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Mr. Chair, what would have been the revenue to the federal government had the Trudeau Liberals signed those LNG agreements with our most trusted allies: Germany, Japan, Poland and Greece?
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Mr. Chair, the LNG agreement between Japan and the United States is 5.5 million cubic feet of LNG every single year. What is the value of that, in Canadian dollars, had Canada had that agreement?
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise in the House today. Since this is my first opportunity to give a speech in the House since the election, I want to thank the constituents of Foothills and the families in southern Alberta who once again elected me to represent them in the House of Commons. I am honoured that we received the second-highest number of votes in the country, almost 55,000. Only my …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague said something that tweaked my memory. He said that the government is going to spend less so Canadians can invest more. That sounds really familiar to the previous regime, which was using a word salad to try to convince Canadians of something that was not true, like when it said, “The budget will balance itself,” and “We are taking on this debt so Canadians do not have to…
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Mr. Speaker, I just said “Deloitte”. I think that is pretty reputable, as are Farm Credit Canada and the CEO of Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada. The Liberals do not like to hear the numbers. They do not like to hear those stats because they are a direct result of punishing policies being implemented by the Liberal government. However, my colleague across the way is going to love it, bec…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Liberal member's rattling off just about every policy in the Conservative campaign that the Liberals took, and I would encourage her to take all of them. Why stop with just a few? Why take the GST off new homes for first-time buyers only? Why not take the GST off new homes for every buyer so we can have more accessible homes for all Canadians, not just those who are b…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that this is going to be shocking to my colleague from the Bloc, whom I respect a great deal, but the Liberals say one thing during a campaign and do something very different once they have been elected. The Liberals like to say that they are not ready and that it has been only three months. The cabinet has been there for 10 years. It is not like the Liberals just came into a n…
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Mr. Speaker, absolutely, I would argue that it is going to get worse. An $800 tax cut is wiped away by food inflation that is going up every single month; it has done so three months in a row. It is only going to get worse when the Liberals implement their policies like the front-of-pack labelling and the P2 plastics ban. Those two policies alone will increase food costs, potentially, by $14 billi…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that the member is the one who was questioning the data that is coming from Statistics Canada and Farm Credit Canada, the Liberals' own Crown corporation and their own agency. The statistics are coming from their own government. If they do not believe those statistics, maybe they should make some changes within their own bureaucracy. It is interesting that he is …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague made an excellent speech. According to Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, a professor at Dalhousie who is among the national leaders in food pricing, Canada's food inflation is the highest in the G7. This is not a global issue; it is a Liberal-made issue. I would ask my colleague what impact Canada having the highest food inflation in the G7 is having on her constituents and the fam…
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Mr. Speaker, when knocking on doors, I met Foothills families whose members were in tears because they are losing their jobs and losing their businesses because of the Liberal attacks on Canadian energy. These are small business owners who employ hundreds of thousands of Canadians right across this country. They need real action and no more political games. Like the provinces, they want to build b…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister may be meeting, but he sure is not listening. While he dawdles, the opportunities to unleash Canadian energy pass us by because of the Liberals' anti-energy legislation, which blocks infrastructure and blocks investment. The provinces want to build and Canadian workers want to work. Canadians want energy independence, but Bill C-69 blocks pipelines and Bill C-48 blo…
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Madam Speaker, the green slush fund is just an example of when good things can go bad in the wrong hands. In 2015, as an example, when the Liberals formed government, we left them with a very sound financial situation and a balanced budget. It took them about 30 seconds to demolish what the previous Conservative government, under Prime Minister Harper, had worked very hard to build. It left Canada…
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Madam Speaker, it was a Conservative motion, I believe, brought forward by the leader of the Conservative Party, to remove the carbon tax on home heating and the GST on new homes. We have taken those measures. The NDP has kind of followed along, but it comes down to a question I have for the NDP. The NDP leader says every day how awful the Liberal government is, that it is weak and beholden to cor…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question, but I have to correct him. The European Union does not have a carbon border adjustment on agricultural products. The member is misleading Canadians by assuming that we would be blocked from access to European markets if we did not have a carbon tax. That is just simply not true. The European Union does not have carbon border adjustments on agric…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Regina—Lewvan has been an outstanding advocate for Canadian agriculture and farm families. The member is exactly right. This is another example of the Liberals ploughing through a policy without giving it the least bit of due diligence. When my colleague, the member for Regina—Lewvan, asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he knew that the capital gains inclusion r…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Let me state the facts. The Bloc supports an amended Bill C-234, which has been neutered. The Bloc supported the bill as it was when it went to the Senate. The Senate neutered it, taking away literally 90% of the benefit of that bill. The Bloc does not support an unamended Bill C-234, which is what our Canadian farmers want. There is no sense p…
