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Mr. Chair, public accounts show $3.3 billion set aside for small businesses for the carbon tax rebate. These estimates show $3.192 billion. Where is the missing $108 million set aside for small businesses?
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Mr. Chair, I just quoted the main estimates, which show $3.192 billion for a rebate. Public accounts is $3.3 billion. Minister, where is the missing $108 million set aside for small businesses?
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Mr. Chair, I can assure the member that I actually have read the estimates, unlike himself, apparently. The Liberals called small businesses tax cheats. Is this why the government is cheating small businesses of that $108 million?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals are increasing spending on consultants to $26 billion this year. Did the government pay KPMG $700,000 to tell the government to increase spending on companies like KPMG?
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Mr. Chair, did KPMG report the government could save money by spending billions more?
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise on this issue. It has consumed my life in the operations committee for several years. Before I start, though, I would like to seek the House's permission, as this is my first time speaking in a speech, to comment on the last election. I want to thank my constituents in Edmonton West for sending me here for the fourth time. I certainly appreciate the support, …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Kings—Hants for an entertaining 20 minutes. I give him points for providing more fiction per minute than even the member for Winnipeg North, but he did it without yelling and screaming. I could spend 20 minutes on detailing some of these things, but I want to bring to light a few of them before I ask the member a question. One is that the member…
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Mr. Chair, under the legislation was the Minister of National Revenue. There was $138 million paid in bonuses of public service management last year, based upon Treasury Board guidelines. The government only achieved 51% of its targets last year. Does the minister support his rules, which paid out so much of taxpayers' money for so much failure?
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Mr. Speaker, at the public accounts committee, we heard the assistant deputy minister testify that the government was actually not going after cases of fraud to recover money, only asking for the money back, saying it was open to negotiations with companies that were defrauding taxpayers through procurement policy. I wonder if the colleague across the way could explain why the government is so len…
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Mr. Chair, the minister is reading an answer for the wrong question. Canada Mortgage and Housing paid out $30 million in management bonuses despite the housing hell that the government caused. CMHC's purpose on its website is to promote housing affordability. Does the minister believe housing is affordable and thus warrants $30 million—
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Mr. Speaker, as always, I enjoy fiction storytelling time in the House whenever the member for Winnipeg North gets up. It is quite remarkable what lengths the Liberals are going to in trying to distance themselves from their past, the corruption and the tired old Liberal government. The member just has to take a look at today's proceedings to see how many times he has actually stood up and claimed…
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Mr. Speaker, I was kind of shocked by one of the comments my colleague made in his speech. He said that from now on, regarding procurement, we will uphold high standards of integrity and follow the rules. I am wondering, does that imply, then, that for the last 10 years in the government, there was no requirement to act with integrity or follow the rules with purchasing? That appears to be the cas…
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Mr. Speaker, we heard in committee repeatedly from the deputy minister of PSPC that the government is aware of many cases of fraud like GC Strategies, but it is negotiating with the contractors to receive the money back for taxpayers, not demanding it back but negotiating. We heard from a parliamentary secretary today who said that despite the government banning GC Strategies from bidding on busin…
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Mr. Chair, the Treasury Board paid KPMG $700,000 for advice on how to cut consultant spending. Did taxpayers get their money's worth?
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Winnipeg North's intervention was nonsensical, as usual. The Auditor General looked at the contracting and did not find issues from the Harper era. The issues seemed to start in 2015, when the Liberal government took over. The Auditor General did two different reports on contracting around the issue, and not once was an issue brought up of poor procurement or fraudul…
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Mr. Chair, whose decision was it to reduce the payout by $108 million?
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Mr. Speaker, it is not just that the government is refusing to get our money back. The scandal was first exposed in 2022 in the operations committee, and one would think that the government would have actually stopped granting contracts to GC Strategies then. However, it continued to give it contracts until March 2024, two years after the scandal came to light. Not only is the government refusing …
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny. Every time I hear someone from the new Liberal government say that they are going to be ethical in the future, that they are going to do things right in the future and that they are not going to be corrupt in the future, it seems very clear that it is an admission that the last 10 years were nothing but ineptness, incompetence and corruption. It is very clear. The hon. me…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General has once again exposed the Liberals' incompetence, highlighting millions wasted on their good friends and favourite consultant, GC Strategies. Not only have the Liberals not clawed back one penny from this scam, but every Trudeau minister with their fingerprints on the scandal has been promoted by the Prime Minister. Now the Liberals are planning an extra $26 billi…
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Mr. Speaker, it ended years after they were exposed. Now, $64 million went to Liberal friends at GC Strategies, in rampant sole-sourcing of contracts with no justification and projects paid for despite no work being done. Incompetence is so ingrained in the government that it has actually ordered officials to put in writing that they are not violating procurement rules when they are granting contr…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's usual well-researched speech. The platform that the Liberals announced during the election shows that the tax cut would cost the government about $5 billion a year in lost revenue, yet at the same time they have massively increased, by a larger amount, the amount of money they are going to give out to their friends at McKinsey, GC Strategies and other hig…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for an excellent, well-thought-out speech. One of the issues of this so-called significant tax cut, as we constantly hear the member for Winnipeg North call it, is that it only provides $271 this year, according to the Liberals' own numbers from their campaign platform. That is less than one dollar a day. However, according to Dalhousie University, the average f…
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Or he is here passionately and speaks often.
