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Mr. Speaker, I think that is a fair comment, and that is why we are proposing amendments to make this bill better. I look forward to my colleagues' proposing those recommendations. I think some of them have made some recommendations as to how to improve this bill in their comments earlier today. We hope the Liberal government decides to adopt them so that, indeed, we have a framework that is robus…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to two exceptional constituents of Brandon—Souris. Last Saturday, Souris residents Murray Zuk and the late Bill Kirkup were inducted as honorary life members into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame. Murray Zuk helped found the Hall of Fame and Museum, serving as a director since its inception in 1997, with a significant career as a baseball scout and organi…
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Mr. Speaker, violent crime continues to spiral out of control under the Liberals, devastating our families and communities. In Brandon earlier this year, a 67-year-old man was beaten over the head with a baseball bat by a repeat offender out on bail, completely unprovoked. Weeks later, a woman was assaulted in an elevator by an individual out on bail facing similar previous charges. These are just…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I just want to put it on the record that the member is misleading the House by saying that this is a new Liberal government, when it in fact is the same—
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Mr. Speaker, I want to put some facts on the record, contrary to the member for Winnipeg North, who talks about misinformation. The only misinformation here is from him. A government that he is pretending is different is exactly the same as it has been for the last 10 years and the last 20 years that he has been here. He questions the credibility of a long-serving municipal official from British C…
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Mr. Speaker, what a relief they are just getting started because the first three weeks of the government have surely been a disappointment to Canadians. The member talks about transparency, leadership and accountability. As the parliamentary secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, why have that minister and that parliamentary secretary not introduced a budget? All of these things would g…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise once again to ask the Minister of Finance why he finds it acceptable to not table a budget before he and the Prime Minister, the so-called man with the plan, head off on summer vacation. Budgeting is not optional for families and small businesses across this great country, and it should not be optional for the federal government either. Months of uncertainty about Canada's fina…
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Mr. Speaker, I say good try to my friends from the Liberal Party. The only thing Canadians can confidently expect from the Liberal government and these Liberal MPs, who just tried to silence me, is rising housing prices, now rising car prices, soaring debt, runaway overall inflation and absolutely zero economic leadership, just as we have seen for the last 10 years. Canadians, and particularly the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is banning gas-powered vehicles and forcing Canadians to buy electric. This will add $20,000 on top of the average $66,000 price of buying a car, as if they need to be more expensive in this country. This will jack up prices for Canadians and gut hundreds of energy sector jobs in western Manitoba. Canadians do not want to be forced to drive EVs. With manufacture…
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Madam Speaker, earlier in this debate, the member for Winnipeg North made some outrageous comments about this being an entirely new government, which of course Canadians know is patently ridiculous, given the fact that 80% of the cabinet is the same as in the Trudeau era. It is sad that the member for Winnipeg North did not make the cut. Despite the only cabinet member from Manitoba abusing her st…
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Mr. Speaker, what a pleasure it is to hear the speech from my colleague for Souris—Moose Mountain. Of course, both of our constituencies are named after the proud Souris River that flows from his constituency in the west into mine in the east, and it is a pleasure to have him as a neighbour. As neighbours, we both have the same economies in our region. I would like the member for Souris—Moose Moun…
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Mr. Chair, can the minister give one example of a policy she has implemented to prevent 10,000 fraudulent foreign student acceptance letters?
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Mr. Chair, did the 10,000 people who were granted a fraudulent acceptance letter last year come to Canada?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is confirming, on the record, that none of the 10,000 students who received flagged fraudulent acceptance letters came to Canada last year.
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Mr. Chair, how many fraudulent study permits have been identified in 2025?
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Mr. Chair, there is no question that the Liberal government's failed policies have destroyed the student visa system. The previous minister was supposedly going to clamp down on fraud among student visa holders. How many migrants are currently in Canada with fraudulent student visas?
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Mr. Chair, how many students are currently in Canada with a fraudulent student visa?
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Mr. Chair, what is the number of students in Canada with fraudulent student visas?
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Mr. Chair, the minister has no idea how many students are in this country with fraudulent student visas, and that is the direct responsibility of her department. How many foreign students who came to Canada with fraudulent visas in 2024 became permanent residents?
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Mr. Chair, what number of fraudulent visa holders became permanent residents in 2024?
