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Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North is always up here defending the government, including its own failures, especially in dealing with sexual misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces. The member was up here defending Minister Sajjan back when he was still the minister. I do not believe the member. The Conservative government signed on to reach that NATO promise in 2015. We had 10 years t…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the minister for bringing the bill forward. It was Bill C-66 in the last Parliament, and we never got it completed at second reading. The minister talked about trust, and I want to ask him why Canadians and the people in the Canadian Armed Forces should trust him and trust the Liberals. We have to remember that one of his predecessors, Harjit Sajjan, was complici…
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Mr. Speaker, as the shadow minister for national defence, I am always honoured to stand in this place to talk about the great work of the brave women and men who serve in the Canadian Armed Forces and how we can do more to support them, which is what Bill C-11 is trying to do. The first responsibility of the federal government is to protect Canada, protect our citizens, as well as to protect those…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her intervention. She had over two minutes left. She needs to talk to her staff or to the minister's staff, whoever wrote her speech for her. They could have filled it in a bit more. I wonder if the member wants to comment on the concerns we have on our side with the soft-on-crime policies the Liberals have brought forward, which are permeating our civilian cour…
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C-75 reduced the conditions on the principle of restraint, allowing those who commit sexual offences to be released on bail very easily. It allows them to be repeat offenders. That will now permeate the Canadian Armed Forces, as well, because of the soft-on-crime approach taken by the Liberals. With Bill C-5, they got rid of a lot of the mandatory minimums so that repeat sexual o…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been a problem. We know that those who brought complaints against Admiral Art McDonald were reprimanded by their superior officers. We know they were coerced. They were scared to come forward and it took, in some cases, years before they did. We created a safe space at committee, allowing them to speak and share their stories where there was no opportunity for retribution by th…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his great speech today laying out all the problems and laying out why we do not trust the Liberal government and why Canadians do not trust it either to deliver for our Canadian Armed Forces. The member used to sit on the defence committee, and we sat there and watched the Liberals try not to let the committee study why Harjit Sajjan, Jonathan Vance, Justin Tr…
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Mr. Speaker, I said during my speech that victims deserve justice, and that military sexual trauma is one thing we have to eliminate. The support is needed. We support the sexual misconduct support and resource centre and the great work it is doing in providing counselling. As well, it is going to be providing some legal advice to those victims. Victims' rights have to be paramount. That is why we…
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Mr. Speaker, the first place to start is accepting all 10 recommendations from Madame Deschamps' report, which was completely ignored by the government. I think we would be a lot further ahead today in supporting victims and stomping out misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces had this been acted upon 10 years ago. The Liberals refused to do it. They still do not even mention the report in the…
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Mr. Speaker, senior Iranian government officials were banned from entering Canada in 2022 for gross human rights violations and state-sponsored terrorism. In June, border services still had 66 open cases into Iranian officials right here in Canada. We know the Minister of Public Safety has lost 600 foreign nationals with criminal records, and over 400 of those evading the government are convicted …
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Mr. Speaker, today is army day on the Hill, when we celebrate and honour the brave women and men in our Canadian Army. Their dedication and sacrifice for Canada is unquestionable. I want to recognize the over 2,000 members currently serving in the Canadian-led multinational brigade group in Latvia, as well as our troops training Ukrainian soldiers under Operation Unifier and those contributing to …
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-219, An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), the Special Economic Measures Act and the Broadcasting Act. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed an honour to table this bill. I want to thank the member for Northumberland—Clarke for seconding the bill. In the …
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With regard to national defence for the fiscal year 2025-26 and the Prime Minister's announcement on June 9, 2025, that stated that "This plan includes a cash increase of over $9 billion ($8.3 billion on an accrual basis) in defence investment this fiscal year (2025-26), bringing Canada's defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product": (a) how much total government spending is required to be de…
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Madam Speaker, if this is a filibuster, why is the member for Winnipeg North up talking? He always gets up in debate. This is actually my first chance to talk on Bill C-3, and we just got back. Let us try to work across the aisle here and see if we can make some headway. I want to read some quotes about Canadians living abroad. Sergio Karas, who is principal of Karas Immigration Law Professional C…
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With regard to the Prime Minister's announcement on June 9, 2025, that the government intends to expand "the reach, security mandate, and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard" and the statement appearing in the National Post from the Prime Minister's Office spokesperson Emily Williams which stated that "the Prime Minister will soon initiate the process of moving the Canadian Coast Guard to the le…
