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Mr. Speaker, it has been six months and the so-called new Liberal government seems like it is the same as the old one. At first, the Prime Minister sounded different from Justin Trudeau, but we are finding, as time goes by, that the Liberals are using the same old Liberal playbook. He hinted about a fast track to build a pipeline. What actually happened? He created a major project bureaucracy inst…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to be able to rise in the chamber for the first time since we returned from the summer break. We had a great summer in southwest Saskatchewan and in the western part of the province. Farmers have been working really hard. I want to give a quick shout-out to all the farmers and producers who are bringing the harvest in. It has been another interesting growing season. So…
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Mr. Speaker, the RCMP knows where thousands of these drug labs are across Canada, so I do not think it would be that hard of a process to get the warrant needed to search for products. Does the member not agree that there are already measures in place that can be used? If the government had the will in the tone it is setting for how it treats drugs in this country, that would be of great help as w…
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With regard to the government's response to the recommendations outlined in the 21st Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, presented during the 44th Parliament: (a) what is the government's position on recommendation 430 of the report, to amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of "charity" which would remove the privileged status of "advancement of religion" as a charitable purpos…
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With regard to costs associated with the legal proceedings and investigations resulting from the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in January and February 2022 and the associated declaration of a public order emergency: (a) what are the total legal costs incurred to date; (b) what is the breakdown of the costs by year in which they were incurred; and (c) what is the breakdown of the costs by (i) t…
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With regard to the government’s efforts to control inflation: (a) does the government have a target rate specifically for food price inflation, and, if so, what is the current target rate; (b) since the new cabinet was sworn in on May 14, 2025, what measures, if any, have been put in place to reduce food price inflation; and (c) which Ministers, departments or agencies has the Prime Minister taske…
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With regard to the Prime Minister's conflict of interest screen: (a) who in the Office of the Prime Minister or the Privy Council Office is responsible for ensuring that the Prime Minister abides by the terms of the screen; (b) on what date was the screen implemented; (c) on what day did the Prime Minister notify the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner that the screen was in force; (d) wh…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian farmers work hard to feed the world, but they are taking losses from trade barriers imposed by China. Saskatchewan normally exports close to $1 billion in peas to them, but thanks to action by the Liberal Prime Minister, our exports are dropping. Saskatchewan farmers have already lost out on half of their pea exports to China, and now there is a 100% tariff on the rest. The P…
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Mr. Speaker, I really enjoyed the member's speech. In particular, at the start of it, he was talking about the issue of Canadians of convenience. When I meet with people back home, especially people who have immigrated to Canada, they had to work hard. They had to prove they were solvent and had the means to be able to be a contributing member of society. When we look at the bill, we see what the …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian oil and gas is the key to our prosperity. Ten years of Liberal anti-energy laws have kept it in the ground and stopped pipelines from getting built, including laws like Bill C-69, the “no new pipelines” act; Bill C-48, the shipping ban; the oil and gas production cap; and the industrial carbon tax. It is impossible to ignore the national consensus to get rid of these bad Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, Saskatchewan is responsible for over one-fifth of the world's canola exports, with China being one of the largest buyers. The Communist regime in Beijing implemented 100% tariffs on canola oil and meal, but there has been radio silence from the Prime Minister. Farmers plan their crop rotations years in advance, and they have had to ride out this trade war all on their own. Will the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, I think part of the issue that we are seeing with the debate today, with Liberal members giving their speeches, is that there seems to be a bit of a refusal to acknowledge that a pattern has existed with scandal within government. We know Justin Trudeau had multiple ethics reports with his name on them. The minister from Beauséjour has a couple; he made headlines a few times for some …
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the track record of the new Prime Minister. He spent four years advising Justin Trudeau. Is it possible, maybe, that the Prime Minister was advising behind the scenes on GC Strategies? Was he advising behind the scenes? We do not know because he will not file all of his disclosures. He may have been tied in with the Ethics Commissioner prior to becoming Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, after the election was over, and even when we were at the doors during the campaign, people were very clear. They said that if the Conservatives formed government, they wanted to get answers on the Liberal scandals and see some accountability for the green slush fund, SNC-Lavalin, GC Strategies, the list goes on and on. Now that Conservatives are in opposition, they want us to keep pu…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise in this place on behalf of the great people of not just southwest Saskatchewan but also west central Saskatchewan. With the redistribution of the ridings for the past federal election, I have taken on some significant area to the north of what the old riding used to be. It is an honour to be able to represent people from that new area. I want to thank my consti…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for that great question. It should be really simple for the Prime Minister to say he was not part of that and demand the money back. It should be really easy for him to do that if is he is as new and as clean as Liberals say he is. However, because he has been behind the scenes for four or five years, I think it puts him in a tough spot to be the one to de…
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Mr. Speaker, what is the average wage in the oil and gas sector?
