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Mr. Speaker, I am going to talk about my friend, the Hon. John McDermid. He was the member of Parliament for Brampton—Georgetown from 1979 to 1993 and a cabinet minister in the Mulroney government from 1988 to 1993, when he retired. John generously gave of his time in the community. He was an honorary colonel in the Lorne Scots. He was the chair of our local hospital board. I met John in 1988, whe…
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Madam Speaker, I am not maligning anyone's intent. I am clearly stating what their intent is. There is no malice in that, so I do not see the relevance of the point of order.
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Madam Speaker, what we are witnessing today is an attempt by the NDP to stop our confidence motion on the NDP leader's words. What we are seeing today is a continuation of the meltdown by NDP members because of our confidence motion that uses the NDP leader's words that purport to stand up for unions and the unions' right to strike. We actually saw a terrible meltdown last week, as the NDP had to …
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Madam Speaker, if the NDP members are uncomfortable with my words, perhaps they will listen to the Halifax International Longshoremen's Association's words. It said, “On Monday the NDP has the opportunity to reinforce that they will not bring in back to work legislation by supporting their own leader's words.” This is why we are having this debate trying to prevent the Conservatives' confidence mo…
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Madam Speaker, we are continuing to see the meltdown. Now NDP members are melting down to interrupt my speech because they are unhappy with the fact that the NDP leader continues to prop up a corrupt Liberal government. There was a time when they had an NDP leader who stood up against corruption. Former NDP leader Jack Layton brought down a corrupt Liberal government as a result of the corruption …
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Madam Speaker, the meltdowns continue. It is now the third interruption of my speech, as I put to the members their uncomfortableness with how their leader is forcing them to continue to prop up the corrupt Liberal government and how afraid they are of the Conservative confidence motion with respect to the NDP leader's own words. I understand why they are so afraid. The Halifax International Longs…
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Madam Speaker, it is nice to have a relevant question and not questions from the government trying to dismiss and distract from this. This is 100% true. We have to go back to what I said in my speech. This whistle-blower makes great points, so we have to ask ourselves why the Liberals are covering up and hiding these documents. It is because they know how damning they will be, not just for their g…
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Madam Speaker, the short answer to that is yes. It is another program where there has been catastrophic mismanagement by the NDP-Liberal government. What I talked about in my speech was that they chose to give non-competitive bidded contracts to one company. Here, 313 million dollars' worth of contracts out of $342 million went to one company with non-competitive bids. That company decided to have…
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Madam Speaker, I cannot believe that I am back here today to speak about this motion. I think I spoke to this motion maybe three-plus weeks ago. It could have been four weeks ago. All of this could end if the government simply released the documents. It has stubbornly refused to do so. I can only come up with one reason. in my background as a lawyer, there is only one reason to hide something. The…
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Madam Speaker, the NDP-Liberal coalition is alive and well, and the NDP is not taking the government to task for its failure to produce corruption documents. I understand why the member is probably not asking about that. It is because he knows that, once the documents come out, the NDP will not be able to prop up the government anymore. His leader will not get his pension, and they will actually h…
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Madam Speaker, that is a disgusting slur even for the member, who always sinks to the bottom of the barrel when she asks a question. I supported Patrick Brown because I have known him for 20 years. Throughout the course of the campaign, as his campaign platform was unrolled, I realized that his vision of Canada did not match mine. I believed in the Leader of the Opposition's platform. I had a conv…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with the NDP leader, who said the Liberal government will always step in to make sure unions have no power. The minister's section 107 referrals took away workers' rights to strike. As a result of this, Conservatives believe that the Liberal government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons. This puts the NDP and the NDP leader in a tough spot. Will the NDP leader sup…
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Madam Speaker, in law school, we learned a maxim: When we have the facts on our side, we argue the facts; when we have the law on our side, we argue the law; and when we have neither the facts nor the law on our side, we raise our voices and bang our desks. That is exactly what we just saw from the NDP-Liberal member. Let us talk about a couple of things. If the Liberals want to improve national s…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister's defence of his decision to take away a worker's right to strike is to talk about some things from a few years ago. Unions have unilaterally condemned section 107 referrals. The NDP leader said that he intervened to take away unions' power. That is true. He took away the Teamsters' right to strike. He took away the ILWU 514's right to strike, but when Unifor 1541 asked h…
