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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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With regard to the government’s $700 million loan to Air Transat announced in 2021: (a) what is the loan repayment schedule for the (i) principal owed, (ii) interest owed; (b) did the government exercise the right to purchase 13 million shares, and, if so, (i) on what date were they purchased, (ii) what was the cost per share; and (c) what have been the results of the annual job monitoring done on…
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With regard to government dealings with Telesat, since November 4, 2015: (a) what are the details of all loans, grants, or other financial contributions that the government has provided to Telesat, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount, (iii) type of contribution (loan, non-repayable grant, etc.), (iv) repayment terms, if applicable, (v) amount repaid to date, (vi) purpose, (vii) total ho…
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With regard to government dealings with Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions: (a) what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that Brookfield and its subsidiaries do not receive any special or favourable treatment when it comes to government procurement as a result of Mark Carney’s appointment as an advisor to the Prime Minister; (b) are measures in place to rem…
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Madam Speaker, I, too, would like to offer my sincere congratulations to the member for her maiden speech and for being elected in Elmwood—Transcona. When I was first elected, one of the very first speeches I gave in this chamber was about a conflict of interest report on a Liberal member. Today, this member got to give her speech on the topic of the day, which is on government corruption and scan…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost as they continue to crush the Canadian energy sector. This week, they announced their job-killing oil and gas production cap. Enbridge, a company based in Calgary, is taking its $700-million investment out of Canada to build a pipeline in America. That is jobs and powerful paycheques for American pipeline workers, for American …
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Mr. Speaker, it is time for the Liberals to get back to the real world where Canadians are struggling to eat, heat their home and house themselves. While the minister tries to claim that the production cap is going to create thousands of jobs, his own department is saying that it is going to cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars and that we are going to lose thousands of jobs. The Canadian…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is a man of great experience but also of great integrity. Over the course of his career, he has demonstrated that. Over the course of the current government, it has demonstrated the exact opposite. In fact, over one-third of all scandals in the history of Canadian governance have been committed by the current government alone. I wonder if my colleague has any thoughts a…
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Mr. Speaker, we know the member opposite is from the “have a yacht” club. I am wondering if she could talk more about people who have not—
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Mr. Speaker, after nine long years, Canadians are desperate for a change from the NDP-Liberal government. Food Banks Canada recently released its HungerCount report. Over two million Canadians are visiting food banks each month. The report found a 6% increase in food bank visits compared to the previous year, which had already broken a previous record. That is what we are seeing happen under this …
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With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the hours of operation at all land ports between Canada and the USA: (a) is the CBSA currently considering or planning (i) any reduction in hours or service at any land points of entry, (ii) to close down any land points of entry; (b) if the answer to (a)(i) or (a)(ii) is affirmative, what reductions or closures are being considered or pl…
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Madam Speaker, Conservative values are about empowering people. I know the member will have heard us talk about powerful paycheques. The whole point of having a powerful paycheque is not only to enable a person to have a pension with their employer, but also to allow them to make other investments if they want, because they have more of their own money in their own pockets, rather than paying it t…
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Madam Speaker, I have been here for five years, and I never hear Bloc members talk about separating or about their independence. I do not think they are truly interested in that. I think they want to keep the arrangement going as it is. They keep stringing along voters by saying they care about their independence, yet they have voted with the government over and over again. They have supported the…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour and privilege to rise in the House of Commons to speak on behalf of the great people of southwest Saskatchewan. I have done so many times before, and there seems to be a recurring theme that when I rise in this place, it is to talk about Liberal scandals. It has happened over and over again. If Liberals want to keep abusing the taxpayer, Conservatives are goin…
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Madam Speaker, maybe the member should be asking whose pockets the Liberals are going to line next. Conflict keeps happening over and over with the government. Let us talk about unions and take a look at what they are saying. They are looking at what the government is doing with some of its legislation, legislation that is going to strip away the hard-fought and hard-earned rights of unions, such …
