Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the new member for Guelph. Liberals were elected on a promise of building half a million new homes a year. It reminds me of a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. It looks real, but it is a trick. TD released a report today stating that housing starts will actually be declining to 215,000 from 245,000 last year. Does the member realize that Canadians do not want hype…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member on his re-election. One thing I did not hear about in his comments was crime. I met a lady yesterday and was chatting with her, and I asked how her day went. She said it was a day from hell because she had to call the the police three times to have people removed from her business. I wonder if the member recognizes the impact the Liberals have had as far as c…
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Mr. Speaker, to the member, I say that I think it is pretty obvious to everyone that fear was a major motivating factor for the Liberals winning the election, and specifically Donald Trump's bizarre threats of annexation, which appealed to a significant number of people. We heard, during the election, the Liberals constantly talking about Trump, “elbows up” and retaliatory tariffs, but it has been…
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Mr. Speaker, I send my congratulations to you on your election and your appointment. I have a question for the member with respect to the budget. The fact is that the Liberal government has not brought forward a budget, and it does not seem to be serious about it. How does he think that bodes for the future of Canada and getting expenditures under control?
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With regard to the government's response to Order Paper Question Q-2825 and the data provided by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada titled “Police-reported incidents of arson occurring at religious institutions, region, 2010 to 2022”: what are the details of the accounts, including the names and locations for each instance of arson referenced?
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With regard to wildfires caused by arson, between 2016-24: (a) what charges and sentences were laid for arsonists; and (b) what are the details of each account of which wildfires were determined to be caused by arsonists, including whether or not the perpetrator was apprehended?
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With regard to fires at each place of worship that were caused by arson between 2016-24: (a) for each instance, was the arsonist (i) apprehended, (ii) not apprehended; and (b) for each instance in (a)(i), what were the sentences received?
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal member is talking about the government's record. Well, in Vancouver last year, the same 40 criminals were arrested a total of 5,000 times and set free again. Police are asking me, “What is the use of even arresting them?” Even outside behind my office, I see people constantly shooting up. There are deaths all over the place. This falls upon the Liberals and the New Democ…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are experts at making big announcements, but seeing results is another story. My riding of Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge had an announcement of a $1-billion battery plant. The Liberal-NDPs announced it, and now they are pulling back. It is the same story with the cricket bug plant, where it was announced that millions of dollars would be added to it, which has also been pulled…
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Madam Speaker, listening to the Liberal parliamentary secretary, I have to scratch my head and wonder what country he is living in or, maybe, what planet. He talks about a housing accelerator program when it actually should be called a housing decelerator program. The Liberals have put a break on housing starts. In Vancouver and Toronto, housing starts are down to levels that they were at in the s…
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With regard to the Canadian National Security Council, since its creation was announced in 2023: how many times has the council met, broken down by year and by quarter?
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Madam Speaker, we have been very clear that we want all the names to be released. We are not trying to hide anything. We are not afraid of anything being released. We are asking the Liberals to release all the names. Conservatives believe in transparency. We want to see who the members of Parliament and senators are. That is important. Going back to the motion, Conservatives want the truth. The tr…
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Madam Speaker, we should not be debating the motion, and we should not have been debating it for the past six or seven weeks, since September 26, because the Liberals should have released the information regarding the green slush fund weeks ago, as requested. They should have given it to the RCMP and to Parliament. However, the Liberals, as is typical of them, are just snubbing their nose at Parli…
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Madam Speaker, I had about 20 pages of notes and got to page six. I certainly wanted to discuss money being siphoned off and corruption. That is not a word I use lightly. Time after time with the green slush fund, we have seen the vast majority of the $800-million fund, 82%, going to insiders and companies the money should never have gone to. We have seen the ArriveCAN scam that should have cost a…
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Madam Speaker, I find the NDP member's comments quite interesting. He talks about natural resources and his is a party that, along with the Liberals, stymies all development of natural resources. Whether it be oil and gas, agriculture or fishing, everywhere we look, we see the tentacles of the leftist and socialist parties trying to choke the working Canadian. I hear it all over the place. People …
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Madam Speaker, I will repeat myself: All the information should be released. This is important. Going back to the topic right here, in terms of corruption, we have another former Liberal minister who received $120 million in contracts under a so-called indigenous company. He was claiming to be indigenous, which he is not. It is just a scam. The more we kick the tires, the more rot there is. Canada…
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Madam Speaker, today is December 3, and here we are again, discussing the privilege motion regarding the submission of documents to Parliament. We should not be debating the motion; we should not be debating it today, and we should not have been debating it this week, last week—
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Madam Speaker, thank you. I retract the comment. If you do not mind my saying, the Speaker, whoever the Speaker is, will normally be a member from the party that is in government, whether Conservative or Liberal. It is not a matter of being partisan; it is just the case. I am just mentioning where my thoughts were.
