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Mr. Speaker, I am proud of who I am and proud of my integrity. The minister cannot even name the other Randy, so I am not going to take any lectures from him. Here is what the Prime Minister said just last year about the immigration system: “There are a lot of pressures on our system. Increasing the immigration levels, interestingly, will take some of the pressure off of the system”. The Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, even Liberal MPs now acknowledge that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption and, now, the chaos. Instead of trying to fix their mess of doubling housing costs or the record number of food bank visits, Liberal MPs are in full panic mode trying to save their own jobs. After 24 Liberal MPs told the Prime Minister yesterd…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday's report from Stats Canada was nothing to celebrate. It confirmed that income inequality after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government has never been higher. The gap increased by 50% between the richest and poorest Canadians, the highest it has ever been on record. It has been nine years since the Prime Minister first promised to help the middle class and those working hard…
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Mr. Speaker, what is happening in this country is nothing to celebrate. For the first time in this country, there are two million visits to food banks per month. That is 24 million visits, which is record-shattering in this country. We have thousands of encampments that have popped up in every part of the country. There are children struggling to get meals. One in four are skipping meals because o…
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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 on the Prime Minister's costly carbon tax. Yesterday, once again, the Parliamentary Budget Officer reaffirmed that Canadians are out when it comes to the tax. If we add up the two carbon taxes, and of course the tax is taxed again with the GST, it will cost households anywhere between $900 and…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the life of a remarkable community leader, Monsignor Kevin Maloney, who, after 52 years as an ordained priest, left us last month. Father Kevin, as he was best known, dedicated his life to serving with compassion and kindness, touching the hearts of countless people in Cornwall and SDG. His contributions to the Catholic Church and to our entire community were immeasur…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the official opposition for an important part of the day that all of us look forward to on Thursday afternoon, and that is the Thursday question. I think many Canadians are watching this. It has been two weeks today since the Speaker's ruling that the Liberal government has been found in contempt of Parliament for refusing to turn over all document…
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Madam Speaker, Tip O'Neill, a couple of decades ago, said that “all politics is local”, and the debate we are having here in the chamber today certainly echoes that. The Bloc has brought forward a committee report that was done a year and a half ago regarding continued concerns about the Liberal government's inaction when it comes to shoreline erosion, in this case particularly along the St. Lawre…
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Madam Speaker, I am about 15 seconds into my speech talking about a $400-million corruption scandal, and the New Democrats are bursting out laughing already. This is—
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Madam Speaker, the NDP and the Liberals, in addition to their laughing, mocking and heckling again 10 seconds into my speech, are desperate to break up the Conservatives' ability to stand and remind Canadians that here we are—
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals refusing to provide the RCMP with full access to the documents on their $400-million green slush fund is funny to the New Democrats and the Liberals. They are laughing and mocking it, a further slap in the face to Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, here is the interesting thing about the member for Timmins—James Bay—
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Madam Speaker, I will conclude the speech that I was literally 15 seconds into before several Liberal and NDP MPs started laughing, heckling and mocking the very serious subject for which we are here. To go back, in the points of order by the member for Timmins—James Bay, he notes his constituents. I find it very interesting that after many years of service, he became so out of touch with his cons…
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Madam Speaker, I will try again to stand here in the House and make my contribution to the privilege motion today regarding the government's $400-million corruption scandal. More importantly, the government is so obsessed with denying the RCMP access to all the documents in this major corruption scandal that it is allowing the House to be paralyzed and seized with this issue because it will not pr…
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Madam Speaker, as you have said, after you realized and looked at the comments, and we can clarify with the Table, I did not say anything that was out of order. Again, from a disruption point of view—
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Madam Speaker, I think what would be kind of ironic in all of that, as I stood here in the House to speak about this issue, it is not a point of order, it is on the debate itself, in 15 seconds—
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Madam Speaker, I am proud to rise on behalf of the people of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry as a Conservative member to speak to the paralysis in which we have found ourselves in the House of Commons over the course of the last week.
