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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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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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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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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Mr. Speaker, I spent a good deal of my speech talking about the opportunity for continued ministerial corruption from a corrupt Liberal government, and the parliamentary secretary's push-back is that Pierre Poilievre built six houses. That tells us exactly what is going to go on with the corruption, with respect to this particular piece of legislation. His push-back on the skilled trades was that …
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Mr. Speaker, the jokes on this write themselves. We are talking about a bill that gives ministers the ability to pick and choose who gets these billion dollar projects with a government whose record on this is absolutely deplorable, whether it is GC Strategies or the green slush fund. Now the Liberals are pushing modular housing. Of course, Brookfield has a major interest in this. The Prime Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, perhaps the member was not listening to my speech. I was highly critical of this particular piece of legislation because of its effects on unions and skilled trades and the opportunity for government corruption and graft, which there is a well-documented history of. I am not sure I agree with the member's analysis of the election results, but the voter is always right, and this is whe…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the fantastic member for Northumberland—Clarke. Before I talk about the actual merits of Bill C-5, I want to set the stage a little. The so-called one Canadian economy act is being brought in allegedly in response to the threats from the south, from President Trump, but it is disingenuous, at best, to say that that is what this is about. The crisis that …
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Madam Chair, I find the minister's indifference to the one million Ontarians regularly using a food bank to feed their families, quite frankly, disgusting. How many Ontarians were full-time employed and went to the food bank in 2015?
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Madam Chair, if the minister does not know the answer to the question, he can just say it. We are talking about people who have to go to a food bank. That is the Liberals' track record. The answer is 8%. How many Canadians using a food bank regularly in 2025 are full-time employed as opposed to in 2015?
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Madam Chair, does the minister know how many Ontarians regularly used a food bank in 2015?
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Madam Chair, these programs were in place for the last 10 years. These programs have been in place, yet the numbers at food banks keep rising. The minister knows the number of people using food banks now who are employed full-time is 25%. It has also tripled after 10 years of the Liberal government. Will the member apologize to those people who are employed full-time and now must go to a food bank…
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Madam Chair, one in three people regularly using food banks in Ontario is a child. Your programs do not work. Minister, you said in 2023 that you were going to make grocery prices—
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Madam Chair, the minister said in 2023 that he was going to work hard at making groceries more affordable. Did grocery prices go up or down after he made that statement?
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Madam Chair, the minister knows that grocery prices have gone up every single month since he made that statement. He either misled Canadians or was completely incompetent in his job to bring down grocery prices. Which one was it?
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Madam Chair, I am splitting my time three ways. The answer is, 353,000 Ontarians regularly used the food bank in 2015. How many Ontarians are regularly using the food bank as of today?
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Madam Chair, the answer to that question is one million. Over a decade of your government, you being a minister, the number of people in Ontario who regularly use a food bank has tripled. It has gone up by almost 700,000. Will you apologize to those 700,000 Ontarians who now must go to a food bank to put food on their table as a result of your government?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are hiding the state of Canada's finances from Canadians. The so-called brilliant banker, who said his strength was planning, is not planning on actually producing a budget for Canadians. Meanwhile, one million Ontarians used a food bank last year, a terrible new record, and unemployment in the GTA has now surged to almost 9%. Guess what. There is no budget. How bad is th…
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Mr. Speaker, we voted against all the policies that led to one million Ontarians using a food bank. The Liberals should all be ashamed of themselves that that is their performance. Meanwhile, TD Bank has now said that up to 100,000 Canadians will lose their job this year, and guess what. The government refuses to produce a budget. Bankruptcies in Canada have surged 20%. Guess what. The government …
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Madam Speaker, today I want to thank the people of Dufferin—Caledon who elected me for the third time in a row since 2019. This is a task that is accomplished by many people, mostly the volunteers and the people who have worked so hard on my campaign: my campaign manager, my E-Day chair, the sultan of signs and my sign crew, who put up the most signs I have ever seen, as well as all of my canvasse…
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Mr. Speaker, it does not matter what Liberal stands up to answer a question. Whether it is in this Parliament or the last Parliament, they never actually answer a question. It is not complicated, as “elbows up” was dollar-for-dollar tariffs. Has the Prime Minister already broken his promise to steelworkers or was “elbows up” simply fake news? Now we are facing the Trump tariffs, and steelworkers f…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister ran on “elbows up”, promising dollar-for-dollar tariffs on the U.S. and that this would generate $20 billion in revenue. It turns out it was actually elbows down when the Prime Minister broke his promise and secretly cancelled those tariffs. Now Trump is threatening 50% tariffs on Canadian steel, which will devastate Canada's steel industry and put thousands of stee…
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Mr. Speaker, I can understand why Liberals do not want to talk about the absolute thrashing they took in British Columbia, where softwood lumber is the big issue that the committee reported. The people of British Columbia have delivered their judgment on the corrupt, woke, incompetent Prime Minister with a resounding victory in Cloverdale—Langley City by Tamara Jansen by 50% of the vote. The NDP w…
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the second report of the Standing Committee on International Trade, presented on Thursday, October 27, 2022, be concurred in. I will be splitting my time with the member for Bay of Quinte. This report, from October 2022, is on the softwood lumber dispute. Two years later, absolutely nothing has been accomplished by the incompetent Liberal government, which is now mired in …
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Mr. Speaker, of course, the NDP, for their continued cowardly support of the woke Prime Minister, got 12% of the vote. The costly coalition is delivering devastating electoral results for the government.
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Mr. Speaker, it is simple. They tried to put a carbon tax in a trade agreement for the first time ever. It was desperate and pathetic; we voted against a bad trade agreement. To get back to the point at hand, on softwood lumber, nine billion dollars' worth of duties have now been collected by the United States and tens of thousands of workers are out of work. Moreover, the person who chairs the Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what controversial views he is talking about. What I do know is this: She got 66% of the vote, crushing the Liberals by 50%. Every member in the Liberal caucus now knows their seat is in danger. They have lost elections in Toronto and Montreal, and they have now been destroyed in British Columbia. The other thing that is concerning for the NDP is that it got 12% in Briti…
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Mr. Speaker, I am so glad the NDP member brought up selling out. What we are seeing in this country right now is the NDP leader selling out Canadians for his pension. The NDP is getting its just desserts on that. With 12%, they almost did not get their rebate in the by-election that just happened in British Columbia. The NDP leader is continually bowing down to the Liberal Prime Minister, repeated…
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen that the former deputy prime minister and finance minister has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government; somehow, the NDP seems to have more confidence in the Liberal government than she does. Does the member have any insight into that?
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Mr. Speaker, today, the regular proceedings were interrupted for an order. It is a mandatory order. There are different kinds. The language could have said “may.” That is permissive language, and if the order had said “may”, you would have had discretion as to how to proceed. The proceedings were interrupted in the face of a specific order. The order says, “the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedi…
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