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Mr. Speaker, my colleague brought up the Liberal government's overreach and the distrust that Canadians have. We have seen the Liberals' track record of freezing the bank accounts of people they do not agree with, their ideology and the list goes on and on. I would like for him to expand on why Canadians distrust the Liberal government so much.
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Mr. Speaker, after a year of the Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians got more rhetoric, not results. Instead of energy security and thousands of new jobs, the Liberals blocked pipelines. Instead of investments and growth, the Liberals drove out more than half a trillion dollars' worth of it. Liberals liberalled. Canada finished 2025 with a shrinking economy, the second-highest unemployment rate and …
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Mr. Speaker, that guy from Alberta should be ashamed of himself for supporting the same government that keeps blocking pipelines and other energy projects. That is why 100,000 jobs were lost in the last month. Most of those were in the private sector. Other G7 countries' economies are growing. Canada's is shrinking. We are all facing the same global factors. It is shrinking because the Prime Minis…
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Mr. Speaker, believing the Liberals are helping Canadians is as ridiculous as believing the budget will balance itself. The Prime Minister doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit, while consumer debt skyrocketed last year. Liberal deficits and taxes are forcing Canadians to borrow more, and they are racking up their credit cards just to get by. Non-mortgage debt has exploded to $675 billion. That is why …
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal deficits and taxes drove up inflation and food bank usage. Canada has the highest food inflation in the entire G7, double that of the U.S. Canadians spend more on Liberal taxes than on all basic essentials combined. Consumer bankruptcies are rising, and bankruptcy proposals are at levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. When will the Liberals scrap the taxes and infla…
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Mr. Speaker, today the Bank of Canada's report clearly says that two-thirds of the food prices we see today have to do with domestic factors and not with anything else. Could the leader please talk a bit more about those factors, including the inputs that go into food, and what the Conservative plan would be to get us out of this hellhole that the Liberals have put us in, which made Canada's food …
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Mr. Speaker, we thought Justin Trudeau was the worst money manager in Canadian history. The current Prime Minister said, “Hold my champagne, and watch what I do.” What he did was double the deficit. Can members believe that? We did not think the deficit could get any worse. In fact, when Justin Trudeau left that deficit, it was such a bad budget, such a bad update, that the then finance minister l…
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Mr. Speaker, we all remember when the finance minister made a grand show in 2023, right before Thanksgiving. He said he was going to pull up his pants, roll up his sleeves, call the five major grocery store CEOs, tell them what was on his mind and make sure that grocery prices came down. He put on this grand show. Then the grocery store CEOs came and went. What happened after that? It is almost tw…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister broke his promise that Canada would have the fastest-growing economy in the G7, because the Liberals liberalled. GDP flatlined in November. GDP per person flatlined in 2025, and the Bank of Canada says that Canada's growth will flatline basically all of next year. It is because Liberals drove out business investment, and the Prime Minister has done nothing to repeal…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely right. The Liberals have protected oligopolies, and not just in the grocery sector. If we look at telecoms and banking, we pay some of the highest fees in the entire world. It is because the government drove away competition. It supports banks merging. It supports telecoms merging, whereas Conservatives, as a core belief, believe that more competition is bette…
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Mr. Speaker, with Liberal math like that, it is no wonder Canada's economy is tanking and we have the highest inflation for groceries in the G7. Businesses are postponing any type of expansion, because Liberal taxes and red tape are still making growth impossible. While this government protects oligopolies in banking, telecoms and groceries, Liberals continue to liberal by blocking energy projects…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal over there tries to make it seem like they have worked so hard. Usually, when someone works hard, there is a result. Let us look at their results. We have the highest food inflation in the G7 after they supposedly worked hard. We had $600 billion of good Canadian investment flee to the U.S. because the Liberals worked so hard. Unemployment is up because the Liberals worked…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal math is giving Canadians the highest food inflation in the entire G7. Then they give Canadians their money back, after they have taxed it, and say that this is the solution. I have a simple question for the minister: How much will grocery prices go down after this benefit is adopted?
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask for unanimous consent to split my time.
