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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the 86,000 Canadians who lost their jobs, how is that going for them? I want to know. As Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, with $52 billion of net investment fleeing Canada, we want to know this: What is their plan? Canadians cannot feed their families with these empty promises. The Prime Minister promised that deal. Instead, he is down in Washington, gu…
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Madam Speaker, people do not have to travel far in Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands—Rideau Lakes to find them; they are everywhere. They work late nights and early mornings. They work on weekends and holidays. Many of them have been doing it for decades. We can find them at food banks and churches, farms, fairs and festivals, chambers, committees and boards. They are volunteers. We would be a shad…
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Madam Speaker, I recently spoke with a young father in Spencerville. He has a trade, he has a job and he has a young family, but he still has to count on a productive deer hunt this fall in order to provide a high-protein diet for his family. Why? The inflationary policies of the Liberal Prime Minister continue to drive the prices of food at the grocery store higher and higher. Why can the Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, we are not going to join the finance minister in patting himself on the back while millions of Canadians are lined up at food banks. Let us talk about the economy. The GDP shrank in Q2. The finance minister should know that. We have not seen a budget from him, but we have seen all of the warning signals, and so has the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who said it is “very alarming” wha…
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Mr. Speaker, in a leaked audio recording, the Liberal public safety minister said that the Liberals' gun buyback program will not keep Canadians safe and is a waste of money. We agree on both counts, but he is pressing ahead, and he launched an assault on licensed law-abiding gun owners today. Gun crime is up 130% under the Liberals, the Liberal minister and the Prime Minister. The minister's job …
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Mr. Speaker, please accept my apologies if I do not take the public safety minister at his word today and if, instead, we take him at his word from Monday, when he said that the program was a waste of money and was not going to keep Canadians safe. If it is such a good idea and it is not going to target people who are not breaking the law, why was he offering to bail his buddy out of jail? How cou…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, the dream of home ownership has been pushed out of reach, with home ownership now costing 55% of Canadians' pre-tax income. Meanwhile, the Liberals are at secret cash for access fundraisers with developers, bankers and lobbyists, but their conversations have not been reported to the lobbying commissioner. Before these insider deals drive prices even highe…
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Mr. Speaker, members should not take my word for it. As reported in The Globe and Mail, let us see what the commissioner has to say, “[The commissioner] has complained in the past that some lobbyists and their clients use caucus and cabinet retreats as an opportunity to mingle with politicians without declaring the conversations to her office.” This is happening at the same time as the Liberal Pri…
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Mr. Speaker, we all want Canada to succeed, and that is why we will hold the Prime Minister accountable for his promises, compared to the results. Do his words match his deeds? He promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7, yet we have seen shrinking growth, high unemployment, rising food prices and worsening debt. He promised that he would double homebuilding, but it has fallen, and he is add…
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With regard to Veterans Affairs Canada in the last fiscal year: (a) how much was spent on service dogs for veterans; (b) how many veterans received service dogs; (c) how much was spent on cannabis for veterans; (d) how many veterans received cannabis; and (e) how much was spent on drugs and substances, other than cannabis, which are listed under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, in total an…
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Mr. Speaker, during the member opposite's presentation, we heard him talk about Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper was the prime minister more than a decade ago and had great success in developing Canada's economy. However, for the last 10 years, it was that member and his Liberal government, with Justin Trudeau, who introduced legislation that stymied the growth of Canada's economy and sent billions …
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Mr. Speaker, last night we learned that the Prime Minister has an entire department of bureaucrats trying to manage his conflicts of interest, but they cannot even tell us whether the Prime Minister has set up a conflict of interest screen, which means that the former chairman of a multi-billion dollar investment firm is sitting at the cabinet table and could be taking decisions that personally im…
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the Right Hon. Prime Minister, I am proud to have served our country in the Canadian Armed Forces in uniform. The Prime Minister seems to do whatever he thinks he can get away with. He voted for the Liberals' ban on gas-powered cars, while Brookfield is heavily invested in the EV supply chain. We know that he used offshore tax havens in the Caribbean to avoid paying Canadian ta…
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Mr. Speaker, the member will have to excuse us if we do not take the party that has been known for serial ethical law-breaking at its word when the Minister of Housing, who said house prices do not need to come down, is sitting in a $2-million penthouse on a multi-million dollar real estate fortune while he is telling Canadians that they are okay to just stay in their parents' basements. Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to see the clock at 6:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unsurprisingly, the member is correct in her discernment of the facts. The issue we are dealing with here is one that was reviewed by the Auditor General. The Auditor General was the one who made the finding we have here today, and that is the basis for this motion to get the funds back. There has not been any evidence presented to independent officers of Parliament about this type of…
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time three ways. What percentage of pre-qualified IT contractors have no technical abilities, like the admitted fraudsters at the two-man, basement-headquartered GC Strategies?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to request a recorded division.