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Mr. Speaker, she is saying there is no veto, but we saw the Premier of British Columbia get up clearly and say he would absolutely not support any pipelines. How can she stand up here and say there is national unity when it has been very clear from the Premier of British Columbia that there is no consensus?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is going off the facts. She is saying that there is no mention of pipelines in there. It sounds as though the Liberals are not going to get pipelines built. Now, if there is national consensus, if they are able to get it, will cabinet veto it as it was given to them in the Impact Assessment Act?
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Mr. Speaker, the division has already been sown within their cabinet. In fact, actually, there are two separate environment ministers around the table. Does she agree with that?
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Mr. Speaker, would it build a pipeline?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister has not said the word “pipeline” once. I ask her one more time, would the bill build a pipeline, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister says that they are working in unity, but the only unity that we are seeing is that the Liberals do not want to see another export pipeline built in Canada. Is there consensus, or is there not?
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Mr. Speaker, it appears the moment has already passed for consensus in the country. We heard it here today from the minister. I have a separate question for the minister, though. Will the government remove the emissions cap, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, would the act build a pipeline in Canada, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the previous minister declared there would be no new pipelines, yet he is also saying he is still an environment minister at the cabinet table. How does the minister feel about that?
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Mr. Speaker, would the act build a pipeline, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister still has not said the word “pipeline” here in this House. Why will she not say the word “pipeline”?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister campaigned as the “man with the plan”, but so far he is still following Justin Trudeau's plan, so let us take a look at the results. Canada is staring down the barrel of a recession and the potential loss of 100,000 jobs. Unemployment is now at 7%, the highest in nearly a decade outside COVID. There has been effectively no job growth since January. Over 1.6 million …
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Madam Speaker, it is great to see you in the chair once again. I want to congratulate my colleague for getting elected for the first time. It is a pleasure to work with him. I am just curious to know what the member's thoughts are. We have heard a lot of soft talk from government members on how they want to build nation-building projects, yet we are not hearing about any specific projects. They me…
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on being re-elected once again. The House has already passed a motion, actually an amendment, to the throne speech, asking for a budget to be produced this spring. What are my colleague's thoughts on that and what would his constituents, the people of Quebec, generally think about the government not providing a road map or a budget to show how it will get…
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Mr. Speaker, this is my first opportunity to rise in the House of Commons, and I just want to thank the great people of Swift Current—Grasslands—Kindersley for putting their trust in me for a third time after this last election. I also really quickly want to thank my wife, Kyla, and our three kids for their support. I would not be able to do this job if it were not for my wife and all the things s…
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Mr. Speaker, what would make Canada competitive would be a competitive regulatory framework. With respect to the Impact Assessment Act, the one that has been ruled unconstitutional already, the government has said that it made a bit of changes to it, but we know that there are other unconstitutional elements still in place. It is one of the biggest barriers, one of the biggest problems. We are try…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal anti-energy policies, the devastation continues. There have already been hundreds of thousands of job losses in the industry, and thanks to the radical ministers on the front bench, the Liberal oil and gas production cap has another 54,000 jobs and over $20 billion on the chopping block. The Prime Minister campaigned on having a plan to get things built, yet …
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Mr. Speaker, the opioid crisis is affecting communities all across Canada, but in particular it is hitting rural communities very hard because the health care services and response times are not there to help the people struggling with it. We are also seeing the disproportionate impact it is having on rural communities. I am wondering whether the member has any thoughts on how rural communities ar…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, his Liberal MPs and Canadians as he is desperately clinging to power. He forced the former finance minister to join the ghosts of ministers past in favour of phantom finance minister carbon tax Carney because they thought that her massive deficit was not big enough. With all the chaos he has caused around him, the Prime Minist…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour and a privilege to be able to rise to speak on behalf of the great people of southwest Saskatchewan. I just want to take a moment to wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I want to point out that we are in the Advent season. The first two candles of the Advent wreath have been lit, with the first candle, of course, representing hope and the se…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Regina—Lewvan said that he did not quite get to all the scandals he had on his list because there were just so many of them, so I just want to give him the opportunity. I am just wondering whether he wants to take the last minute or two remaining to talk a bit more about some of the scandals the government has been engaged in over time.