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from King—Vaughan for her excellent speech and especially for her advocacy for seniors. I introduced a private members' bill in the 42nd Parliament to eliminate the mandatory RRIF withdrawals entirely. It would help seniors. I want to note that every single member of the Liberal Party voted against that and actually voted against affordability for senior…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from a neighbouring community gave a wonderful speech. The Liberals constantly talk about their great middle-class tax cut, which works out to barely $1.50 a day. In the recent main estimates, we saw the Liberals put in an extra $26 billion for high-priced consultants, such as those at McKinsey, GC Strategies and any other of the myriad of those connected to the Liberal…
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Madam Speaker, I have a very simple question. It is not a partisan question. It is actually an issue that is affecting a lot of constituents. When the ways and means motion was introduced, it was effective immediately that day. If one had purchased, or had agreed to purchase, a newly built house the day before, even if they were not to be taking possession for a year or two from then, and paying t…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We have gone through this before in the House. In a previous debate I had with the member opposite, I stated the exact same thing: It is either that the numbers are lying in the public accounts, or the member is purposely misleading the House. I was told by the Chair that I could not say that because it implied the member was lying. He is using the exact …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to pass on my compliments for your appointment as Assistant Deputy Speaker. It is wonderful to see you in the chair. I cannot speak without referencing the departmental plans. If I look back as far as 2019, when Ralph Goodale was in this place, and the plans from 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, every single one of them mentions cracking down on fentanyl. One of them, f…
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Madam Speaker, before I give my question, I want to put something to rest, I hope once and for all. We have heard the member for Winnipeg North and others repeat the same false narrative about everything being okay that they have not done in the last 10 years because of Harper's cuts. I would like him, the Liberals and everyone in this House to take a look at the public accounts. These are non-par…
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Madam Speaker, I am very happy that someone brought up the issue of the casualty report. One of the items, specifically, was a lack of heavy body armour. We had an Order Paper question come back just recently, about a year ago, which was 10 years after the mass casualty issue, where the government has still not provided heavy body armour to the RCMP. The government is repeatedly saying that it is …
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Madam Speaker, I want to correct the previous speaker, the member for Richmond East—Steveston. If we look at the public accounts and the Treasury Board's own numbers, they show that in 2016, 2017 and 2018, the Liberal government slashed the amount of full-time equivalents at the CBSA. It was not until 2019 that the numbers actually came back to the Harper-era level. I wonder if my colleague could …
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Mr. Speaker, with $73 billion spent while Parliament was shut down by the government and a spending package of half a trillion dollars, with a record $26 billion for Liberal-friendly consultants like McKinsey and no oversight or scrutiny from Parliament, this House has had enough. Last night, the House passed our Conservative motion calling on the Prime Minister to table a spring budget. Will he r…
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Mr. Speaker, I realize the Prime Minister is new here, but all those things would be in a budget if he would table one. This year alone, the government is going to spend a staggering $26 billion on high-priced Liberal-friendly consultants, an eye-watering $1,400 for every Canadian family. It will present no budget, no departmental plans and zero transparency. It will not even stand in this House a…
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Mr. Speaker, let me start by congratulating you on your new role. I hope you will succeed in bringing integrity and decorum back to the position. I want to read for my colleague a heading in the throne speech from the government: “Building Canada Strong by spending less and investing more”. The government tabled the estimates yesterday with a 30% increase in spending for management consultants, gi…
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Mr. Deputy Speaker, let me be the very first to congratulate you on your new role. I note for everyone that the current Deputy Speaker used to sit beside me in the House, and I think he went out of his way to become the Deputy Speaker just so that he would not have to sit with me anymore. I would like to thank my colleague for his speech and congratulate him on winning and on his maiden speech. Ye…
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Mr. Speaker, I am looking at the Speech from the Throne, and it highlights several areas that talk about creating an energy superpower by removing barriers, yet the government refuses to eliminate the job-killing Bill C-69 or the production cap. It talks about homes, yet the housing minister says housing prices should not fall. It talks about building “a safer and more secure Canada”, but for 10 y…
