Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, in the House there are two official languages: English and French. I do not understand what the member means by “coded language”. If she could—
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Madam Speaker, I think the member for Edmonton Strathcona just reiterated a mistruth in the House, and it is up to you to make sure she withdraws that comment.
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Mr. Speaker, I heard the speech from the member on the other side. This is a motion that really just says that if a member says something in the House of Commons, says something to the Canadian people, says something to their electoral base, then they have to be held to account for that. We are actually siding with the NDP on this motion and asking them to put their motions where their mouth is, o…
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Mr. Speaker, I took my colleague up on his challenge about looking at Canada's growth rate versus the other G7 countries. I noticed that, since 2015, when the government came in, this country's performance has shown less than half of the cumulative GDP growth that the United States has accomplished. That is the main metric we have to look at, not European countries that have gone through a major p…
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Madam Speaker, I take some exception to how my colleague across the way just responded to my other colleague on this side of the house. We all believe there is climate change going on here, and no matter what the narrative of his party is, we actually understand what to do about it. His party has been failing at it for nine years now, quite frankly, because they are spending money and getting abso…
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Madam Speaker, I will dispel a few myths that the member threw at us. He said thousands of pages of records have been provided. These were thousands of pages of blacked-out documents. This is not transparency at all. This is the way the government actually operates, and it has to change. As far as the RCMP goes, we all know that the RCMP can ignore evidence. It has not given any indication that it…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to see my colleague attacking the Liberals, who are not accomplishing anything on the environment. He is right about that. However, he continued by saying that the Canadian government gave $50 billion to the oil industry. That is a joke. The government gave almost nothing to the most productive sector in Canada. My colleague needs to take another look at the facts.
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Madam Speaker, I do not know where the member is getting his facts either because the government does not give any money to executives of petroleum companies across the country. It is a productive sector and when it is doing well, all the employees do well. When it is doing poorly, we can take a look at the employment losses over the last eight years while we were in Parliament. It has only bounce…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know how to respond to the member, because I think I have answered every question he has ever asked in the House of Commons. I will say to him again, in direct response to what he said, that I do not know where he is getting his numbers, because the numbers I have seen very clearly, from his government's department, on emissions in Canada is that we are now around where we …
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Madam Speaker, it the first time I have heard that complaint. I apologize. I do have pages here, and I do have to flip them; we do go from significant preparation here. However, I will put this away and just go from what I know of the subject matter as opposed to the notes I have. We have done a lot in this country. We have overspent tens of billions of dollars in this effort and gotten nowhere. W…
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Madam Speaker, going back to the debate and what the member said in his speech, what does he think the government is trying to hide in this $400-million scandal we are talking about today where the Liberals refuse to produce the documents? Is he speculating at all about what companies are involved and how much additional money, beyond the $400 million, the government has siphoned off to its friend…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleagues today for debating concurrence in a committee report from the environment department on the path forward. In relation to this, one of the main things we come at in our dissenting report is that despite claiming that the cost of carbon tax would address climate change, the current Liberal government has failed to meet any carbon climate target. This is something…
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Madam Speaker, I have a question for my colleague from Quebec, who made a good speech here in the House of Commons. I always enjoy his speeches. My question is this. How much money will we find in the documents that the Liberals must hand over to Parliament as soon as possible?
