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Madam Speaker, I would ask that it pass on division.
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties, and if you seek it, I believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move: That, in relation to its study of the forestry industry, three members of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources be authorized to travel to Helsinki, Finland; Lahti, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; and Norrköping, Sweden, in the spring of 2026…
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Mr. Speaker, we request that it be adopted on division.
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Madam Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to see the clock at 5:42 p.m., so we can start Private Members' Business.
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Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded vote, please.
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Mr. Speaker, at the core of this issue is the fact that the United States is taking a protectionist approach to its economy. The United States of America is no longer interested in free trade as it used to be. There is this notion that somehow Conservatives are going to change everything that Donald Trump has stood for in the last year. He has put tariffs on just about every country in the world. …
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Mr. Speaker, I know members opposite would love to drown out her words, but I would like to repeat them in the House. She said: I have concerns and questions with some of what your party has presented. We are encouraged by your effort— That is good news, guys, that you get an A for effort. —but skeptical that this plan can restart idled Canadian facilities. In fact, we fear it may prevent potentia…
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Mr. Speaker, the member needs to spend a little more time being careful about the words that he uses. When he writes a speech, he should be reflecting on what he is actually proposing. In the beginning of his speech, he talked about how the government is repackaging ideas, but then he literally went on to talk about how the Conservatives' entire plan is a repackaging of a 1965-era auto pact. By th…
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Mr. Speaker, I would really encourage the member, who I know is an economist and understands these things, to take four steps forward to the seat in front of him, sit down next to the member for Dufferin—Caledon and explain to him what the innovation curve is and what it means for new technology. I am sure he could help the member for Dufferin—Caledon immensely, because he is not taking it from me…
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Mr. Speaker, listening to the member say things like, “Once we get to 25%, we get to some curb,” it underscores his lack of understanding of some basic, elementary economic principles of supply and demand. The reality is that it is not even 25%. The member for Dufferin—Caledon should know that the chasm point is actually 7.5% market penetration of a new technology. That is the tipping point. It is…
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Mr. Speaker, I really enjoyed listening to the member speak. I always enjoy his comments, but I, in particular, applaud him for discussing his EV. If I heard him correctly, he said he has had it for just over two years, and he has put 120,000 kilometres on that EV. What was surprising to hear from the member was that he suggested that the infrastructure is not there for the majority of Canadians. …
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Mr. Speaker, this opposition motion and, quite frankly, the entire Conservative plan around the auto industry in Canada come down to one thing. They come down to denialism. I am going to demonstrate that by talking in particular about three things that they are denying the reality of. They are denying the reality of the auto sector and what exists today. They are denying the reality of the trade s…
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Mr. Speaker, for a year Conservatives said nothing. I would like to go back in Hansard and see how many times the member said “tariffs” before today. Conservatives said nothing. Then, suddenly, a year into the problem, they decided their solution would be to come up with the same plan that existed in 1965. That is literally what they did. Can the member explain to me why the Conservative Party, an…
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Conservatives are basing their entire plan on a 1965-era world and environment that we lived in. Back then, there were three major manufacturers of automobiles in the United States and Canada: Ford, Chrysler and GM. Today there are dozens. In 1965, pretty much all production was done in the U.S. and Canada, and it was heavily labour-intensive. Today many sell b…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the added detail. The reality is that only Conservatives would look at what has happened over the last year and say the best idea is to try to find a way to have more trade with the United States, when the rest of us, the vast majority of Canadians, have said it may not have been such a good idea to be so heavily invested in trade with the United States over the…
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Conservatives say they just want to make the system better, but they set up false dichotomies. They make it an “us versus them” issue, saying that our health care sucks because of refugees. That is what they do. This is what we have heard, not just in this debate but in so many debates with the Conservatives. If they were genuinely interested in fixing a proble…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives could have accomplished the same thing and would not have even had to talk about health care and set up this dichotomy of us versus them, if they had just made their motion say to get rid of the appeal process. That effectively would have accomplished the same thing. By getting rid of the appeal process, once a claimant is rejected, it is over. Once a claimant goes t…
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Mr. Speaker, I find the narrative that the Conservatives have been using today, and in this discussion generally speaking, extremely alarming, because what they are basically saying to Canadians is that their health care system is not working because of refugees. They are using dog whistle politics to attack a subgroup of our population intentionally because they have, in my opinion, the same moti…