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Mr. Speaker, there is only one person keeping the Prime Minister in power and that is the leader of the NDP. The sellout leader of the NDP is not concerned about Canadians. He is concerned only with keeping the Liberals in power long enough so that he qualifies for his pension. The Liberal-NDP coalition has doubled housing prices, doubled rent and has driven up the cost of groceries, yet the NDP c…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 23rd report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the mighty OGGO, entitled “Indigenous Procurement”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the Elves Special Needs Society, an organization that has made a profound impact on so many people in Edmonton. We are fortunate to have many charities and not-for-profits that serve Edmonton, and Elves stands out as truly one of the best. Recently celebrating its 50th anniversary, Elves, named for its benefactor, Milton Elves, and not for the North Pole elves, began …
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the following two reports from the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, widely known here and by everyone else as the mighty OGGO. I am presenting the 21st report, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (B), 2024-25”, and the 22nd report, entitled “Canada's Postal Service: A Lifeline for Rural and Remote Commun…
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Mr. Speaker, when my flight was landing last night, at about 10 o'clock, I got a text from our party saying it wanted me to speak on a concurrence debate. I said, “Which debate?” It said, “The scandal”, so of course my first reaction was, “What scandal?” Was it the green slush fund scandal, where the government was funnelling $400 million to Liberal insiders, and where board members and executives…
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Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed my time with my colleague on the government operations committee, the mighty OGGO. He brings up a lot of valid points. We are not blocking Deloitte; we are just seized with other scandals at the moment. Perhaps if he would stop supporting a Liberal government that stumbles from scandal to scandal and would vote with us to bring it down, then we could get back to the business…
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the behaviour of the present. There is the green slush fund, where $400 million of taxpayers' money went to Liberal-connected insiders. There is the Minister of Environment, a co-owner of one of the largest recipients of the slush fund. His partner stated to committee that it was okay because they barely defrauded taxpayers of anything. The member opposite should con…
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Mr. Speaker, no, it is not correct. In the government operations committee, we asked repeatedly whether the member for Edmonton Centre and GHI are still able to bid on government business. GC Strategies, embroiled in the ArriveCAN scandal, has been banned from bidding on government business. The Liberals for some reason refuse to ban the member for Edmonton Centre's company from bidding on lucrati…
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Mr. Speaker, when we tax the farmer who grows the food, tax the trucker who delivers the food and tax the retailer who sells the food, then we tax the food itself. Is it any wonder a record number of Canadians are lining up at food banks every month? Two million every month rely on food banks just to get by. The child poverty rate has seen its highest jump on record. In Edmonton alone, we have two…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Spadina—Fort York for his excellent talk today. I would like to ask him to comment on the member for Winnipeg North's obsession with security in light of the fact that the Liberal government gave taxpayer money to an illegal Chinese police station in Montreal not once but twice. Not only did the Liberal government fund these illegal police stati…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague brought up some very important items about what we could have done with the money instead. In Edmonton West, there is an organization called the Veterans Association Food Bank. There is one in Calgary as well, a sister organization. We have a food bank just for veterans and we struggle to keep it stocked. It is disgraceful in this day and age in Canada that we have vete…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's talk today. One of the things we found out with the green slush scandal is that excerpt 20.03 of the contribution agreement between the government, industry and STDC states very clearly that any conflicts of interest, real or perceived, have to be reported to the minister, who at that time was Navdeep Bains, and is now the current minister of industry. We…
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Mr. Speaker, in the public accounts committee, where we have been studying this issue, we had the deputy secretary to the cabinet of the Privy Council, which, as we know, is pretty much the Prime Minister's department. She told us that she was refusing to turn over the documents unredacted despite an order of Parliament because she insisted that the access to information law superseded the will of…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour Maureen Purvis, the heart and soul of No Stone Left Alone. No Stone Left Alone was officially launched in 2011 to help ensure an enduring national respect and gratitude for the sacrifice of Canadian men and women who lost their lives in the service of peace. Maureen's mother, Lillian, was also a veteran herself. When honouring her mom's headstone with a poppy, Maureen…
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