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Madam Speaker, before I begin my comments about the Sustainable Development Technology Canada scandal, knowing that we are coming into Remembrance Week, I want to share with the House a poem. It is called We Remain, and it was written by T.S. Bedford: We remain. We stand between the living and the lost; Between memory and tomorrow. We give voice to the silent; Presence to the missed. We share yest…
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Madam Speaker, it will be a real joy to see all our Olympians, of whom we are so proud. I will get back to the green slush fund scandal, which began with Navdeep Bains, who was then the minister of industry, science and economic development. He was involved in some questionable things. I want to read from one of the newspapers about the time when he stepped down: ...Bains was implicated in a quest…
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Madam Speaker, the role of the RCMP is to enforce the rule of law equally for all. It is interesting to me how often the RCMP does not investigate things happening in the government that are suggested to be criminal, like what happened with the Prime Minister in the WE Charity scandal and like when Brenda Lucki kept information from the public on the Nova Scotia massacre because of an announcement…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I am not sure we have quorum.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question, because it gives me an opportunity to reiterate that the RCMP gets tips all the time. They get documents. They get people calling them in, suggesting that there is crime. They have a due diligence to go investigate that. If they do find evidence of that, then, if they want to use that as evidence in a court trial, they have to go to the judge and ask for a…
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Madam Speaker, the member is absolutely right. We can hand the documents over to the RCMP, that is not a problem. If the RCMP decides that a crime has been committed, it can officially request the documents and use them in court. It is a no-brainer. I do not know why the government does not want to hand over the documents, but there is definitely something it wants to hide.
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Madam Speaker, during my speech I spoke about how we need to be competitive. With the digital age and the evolvement of AI, there are a lot of things that we are going to have to look at. Conservatives believe that we need to make Canada competitive in the world. We need to be leaders in technology. Those things will drive the kinds of decisions that the member is referring to.
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague, who is so excellent in the work that he does. He is so detail oriented, getting to the heart of the matter. In this example, there's $58 million that the Auditor General said went to companies that were not eligible. They did not reduce emissions and it was not green tech. The companies were absolutely not eligible. Regarding my colleague's comments, th…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate another excellent speech from my colleague. Now, this is almost the third month that we have been talking about this scandal and it is clear to me that there must be criminality, as the whistle-blower alleged. What could the member say about it?
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, do we have quorum? And the count having been taken:
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Madam Speaker, we have been waiting almost three weeks or more now for these papers to be produced, and the Liberals do not seem to be in any hurry to produce them. That makes me think there must be something really bad in them and somebody is going to jail. What does the member think?
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am just checking whether we have quorum or not. And the count having been taken:
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Madam Speaker, one thing the opposition House leader mentioned was that this was another GC Strategies, but it might even be worse. He talked about Cycle Capital. One of the board members gave money to it and it more than tripled in value. I believe the Minister of Environment and Climate Change is a part owner of that company, and he, as a minister of the Crown, was part of the GIC that appointed…
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Mr. Speaker, let us just keep in mind here that Navdeep Bains was involved in a sketchy real estate deal that the RCMP had to investigate. It is no surprise to me that he put her in place knowing she had a conflict of interest. At the end of the day, I am not surprised to see records disappear. That is the Liberal playbook, from the Kathleen Wynne gas plant scandal, where everything got deleted, t…
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Mr. Speaker, the fund has been frozen, because they want to do the investigation. They need to look, line item by line item, at the projects that have been approved and find the ones that are actually for sustainable technology and not involved in a conflict of interest. Those projects should go forward.
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Mr. Speaker, what I would say is this: I have actually sought a legal opinion about whether it is appropriate for us to give documentation to the RCMP. That opinion is that the RCMP gets tips all the time. People present evidence of what they think is criminal activity, and the RCMP can investigate that. It does not put anyone in jeopardy and is not going to affect anything, because if the RCMP do…
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Mr. Speaker, I live in Sarnia, where 30% of Canada's oil is refined, so I am a big fan of oil and gas. The reason the Conservatives do not want to eliminate or cut that is that we know that if we replace heavy oil and coal in the world with our LNG, for example, we could cut the 60% of the carbon footprint that China, India and the third world make up. We could cut it by a factor of four.
