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Mr. Speaker, that was an excellent speech. The real problem with Bill C-14 is that it does not remove the principle of the least restrictive punishment at the earliest possible opportunity. That is the problem, and it is the reason this bill is not going to fix crime. Would the member agree?
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague gave an excellent speech. I have been here for 10 years, and the Liberals have been saying they are going to address criminal justice from the beginning. First, they had Bill C-75, and the police said that it was awful and allows repeat offenders out on the streets. Then they had Bill C-5, which took away mandatory minimums and put house arrest in place. That made things …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for his military service. People who stood in frozen trenches and fought for the freedoms of this country, and people who have fought all along, would not really be happy about the granting of citizenship to people who have never lived in Canada, because citizenship has to mean something. What does the member think about that?
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Madam Speaker, The budget is coming after Halloween So I want to tell you the things I have seen Spending so scary it will tax us to the brink, With inflation so high it will drive us to drink The crime in our streets is now terrifying With all getting bail, we are now verifying Food prices so high it will spook you for sure With more hikes to come that no one can endure With nothing being built a…
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of the government, Liberal elites and insiders have never had it so good, but the Prime Minister told young Canadians they need to sacrifice. While Canadians are lined up at food banks, the Liberal government hired the Prime Minister's buddies to staff his new defence procurement office and Major Projects Office. He is paying them $679,000 and $577,000 in salary. Of c…
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded vote.
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Madam Speaker, so far the Liberals have built up a record-smashing 2.2 million food bank visits, and over 700,000 of those are from children. Rent has doubled. According to the Canadian income survey, 380,000 seniors are living in poverty. They cannot afford homes and they cannot even afford food. Some of them are living in their cars. When will the Prime Minister stop using taxpayer dollars to ma…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague had an excellent speech. He talked about the consequences of the bill. One of the consequences of the bill would be that people who get Canadian citizenship because their parents were here at one time, and who do not live in Canada, would then be able to vote in Canadian elections. Elections Canada allows people to choose which riding they want their vote to count in…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and to speak to Bill C-3. As is my habit, I will talk about what I like in the bill, and then I will talk about what I do not like in the bill. Let us start with what I like. According to the first part of the bill, there would be a restoration of citizenship to people who lost it due to non-application. People born between February 15, 1977 and April 16, 1981…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to clarify that there is co-operation happening between the Bloc and the Conservatives, and the Liberals have been calling for co-operation since the parliamentary session began. I would have thought the member would be happy to see co-operation happening. It has resulted in this great bill. To his question on the lost citizens who would be restored in one of the measures…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are facing a hunger crisis. According to Food Banks Canada, monthly visits to food banks have doubled, up over 99% since 2019, and 39% of the population experienced food insecurity in the last year alone. Of those turning to food banks, one in five is employed, one in three is a child and one in four is in a two-parent household. This is the legacy of 10 years of the Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have always said that they respected the work of committees. Right now, they are not respecting it at all because they have scrapped all the amendments we made in committee. The government is in a coalition with the NDP to reverse all the good work we have done. That is not fair.
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, happy anniversary to the member and his lovely wife Odette. I hope he bought flowers. I am very concerned about the immigration system, because there have been numerous occasions when the Liberals have forfeited security checks. I can remember when visas from Mexico were preventing some of the cartels from moving in, and the Liberals removed them against our advice. Then…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing we have not talked about today in this debate is the fact that there may be an additional 150,000 or possibly more citizens. The Liberals really do not know how many there would be. One problem from an elections point of view is that, according to Elections Canada, these people who would be citizens living outside the country can decide which riding their vote is going to co…
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Mr. Speaker, common-sense amendments were passed in committee. The NDP is now seeking to overturn them, even though it is not recognized as an official party in the House. That is not fair. What does my colleague think?
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Mr. Speaker, what is garbage is that answer. Hidden Liberal food taxes are worked into the sticker price of everyday essentials, driving up food costs. The new fuel standard is adding 17¢ a litre to the fuel that truckers use to get the food to the grocery store. The food packaging tax and industrial carbon tax are inflating grocery prices as well. They show up on the total cost on people's receip…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices that Canadians pay at the grocery store, and Canadians are paying the price. Food inflation is skyrocketing, up 4%. Liberal deficits are driving inflation. The more Liberals spend, the more it costs Canadians at the grocery store. Twenty-five per cent of Canadians are using food banks because they cannot afford to eat. W…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether the member follows me on Facebook or Twitter, but if he does, he might want to review one of the excellent speeches I gave when the green slush fund was before the House and the Liberals were saying that there needed to be separation between the government and the RCMP. I fully agreed, and I gave a number of examples in which there were infringements of the Crimi…
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Mr. Speaker, there is no oversight on the part of the government or the Minister of Immigration. I think there are four million students who are supposed to leave by December, but the government has no idea where they are. That is unacceptable. We need foreign students, because the population is aging and we need a lot of doctors and nurses. We absolutely need much more oversight.