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Mr. Speaker, we are already starting to see the effects of these bad policies the government is putting in place. Enbridge is investing $700 million in an American pipeline down in Texas. Shortly after the American election, TC Energy approved over a billion dollars' worth of capital spending on three natural gas plants. We know Canada has a strategic advantage for producing natural gas, but parti…
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin my late show, I just want to acknowledge that I am joined this week by my daughter, Jada. I was really happy to have my 12-year-old out here with me for the week, so I just want to give a quick shout-out to her. I was also honoured this week to be able to host the U18 Shaunavon Badgers hockey team here in Ottawa. We had a quick little tour on the floor this morning. I r…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to have a chance to address, once again, the government's emissions cap, which is better known as its production cap, because we know that, by implementing the emissions cap, we are going to see a reduction of about a million barrels of oil in production in Canada by 2030. There have been various reports that have been done on this that show this is going to happen. One…
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure why she says we should not focus on the negative. She says we should not focus on the loss of $35 billion from the Canadian economy, the drop in GDP that is going to happen on this or the 150,000 job losses that are going to come about because of the emissions cap. That is what she does not want to focus on. She does not want people to know about these kinds of things.…
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Madam Speaker, the member talked about a few particular energy projects for which I want to take a moment here. The finance minister came to committee and said she thought the government could get back more money than it has spent on TMX, meaning that she thinks it can receive close to $37 billion on its pipeline. The PBO said that it would probably be lucky to get $27 billion; he does not think t…
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Madam Speaker, when it comes to the net-zero accelerator fund, the environment commissioner, in their report, was actually quite clear on the shady nature of what the Liberals are up to. The target for the fund is not public. The formula they are using to measure the success of the fund is not public. They are not letting the public know what they are up to when it comes to this fund, yet they spe…
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Mr. Speaker, today, I am wearing pink to honour the life and legacy of a remarkable young girl, Bella Thomson, better known around the world as Bella Brave. Bella had a big personality and an even bigger TikTok following of seven million people; she would brighten people's day with videos of her dancing, singing and short music video collabs with her mom and even the Calgary Flames. Bella had to o…
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Madam Speaker, part of the reason we are having this debate is that we are continuing to see, over and over, the government get caught in scandal after scandal. Maybe the member could elaborate on why he thinks the government continues to get caught in scandal after scandal, leading the House to being engaged in this privilege debate, which has been going on for a while now.
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Madam Speaker, in my colleague's last response, he talked about something that is very important, which is trust. Can Canadians trust the government? The current government alone is responsible for over a third of all scandals across the Canadian Parliament from the very beginning. When we see one government responsible for that much scandal, how can Canadians trust it?
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Madam Speaker, earlier in the member's speech, she talked about CBSA and the borders. I had an Order Paper question recently with respect to what the Liberal government would do with borders. CBSA is in fact looking at changing the hours of service at multiple border crossings across the country. In particular, it is looking at the amount of cars crossing our borders. If we look at the situation i…
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Madam Speaker, if we want to talk about MPs who had a history of being Ottawa's voice back in their communities, Ralph Goodale was exactly that. We now have a fine colleague here from Regina—Wascana, who is the voice for the people of Regina—Wascana here in Ottawa. He has done a fantastic job, in stark contrast with Ralph Goodale, who was the Liberal mouthpiece back into Saskatchewan. When we talk…
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