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Madam Speaker, we voted against the Ukraine free trade agreement because they tried to impose a carbon tax in a trade agreement for the first time ever. I read every trade agreement we have. Carbon pricing and carbon leakage are not in a single one of them. They were trying to put a carbon tax in a trade agreement with a country at war. It was a terrible thing to do; that is why I voted against it…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting that the member talked about the border and said that there is nothing to see here; everything is great. I was listening to a CBS News report from about a week ago, which talked about the border. A 295-mile part of the border between Canada and the United States includes New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. In 2023, 19,000 illegals were captured crossing that borde…
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Madam Speaker, tonight we are having an emergency debate to discuss proposed 25% tariffs by the President-elect of the United States. We have to ask ourselves, “How did we get here?” The answer to that question is, “It is because the Liberals have so badly managed our relationship with the United States over the past nine years.” I could speak for two or three hours about that, but I only have 10 …
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Mr. Speaker, it was interesting to listen to the member talk about the challenge we have with the potential of 25% tariffs being imposed on Canada, because it is kind of like Groundhog Day. The member might not know this, but in 2018, the United States slapped section 232 tariffs on Canada: 25% for steel and 10% for aluminum. Some people may be wondering why I would bring this up. What does it hav…
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Madam Speaker, I do not even know what to make of that. It is not a question that is relevant to any of the debate tonight with respect to an emergency debate on proposed tariffs by President-elect Trump. The contribution of the Green Party to this debate is to talk about a comment about the wokification of the military, which is actually a legitimate problem. It is one of the reasons we are havin…
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Madam Speaker, if only he knew someone in the government if these alleged cuts took place, which of course they did not. The Conservatives cut bureaucracy, not frontline BSOs. If only he knew someone in the government to fix this problem if it existed. They have been in the government for nine years. They have not figured out that there is a problem with the border. It is the epitome of why we are…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member would comment further on the explosion of hate that is happening in this country, particularly directed at the Jewish community, with the open display of terrorist symbols and the lack of action or condemnation from the Liberal government. We are seeing unprecedented hatred directed toward the Jewish community in our country, and the response from the government…
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With regard to the processing of applications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC): (a) how many employees or full-time equivalents have been processing applications at IRCC, broken down by month since January 1, 2024; (b) how many applications were processed by IRCC, broken down by month since January 1, 2024; and (c) what is the daily target or quota of processed applications f…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians actually need a minister who will build housing. Despite what the minister is saying, the facts are very clear. The housing accelerator does not accelerate anything but bureaucracy. Here are some statistics. Housing starts in Nova Scotia are down 54% October 2024 compared to 2023. In Ontario, for the same period, they are 35% down. In British Columbia, for the same period, t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost of housing. In December 2023, the incompetent Liberals gave the City of Toronto $471 million in the so-called housing accelerator. What was the result? In October 2024, housing starts, versus October 2023, are down 33%. The only thing this housing accelerator is accelerating is bureaucracy. When will the NDP-Liberals get it thr…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC): (a) how does IRCC use artificial intelligence (AI) in the processing of applications; (b) what concerns or issues about the use of AI in the processing of applications is IRCC aware of, and how has each one of those concerns or issues been addressed; and (c) does IRCC use AI in any circumstances outside of the processing of applic…
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Madam Speaker, it is well known how the temporary foreign worker program has been turned into a disaster by this NDP-Liberal government. What is amazing to me is the member from the NDP, and all the other NDP members, who could actually bring the abuse of this program to a halt. They could stop all of the corruption that is going on if only they had the guts to vote no confidence in this governmen…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Prince Albert. After hearing the parliamentary secretary's speech, I thought it would be fun for us to take a little trip back in time to understand how we got here and why Canada has such an abysmal track record on stopping goods made with forced labour from entering Canada. It is as a result of the corrupt Liberal government. I have …
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals passed a terrible piece of legislation. I voted for it, because at least it was better than the garbage the Liberals have delivered over these years. I do not know how that member sits there. You have allowed billions of dollars of goods made with forced labour to come into Canada, and you stand there and laugh. Your government is corrupt. It is a disgrace—
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Madam Speaker, the one who should apologize is the one who gave the unhinged rant that was just delivered. Yes, a private member's bill was passed, which requires a voluntary website where they have to maybe disclose whether or not they think they might have forced labour in their supply chains. Look, I am sorry, but the bill is a joke.