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Mr. Speaker, during this debate, I have been thinking back to 2016. A new government had been formed in the fall of 2015, and it had committed itself to accepting Syrian refugees into Canada out of necessity because of what had been going on at that time in Syria. I remember this vividly: In the late winter, after a lot of the refugees had come into Canada, we had a number living with host familie…
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Mr. Speaker, just like this member, I have seen this happening for years now. The Conservatives just rage bait and look for opportunities to get people amped up so they can then say, “Don't worry. We can fix the problem. All you have to do is donate $10 now.” I have seen it so many times. I have been the subject of those emails throughout the years after I have spoken in the House. The Leader of t…
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Mr. Speaker, I told the story at the beginning of my speech about Syrian refugees. The thing is, a lot of them have been here long enough that we can see what they have become and what they have accomplished. I am so incredibly proud to have Syrian refugees, or former refugees who are now Canadian citizens, living in my community. They contribute to my community in a way that genuinely has an econ…
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Mr. Speaker, I will answer the question. The reality is that what she is saying does not exist. She asked why rejected applicants continue to get health care. They do not. The problem is that that member and the Conservative Party consider somebody rejected before they have gone through the entire due process they are entitled to. What that member should have done was bring a motion here saying th…
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Mr. Speaker, I feel compelled to just accept that compliment and sit down. I do not think I have received one like that from the Bloc before. I genuinely appreciate it. If the member is looking for an ally to always push the government to do more in terms of subsidies, he will find one in me. I will always encourage our government, or any government for that matter, even the provincial Conservativ…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is being disingenuous when he starts off by criticizing me personally. The way I read it is that he does not have anything concrete to bring to this debate, but I will answer his question. If the member listened to my speech and everything I said, he would have heard me make it very clear that we are in a transition. We are all going to be building only electric cars eventu…
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Mr. Speaker, I am only at the part about sharing my time, and they are already heckling me. I will be sharing my time today with the member for Oakville West. I cannot help but wonder what is going on in the political party over there with its members being so hell-bent on disassociating themselves from the reality of the world we are in and the fact that our car industries are converting, changin…
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Mr. Speaker, I hear the members laughing right now. Whether or not they want to get on board and drive one of those vehicles does not matter because at the end of the day, they will be in one. It may not be tomorrow. It may not be a year from now. It may not be five years from now, but I guarantee that eventually every Conservative will drive one. I have been driving electric vehicles since 2011. …
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Mr. Speaker, it is extremely rare that, when a government member speaks, the first question goes to the Green Party. That, I think, is a symbol of the Conservatives being afraid to ask me a question. Nonetheless, I will address the member's point. She is absolutely correct about the transition. As a matter of fact, my wife did not want to go fully electric for the same reason of range anxiety. Wha…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member can talk about where he sees the future of vehicles going. Right now, one in every five vehicles sold in the world is an electric vehicle. It is continuing to only increase and will continue to only increase, moving into the future. I wonder if he accepts that fact and if he would share his thoughts on where he sees Canada's role in the electric vehicle manufact…
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Mr. Speaker, I would love to hear why, the member thinks, the Conservative Party has changed so much. I say that because the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada used to be at the forefront of environmental issues. It was Brian Mulroney who brought countries throughout the world together in Montreal to develop the Montreal Protocol to deal with the ozone layer. It was Brian Mulroney, a Progres…
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Madam Speaker, that would be a great speech if it were not for the fact that Bill C-12, which was already passed by the House, deals with just about everything that is in the opposition motion. I heard the member stand up and talk about everything that the Liberals are not doing right. What about the fact that the Conservatives have held up Bill C-2, on lawful access, and prevented components of t…
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Madam Speaker, it is refreshing to hear that a new member of the House of Commons is aware of what was going on in here before. I remember listening to speeches from Conservatives who had sat in the B.C. legislature that brought in that carbon tax. They then stood right on the other side of the aisle here and talked it down. The member for Winnipeg North and I would get up time after time to chall…
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Madam Speaker, if all the member has been doing is paying attention to infrastructure projects, he has missed everything that the Prime Minister has been doing, or at least 99% of it. The Prime Minister is going out into other parts of the world, creating new opportunities and new trade relationships for Canada in the world. That is what we need to do right now. Conservatives want to live in that …
