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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The digital services tax is one of the most embarrassing debacles of the Liberal government, and it has had many. The Liberals were warned repeatedly that this was going to be a major trade irritant with the United States. When I travelled down to the United States as the shadow minister for international trade, I was repeatedly told by every con…
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Madam Speaker, earlier this week, I said it is always a good day for Brookfield. Yesterday was a great day for Brookfield as the Province of Alberta was pushed into a $16.5-billion deal on carbon capture. One of the companies looking forward to a windfall will, of course, be Brookfield. Let us not forget that last week, the Prime Minister gave a $500-million contract to the European Space Agency w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a good day to be Brookfield, the Prime Minister's former company, under the Liberal government. Its latest treat is a $500-million contract for the European Space Agency to create good-paying jobs in Europe, but it gets better, as 50% of the Harwell campus, where the European Space Agency is located, is owned by Brookfield. Let us not forget that Brookfield is Canada's nu…
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Mr. Speaker, no matter how hard the days get for average Canadians, like the 2.2 million Canadians who go to a food bank every day, it is always a good day for Brookfield. The latest good news for Brookfield is a $500-million contract with the European Space Agency, which is housed in a property that is 50% owned by Brookfield. Why is it the priority of the government to line the pockets of the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister actually got a letter that could maybe deliver $1 billion someday. Meanwhile, the effect of tariffs on canola is $4.5 billion a year. The effect of tariffs on peas is $1 billion a year. We have a $1-trillion trade arrangement with the United States, and our steel industry, our aluminum industry, our auto sector and our softwood lumber industry are getting absolutely…
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Mr. Speaker, in a mere eight months, the globe-trotting Prime Minister has circumnavigated the globe four times. It would not be so bad if he actually delivered some results for Canadians, but every time he meets with a world leader, things get worse. When he met with the Premier of China, China slapped canola tariffs on Canadian farmers. When he met with the Prime Minister of India, India slapped…
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Mr. Speaker, a Prime Minister who describes himself as a European is giving $500 million to the European Space Agency to create good jobs in Europe. It gets worse. The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, where the European Space Agency is located in the U.K., is 50% owned by Brookfield. Rather than focusing on lining the pockets of Brookfield and ripping off Canadian workers, why do they not in…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an incredibly exciting time if a person is a shareholder in Brookfield right now, let me say that, with all the slimy contracts that these guys are giving to companies affiliated with Brookfield. Meanwhile, we have 2.2 million Canadians lining up at food banks; we have a 6.9% unemployment rate. What did the government decide to do? They are investing $500 million to give jobs to…
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Mr. Speaker, only a bunch of Liberals would stand up and applaud an unemployment rate of 7% when the United States' unemployment rate is 4.2%. This is the most expensive government in Canadian history. In 10 years, the Liberals doubled the debt, and now they are going to pile on another $78 billion. Meanwhile, 2.2 million Canadians are going to the food bank. The softwood lumber industry is being …
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Mr. Speaker, once again, how do the Liberals stand up and applaud an unemployment rate of 7% when the United States' unemployment rate is 4.2%? It is actually like we are living in some kind of dystopian universe where they do this. The facts are these. Our softwood lumber industry is being hollowed out, 2.2 million Canadians are using the food bank, the auto industry is on its knees, and the Libe…
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Madam Speaker, sacrifice more: that is the message the Liberal Prime Minister just gave to young Canadians. These are the young Canadians living through generationally high youth unemployment, the young Canadians who have mostly given up hope of ever owning a home. Meanwhile, Liberal insiders get rich. Liberal-appointed executives at BDC are getting, on average, a bonus of $216,000. A young Canadi…
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Madam Speaker, the question was actually about young Canadians and what they are going to be asked to sacrifice, which of course the government did not answer. Young Canadians are going to have to figure that out in the budget. Sacrifice they have. They have sacrificed by not being able to own a home. They have sacrificed by having generationally high youth unemployment. The Liberals' message is t…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister needs to hear something: Auto workers want their jobs. They do not want handouts. They do not want to hear that we are making progress. They do not want to hear these bromides about standing up for Canada. What they want is to get back in the plant and do their jobs. They want to make the great cars they make. What is the actual plan to get auto workers back in the factor…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning the Liberal Prime Minister had the audacity to say he is making significant progress in removing Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada. Is he kidding me? We lost 3,000 auto jobs in Brampton and 1,200 auto jobs in Ingersoll, and that is just in the last 10 days. What an absolute slap in the face to auto workers that is. The Prime Minister also recently said that Canadians have …
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Mr. Speaker, the member is laughing. The member who spends all day, every day doing nothing but talk about how great he thinks the government is doing is now laughing as I talk about the seriousness of a 296,000-person backlog. The system is absolutely broken after 10 years of the Liberals' management of the system. There may be some things in this legislation that we could support. We have to sen…
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Mr. Speaker, I think most police organizations also want mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking in fentanyl. They also want to get rid of house arrest for drive-by shootings. I would encourage the member to talk to his caucus and see if they want to work on some of those things. If he was listening, I said quite clearly that we would love to see this bill studied at committee. We think there …