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Madam Speaker, I had to check the seating chart to make sure it was a member of the NDP criticizing anybody else after they voted confidence in this out-of-touch and tired government after nine years. The $400 million under investigation, they voted for it.
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Madam Speaker, I wish the Liberal member had the same furor and upset that she has about the use of the word “corruption” about having the government provide the RCMP with all of the information and all the documents that this democratically elected House has ordered it to provide. In the past few days, millions of Canadians have watched the continued stonewalling and blocking by the Liberals. The…
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Madam Speaker, the member can defend and say that, at SNC-Lavalin, there was nothing to see. The RCMP made it very clear that its investigation closed and that it did not have access to everything that it wanted to see to do a full-scale investigation of that issue. That is the bottom line, and that is what happened. Here we are again in a massive corruption and spending scandal where the Liberals…
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Madam Speaker, I love debating with the member. Some days it is really easy. He is now saying that, on this side of the House, because we want to expose corruption and make sure that law enforcement in this country has full access to investigate criminal wrongdoings, which in this case is the $400 million of taxpayer money that was given in conflict of interest cases, how dare the Conservatives do…
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Madam Speaker, they yell and heckle in an attempt to distract here. We are talking about this case and the RCMP having full access to documents on a scandal of the magnitude of $400 million. Here is the thing the NDP says, and again, it is so typical. Over the course of the last couple of years, we have found out about this through committee work. This issue has already been discussed, and it is t…
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Madam Speaker, there was $40 million in the sponsorship scandal, and there is $400 million in their latest scandal. Inflation has been pretty bad, but I would argue that that is pretty excessive. It is ten times the size it was for the sponsorship scandal. We can think of the outrage that Canadians had when that money went missing, and fast-forward to the next Liberal government, we now have $400 …
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Mr. Speaker, as the NDP member wants to give analogies and sayings, I note that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. What is the NDP doing? It is outrage about all the things that Canadians need. Under the Conservative government, people could afford food. People could afford rent and mortgages. Two million people per month were no…
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Mr. Speaker, we have already answered that question very clearly. We voted for this legislation to proceed. My colleague just before me outlined that several times. In addition, we talked about the amendments that the Liberals and NDP defeated, amendments to provide more clarity about what the benefits and eligibility were. They passed on that. There was also an amendment to ensure that clawbacks …
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Mr. Speaker, I have been known, particularly over the course of the last couple of years, to be pretty tough on the NDP, which is well-deserved and something I have done rightfully so, frankly. For the last number of years, Canadians have had to watch in the House of Commons actions by the NDP, actions like we are seeing this morning with a debate it has brought forward to express its outrage and …
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Mr. Speaker, I always have a difficult time when I have to debate in the chamber with Bloc Québécois members because they do not make sense. Here is a separatist party that wants decentralized power from Ottawa, and it is voting and constantly advocating for more money, more taxes and more control by the national government. It is hard to debate them when they are constantly changing their core pr…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up for the endless corruption and stonewalling. The Liberals are so desperate now that they have ground the House to a halt all because they refuse to turn over all documents to the RCMP to fully investigate their latest scandal involving Liberal insiders. Let us be clear about the magnitude of this …
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Mr. Speaker, the issue of disinformation and misinformation is a major issue in this country. It was on the floor of the House of Commons last week that the member for Kingston and the Islands was called out for spreading misinformation and disinformation. He was forced to apologize and has been quite quiet since then. The Liberals have a lot to own up to, right in their own caucus, on misinformat…
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Mr. Speaker, on that specific provision, there is a right for freedom of religion in our country. With respect to exemptions on that, what is important here is enforcement if there is a problem. If hate is generated online, or cases or acts of that, it could be explicitly clear on our existing legislation. We talk about modernizations and what we do. It is going after AI, deepfakes and many emergi…
