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Mr. Speaker, babies do not go to school. The Liberals do not even listen. This is about baby formula, not school food. The Liberal programs are not working, and they are making it worse. Families are switching to cow milk and solids earlier than doctors recommend because they have no other choice. They cannot afford baby formula, and they do not want their children to starve under the Liberal poli…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians, driving up the cost of everything. Food inflation on baby formula is up 84% in eight years. Formula is one of the top stolen food products in Canada, and it is now kept under lock and key in many places in Canada. I heard from Cyara, a Manitoba mom, who knew she was buying stolen baby formula but did it anyw…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her passionate speech. She is obviously listening to her constituents. There is no denying that life has become increasingly unaffordable. Mothers are struggling to put food on the table and families are suffering. The Parliamentary Budget Officer and Fitch Ratings say that the situation is problematic. Can the member tell us what she is hearing about this in …
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Mr. Speaker, “Sometimes you're trying to choose between bills and feeding your kids.” That is a direct quote from Thunder Bay mom Cassandra Shedden, who relies on formula to feed her infant child. She describes rummaging around her house, looking for things to sell just so she can put formula in her baby's bottle. Why will the Prime Minister not do something so that parents can afford to buy baby …
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Mr. Speaker, since 2017, inflation on baby formula has become double what it is in the U.S. We are overly reliant on imported infant formula, and we only have one plant in Canada, which means that every single tax on transportation, every supply chain disruption and every single tariff threat hits Canadian families harder. This is due to a lack of any kind of action from any of the Liberals for th…
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Mr. Speaker, what is deeply wrong is the fact that parents are waiting every single day for those cheques just so they can afford to put groceries on the table. What is deeply wrong is that mothers are begging strangers online for money just so they can afford to buy baby formula. What is deeply wrong is that parents are resorting to buying opened bottles and cases of powdered formula, just so the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said to judge him on the prices at the grocery store. Nowhere is his failure more evident than with baby formula. According to StatsCan, since 2017, the price of baby formula has gone up by 84%. After 10 years of Liberal governments, desperate families are relying on Facebook groups and are even buying opened cans of baby formula for their children. Why is the Prime…
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Mr. Speaker, moms want to feed their own children, and they should be able to afford baby formula. If the Liberals' programs were working, we would not have one in three kids at food bank lines every single month. We would not have 700,000 kids, every single month, in food bank lines. We would not have baby formula as the number one stolen food product in Canada. This is because of the Liberals' f…
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Mr. Speaker, if a single one of those projects and programs actually worked, there would not be 700,000 children waiting in food bank lines every single month. This is not okay, yet somehow the Liberals have normalized this. Nine out of 10 kids are not even fed by the school food program. When will the Liberals realize that their inflationary deficits and hidden food taxes are making food more exp…
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Mr. Speaker, children are going hungry in Canada due to Liberal mismanagement. Every dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadian families through higher prices and food inflation. A third of Canadian children now live in a food-insecure household. Food Banks Canada reports record-breaking food bank use with 2.2 million visits in a single month, and over 700,000 of…
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Mr. Speaker, do members know what is totally despicable? It is that after 10 years of the Liberals, we continue to see crime increase in this country. After 10 years of the Liberals, we continue to see Breaking Bad-style superlabs opening up from coast to coast to coast. We continue to see the Liberals call to defund the police, like the member of Parliament for Victoria, who called for them to be…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise and to speak to Bill C-12. The bill is effectively the second attempt of the government at getting serious when it comes to public safety and dealing with our borders and with drugs. It is frustrating, because Bill C-2 was a giant omnibus bill that the government put forward. The Liberals effectively said, “Don't worry. Just trust us. It's fine”, within days of…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague makes a very important point. We are not hearing the Liberals debate this bill, and that would be a very important question to ask them. It is really unfortunate that they do not want to talk about the legislation that is before us today. I think that it is really necessary to address these issues in committee, and I hope that we will have the opportunity to hear from wit…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague raised a very important point. We are blessed to have amazing RCMP members, who serve us from coast to coast to coast. They serve me in my riding of Fort McMurray—Cold Lake. They are the police of jurisdiction in my home community. The police union has, and rightly so, called out that the Liberal gun grab will not actually have an impact. That is concerning. It is a boond…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Auditor General delivered a scathing report on the state of child care. Despite the Liberal government's spending billions of dollars on its child care plan, the shortage of available child care has gotten worse over the last five years. StatsCan showed that the proportion of parents who use child care and reported difficulty finding it rose from 36% in 2020 to nearly 50…
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Mr. Speaker, it is typical that the Liberals blame everyone but themselves. They committed to building 250,000 new child care spaces in five years. Three years in, there are fewer than half. Worse yet, they do not know how many spaces are going unused and do not know how much unmet demand exists, all while they are using funky, inconsistent math. Provinces are warning that the $10 system could col…