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Madam Speaker, I find the member's comments to be quite ignorant when using expressions like “goose-stepping”. I was not a member in this House at the time, but was in the provincial government in British Columbia. Developing relationships and trade with China are important. We have a lot of trade. Even in the provincial legislature, I remember warning my colleagues that we should not get too join…
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Madam Speaker, in the last Parliament, we found ourselves in a similar situation. Documents were to be presented to Parliament, but the Liberals said, “No, we cannot have transparency”. The Speaker made a judgment, and he ordered documents to be produced unredacted. It sounds like it is a repeat. The Prime Minister and all those who were surrounding him decided to take that Speaker to court to sue…
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Madam Speaker, I am Métis. I am a citizen of British Columbia and I have roots in Alberta. Many of my relatives are Métis living in the Edmonton area. This hits close to home for me, but it is also a slap in the face that someone like the former Liberal minister would try to commit fraud. That does not in any way advance indigenous rights. I completely disagree with what the NDP member said, that …
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Mr. Speaker, as a Métis citizen of Métis Nation British Columbia and Golden Ears Métis Society, I must admit that what the former Liberal minister has done has really undermined indigenous people throughout Canada. It is a shame because, as was mentioned by a previous speaker, 1,100 companies that identified as indigenous were delisted, so we see the amount of fraud for economic, social and politi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I take this as an attack upon me personally. My family attended residential schools and, as a Conservative—
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Madam Speaker, we are hearing the Liberal member wax eloquently about how compassionate the Liberals are toward the people of Canada. However, I would like to compare that to what the Conservatives are offering: the permanent elimination of the carbon tax, which makes everything more expensive, and cutting the GST for new home purchases, which will add 30,000 jobs and make life much less expensive…
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Madam Speaker, one of the many comments that the Liberal spokesperson, the member for Winnipeg North, made today was referring to the Conservatives as the “far right”. I do not know if he and the Liberals have been looking at the polls over the past year, but it seems like the “far right” is approaching half the Canadian population, and they just seem to be totally disconnected. The member for Kel…
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Mr. Speaker, on the weekend, I talked to an individual who told me that all his life he has voted for the NDP but that has changed. He is so frustrated with the NDP's support of the Liberals in government, all the scandals and mismanagement, and the impact that is having on his life. I am wondering if the member could address the NDP supporting the Liberals, even with the green slush fund, and not…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the Bloc Québécois member for his speech. However, there is one thing I did not hear mentioned even once, and that is the importance of nuclear energy. The focus seems to be on waste, which I can understand, but no one is talking about the importance of nuclear energy. In Canada, 15% of our electricity comes from nuclear power. In France, it is 63%. Nuclear power is a source o…
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Mr. Speaker, petitioners want to draw the attention of the House of Commons to the following. Since the CCP's rule of China, it has implemented state atheism and perceived religion and believers as a threat to its rule. This is why in 1999 the CCP initiated a campaign of persecution against perhaps millions of Falun Gong practitioners due to the practice's growing popularity in the country. Falun …
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Mr. Speaker, we are now in the third week of debating this privilege motion. It is the third week since the House came to a standstill, and it does not have to be this way. The blame lies four-square on the shoulders of the Liberal government. It is essentially snubbing its nose at Parliament; at you, Mr. Speaker; and ultimately at the Canadian public. Parliament has a right to request documents, …
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Mr. Speaker, actually, we do not. That is a good point from the Liberals. We want to be working on business, but we do not like their business. This goes to my second point. Maybe the Liberals have had visions in the night and subconsciously recognize that Canada is going in the wrong direction under their mismanagement. Maybe they are feeling a bit of collective shame in their hearts and saying, …
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Madam Speaker, I hope the member opposite does not get too teary-eyed by what I have to say, but I am going to recommend him for a cabinet post: the minister of obfuscation. In lay terms, I would call that the minister of smoke and mirrors, because this is not relevant. The member is off on a tangent. The truth of the matter is that the Speaker of the House, who is an elected Liberal member of Par…
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Madam Speaker, I gave a number of reasons I thought the Liberals might be delaying this, letting the time just pass away. The fifth reason is that I think they really have something to hide. The Auditor General put forward an audit that showed, I believe, that 186 out of 230 contracts she looked into had conflicts of interest. If we extrapolate that to all the contracts, it would equal about $800 …
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Madam Speaker, the fact of the matter is that it does not just rest upon the shoulders of the Liberals, as far as all these scandals we are facing are concerned, including the one here on Sustainable Development Technology Canada. It rests upon the NDP because it is an NDP-Liberal government. The NDP has actually supported the government; it has kept the Liberals in power through all the scandals …
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Madam Speaker, I have great, breaking news: Site C dam has just opened up in British Columbia, which is very important for the production of hydroelectricity. It was pushed forward by the party I was in when we were in power and also by the leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, John Rustad. Despite the fact that the NDP and the Greens pushed back very hard against it, people like Bill Bennett and…
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Madam Speaker, they actually support us in this motion, so it does not make any sense. It is obvious that they are trying to make an excuse to say they are going to let this slide, that they will support the Liberals once again in their scandals. That is typical NDP.
