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Mr. Speaker, when Canadians know that nothing she is doing is working and half the people sitting beside her are saying the same thing out loud, it stops being opposition criticism and it starts being a pattern with the minister. She cannot handle the hard questions from across the aisle. She needs to get a grip on what is actually happening in her ministry. The minister refused to answer a questi…
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Mr. Chair, the Minister of Finance knows, and if he does not know, he can ask the officials sitting right in front of him, that the true measure of Canada's health is the domestic investment. Canadians investing in Canada, businesses investing per worker, is the single best indicator of whether Canadian firms are growing and becoming more productive. He knows this. He is not telling the House this…
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Mr. Chair, I will answer the question for the minister, since he does not want to. The answer is 45%, nearly half. Can the minister explain to Canadians, as the finance minister, what a merger and acquisition actually means in that context? It does not mean a new factory. People at home will know that. It does not mean a new research centre, and it does not mean a new job. What does it mean?
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Mr. Chair, what is true is that we have the only shrinking economy in the G7, and the answer is that it is 30% down. If he were truly interested in investing per worker, he would do so, and it has fallen by nearly a third. Stats Canada projects that non-residential capital spending across all industries will grow by less than 2% going forward. Does this sound to the minister like an economy that h…
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Mr. Chair, that answer is condescending and it does not show that he, as finance minister, understands what foreign direct investment is. It means a foreign company buying a Canadian one. Strategic decisions are moved abroad. The intellectual property moves abroad. The profits move abroad. He knows that as the finance minister. Again, he is treating those in the House like we are stupid. C.D. Howe…
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Mr. Chair, I will put it into context. For every dollar of foreign investment that came into Canada during that decade, two dollars left this country. It is not because of global issues. It is not because of the tariffs. Tariffs were not an issue then. It is a domestic policy failure that the minister cannot admit he was a part of. Does he accept responsibility, any responsibility, for his role in…
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Mr. Chair, I can see that the minister does not want to admit it or answer my question, so I will talk about foreign direct investment. The minister frequently celebrates Canada's foreign direct investment numbers, but he knows, as finance minister, that all of those numbers are not created equal. Can he tell the House what share of Canada's inbound foreign direct investment over the last decade c…
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Mr. Speaker, every week Canadians get up to another headline about the immigration minister botching her job. Corruption runs rampant in her department. Criminals walk away with discount sentences. She is issuing 215,000 new work permits while Canadian kids cannot find jobs, with no plan to deport the temporary residents who will not leave. Today, we learn that she is covering the premium health c…
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Mr. Speaker, despite all of the rhetoric and despite the trillion dollars in Liberal debt, young Canadians now make up over a quarter of all unemployed workers. That is double their share of the workforce. They still cannot afford a home; they still cannot afford groceries, and they still cannot afford to get ahead. The Liberals have record borrowing, with billions on the national credit card, to …
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Mr. Speaker, a shocking new report found that nearly 500,000 young Canadians were unemployed in 2025. That is a 57% increase in three years, and that is worse than the recessions of 1981, 1990 and 2008 for young people. The Liberals ran an over $1‑trillion debt, and they priced Canadians out of the housing market. We have the highest housing costs in the G7. They then loosened the foreign work res…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to spend less, but then he spent $35 billion more in the last fiscal update alone. He promised to lower the debt; instead, the deficit doubled from just one year ago. He promised fiscal brilliance, but the not even so conservative Globe and Mail calls that “an inversion of reality”. Once an expensive Liberal, always an expensive Liberal. This year, Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, there are bills that come before the House that are routine, and there are bills that remind us why we are here. Bill C-11 is one of the latter. When Canadians put on a uniform, they place their safety and their very life in our hands, and we owe it to them to create a justice system that is deserving of that trust. Today we have an actual chance to deliver one, but it seems throughou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians that he was the guy who people hire in a crisis, and then spent double what the last guy spent. Just five years from now, the Liberal credit card bill will reach $1 trillion. All that spending has brought us the highest grocery prices, the worst housing crisis and two-dollar-a-litre gasoline while everybody falls behind. The crisis guy is racking up m…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to continue from where I left off. The bill in question now addresses the appointment process for the Canadian Forces provost marshal, the director of military prosecutions and the director of defence counsel services, positions that the court justices specifically identified as needing independence from the chain of command. We also added consequences for unreasonable dela…
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Mr. Speaker, this report has been sitting on a shelf for 11 years. The Prime Minister had the chance to appeal to members of the armed forces, to give them an environment free of harassment, discrimination and abuse. He had the opportunity to appeal to them and to give them exactly what they asked for in committee, exactly how this bill was changed, and exactly the amendments that are before the H…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak directly to the men and women in uniform who are watching this. They had the committee change this bill with the amendments that they, themselves, asked for, both the survivors of sexual violence and the veterans of our military. I want those at home to witness that the Liberals are paving over all the amendments their own members made to this legislation. Justice …
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Mr. Speaker, it is more than arrogance. We are seeing the beginnings of a very authoritarian streak with the manufactured majority that the Liberals now have. Members who now sit on their benches worked on this report. This is just one example. The Liberals have now shut down four different committees, going in camera to have discussions that Canadians ought to know about. This is a bad start to a…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that we are discussing the sovereign wealth fund today, but this is not what the government is proposing. In fact, the Liberals cannot even talk about it in their questions. The sovereign wealth fund, or the sovereign debt fund, that they are proposing is the exact opposite of one that would actually work. It would work in an economy where we have surpluses and resource revenue…
