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Mr. Speaker, I am excited to welcome everyone to Middlesex—London this summer for the Canadian Plowing Championships in Strathroy. As the member of Parliament for this area, I am proud to extend a warm southwestern Ontario welcome to all of the competitors, families and visitors who have come from across Canada to take part in this national event. This championship is a wonderful celebration of th…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal claims of success are completely detached from reality. Canadians are crowdfunding their way through this cost of living crisis, and the Prime Minister has blown nearly $1 million on luxury inflight catering on just 14 flights, including $175,000 on one single flight. That bill could feed a family in Middlesex—London for 55 years. Canadians cannot afford groceries, so will the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is the only G7 leader and Canada is the only G20 country that is currently in a recession. Full-time workers are living in RVs because they cannot afford homes. Families are spending over 120% of their income on food and rent, and two in five Canadians are struggling to put food on their tables, all while a record 2.2 million Canadians are having to rely on food ban…
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to thank my colleague. I am one of the rare people in this chamber who had an opportunity to work with her as a staff member. Actually, I was a volunteer afterwards, when I left the Hill and being a staffer. She was chair of the National Prayer Breakfast for four years. I just want to thank her for her service on that as well. She really brought a lot of meaning to that ro…
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Mr. Speaker, every other G20 nation is facing the same global headwinds as Canada is, yet under the Liberal Prime Minister, Canada is the only G20 nation facing a recession. In the last few days, we have learned even more about the dire state of our economy under his watch. The economy has shrunk in three of the last four quarters, per capita GDP is stagnating, and our productivity has hit a seven…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot trust the half-truths or honeyed words coming off the lips of any of the Liberals right now. The Parliamentary Budget Officer gives a less than 1% chance that the Liberal government will meet its own fiscal anchor. Banks forecast growth of 0.5% in 2026. Will the Prime Minister take responsibility for delivering Canada's last-place economy, or will he keep borrowing an…
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Mr. Speaker, in March 1974, a 16-year-old girl from a Polish immigrant family went on a school trip to Greece. She was an adventurer with no fear. On that trip, she met a 19-year-old Dutch boy, also from an immigrant family. Back home, he asked her out on their first date and took her to the boys' athletic club, of which he was the president. Even though he taught her how to drive a motorcycle, he…
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Mr. Speaker, StatsCan confirmed another $17-billion exodus for the start of the year. That is more money leaving Canada than is coming in. Over $1 trillion has left since 2015. The Prime Minister is pitching Canada as an investment hub, all while his policies are the most restrictive in the G7 for foreign capital. It is almost like he does not know what he is doing. Let us start with the basics. D…
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Mr. Speaker, let me make this simple for my colleague, who just totally missed the point. The Prime Minister, his boss, holds 91% of his personal investments in the United States. Deep down, it feels like the Liberals know that they have purposely built a failing economy that is driving jobs, capital and opportunity straight out of Canada, straight to the United States, where the Prime Minister ke…
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Mr. Speaker, hard-working Canadian families are being financially crushed by the government, and it is no accident. A mountain of reckless inflationary spending and wasteful Liberal policies are what is weighing them down. The government blew $300 million on the failed PrescribeIT app that never worked and $200 million on a Nova Scotia spaceport that is no more than a concrete pad. It spent over $…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very thoughtful question. Recently I have had the opportunity to sit down in London with homebuilders, developers and people who actually want to buy a home. I am hearing the same thing across my riding and across the country. We need to cut bureaucracy and red tape to make homes more affordable. Builders cannot build if they have to pay too many taxes. If…
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Mr. Speaker, I hear from constituents every day. Tony from Denfield wrote to me and said, “The Prime Minister says that Canadians need to suffer for a little while. Why can't the Liberals take half reduction in income so that they can feel the effects?” John from Newbury said, “Cost of living is too high. People cannot afford groceries, let alone housing. What happened to fiscal responsibility? Ti…