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Madam Speaker, it is indeed a pleasure to be back after our summer in our ridings. I know that all of us worked really hard seeing our constituents. Throughout the summer, on top of meeting with constituents at the office and across the riding, I attended multiple fairs, festivals, parades and rodeos every weekend. It was just great to get out there and to see as many people as we did. I spent the…
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Madam Speaker, I do not think we know what that number is at this point in time. However, we do know that with Bill C-3, people could qualify for Canadian citizenship without ever going through a criminal record background check or without anyone ever looking at whether they appear on anything such as a terrorist list. Under the legislation, they could be two or three generations removed from bein…
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Madam Speaker, I agree completely with my colleague from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. Again, here we have the member for Winnipeg North, who has been here forever—
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With regard to the Royal Canadian Air Force: (a) how many filled fighter pilot positions were there in each year from 2020 to 2025; (b) how many fighter pilot positions in total were available to fill in each year from 2020 to 2025; (c) how many combat ready CF-18 flying positions were available to fill in each year from 2020 to 2025; (d) how many flying positions were available that were not comb…
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Mr. Speaker, new reports from the Department of National Defence confirmed today that less than 50% of the equipment used by our armed forces is operational. Only 46% of our navy ships are seaworthy, and fewer than half of the land vehicles and aircraft needed by our army and air force are even serviceable. While the Prime Minister makes grandiose claims of fixing the armed forces, the actual numb…
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Mr. Speaker, throwing money at the problem does not fix the problem. The facts show that the lost Liberal decade has reduced the capabilities needed by the armed forces to protect Canada today. Last year, the department said it would meet its targets this year, but now the Liberals have kicked the can down the road for another seven years before the operations of the armed forces will be up to sta…
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Mr. Speaker, it is indeed an honour to rise in this place, thanks to the support of the great people of Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, many of whom I have been hearing from on Bill C-2. I will be splitting my time with the member for Edmonton Griesbach. Conservatives have always supported toughening up our borders, and making sure that we are not just securing our borders, but protecting communities a…
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome the member to the national defence committee with me. We are both serving as vice-chairs on the national defence committee. I know there has been much debate about how the Liberals have failed on the border, how they ignored illegal migration, like we saw at Roxham Road and Emerson, Manitoba. They welcomed everybody with open arms rather than actually trying to fix the third…
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Mr. Speaker, what I am commenting on is that the government plans on moving the Coast Guard under the direction of the Minister of National Defence without actually talking about how they are going to make it a security agency, which it is not; it is a civilian organization. This is something that needs to be clearly identified. It needs to describe how this would count towards the NATO 2%, when t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Coast Guard does play an important role. If the Liberals were going to move it over to National Defence and start transitioning it to be a paramilitary organization to actually be able to do interdictions and border security, I would be very supportive of that. However, right now, I just want to know if this is anything that means anything in National Defence, or is this …
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C-5 was just introduced in the House for debate on Friday. We have only had a few hours of debate on it already. The Liberals are up to their old tricks again, trying to ram through legislation without giving Parliament the opportunity to debate this bill. We know that it would not repeal the “no more pipelines” act or the “no more tankers” act. We know that it would not help wit…
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the Prime Minister, we actually delivered for our military. We bought five brand-new CF-17 Globemasters, new Hercules, new Leopard tanks and new Chinook helicopters. We delivered. Instead, what we have here is an Auditor General report referencing her 2018 report on Canada's fighter jets. That report said the biggest obstacle to meeting operational requirements was a shortage o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General just slammed the Liberals in her report this morning, saying what we have known all along: the Liberals have broken our military. Today's F-35 report criticized the Liberals for misleading cost projections that are 50% higher, by over $14 billion; ongoing construction delays for necessary infrastructure; ignoring the severe pilot and mechanic shortage; and implemen…
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Mr. Speaker, nobody believes them. After 10 years of the Liberals, our warships are rusting out, our fighter jets are worn out, and our troops are burnt out. Today, the Canadian Armed Forces is short 13,000 troops, due to the Liberals' recruitment and retention crisis. An additional 10,000 personnel are under-trained and non-deployable. Over the past decade, the Liberals lapsed $12 billion in defe…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is not new to this place, and he should know that he cannot use proper names of those who are currently sitting in the House. I think he should retract that he mentioned the Prime Minister's name. He should also resign.
