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Now the member from Winnipeg is heckling me. Mr. Speaker, the member is here doing a 20-minute speech. For those watching at home, we often divide our time into 10-minute speeches. He is doing a 20-minute speech while Liberals are either watching him or looking down. There are other Liberals who I am sure are all very capable. I have heard some of them speak, and yet today, crickets. I almost invi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. It is nice to see one of my colleagues recognizing people the way I do. I love that. I just want to clarify something that my colleague mentioned. I think he was talking about the Bykovets decision, a decision that said judicial oversight or a judicial authorization, a warrant production order, is required f…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people from Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. I want to give a shout-out to somebody who helped my campaign a tremendous amount, and that was Mr. Spencer Paul. I thank Spencer. To my hon. colleague, I wonder if he would agree with my sentiment, which is that the Liberals have allowed a porous border and, at the same time, have not dealt with gu…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. Before I begin, I want to recognize the life of a community member, Luigi Collavini, who passed away in the time we were not sitting. He leaves behind his son Jon, his daughter Erminia and his wife Teresina. May perpetual light shine upon him. The Liberals just talked about money going into the hand…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. I wish at this time to wish all the best in the upcoming nuptials of Justin Potestio and Dr. Namat Majaess. They are getting married and I wish them all the best. I say with sincerity to my hon. colleague that we hear him talk so much. This is on a contentious bill; at what point are the other Liber…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. Before I begin, I want to recognize a new person in Kamloops, a new cousin. His name is Harry Smith, born to Lewis Smith and my cousin Claudia Wright. I welcome Harry to the world. It is a pleasure to have him as one of our newest members in Kamloops. My hon. colleague spoke about first nations and …
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. I wish to recognize the life of Gloria Goold, mother-in-law to Stephanie Rennick, who works in my office, as well as Peter Goold. What is the biggest broken promise my hon. colleague has seen from the Liberal government in recent years?
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Mr. Speaker, in British Columbia, an offender was recently sentenced to house arrest for possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material. The victims of such deplorable materials are living a psychological life sentence. Whom do I blame for this? It is not the judge, not the prosecutor and not the defence lawyer. I blame weak Liberal laws that allow people like these to serve their sentenc…
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Mr. Speaker, there are questions on the public safety minister's recent recusals. Was the Ethics Commissioner consulted prior to the public safety minister setting up an internal conflict screen? Can the Prime Minister explain to this House why the minister has recused himself?
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Mr. Speaker, 1,000 pounds was the amount of cocaine that was seized by Peel police according to media reports just yesterday. The public safety minister previously said that the bail system was sound, yet six out of nine of those arrested are already on bail. Given what we see and hear when it comes to bail, does the public safety minister still think the bail system is sound?
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Mr. Chair, the classification of firearms has nothing to do with that. We are not talking about Bill C-21. We are talking about whether something as basic as how a firearm is classified is known by the public safety minister.
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Mr. Chair, the minister is talking about law-abiding gun owners, but he does not even know what classification would be owned by somebody or not owned by somebody. How is that possible?
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Mr. Speaker, 700,000 doses of fentanyl, 32 illegal guns and seven people on bail. These are the statistics from a recent raid just yesterday in York. I commend the police for doing such a good job. I also condemn the Liberals for allowing this sort of crime to flourish in Canada. Indeed, catch-and-release is alive and well in Canada, so why do the Liberals not accept the Conservatives' plan to end…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. I was going to raise a point of order, but I know my colleague is more than capable of dealing with this. The member for Winnipeg North said something that I think was deeply offensive to this House and was completely unparliamentary. He was essentially telling my colleague to get real when all she wa…
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Madam Chair, that is a slap in the face to Rodney Stafford, the father of Tori Stafford, who has to live with this. Will the minister say that to his face, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, that is not what I asked. I asked if the minister is okay with the fact that Bernardo is in medium security, yes or no.
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Madam Chair, the minister did not actually answer the question. Yes or no, will he order an inquiry?
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Madam Chair, I will be splitting my time with the member for Montmorency—Charlevoix and the member for Hastings—Lennox and Addington—Tyendinaga. Is the minister okay with the fact that Paul Bernardo, one of Canada's worst serial killers, remains in medium security?
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Madam Chair, yesterday, seven people were involved as fentanyl kingpins. They were on bail at the time of the alleged offences. Does that sound like a sound system?
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Mr. Chair, for discharge with intent, or drive-by shootings, someone can now get house arrest, and there is no mandatory minimum. The minister voted for that. Does he regret that, given gun violence today?
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Madam Speaker, during the last Parliament, Speaker Rota drew a distinct line. In fact, I asked a question, and I believe it was Mr. Mendicino, who was Minister Mendicino at the time, who used the term “intentionally misleading”. If one is deliberately trying to obfuscate, is deliberately trying to do something, that is akin to lying. It is unparliamentary language. It has been said by the Chair. I…
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Madam Chair, the minister can order an inquiry, as was done by former minister Goodale. Will he do that, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, does this minister have any control over what happens in his jails?
