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Madam Speaker, I took great exception when the member for Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke said the Liberal Party has a top-down approach. As a matter of fact, the headlines we heard about the Conservative Party were that the Leader of the Opposition maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do. However, my question hits much closer to home for the member. The word on the street right n…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with the Liberals voting nay.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting yes.
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We ask for a recorded vote, please, Mr. Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, the member seems to be giving a speech on the subject matter of the bill she is introducing. The point of this is to introduce the bill and give a quick summary of it. She has not even mentioned the bill yet or what is in it.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with the Liberals voting in favour.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting against.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with the Liberals voting nay.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting against.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with the Liberals voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with the Liberals voting nay.
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard Conservative after Conservative get up to talk about a substantial connection. A lot of provinces have substantial connection rules too. For example, the Province of Alberta says that someone cannot run as an MLA unless they have had a substantial connection of at least six months. I am curious if the member believes that Pierre Poilievre should have a substantial connec…
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Mr. Speaker, we would like a recorded vote.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote with Liberal members voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, I believe you will find consent to apply the results of the previous vote to this vote, with Liberal members voting yea.
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Madam Speaker, no, it was not an electric Bobcat, but one day it will be an electric Bobcat, despite the fact that Conservatives will do everything possible to try to prevent that from happening. Let us think about this for a second. I gave a very easy example in responding to a member earlier. He said the ticket price of an EV vehicle is about $15,000 more than that of a combustion engine vehicle…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, I believe you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote with Liberals voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, I believe you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting yea.
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Madam Speaker, what is the consumption of gas, and the inefficiency of a combustion motor, when towing something? It decreases significantly. What I said is that I have owned several Toyota Tundras. When I put gas in one of those and was towing something, regardless of where I was towing it, I had to keep putting more gas in it. It is another red herring to somehow say that the range of an electri…
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Madam Speaker, have I towed anything? I will get to that. I have towed a dual axle utility trailer with a Bobcat S150 on the back from one city to another. I have towed dump trailers with it. These vehicles are extremely capable of getting the jobs done that only a gas vehicle could do, as Conservatives would want us to believe.
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Madam Speaker, 100%, the member is absolutely correct. That is the argument the Conservatives are putting forward. They should just be upfront about it. They should say that they want to continue to produce oil and gas for an eternity, because they want to protect these companies that produce it. My colleague, before me, spoke about how other countries, like China and Japan and all these other cou…
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Madam Speaker, if we were to assume that, on the low end, the average vehicle uses about 100,000 litres of gas in its lifetime, and the average price of gas right now is $1.20 a litre, that means that driving an EV would save people, over the lifespan of the vehicle, $120,000. We would come nowhere close to spending a quarter of that on electricity, so even if the price tag of purchasing the vehic…
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Madam Speaker, I have heard red herring after red herring: no heat, reduction in gas tax revenue, low range and not enough charging stations. That is all the Conservatives have to offer on this. Somebody accused me of gaslighting a few moments ago in a speech. This is a gaslighting tutorial being put on by the Conservatives right now, who are trying to make everybody fearful of electric vehicles. …
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Mr. Speaker, for the last time, I believe if you seek it, you will find consent to apply the results from the previous vote to this vote, with Liberals voting yea.
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Madam Speaker, does the member know what all these lights are around us? They are LED lights. They are the most efficient, from a production perspective and also from an energy consumption perspective and, thus, an electrical perspective, in terms of the electricity produced to use them. Does the member not realize that, 25 years ago, the light bulb that was most used was an incandescent light bul…
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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 Liberals voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, can it be confirmed that indeed the member did vote physically in the House as opposed to on the application? If he voted from the application, I think then it would be permitted, based on the procedure that we have become accustomed to.
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Yet you still couldn't form government. What does that say about—
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Madam Speaker, I have been listening to Conservative speeches all day long. One would think, from listening to them, that they were not going to vote in favour of this legislation, but not only are they going to vote in favour of it, based on what they have ultimately been saying, but they also voted to limit the debate on it only a couple of hours ago. Can somebody, perhaps this member, please ex…
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded vote, please.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to what the parliamentary secretary was talking about earlier, specifically how Conservatives like to take issues like this and try to suggest that there are corrupt politicians at the heart of it. It significantly takes away from the seriousness of the issue. What I find most alarming is that I have watched Conservatives do this for three years straight, if not long…
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Mr. Speaker, the only one trying to use the Men in Black flashlight to make people forget everything that happened is Pierre Poilievre, who wants everyone to forget the fact that he had a 25-point lead in the polls and then completely blew an election only a month and a half ago. I would think that the member, and Conservatives generally speaking, would have a new approach when they come into the …
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded vote.
