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Mr. Speaker, we are three months into the new year and Canadians are seeing more of the same from the Liberal government. The Prime Minister has made promise after promise to improve Canada's finances but, as the months go by, the government has failed to deliver a single positive economic outcome. The Liberals promised the best G7 economy, but instead, Canada sits at last place. In fact, Canada's…
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Mr. Speaker, food prices have skyrocketed 7.3%, rising more than twice as fast as the price of other goods. This is not an imported problem; 70% of the food Canadians consume is produced domestically, including 80% of processed foods, yet nearly 90% of agribusinesses now say the future of Canadian ag is at risk. Why are food prices rising? Punishing regulations, inflationary spending and Liberal t…
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Madam Speaker, that was a well-informed speech on the Standing Orders, something that we were desperate for, compared with the last speaker. I thank him for delivering that leadership. This example that he gives shows the ruinous cost. I am not independently wealthy. I am a new, younger member of Parliament. There are many of us on both sides of the aisle. We could not afford those types of legal …
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Madam Speaker, I found that to be a bit of an ironic speech from the member, because he is one of the most uninformed members on the rules in this place. This is a member who walked into a justice committee meeting and took a photo of the proceedings of the committee. I then raised a point of order with the Liberal chair, who completely whitewashed it and never reported back to the committee about…
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Madam Speaker, these members want to talk about defending our veterans. They have just closed the veterans affairs office in Brandon and moved it out to CFB Shilo, so I think that is a bit rich coming from the member. Manitoba workers want to build. That is what the question was about. Whether it is critical minerals, forestry or manufacturing, uncompetitive Liberal laws have killed the jobs marke…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians are being crushed by the Prime Minister's failure to get the economy moving again. StatsCan confirmed that Canada lost 52,000 private sector jobs last month, including 28,000 manufacturing jobs, a sector Manitoba families rely on, from aerospace in Winnipeg to value-added ag and resource processing across our province. Since the Prime Minister took office, $58 billion in i…
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Madam Speaker, I want to begin by saying it is an honour to rise on behalf of my constituents, the good people of Brandon—Souris and of Westman. It is an important topic we are discussing here today. I often hear from constituents, when I am back at home and when I am here, about the challenging housing climate we are living in. No part of Manitoba is escaping that. I represent Brandon, the provin…
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Mr. Speaker, what a weekend it was in Calgary. There were thousands of delegates, hundreds of observers and a resounding 87% in support of the leader. I send my thanks to the Conservatives. If there is one thing clear from this weekend, it is that the Conservative Party is a united, energetic, younger and more diverse party than ever before, and that is a direct result of this leader and his effor…
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Mr. Speaker, youth are in crisis. Conservatives know we need gen Z to stay in Canada for this country to thrive, but 93% are now concerned about their economic future here. The Liberals say mission accomplished, but disposable income is gone, home ownership is down, and half are taking on extra work just to stay afloat. Conservatives continue to put forward policies that would create good-paying j…
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Mr. Speaker, a new report shows that gen Z Canadians have just $9 to $16 at the end of the month after expenses. Nearly half say they need to take on more work, despite already working full time, while others are borrowing from family or delaying bills just to survive. Home ownership among young Canadians is collapsing, and 93% say they are worried about affording life. The Liberals often boast th…
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Mr. Speaker, food bank usage is at an all-time high this holiday season in Manitoba and across the country. Harvest Manitoba's latest report shows that 60,000 Manitobans are relying on food banks every month, and almost 50% of them are families with young children. This is what a decade of food packaging taxes, fuel standards and a rising industrial carbon tax has done to Canadians. My question fo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians he would be judged by the cost of groceries. Well, the 60,000 Manitobans who are lined up at food banks each month have judged him. They judged him based on grocery prices, which have not come down. They judged him because even though they are working multiple jobs, they are not able to put food on their own table. They have done everything right, but…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know the truth about the other side of the House, which is that under the Liberals, their grocery bills are still going up. What the Liberals have done has made life more expensive, not less. How much worse does it have to get before the Liberals realize that there are disastrous tax hikes, packaging standards and out-of-control spending that are responsible for 60,000 Manit…
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite the minister to get outside the Perimeter Highway in Winnipeg every once in a while to come into our communities in Manitoba. Here are a few facts for her: Families in Manitoba are being squeezed harder than ever thanks to her Liberal government, with Harvest Manitoba reporting today that 60,000 Manitobans a month are accessing food banks, and almost 50% of them are fam…
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Mr. Speaker, when the Liberals came to office in 2015, the average Canadian grocery bill was $160 a week. A decade later, it has more than doubled to $338 a week. That is $17,500 a year, and the food price report for next year confirms that Canadians will pay $1,000 more, which is the largest annual increase ever. Instead of axing taxes and spending, which increase the cost of growing, transportin…