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Mr. Speaker, there is an old joke about a man who racks up an enormous credit card debt, takes a second mortgage, opens a savings account and tells his wife it did not cost them anything. That joke is a pretty accurate description of the government's economic policy, and we are all the wife. The Prime Minister has announced a $25-billion so-called sovereign wealth fund, and Canadians deserve a ser…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an interesting day here when we agree with the Bloc Québécois. This government has now put forward a 13th new bureaucracy. All of these bureaucracies have one thing in common: They are there to distort the market. Private companies chose not to invest in something, so the government comes and backfills that capital, which already exists in this country, by choosing the pr…
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Mr. Speaker, that is what some people call “girl math”. I call it “Liberal math.” I have been guilty of doing the same thing. I see a very expensive thing that I absolutely cannot afford, and I buy it on sale when it is 5% off. I convince myself that I got all these savings for it. That is Liberal math. That is how the math works in this place. Canadians do not need a wealth fund. They need a gove…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, our national credit card got quite the workout with $37 billion in new inflationary spending, nearly $1,000 for every Canadian. Who pays? Canadian families forced to max out their own credit cards to buy groceries and pay the rent. For all of that spending, we still have the highest food inflation in the G7 and the highest housing prices, and now we spend more to service th…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the minister improved her self-control this time around. I am not surprised that another Trudeau holdover is pretending that everything is fine. The reality is that the Liberal government has killed the middle class. It has killed the very workers that it is now purporting to protect for more than a decade, with higher taxes and inflationary spending. The $37 billion of…
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Mr. Speaker, I doubt that Canadians will drink all that Kool-Aid, because they spent more and things actually got worse. After a decade of Liberal deficits, Canadians have the worst grocery inflation, the highest household debt, the worst housing costs and the second-highest unemployment in all of the G7. On top of all of that, Liberal ministers got rich and Canadians got the bill. These holdover …
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Mr. Speaker, red ink is flowing here in Liberal Ottawa, as the government puts the final touches on today's fiscal update. The Prime Minister's promise to spend less money quickly turned into a pledge to load up the taxpayer credit card and blow right past the limit. He could not even stay remotely close to the $31 billion left over by the last Liberal fiscal disaster. In fact, he actually doubled…
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Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister took office, he pledged to spend less than Justin Trudeau. Instead, he added $90 billion of net new spending, two-thirds of that on day-to-day operations. Bureaucracy is up 7% and operating costs are up 9%, all higher than his promised savings. He is putting the nation's finances on a credit card and pretending all of that is normal. Will the Prime Minister com…
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Mr. Speaker, nobody thought it was possible to outspend Justin Trudeau, but here we are, with the same cast of characters sitting in the exact same seats saying the same thing. The Prime Minister doubled last year's deficit and sent the bill to Canadian kitchen tables: the worst grocery prices, the highest household debt, the worst housing costs in the G7. Those are the actual facts. When Liberals…
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Mr. Speaker, next week, the Liberals are set to release their fiscal update. The Prime Minister is copying Justin Trudeau's playbook as he burns through more taxpayer dollars, goes deeper into debt and piles even more inflationary spending on every Canadian family. After more than a decade, none of the Liberals have realized that the more they spend, the worse affordability is for everyone. The Ba…
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Mr. Speaker, there is the Alto high-speed train, consultants and the gun buyback program. There are a number of them, and we can discuss those at length in the House. However, the C.D. Howe Institute also said today that persistent Liberal deficits are undermining “growth and living standards” rather than supporting them, the very thing they claim to do. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends come…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister warned at Davos, no more going along to get along. Then on April 10, Canada went along and got along. Iran, designated as a state sponsor of terror, whose Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a listed terrorist entity in this country, was handed a UN seat shaping programs of women's rights and counterterrorism. Only one country objected, and it was not Canada. The g…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister spent the weekend repeating the same speech he has already given, and Canadians are still wondering when they will see results. He has the power to green-light major projects and build pipelines, but zero have been approved while keeping every anti-development law on the books. Over a trillion dollars in net investment is now gone from the country, and a year past h…
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Mr. Speaker, all of those things were announced, but not a single one of those things has been built. I will give the member some new numbers from today. In March, Canada had the worst food inflation in the G7, not the second-worst, but the worst. Every G7 country faces the same global factors, yet Canadians are paying more than all of them. After years of deficit spending and higher taxes, Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, that is arrogance on display. The minister thinks that everything is going fine, but for everyone drawing a paycheque, feeding a family or paying a mortgage, the reality is much different. Last month, the Prime Minister stood in this House and said, “Affordability is the best it has been in over a decade.” While we get the same speeches for four straight months and running, Canada has…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a tale of two Canadas under the Prime Minister, one where people's portfolios grow and the other where people's paycheques shrink. The government's own data confirms it. The wealth gap is widening, and nearly half of Canadians are $200 from insolvency. That is what inflationary Liberal taxes and spending does. It makes gas, groceries and everything else more expensive. Yesterday…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister could have cut the taxes by 25¢ two days ago and he chose not to, yet he is patting himself on the back for something that the government could not do properly and would not have done at all if it had not been dragged there kicking and screaming. The Prime Minister's so-called tax cut left 15¢ a litre on Canadians' gas bills at a time when they are struggling and the gove…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a couple of petitions. First is a group of petitions that come from Canadians across the country who are concerned about the government's assault on the use of cash in private transactions. Hundreds of business owners and consumers have signed these petitions. They believe that Canadians who follow the law should not have their freedoms impinged by government, and I agree with …
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition is on censorship. The petitioners have expressed their concerns around online freedoms, and ask that the government repeal Bill C-11 and Bill C-18.