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Madam Speaker, it was great to be able to serve on the industry committee with the member. We are both New England Patriots fans, so we had some chats about that as well. I think what is important here is that it is the will of Parliament to have these documents turned over to the RCMP, and then we will let the RCMP decide what to do with them. Once the papers are turned over, at that point I thin…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. We can look at the different standards that exist, such as what happened long before I was in this place when a colleague was held accountable over a $16 glass of orange juice. The Chrétien-Martin government was held accountable by Canadians for the sponsorship scandal, which was way less than this scandal. We are at over $400 million. The Auditor G…
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition I am presenting is regarding our border. Many citizens from Cypress Hills—Grasslands have written to me to express concerns about potential border closures and reduction of services. They note the border crossing is important to the economic activity and also as a front line to the safety and security of Canadians. Therefore, petitioners want to make sure they are …
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Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present today. The first one is in regard to Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted in China since 1999 by the CCP, which launched a campaign to have the faith eradicated in China. L.I. Yongmei is the mother of Suting Li, a resident of Calgary. L.I. Yongmei received her second prison sentence in 2023, for five years, because she is a practitioner of …
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Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague's speech. In particular, he talked a lot about innovations in agriculture and how they have been born from the farm gate. Generally, farmers have led innovation because their livelihoods depend on it. They take care of the soil, take care of the water supply and take care of everything around them because that is in their best interests…
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Mr. Speaker, I know the member who spoke has done a lot of great work on the environment file. I know he cares very much about the environment. When we look at this fund that we are debating here today, it operated smoothly across multiple governments up until the current government got elected and started meddling with it. Then we started to see conflicts of interest and to see Liberal insiders g…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague opened her speech by telling us a story about what happened in committee with a witness when a lawyer who represented that person lost it on a Conservative member of the committee for simply asking some very basic questions. It is pretty clear what is happening here: Liberal insiders got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and the lid got slammed on them. How many m…
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Madam Speaker, I just wanted to get my colleague's thoughts on something here. Back in the 1990s, the Liberals were famous for the sponsorship scandal, in which former prime minister Chrétien was trying to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on building unity after the Quebec referendum. However, Liberal insiders took advantage of a national unity crisis to get rich, with over $100 million being…
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Madam Speaker, I got up in the House of Commons to speak about the capital gains increase and what it meant for Canadian farmers during question period. I thought I would take a few moments today just to explain to Liberals how farming actually works. I do not think they fully understand how it works over on that side, particularly when it comes to generational farm transfers throughout families. …
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Madam Speaker, yes, all boats can rise with the tide, but they can all sink with it too. Given what the Liberals are doing with the capital gains tax increase, let us look at what they have done for farmers in nine years. The Liberals are raising taxes by 30% on farmers. That will not make farmers better off. They are hammering them with the carbon tax, which will be quadrupling very soon. Farmers…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague's speech was excellent. Could he comment briefly on the fact that corruption seems to start at the very top of the Liberal Party, beginning with the Prime Minister, and has permeated through, all the way down?
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Madam Speaker, the member over here knows that the question the member tried to ask was not relevant to the debate or even the business—
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Carbon taxes are up, and because of the Prime Minister's radical obsession with taxing Canadians into poverty, their costs are way up. Thankfully, time is up on his carbon taxes. We just received further confirmation that the carbon tax does blow a huge hole in the wallets of Ca…
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Madam Speaker, I was asked yesterday during debate about what could be done to prevent something like this from happening again. One thing that I think is missing is the will of the government to demand that the taxpayer be made whole. There seems to be a lack of a penalty for people who are caught furthering their own personal interests when they are put into these positions of trust at these boa…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. With the House of Commons ground to a halt because of the Liberal government's refusal to turn over documents, I would like to take some time to remind the House of another Liberal scandal that will not be going away anytime soon. The labour minister from Edmonton is still under a…
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Madam Speaker, I would encourage that member to read the book that Jody Wilson-Raybould wrote in regard to this. The clerk, Michael Wernick, was acting on behalf of the Prime Minister, but there are also some very interesting tidbits in her book about the Prime Minister's conduct toward her in regard to pressuring her to get the deferred prosecution agreement. There is actually substantive evidenc…
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Madam Speaker, every person, when found guilty, has the right to a fair trial. Mr. Firth was found guilty. If somebody was found guilty, they would have gone to jail. It is not just our opinion that Mr. Firth is guilty. I look forward to one day, hopefully, seeing some justice. Now, Canadians also want to see justice for their $200 million that was stolen from them.
