Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housing, added an inflationary carbon tax to everything Canadians buy and given us the highest levels of debt in the G7, his plan is a temporary, tiny, two-month tax trick. However, not even small businesses are fooled. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says that only 4% of small businesses expect a sales boost because of …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it is not a tax cut; it is a distraction before a much bigger, permanent tax hike. Even the Prime Minister's own Liberal MPs are now opposing this. The member for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek says that he was threatened with “consequences” if he voted against it. Rather than threatening his own MPs, muzzling them like he has accused others of doing, we have a weakened Prime Minister, te…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, the member very well could have listened to the speech. We are going to have a Canada first approach that puts Canadians first and fixes everything that the Prime Minister has broken over the last nine years: the drugs flowing over the borders; the punishing taxes on Canadians, Canadian workers and Canadian investment; and the fact that our military is desperately underfunded when it …
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, the member is right that we voted against stocking up the CBSA with more bureaucracy. There were actually more frontline officers under the Harper government than the member has told the House. If he wants to traffic in falsehoods and misinformation, that is his prerogative, but it has no place here. It probably has a place with his friends in the Liberal Party.
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals themselves backed down last time, and Canada has become poorer than Alabama since then. That is not a record anybody should be proud of. Our productivity gap with the U.S. costs every Canadian $32,000 a year. Average returns on investment are 35% higher in the U.S. than in Canada. Our government's plan is to quadruple the carbon tax. They doubled housing prices. They incr…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I am going to split my time with the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. I will start by saying that the threats by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump come as a serious threat to Canada and to our prosperity. That is exactly why we are here tonight, but while this announcement is somewhat unprecedented and obviously worrying, it is not for a moment unexpected. Donald Trump did not appear out…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, everywhere we look, we find more evidence of economic carnage. Now we are up against the biggest economic and security superpower, and the government has no plan. We need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke. When he took office, our GDP per capita was 81% of the U.S.'s. Now it has fallen to 73%. It is a made-in-Canada problem, and it is not about vibes. It is driv…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I think the member opposite has a revisionist version of history. It was actually they who capitulated. In fact, does he know why Canadians would have confidence in Conservatives? Canadians would have confidence in Conservatives because 80 days after former prime minister Harper was elected, he got a deal on softwood lumber. Does he know how much money is still sitting in Washington f…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the streets of a major Canadian city were set on fire this weekend, and the Prime Minister was nowhere to be found. A radical, anti-Semitic, anti-Canadian mob burned cars, smashed windows and assaulted police officers, and the Prime Minister was nowhere to be found. It took him until noon the next day, and he offered the most basic platitudes resembling some standard condemnation that…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I have spoken about this many times in the House. The reason I have spoken about it so many times is that it is not only the people I represent in Thornhill but communities right across the country who are reaching out in hopes that somebody is listening to their plight. There have been firebombings into businesses, gunshots into schools and riots on a weekly basis in cities across th…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, it is important that any Canadian and any taxpayer sees where their tax money is going, which is exactly what this Parliament and what an opposition is here to do. It is very important that the government complies with an order that the Speaker made to the House, which is to turn over those documents to police to see if there is any wrongdoing. Let us go back for a second. The Prime M…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, we see chaos all over the country; one sees it no matter where one is, where one lives or in what city. There are two million people eating from a food bank; the price of a home has doubled; crime, chaos, drugs and disorder flow through our streets freely; and the government is nowhere to be found on any of these issues. In fact, the Liberals would rather hold up Parliament by refusin…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, the very basic thing that any government can do about this is to signal that it is wrong, but we cannot expect even that from the current government. The Prime Minister danced the night away and waited until noon the next day to say anything about the lawless behaviour in his own city. The very start of this should be at least a condemnation and should be to make sure that these riote…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, with the leave of the House, I am going to take a moment, as a parliamentarian and as a Canadian, to address what happened this weekend. We saw an out-of-control mob take over the streets of one of the country's biggest cities. We saw people openly and proudly spewing hatred, spreading violence and thumbing their noses at the values that every single parliamentarian in this place hold…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, the member is not going to like what I say about this, but we have been entirely consistent that the solution to bad speech is not necessarily to stop speech. That is what we have seen from the Liberals with Bill C-11, Bill C-63 and, to some extent, Bill C-18. The solution is both more speech and having the consequences in place to actually arrest people who break the law. There are p…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, if the minister does not know where to find these individuals, perhaps he can ask the other Randy, who is still very much in contact with those partners. Even the Liberals are taking note of this humiliating and fraudulent affair, Liberals like Jody Wilson-Raybould, who called it, “So shameful and extremely destructive!” The Prime Minister fired the first indigenous attorney general, …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it