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Mr. Speaker, after the lost Liberal decade of Justin Trudeau and company, our military is gutted, and Canada has been left weaker, poorer and defenceless. For 10 years, the Liberals failed to take our national defence and security seriously, instead relying on our allies to defend Canada's sovereignty. The Canadian Armed Forces is facing a devastating recruitment crisis and does not have enough so…
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Madam Speaker, the intervention by my friend and colleague was great, and I want to thank him for the expertise he brings to the chamber on the issues of public safety and criminal justice. One of the reasons I got involved in politics in 2003 and was elected in 2004 was that I opposed the Liberals' long-gun registry. Over the past 10 years, the Liberals have continued to vilify law-abiding long-g…
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Mr. Speaker, Jimmy Lai is a father, brother, uncle and grandfather with strong ties to Canada. He is a British citizen, a pro-democracy leader, a media freedom champion and a prisoner of conscience. Since December 2020, Hong Kong authorities have held Mr. Lai in solitary confinement on trumped-up charges under their authoritarian national security laws. That is over four years, and for what crime?…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Winnipeg North for expressing his condolences to the Nowell family as well. I know that we are all very grateful to the great people of Lac du Bonnet for how they have stepped up. Whether it is the volunteer firefighters; the municipal operators; the volunteers who have opened up their homes and opened the arena, which they used as a centre of operations; everyb…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate you on your new role in the chair. You look great. I know it is something you are going to do an incredibly good job at, and that you will let me speak on and on tonight as I need to. Since this is my first opportunity to rise in the chamber, I want to send out my thanks to the great people of Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman for putting their trust in me again, for th…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that in the province of Manitoba we are lucky that we have a fleet of water bombers that are operated under contract by two different companies. We know that Minnesota has also sent up some aircraft. There is no doubt that, as was mentioned earlier, there might be a desire to have surge capacity at a federal level. There is a moral risk with that too. If provinces see that the …
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Mr. Speaker, my friend is right. Many different organizations, service clubs and community organizations right across the province have stepped up and have organized volunteers from every community to help those who are in need.
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Madam Speaker, the tone of the member for Kingston and the Islands as he is quoting scripture is nothing more than anti-Christian bigotry—
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Madam Speaker, that has to be the worst speech ever by the member for Winnipeg North. It was tough to listen to and completely irrelevant. Of course, it will be irrelevant because he is spreading misinformation. He is making use of the state broadcaster to push out the Liberal narrative without any actual evidence in it. We know he does not want to talk about how the Conservatives increased the nu…
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With regard to Canadians detained or incarcerated abroad: (a) how many Canadians are currently detained or incarcerated in Hong Kong; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by length of incarceration and type of charge or accusation that resulted in the detainment or incarceration?
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North gets in here, all sanctimonious, with all sorts of machinations of what is happening over on the Conservative side, and he is making it up as he goes along. He says that we are bringing forward a filibuster. We are on a different motion from what he was debating this whole time. We are talking about a concurrence report from the Standing Committee on In…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising today to speak about the green slush fund scandal, which we have been debating here for some time. Particularly, I am speaking to the subamendment, which would change the amendment by adding “except that the order for the committee to report back to the House within 30 sitting days shall be discharged if the Speaker has sooner laid upon the table a notice from the Law Cl…
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We know, Mr. Speaker, that the minister loves to fudge the numbers. In reality, the former Conservative government bought five C-17 Globemasters, 17 new Hercules, 15 Chinook helicopters and 100 Leopard tanks; modernized the Auroras and Halifax-class frigates; and fought alongside our American allies against ISIS and the Taliban. Will the Prime Minister reverse his $2.7-billion cut to our armed for…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister has broken in the Canadian Armed Forces. Under the Prime Minister, our warships are rusting out, our fighter jets are worn out, our army has been hollowed out and our military is so short of soldiers, sailors and aircrew that our troops are burnt out. We are short 15,000 troops. Even his own defence minister has described the …
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Madam Speaker, I am with my colleague from Kelowna—Lake Country. I just wish that the member for Winnipeg North would quit filibustering in here and actually do his job and turn over the documents so that we can get to the bottom of this. We just heard from the Bloc that the extension of hours next week was not the Bloc. We know it was not the Liberals who were extending hours. It was the NDP. We …
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Madam Speaker, we just witnessed some very partisan comments from the member for Winnipeg North of the Liberal caucus on this very serious issue, which would impact Canada and all Canadians. This is a time that we need to put partisanship aside. Would my colleague from the NDP agree to put partisanship aside to work together in the best interests of protecting Canadian jobs, protecting Canadian sa…
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Madam Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby gives a very interesting revisionist history. The NDP has been the party that has kept the Liberals in power; the Liberals are here because of the ongoing support of the NDP. Going into the by-elections this fall, the leader of the NDP said that he had torn up the agreement, which was so they could win their seat back in Elmwood—Transcona. Ther…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his hard work in making sure we always stand up against corruption, we stand up for democracy and we stand up for the proper governance of the House of Commons and of cabinet. Meanwhile, we are witnessing the Liberals' refusing to co-operate with the Speaker. They are refusing to hand over the documents so the RCMP can do its work. We have been waiting for t…
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Madam Speaker, no, there was not. We wrapped up our war efforts in Afghanistan and were downsizing our military efforts in Iraq and Syria. Sure, we rolled down those operations, so defence spending dropped. When the Library of Parliament looked at the numbers, actual national defence expenditures in the department right now by the Liberals is 0.95%.
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Madam Speaker, for the member for Winnipeg North, who does not know the numbers, I will explain that the only way the Liberals got their numbers up is that in 2017 they asked permission from NATO to add in, and there is an order paper question that just proved it, $6.5 billion from veterans' pensions, defence employees' pensions, and Coast Guard, which is not a paramilitary organization.
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