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Madam Speaker, one of the most important parts to what is missing here is that the government should just operate in an ethical manner. We have seen this happen over and over again. This is not the first time the House has requested documents. It is not the first time the House has been blocked after a request for the production of documents. I am sure the member has been at committees, as it has …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague has done a lot of great work in getting us to where we are today with this production document. After nine years of this tired NDP-Liberal government, this is the continued behaviour that we seem to be getting from them. It is across multiple departments, it is across multiple members of their caucus, and it is up to the opposition to hold this government accountable. W…
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Madam Speaker, I think there is a fine line here about naming individuals. If it is just the name of a public servant who was working on a certain case, but was not part of the conflict, then of course that particular individual would have the right to privacy. Where I want to make sure that we get this right is if someone is applying for public funding, and like Kristian Firth, for example, found…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour and a privilege to rise in this House on behalf of the great people of southwest Saskatchewan. It is particularly an honour to speak to the privilege motion that we are debating here once again today. Back in 2019, when I ran in my nomination, the government was embroiled in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, and that was not the first scandal that the government was de…
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Madam Speaker, I have a couple of points on that. When the Prime Minister took his trip with the Aga Khan, he did not bother to consult with the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. I went to Florida. I submitted to the commissioner where I was going and what I was doing. I filed that with him and got the approval to go. Guess what. I do not have a conflict of interest report in my name. …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Taxes are up for everyone, and in Saskatchewan, our hospitals and schools will pay $380 million in carbon taxes alone. This is money that should be used to hire doctors, nurses, technicians, teachers and educational assistants. Instead it is being used to line the pockets of …
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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 Prime Minister wants to quadruple the carbon tax, but to appease his new unelected finance minister, Mark “carbon tax” Carney, he is implementing a second carbon tax that will cost Canadians another $9 billion on top of the already $25 billion that the carbon tax is costing. Cos…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in this place on behalf of the great people of southwest Saskatchewan. As I begin my intervention here tonight, harvest is happening in Saskatchewan. We are not quite three-quarters of the way done in the province. There is a lot higher percentage done in southwest Saskatchewan. In fact, I was riding on a combine just last week with a farmer and we wer…
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Madam Speaker, I will quickly read a quote from the Canadian Trucking Alliance: Due to razor thin margins in the trucking industry, these added costs cannot be absorbed and must be passed on to customers. As virtually every good purchased by Canadian families and businesses involves truck transportation, this means those families and businesses are paying increasingly higher prices for those goods…
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With regard to the government's commitment to a net-zero electricity grid by 2035: (a) who has the government consulted to date on how to reach net-zero, including (i) who was consulted, (ii) how they were consulted, (iii) when they were consulted, (iv) the feedback that each consulted party provided; and (b) has the government conducted any analysis related to how much wind, solar, hydro, nuclear…
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With regard to Bill S-14, An Act to amend the Canada National Parks Act, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act, the Rouge National Urban Park Act, and the National Parks of Canada Fishing Regulations: did any government department or agency do any consultations related to the proposed measures in the bill, and, if so, (i) who were the groups and people that were consulted, (ii) how muc…
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Madam Speaker, I really appreciated my colleague's speech because he really broke down to nuts and bolts what the government is trying to do to hunters and sport shooters. One thing the Liberals quite often say is that they are going to buy back firearms, but the government never owned the firearms in the first place. I wonder if my friend could just explain to the Liberals that when they do not o…
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Madam Speaker, the government likes to say a lot of pretty words about housing and how housing is so important. I am curious if the member can let the House know whose idea it was to come up with the catalogue for housing. They put millions of dollars into a catalogue and thought somehow it was going to be a solution to the housing crisis.
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Mr. Speaker, I was really happy to hear the leader of our party talk about his support for the optional first nations resource charge. This would allow first nations to decide whether they want to have a greater share and greater participation in resource development on their lands. I think it is a great opportunity to allow for economic reconciliation, to allow for self-determination and for them…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it fascinating that the member referenced how many tax dollars the Province of Quebec has paid into the federal coffers, but that his party turned around and voted for the government spending all of Quebeckers' hard-earned money on other things. We can agree on one thing, which is that the federal government needs to respect provincial jurisdiction. However, the member's party …
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to touch really briefly on one thing. One of the biggest threats to our native prairie grass is the government's management, through Parks Canada, of the Grasslands National Park especially. The way it is handling the species at risk there is by adding more species than were there before; being an adversary for the producers there, who are actually doing a great job of mai…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour once again to rise on behalf of the great people of southwestern Saskatchewan. There is no shortage of issues to talk about today, especially as we are debating the budget implementation act, yet again. I first want to talk about the livestock tax deferral. This was in the budget. It was one of only two or three items that dealt with agriculture when the Liberals table…
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