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, it is not the prerogative or the right, frankly, of the chief government whip to tell you how to do your job.
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Madam Chair, the minister can have policy on this. A sex offender that killed an eight-year-old child is living next to children in jail. Is he okay with it?
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Madam Chair, he does not want to meet with the father of a victim. That is reprehensible. What about Tara Desousa, Canada's youngest dangerous offender, who sexually assaulted a baby and lives at the same jail as the mother-child program. Is the minister going to give us the same answer again, that it is up to someone else, when he is the minister?
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Madam Chair, in his words, not TikTok's words, does he believe that the bail system is sound, yes or no?
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Madam Speaker, that was the most cat-and-mouse response I have ever heard. I challenged him. He speaks more than all other Liberal members combined, so I think he could address the challenge. Does he support house arrest for people who traffic fentanyl? I challenged him, but he would not even answer; he just heckled me. He should give me an answer. We do not even have a charter statement yet. The …
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Madam Speaker, I have learned a lot from my colleague. We first met a number of years ago, and it has been really great just to walk with him in my parliamentary journey. I see nothing in the bill that deals with firearms. Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola, like so much of Canada, is a rural area. I believe there are 27 first nations in my riding, and hunting is integral to those first nations. We have hea…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. As always, I thank all members for their interventions, including this hon. member. The Liberals are talking a strong game about crime and things like that. I am wondering if my hon. colleague from the Bloc agrees with me that while the Liberals are talking a strong game, they have failed to take ac…
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Madam Speaker, it will be an honour for me as well to sit with my colleague around the committee table as the public safety critic. We have not had a chance to work together before, but I do look forward to working with her and perhaps practising my French. Her question was what I would call a fairly loaded one because it had elements of generalities with respect to our not having enough agents to…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. First, I wish to denounce what happened at my colleague's office, which he referred to. That is unacceptable for anyone in Canada to experience. Where I take issue with my colleague's speech is that it is straight out of the Liberal playbook of saying, “We're going to, we're going to, we're going to…
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Mr. Chair, what are the classifications of firearms?
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Madam Speaker, I welcome my colleague. He may not know, and I did not talk about it because people are tired of hearing about it, but I was a prosecutor in my prior life, where I focused mostly on prosecuting Internet offences against kids. I am very well aware of judicial authorizations, of the hurdles those types of things can present, and of the fact that the bill is a direct response to some o…
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Mr. Chair, what classifications are being bought back?
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people from Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. Before I begin, I want to recognize a young man named Jasper Phillips, who recently received the Chief Scout's Award for fundraising for robotics kits of over $1,000. We thank him for his service. I always really enjoy speaking with my hon. colleague. I was just looking at a report from Staff Serg…
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Mr. Chair, will the minister propose legislation to keep sex offenders in jail longer, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, I wonder if he is getting passed a note right now with them. Without looking at that note, what are the classifications for firearms in Canada? He is the public safety minister.
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. One thing the minister and I agree on is safer borders and safer streets, but the really big area where I think we part company is how to do that. On the one hand, we have the Liberal approach, which is to talk about safer streets and safer borders and do little about that, and in fact do the contrary…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. I welcome you to the chair. I am amazed at how quickly you got your robes: congratulations. As always, it is an honour to be here. It is an honour to share this space with colleagues from all parties. As somebody who was the child of immigrants and never really thought he would see the green carpet of…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague just asked if we want bail in it. Heck yes, I want bail in it. We really want to deal with bail. We, as Conservatives, want to deal with bail. In fact, I had two private members' bills that dealt with bail during the last Parliament. One of the bills was in response to the killing of Constable Pierzchala, a police officer. He was in his mid-twenties. I believe I could say…
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Mr. Chair, this is the public safety minister, and somebody passed him a note with those classifications. Does the public safety minister not know the classifications of firearms?
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Mr. Chair, Bill C-2 is a border bill. We are talking about sex offenders and jail. Will the minister keep them there?
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Mr. Chair, Randall Hopley, somebody who the Premier of British Columbia, an NDP premier, says should not be let out again, kidnapped a three-year-old. Will the minister enact legislation to ensure that sex offenders such as Randall Hopley can be dealt with and that the public can be safe?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is okay with house arrest for people who discharge guns. I will give him one last opportunity to rebut that.
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Mr. Chair, we are not going to get an answer here. On robbery with a firearm, the member voted to take away the mandatory minimum and to allow house arrest. Does he regret that vote, given gun violence?
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Mr. Chair, it was the decision of the minister not to legislate. We could legislate. This is a long-term offender. Will the minister work with Conservatives to introduce legislation?
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Madam Chair, he will not order an inquiry. How about Terri-Lynne McClintic, who killed an eight-year-old child? She is now living in medium security next to a child through the mother-child program. Is he okay with that, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, I invite Canadians to behold our Public Safety Minister, who has no idea what is going on and is seemingly indifferent. Now let us get to bail. The minister said that the bail system was sound. Does he stand by that?
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