seems that either the employment minister or the other Randy may be moonlighting as a magician. We know he says he is indigenous, even though he is not. We know he stole from indigenous Canadians. We know he said he was not involved in his company when he was in cabinet, but he was. Today, perhaps as a magician, he has made his business partners disappear. Shawna Parker and Felix P…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, here are the facts. He flaunts the ethics rules. He claims a false identity. He gets caught in a web of lies. That is what the Prime Minister rewards after nine years. With each passing day, we find out more about the employment minister's scams and schemes. We learn that he is just a phony and a fraud. Canadians want to know, indigenous communities he stole from want to know, and Lib…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it seems like every time the employment minister finds rock bottom, it keeps getting worse. First, he said he was not the Randy involved in his company, but we know there was only one Randy at his company. He said he was not involved with his company while in cabinet, and text messages reveal that he is. He said he was indigenous to profit from government contracts, stealing from firs…
Read full speech →Statements by Members
Mr. Speaker, ever since the first Canadian travelled to space in 1984, our Canadian astronauts have held a special place in our hearts. Names such as Chris Hadfield and Roberta Bondar are synonymous with the values of courage, curiosity and hard work. Just 14 Canadian men and women have travelled to space, but that number will soon be 15 thanks to Henry Wolfond. On Friday, he will venture beyond t…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to government funding allocated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA): (a) what are the details of all funding allocated by the government to the UNRWA since November 4, 2015, broken down by each appropriations act or estimate, including each Main or Supplementary Estimate which contained funding for the UNRWA and the associated amounts; and (b) f…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, that answer is offensive to every single police officer who puts their life on the line and offensive to every single Canadian who has been a victim of violent crime. Last year, eight police officers were killed in just seven months, and violent crime has gone up 30%. Scenes like the one in downtown Toronto are no longer extraordinary; they are becoming the norm under the minister's w…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, it has been a month that the House has been at a complete standstill, paralyzed in the business of looking out for Canadians and of actually solving the problems that the House should be seized with. It may not be the worst news in the world. Certainly, many want to see the government take a walk after nine years; I hope Canadians can finally decide to send the government packing in a…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I wish my hon. colleague happy Diwali; and a happy holiday season to all colleagues in this House. To answer the member's question, light will trample darkness and good will win over evil when Canadians get their chance and their say in a carbon tax election and when these guys finally hit the road and stop ruining the lives of Canadians. Until then, no matter who they are, no matter …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I invite the hon. member to Diwali by the Conservatives tomorrow, and I hope to see her there. I am not sure whether she is going to come, but she is welcome, as everyone else is.
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, what a tough act to follow, my colleague with those brilliant words about accountability for the government. It has been a month that the House of Commons remains at a standstill. The Prime Minister and these NDP-Liberals will stop at nothing to throw sand in the gears of Parliament in a blatant attempt to cover up their costly corruption. These documents are still missing. The taxp…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, two hardened criminals, a stolen car and a police chase are not from the plot of a blockbuster movie; it is daily life in Canada after nine years of the Prime Minister. This weekend, Toronto police officers tried to arrest two car thieves, but not before the crooks injured a horse, rammed a bunch of vehicles, destroyed a business and put innocent shoppers in danger. We know that both …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, maybe the member should listen to the housing minister who said that his $3 billion of housing accelerator money built zero homes. Zero is less than the 195,000 homes built under the Leader of the Opposition when he was housing minister. Now add this to the stellar record of a guy who broke our immigration system and lost track of all the people he let in. While the Prime Minister is …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, just a few days after the Leader of the Opposition introduced a common-sense plan to axe the GST on new home sales, even the housing minister's own advisers were raving about the proposal. Economist Dr. Mike Moffatt said it is a “bold” plan and calls himself “a big fan” of the idea. He and other Canadians know that housing has become out of reach, and the government has doubled its co…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the former immigration minister and MP for Central Nova oversaw the population growth in this country of 200% over the past several years. He lost track of the people he let in. Worse, he saw international students living in homeless shelters or with 14 roommates in a basement, all while he ignored his department's advice that it was too much, too fast. Watching the impact of these fa…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, 195,000 was the number, and that is a number the minister would only dream of building, because some people fail upwards. Even Canada's current immigration minister said, “It's really a system that has gotten out of control.” He was talking about the same immigration system controlled by the new housing guy, who lost track of the people he let in and is now laughably in charge of fuel…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Green Party has demonstrated that she wants everybody under the same secrecy as she is under, but she has been ineffective in this entire debate. The Prime Minister has demonstrated that he has the ability to publicly communicate classified information on this issue. He did so in the House. He did so when he kicked out a member of his own caucus, which is the only th…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, if the member knows anything about the kind of advocacy I do, he would know that I believe every Canadian is welcome in every single institution in this country. Under a Conservative government, we will make sure that we are not dividing Canadians as the Liberals are doing to distract from the issues.