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Mr. Speaker, I share the member's outrage for the recycling of announcements. The government has gotten very good at trying to trick Canadians into saying it has created new programs and new things, but it is, in fact, just recycling the same old things over and again. The Liberals never answer a question directly in the House of Commons. The member asked a Liberal member how many police officers …
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know. We are going to have to look at that. Ultimately, we want to hear from the experts on whether or not it would make a difference. My quick review of it is, as I said in my speech, that we would not deal with all of these bogus asylum claimants through the process, but try to transfer them to the judicial system. Again, that will be far more complicated and it would not s…
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Mr. Speaker, this is something we have been fighting about with the government for almost a decade, ever since it made terrible decisions on bail. It has continually done things to make it much easier for criminals to be out in our communities, wreaking the havoc they wreak. The government always says it is going to come up with some kind of solution or it has a new piece of legislation. The forme…
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Mr. Speaker, if we are going to talk about this piece of legislation, we should put a couple of things into context. The first thing I would put into context is that this is another bill the Liberals are trying to bring forward to allegedly do something to deal with the massive surge in crime that has gone on in Canada over the last 10 years. It is a remarkable turnaround. I still recall when form…
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Mr. Speaker, the result of that meeting of the Prime Minister and President Trump was the export of 3,000 auto workers' jobs from Canada into Trump's America. Talk about failure. Meanwhile, this finance minister signed a $15-billion deal for jobs with Stellantis in Canada. It was supposed to include money to retool those plants. What we keep asking is simple: If there is actually a job guarantee i…
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Mr. Speaker, that is unbelievably cold comfort for the 3,000 auto workers and their families whose jobs vanished to Donald Trump's America after the Prime Minister's meeting with Donald Trump. They have to think, “How am I paying my mortgage? How am I going to put food on the table?” These are the kinds of answers Liberals give. It is a very simple question. Fifteen billion dollars went to Stellan…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we were treated to an incredibly embarrassing display as the Prime Minister stood here and bragged about a 10% tariff on Canadian auto. I had the privilege of meeting with Unifor auto workers earlier this week, and they told me a 10% tariff on auto will mean the end of the Canadian auto industry. Either the Prime Minister is unbelievably uninformed about what will hurt the …
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Mr. Speaker, giving the Liberals a lesson would imply that they could actually learn something, so we are not going to try. Here are the facts: GM just laid off 750 workers, and the Brampton Stellantis assembly plan has been on layoff for eight months waiting for retooling money. Meanwhile, Stellantis is going to invest $10 billion in the United States. Why? It is because the Prime Minister has fa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's broken promises are hurting Canadians. He promised he was going to spend less. In fact he is going to spend more, a lot more. Trudeau left a deficit of $42 billion; the current Prime Minister is going to supersize it well past $60 billion. Deficits cause inflation, but it is Canadians who end up paying the price. In fact, 86,000 Canadians have paid that price by l…
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Mr. Speaker, that is just an incredible example of 35 seconds of saying absolutely nothing. What is actually going on here is that we have got fancy banker-speak to try to say that debt is investment. Debt is debt; it does not matter how much lipstick we put on the pig, and it is Canadians who pay the price of this reckless debt spending. Canada has the second-highest unemployment in the G7, and 8…
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Madam Speaker, in public, the public safety minister supports the Liberal gun buyback program, but in private, he calls it a politically motivated scam that will not work. Talking out of both sides of one's mouth should be a fireable offence, but it is worse than that. His job is to keep Canadians safe. Gun crime is up 130%, so he has failed, and he is pushing forward with a program that he says w…
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Madam Speaker, let us have a serious conversation about gun crime. The Toronto Police Association says 90% of guns used in gun crimes are illegal guns. Are the Liberals going after those? No. They have come up with this $750-million politically motivated scam. Those are not my words, but the public safety minister's words. Do members know what else he said? He said, “Don't ask me to explain the lo…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his wonderful reading of PMO speech number three. The issue we have in Canada right now is the cost of food. The member's leader said he was going to fix that cost. The Liberals talk about all these programs they are bringing in, but a decade ago, people did not need all these programs because they could go to the grocery store and afford food. In fact…
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Mr. Speaker, what should we call a person who says one thing in public and then does the exact opposite thing in private? That is exactly what the public safety minister did. He called the Liberal $750-million gun buyback program a politically motivated scam. The minister's number one job is to keep Canadians safe. Violent crime and gun crime are up, and 90% of gun crimes, police say, are committe…
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Mr. Speaker, except that, in a private conversation, the minister said the exact opposite. He called the Liberal gun buyback a politically motivated scam. Imagine what could be done with this $750 million. How many police officers could be hired? How many border officers could be hired? How many scanners could be purchased to find the illegal guns coming in from the United States? The minister is …
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Mr. Speaker, it is great to be here and to talk on behalf of the great people of Dufferin—Caledon, who have re-elected me to come to the House of Commons and fight for common sense, which is often a difficult thing to do with the Liberal government. This piece of legislation is the perfect example of why we have to fight. I want to talk a bit about how the Liberals have absolutely destroyed the co…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague makes a perfect point on this. The people who came to Canada because they wanted a better life played by the rules. They worked hard. They made fantastic lives and contributions to this country. They are going to look at this as an affront to the hard work that they did to come to Canada and become successful and proud Canadian citizens. They would be outraged about someo…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether his statements about the Conservative record on immigration are due to ignorance or whether they are malicious, but either way, they are completely erroneous and false—