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moved: That, given that the Auditor General found that ArriveCAN contractor, GCStrategies Inc., was paid $64 million from the Liberal government, and in many cases, there was no proof that any work was completed, the House call on the government to: (a) get taxpayers their money back, within 100 days of the adoption of this motion; and (b) impose a lifetime contracting ban on GCStrategies Inc., an…
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Mr. Speaker, if it is the position of the government that it would like to take a look at the contracts that occurred over that period of time, and there is a finding that there was fraud on the government, that work was not delivered, that security clearances were not in place, anyone involved then should be banned for life from doing business with the Government of Canada, and let us get that mo…
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Mr. Chair, how many times was GC Strategies awarded contracts through Treasury Board-approved processes?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister table a list of all firms that are currently pre-qualified to do IT work?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his good question. It has been a difficult time for Canadians, when we look at the last 10 years, but of course, as the member indicated, it is not just limited to the last 10 years. We saw that with the Liberal sponsorship scandal as well. We absolutely need to have rigorous processes in place, and it is encouraging to hear the Bloc is going to support the mo…
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Mr. Chair, that is an unacceptable answer. I am not asking the minister about criminal proceedings. I am asking the minister about his department's failures to enforce the rules that are specifically under his mandate. He refused to answer my first question, so my next question is this: On what basis was GC Strategies, which had no technical capabilities, pre-qualified as an IT contractor based on…
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Mr. Chair, has any Treasury Board employee faced discipline in this case?
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Mr. Chair, what is not appropriate is for a minister to refuse to answer questions when the opposition is looking to determine if we can have confidence in his department and when the Liberals are looking for $222 billion in new spending authorities, which is the exercise that we have this evening in this committee of the whole. How did the Treasury Board, the minister's department, allow payments…
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Mr. Chair, the minister has failed to answer even simple questions when I have given him ample time to do that. Does the Treasury Board have any mechanisms in place to make sure that work is completed before payments are made?
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Mr. Chair, were the rules followed in this case?
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Mr. Chair, with $222 billion in new spending authorities requested by the President of the Treasury Board, it is absolutely unacceptable that the minister came this evening without any information. I have one final question. Was the minister ever briefed on the ArriveCAN scandal?
