Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, this old, tired government creates imperatives with its inaction and then introduces half-empty measures. When will the government introduce that it is going to repeal the oil and gas production cap?
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, there has been $64 million in fraudulent spending on GC Strategies, and not a cent has been returned. Today's Auditor General reports have slammed the government. The F-35s are 50% over budget, up from $19 billion to nearly $30 billion, with more increases expected. Millions of dollars have been spent on transforming office space into housing, and no homes have been built. Why, under …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General tabled a scathing report today on how the Liberals paid GC Strategies, which is now under RCMP investigation, $64 million. In 46% of the contracts reviewed, federal organizations had little to no evidence of receiving deliverables, yet government officials continued to pay. Given that the ministers responsible have yet to get the money back from the fraudsters, how…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, there it is: exactly what I said in response to the previous question. The Liberals want us to believe that they are new, a new Prime Minister and new government, but they are not. They have been in power for 10 years and did nothing to address the issues regarding border security. They keep hearkening back to a decade ago. They have had a decade to do what needed to be done, to do …
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I echo the comments that have been made welcoming you back to the chair. I am pleased to have the opportunity to rise to speak to this important piece of legislation, Bill C-2, an act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures. Finally, after a decade of inaction and repeated …
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, while I do not live in a border community, I know that the issues that stem from not having a secure border are far-reaching across our country. There are myriad issues that need to be addressed. As I stated in my speech, the bill would amend nine acts and introduce a new one. It is a large omnibus bill with many different aspects that would have knock-on effects. As always, the dev…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the attention that the member pays to the financial reports. I know that numbers do not lie, and I agree with him that it is time the Liberals came clean and admitted to their failures of the last 10 years.
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I disagree with the premise of that question. Conservatives have always been concerned with security at our border. We have long been calling for decisive action to protect Canada's borders, and we continue to do so. The government has been in government for 10 years, and it took 10 years for it to introduce this piece of legislation. We know that it is coming at the eleventh hour a…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, the hon. member has been very instrumental in reviewing this piece of legislation, and I absolutely agree with his observations. We have heard more stories like the one he just cited for us in this place. The government needs to ensure that the legislation is going to be robust, and, as opposition, we are going to do the same in addressing the concerns that he just cited.
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I do agree with my colleague. Despite the title of the bill, as I mentioned in my speech, it would go beyond its stated aim to secure our borders. It is a sweeping piece of legislation that stretches far beyond immigration, national security and securing our borders, and I do think it is an attempt to use the guise of border security to push through other unrelated measures and that…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, just when the Prime Minister and his caucus would love us to believe that there is a new government, that member stands up to ask a question and proves, as he does over and over again, that it is the same old, tired government we dealt with in the last Parliament. It should go without saying, and the member would be familiar with this, that I rarely ever agree with anything he says. T…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I absolutely disagree with the premise of the question. What we have here is a government that actually stole many of its ideas from Conservatives. The Liberals say they are going to do these things, yet they have a Speech from the Throne that is ambiguous enough that they will be able to not undertake the things they are promising. They are not bringing forward a budget, so we do not…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has been in office since March 14 and is now pushing a presentation of a budget for six months. He is pushing it down the road, even though the fall economic update was tabled in December of last year. This is not leadership; this is abandonment. That is exactly what the Liberal government does. It is long on virtue signalling and short on being virtuous.
Read full speech →Statements by Members
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has repeatedly refused to be transparent about his financial holdings. Instead of coming clean about his financial interests, he dumped his assets into a blind trust, exposing a loophole in Canada's financial disclosure laws. Through this scheme, he is keeping his financial interests a secret from Canadians in order to escape accountability. This follows a pattern o…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to stand in this place and speak to the Speech from the Throne. As this is the first time I am rising in this Parliament, I would like to take a moment to express my gratitude to the voters in Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek for once again putting their faith in me to be their representative here in Ottawa. It is truly an honour, one that I take very seriously. No one gets here…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise this morning to present a supplementary report on the postal service in Canada's rural and remote communities study. During its study, members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates heard from witnesses who raised concerns regarding the state of the services being provided by Canada Post to Canadians living in rural and remote communities…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, what we have before us is a tax trick and that member called it a vote buy. Through you, should all members not vote against this?
