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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the last vote to this vote, with Liberal members voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the last vote to this vote, with Liberal members voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the last vote to this one, with Liberal members voting nay.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it you will find consent to apply the results from the last vote to this one, with Liberal members voting nay.
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Mr. Speaker, we request that the motion be carried on division. (Motion agreed to)
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately for the member, that is not what I am hearing. I am hearing that this budget meets the moment and it is a budget that we need. I am hearing it from some people in my community who were traditionally Progressive Conservatives and do not now see themselves in the party that is across the aisle. In the context of everything the member just said in the last two or three minu…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, youth aged 15 to 24 drove that.
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Mr. Speaker, the holidays celebrate kindness and togetherness. For the fifth year, the Canadian Colours Kingston Foundation, led by Jimmy Hassan, is reviving the Santa slices initiative, a tradition started in 2020 that has become a beloved holiday effort. What began as a plan to deliver 500 pizza slices during the pandemic has evolved into a significant campaign. Last year, over 2,500 slices were…
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Mr. Speaker, that member should ask the member for Elgin—St. Thomas—London South if he thinks the same thing. The member for York Centre was basically saying that this bill does not go far enough. If we look at his private member's bill, we can see why. He is calling for even tougher penalties and restrictions in there. Then we have the member for Elgin—St. Thomas—London South calling this bill a …
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Mr. Speaker, notwithstanding what was said about me, because I will leave it to the member to do the respectful thing and apologize, the member just yelled out to you, Mr. Speaker, that you are participating in Liberal censorship. He owes an apology to the House, to you personally and to the seat that you occupy.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to participate in this debate, which the Conservatives tossed onto the floor at the last minute. It is an attempt to do what I have become witness to the Conservatives doing for the better part of 10 years now, which is to obstruct and prevent government business from occurring. They look for opportunities to participate in preventing the government from doing anything. T…
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Mr. Speaker, now they are yelling that they are not. Maybe they will allow me to table some social media posts from their members that have contradicting views on that. I bet they will not do that. Just like earlier, when this started, and the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader asked if they wanted to work until midnight. They jumped up and they said that they did want to work …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank you for that thorough response to the point of order raised yesterday. Just before that point of order was raised yesterday, the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader also stood on a point of order, and you indicated that you would come back with a ruling on it if it was deemed necessary. Does your lack of coming back to the House mean that you do not deem it …
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Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate that response. There was a lot of heckling going on at the time, when the member was trying to raise his point of order, so perhaps it did not get in there. The member for Winnipeg North was trying to ask what the next step is. Will you just continue to take away questions? When somebody is weighing a cost-benefit analysis, they can decide it is okay to give awa…
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Mr. Speaker, I certainly agree about the obstruction that is going on. I have seen it from Conservatives for 10 years. The reality is that the member for Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford asked why the issue cannot just come back and why we cannot travel on it. The reality is that it should have been brought up when they started discussing the bill, not when they were in the clause-by-clause phase. It le…
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Mr. Speaker, do they want to hear my answer or not? Of course they do not. They are yelling “time”. Which is it?
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I wish I had an answer to the question, Mr. Speaker, but, unfortunately I have spent 10 years here listening to Conservatives, day after day, just going on and on, trying to obstruct, and moving concurrence motions. We have not even gotten to the point in Routine Proceedings where a concurrence motion can be put forward. I am sure they will do that, too. I will go back to the question from the mem…
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Madam Speaker, the Conservative shadow critic for justice yelled across the way to the member speaking, saying that he was garbage. You said you heard it. At the very least, the member needs to stand up, apologize and retract that—
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Madam Speaker, the member's intervention today was extremely revealing. It revealed a lot about the Conservatives, especially in the way they acted in the House during the speech. We can look at what they were doing when he was talking versus the way they acted when it came to actually voting on the words they had just used moments before. What underpins all of this, and the member brought it up i…
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Mr. Speaker, this is what I was talking about earlier. The Conservatives just obstruct. They are so afraid because a law being called for by so many throughout this country might actually get passed, and it might be a win for the government. That is all they are afraid of. We do not take the same approach. A perfect example is yesterday when the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola had a private me…
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Mr. Speaker, the member was going on a few minutes ago about how he wanted to stay here until midnight. When the parliamentary secretary said that he had an idea and asked if we should stay here every day until midnight to get work done for Canadians, the member jumped out of his seat and said, “yeah”—
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Whoa, whoa, the prosecutor is getting a little aggressive, Madam Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, where does the member get off thinking he knows the first thing about me? How does he believe he knows what church I was baptized in, what church I visit every Sunday morning, what church my wife and I got married in or what faith my wife and I both practise? The member has no clue, yet he stands up in the House and decides to preach to us about who we are, when he has absolutely no c…
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Mr. Speaker, I regret that the member found nothing in my speech to be of use to him, but I would be lying if I suggested that I thought anything otherwise when I was giving it. I was trying to inform the public to perhaps give people a better understanding and view of what is going on, what has happened and how we ended up here today. For that member to say that his job and the Conservatives' job…
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Mr. Speaker, I apologize if I got caught up in demonstrating the hypocrisy of the Conservatives, but I could not believe that the member stood up to ask me a question after what I witnessed earlier when he was so much in favour, while heckling, of staying until midnight to get this done, and then he—
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Mr. Speaker, there are two things that I take issue with there. If the member had listened to what I said, he would have heard me talk about the member for Elgin—St. Thomas—London South filibustering the committee to prevent it from going. We were in clause-by-clause. The Conservatives come in here and start this charade at the very last minute to try to delay the fact that they inevitably have to…
