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Mr. Chair, would the minister still oppose this project today?
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Mr. Chair, the minister claimed that there is national unity and consensus, but the day after the meeting, B.C. Premier David Eby said no to a pipeline, removing consensus. Is this a veto?
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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 believe that economic reconciliation is important?
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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, 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. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to rise and add my voice to this important emergency debate. I want to start by thanking all of the firefighters, the first responders and the agencies, organizations and people who have opened up their hearts and homes to people fleeing the fires, as well as all those who are helping preserve communities right across western Canada. It is remarkable work …
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Mr. Speaker, it is wonderful to have another speech delivered by a member from a Toronto area riding who is not necessarily impacted by these fires. While I appreciate her sharing the department-written speech that was prepared for her, which had some good information, she talked about a lot of things the government has committed to do but has not actually done. We have heard promise after promise…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, the minister is not allowed to label people by their names in here. She needs to use the minister's title or their riding name.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for his speech. As a fellow Albertan, it is sometimes wonderful to hear some of those thoughts, processes and pieces. He highlighted the Fort McMurray fire, how he came into the office of the NDP premier of Alberta shortly thereafter and that many failings happened, in large part because there was not as much communication happening among the different level…
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Mr. Speaker, it is truly wonderful to see an Albertan in the Speaker's chair. As the member for Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, I am absolutely, unfortunately, quite familiar with the devastation of forest fires and what an impact they have on communities. In his speech, the member touched on the fact that many members in Manitoba have been able to open up their hearts and their homes to the evacuees. I …
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Mr. Speaker, I want to welcome the member opposite to the chamber, and I appreciate the information she shared. It is an important time to recognize some of these facts. While we are here in an emergency debate discussing fires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, there are fires burning in other provinces, including in Alberta. Earlier this week, a crew of firefighters in Chipewyan Lake actually lost ra…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really hard to sit here, as the member for Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, as the member from the Green Party decides to disparage my community and put out inconvenient untruths. It is the reality that during the Fort McMurray fire, when people were giving outpourings of support, she blamed it on climate change rather than having compassion. Many of her speeches tonight have been very …
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Mr. Speaker, fentanyl is 100 times more potent than heroin, and as little as two milligrams can kill a person. Through the lost Liberal decade, Canada has become a fentanyl manufacturing hub, with Breaking Bad-style superlabs popping up across the country. Mass fentanyl production is mass murder, but Liberal laws let the monsters who traffic the deadly drugs walk free. The Conservatives are propos…
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Mr. Speaker, failed liberal drug policies flooding the streets with dangerous drugs and causing crime and chaos in our streets are making the addiction crisis worse. Every day, 22 Canadians die from drug overdose. During the lost Liberal decade, we have seen more people die from addiction than we lost in the Second World War. We have heard heartbreaking stories of young people becoming addicted to…
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With regard to deportation or removal orders for individuals: (a) how many people are currently subject to a deportation or removal order, in total, and broken down by province or territory and by type of removal status or classification (monitoring, wanted, stay, working inventory); and (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by country to which the individual is being deported?
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Mr. Speaker, it is shocking to me how much of a scandal this is and how much money we are talking about. I thought it was very collegial of my colleague to have offered the government to give up his time if it simply released the documents. When I talk to people in Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, they are astounded by the fact that the government is so afraid of what these documents contain that it refus…
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Again, Mr. Speaker, we are here to discuss the member for Edmonton Centre and a concurrence motion that was moved by the INAN committee with respect to him. I know that the member for Kingston and the Islands would like to talk about anything else, as he always does, but it is not relevant to the debate at hand.
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Mr. Speaker, while I understand and appreciate that there is a decent amount of latitude given to us here in the chamber, what the member is talking about is not the issue at hand, about the member for Edmonton Centre and his egregious claims of indigenous identity to try to get government contracts. Therefore I believe this is a call on relevance.
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Mr. Speaker, it was far more than 10 seconds. I am trying to give the member some time, but he refuses to bring his speech back to the debate at hand.
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Madam Speaker, I have a simple question for the minister. Why is there a small GST break on Christmas trees, but not on menorahs?
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Madam Speaker, not only did the member mention the presence or absence of a member, but he used very unparliamentary language. I would ask for him to retract it and apologize.
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Mr. Speaker, we need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke on the addiction crisis and illegal drugs. About 47,000 Canadians have died under the Prime Minister's watch. That is more than we lost in the Second World War. We need to fully reverse the liberalization of drugs, which is killing our people and threatening our borders. We need to secure our borders against the importat…
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Mr. Speaker, that is not a plan. We need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke on the addiction crisis and illegal drugs. There has been a 200% annual increase in drug deaths under his watch. We need to fully reverse his liberalization of drugs. We need to ban the drugs, prosecute every trafficker, and secure our borders against drugs and chemical precursors that are used to mak…
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Madam Speaker, it was a really interesting time when I first started paying attention to politics. It was right around the time of the Liberal sponsorship scandal, when there was cash from Liberal coffers being put into envelopes. The Liberals were literally stuffing envelopes with cash. There was so much money and that actually brought down Paul Martin's government. If the parliamentary secretary…
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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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Madam Speaker, it is really interesting to be here debating this privilege motion, which first came to the House on September 26. Nearly two months ago, we first started having this conversation when the Speaker ruled on a matter of privilege and found that the privileges of the House had, in fact, been breached. There was a point in time, many years ago, when I was studying political science as a…
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Madam Speaker, there might be a difference between whether you want to share your opinion and whether you are able to share your opinion. To my colleague from Toronto—St. Paul's, it is so spectacular to have a Conservative in that seat within the GTA, representing those views. I have been so fortunate in the couple of months we have been able to work together to learn from the member and to learn …
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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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Madam Speaker, this is one of the interesting pieces. Maybe in some parts of the country people can wait until December 14 to buy their children winter boots or a winter jacket. That is not the case in most parts of rural Canada. In fact I just pulled up the weather app. It is -13°C in Fort McMurray. There is full snow cover. I cannot wait in order to save 5% on a snowsuit, wait another month befo…
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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, 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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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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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 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, 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, 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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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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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, 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, 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 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 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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