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to rise and speak on the concurrence motion for the 37th report from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. I will be splitting my time with the member for Brantford—Brant. This report states the following: “That the committee report to the House that it calls on the government to prohibit any government employee from simultaneously working as an ext…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I am reminded of my colleague's time on the government operations committee, when he actually helped the Liberals cover up their McKinsey scandal. The Liberals refused to hand over unredacted documents on their close relationship with McKinsey, and the NDP helped them filibuster, when Conservatives tried to raise the issue in the House. It is difficult to reconcile that member's beh…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for the great work that she does in holding the government to account at every opportunity she gets. This motion is about stopping double-dipping. There are instances where outsourcing may be necessary, but it has never been necessary to outsource to public servants. That work should be done in-house. She makes a very good point about the conflict of intere…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, over the two years that I have been a member of the government operations and estimates committee, we have been studying scandal after scandal, and what it all boils down to is whether we have a government that is serious about the role that it has been elected to undertake in managing both the public service and all of the contracting rules that are in place. It does not appear to …
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s report titled “Progress on the National Housing Strategy, June 2024” and the figures listed on page 4 related to the Federal Lands Initiative: (a) what is the number of new units under the Federal Lands Initiative, in total, and broken down by current status, including (i) unconditionally committed, but not yet under construction, (ii) c…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the disposal of federal land for housing: (a) how many properties are currently in the disposal process; (b) how many properties have been declared surplus; (c) how many homes are expected to be built on these surplus properties; and (d) what is the breakdown of (a) through (c) by province or territory and by municipality?
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to rise in the House to speak to the subamendment on the privilege motion moved by Conservatives to try to force the government to finally be transparent about the corruption it has allowed to run rampant, corruption which just happened to benefit its friends who it appointed to the board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Time after time, …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, that is a very good question. I do not think any of us could have imagined the number of scandals that one government would be involved in and that we would see a government working so hard to obstruct not only the work of the House but the work of committees. The Liberal government has a pattern of trying to obstruct our work and of not handing over documents when committees are aski…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, it is really hard to follow the logic of this member. I find that often in this place. We on this side of the House believe it is very important for Canadians to understand what is happening in this place when it comes to the Liberals' absolute disregard for parliamentary process, parliamentary privilege and complying with a parliamentary order. When we stand in this place and say, “N…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I will simply point out that the member and his caucus had an opportunity to vote non-confidence in the government and did not. Now they are saying, three weeks later, that suddenly they have seen the light and really want the opportunity to vote non-confidence in the government. I would encourage him to talk to the members of the NDP caucus. We are ready. We are willing. He has a wil…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I do not think anybody on this side of the House has said that they are against the motion we put forward. Conservatives are looking for transparency and accountability from the government, which continues to defy orders from committees, from the House and from the Speaker himself. The government refuses to hand over the documents, and we see how that went with the Winnipeg lab docume…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, if my colleague really wants me to say who I believe is naive, I am going to say it is the member and his party. They had two opportunities to join us in voting non-confidence in the government. I think it is pretty naive of them to think as they do about reaching the deadline they set, which looks like it will pass with none of the solutions or resolutions they were looking for. They…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, corruption is up, crime is up and time is up. Yesterday the Auditor General announced that she will be investigating the $100 million in contracts awarded by the Liberal government to GC Strategies, a two-person IT company that did no IT work but was paid $20 million for the arrive scam app. It has been months since the Liberal minis…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The corruption of the Liberal government knows no bounds. The Liberal Minister of Employment has continuously misled Parliament about his alter ego, the other Randy. Texts from his business partner reference a Randy, and we now know there was no other Randy involved in the fraudulen…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The green slush fund is more proof that the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost, crime or corruption. They have violated a House order to cover up for their friends. This $400-million Liberal scandal has paralyzed Parliament, making it impossible to address the Prime Minister's agenda of crime an…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I am just going to quote what Michel Bédard said at committee when we were seized with the issue of not being able to get documents as called for: The courts have recognized the existence of the power to send for records and papers. In parliamentary privilege jurisprudence, they have recognized that the exercise of the privilege itself is not something that is subject to court scrutin…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I know my hon. colleague is aware that it is a very long list. It is a very long list that has created deep concern for Canadians across this country, such as when we look at the arrive scam, when we look at the external contracting going to Liberal insiders and their friends, and when we look at the $9-million condo that was purchased for the Prime Minister's media buddy. The list go…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, perhaps he could clarify that with his own colleague, who is asking why we are here today instead of referring it to committee.