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I can always be trained, so I will talk about the “developing world” in future. Now, with respect to oil and gas, corruption is corruption regardless of what kind of project it is. When there is a conflict of interest involved and the money is given, that is not acceptable. I would love to see more money invested in emissions reduction. There was an excellent plan in the…
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Mr. Speaker, I think you are doing an excellent job as Speaker. In response to the question from the NDP, I will say that we cannot fix the past; we can fix only the future. What I would say, as a professional engineer who has to meet a code of ethics or I lose my licence, is that bad behaviour is bad behaviour, whether it happens on the Liberal side of the aisle or on any side of the aisle. We ne…
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Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of talk about security clearances today, and it is clear to me that the real issue is this: The Prime Minister has been getting briefings for the last two years, so he knows about the foreign interference and who the 11 compromised parliamentarians are. Could my colleague comment on why he has not taken any action or disclosed those names?
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Mr. Speaker, as colleagues know, I sponsored a private member's bill to make December Christian heritage month. Christians make up over half the population of Canada. Many other major religions have a heritage month, and this helps us to understand the different faiths and their practices and to promote tolerance in our land of religious freedom. Many people across our nation have been inspired to…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise and speak in the House, but I am disappointed that we are on week three of speaking about parliamentary privilege. Those who are watching at home want to know why we are here and how we got here. It all started with Sustainable Development Technology Canada. This is a fund that was designed to support initiatives for green technology, emissions reductio…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to do a quick recap for anyone who missed the first part of my speech before QP. I started by saying why we have been here for three weeks debating a parliamentary privilege motion. I explained that it is because the Liberals will not produce the documents the Speaker ordered and that it is related to the green slush fund and the $400-million scandal, so no government bus…
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Mr. Speaker, I am seeing a pattern of behaviour: Whenever there is a scandal, if it goes to committee, the Liberals filibuster and withhold documents. I wonder if my colleague could comment on whether he thinks the same thing is likely to happen if this ends up at PROC.
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this green slush fund, I think one of the most disturbing things about it is that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change was part of the cabinet that approved the money for the green slush fund. He was part of the cabinet that chose the committee members who were going to decide who got the money, and the committee members gave the money to a company called Cy…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a couple of clarifications and then a simple question for the member opposite. First of all, the Liberal government is pretending to care about people's charter rights, which would be new if it were believable. This is the government that has violated all of them, including freedom of expression and mobility rights. We can talk about the illegal emergency measures act, and we c…
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Madam Speaker, for the last few days, I have been hearing the Liberals constantly asking to send the matter to PROC. I just want Canadians to know what would happen if the matter were referred to PROC, based on what we have seen in the previous scandals, and that is that the NDP and the Liberals would filibuster to continue to block the production of documents. Can my hon. colleague comment on wha…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal members always want to throw everything at climate change, as in the forest fire example the Liberal member just brought up. The Liberals forget that they did not give $500 million to add more firefighters and do more forest prevention exercises. In Jasper, the brush was not cleared the way it was supposed to. It is the same situation when it comes to shoreline erosion. In my …
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Madam Speaker, I do not think the government has an emergency plan, just a plan to carry out studies and so forth. Personally, I see this as an emergency. Does the hon. member agree?
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House once again to speak to the Bloc Québécois motion on shoreline erosion. I will be splitting my time with the member for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry. I would like to speak to the transportation committee study for a bit and talk about the government's response to it. Then I will share some of the factors that are affecting shoreline erosion and th…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands is correct. From 2005, somebody who was actually a member on the government benches was unable to get an urgent infrastructure issue addressed. That just speaks to the problem and the fact that there are a lot of studies, tons of studies done on his area and tons of solutions proposed, all engineered, but no money available. I will continue to pre…
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Madam Speaker, he has said that there could be money coming forward from this Quebec committee, but I have just heard all my Quebec colleagues saying that there is no money flowing anywhere to do anything real about the infrastructure. That is the problem. The committee members are probably getting rich but nobody else is. Unless there is some kind of selection process that excludes Conservative r…
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Madam Speaker, that is a good question. We have a similar situation in my riding. A constituent installed something on his property and it affected the neighbour's property next door. It is very difficult to get funding. The Liberals are all talk and no action. It is always the same problem. They have spent a lot of money, but there is no infrastructure to fight shoreline erosion. That is the prob…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague. That was a good speech. The member gave several examples of how the federal government has wasted taxpayers' money. This comes as no surprise, but now we do not have enough funding for small green businesses. Does this come as a surprise to her?