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Madam Speaker, giving Canadians the money back that the Liberals took from them in the first place does not lower grocery costs. The Prime Minister cannot blame global factors either when all other G7 nations have lower food inflation than Canada does. Liberals raised taxes on farmers, fertilizer and food processors, all while doubling the deficit. Will the Liberals reverse these failed policies, …
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is first in the G7 for food inflation. Canada's food inflation has doubled the U.S.'s inflation at 6.2%. Essentials like lettuce, beef, baby formula and apples have all been hit with Liberal inflation. Conservatives will fast-track any proposal that would reverse having the highest food inflation in the G7. That includes eliminating the industrial carbon tax and Liberal fuel st…
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Mr. Speaker, before telling Canadians to judge him by grocery prices, the Prime Minister should have removed hidden food taxes like the industrial carbon tax, the Liberal fuel standard and the food packaging tax. The verdict is in, and it is very expensive. An average family of four will pay an extra $1,000 in grocery costs next year. In fact, weekly groceries have doubled under the Liberals from …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister wants us to believe he disagrees with everything that he wrote about pipelines over the last 10 years. He supported the Liberals' cancelling a west-coast pipeline in 2016, in his 2021 committee testimony. The Liberals' tanker ban off the west coast makes a pipeline impossible. Will the Liberals admit they were wrong about pipelines and wrong about the tanker ban and…
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Madam Speaker, I am being heckled because the Liberals cannot handle the truth. I would suggest that members from the GTA also talk to their constituents, whom we talk to on a regular basis. They are fed up with failed Liberal policies. Only a Conservative government will unleash our resource sector and get pipelines built. We will make sure we get green projects built. We will get hydro, nuclear …
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Madam Speaker, I was looking for that, and I found it: all the investments that supposedly have led to major jobs. The fact of the matter is that nothing this government has done has moved any needle forward. The member pointed to Stellantis, whose jobs left. Just today, there was news about a Calgary company that is shutting down altogether. The Prime Minister, during the election, said he had hi…
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Madam Speaker, that is a bit rich coming from the member, whose government is the most corrupt government in Canadian history. No one has had more ethics violations than the Liberal Party has had in the history of Canada's government. We will take absolutely no lessons from the member or his party, who over and over again work in the best interests of their rich, elitist buddies and not in the bes…
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Madam Speaker, I want to congratulate the colleague who spoke before me on a great speech. I wonder why he does not speak more in the House. Nonetheless, I congratulate him on a great speech. We thought Justin Trudeau ran things like Fidel Castro, but the current Prime Minister said, “Hold my champagne.” When Canadians scream that there is no democracy happening under the Liberals, the Prime Minis…
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Madam Speaker, to address some of the things my Bloc colleague is asking about, we are always putting amendments forward because we want what is in the best interest of Canadians. This bill, obviously, in 600 pages, is going to slam $80 billion onto Canadians, but the interesting thing is that, at the committee it is supposed to go to, the finance committee, the Liberals are filibustering themselv…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister talks out of both sides of his mouth. He tells the “keep it in the ground” caucus there will be no pipeline, while promising Albertans that there will be. He says that he supports a tanker ban, and then promises to override it. He is going to flip-flop on the pipeline until after the election, pretending he wants to build—
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are talking out both sides of their mouths. The Prime Minister tells his “keep it in the ground” caucus there will be no pipeline. He tells Alberta that there will be one. He says he supports a tanker ban, but then promises to override it. He is going to flip-flop regarding the pipeline until after the election, pretending he wants to build one without ever offending his …
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Brampton West touched upon something that I know he is very passionate about, and that is the issue of extortion. Under the Liberal government's soft-on-crime policies, the rate of extortion has exploded 330%. It is because criminals today have more rights than the victims do because of those soft-on-crime policies. I wonder if the member could describe a bit more what …
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Mr. Speaker, the leave-it-in-the-ground Liberals outed themselves, admitting their fake announcement last week was not a pipeline approval. The eco-radical Liberal member for Victoria admitted there is no route, there is no project and there is no proponent, which means no pipeline. Who needs pipeline opponents when we have Liberal caucus members like that? The Prime Minister is fuelling confusion…
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Mr. Speaker, the difference is that Conservatives will build pipelines while the Liberals build pipe dreams. That answer is as fake as when the Prime Minister said he was working for the best interests of Canadians and not Brookfield. Entropy is a carbon capture company getting massive Canadian handouts. Its biggest investor is Brookfield. The Prime Minister is more worried about making big bucks …
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Mr. Speaker, with the amount of hot air coming out of that member's mouth, I am surprised the Liberals have not slapped a carbon tax on it. That answer was as fake as the Prime Minister's promises. Tomorrow, he will make this grand show and pretend that he wants to get a pipeline built, but he will hide behind someone else and get them to cancel it so that he does not have to do it himself. The on…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is all set to stage a fake pipeline photo op. What he will probably do is hand the veto power to kill that pipeline to the B.C. premier so that he does not have to do it himself. Subsection 92(10) of the Constitution says that the federal government has the sole power to approve inter-provincial projects and get shovels in the ground. The only person blocking the pi…
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Mr. Speaker, I was crunching some numbers and saw that the Liberals committed more than $89 billion to housing, yet housing costs have doubled. They have already created three bureaucracies, which have helped lead to young Canadians not being able to afford a home and losing the dream of home ownership. They are now creating a fourth bureaucracy. Can my colleague please elaborate on the lunacy of …