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Madam Speaker, yes, we will absolutely eliminate forced labour from our supply chains, as opposed to this government that pretends it is going to and had a minister charged in their mandate letter to introduce legislation to get forced labour out of our supply chains, but no minister has done that. Instead, it relies on some private member's bill from a random backbench Liberal and says that it ha…
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Madam Speaker, in the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, there is a provision to prevent the use of forced labour in supply chains. The United States enacted strict and bold legislation to do this four years ago. It has seized goods worth $3.62 billion because it took it seriously. The Liberal government has not taken it seriously. I know the Bloc Québécois cares about it and I know the NDP cares a…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal housing adviser Mike P. Moffatt has asked, about the Liberal housing accelerator, if anyone in the federal government could tell him why Toronto deserves $471 million in housing accelerator funds to massively hike development taxes. Housing starts in Toronto are down 20%. Even Liberal advisers know that the housing accelerator is a joke. Will the NDP-Liberals finally realize t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, almost 50% of young Canadians believe they will never own a home. This Liberal housing accelerator is an absolute joke. Common-sense Conservatives have a plan. We would axe the GST on new home builds. On an $800,000 house, this would save $40,000. The Conservative leader has now written to the premier of every province asking them to match this ta…
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Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to hear a Liberal member, after nine years, realize the Liberals have now also broken the CBC. They broke housing. They have broken the criminal justice system. I can go down the list of what they have broken over the last several years, including when the Prime Minister broke the English language by inventing the word “brokenist”, which was a treat for all of us to …
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Mr. Speaker, 1,450 CBC staffers are taking home six-figure salaries. Since 2015, the number of CBC employees taking six-figure salaries has spiked by 231%, again, all the while, with absolutely declining viewership, not meeting any of their KPIs and giving themselves these lavish, gigantic bonuses. Catherine Tait has not ruled out taking more bonuses. It is really incredible. In the face of all th…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost of housing. Rent has doubled. Housing prices have doubled. We used to pay off our mortgage in 25 years. It now takes 25 years to save for the down payment. Thankfully, Conservatives have a plan. We will axe the GST on new homes. On an $800,000-house, this will save $40,000. This tax cut will spark 30,000 additional homes' being…
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Mr. Speaker, this is exhibit A of the problem. First of all, the member noted the use of electric arc to heat up and process iron ore. Electric arc cannot process iron ore. It only works with recycled steel. The member does not even know what he is talking about regarding the steel industry, which means the government probably does not know. That is problem number one. Problem number two is that C…
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Mr. Speaker, a couple of weeks ago, I asked a question about the steel industry. I talked about the brave steelworker who stood up to the Liberal Prime Minister when he was trying to justify the alleged work the Liberals are doing for the steel industry. The Prime Minister had an encounter with this brave steelworker, who, as far as I am concerned, spoke truth to power, which is a rare thing. The …
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Mr. Speaker, I can tell that the Unifor workers at Local 1541 are going to be absolutely inspired by that heartfelt response from the NDP-Liberal minister. Why are the NDP-Liberals never responsible for anything? Two million Canadians using a food bank is not their fault. Violent thugs out on bail is the province's fault. For a local employer trying to bust a union, there is nothing they can do bu…
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Mr. Speaker, Unifor Local 1541 has been without a contract since March 2023, and it has been on strike for almost six months. The employer has called Canadian workers lazy, refused to negotiate a wage increase and refused to bargain. He is effectively trying to bust the union. The union met with the NDP-Liberal minister almost two months ago and took the unprecedented step of asking the minister t…
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Mr. Speaker, gun crime is up 116%. The carbon tax will be up to 61¢ a litre. Groceries are up 45% since 2015. After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, even Liberal MPs agree that taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up for the unpopular Liberal Prime Minister. Apparently, Liberal MPs confronted the Prime Minister this morning, but there was one small hitch: They had to get wr…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and corruption is off the charts. A fish rots from the head down. Is it any wonder that Liberal cronies appointed to the green slush fund by a Prime Minister twice convicted of ethics violations engaged in corruption? This was not small corruption. It was $400 million. Mr. Speaker, you ordered the production of these documents. Why w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is pretty simple who we are targeting. We are targeting the corruption the Liberals enabled, the corruption they are hiding and the corruption they refuse to produce the documents for. These are documents the Speaker ordered the production of, so Canadians should ask themselves why the Liberals are not producing them. They are not producing them because they are so damaging. The do…
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Mr. Speaker, the first thing to ask today is why we are here and why the House is seized with this matter. It is actually not very complicated. The House ordered documents to be produced that the government has not produced. That is it. I could sit down right now and everything would be done if the government just gave the documents. There are all kinds of convoluted arguments, like the Conservati…
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Mr. Speaker, I have had worse things said about me by much better people, so I am not really concerned about what the member has to say. On the specifics, the real problem is that corruption seeps onto people. There are no claims this person had any problems when doing other things with other parties. A few years with the Liberals and the rot just spreads. Therefore, all this crony capitalism was …
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Mr. Speaker, I analyze it this way. There is one way that this ends, which is that the deputy House leader or deputy whip, whatever his position is, could stand right now and say that the government will give us the documents unredacted. Then we all go home. It is literally that simple. The challenge we have is this. The Liberals are going to try to say that we should just stop talking about it. I…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an excellent question and one that the Liberals never want to answer. They will not answer why they are redacting the documents. They will not answer about how they could make it happen in a second. Instead, their questions are to my authenticity because they have nothing to say on this. They know the documents are going to be very bad for the Liberal government. That is why the…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased the NDP is going to vote in favour of this motion. When we do, we will be there as well, but there is a lot that needs to be litigated in the chamber. Why does it have to go to the vote? A Liberal member is laughing because this is all funny to him, corruption is funny. All the Liberals have to do is release the documents. I ask my NDP colleagues to use whatever infl…
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I am trying to understand this, Mr. Speaker. The NDP's contribution to this is whether the Conservatives think about sex. This is how serious the NDP is. That is the member's question. The New Democrats are talking about an invoice from a province and a provincial party. When we are talking about how the government is engaged in corruption and a cover-up and will not produce documents, we get that…
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Mr. Speaker, again, I go back to my speech where I said, whenever they come up with this sort of thing over here, we know that the answer is they could just produce the documents. That is the simple answer. The smoke and mirrors coming from the government is that it is a violation of this, this person is concerned, or this, that and the other thing. It is like when people are trying to solve a lit…
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