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition concerns the issue of anti-Semitism. The petitioners and many people recognize that it is out of control in this country. The petitioners have made several requests, including defunding UNRWA and banning symbols of terror, which we have seen in our streets.
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Mr. Speaker, the last petition I am presenting today is signed by over 46,000 people. It is one of the largest petitions I have seen in this place. The petitioners call on the government to take a clear stand, one with moral clarity, for the millions of people who are fighting in Iran for their freedoms, their future and their leadership. The petitioners note that the roar of the lion and the shin…
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Mr. Speaker, anybody going to the gas station right now knows that the prices are simply out of control. Today, a litre of gas in Ontario is $1.70, and in B.C. it is over $2. We do not just pay for fuel at the pumps; we pay an excise tax of 10¢, a fuel standard tax of 7¢, going to 17¢, and we pay GST on all of that. All of those are just federal taxes, adding up to 25¢ on every litre. Liberal taxe…
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Mr. Speaker, there are some things the government can control, and there are many things that it should control. For the Liberal government, the pain at the pump is not a coincidence, it is actually a policy choice. It is up to the Liberals now how much tax goes on every litre of gas. That sits at 25¢, but the Liberals could make it zero cents by adopting our Conservative plan. While they delay, C…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister will not stand up and give a clear answer. In fact, he will not even talk about gas prices, and it is very easy to see why. Oil prices are not hurting this government. They are actually funding the government, because with every $10 increase in oil prices, the Liberals get $2 billion more in tax revenue. That means the Liberals are collecting a generational windfall at th…
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Mr. Speaker, we get it. They got follow-up emails, but even her Liberal colleagues are telling the CBC that she is not fit for the job. However, none of that seems to matter to the Liberal Prime Minister, because this is how it works in Liberal Ottawa. Step one is someone fails at their job. Step two is they get a promotion. Step three is they start the cycle again. That is what happened to the la…
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Mr. Speaker, we can add the Auditor General's name to the long list of people who know the immigration minister is not very good at her job. She already has no idea how to address the millions of expired visa holders in Canada, and a new report found that, of over 150,000 fraudulent immigration cases, less than 3% were investigated. There is no accountability for the fraudsters and no accountabili…
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Mr. Speaker, nobody, not even the Liberal government, can sugar-coat the findings in the most recent jobs report. It revealed the largest collapse in full-time jobs since COVID. Over 100,000 jobs were lost, with a youth unemployment rate of 14% now. TD called it “weak”, while CIBC called it “very bad”, and BMO called it “simply brutal”. However, it is more than just words. It is empty bank account…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing that is shameful is an answer like that from somebody who has been here for 10 years and whose government has created a homegrown problem with out-of-control taxes, out-of-control spending and mountains of red tape. Now we have the only shrinking economy in the G7, the second-highest unemployment rate, the highest household debt and the highest food inflation. Everyone …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources made the absurd promise that Canada would “do its part” to help stabilize global oil markets, but Canada cannot do its part because after a decade of Liberal energy policies, we do not have a strategic oil reserve. When allies need energy and markets need stability, Canada has nothing to offer but the minister's promises. Conserva…
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Mr. Speaker, let me explain something back. Just because one does not have to do something, it does not mean they should not, especially when they lead their allies to believe that they will. We have a name for that. The Liberals cannot paper over a 10-year record of shutting down the oil and gas sector, leaving our country weaker, more dependent and unable to step up when it matters. They can say…
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Mr. Speaker, I know this is supposed to be a gotcha question, but this is the party of free trade. This is a party that signed more free trade agreements and had the richest middle class before the Liberals took over more than 10 years ago. We support expanding trade, but the matter here is that free trade has to be fair for all of the participants. We also cherish our values of freedom, democracy…
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Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot written and said about the government's new focus on China. I think our U.S. counterparts would also be rather concerned. The matter at hand is the difference between securing a trade relationship, opening markets to farmers, and creating a strategic partnership with a country that does not share our values or our national security interests and, frankly, has kidn…
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