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Mr. Speaker, breast cancer is the most common cancer in Canadian women. One in eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime, which impacts more than just the patients. It also impacts their families, friends and communities. We know early detection and treatment saves lives. Leading experts, including the Canadian Cancer Society, Dense Breasts Canada, Breast Cancer Canada and the C…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the biggest struggles, though, is that the government fails to recognize that when it doubles the deficit, it increases inflation, and that when it increases inflation, it creates issues where families cannot afford to make choices. The Liberals have created band-aid solutions like the school food program because parents cannot afford to feed their own families. Absolutely, chi…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that members on the opposite side of the House think that if they yell and are really super angry about a bunch of things, maybe we will get intimidated or stop sharing facts. The facts are that food insecurity is up, and 25% of families are struggling. They do not know where their next meal is coming from. Food insecurity has gone up 128% in the last 10 years the Liberals have…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, while I appreciate the member opposite, he spends a lot of time in the chamber and speaks a lot. He also knows the rules quite well, or should. He is not allowed to point out whether someone is in the House.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things the member from Newfoundland so rightfully pointed out is that, for the last 10 years, the government in Ottawa has been telling the energy industry that it should not exist, that it should transition away to something else and that the Liberals were ashamed of it. Now, the Liberals are saying they are different, but they have not really done anything different. They…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her amazing speech and for her support of Bay du Nord, which is important to Newfoundland. Many people I grew up with have moved back home to Newfoundland as a direct result of the investment they have seen. However, they are concerned that it is going to be a one-and-done project. If this emissions cap stays in place, it tells investors: “Don't worr…
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Madam Speaker, it is hard to know where to begin with the speech that was just delivered by the member from the Green Party, who took her entire time to just spread a lot of misinformation and untruths about Canada's driving industry. Canada has an abundant series of natural resources. We have an opportunity right now where we can choose either to continue developing our natural resources or to le…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Lakeland, just to the south of my riding, gave a very passionate speech defending people who work in the energy industry. As she very rightly pointed out, a cap on emissions is a cap on production, which will hurt with respect to creating jobs Could the member explain why there are so many concerns being raised by people in our ridings and throughout Canada about the…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada has the gift of abundant natural resources, yet for the last 10 years we have seen a government here in Ottawa telling this industry that it does not matter and that its jobs should not exist. While it has now started to change some of its tune and is admitting that government policies have caused this change, the reality is that we do not have proponents for pipelines because …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague's speech was enlightened. This weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to Fort McMurray 468 First Nation in my riding of Fort McMurray—Cold Lake. I got to see the fall fair. Part of the reason this large fall fair could be put on was the natural resource revenue the nation has because they have been partners in prosperity for generations in my region. It sounds like it i…
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Mr. Speaker, families cannot eat the word salad served up by the minister, unfortunately. Food inflation is rising and one in four families is currently struggling to put food on the table. Meanwhile, Liberal deficits are fuelling inflation, driving prices even higher. Liberals are more interested in feeding bureaucracies in Ottawa than in tackling the serious problems facing Canadian families tha…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians would judge him on the cost at the grocery store. He is failing. Grocery prices are 70% above their own targets. Since the Liberals took office, food inflation has skyrocketed by 40%. It is another broken Liberal promise. Families are struggling to keep up. I do not know if the ministers shop for groceries themselves, so I will put this simply: Beef i…
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With regard to the finding of the "National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026" that vendor concentration in technology services increases cyber vulnerability: (a) what is the government's current assessment of its own level of dependence on dominant technology service providers, across all departments and agencies; (b) has the government conducted any specific studies or analyses, since January 1,…
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With regard to contracts provided by the government to McKinsey & Company since January 1, 2023, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity: (a) what is the total amount spent on contracts; and (b) what are the details of all such contracts, including (i) the amount, (ii) the vendor, (iii) the date and duration, (iv) the description of the goods or services pr…
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With regard to incidents involving Microsoft's cloud services referenced in the "National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026" and, specifically, the compromise of Microsoft Exchange Online during the summer of 2023, the breach of Microsoft's cloud-based enterprise service by Russian state-sponsored actors in January 2024, and the Azure disruption in July 2024: (a) which government departments or ag…
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Mr. Speaker, the member raised many important points, particularly around the changing work in our constituency offices. I know that many offices face issues similar to what he has raised where a vast majority of our work is doing immigration caseload. I was wondering if he could get into a little more detail on some of what he is seeing in his riding.