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the hard-working small business owners, farmers and families in my riding of Middlesex—London, I say enough is enough. Bill C-30, the Liberal government's spring economic update implementation bill, does little to improve the quality of life for Canadians but does saddle them with lost investment opportunities and more generational debt. After months of the Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, the member's question fails to address something I can speak to, as I am someone who works in the agriculture industry and works daily with people in the agriculture industry. I can say that, since the carbon tax was implemented in Canada, our costs have gone up exponentially. Every single input cost in this country has gone up, and that started long before any conflict started around…
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply honoured today to table petition e-7025. This petition, initiated by a concerned Canadian from Glencoe in my riding of Middlesex—London, calls on Parliament to amend the Parliament of Canada Act. It asks that any member of Parliament who crosses the floor to join another party must vacate their seat and trigger a by-election in their riding. This is important because Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister warned Canadians about making hard sacrifices, but now he is refusing to show up at the bargaining table with our largest trading partner. Liberal taxes make Canadians pay 20% more for gas. His fearmongering is making relations worse and hurting our economy. He is deliberately pitting Canadians against the United States, all while the Liberals cozy up to the CCP. We…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals continue to blame global factors for skyrocketing gas and grocery prices while offering Canadians only a partial, temporary tax cut. They have been playing with matches for years, printing money and hiking the carbon tax and the fuel standard tax. Now they act surprised that their house is on fire. Canadians see through their excuses in repeated speeches offering more ill…
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply troubled by the profound tragedy that occurred Sunday at Sarnia's Lambton College campus. My heart goes out to his family and all who knew 20-year-old Dane Nisbet, a promising young former junior hockey player who was taken far too soon, and also to the two others who were injured. This senseless and unnecessary act of violence has shaken the community. We all know it coul…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, when asked about rising gas prices, the Prime Minister said that he is still looking at how to help cushion the blow for Canadians. Let me help him out. The reality is that the federal government will collect more royalties than it would cost to eliminate all of the federal fuel taxes for the rest of the year. Conservatives have proposed cutting these taxes to save 25¢ a li…
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Mr. Speaker, that is still more rhetoric and no results from the Liberals. Canadians have been pinching their pennies for long enough. The Liberals have the ability to use $5 billion of their $9 billion windfall to suspend the excise tax, the GST on gas and diesel, and permanently eliminate the clean fuel taxes and the carbon taxes. That would deliver over $1,200 in savings this year for a family …
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Mr. Speaker, affordability of goods and services in Canada is the number one concern for Canadians. We cannot control what happens abroad, but the Liberals control the policies that are making life more expensive here at home. We have the worst food price inflation in the G7 and the only shrinking economy. The Prime Minister is ramming through his newly renamed carbon tax, the clean fuel standard,…
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Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing from farmers and producers that Liberal red tape and taxes are choking the life out of them and threatening our food sovereignty. Nearly 90% of food businesses believe that the future of Canadian agriculture is at risk. Liberal red tape means punishing regulations, and the industrial carbon and fuel taxes are driving up the cost of production across the entire food supp…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that 10 years of bad Liberal policies and hidden taxes have driven Canadian food inflation to 7.3%, which is the highest in the G7 and far more than double the rate in the U.S. This is a Liberal-led, made-in-Canada problem that is driving up food prices and driving Canadian producers right out of business. With 70% of all food produced domestically, including 80% of our…
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Madam Speaker, auto workers in Ontario are getting pink slips; thousands of jobs are gone at CAMI, Stellantis, GM Oshawa and others. Now the Prime Minister is forcing taxpayers to subsidize over two billion dollars' worth of foreign EVs. Canadians deserve better than to be sold out to the Americans. Instead of handing billions of dollars in subsidies to American-made EVs and killing Canadian jobs,…
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Madam Speaker, let me clarify this and put it clearly for Canadians: Canadian auto workers are losing thousands of jobs, and our domestic production is collapsing, while the Liberals are forcing Canadian taxpayers to subsidize foreign-made electric vehicles. This includes the Jeep Compass EV, which should have brought jobs right here to Ontario. When will the Liberals stop their betrayal and adopt…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from London for his very thoughtful intervention. The member mentioned manufacturing in London. What I am hearing from constituents in my riding that manufacture metal components for automobiles, or different implements that go into making some of our military equipment, is that they have really been hit hard with the industrial carbon tax in their m…