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal government made a big deal about doing something for the disabled, but instead of listening to the disabled community, which was asking for $1,300 a month, they brought forward a benefit that is $200 a month. At the same time, they jacked up the carbon tax so that groceries cost $700 more per year and the cost of housing was doubled under the government. Essentially, dis…
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Madam Speaker, there seems to be a pattern of behaviour with the government. It is corruption and cover-up. We saw that with the Winnipeg lab and we have seen it in numerous instances. Can the member elaborate on the pattern of behaviour that he has seen?
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable to me that the government House leader is worried about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when the government has violated every single Charter right there is. It has violated the freedom of expression with Bill C-11 and Bill C-63. It has violated the mobility rights of millions of Canadians, as well as life and security of the person. I could go on and on. Then th…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank our House leader for outlining exactly the incident, but there is a pattern of behaviour. The Winnipeg documents were not produced, and there were extremes gone to in order to suppress those. The WE Charity scandal documents were the same. Time and again, the Liberal government obstructs transparency. If it had nothing to hide, as the member well pointed out, that woul…
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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 NDP leader made a big deal about tearing up the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals and then flip-flopped by voting to keep the Prime Minister in power. The NDP leader needs to end the costly coalition with the Liberals. People cannot afford to eat. Ontario food bank usage j…
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Mr. Speaker, here is what they have really done. The NDP-Liberal coalition has doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work and unleashed crime in our streets. Instead of selling out Canadians by keeping the Prime Minister in power, the NDP leader needs to vote with common-sense Conservatives for a carbon tax election. Why not let Canadians decide whether they want the carbon…
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Madam Speaker, perhaps the member opposite is unaware of what is happening in the country, where 70% of Canadians want to get rid of the carbon tax and 70% of Canadians are very unhappy with the performance of the Liberal government. If he thinks the Liberals' plans are so fantastic, why does he not give Canadians what they want and call a carbon tax election?
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member opposite for his history of what has gone on. We heard testimony earlier today about how, when survivors of sexual assault had their cases transferred from the military justice system to the civil justice system, many of the cases were thrown out because they took too long. Why did the government not recognize that, because it had not appointed enough justices, ra…
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Madam Speaker, I was on the status of women committee when it studied sexual assault in the military, and the heartbreaking stories of the trauma that had been experienced demanded urgent action. However, here we are two and a bit more years later with nothing much done by the Liberal government. It is bringing forward a bill that may not even make it through the Senate by the time the next electi…
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Madam Speaker, I do have a concern with Bill C-71. My concern has to do with the measure that would allow a Canadian citizen to have their children be Canadian citizens if they were not born in the country, and even their children be Canadian citizens, in perpetuity. What would happen would be that we would then have all these people who do not live in Canada and are Canadian citizens. Elections C…
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With regard to the government’s efforts to recover funds from government contract recipients for any reason, including overpayment, failure to meet contractual obligations or any other reason, broken down by department or agency: what are the details of all such efforts which have taken place since January 1, 2022, including, for each, the (i) date of the contract, (ii) contract value, (iii) vendo…
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With regard to government expenditures on other professional services not elsewhere specified (Treasury Board code 0499 or similar), during the 2023-24 fiscal year: (a) what was the total amount spent on such services, broken down by each department, agency, or other government entity; and (b) what are the details of each expenditure, including the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) amount, (iv) descrip…
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Madam Speaker, the bill has come very late in terms of implementing anything before the next election. What is the impact of what just happened here in the House, with the NDP's not being willing to advance the bill in a more speedy way?
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Mr. Speaker, health care is super important to Canadians. Our health care system is ailing. We do not have enough doctors as it is. What drives me crazy is not just that we are going to pay $56 billion of interest on the debt, but also the fact that we have turned down $59 billion for LNG from Germany, $59 billion of revenue from Japan for LNG, another $60 billion from the Netherlands for LNG. Tho…
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Mr. Speaker, I would say if the member really cares about the working class, she would quit propping up the Liberal government to increase the carbon tax on people, increase their CPP and EI premiums, increase the cost of groceries and all the things that are being propped up by the NDP's support of the Liberal government.
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite talked about the importance of increasing competition, and I do agree with that. However, it does not seem consistent with the actions of the government that approved the Shaw merger with Rogers and the acquisition of the HSBC bank by RBC. These things are definitely not increasing competition. Could the member explain how that is consistent with the Liberal govern…
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