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Mr. Speaker, this debate is supposed to be about Bill C-12, so my question is about Bill C-12. It is supposed to enhance border security, because a concern was expressed that has led to a tariff war, basically, with our neighbours to the south. Instead of reacting like the Mexicans did, who immediately put 10,000 resources in place at the border, the government announced getting 1,000 extra guards…
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Mr. Speaker, it is because the Liberals have nothing else to offer. They are looking for a distraction because they have not delivered. They are going to build, build, build at paces we have never seen. Well, I have never seen negative acceleration, but I am seeing it now.
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in the House, and today we are talking about Bill C-12. For those who do not know what Bill C-12 is, it is the Liberal government's attempt at a do-over of Bill C-2, the border security bill. When Bill C-2 first came out, there was an outcry from the Conservative Party and civil liberties organizations across the country because of the numerous infringe…
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Mr. Speaker, if this position has no power over the government, then the government has just created a bureaucracy. If this person is actually able to force the government to take action or to act on the government's behalf to actually close the treaties and get agreement on the 70 that are still outstanding, that would be progress.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and to speak to Bill C-10. The bill would create a new agent of Parliament, a commissioner for modern treaty implementation. The commissioner's role would be to assess how the terms of modern treaties are being met or not met, as the case may be, and report to Parliament on their findings. I see that the agent would not really have the power to tell the govern…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that question because the Conservative Party has a great plan that would help reduce the global footprint not just by providing LNG and small modular nuclear reactors to supplant coal and heavy oils in China, India and the emerging world, but also by supporting green technology here at home and making Canada a leader in that, so that we could export that and create jobs h…
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Mr. Speaker, I think we need someone who will have authority over the government. The proposed commissioner would write a report with recommendations, but we already have that right now and the government has not moved. We need someone who can compel the government to act.
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that this would be an agent of Parliament, not an officer of Parliament. This person would have no power to do anything other than write reports to the government, which the government has already shown it would not act on. Certainly, I am sure this individual, whatever high-paid Liberal friend they choose, would have some expertise in modern treaties, but at the end of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and speak to Bill C-11, the military justice system modernization act. I want to let you know that I will be splitting my time, should any remain, with the member for Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk. First of all, I want to tell people what this bill does, if they are not aware. It is similar to Bill C-66 from the last Parliament with some language changes in…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not have a lot of confidence that the amendments I have just gone over, which are all reasonable amendments, would be accepted at committee, based on the history that I have seen, where the Liberals continually turn down the common-sense amendments of the Conservatives. This is our only opportunity to air those concerns and get them in the public, but certainly we will support th…
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Mr. Speaker, rape is up 76% in this country. We do not have enough judges. Rapists are walking on bail. Repeat offenders are walking on bail. As I have said, the conviction rate is slim to none. We cannot move things from the military justice system to the criminal justice system unless the criminal justice system is fixed so that women and men who are sexually assaulted in Canada get justice.
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Mr. Speaker, I was very interested in the point my colleague was making about what would happen when these incidents happen internationally. I was chair of the status of women committee when we studied sexual assault in the military, and it was clear that the existing military system is subject to the old boys' club. If someone is in a foreign location, they are forced to work with the perpetrator…
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Mr. Speaker, I have already outlined the fact that Canadians have lost trust in the Liberal government. This is just another fact. Obviously we need bail, not jail. For six months, the justice minister has had an opportunity to introduce the things that would reverse what is in Bill C-75, which gives people bail. It talks about the least restrictive punishment at the earliest possible opportunity.…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for an excellent speech. Obviously, I agree with the Deschamps recommendations and the Arbour report about moving sexual misconduct allegations out of the military justice system and into the criminal justice system. However, the record of the Liberals and the criminal justice system, as we have seen, is this: Sexual assault is up 76%, and these repe…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the concerns I have heard from members of the CAF is that, currently, regarding cases going before military justice courts, their legal fees are covered. They are worried about frivolous litigation and that, if they are in criminal courts, they will have to pay for their own lawyers. Has the government given any thought to what it would do as a remedy for that?