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Mr. Speaker, in his speech, my colleague mentioned something that I had previously mentioned in the House: the root cause. I think Yukoners can agree that food prices have gone through the roof. One thing about Yukon Territory is that it can get its groceries by truck instead of needing to have them delivered by plane. One of the reasons groceries can be so expensive for all Canadians is that ther…
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Mr. Speaker, food inflation is up 6.2%, the highest in the G7, and grocery prices are rising twice as fast since the Prime Minister took office. Families will pay over $1,000 more this year just to eat. Farmers, truckers and food processors have been clear: The Liberals' industrial carbon tax and their new fuel standards tax are driving up costs from field to fridge. Conservatives are ready to act…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the cold, hard truth: If two parents work full time and they make over $14.87 an hour, their families get nothing. That is right. Members heard me. Most families will not even qualify for this rebate. Once again, the Liberals gaslight Canadians while we see 2.2 million visits to food banks every single month. Liberal taxes and policies are what are driving up the cost of food.…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians he should be judged by prices at the grocery store. Well, Canadians have judged, and they are angry. When the Liberals came into office in 2015, the Canadian grocery bill was $159 a week. After 10 years, it has more than doubled, to $338. Greg from Komoka wrote to me to say he is sick of the “rules for you and not for me” attitude. Families cannot aff…
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Mr. Speaker, people are starving, and this member is making fun of things. I say that the Liberals should all be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Bad Liberal policies are what is driving up the cost of food by $1,000 next year. Katelyn from Thames Centre says that the government is driving us into systemic destruction as the cost of food, fuel and groceries soar. Alber from Strathroy ask…
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Mr. Speaker, across Middlesex—London, I have heard from families that affordability is top of mind right now. Parents are worried that their kids cannot afford to move out of their house. Even though they are well into their late twenties and have good educations and good-paying jobs, they just cannot afford to move out on their own because of the economy we are in right now. They cannot afford to…
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Mr. Speaker, food banks are seeing record demand, while the Prime Minister keeps shovelling taxpayer dollars at multinationals with zero job guarantees. At CAMI, pink slips are hitting kitchen tables, and it is just weeks before Christmas. Families across Middlesex—London are losing their paycheques and cannot afford to buy groceries. The minister said that she would get an update from GM, but it …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague what he thinks of all of the job losses we are seeing in Ontario right now. We are weeks before Christmas. We have CAMI handing pink slips to people in southwestern Ontario. We have other job losses in the auto sector across southwestern Ontario. I know Middlesex—London, and all of southwestern Ontario, is being hit hard by these job losses. I would li…
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Mr. Speaker, I know my colleague is from Oshawa, and I am hearing from my constituents that they are afraid of losing their jobs. We just heard this week that CAMI is laying off workers, and it is right before Christmas. I know she represents a community that also has a lot of auto workers, so I am just wondering if she would like to comment on what she is hearing from her constituents back home i…
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Mr. Speaker, Christmas is the season of hope, a light that breaks through even the darkest of days. During this time, we remember the true meaning of this holy day: the birth of Jesus Christ, the light of the world. As scripture reminds us in John 1:5, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” That promise is as real in Middlesex—London as it was in Bethlehem. This …
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the secretary of state's speech. In my community of Middlesex—London, I am hearing from parents all over, I am hearing from seniors and I am hearing from all kinds of people who say they cannot afford food. The reason they are having a hard time paying the bills, paying for heat and buying food is that the Liberal government's policies over the last 10 years hav…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague talked a lot about housing. What I am hearing from the residents of Middlesex—London is that housing has become completely unaffordable. The Liberals talk about taking GST off for first-time homebuyers. The Conservatives' plan was to take the GST off all new home builds, because the reality is that it is very difficult to find homes under a million dollars now. A lot…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians asked for relief, but with this Liberal budget, all they got was spin. Families asked for stable prices, safer streets and a clear plan to grow paycheques and bring investment back. Instead, they got the largest deficit in Canadian history outside of COVID, more debt and more creative accounting from a government that keeps saying, “Trust us”, while going out of its way to m…