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, while there was no question there, I will repeat what many of my colleagues have pointed out, and that is that five years ago, it was a Liberal minister who appointed the board of directors of SDTC, and he and the Liberals need to take responsibility for the appointments and what has ensued since. While the member obfuscates on the issue of ignoring parliamentary privilege, Canadians …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, when Conservatives formed government in 2006, we brought in the Federal Accountability Act, which was to clean up the mess left behind by the previous scandal-ridden Liberal government. However, I would have to admit that no member of Parliament could have foreseen the blatant corruption and disregard for Parliament that the government has shown over the past nine years. I believe we …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, as my colleague from Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes said, “Here we go again”, debating yet another breach of privilege by the Liberal government. The Liberals' continued refusal to comply with parliamentary orders shows their complete lack of respect for this institution and parliamentarians. As frustrating as this is, it is not surprising. After all, on July 25, 19…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, of course my colleague was not sitting on the government operations and estimates committee when the committee was seized with a very similar situation, where we were calling for unredacted documents from a number of departments within government in order to be able to get to the bottom of the contracts that were awarded to McKinsey. It was the member's own colleague from Courtenay—Al…
Read full speech →Statements by Members
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Yesterday, Canadians witnessed the hypocrisy of the Bloc and the NDP as they voted to continue propping up the Prime Minister and his devastating policies. They are content to sit on their hands, allowing the Liberal government to unleash more chaos and suffering on Canadians while …
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Madam Speaker, over the summer recess, I had the opportunity to speak with many constituents, as well as many local businesses. I heard first-hand how the carbon tax burden is affecting them. I was invited to tour the Virtex Grain Exchange in my riding, where non-GMO canola oil is produced. The Virtex Grain Exchange is another testament to the resilient spirit of Canadians fighting to make a livin…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Madam Speaker, that condescending response is just another example of how, when Canadians try to tell the government about how they are struggling, it refuses to listen. Instead, it is intent on drowning out the voices of Canadians with its own deranged ideology. The government has doubled the price of housing and made it easier for criminals to get back on the street; it has caused the day-to-day…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to Canada Post's climate action targets: (a) how much has Canada Post spent on carbon offsets each year since 2015; and (b) how much has Canada Post spent to date on solar panels (i) in total, (ii) broken down by province or territory, (iii) broken down by location or post office?
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the Next Generation Human Resources and Pay system's development, procurement and test trials: (a) how much has been spent to date on the system; (b) which companies bid on the project; (c) how many points were attributed to the bid of each company in (b); (d) which company or companies were chosen to test their systems in government departments; and (e) for each company that was ch…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the 2023 Canadian federal worker strike: (a) what was the total amount mistakenly paid out to striking employees; and (b) what is the amount that has not been collected back by the government?
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, one thing Canadians can count on is that Conservatives are the party of common sense. We are consistent in our approach when it comes to reducing taxes. We are consistent when it comes to making life more prosperous for Canadians. We are consistent when it comes to how we vote in this place, which is something that member should actually talk to her leadership about.
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question because, at the end of the day, Conservatives have a simple plan, and I know that the member could probably repeat it verbatim: We will axe the tax. We will build the homes. We will fix the budget and stop the crime. The government has a housing accelerator fund that is not building houses. It has a school lunch program that is not serving lunches. It has a…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, the member is right. We do serve on the government operations and estimates committee together, and one thing we have been dealing with is the absolute out-of-control spending of the current Liberal government when it comes to outside consultants, and when it comes to lining the pockets of Liberal insiders and their friends. What I would put back to the member is this question: When…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to rise today and speak to the budget implementation act, even though we are in the eleventh hour of this session. I am looking forward to the House rising at the end of this week for the summer recess. It has been nine years of the costly Prime Minister, and each successive budget creates a bleaker outlook for Canadians' futures. The guise of fi…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Madam Speaker, the Liberal government refuses to acknowledge that Canadians pay more into the carbon tax than they get back. However, over a year ago, the Parliamentary Budget Officer published his report, which showed that, taking into account the full economic impact of the government's carbon tax regime, most Canadians were worse off. On top of this, the government has a secret report, which sh…
Read full speech →