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Madam Speaker, with the holiday season upon us, I just want to take a moment to wish my constituents in Foothills a very merry Christmas. Certainly, all of us in the House understand that our communities are bustling with Christmas shopping, Christmas carols, holiday lights and the celebration of friends and family. At this time of year, I understand the hard work that our volunteers and our commu…
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Madam Speaker, the vote last week was about confidence in the government more than anything. I voted against what is a two-month tax trick. I have heard from small business owners in my riding that it will be extremely cumbersome for them to make all of the changes for what is going to be a two-month break for about four dollars for Canadians, but will increase our debt by $7 billion. I do not thi…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax coalition is delivering to Canadians a Christmas nightmare. “Canada's Food Price Report” showed that, on average, Canadians will spend $800 more on groceries this year. The Prime Minister's carbon tax is making a dire situation even worse. The number of food bank visits in Toronto was up by a million people to 3.5 million visits, a 43% increase in new food b…
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Mr. Speaker, I guess it would take a Festivus miracle to have a serious prime minister who understands that when one increases the taxes on farmers who grow the food and truckers who move the food, one increases the cost of the food. After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, this is the Christmas list Canadians face: grocery prices are up $800, the price of food inflation is up 36% higher in…
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when two million Canadians are forced to go to a food bank in a single month, when food inflation in Canada is 36% higher than it is in the United States and when 25% of children are going to school hungry, the House leader of the Liberal government is making this a partisan thing about protesters at the leader's house. The Liberals should be disgusted that protesters are go…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not good when protesters go to anyone's house, not just the Leader of the Opposition's.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for [Canadians]”, but it only took him two months to renege on his word, reaffirm his commitment to the Prime Minister and his costly coalition and keep Canadians in carbon tax hell. Today, he reaffirmed that he is committed to and shows confidence in the Prime Minister while …
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Mr. Speaker, the documents reveal just how much pain the carbon tax inflicts on Canadians. They will be paying more than $800 million just to administer the carbon tax. Not only have the costs skyrocketed, but the number of bureaucrats just to manage this scam has doubled. Let us put that in perspective. Farmers will pay $1 billion in carbon taxes by 2030, so the Prime Minister is putting the fami…
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With regard to the carbon tax or price on carbon: (a) what were the annual costs to administer the (i) collection of the carbon tax, (ii) rebate program, during the 2023-24 fiscal year; (b) how many employees or full-time equivalents were assigned to work on the (i) collection of the carbon tax, (ii) rebate program, during the 2023-24 fiscal year; and (c) what are the projected costs to administer…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that paying his carbon tax is more important than buying groceries or paying rent. He obviously believes that feeding his obese bureaucracy is more important than Canadians feeding their family. Documents reveal that just to administer the carbon tax will cost Canadians more than $800 million by 2030, an increase of 163%. This is at a time when more than two mi…
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With regard to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s AgriScience Program Clusters Component, broken down by year for each of the last ten fiscal years: (a) which organizations applied for funding through the program; and (b) how much was (i) requested, (ii) received, by each organization in (a)?
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague and the amazing work that he does in his riding, the soup-and-salad bowl of Canada. He brings up an excellent point. Just this week, I had a conversation with a potato farmer from P.E.I. who was in tears over the Liberals destroying his family farm as a result of the carbon tax and decisions that are making farming that much more difficult. I had a conversation …
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Madam Speaker, I sure can. The University of Dalhousie and the “food professor”, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, and other universities did a study that measured food inflation that compared Canada and the United States. They found that for wholesale food prices in Canada, food inflation is 36% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The member can look at the graph that is there; I would be hap…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from the Bloc has a good point. Any legislation tabled by the NDP-Liberal government in its nine years develops a new department, a new level of bureaucracy, a new committee or a new board of directors. That is why we have seen the public service balloon by 50% under the government, and it is clear that, by developing all these new departments and all these new bureaucr…
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Madam Speaker, I have a great deal of respect for my colleague from the NDP, but I have to say I am disappointed in that this discussion is about a level of scandal and taxpayer dollar abuse unlike any we have ever seen before, and he did not ask a question about that. He is asking a question about foreign interference. The Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Opposition's chief of staff…
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Madam Speaker, it is unfortunate I have to rise to speak to this issue. This could have ended days ago had the Liberal government capitulated and shown the documents. It is obviously very frightened to show Canadians the level of scandal that is in those documents. What we as parliamentarians are now facing is a Parliament, a House of Commons and a government in complete crisis. The lengths that t…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to see what lengths the Liberal Party will go to try to deflect and distract from the scandals that are rotting on their side. The Prime Minister, who was—