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Mr. Speaker, does my colleague have concerns about how Bill C-3 would create a bit of a two-tiered system when it comes to immigration, particularly with what is being proposed by the Liberals in that there would be no criminal record checks required for the in-perpetuity chain immigration?
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Mr. Speaker, we know the Prime Minister does not buy his own groceries, but most families do, and what they are seeing at the grocery store is ever-increasing food prices. According to Canada's fiscal watchdog, the Liberals' newest broken promise is on their tax cut, with the average Canadian saving only $90 this year, well below the $825 promised. This is not even enough for a week's groceries. D…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is a broken record of broken promises. He said that we should judge him by the price at the grocery store and that he is the man with a plan. He is failing. Since the start of this year, beef is up 34%, oranges are up 26%, apples are up 18% and baby formula is up 9%. This is making it harder for families trying to put nutritious food on the table. Will the Prime Min…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Cambridge for her well-thought-out and researched speech. One thing I found really interesting that the member brought up was innovation in the Canadian context. I know she is from an Ontario riding. I am wondering if she could further explain some of the innovation she has seen and why she thinks it is important to give consumers a choice as …
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Madam Speaker, as I listened to my colleague's speech, I noted that he began by wishing everyone a happy Saint‑Jean‑Baptiste Day. I want to point out that this holiday is celebrated by French Canadians across the country. I, too, want to wish a happy Saint‑Jean‑Baptiste Day to my Franco-Albertan constituents, since people in Quebec are not the only ones who celebrate this day. That being said, I h…
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Mr. Speaker, despite having the gift of abundant natural resources, Canada is not meeting its potential. Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world, yet due to the lost Liberal decade and its anti-energy policies, we import nearly half a million barrels of oil a day. Liberals have preferred to support dirty dictator oil instead of our responsible Canadian energy. To many Canadians, Alb…
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Mr. Speaker, I, like the member, represent a rural riding, and people in my riding tell me on a regular basis that they want to have the choice when it comes to which vehicle they drive. Oftentimes, they pick vehicles based on safety and what is going to be best if they were to encounter a moose or something else that perhaps some of the people in Toronto are not necessarily familiar with seeing o…
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Madam Speaker, as a proud Franco-Albertan, I was very interested in what my colleague said about the vitality of the French language in northern Ontario. In Canada, there are many rural francophone communities that are really suffering as a result of the carbon tax. It has not been eliminated as the Liberals would have us believe; rather, it has simply been reset to zero. Could my colleague tell u…
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Mr. Speaker, is my colleague in favour of building an oil pipeline to free up our Canadian natural resources and put Canada first?
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Mr. Chair, I am not asking the minister to pick a project; I am asking whether she supports oil sands energy, yes or no.
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree that pipelines are a safe way of transporting oil, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, In 2020, there was $2.4 billion in procurement in indigenous businesses in the oil sands alone. Does the minister acknowledge that economic reconciliation is important in the oil sands?
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Mr. Chair, premiers Smith, Moe and Kinew have all said yes to a pipeline to Churchill. Does this mean a yes?
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Mr. Chair, there is $2.4 billion in procurement, so shrinking oil and gas development will hurt economic reconciliation. Does the minister not see that this is a step backwards?
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Mr. Chair, is it yes or no to the oil sands?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister ever toured the oil sands?
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Mr. Chair, I have a really simple question: Does being an energy superpower include oil sands energy?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister ever been to Fort McMurray?
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