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Mr. Speaker, I spent a lot of time in this House listening to this member deliver speeches; I spent many hours over the fall session. One would think, having listened to this, that we have not just gone through an election. I heard the member talk about a “corrupt government” on a number of occasions, which are the exact same words he used for years preceding his speech today in the House. My ques…
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin, congratulations to you on your new role. You command authority from the chair as though you had been doing it for years. Best of luck to you. What I am getting at is that you look very comfortable in the position. Before I speak to the particular motion before us, I want to take the opportunity to first thank the constituents of Kingston and the Islands for sending me …
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Mr. Speaker, the member might not be on Twitter, but he is certainly spreading the same conspiracy theories he was spreading there. The reality is that developing a budget takes time. I ask him, why did it take Stephen Harper three months to bring in a budget? The reality is that this Parliament was recalled after the last election in record time, and we will be bringing forward a budget in the fa…
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Mr. Speaker, although the member did live in Kingston, unfortunately, I did not get to represent him as a city councillor. He lived in the Sydenham district whereas I represented Portsmouth, but I digress. The reality is that it takes time. In his question, he said it is not customary. I did not say anything about it being customary or not customary. All I am saying is that it takes time to proper…
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Mr. Speaker, our military has been waiting long enough for this. I spoke earlier about how, when we came into office in 2015, the percentage of GDP Stephen Harper had brought the level of spending down to was 0.97%. Now we have a plan. By next March, we will be at 2%, per the announcement today. This is important. It is important to so many communities and to Canada as a whole. I am very happy to …
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize an extraordinary act of courage and selflessness by Mr. Lee Spafford, a UPS driver in my riding of Kingston and the Islands, whose bravery turned an ordinary workday into a moment of heroism. While on his delivery route, Mr. Spafford spotted smoke, which appeared to be rising behind a house. Without hesitation, he investigated the situation and indeed found…
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A smart move.
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Madam Speaker, it is always great to hear my colleague from Winnipeg speak. We have been hearing a lot of heckling from across the way. The Conservatives are always going on about stealing their ideas, saying it is not fair. The reality is that maybe if they had a better communication plan than the three-word slogans they come in here with year after year, they would be able to translate those ide…
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded vote, please.
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Mr. Speaker, the member is a very experienced member in presenting petitions, Mr. Speaker, and knows the rules. He knows that we should not be reading the entire petition but giving a quick summary of it. He is now on point four with respect to reading it. Hopefully you can encourage him to expedite the presentation.
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. I am reading directly from the Standing Orders, the House of Commons rules, in particular Standing Order 36, which says that members are not permitted to make speeches when presenting petitions and may not read the text of the petition into the record. The member has now done it on four petitions. It is your duty, Mr. Speaker, to bring him to order and…
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Mr. Speaker, carried on division. (Motion agreed to)
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Mr. Speaker, we just learned moments ago that former parliamentarian Marc Garneau has passed away at the age of 76. I would ask for unanimous consent for a moment of silence from the House for that.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the member for Guelph on her maiden speech. I cannot help but reflect on the question that came from our Conservative colleague a few moments ago. On the one hand, they are basically saying that folks are struggling, and they are identifying the realities of what is going on in our country. On the other hand, they are saying, how dare we spend money on actually …
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Madam Speaker, all of the riding names have changed. I want to congratulate the member from Milton on her maiden speech, and I will get her riding name correct next time. I want to pick up on her comments specifically about immigration. She indicated that one of her parents immigrated from Italy, as my mother did back in the 1950s. I too am a first generation Canadian. My question to her is regard…
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Mr. Speaker, just for clarification, I believe it to be the case when sharing a spot that, although customary, it is not actually necessary for us to indicate who we are sharing it with. The only thing that is necessary is to indicate that we are sharing it. The individual we are sharing it with can change up until the moment they rise.
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