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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member for Peterborough—Kawartha said “that Leader of the Opposition”. There is only one leader of the opposition, and it is—
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for bringing this very important topic to the House today. I often think back to when I was a child, in the early eighties. I remember my mother being at the forefront of pushing to ensure that women had the opportunity to choose what to do with their reproductive health and that it was a decision that was made by nobody other than that woman. My wife benefits fro…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to participate in debate on the concurrence motion that has been put forward by the NDP. For those who might be watching and are not fully aware of what happened in the House today, I would like to set the picture so they can appreciate what happened. We originally had the Leader of the Opposition here, who was going to lead off on his opposition motion today. He came a…
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Madam Speaker, I hear them saying, “Oh God, what is he talking about?” I will tell members exactly what I am talking about. I am talking about their colleagues who go on documentaries and are asked questions like, “Is it possible for us to completely ban abortion, or is it crazy to even think about it?” That question was asked of the member for Peace River—Westlock, who we know to be at the centre…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I am trying to listen to my Conservative colleague. He is giving a speech, but his own colleagues are heckling him. Could you ask them to stop, so I could hear the hon. member?
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Madam Speaker, it is a concern of mine and I will use every opportunity to talk to any member of the House, regardless of political party, about why they should support a woman's right to choose. I will remind the member that our Prime Minister, who was a leader at the time in 2014, made it very clear that if a person wanted to sit in the Liberal Party, they must vote in favour of legislation that…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. He is not even remotely good at what he is trying to do. He is trying to use a prop. Could you please—
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Mr. Speaker, as I indicated in my speech, breast cancer has affected my wife's family, so I am very aware of the need for screening and making sure that breast cancer is caught as soon as possible. However, I would remind the member of the actual report. The member asked me a question about what the government is going to do. However, this report that unanimously passed and that we are debating no…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Charlottetown. He is the chair of the committee that produced the report, and I will leave it to him to discuss the very important issues specifically as they relate to the report. What I would like to do with my time is point out some issues that I see with, once again, the manner in which the Conservatives are bringing forward motions …
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Mr. Speaker, my father-in-law passed away at the age of 67, only about five years ago, from brain cancer. It could very well be the exact same form of cancer that the member just spoke about. With all due respect to him, I am not going to be lectured on taking an issue such as cancer seriously when I lost my father-in-law at the age of 67. Nonetheless, his argument about what we are discussing tod…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to congratulate the member on being the 215th speaker to the question of privilege.
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Mr. Speaker, does the member know that if he lets this issue go to committee, he might get answers to the questions he wants? The irony is that Conservatives are going to stand in here and just lecture all day long, but in letting this get to committee, the member might start to get answers. By the way, I thought this whole issue was about getting the documents for the RCMP. That is what they kept…
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Mr. Speaker, it is true there are a lot of young people in my community, but there are a lot of young people throughout the entire country who are waiting on this Parliament to adopt important legislation that will positively affect them. The reality is that we know it can happen, because it happened just a few days ago. The NDP was willing to set things aside to allow us to debate one thing for o…
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Mr. Speaker, as it relates to this issue, if members want to be credible, they have to be responsible too. On this particular issue, the reality is that the responsible thing is to send this matter to PROC so that PROC can look at it. The Conservatives continually demand that documents should be released for everybody to see. When it comes to these documents, we have heard from the Auditor General…
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On March 25, 2022, the MP was endorsed by Patrick Brown. On June 7, a month and a half later, he officially switched and started supporting the Leader of the Opposition. Nine days later, on June 16, the member for Calgary Nose Hill left and we know that she was contacted by foreign diplomats. Can the member comment as to whether he was contacted by foreign diplomats?