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, if the NDP member wants so badly to release the names, then she should convince her leader to make the same call to the Prime Minister, rather than covering up whatever he is hiding.
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I do not know why the Liberals are not more furious with the Prime Minister for casting aspersions on every single one of them as he named them at the Hogue commission. He is the most divisive prime minister in the history of this country. Just look at the communities that he pits against each other. Look at how he has made this a playground for foreign interference. Look at how he ha…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I wish I could say it was a pleasure to speak today, but it is certainly not the case tonight in the House. The news and the allegations from the RCMP are extremely concerning, and they must be taken seriously as opposed to what has taken place tonight in the House. This debate is primarily about the Prime Minister, who has the power to take them seriously and has not done so. Any for…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, their hands are in the pockets of average Canadians. The finance minister told Canadians to cut Disney+, and she is probably going to tell them to cut their Spotify subscriptions, too. The Liberals say the taxes will fix climate change and the economy. They say that paying more taxes is going lead Canadians to be better off. All the while, the Liberals talk down to people. The carbon …
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member opposite. The Leader of the Opposition won his leadership race with such a huge margin that he did not need help from anybody. The fact is that he is going to be the prime minister of the country, actually with help from the members of Parliament who continue to drive this country further and further into the ground. With respect to the second question, the mem…
Read full speech →Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, I know the member is still yelling his question out, but if he would allow me to answer. We are going to finally have a government in this country where everybody, no matter what colour they are, what language they speak or when they came to this country finally feels welcome instead of what the Prime Minister has created.
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, it seems that no part of Canadian life is safe from the finance minister's radical tax rampage, not food, not home, not gas and not even music. In response to new streaming taxes from the government, Spotify just announced that it is raising subscription fees by 15%. Even the simple things like kicking back and listening to a playlist ar…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, there must be something really bad in those documents if the Liberals are refusing to turn them over to the House, as per an order from the House. We have seen this story play out before. I mentioned it throughout my remarks. The stonewalling of this party's members to withhold information from Canadians only suggests there is wrongdoing. If they had nothing to hide, then they would h…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, the only person who is stonewalling Parliament is the Prime Minister in his refusal to hand over these documents. Let me correct some of the misinformation we continue to hear from this member over the course of this debate. First of all, SDTC received a clean bill of health in 2017, and it was only after hand-picked Liberal board members ended up on the board that we are even having …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I disagree with my hon. colleague. I do not think corruption is a culture in Canada. I think corruption is a culture in the Liberal Party. Soon Canadians will have the opportunity to go to a carbon tax election and send each and every one packing, to axe the tax, to build the homes, to fix the budget and to stop the crime.
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I was not in the House at the time, but I was in the lobby at the very time when the NDP used to be an opposition party in this country. I remember that really clearly. It was before they married the Liberals and joined their culture of corruption. If they are not going to stand up against corruption, then we are finally going to elect a government in this country that gets accountabi…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, Canadians do have rights, and they have the right to get accountability for the money the government spent, their money. This place reigns supreme. On the documents that the government should give to the police, if it had nothing to hide then it would not be afraid of doing that. To say that this is a violation of charter rights is insane. It is not there to protect the government, it…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, the member must be new here. I was saying we cannot keep track of all of the scandals. We are here again, day after day, asking for accountability. “It is hard not to feel disappointed in one's government when every day there is a new scandal”. Do members know who said that? Those were the words of the Prime Minister more than 10 years ago, back when he was somebody who at least pre…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, it is difficult to keep track of all the scandals, the cover-ups and the government's defiance in the House. The narratives, the consistent and flagrant—
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, a $400-million Liberal scandal has paralyzed Parliament for a week. The Speaker himself ruled that the NDP-Liberals have violated a House order to turn over evidence to the police for a criminal investigation into their corruption. They are defying his ruling and they have ground this place to a halt. The auditor said that there are 400 million tax dollars and 186 conflicts of interes…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the House leader missed the part where the Speaker told them that they were holding the House in contempt. If there is nothing to hide in those documents, then they should be able to hand them over. There was $400 million given to Liberal friends and 186 conflicts of interest, from a government that knows really well what a conflict of interest is, all while a record number of Canadia…
Read full speech →