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Madam Speaker, the answer to the question is absolutely. Liberal math is that they are going to give people $50 back, but then charge them $800 more. Are they really better off? No, they are not.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin today by thanking my colleague from Edmonton West for splitting his time with me to share some words about Bill C-4. The last question of my fellow Manitoban from Riding Mountain about the interest payments on our debt now being higher than health care transfers to provinces was an alarming note to leave it on. With a health care system that is in crisis across C…
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Madam Speaker, the member is sadly very lost about the conversation going on today. At no point did I talk about fuel standards. Here is something I would like to ask the member: When he travelled on the taxpayer dime to China, what exactly did he achieve in terms of results for ongoing Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola, which is grown and produced in my constituency? We are calling on the govern…
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Madam Speaker, I certainly do agree with the comments from the member for Edmonton West as well as the member for Mirabel. This bill does not strike at the heart of the people who most need tax relief in this country. It screams of Liberal elitism, giving big tax breaks to the corporate elite in this country, who are very good friends with most of the Liberal front bench. However, it does not help…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians should judge him by what they pay at the grocery store. Food Banks Canada did just that and gave him a D on poverty and food insecurity after both rose nearly 40%. That is not an inspiring achievement. Food inflation remains 70% above the Bank of Canada's target. Potatoes are up 16%, beef is up 33%, grapes are up 24%, and apples are up 14%. These are …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague's speech was excellent. Something I would like to point out from the member for Winnipeg North's comments is that he talked about 2008 and 2009 and its all being the Conservatives' fault that there was youth unemployment at that time. He never mentions the economic conditions that were going on at that time; I believe it was the worst recession since the 1930s, whereas th…
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Mr. Speaker, what a tragic situation we find ourselves in here in Canada today: record-low employment levels, the worst in 25 years; housing insecurity at dangerous levels; food prices out of control; money printing and deficit spending at unsustainable levels; and a doubling of the national debt in just nine years. Who bears the brunt of this disastrous policy? It is young people. As one of just …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister told a roomful of students that they have to make sacrifices. Students and young people in this country have already sacrificed enough to the Liberals. They have sacrificed the dream of home ownership, they have paid the price at the pump and for the cost of food, and they have spent summers without jobs. Now the Liberals get up and say that their big achi…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is exactly right; we are concerned about a lack of judges, a lack of Crown prosecutors across the country right now, and certainly in provinces. Time after time, cases are being pleaded down or in many cases completely thrown out because they hit the Jordan framework. If the federal government is serious about ensuring that victims within our Canadian Armed Forces receive t…
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Mr. Speaker, of course the situation my colleague raises is a terrible one to be in. I cannot imagine the feeling of being trapped in a system someone feels is protecting, or is protecting, their assaulter, the person who committed one of these crimes against them. It is a terrible situation that members of our Canadian Armed Forces who are the victims of these types of crimes have been subjected …
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Mr. Speaker, I think Conservatives have been pretty clear that we believe the military system as it currently exists has failed victims within the Canadian Armed Forces who have experienced sexual trauma. However, we are concerned about the capacity of the civilian courts to handle additional work, when they are not getting through all the work they currently have before them. Many perpetrators of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to rise in this chamber to put some words on the record about Bill C-11. This piece of legislation is of national importance. It is well overdue given the time that has elapsed since the recommendations came forward in the initial report, which I believe was commissioned by a Conservative government, on the heinous acts and actions within our Canadian Armed Forces. I…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like my colleague across the way to answer the question, if she can, about why the Liberals are splitting the treatment of crimes committed on Canadian soil from those committed when our armed forces personnel are deployed off Canadian soil.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today to present my first petition as the member of Parliament for Brandon—Souris. It is e-petition 6573, initiated by constituent River Klassen and signed by hundreds of Canadians. It calls for action to address the morally bankrupt stunts of the longest ballot committee, which predominantly harm the ability of seniors and those with disabilities to cast thei…
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Mr. Speaker, it is true. The member for Winnipeg North is leading this revisionist history, but those are the facts. One of them is in my constituency, with the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. Why do the Liberals prioritize a list of cycled-through ministers on this file? Some of them have failed upward. Others have left in disgrace. Meanwhile, nothing has been done on this file. Why is the Liberals' …
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Mr. Speaker, instead of a mid-life crisis, we now have a crisis of the young. That is what researchers across Canada are saying about the happiness of Canadians. After 10 years of the Liberal government, Canada has fallen to its lowest point in global happiness rankings, and no one feels that more than young Canadians. Once full of optimism and opportunity, our country has dropped to 58th in the w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really fascinating to hear the revisionist history from members across the way. It is very clear what the record of the Conservative Party is: We signed five modern treaties in a six-year period. I am sure it is quite embarrassing for them that they have been in government for 10 years and have been unable to get a single one completed.
