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Madam Speaker, this weekend, I went home as I often do. I actually go home every weekend. When I travel, on Friday mornings, I leave Ottawa at five o'clock in the morning, so it is a pretty early flight. I often am wearing a hoodie and I am rather incognito. People do not often realize I am a member of Parliament when I get on. When I got on my final flight from Calgary to Fort McMurray, there was…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, the cost of living crisis is having a major impact on family grocery budgets and yet the Liberals' answer is to continue hiking the carbon tax, making food even more expensive. Under NDP-Liberals, we are seeing the largest annual increase in child poverty on record. One in four parents are cutting back their food to feed their kids, and one in five ch…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Prime Minister's own Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed yet again that the carbon tax costs more to Canadians than they get back in rebates. When the NDP-Liberals quadruple the carbon tax, families in Alberta will pay nearly $2,000 more in carbon taxes. Will the NDP-Liberals final…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians that wind up at food banks are not buying that rhetoric; I am sorry. Food bank usage is up. The Cold Lake Food Bank is the busiest it has ever been, with a 28% increase in usage over 2023, which saw an increase of 16% over 2022. The carbon tax is driving up the cost of groceries, gas and heating, making things more difficult for families and food banks, which are pushed to t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. There is more proof the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost, crime and corruption: The Auditor General found that nearly 400 million tax dollars were given to Liberal insiders through their green slush fund; there were also 186 conflicts of interest and 10 completely ineligible projects. However,…
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Mr. Speaker, one in eight Canadian women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime, and one in 36 will die from it. There are many factors that can increase a woman's risk for breast cancer, including family history, genetics and breast density. Racialized women are more likely to develop cancer at a younger age, and Black women are 40% more likely to die from it. The Canadian Cancer Societ…
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Madam Speaker, I find it truly bizarre that the government has changed its tune as to why it cannot release the documents unredacted. It did release some of the documents, but they were redacted. It used a big black marker to cross out wide swaths of information because it does not want it to be seen. However, the interesting piece here is that the most recent argument as to why the documents cann…
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Madam Speaker, the wonderful people of Fort McMurray—Cold Lake elected me to bring their voices to Parliament. They elected me to stand up for what is right and to stand up against corruption, chaos and all the challenges that have happened after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government. The only person in here filibustering on the bill is the member for Winnipeg North, who, as I said earlier, as …
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to come in here and finish my speech. As has been described, what has effectively happened is that, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government has completely lost the plot. There has been scandal after scandal, and the Auditor General of Canada's findings have continually shown all kinds of misgivings in terms of spending and any kind of compliance. In fact, Sustai…
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Madam Speaker, it is actually quite lovely to be able to address my colleague from Winnipeg North. I hold in my hand a—
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of a number of Canadians who have signed a petition calling on the government to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, stop the crime and hold a carbon tax election. The petitioners have made their thoughts very clear after the nine years of corruption they have seen from the NDP-Liberal government. It is an honour to table this petition.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North cannot help himself. He has gotten up to speak to the bill at every single possible opportunity; as of last night, he had filibustered it to the tune of 10,151 words, which is over an hour of speaking time. If he had no problem with this, he would simply stop speaking and allow the documents to go unredacted; however, the Liberals have something to hide…
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Madam Speaker, it is not very often that I agree with the Bloc Québécois, but this is one subject on which we very much agree. It is true. Parliament has the authority to demand documents. What is more, the Speaker ordered the government to provide the documents. There is now a question of privilege before the House, which is rather rare in Parliament. However, over the past nine years of this NDP…
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Madam Speaker, the member's question is actually quite wonderful. I think it is one of the first questions I have had that has not been from the member for Winnipeg North. Perhaps it is the first time any of my colleagues has actually received a question posed by someone other than the member for Winnipeg North on this. This is one of the big challenges we face. The Liberals are so afraid of the t…
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Yes, it is a point of order, not a question of privilege. If the member really wants, I would suggest she read Bosc and Gagnon, which sets these out quite clearly.
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Mr. Speaker, we cannot do indirectly what we cannot do directly. Quoting someone saying that someone is lying is not parliamentary.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, a relatively low number of people are required for quorum, but I do not believe we have quorum right now.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that the Liberals do not want to hear the well-crafted speech that my colleague from Calgary Heritage has written and is delivering. It is very frustrating to me that the Liberals want to shut him down at every single opportunity. Mr. Speaker, I would ask that you let my colleague finish his speech.