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Madam Speaker, the Conservative argument around deficit spending and inflation was completely proven wrong when they said the same thing about the carbon tax. They said that the carbon tax was adding to inflation. The parliamentary secretary and I listened to this for years in the House. Then we got rid of the carbon tax, and inflation did not suddenly get impacted by this. Notwithstanding that wh…
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Mr. Speaker, the member certainly is extremely judicious in her approach, and that is the theme of my question. I respect the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands for not only her passion for the environment, but also her passion for setting the record straight. Recently, she heard the House leader of the opposition, the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle, talk about the oil tanker ban, and she went to her s…
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Mr. Speaker, I have actually had the opportunity to sit through a lot of the debate on Bill C-15, and I will say that this is probably one of the best Conservative speeches that I have heard today. To the members' point, he is actually proposing some stuff. He has made suggestions, and he has acknowledged the fact that, yes, it is important not just to obstruct and to prevent, but to actually offe…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not about what the member said; it is about what he did not say. He spent a lot of time talking about NATO and military infrastructure but spent absolutely zero time talking about the actual men and women who are in our Armed Forces. I was on the defence committee with this member for four years. We toured bases together throughout Canada. Can he look into the camera over there …
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Mr. Speaker, among G7 countries, we have the most trade agreements with other nations. We are best positioned, from a trade perspective, to benefit from a global economy. What we lack is infrastructure. We have had the luxury of being so close to the United States, which has made for an easy trading relationship for decades. The reality is that is changing now. The United States is taking a differ…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not have the answer to such a specific question, but I would encourage the member to engage with the minister and the parliamentary secretary to make sure his concerns are heard so that perhaps they can be addressed, whether through a policy change or through an amendment in the committee process. That would be the best way to have his concerns addressed.
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Mr. Speaker, they are laughing at that now, but if we just look at the comments that have been made, we see that they completely support that. The reality is that we have one of the best economies in the world. Before I even bring up the IMF, I will say that I realize there are some people on the other side, on the alt-right side of the Conservative Party, who are going to say, “We cannot trust an…
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Mr. Speaker, I am thankful to be recognized in today's debate. When I am going to be speaking, I make a point to come into the chamber to listen to the debate and hear what has been going on so that I am not just coming in here and reading a speech that I wrote in advance. Quite frankly, I do that because I really like to respond to some of what I have heard in the chamber, and I have heard a lot …
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Mr. Speaker, I have heard that question asked in the House, and to be completely honest, I do not have the exact answer to it. What I will say is that the government is making targeted investments in our economy, in our country, at a time when we genuinely need them. We have to prepare ourselves for the economy of the future, an economy that is less reliant on the United States, and the budget is …
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Mr. Speaker, I realize this member is new, so he probably is unaware of the fact that it was Stephen Harper who made massive cuts to veterans' services, including nine offices. Also, he was not here when the Leader of the Opposition went on and on about how removing the carbon tax would fix all the inflationary problems, neglecting the fact that they are totally driven by global forces.
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's speech and heard him talk about a number of things that he likes in the budget. I could not help but think that this is what a budget is supposed to be about. People will never get a budget they like completely. He did list off a number of things that he likes. He talked about high-speed rail. He talked about the national school food program. He talked about…
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On a point of order, I would like to know more about your cutting of services, Mr. Speaker, to Veterans Affairs.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member a few moments ago made a comment in her speech to the effect that the Prime Minister's interests do not lie within Canada. I think it is extremely—
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Mr. Speaker, I would like my point of order to be heard. It is impugning motive when there are currently members asking our members to apologize because they ask a question that implies whether their interests lie in Canada or in Russia, which is currently going on. We are asked to apologize for that, yet a member of the House can suggest that another member's interests do not lie with upholding o…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague brought up the issue of the debt that is being taken on in order to fulfill some of the nation-building projects and to grow out our diversification in ways never seen before, as well as to significantly increase our spending in defence. She identified some of the criticism of that, and we do hear it, yet at the same time, the IMF and other organizations such as credit ag…
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the member, he did not answer the question the parliamentary secretary asked about letting this bill go to committee. The member for Lethbridge then asked him a question about what is wrong and why the bill does not go far enough. The whole point of letting the bill pass at this stage is so it can go to committee to fix what apparently the member for Lethbridge…
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Mr. Speaker, the member just referenced mandatory minimums. She said that it is proven that they can change behaviour. Can she cite one actual credible report that is based on data that backs up that claim? She said it has been proven. Those were her words a moment ago. I am looking for one actual report that has data in it that backs up that claim.
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Mr. Speaker, we request that it be adopted on division. (Motion agreed to)
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. In the previous exchange, the hon. member for Regina—Lewvan referred to a member in the House as a “random Liberal” from the back. I do not think it is appropriate to be referring to any member in any kind of way. It was clearly meant to be done in a demeaning way. Perhaps the member has had an opportunity to reflect on that and would like to stand up and a…
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Mr. Speaker, for the record, I was sitting in the lobby and I witnessed this on the TV screen. I came in here in order to bring it to your attention. To say that I have been sitting here giggling about this is absolutely incorrect and false. If I could use another word to describe that, I would, but I cannot in this place.
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Mr. Speaker, I would love to carry it on division, but I have a sense there is a desire for a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The petition was going along so great until the last point, when the member decided to include his own personal commentary about the petition. He is a new member, so perhaps the Speaker could remind him of the rules for introducing a petition.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to suspend until 4 p.m., at which time we will hear the much-anticipated budget being presented by the Minister of Finance.
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Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded division.
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