaker with respect to the order and what Parliament has said. The Speaker himself said that the government clearly did not fully comply with the House order. It did not honour it. Here is the thing. I sit on the procedure and House affairs comm…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to rise, as always, on behalf of the good people of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in my part of eastern Ontario. Here we are, nearing the two-month mark of the Liberals' refusal to adhere to what they told Canadians when they came in nine long years ago: that they were going to be sunny ways. The number one line I remember them saying was “open by default”. They were…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians can trust Conservative members of Parliament to hold the Liberals to account and make sure the RCMP has every single document that it should have, unredacted, for a full investigation. That is completely reasonable because Canadians do not trust the current government. They do not trust the Liberals anymore. I will read from an editorial in The Globe and Mail. We talked ab…
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Madam Speaker, I could not agree with my colleague more. I was at the meeting today when the law clerk did confirm exactly that, which is that what the government House leader told the CBC and media yesterday was absolutely inaccurate. Members do not need to take my word for it or my colleague's word for it. They can take the words of the Speaker himself. They can think what they want of the Speak…
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Madam Speaker, I think the New Democrats need to take a little more time door-knocking and listening to Canadians. Trust me; I have spent a lot of time this year in many parts of the province of Ontario alone, and I do not know where the New Democrats get the idea that they should have been propping the Liberals up for the last number of years and delaying what Canadians want, which is a carbon ta…
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Mr. Speaker, we learned last week at the House and procedural affairs committee that the NDP was given special secret briefings by the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office, which have said, in fact for months now, that Bill C-65 was an important part of the changes to the Election Act. The reason it was important was that, to the member's point, there are dozens of NDP and Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, with bluster and confidence the member asks his ironic questions on this side of the House's abusing power. It is the government that is shuttering the RCMP from having full and unredacted access to documents on a $400-million green slush fund corruption scandal, and the government has been stonewalling for over a month on being able just to produce the documents. If that is not abusi…
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Mr. Speaker, the House of Commons has the right to request the documents, as it did, and it has the right to have them. That is what the Speaker said. We are not interested in pushing this over for a committee to go somewhere to study it. The Liberals are trying to divert and distract from the issue. They should just provide the documents. To the matter at hand regarding security clearance, the Le…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals need to come clear. If the member is so interested in getting back to work and getting back to government business, the Liberals should provide all the documents as the House of Commons explicitly stated and as the Speaker said was appropriate and must be done. If the member is so anxious to get back to work, maybe he could raise that at the next Liberal caucus meeting. I…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your intervention to bring some order during my speech here. However, the interventions and the heckling do not bother me; they reinforce just how tired and out of gas the Liberals are. The Liberals changed the date for the election, which is absolutely ridiculous. They changed it to secure power in the votes of the NDP to keep them in office and avoid having to go to an …
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Mr. Speaker, a great way to resolve the impasse would be for Canadians weigh in on an election right now, but that is why there is an absolute, steadfast, stubborn refusal of the Liberals and the NDP to do that. There is an eerie resemblance to the last nine years in what we have seen right here: a lack of transparency, a lack of respect for Canadians and an unwillingness for the democratic proces…
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise again in the House. It has been over a month that the House of Commons has been paralyzed. The Liberals are not able to advance a single piece of legislation in the House; quite frankly, I am not complaining about that part, after the last nine years and a lot of things they have done. The number one question that remains in my mind as I begin my comments today is t…
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With regard to travel expenditures incurred by the government, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity: what were the total travel expenditures, broken down by object code and type of travel (i.e. 0251 Public servant travel - OperationaI activities, 0264 Non-public servant travel - Training, etc.) incurred during the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24, fiscal year?
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Mr. Speaker, the interesting part is that the member for Kingston and the Islands is saying that I am protecting my pension. I am not here for my pension; I am here for Canadians. I do not want to back the election up by a week. I want to call the election now—
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague for raising today's news, which I heard probably about an hour ago, of Murray Sinclair's passing. He was a wonderful Canadian and gentleman who served in the Senate for a couple of years and played instrumental roles in the efforts of our country when it comes to reconciliation and advancing the awareness of the challenges facing indigenous Canadians in this …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, they are not worth the cost of their failed housing programs that have only doubled the cost of rent, mortgages and down payments. Housing starts have dropped across the country and the Liberals' own forecast says they are only going to get worse in the years to come. That is why our bold, common-sense Conservative plan to axe the GST on new homes…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, time is up for the Prime Minister's endless chaos and failures. Let us use his own words on immigration from last year to prove it: “as our government is raising immigration levels to the highest levels they've ever been...people are like, ‘Well, we already are facing challenges in housing. Where are we going to house these 500,000 people a year?’…
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