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Mr. Speaker, we continue to hear from the Liberals that this is a generational investment, but my constituents in Middlesex—London say they see it as generational debt. I would ask the member opposite what she would like to say to those young people out there, the university students, the college students, the apprentices, those who are still in training, who cannot afford to pay rent, who are sti…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada has the third-largest oil reserves in the world. If we tapped into our oil and gas sector and put Canadians to work in good-paying jobs, this country would be amazing. We would be making money and taxpayers would be paying taxes, but we need to put people to work and we need to get the oil out of the ground. We need to get the economy going, because the Liberal government keeps…
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Mr. Speaker, when a government expands faster than the economy and it borrows more without discipline, the result is baked-in pressure, prices and interest rates. This keeps mortgages unaffordable. Mortgage payments have doubled. Rent has doubled. Businesses are having a hard time. If we add energy uncertainty, slow approvals and trade, we will get a higher embedded cost in absolutely everything, …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for visiting Middlesex—London a couple of weeks ago. I am going to read something. I have constituents who write in quite often. Carrie, from Middlesex—London, says things are so bad right now that she actually asked if someone could apply for MAID just because they can no longer afford to live in Ontario. No one should be driven to that point in a country like Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal government, Canadians cannot afford another Prime Minister who cashes in while they line up at food banks. As Brookfield Chair, the Prime Minister helped funnel $6.5 billion through Bermuda and Cayman tax havens, dodging Canadian taxes for his personal benefit. That is not public service; it is self-service. Every dollar hidden offshore is a dollar not buildi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition to the House that comes from firearms owners who are concerned about past legislation and new orders in council in which the government targets law-abiding firearms owners. The petitioners say that Bill C-21 does nothing to tackle firearms violence, but rather adds red tape to law-abiding Canadians. They also describe how the bill does little to tackle the…
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Mr. Speaker, the current government is the most expensive in Canadian history. The Prime Minister does not seem to understand that the more he spends, the more things cost for regular Canadians. Liberals had a chance to lower food costs by scrapping the industrial carbon tax, but they chose to increase food costs by increasing the industrial carbon tax. That drives up input costs of things like fe…
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Mr. Speaker, let me spell this out for the Liberals: no farms, no food. The food professor warns, “we're the only country within the G7 which has seen four consecutive months of [rising] food inflation”. The industrial carbon tax is driving up wholesale food prices, full stop. The Liberals have introduced another of the most costly and largest deficit budgets in Canadian history. When Canadians ar…
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Mr. Speaker, CAMI families are getting pink slips, and the auto sector in Canada is hanging by a thread. The Liberal EV mandate is a bumper sticker, not a plan. It is a pipe dream that costs billions in taxpayer subsidies, and all for nothing. Over 6,000 Canadian families' livelihoods are at stake right now as auto manufacturers move their businesses to the U.S. Will the Prime Minister tell unempl…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of this Liberal government, we have seen nothing but consistent reckless spending. From arrive scam to the green slush fund of the last Parliament, Liberals just cannot seem to stop giving away taxpayer dollars to their friends and allies. We are six months post-election, and nothing has changed. With conflict of interest breaches circling the current Prime Minister, Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, that is just more talk from the Liberals that does nothing to help people. CAMI workers in Ingersoll are worried about paying their mortgages and putting food on the table. After handing out billions in subsidies, CAMI's indefinite layoffs come at the cost of the Liberals' failure to negotiate protections for workers. When CAMI bleeds, so do parts suppliers, tool and die makers, truck…
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