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Mr. Speaker, when former prime minister Harper took over, there was a massive backlog in the parent and grandparent category that they took over from the Liberals, around 150,000 people. We were left with the mess that they left. It was the same thing in every single category. What we actually did was put a temporary pause on the parent and grandparent application process, and then we cleared the …
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Mr. Speaker, I confess that the member lives in an alternate reality, because this was how they set up the parent and grandparent program: An unlimited number of people could apply, then they let in 14,000 people. All of those other people went on a waiting list. The next year, they would open it up. An unlimited number of people could apply, and they would let 14,000 in. All the rest went on a wa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised he would double housing starts; he looked Canadians in the face and promised. Starts are down 16%. His plan is a $13- billion bureaucracy that might someday build 4,000 homes. Canada had 245,000 new home starts last year. Even if they hit 4,000 homes, it is a 1.6% increase. Please, for the sake of Canadians trying to buy a house, can the minister tell me th…
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Mr. Speaker, $13 billion for 4,000 homes is $3.2 million per home. That is not affordable. It is all starting to make sense where this scheme was cooked up. The Liberals have a housing minister who oversaw the doubling of rent and the doubling of housing prices when he was mayor of Vancouver. The head of the new agency came from the City of Toronto, which increased the cost of building by 700%. It…
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With regard to expenditures related to the Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation’s trip to Europe in March 2025: (a) what are the total costs incurred by the government to date, broken down by type of expense (accommodation, per diems, hospitality, etc.); (b) what are the details of all accommodation expenses incurred by the government, including, for each, the (i) name of the hotel, (ii)…
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With regard to expenditures related to the Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation’s trip to Europe in May 2025: (a) what are the total costs incurred by the government to date, broken down by type of expense (accommodation, per diems, hospitality, etc.); (b) what are the details of all accommodation expenses incurred by the government, including, for each, the (i) name of the hotel, (ii) r…
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With regard to expenditures related to the Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation’s trip to Washington in May 2025: (a) what are the total costs incurred by the government to date, broken down by type of expense (accommodation, per diems, hospitality, etc.); (b) what are the details of all accommodation expenses incurred by the government, including, for each, the (i) name of the hotel, (i…
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Mr. Speaker, what the member just said is completely misleading to the Canadian public. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has said this big tax cut is actually going to deliver $15 a month. That is not transformational. That is not going to build anything. The average Canadian can buy a couple of coffees at Starbucks for $15 a month, so it is all talk and no action, realistically, from the governme…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what is worse, the minister for crime reduction blaming the provinces for enforcing bad bail laws or the justice minister making witty statements like “extortion is illegal”. Anyone with a fifth grade education or higher knows that. The problem is that extortion is up 357%, and violent extortionists get out on bail almost the next day. That is the problem, not that extor…
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Mr. Speaker, his interruption of the member for Battle River—Crowfoot was not fictional. He just suggested that I was making up fiction. He actually did interrupt him. My question was whether or not he is going to apologize—
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Mr. Speaker, I am just wondering if the member is going to take some time in his speech to apologize to the member for Battle River—Crowfoot for interrupting his speech in Parliament yesterday, when he was—
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Mr. Speaker, when we think about the terrible policy initiatives put forward by the Liberal government over the last decade, this banning of gasoline vehicles ranks in the top five. I will explain exactly why. In law, we would call this gross negligence because the Liberals know what they are doing is wrong, and that it is negligent, but they continue to do it anyway. If we could take them to cour…
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Mr. Speaker, it is amazing. The member has the opportunity to respond to the real, valid criticisms that have been raised: we do not have the electric generating capacity, we do not have the transmission capacity, we do not have the local transmission capacity, we do not have the EV charging network in place and the CEOs of the companies are also saying they cannot reach the mandates. The member's…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I will trust the estimates by the Canadian Journal of Economics over those of the company that the member cited with respect to economic loss. The fact of the matter is this. There is an old expression, “putting the cart before the horse”, and this is what is happening here. We do not have a plan for the electric generation. We do not have a plan for transmission of elec…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish they had talked to someone. I would say that we had a great trip out there. We met with the great unionized steelworkers and others who build this country from coast to coast. I do not think the Liberals talked to anyone, because when we look at the facts that I have pointed out repeatedly, we see that they do not have a plan. They need a plan for the fundamental aspects of mak…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is in compliance with his multi-million dollar real estate empire. That is the only thing he is in compliance with, while people are living in tent cities. The minister has said the housing market is working just fine. This is from a real estate tycoon, while he has a $2.4-million penthouse in Vancouver, a $5.6-million lakefront property and a $3-million estate in Tofino.…
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