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Madam Speaker, there is a key difference between that member and me. I am standing here right now, and I will say, as somebody who studied economics and believes in market-driven solutions, I believe, as others have also said on this side of the House, that we can drive market behaviour through government intervention. I still believe that, and I stand by everything that I previously said.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to the opposition motion. I cannot help but think as I listen to the debate, including the last speech as well as those I listened to earlier this morning and prior to question period, how maybe, just maybe, the Conservatives would have a leg to stand on with this argument had it not been for the fact that the last time they made this argument, it came to no frui…
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Madam Speaker, to the member's question about who is being disingenuous, if he is unwilling to talk about the global climate and weather, global supply chains and geopolitical events in this context, then he is being disingenuous to the argument. The member is just trying to paint it as Liberals creating this problem writ large and wants to just forget about what is going on in the rest of the wor…
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Mr. Speaker, I have been sitting here for 20 minutes listening to a former finance minister of Quebec, who served for four years in that position, try to explain to the House, at a very elementary level, and in particular to the Conservatives, why deflation is not a good thing, and all I could hear was them laughing at him. The reality is that the Conservatives' suggestions on this will not come t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order with respect to your first ruling. I do want to thank you for taking the opportunity to respond to my point of order so quickly. I listened to your ruling thoroughly. I discussed it with my colleagues, and there is still some confusion around this. The member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley was sitting in the House, rose and was identified by the Table as vot…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley voted both in person and online. When he was in person, he actually was not even in his seat. I am wondering if you, Mr. Speaker, can let us know if his vote counted twice, what happened there and how we can ensure this does not happen in the future.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to follow up on my point of order from before. If you look online, it says that the member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley voted in person. However, there is an asterisk next to his name, which usually means that the member changed their vote. I am bringing this to your attention not because I particularly care about the last vote, but because I really believe that we need to create …
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I know. I agree. The words were even difficult coming out of my mouth. Mr. Speaker, in any event, if I were one of the members who are going to be assembling this weekend to pass judgment on the Leader of the Opposition, I would seriously reflect on that and ask, “What has he learned? Has he learned anything? Is he going to be different? Will he do anything differently than he used to?” I gave him…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to admit that when I looked at this opposition motion, I could not help but think, “Holy, the Conservatives are so lazy.” What they have done is literally take the entire platform they ran on nine months ago and put it into an opposition motion, but here is a news flash: Canadians voted against that platform. They did not give the Conservatives the ability to form a government.…
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Mr. Speaker, as the member for Kingston, I find it really interesting to listen to the member tell me about Sir John A. Macdonald. I would like to tell him something about Sir John A. Macdonald, and that is that Bellevue House in Kingston, which was one of Sir John A. Macdonald's residences, was completely revamped recently to showcase the full display of who Sir John A. Macdonald was and his cont…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to the opposition motion before us. I have been spending time listening to this today, and I cannot help but wonder who the real audience for it is. I believe that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources really hit the nail on the head a few moments ago when he said that the intended audience of the motion is the folks who will…
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Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to the same rhetoric and the same speech over and over for years now. We saw the entire opposition motion in a platform the Conservatives put forward. The Leader of the Opposition ran on everything in the motion in the last election, but he lost. Canadians chose not to go with what he was proposing. My question is very simple and I hope the leader uses this oppor…
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Mr. Speaker, I will totally leave it to city council to decide what to do with a statue that belongs to city council. I will leave it in the very capable hands of the individual who still serves as the mayor there, whom I am extremely grateful for, to make that decision, the same individual who ran for the Conservatives in the last election. While Conservatives focus on days gone by and whether or…
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Mr. Speaker, for starters, the policy that he is referring to in terms of Quebec's pricing of carbon existed long before the federal government ever got involved in it. As a matter of fact, Quebec and Ontario signed deals with California and a number of other states back in the early 2000s to make sure that pricing carbon was done properly. The reality is that we spend time here arguing with Conse…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the Prime Minister, as Canadians have witnessed, has realized and recognized the fact that the world has changed in terms of where our primary trading partners are and where our economic strength is from. He has been spending a lot of time looking at other opportunities and creating new opportunities throughout the world. That is what he is doing in terms of our ec…
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