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Mr. Speaker, I am not pleased to rise to speak to this yet again. I am aware that we are now at the point where we have had over 200 Conservative people speak to this particular issue. It is extremely troubling that the Conservative Party of Canada is completely disregarding the needs of Canadians and has chosen to filibuster the entire House and prevent it from doing any work whatsoever. All we h…
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Mr. Speaker, the member voted in favour of it. Those were unanimous consent motions. I sat in here until 5:30 in the morning while they were worked out, debated and negotiated among the parties. For every Conservative who gets up and decides to be critical of the measures that the government took during COVID, I would remind them that they voted in favour of them. We unanimously voted in favour of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is true that when Stephen Harper was the prime minister, CBSA officers were laid off in droves. As somebody from a riding very close to a border, I am very familiar with this. This government has continued to invest significant resources in our borders. With the most recent comments made by the President-elect of the United States, we have also committed to working with him to ensu…
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Mr. Speaker, tonight it was reported that five people close to and tied to the Patrick Brown campaign were aware of the member for Calgary Nose Hill's being approached by Indian diplomats. The member needs to come forward and tell the truth about what happened. I am not suggesting that she was influenced, that she was coerced or that it was of her own volition. If she says so, for her reasons for …
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Mr. Speaker, despite two and a half months of this, no one is talking about this. Nobody cares about this issue. The member keeps talking, and Conservatives have now put up over 200 members to speak to this issue, but Canadians are not talking about this. What they are talking about, and what is on the news tonight, is that five people within Patrick Brown's campaign have now come forward to say t…
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They say “yes” and cheer. Mr. Speaker, Conservatives are intentionally filibustering their own motion. I have the exact number, just because I think it is important for anybody watching this and trying to weigh how seriously Conservatives take this issue, including those who are heckling me now. I would like to bring to the House's attention and Canadians' attention the number of people who have s…
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It was more than 200. Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have risen 213 times, not splitting their time with anybody and consuming the entire 30-minute period. This is because Conservatives are not interested in sending this to PROC, where their own motion calls for it to go. They are interested in preventing the House from doing any work. Until this point, it would have been work on meaningful and import…
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It works. Mr. Speaker, what does it work for, as was reported earlier this week? It works for gold stars in caucus meetings, so members can be paraded around and celebrate how many times one member said a particular slogan. It works. I will pick up on that heckle. When the member says that it works, he is fully admitting that they are just throwing out slogans to try to persuade people. They do no…
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I hear Conservatives saying we have to spend more money. Mr. Speaker, Canadians should be genuinely concerned about the amount of money that Conservatives have spent on this charade and everything that makes this place function. Millions of dollars have been spent supporting this filibuster exercise. Conservatives will miss no opportunity to remind people that it is unacceptable to spend money rec…
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Madam Speaker, Conservatives continually avoid answering one of the questions out there in the media right now. Today, it was reported that five people very close to Patrick Brown's campaign team in 2022 knew that the Conservative member for Calgary Nose Hill was approached by Indian diplomats who were trying to influence her support away from Patrick Brown. This led up to the leadership of the me…
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Madam Speaker, this is actually a real point of order. The member just referred to the former Speaker and said that he “was on their side”. One of the tried and true parts of the House is that the Speaker is impartial. Speaking negatively or implying motive—
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the public safety committee summoned 2022 Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown to appear to answer questions on foreign interference, a motion that Conservative members on the committee, unsurprisingly, voted against. Yesterday morning, a bombshell news report came out that alleges agents of the Indian government interfered in Patrick Brown's leadership campaign.…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on the same point of order. To add to the intervention of the House leader, I would like to submit the following to you. There seems to be a precedent developing that if a member is of the side of the government, they belong to the political party of the government, and their question will not be answered if you deem it not to be in line with government business. The probl…
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Madam Speaker, on the same point of order, I just want to make sure the member for Provencher received approval from his leader before raising that point of order.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, could you then please explain why the party that comes from the governing side even has three questions? The point is for us, as MPs who are not part of the government, to still hold the government accountable. That is the whole point. Therefore, you have to afford the exact same treatment to every member who is not a member of the government.
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Madam Speaker, I took in with great interest the article the member read from the CBC, in particular when he quoted what Conservatives had to say about how they are subject to always echoing the leader's comments and slogans. It makes a lot of sense because when we are in the chamber, we hear those slogans over and over again. Now we learn that when Conservatives go to caucus meetings on Wednesday…
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Madam Speaker, I do not expect the member to answer my question, because he never really does, but I will say this to counter some of the false narrative in there: He said our emissions are just slightly reduced since before COVID. The reality is that our emissions right now are at the same level they were at in 1998. What is the huge difference between now and then? Our economy was worth about $6…
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Madam Speaker, as we are not talking about the motion now, since the last few exchanges and the member's speech had nothing to do with this issue, perhaps I will go off topic, too. I am wondering if the member can provide his thoughts on the fact that the member for Calgary Nose Hill is implicated in foreign interference. It is certainly alleged that she was influenced to abandon Patrick Brown's c…
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Madam Speaker, in response to my question, the member said he wants to know who the 11 implicated members of Parliament are. I would suggest to him that one very well might be the member for Calgary Nose Hill. If the RCMP or CSIS was not aware, the member could even be the 12th member, I do not know. Does the member have any insight into whether she, indeed, was one of the 11 members he speaks of?