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Mr. Chair, the minister has no idea how many fraudulent student visa holders became permanent residents in this country last year. The minister's foreign student visa system is a mess. How many fake college acceptance letters were caught in 2024?
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Mr. Chair, IRCC flagged over 10,000 foreign student acceptance letters as fraudulent in 2024. Why did the oversight of the minister's department fail so badly when these letters were issued?
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Madam Speaker, one has only to look at the member's Twitter feed to understand that he is a big fan of the most unpopular prime minister in recent memory, Justin Trudeau, and his policies on an unsecured border, a lack of safety on the streets, the carbon tax, etc. How does the member for Winnipeg West feel, knowing that the Liberal Party had to walk away from his record as a former member of Parl…
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Madam Speaker, I want to welcome my new colleague as a fellow newbie from Manitoba. The Prime Minister and the government have talked a lot about nation-building energy projects. My constituency of Brandon—Souris in Manitoba, the member's and my home province, contains its oil and gas industry in the southwestern corner. We have talked a lot about getting our natural resources, oil and gas product…
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Mr. Speaker, I will follow up on that line of commentary of my colleague from St. Albert—Sturgeon River. The Liberal government certainly has a record on ensuring that Canada faces these challenges. I wonder whether the member could respond to what exactly he thinks the Liberal Party's record is in ensuring that Canada is well prepared to respond to emergency events like natural disasters and wild…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure what speech the member for Whitby was listening to. It was not mine, because I did not mention forestry management plans a single time in my speech, despite his claiming that I did. However, here is what I would say about that. None of northern Manitoba, which is currently burning, is in a national park, which is what my colleagues across the Conservative bench have made…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish that I were rising, for the second time in this chamber since my election, with respect to a better topic than the one at hand, but I appreciate that we are having this emergency debate about the ongoing wildfire situation affecting my home province as well as our neighbouring province of Saskatchewan and elsewhere. I know other parts of the country are affected as well. Althou…
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Mr. Speaker, I certainly thank my colleague for that excellent question. There is no doubt I agree that when a federal government makes commitments to people, particularly people in vulnerable areas of the country, it should keep those commitments. The Liberal Party failed to do that when it made that commitment in 2021. In addition to that, the member for Winnipeg North earlier claimed that the L…
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Madam Speaker, I want to make it clear that our Conservative Party, while supporting tax cuts, does believe that the proposal from the Prime Minister's government does not go far enough. We think Canadians deserve more relief from the massive increases in higher taxes that they have received after the last nine and a half years of the Liberal government. The government needs to go further. That is…
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Madam Speaker, it is certainly not. Our position is that the bureaucracy has become so bloated that we cannot get anything built in this country in a timely fashion. It is taking years upon years to get these permits approved and get construction actually happening, so while we believe that the environment is very important, and that protecting our environment and our natural spaces is very import…
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Madam Speaker, we will certainly support the government if it actually provides a plan to build national energy projects in this country, including oil and gas pipelines. We have seen nothing from the government members about that, and we look forward to seeing that plan come forward. If it does, then we will consider it at that time. However, the member is certainly wrong. There were more Conserv…
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Madam Speaker, it is a real pleasure to rise today to deliver my first speech in the House of Commons. I was reflecting while debate was going on earlier, and it is such an incredible honour to be in this place on behalf of the great people of Brandon and Westman. Members do not get here alone. I would be remiss if I did not start by thanking, of course, my partner Ashley, who has agreed to come a…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North made a lot of comments about the previous Liberal government and all the money it flowed to the provincial government in Manitoba to buy firefighting equipment. I would put on the record that the first budget of Wab Kinew as the NDP premier actually reduced the emergency measures budget in Manitoba by over $50 million. I am not sure where the money from t…
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Mr. Speaker, I certainly thank the government of B.C. and the people of B.C. for punching above their weight in supporting other provinces that are under serious threat right now. There is no doubt in my mind that when a federal government makes a commitment to invest in a particular outcome for a particular group of communities or group of people, it should absolutely fulfill that commitment. The…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Prime Minister introduced his first spending bill, and despite promising to cap spending during the election, the bill would increase spending by another 8% on an already bloated federal government. Half a trillion in spending was introduced the same day as he promised again to cap it, all with no budget, on the backs of hard-working Canadians and at the expense of futu…
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