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, Canadians cannot afford to eat because of the Liberals' tax hikes on food. Their food inflation tax is fuelled by money-printing deficits, the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment, their second carbon tax, hidden as fuel standard, and a plastics ban. Here are the consequences: Chicken is up 11%, soup is up 26%, white sugar …
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Madam Speaker, Samaritan House Ministries' food bank in Brandon is Manitoba's second largest, and under the Liberals, it is distributing between 60 and 80 food hampers a day. For context, that is 15,529 hampers by the end of August in a city of only 55,000 people. The Prime Minister once said that Canadians would judge him by the cost at the grocery store. Well, for families in the wheat city, the…
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Madam Speaker, tomorrow team Canada takes on England in the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup final. In the starting lineup is Emily Tuttosi, who hails from our community in Westman. Emily and I grew up together, attending Souris School. In fact I was one of the VPs when she was student council president. That is a few years ago. Now ranked 15th out of the best 50 rugby players in the world and consist…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is so out of touch. She does not understand that those kids are still hungry every evening, every weekend and every summer holiday. Their parents cannot afford to put food on the table, because the Liberal government's inflationary deficits have been driving up food costs 48% faster in Canada than in the United States since the Prime Minister took office. The Prime Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, to my fellow colleague from Manitoba, her riding of Winnipeg Centre is certainly facing the brunt of the fentanyl crisis. I used to drive through her constituency to get to work at the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. I think we know, or it is universally accepted, that a lot of these drugs are coming into Canada across the border. That is under discussion here. If the member from th…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are paying the price for the Prime Minister's reckless spending, which has skyrocketed 8.4% since he took office. Spending on high-priced consultants is up by 37% to $26 billion, while spending on the bureaucracy itself is up another 6% to $63 billion. Experts are clear that the spending is out of control. Yesterday, at committee, the top financial watchdog stated, “At this …
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Mr. Speaker, that is certainly the case. Obviously, we know that many areas of eastern Canada as well as farther west of me are very inaccessible along our border. Even in Manitoba, the area is so large that despite it being accessible, the RCMP is far too short-staffed to be able to patrol all of that area at any given time. Absolutely, we believe in expanding jurisdiction there. We think that wo…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think I heard a question from the parliamentary secretary. I too have met with chiefs of police in my home province. As I said in my speech, there are some provisions in this bill where the Liberals did get a few things right. Members know the whole thing where a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. They did get a few things right in this bill, but they also got …
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Mr. Speaker, I had a different beginning to my speech, but after hearing all the long-serving Liberal MPs get up and talk about how great it is that they have finally discovered our border is an issue, that after 10 years in government they are taking some action with this piece of legislation and should be congratulated for it is a bit of an astounding proposition at the beginning of this fall se…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to get my colleague's opinion. Earlier the member for Winnipeg North said that we should just take the Liberals' word for it that they believe in protecting the charter rights of Canadians for privacy, because in the 1980s they were the party that brought the charter in. Do we have to take the Liberals for granted on everything they campaigned on in the 1980s? They were a…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague, along with other colleagues from British Columbia, has more first-hand experience with this than I do. From what I have read, it has been just devastating. The result of that policy by the NDP government, enabled by the federal Liberal team, has been devastating for families and for communities. It has been a total train wreck, in my opinion. I did everything I could as …
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With regard to the Parks Canada Information Bulletin issued on May 16, 2025 on the "Watercraft management for Clear Lake 2025": (a) who did Parks Canada directly inform of the decision prior to the bulletin being posted, including the (i) name and organization of the individual, (ii) date each entity in (i) was informed by Parks Canada, (iii) name and title of the Parks Canada official who provide…
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With regard to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, broken down by year: (a) since January 1, 2006, how many individuals who were credibly threatened by foreign actors have been contacted under the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Duty to Warn policy; (b) how many of the individuals in (a) were members of Parliament; (c) how many of the members of Parliament were provided police protection; and (d) w…
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With regard to employees of government departments, agencies, Crown corporations and other government entities: (a) how many employees currently work with a job classification or in an occupational group where the salary range minimum is higher than $150,000 per year (such as EX-04, DM-02, etc.); and (b) what is the breakdown of employees in (a) by job classification or occupational group?
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With regard to Elections Canada and international electors: (a) how does Elections Canada verify the validity of the electors' last listed address before leaving Canada when they file a vote by mail application; (b) with regard to vote by mail applications received from international electors, broken down by year since 2011, what is the total number of (i) applications received, (ii) applications …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise again in the House of Commons, for the first time this fall session after a couple of interventions as a newly elected member in the spring. It is such an honour to be here to represent the great people of southwestern Manitoba and the Wheat City of Brandon. Bill C-3 is an important topic. Our Manitoba Conservative caucus just completed a couple of days of cau…
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Mr. Speaker, we are coming at this from two sides of the issue. The member seems to think we are blaming immigrants solely as being responsible for our delayed health care. That is certainly not the case, but I think he would agree that when we increase population by half a million people per year for several years, some of those hundreds of thousands of people per year are going to need health ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I think any reasonable person would believe the government should have at least an estimate of how many people are going to be impacted by a policy before it introduces it into law, passes it into law and proposes to implement it for Canadian citizens and the general public. The fact is that it has not done that now, and, as many other members have mentioned, the Liberals have been on…
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