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Madam Speaker, it is good to see the energy from my Manitoba colleague on the Liberal side. However, the Prime Minister was at the foreign interference inquest, and he claimed that he knows the names of members of Parliament, past and present, who wittingly or unwittingly co-operated with foreign entities and foreign jurisdictions. The Prime Minister has the authority to name those members of Parl…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad at least one Liberal minister understands Canadians are living in expensive times that their policies caused, but let me help her with her answer. Food insecurity in Canada is up 111%, two million Canadians went to a food bank in a single month and food inflation is a staggering 37% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals just are not worth the cost. Today, the HungerCount revealed more than two million Canadians went to a food bank in March, up 6% from the previous year. Food bank use has doubled since 2019 and a third of those relying on food banks are children, meaning millions of Canadian families cannot feed their kids. The NDP-Liberals increased the carbon tax 2…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to give the minister some facts about what Canadian families are facing. Some 35% of Albertan families are skipping meals because of high food costs. Food bank usage in Mississauga is up 60%. Doctors are worried about scurvy because families cannot buy nutritious food. Food inflation in Canada is 37% higher than in the United States. The government's own Parliamentary Bud…
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Mr. Speaker, here are the consequences of the NDP-Liberal plan. A new report shows that 35% of Albertan families are skipping meals because of high food costs, yet the Liberals and NDP tell Canadians that they have never had it so good. I would like to remind the Prime Minister that his own Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that Canadians are worse off paying the carbon tax. In fact, when the…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to give my colleague a lot of credit on that, to come up with that argument. They would rather use the cost of this discussion as a way to hide Liberal corruption and scandals. I guess the Liberal coalition has now grown to include the Green Party. I will go home to my constituents this week and say that I am fighting for their rights every day, to ensure accountability for the…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague brings up an excellent point. The fact that $400 million has been funnelled to Liberal insiders and friends and that this would happen at a time when Canadians are struggling through a cost of living crisis is troubling. I have a very rural riding, as my colleague does, and I have talked to the farmers and ranchers of my riding every week. They are paying $150,000…
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Mr. Speaker, at least some members of my colleague's family are in the right place: They are in Foothills. I appreciate that. To put this as a charter challenge for just asking to have documents made public, documents that are already public that Canadians deserve to see, I find to be such weak sauce from the Liberals. They are so desperately trying to keep these documents under wraps and to keep …
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague puts this in a way that Canadians understand. Sometimes we talk about these big numbers. It is difficult to comprehend, but when we break these numbers down to things that Canadians really understand, they are disgusted by the level of scandal that is in here. I am not sure how many Blue Jays tickets we could have bought for that this year. He is right; this is hu…
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Mr. Speaker, again, I would encourage the member for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill to go back to her riding during the Thanksgiving constituency break and explain to her constituents that they do not have the right to see these documents. We are just trying to do this in the right way. If it is such a procedural issue, they should just table the documents. If there is nothing to be concerned abo…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, the sponsorship scandal was absolutely about propaganda. The Liberal Party was using its resources, taxpayer resources, to give itself an advantage at election time. That is why this helped bring down a government. I was also very proud to be part of a Conservative government, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, that brought forward the accountability act. It established …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is trying very hard to get Canadians not to understand the details, but the details and the facts are that the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed what Canadians already know: They are being robbed by a carbon tax that is driving up the cost of groceries, gas and everyday essentials. In fact, a family in Prince Edward Island will pay almost $1,200 a year when the NDP-L…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is either living in denial or is purposefully misleading Canadians, because the Parliamentary Budget Office's report is clear: It costs Canadians more to pay the carbon tax than what they get back in rebates. If the minister does not believe me, I would encourage him to read the parliamentary budget report. In the interest of time, let me help out: Page 18 states that Can…
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Madam Speaker, integrity, character and trust are what I ran on in my first election in 2014 and what I have run on in every subsequent election. Nothing means more to me than protecting my integrity and character and ensuring that my constituents in Foothills have their trust in me. I have to question how my Liberal colleagues will go home for the Thanksgiving constituency week and look their con…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think many Canadians find the minister making fun of their struggles much of a joke, because the reality is that for many Canadians, buying a turkey for Thanksgiving is just a dream. The Liberal-NDP government has made the Canadian dream a food bank nightmare. A million Canadians in just Ontario went to a food bank last year, up 25%, and now doctors are raising the alarm on s…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, grocery prices are up and time is up. A year ago, the Liberals promised to lower food prices by Thanksgiving. All Canadians got were empty promises and empty stomachs. Now they are going to pay $80 for a turkey this Thanksgiving. Food inflation in Canada is 37% higher than in the United States. Food insecur…
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