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Mr. Speaker, I tried to, but I was given only 10 seconds before I was shut down again by a Conservative. The issue is that the member for Calgary Nose Hill has neglected to inform us whether or not she was approached by a foreign diplomat. That is foreign interference. That, not what the end result of it was, is what the Canadian public deserves to know.
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam. I know that he has some prepared remarks on this particular subject. I am going to spend a little time talking about why I think we are debating this today. It is important, just to bring everybody back to the same place, to read exactly what we are debating. This is a concurrence motion, a motion that came from t…
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Mr. Speaker, I assure you that I will be coming back to it in a moment, but I cannot say I am surprised that a Conservative would try to silence me when I am making the comments. The issue is not whether or not the member for Calgary Nose Hill was influenced, or whether or not she was able to stand up. The issue—
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Mr. Speaker, I will do that right now. I did start my speech by talking about exactly what this report said. I read out the report. To the parliamentary secretary's point, as he kind of gave away where I was going with this, this is exactly it. This is a committee report that is calling for a minister to appear before a committee.
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Mr. Speaker, the debate has been going on for quite some time, and I think we have asked every possible question that can be asked. In relation to the news we heard today regarding foreign interference and the Conservative leadership campaign in particular, we heard something quite interesting, which was in regard to the member for Calgary Nose Hill and whether or not she was approached by individ…
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That's different, though. That is when it is a Conservative.
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Mr. Speaker, what I said in my speech, if the member was listening, was that the member for Edmonton Centre has defended himself, said that what he is being accused of is not true and removed himself from cabinet in order to defend his reputation and clear his name. Rather than jump to judgment, which my friend across the way wants, I would rather wait until he has the opportunity to do that and s…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman said moments ago that the member for Calgary Nose Hill said that it did not happen. We have to read what she actually said in that story. She said she was not coerced and she left the campaign of Patrick Brown of her own volition, but that is not what we are talking about. We are not talking about why she chose to leave. We are talking about …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for that correction: a former minister. We cannot even seem to get members of the House who potentially have information to go before committee. My point is, as it relates to this report, that there is this double standard that Conservatives seem to be placing. On the one hand, they are saying we absolutely need to get this minister appearing before committee. That …
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member almost executed that as well as Jack Nicholson did in A Few Good Men, but not quite. I thank the member for at least admitting that this concurrence motion is nothing more than trying to prolong the filibuster they are doing on the former motion we have been dealing with for months. He said that. He just said that in his comments. What he said is they are doing this be…
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Mr. Speaker, for the same reason all political parties will identify various different people with various different backgrounds, I think that is why it was done. I guess the issue at heart here is whether, and this is what I am reading between the lines, the member for Edmonton Centre was in error by doing that and should not have done that. That is what I am hearing and that is what is out there…
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Madam Speaker, I almost feel as though this is to entice a reaction out of me. I did not heckle anybody. The member from Winnipeg and I were just having a conversation. I did not even raise my voice.
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Mr. Speaker, this was the amazing thing we saw earlier today with the question from the member for Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman. We could not have seen a double standard on display better than in that question. He basically said, “Hold on. She said that she did not do it. We need to believe her.” Meanwhile, when the member for Edmonton Centre says that he is being misrepresented, everybody jumps on t…
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There we have it, Madam Speaker. The party that has been preaching for years about axing the tax did not have the ability to axe the tax yesterday. Yesterday, we saw a GST holiday passed in the House for Canadians during the hardest time of the year when it comes to stretching their wallets. However, we should not be surprised that the Leader of the Opposition, who, by the way, ran on axing the GS…
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Madam Speaker, he is absolutely right. Conservatives always talk about axing the tax, but in reality, the only thing they want to axe are people's rebates. The only thing they want to axe are the rebates people get through the Canada carbon incentive. Everything else, they are fully prepared to keep in place, including the GST that they ran on axing when they ran on it back in 2021.
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