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad the minister knows that it is working exactly as it should, because the Liberals do not know that about any of the work GC Strategies did. For $100 million, no deliverables can be proven, no security clearances were done, and the minister is talking about the company's not doing work in the future. That is fine, but what we want to know is about the work it did not do in the…
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Mr. Speaker, today's Auditor General report reveals the shocking contempt that the Liberal government has for matters of national security. It cannot demonstrate that security clearances were held by 50% of the contracts that it awarded to GC Strategies. In more than 20% of the cases, contractors were working without the required clearances. It did not check before the work began. It does not know…
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Mr. Speaker, if anyone is travelling this summer and finds themselves on Highway 416 near the town of Kemptville, be sure to visit the Kemptville Brewing Company. I had the privilege of joining their grand opening on June 3, alongside outstanding entrepreneurs Nathan Devries, Kurtis Devries, Braden Dukelow and Jocelyn Major. Their passion and dedication have brought something truly special to our …
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Mr. Speaker, today Conservatives have tabled a motion in the House that the Liberal government finally put forward a fiscally responsible budget. The Prime Minister says that he wants to be held to account based on what Canadians are paying for their groceries, but instead of putting forward a budget or bringing down grocery prices, he has introduced a half-trillion dollars in what we can only ass…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have consistently voted against all of the inflationary spending and the Liberals' half measures that would see those savings vaporized by their continued inflationary spending. We will keep voting against them unless we see a responsible budget from the government for once. Moms and dads, small businesses, single Canadians and seniors all have to table a budget; they ha…
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Mr. Chair, how many net new frontline CBSA officers will be serving at the land borders between Canada and the U.S. as a result of the minister's bill?
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Madam Chair, my questions will be directed through you to the Minister of Public Safety. How many frontline CBSA officers are posted to the Canada-U.S. border?
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Mr. Chair, how many containers entering Canada have been found to contain fentanyl, smuggled guns—
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time with three of my colleagues. How many CBSA officers, serving on the front line, are posted at the Lansdowne and Johnstown ports of entry?
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Mr. Chair, how many shipping containers are scanned on a monthly basis at the Canada-U.S. border?
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Mr. Chair, I would encourage the minister to get either numbers or some information, or we could both go to those ports of entry and take a look for ourselves, to see the lack of infrastructure to scan the cans that are coming across the border at those two locations. How many firearms have been seized at the land borders between Canada and the United States?
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Mr. Chair, how many additional containers would be scanned as a result of the bill?
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Mr. Chair, I have asked the minister a number of questions seeking specifics on the bill prioritized as number two in the order, the first bill put forward in the Parliament. The minister has not been able to provide any of the details that would satisfy some of the most pressing issues facing our country right now. Where does it say in the legislation that we will repeal any of the laws passed by…
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Mr. Chair, the government is spending $342 million a year to collect legally registered firearms from licensed, trained and tested hunters, farmers and sport shooters. How much money is being dedicated specifically to interdicting firearms at the border?
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Mr. Chair, that seems like an incredible missed opportunity, I can tell members, at all ports of entry, including those in my district at Johnstown and Lansdowne. Minister, you said, “The actual crimes, the actual issues around bail are quite sound and they are embedded [and] codified in law right now.” I have two questions for you: Do you think that current bail laws in the regime are working? Do…
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Mr. Chair, by what date will they be at their posts?
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Mr. Chair, are there scanners at the ports of entry at Johnstown and Lansdowne to scan containers or trucks at the border?
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Mr. Speaker, it was the current Prime Minister who said that the metric that he should be judged by is the price of food at grocery stores, and prices are up and so is food bank use. We have been calling relentlessly for the Liberals to put a budget in front of the House. In fact, Parliament has spoken and has said that the Prime Minister must put a budget forward this spring. The Prime Minister h…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that we should judge him by the prices at the grocery store. Well, beef, apples, rice, infant formula and so many things are all up in price. Do members know what else is up? It is food bank use. Canadians have to budget, especially during hard times, so that is exactly what they expected from the self-described “man with the plan”. Canadians need to see a budg…
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Mr. Speaker, it was Radio-Canada that first reported that the Prime Minister had co-founded an investment fund worth over $25 billion, combined from two funds. These investment funds were not headquartered here in Canada; they were headquartered above a bicycle shop in Bermuda. Why would investments be headquartered in Bermuda? Why would they be headquartered above a bike shop? It is because they …
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Mr. Speaker, let me quote the government House leader. He said that on that side of the House, they have always followed the rules. He sat in cabinet with former prime minister Justin Trudeau, who broke those laws twice, as did other members of cabinet. We cannot take him at his word. He also says that the reporting on Radio-Canada was a conspiracy theory. Well, it is a fact. The Prime Minister, t…
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