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Mr. Speaker, the CRA is a mess under that guy, and he is trying out to be a comedian in here. The budget watchdog exposed the Liberals' shady accounting tricks. He said that the Liberals have a less than 8% chance of meeting their own fiscal targets, which they made up while trying to hide $100 billion under so-called investments. The Prime Minister tried this trick in the U.K. He is trying the sa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's costly credit card budget puts today's reckless spending on tomorrow's taxpayers. He is maxing out Canada's credit card. Watchdogs are exposing the Liberals' accounting tricks. Fitch and the budget watchdog say that Canada's credit score is at risk because the Liberals always break their own made-up fiscal targets. How many more fiscal watchdog reports is it going…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister dropped the most expensive budget in Canadian history outside COVID, doubling Trudeau's deficits. Canadians know what that means: higher taxes, slower growth and a debt sentence for future generations. As hard-working Canadians continue to pay the price, Canada's two-tier tax system benefits companies like Brookfield. At the finance committee, witnesses exposed Broo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is avoiding the question like he helped Brookfield avoid taxes. When he imposes higher taxes on Canadians, they have a right to know if the Prime Minister still has money in offshore tax havens. I will give him one more chance. Will the Prime Minister stand up on his own two feet and tell Canadians exactly how much money he has stashed away in offshore tax havens, j…
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Mr. Speaker, is anyone really better off in Canada than they were before? Will this budget make life any more affordable or safer? We thought Justin Trudeau was the worst money manager in Canadian history. The current Prime Minister makes him look like Scrooge, because he just delivered the most expensive budget in Canadian history outside of COVID. In fact, he will double Justin Trudeau's deficit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's $80-billion deficit will cost each Canadian household $5,400 while avoiding the tax pain he imposes on Canadians. This is coming from the guy who set up $30 billion in offshore tax havens for Brookfield when he was the chair. He continues to dodge questions on how much he personally has stashed away offshore while avoiding the taxes he imposes on Canadians. Will t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to put this in terms of everyday Canadians. In fact, in the last Conservative government, food did not cost this much. Housing was half the cost. We did not have an inflationary crisis. It was former prime minister Stephen Harper in the last Conservative government who got us through a global financial crisis and made sure inflation did not go up. It is the incompetent Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague and friend for the tough but fair question, and he is absolutely right. The Prime Minister admits that he does not even do his own grocery shopping, so how would he know that his failed policies and all the advice that he gave to the previous prime minister, have made food inflation double what the bank's target rate is or that the Liberals' industria…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not find any of that in the budget. In fact, what we see is what we saw in the last nine Liberal budgets. We see that housing would get more expensive and less would get built in Canada, as well as a higher deficit, which means Canadians will be paying more for Liberal incompetence. The Prime Minister's banker buddies and bondholders would get more money than what goes to the pr…
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Mr. Speaker, the numbers do not lie. The Liberals have sacrificed the future of young Canadians. The deficit is a massive $80 billion this year, with more inflation and higher costs. The Prime Minister promised he would spend less and again broke his promise and is spending more. He is forcing young Canadians to sacrifice more so he can spend more. After 10 years of the Liberal government, housing…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberal government spends comes out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians through higher taxes and inflation. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is forcing young Canadians to sacrifice more so he can spend more. A costly budget leads to a costly life for Canadians. The Liberals promised a $42-billion deficit. If the Prime Minister really is spending less, the deficit wi…
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Mr. Speaker, I can promise that Albertans will not be happy with that answer, because nine costly, inflationary Liberal budgets have given Canadians double deficits, double debt, double food bank usage, double rents, double mortgages and double inflation. What Canadians do not want is for the Prime Minister to double down on the same failed policies that send 2.2 million Canadians into a food bank…
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Madam Speaker, if any of those programs actually worked, 700,000 kids would not be lined up at food banks every single month. Incompetence pays in the current government. We can look at the justice minister. There are Liberal-made housing, cost of living and food bank crises. Liberal insiders and elitists get paid to enable Liberal failures. When will the Prime Minister stop rewarding Liberal inco…
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years, Liberal insiders and elites never had it so good, but the Prime Minister forces young Canadians to make sacrifices. Young Canadians cannot afford a home, yet CMHC executives got $30 million in bonuses for helping contribute to the Liberal-made housing crisis. Over 700,000 kids line up at a food bank every month, yet BDC executives get $45 million in bonuses for helpi…
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Mr. Speaker, housing was half the cost under our leader when he was the housing minister, and if all of those expensive programs worked, 700,000 kids would not be waiting in food bank lines every single month. Rents have doubled. A P.E.I. senior reported that he is living out of his car because he cannot afford rent, but this is the new normal in Liberal Canada. The only people eating and living g…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told young Canadians to make sacrifices while Liberal insiders and elites have never had it so good. Canadians are lining up at food banks while the Liberals use tax dollars to hand out bonuses. CMHC executives got $30 million in bonuses for helping the Liberal housing crisis. EDC executives got $60 million in bonuses for the Liberal mismanagement of COVID benefits.…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians through higher prices and food inflation. It took decades for food banks to have one million food bank users every month. It took the Liberals just six months to double that number. The Prime Minister said, bet, he is going to double the deficit and make more than 2.2 million Canadians visit a food bank in a …
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Mr. Speaker, if programs like that actually worked and did not feed bureaucracy, 700,000 kids would not be visiting a food bank every single month. Their Liberal deficits are what is making the food go up in cost. This is why grocery inflation is up 4%. People who used to donate and who used to volunteer at food banks are now standing in line for food at those food banks. Why will the Liberals not…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has built the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. Did the Liberals not learn anything from Justin Trudeau, that the more they spend, the worse it gets for Canadians? Ten years of deficit spending has left Canadians with high inflation, and it is only getting worse. In typical Liberal fashion, the Prime Minister promised to cap government spending, yet he is going t…
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