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Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that we are here today discussing this privilege motion, which has effectively paralyzed Parliament because the Liberals refuse to give up unredacted documents because they are afraid of what those say. Frankly, they are fully aware of what they say. If they were not concerned about the contents of the documents, they would have allowed us to resume the work of the H…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague made some really important points, particularly in response to the comments made by the member for Winnipeg North, who said that this is a provincial matter. However, the reality is that this Liberal government, the most centralizing government in Canada, is still not consulting the provinces and territories before passing major legislation. How can my colleague c…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to join in with some of my colleagues on this day of celebration and wish my husband a very happy fourth wedding anniversary. When we got married four years ago, I did not think I would be standing here in the House of Commons asking questions on scandals. It has made me reflect. When I first started getting interested in politics, it was right around the time of the Gome…
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With regard to the government's approach to oil sands mining effluent and the Crown-Indigenous Working Group (CIWG) for the Potential Oil Sands Mining Effluent Regulations: (a) what is the government's current plan for dealing with effluent, including the (i) scope of the plan, (ii) key deliverables, (iii) stakeholder engagement process, (iv) key dates in the plan, (v) current status of work items…
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With regard to requests received by Health Canada related to decriminalization from provinces, municipalities or Indigenous communities, since January 1, 2016: what are the details of all such requests, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) name and title of the person who made the request, (iii) entity represented by the person making the request, (iv) summary of the request, (v) response by He…
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With regard to applications received by the government to run supervised consumption sites, since 2015 and broken down by province or territory: (a) what are the addresses and services offered or potentially offered for each application received; and (b) for each application in (a), broken down by address or site, is the status of the application (i) received but a decision has not yet been made, …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to signal that I am going to be sharing my time with the member for, and my colleague from, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. As I rise today to speak to the sad topic of this emergency debate, I would like to recognize the six indigenous individuals who unfortunately lost their lives. Specifically, Steven “Iggy” Dedam, Danny Knife, Hoss Lightning-Saddleback, Jack Piche, Tammy B…
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Mr. Speaker, to follow up on what my hon. colleague said, it is very clear what MMIWG call for justice 5.4 says. It does not say to maybe at some point look at indigenous policing. It says, “immediately and dramatically transform Indigenous policing”. I am wondering whether, in her opinion, she thinks that in the nine years the Liberal government has been in power it has done enough to do that.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for sharing some of the history of the land he represents, as well as the history of the name of his riding. It was actually quite interesting. One of the things I have found very shocking and frustrating, as I have listened to countless speeches from the Liberal government on this, is the way that the government brags about all the money that it has commi…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague stressed the need for action, and we are aligned on this. There are countless reports and studies and calls for justice and calls to action. I am going to cite call for justice 5.4 from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. It is very clear in its language. It states: ...to immediately and dramatically transform Indigenous policing fro…
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Madam Speaker, I welcome my hon. colleague back to this chamber as another young mom in this place. It is so wonderful to see people being able to find that space of both having a family and doing this job, and doing it so well. One of the pieces that the member alluded to in her speech was with regard to first nations communities that are sick and tired of the lack of support they are receiving a…
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That is in my riding.
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With regard to the government's safe supply, safer supply and prescribed alternatives programs, broken down by year for the last two years: (a) which companies were allowed to import drugs into Canada that were to be used under the programs, broken down by drug that they were allowed to import; (b) how much of each drug was each company (i) allowed to import, (ii) importing, into Canada; and (c) w…
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Madam Speaker, quite simply, why did it take the government this long to bring forward a piece of legislation to protect Canada's democracy? Why did it take so long to acknowledge that this was a problem and bring forward this legislation in the last days of our parliamentary sitting? Why did it delay? Why was this not a priority for the government?
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Madam Speaker, it was in the 2015 election that the Liberal Prime Minister made a promise that he was going to end drinking water advisories in indigenous communities by March 2021. He was very specific. He gave a date and a timeline. Then, in 2020, as the government was approaching that self-imposed deadline, the former minister of indigenous services said that “by spring 2021, the number of [com…
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Madam Speaker, the member is part of a government that promised in its 2015 electoral campaign to end all drinking water advisories by 2020. Here we are in 2024, and there are still countless long-term drinking water advisories. Why has the government been so slow to act on something so critical as water?
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Madam Speaker, we would request a recorded division.
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With regard to inmates in facilities operated by the Correctional Service of Canada, broken down by location, since 2015: (a) how many inmates were on opioid agonist therapy, including sublocade, suboxone or methadone as of January 1 of each year; (b) of the inmates in (a), how many were also concurrently accessing the needle exchange program as of January 1 of each year; (c) how many inmates in t…
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Mr. Speaker, earlier today in the health committee, we heard powerful testimony from indigenous leader Earl Thiessen, executive director of Oxford House, who said that safe supply was akin to pharmaceutical colonialization. Will the Prime Minister listen to indigenous leaders, like Earl, and put an immediate end to this dangerous government drug trafficking program?
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Mr. Speaker, what is the percentage increase in overdose deaths in Canada after nine years?
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Mr. Speaker, leading addiction physicians from across Canada have written several letters demanding the minister make all safe supply programs witnessed and recovery-focused, or shut them down. Will the minister follow the advice from these experts?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to start out by saying that I will be sharing my time with the member for Cumberland—Colchester and the member for South Surrey—White Rock. I would like to direct all my questions to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. How many people die due to overdose in British Columbia every day, on average?
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Mr. Speaker, six die every day in British Columbia. What is the leading cause of death of British Columbian youth aged 10 to 18?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is 166%. There are around 50 million safe supply hydromorphone pills prescribed in British Columbia every year. How many of those are acceptable to be diverted into the hands of drug dealers who are profiting off the death of Canadians?
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Mr. Speaker, what is the leading cause of death in British Columbia for those between 10 and 59?
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Mr. Speaker, protocols have been put in place to allow so-called safe supply of fentanyl to children under 18 without parental consent or knowledge. Will the minister clearly stand against fentanyl ever being given recreationally to children, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, is diversion being tracked?
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Mr. Speaker, how much diversion is acceptable to the minister?
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Mr. Speaker, will you stand up against recreational fentanyl to children, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, B.C. is looking to add chemical tracers to its safe supply. Will the government make tracers required in all safe supply across this country?
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Madam Chair, how is diversion being tracked?
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