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Mr. Speaker, even a Prime Minister who does not think much about monetary policy told us this past May, “As soon as you [send people extra money], inflation goes up by...that amount.” The government is now proposing to increase inflation and punch our deficit and debt higher. That is like a pyromaniac dressing up as a firefighter. The most inflationary tax is the carbon tax. Will the Liberals call…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are falling far behind. The government has dragged our economic performance down to just two-thirds of that of the United States. This is costing Canadians on everything they buy, and paycheques have not kept up with the inflation the government has caused. A recession is defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I felt compelled to rise today because of the member's speech. I really appreciate the speech he gave. I want to apologize to him on behalf of the House for the comments he endured during question period today. They were beyond the pale of anything I have seen in the House so far, and he did not deserve that. Frankly, I think the Speaker should have the member who made those comments,…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is always entertaining, and he always gets to make up some of his facts. Let us talk about that. He is looking at the number of jobs that were cut from the CBSA by the previous Harper government, which cut 1,000 jobs from 14,000 to 13,000 and then put them right back to 14,000, where it continued until two years ago. If the facts were on the table as opposed to the rhetoric…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the responses he gave to my question. I do not think they are proper responses; there are a whole bunch of holes in what he has provided here. Number one, the RCMP is the agency looking into whether there will be charges here to press or not. All we are providing, at the end of the day, is the unredacted documents. Those unredacted documents right now are unav…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising to ask a follow-up question to a question I had about a month ago in the House of Commons. We are listening to all kinds of stuff, and this pertains to the debate we had today, which was about providing documents to the House of Commons on the green slush fund, the SDTC scandal. What we are trying to get, of course, is real information that the government has to provide fr…
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Mr. Speaker, there is more proof that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost nor the corruption. The department of immigration is in disarray. Canada's once-respected immigration system is another casualty of the government's failures. The Liberals have issued a passport to a convicted human smuggler responsible for the deaths of eight migrants, despite a court order forbidding it and th…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the tone brought to the question by my colleague on the other side of the House. I do not agree that the issue is something we should just push off to a committee at this point in time. The committees are actually not working well. We want the documents now in Parliament, not at committee for examination and for pushing down the road, as the case may be. The documents wer…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I am going to address one thing. The member should never put words in my mouth. If he wants them to stick, he can say them from his own mouth. Everybody knows the climate is changing. It is something people are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. I hope you discipline him, Mr. Speaker, because that is just absolute nonsense, and I would like him to withdraw that comment.…
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Mr. Speaker, I will rise to address my colleague across the way when he says nobody asked what he was talking about. Let me ask, what the heck are you talking about? This is a fantasy you spew in the House of Commons that there is all kinds of conspiracy behind the scenes in what Conservatives are trying to do. We are trying to get things done in the House. We would like you to stop impeding gover…
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to be the member for Calgary Centre. My friend is actually the member for Calgary Confederation. He and I collaborate on a lot of things because we are both the downtown members from Calgary. We have great constituents. We are here tonight, again, because the government refuses to turn over documents the Speaker demanded. The Speaker demanded that the government provide the…
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Mr. Speaker, $100 million a day is based on the reduction of a million barrels a day of export capacity towards our main trading partner, the United States of America. It is based on the price of oil, obviously, that is going to be there at times and not there at times. We could say that between $60 million and $120 million will be the amount. Multiply that by 365 days and there is a whole bunch o…
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Mr. Speaker, it is something I confess I have not looked at. I think anything that provides us with better information in this House of Commons is going to be good for the outcome, which of course is good government for all Canadians at the end of the day and making sure we have that information available. What I am seeking today in this speech is the information from the government on a $400-mill…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her interesting question. Are the Conservatives the ones causing this obstruction right now? I think it is the government that is systematically obstructing the House by not turning over the documents that we as parliamentarians need to do our work. If the Bloc Québécois does not want to have the information that the government has a responsibility to provide …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government has shown again that it is not worth the cost. This week, the government announced a new policy, a cap on the Canadian economy. Since 2015, the United States has increased oil and gas production by 40%, which is much more than Canada has done. The world needs Canadian oil and gas. With the incoming U.S. administration promising to unleash…
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Madam Speaker, I will quote Canada's destructive environment minister. He said, “Look around the world, no other...oil and gas producer is doing what we’re doing.” One could wonder why; one could also ask why he ignored the warnings of the economic destruction this Canadian energy cap would cause while offering no environmental benefit. Any reduction in Canada will automatically be met by supply f…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a good question. I know everybody in this House wants to do well for the Canadians they represent. Whatever program that is, I am certain they want to deliver it. I will put on the table, pushing back to my colleague across the way, that if we tell Canadians there is a new, free program but their kids are going to pay for it 20 years down the road, with interest along the way,…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of concerned citizens and residents of Calgary regarding the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline rooted in truth, compassion and tolerance, and it is practised by diverse communities across our nation. Since 1999, practitioners of Falun Gong have endured a brutal campaign against them, resul…