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Madam Speaker, that question really needs to go to the Liberals because they are the ones who are not producing the documents ordered by the Speaker. Why are they allowing the House to continue this debate? We do not support most of their legislation as it is; at the same time, this is ridiculous. It is just going on and on. It seems as though it is an excuse for them to prorogue government or jus…
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Madam Speaker, once again, this is smoke and mirrors, not talking about the facts before us, as has been ordered by the Speaker. If the member is so adamant on this position, then he should present it to the Speaker to make a ruling. We are dealing with a motion of privilege. They can do one of two things: Either they can produce the documents, which would be what has been ordered, or they can at …
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things that struck me was the word “self-serving”. There are many examples, but one that comes to mind is one of the board members receiving a quarter of a million dollars for her companies. The Minister for Environment and Climate Change was a lobbyist for them, has shares in a company and met with the PM's office a dozen times before getting elected. I wonder if the membe…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder whether the member for Kingston and the Islands would recognize he is just totally off the mark. He is huffing and puffing and trying to blame the Conservatives, when really it is the Speaker's ruling that is saying that the documents need to be produced. My question is this: Are the Liberals planning to take the Speaker to court, as they did previously to the other Speaker w…
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Madam Speaker, on the anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, I rise to present petition e-4985, in which 2,250 Canadians are calling on the government to stand against the rise of anti-Semitism. Bomb threats, death threats, violence, vandalism against Jewish homes, schools and synagogues and the boycotting of Jewish-owned businesses are causing many Jewish Canadian…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to an Ethiopian couple who tragically lost their lives in an arson attack at the House of Covenant International Church in Winnipeg last month. Geda and Zenabu recently came to Canada with hope but instead were met with horror. They were living above their church, which provides affordable housing for newcomers. In the middle of the night, a heinous act of arso…
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Madam Speaker, speaking about board members, one board member's company, Cycle Capital, received a quarter of a billion dollars in contracts. The Liberal Minister of Environment and Climate Change was a lobbyist for it and met with the government 25 times the year before he was elected in 2019. This is of concern to us. I wonder if the member could make a few comments on that.
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Madam Speaker, I asked a question last Friday that echoed the sentiment of Canadians from coast to coast, which is simply this: When will we have a carbon tax election? It is not a platitude, quip or slogan that should be brushed away, which the Liberals are doing. The carbon tax represents a societal and political flashpoint, and they really should be aware of this just by looking at the polls, f…
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Madam Speaker, the member talked about fires. We have heard a controlled burn was recommended in Jasper. There was political push-back within the Liberals saying maybe they do not want to do that. Why? It is because it goes against a narrative of climate change. In fact, wildfires cause about one-third of carbon emissions in the world. When we tax the trucker who brings in the food, when we tax th…
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Mr. Speaker, today, we are debating the Liberal government again snubbing its nose at Parliament and at members of Parliament. A parliamentary committee rightfully requested documents on Sustainable Development Technology Canada, otherwise known as the $1-billion green slush fund. What we know already smells terrible, and I will get more into this. The Liberals produced documents, but what they pr…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the program had good objectives when it was established. The Auditor General conducted an investigation in 2017, when the person in charge of SDTC had been appointed by Mr. Harper. The Auditor General concluded that it was working very well at the time. Then the Liberals started meddling in this to see how they could personally benefit from taxpayers' money.
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Mr. Speaker, I would say that the truth is that the Liberals are having the most discomfort with producing the documents. Let me give an example. There is carbon tax Carney, who was appointed as a special adviser to the finance minister and who wants to be the next Liberal leader. However, he directs an investment firm called Brookfield Asset Management and is trying to get into talks to access bi…
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Mr. Speaker, rather than six minutes, I suppose I could be here for six hours. I think of the Winnipeg lab scandal, where, again, the House committee ordered papers to be released to show what was happening there because there was a scandal. The Liberals said no. They were not going to release the documents, so what did the Speaker do? He actually ordered them to produce the documents. What did th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a parliamentary privilege, a right of the committees, to be able to examine the documents, and we are being stymied as far as Parliament. We are very concerned with what we have seen, and there is much more beyond that. We want to see the documents produced as soon as possible.
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