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Mr. Speaker, any improvement to the auto industry will affect any province across Canada that builds for the auto industry. In Quebec, they build for the auto industry. More cars being made means more work for those companies in Quebec and provinces across Canada that are producing parts for the auto industry, whether they do assembly in that province or not.
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure about those tariffs the member is talking about. What I do know is that we should not have any tariffs. We have enjoyed free trade between Canada and the United States for many years. We need a strong leader to go to bat and do those negotiations in Washington, which will bring about a free trade situation again.
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Mr. Speaker, honestly, I agree with my colleague. I do not understand the Liberals' plan either. It benefits a foreign, hostile country by accepting imports of its vehicles and it gives an incentive to buy other foreign-made cars. When Canadians, who are not getting the jobs to build cars, need a car, they are going to dig deeper into their pockets to buy an electric vehicle that is being incentiv…
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Mr. Speaker, if the Conservative Party starts making deals with other companies for production, we are going to tie those companies to agreements that will support workers. We are going to tie those agreements and that money to jobs. We are not going to just make contracts with companies without assurances that our workers will have jobs.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to rise today in strong support of today's Conservative auto strategy. For far too long, Canadian and Windsor auto workers have been tossed aside because the government is subsidizing foreign electric vehicles and standing by as thousands of Canadian auto jobs vanish, all while prioritizing everyone but our own workers. Despite this, I have good news. Today's Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today in support of Bill S-227, a bill that would recognize April as Arab heritage month in Canada. This matters to Arab Canadians, especially in a city like mine, Windsor. Windsor has always been a working city, a city built by people who showed up ready to work, people who believed that, if one put in the effort, they could build something better for their famil…
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Mr. Speaker, 1,200 more auto workers in Oshawa just lost their jobs. Brampton workers are still waiting on the Liberals to respond to their 3,000 jobs that were lost. Windsor thrives on auto manufacturing and now we are left worried about our future. The Liberals promised a deal for Canadians. They promised to defend Canadian jobs, but every week, the government fails on all accounts. When will th…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are being crushed by the cost of food, and the solution from the Liberal government is more red tape, more bureaucracy and more empty promises. Just months ago, the Prime Minister told Canadians that he should be judged by the cost of groceries. Well, the verdict is in. According to Statistics Canada, food inflation rose 6.2% year over year, with groceries up 5% and restaura…
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Mr. Speaker, let us be clear about this new trade deal with China. All we see is that Canada gives and China gets. The Prime Minister is calling this a strategic partnership, but for Windsor workers it looks like a raw deal. He is opening the door to nearly 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles and flooding our market while getting nothing concrete in return for our auto sector. There is no permanent t…
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Mr. Speaker, at industry committee again yesterday, the finance minister falsely claimed there were the strongest protections for auto jobs at Stellantis. Well, we all know the outcome of that: 3,000 job losses in Brampton and $13 billion of investment by Stellantis in the United States. The contract was so badly written that the job numbers were only cloaked, aspirational, with no penalties. How …
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Madam Speaker, the budget continues a regimen of massive borrowing that would burden our generations to come. Canada is experiencing an economic structural problem that will need severe action to mitigate further decline of its status among the G7 nations. The severity of our situation is evident by realizing that Canadians' debt-to-disposable-income ratio is now at $1.75 to $1; for every dollar o…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sorry, but I do not agree with the member opposite. Windsor—Tecumseh has not seen benefits from anything that the government has done recently. There is definite uncertainty when it comes to auto jobs. We do not know what is going to happen with tariffs. We do not know what is going to happen with our automotive plants. When we talk about this new budget, we have a lot of small a…
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Mr. Speaker, I have heard from many residents. I have talked to a lot of residents, especially in the past several days and over the weekend. So many are complaining that, even more than a few months ago in the summertime, prices have increased. They have had to cut more of the foods they want and need from their grocery budget. This is totally unacceptable. We need our communities and we need our…
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Mr. Speaker, plain and simple, this budget would do absolutely nothing for people who live on fixed incomes. These people are starving. They are worried about the roofs over their heads. Some are leaning toward homelessness and might end up being homeless. This is unreasonable. This is not sustainable. We need better supports for people on limited incomes.
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Mr. Speaker, this budget proves one thing: The Liberals do not understand how real Canadians live. Every dollar the government spends comes straight out of Canadians' pockets, and under the Prime Minister, everything costs more. After years of inflation and higher taxes, the Liberals have chosen to raise the industrial carbon tax. This means higher prices at the checkout line. Why is the Prime Min…
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Madam Speaker, each month in Canada, there are over 2.2 million visits to food banks. We talk about these numbers every day, and we watch them increase every month. These are not just numbers, colleagues; these are the people we serve. Many of them are workers whose paycheques have not gone up the way grocery prices have. The Liberal government, however, thinks Canadians should sacrifice even more…
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Mr. Speaker, after Stellantis was handed $15 billion for an EV battery plant in Windsor, it has now sent 3,000 jobs from Brampton to the United States. In my community, workers are now worried about their own jobs, how they are going to pay their mortgages and how they are going to feed their families. Canadians deserve transparency about the multi-billion dollar contracts they paid so much for. C…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore. I would like to thank my community for putting their trust in me. I promise I will always work very hard to deserve it. Today I would like to acknowledge my friend and the mayor of Windsor, Drew Dilkens. Mayor Dilkens is currently recovering from a recent surgery for prostate cancer. I admire him for his ch…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal housing chaos, buyers cannot buy, sellers cannot sell and builders cannot build. My community has an unemployment rate of over 11%. It is the highest in Canada, and now we have one of the highest markets in which to buy a home. A new report states that ownership is only for the very wealthy in Windsor. When will the Prime Minister stop his empty promises? Whe…
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Mr. Speaker, Windsor has an unemployment rate of 11.1%, the highest in Canada. The Prime Minister came home empty-handed after tariff negotiations, causing people to tighten their purse strings because of the economic uncertainty that the Liberal government has caused. The women's unemployment rate has increased by 12%, and now more people cannot afford rent, gas and food. Everyone worries about b…
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Mr. Speaker, a new report says that the U.S. tariffs on Canada's auto sector could kill 50,000 jobs. The Prime Minister promised elbows up with the U.S., but it has been elbows down. He said he was the man with the plan, but he has been unable to get a deal, directly threatening the jobs of Canadian auto workers. We need real solutions for Canadians. Can the Liberal government tell us how many job…
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Mr. Speaker, time after time, the Liberal government must be held to account for its mismanagement of Canadian dollars. Now we have even more damning evidence showing that the Liberals have lost control over their spending on consultants. GC Strategies, which is linked to the arrive scam, got 106 contracts, worth $93 million. The Auditor General has said that Liberals frequently disregarded procur…
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Mr. Speaker, we have a new Prime Minister, but nothing has changed. He is proposing the same spending that will cause the same painful consequences for Canadians. People in the auto industry in Windsor, Ontario, are worried about losing their home if they are laid off. The results of Liberal spending are missed mortgage payments and skyrocketing job losses. Why is the Liberal government asking to …
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Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to stand in the House on behalf of the people of Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore. Windsor workers are rightly worried. They are worried about threats from the United States toward their jobs. They are worried about their shifts being cut. They are worried about paying their mortgage and putting food on the table. In Windsor, we can literally see the car manufacturers and indu…
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