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Mr. Speaker, as I rise today, I follow a great speech by my colleague from Aldergrove, British Columbia. The member is a lawyer who has had a great deal of sophisticated input into the debate we have been having in the House over the last number of weeks. I am very appreciative of what he brings to the table as far as his legal input goes. We have to make sure that we follow the rules of Parliamen…
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Mr. Speaker, that is an interesting question. This is a rule of Parliament. Who is going to force compliance with the rules of Parliament, other than the opposition? If our Bloc Québécois colleagues want to support us in our campaign to demand the documents from the Government of Canada, I invite them to stick with us. It is important to have the documents, for all of us here in Parliament. It is …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the preamble and the actual question. However, my colleague is sort of saying, “We want to do indirectly what we could do more efficiently directly,” and he has some RCMP friend who tells him he is uncomfortable with this process. We are Parliament and our job here is not to make somebody comfortable. There has been some very serious corruption and we want to get to the b…
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Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of things we are not dealing with in this Parliament because the government digs its feet in the sand and is not going to abide by the rules of Parliament. It is not us who set those rules. It is the Speaker's rule, saying no other order of business shall be dealt with in this House until this matter has been dealt with, because the rules of Parliament say these docume…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank all my colleagues for the financial advice they give me in the House. I appreciate it. The issue of what is investing and what is spending is nonsense. Governments are not investing right now. Governments are spending like crazy. It is not an investment to say, “We are spending everybody's money today, but do not worry about it in the future.” It is gross overspending, and the…
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Madam Speaker, no character assassination was intended here. What we are trying to do is get accountability for government, which does not exist with the government right now. We have made that quite clear over the last handful of weeks as the green slush fund needs to present its documents in regard to conflicts of interest and investments in insiders' companies. That needs to be disclosed to Can…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to address a question. On September 9 of this year, before Parliament came back in session, the Liberal Party of Canada, not the Government of Canada, asked Mark “carbon tax” Carney to join the Liberals as a special economic adviser to advise on the economics of the country. Again, this is not the Government of Canada, but the Liberal Party of Canada, and that is to avo…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Can I ask for a quorum call? And the count having been taken:
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Mr. Speaker, when the member responded on social media to similar claims, the Toronto Police Association said, “We are sharing data about gun violence in Toronto. These facts represent the work of our members and the lives of victims. Shame on anyone who suggests otherwise.” After nine years, violent gun crime has doubled in Canada. In Calgary, it has quadrupled. That is the Liberal record. Will t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Crime is up in Toronto, with shootings up 45% and gun-related homicides up 62% since last year. While the Prime Minister celebrates on social media, police associations are condemning his failed handgun policy. The Toronto Police Association said, “Criminals did not get your messag…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am just wondering how long you were going to let the member give his speech for, when he should have been asking a question.
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Madam Speaker, the current Parliament has been here for three years now. We have, hopefully, just another year to put up with the government. Hopefully it ends sooner than that, quite frankly, because there has been a litany of what we deem to be corruption. We are trying to get it to the police. Can my colleague from Saskatchewan please give us some relative terms as far as any other government i…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague touched on a number of fairly important issues that are also impacted by what the government is trying to do in withholding documents from the House of Commons. This is a matter, as he and the government know, of parliamentary supremacy in what we get to see. I will remind the government again that Parliament has the right to demand documents and that the Speaker has rule…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Speaker ruled that the government violated a House order to turn over evidence about the latest $400-million Liberal scandal, effectively obstructing justice. We have heard new excuses for weeks about why the ruling should not be respected. What smoking gun is in those documents…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a load of Stove Top stuffing. This is the latest in a series of scandals involving Liberal insiders riding the gravy train, mashing the truth, stuffing their pockets with taxpayer money and treating Canadians like turkeys. Parliament has demanded these documents. The Speaker ordered that they be provided. The Liberal government believes that it is above the rules. Canadians ar…
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Mr. Speaker, I have gone through a very extensive illustration of exactly how corruption has been part of the Liberal government as long as I have been in this Parliament, for five years. At the end of the term here it will be six years. We have gone through the ad scam, and it was the Paul Martin government that fell for that, recognizing it fell over a $4-million scandal. Now, $4 million is a he…
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Mr. Speaker, a number of my constituents have contacted me regarding this issue, and it is important that we address this series of troubling events, which have not only shaken the foundation of our parliamentary democracy, but also revealed a disturbing pattern of corruption within the Liberal government, highlighting a consistent disregard for the principles of transparency and accountability, w…
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Madam Speaker, I will respond to my colleague, and I know that sometimes I irritate him when I do. We are not holding up Parliament. The order was for the Liberals to provide the documents to Parliament unredacted and they refuse to do so. The Speaker said that we are not going to deal with any other business of the House until this is finally dealt with. We are awaiting those documents and we ask…
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Madam Speaker, I did make reference to the sponsorship scandal in my speech, but I had to cut a couple of pages of it out to fit my speech into the time allotted. My colleague is exactly right. It coalesced Canadians on how their government was working. There were no checks and balances on money going out the door from the Liberal government at the time and money going in the back door through pol…
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