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Madam Speaker, when this bill came forward in the last Parliament as Bill C-26, it went to the Senate. Senator Denise Batters was the critic for the file, and the Privacy Commissioner said that there was an amendment needed to address privacy. The senator has reviewed Bill C-8 and said that the amendment was not incorporated. Why did the minister not take the advice of the Privacy Commissioner?
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Mr. Speaker, the member spoke of a few problems with the bill. She mentioned amendments that the Bloc Québécois would like to move in committee. Can she explain the amendments and the reasons for them?
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite mentioned farmers, so I wanted to remind her of the record of the Liberal government. She was not here to see it impose two levels of carbon tax, hundreds of thousands of dollars on farms, and the clean fuel standards still remaining without giving them any credit for the emissions reduction of the CO2 absorbed by their crops; the tariff on fertilizer; the restrict…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians should judge him by prices at the grocery store. Since he was elected, Canada's food prices have surged 50% faster than those in the U.S. After 10 years of Liberal rule, we have record lineups at food banks. Families cannot afford to put food on their table; they are struggling. The Prime Minister promised he would be different, but it is just another…
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Mr. Speaker, I wondered if the member opposite is concerned that, after all this talk about how they are going to “build, build, build”, the current emissions cap, which is really a production cap, is actually contrary to the plan to build.
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Mr. Speaker, every day in Canada, a woman dies from a violent crime. Sexual assault is up 75% in this country, and 60% of the violence against women is intimate partner violence. I am so proud of the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola for bringing forward a private member's bill to address that crime. The government has had six months. A woman dies every day. Where is the sense of urgency on the …
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Mr. Speaker, I did not really hear the answers I was looking for. The Liberals are saying the $13-billion bureaucracy is going to start with 4,000 homes, but the fact remains that nothing has been built and housing starts are down 13% in the country. Young people are losing hope of ever being able to afford a home. We need to see the detailed plan. The minister has had six months. What is going to…
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Mr. Speaker, all the municipalities in my riding have affordable housing as their top priority, and the housing minister is tasked with addressing the housing crisis that has been caused by 10 years of failed Liberal policies. The former minister of housing indicated that 550,000 units would need to be built every year for four years to catch up with the massive increase in immigration he caused. …
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the out-of-control spending of these Liberals has driven up inflation 50%. The Prime Minister's deficit is projected to be double that of Justin Trudeau's. Canadians are paying the price, especially at the grocery store. Soup is up 20%. Coffee is up 22%. Groceries overall are up 70%. The Prime Minister said he should be judged on the price of groceries. He has broken his …
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With regard to government information about crime for the year 2023: how many suspects who were charged or deemed chargeable with homicide (i) were on bail or another type of remand, (ii) were on house arrest, (iii) were on parole, (iv) were subject to another type of community service broken down by type, (v) had an arrest warrant for a different crime at the time they were charged or deemed char…
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With regard to the distribution of fuel charge proceeds to small and medium-sized businesses, through the Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses, as authorized under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and section 127.421 of the Income Tax Act: (a) what is the total amount distributed to small and medium-sized businesses under the Canada Carbon Rebate since the program’s inc…
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Mr. Speaker, the whole point of this EV mandate is to try to reduce our carbon footprint, but we are going to reduce our carbon footprint by only 0.08%. China and India are 60% of the footprint. We could do more by shipping our LNG to displace coal and heavy gas there. At the same time, it is going to be very destructive for Canadians, killing 38,000 jobs and costing $138.7 billion from the econom…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the people of Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong for putting their trust in me for a fourth term as their member of Parliament. I want to thank my campaign manager, Anne Denman, and the many dedicated volunteers who worked to ensure a victory. Special shout-outs go to Mackenna, the best volunteer coordinator and door knocker ever; Brandon, the brains behind getting out th…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals have continued to spend taxpayers' money without a plan or a budget. They are not following the rules of Parliament. This is unacceptable. What does the member think about that?
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Madam Speaker, the member opposite's speech gave a lot of details about the progress that is being made on electric vehicles. I am not opposed if somebody chooses to have one, but I can clearly see that people are not choosing them. We are at 7.5% uptake on them, even with government incentives in place. It is also worrisome to me that after investing $55 billion to get some of the battery plants …
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