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Mr. Speaker, let us be very clear about the justice minister's record and the record of the Liberals and NDP. The number of victims have skyrocketed under their watch. When he is talking to law enforcement officers who say they are overwhelmed and need more tools, it is because of the decisions the Liberals have made to be soft on crime, to have a revolving catch-and-release bail system. Being sof…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in our part of eastern Ontario. In this case it is to contribute to the debate going on today on Bill C-63, known to many Canadians, through the media or the debate on the bill, as the online harms bill. I want to take the time I have today to lay out a case to Canadians that I think is getting c…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill just gave an eloquent example and summary. Let us just think about this by context. The Minister of Justice and the Liberal government spent four years, using the bureaucracy of hundreds of folks here in Ottawa, to do consultations. The member for Calgary Nose Hill, a small but mighty common-sense Conservative caucus and her team have tabled more su…
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Mr. Speaker, what is nonsense is the member opposite still having any sort of pride in his record after nine years. Nonsense is when Stats Canada says that after all the legislation, all the things the Liberals have done in nine years, violent crime is up 50%, homicides are up 28%, sexual assaults are up 75%, and the amount of hate and the number of threats in cases have absolutely skyrocketed. Th…
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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. Here is how bad the carbon tax has driven up inflation in food costs in Toronto: Daily Bread Food Bank says its monthly usage has gone from 60,000 people to 350,000 people per month. That is a 480% increase. Pre-COVID, the food bank spent $1.5 million per year on food. Today, it spends $29 mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals will make us think we have never had it so good, despite millions of Canadians having to line up at a food bank every month. We just do not know how many more facts the Liberals need to see about how damaging the carbon tax really is. The trucking industry says it adds $4 billion a year. Farmers are going to pay $1 billion more in carbon taxes, and food banks in every par…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals tax is up, cost is up, crime is up and time is up, and that could not be more true than for the leader of the NDP. His video a couple of weeks ago saying that he ripped up his coalition agreement and then saying that Canadians were fed up with the Prime Minister all proved to be nothing more than a stunt. Minutes ago, the NDP members said that they…
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With regard to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation property at the Iroquois Locks, known as 6020 Carman Road or the lands on Iroquois Island: (a) what were the yearly costs associated with operating the property, in total, and broken down by type, since 2016; (b) what are the details, including the project descriptions, timelines and costs associated with all completed capital projects …
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With regard to federal Crown land which has been sold or donated for the purpose of building housing since January 1, 2016: (a) what are the details of all such transactions, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) size of the land involved, (iii) sale price, if applicable, (iv) entity the land was sold or transferred to, (v) location, (vi) number of houses or units expected to be built on the lan…
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With regard to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) building at 202 Pitt Street in Cornwall, Ontario: (a) what is the number of SLSMC employees currently working in the building; (b) what amount of space, in square footage, is being leased out to third parties and to whom is it being leased; (c) how much square footage is each lessee leasing; (d) how much space in the building is…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to request a recorded vote on that one as well.
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Madam Speaker, I know both the mover and the seconder would want a recorded vote on their amendment.
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Madam Speaker, I would ask for a recorded vote.
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Madam Speaker, it would be in the best interests of all members of the House if we had a recorded vote.
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Madam Speaker, since so many Canadians are engaged in following the budget and the upcoming vote, I would ask for a recorded vote on that amendment, please.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to add my voice again to request a recorded vote on that important amendment.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North gave his speech and his comments on the government's proposed legislation, Bill C-65. One thing he forgot to mention was probably the most well-known part of the bill he has just spoken about for several minutes, which is the Liberals' attempt to change the election date; we have affectionately called this the NDP-Liberal pension protection act. It was …
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Madam Speaker, it would be best if we had a recorded vote on that.
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Mr. Speaker, only after relentless pressure from Conservatives did the Liberals finally end their carbon tax cover-up. The numbers show the NDP-Liberal carbon tax is going to blow a hole of $30 billion a year once they fully quadruple the carbon tax. That is nearly $2,000 per family per year. The radical environment minister knew that all along. Instead of publishing the report, he gagged and ridi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Liberals do not have an environmental plan; they have a tax plan, and it is a tax plan they were trying to hide from Canadians. It was Conservatives who finally got the answers that show the $30-billion-a-year hole it is blowing in our Canadian economy, a billion-dollar tax increase to farmers coming up, and a quadrupling of the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre on the p…
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