Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, in spite of some of that performance, I welcome my hon. colleague back to the House. He knows it better than most, as he spends an awful lot of time in the chamber, and he is here to serve his constituents as well. It is important that the leader of the opposition be able to do his job. As past opposition leaders have said, the framework set up by the Trudeau government was one that w…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to welcome my hon. colleague to this place. He was obviously a keen observer of what went on over the last 10 years, and it was not an encouraging time for Canadians. The serial ethics law-breaking that we saw with Justin Trudeau was an example that was set, and unfortunately followed by other members of his cabinet. Hope springs eternal, and I am very optimistic that we …
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome the member and congratulate him on his election victory. It is important that there be accountability. What we saw over the last 10 years, as is evidenced by the change in direction by the leader of the member's party, is a complete reversal or commitment to reverse on many of the very things that his colleagues and his party perpetrated on Canada over the last 10 years. Wha…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate members of the House who have successfully won their ridings after an election. It is an exhausting experience. To those who were elected for the first time, I say congratulations. To those who were re-elected, I welcome them back. It is an honour for anyone to serve in this place. In my case, it is for a community of over 100,000 people. I am here with the tremendous r…
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Mr. Speaker, before taking office, the Prime Minister helped establish multi-billion dollar investment funds that were placed in offshore tax havens. He is shielding those investments from public scrutiny with a blind trust that hides but does not remove potential conflicts of interest. Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. They cannot pay their rent, but they are paying their ta…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not want an explanation on how to bend over backwards to fit through ethical loopholes. They want to be reassured that, after a decade of serial ethical law-breaking, they can have confidence that the Prime Minister is going above the basic minimum standard. Can the Prime Minister, who I again welcome to the chamber, stand up and just assure Canadians that none of the fun…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Liberal Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, his Liberal MPs and Canadians, but he still clings to power. Yesterday, the economic statement from his phantom finance minister, carbon tax Carney, posted a $62-billion deficit, which is absolutely devastating for Canadians. They tried to pin it on the former finance minister and she quit in protest. Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, just like the nine years of failures from the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians have lost confidence in the Prime Minister, and they showed it last night with the overwhelming majority election of Tamara Jansen in Cloverdale—Langley City. The phantom finance minister posted a $62-billion devastating deficit that Canadians are going to be paying for, for generations. The Liberals have …
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Mr. Speaker, yes, we talk about having confidence. However, that just came from a minister who said today that he is not going to continue to serve in the cabinet of that Prime Minister. This is just like the former finance minister who said she does not have confidence, the seven other ministers over there or the one in five Liberal MPs who said they do not have confidence in the NDP-Liberal Prim…
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Mr. Speaker, the words of the leader of the official opposition bring great hope to Canadians at a time when they need it most. The Liberal Prime Minister committed to a massive $40-billion deficit as the guardrail. Now, of course, that is an irresponsible number, $40 billion, but that is what the promise was, and they smashed through it. Who are the “they”? It is the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister an…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, everything is out of control: Home prices have doubled, and food banks are seeing two million users in a single month. Meanwhile, the real fiscal adviser to the Prime Minister wrote the financial update for this afternoon. He included a temporary two-month tax trick and is set to smash through the massive $40-billion deficit promise that…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is talking about good news like Canadians have never had it so good. We have the highest household debt, because Canadians cannot afford to pay their mortgages. They cannot afford to feed themselves. They cannot afford to heat their homes or put gas in their cars after nine years of this NDP-Liberal Prime Minister who said that the budget would balance itse…
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With regard to meetings attended by the Prime Minister: what are the dates and locations of any meetings attended by the Prime Minister with the 24 Liberal members of Parliament, or representatives of their group, who signed the letter requesting the Prime Minister to step down?
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Mr. Speaker, a tiny two-month tax trick is not going to help the more than two million Canadians lined up at food banks every month, nor will pennies off Pepsi help Canadians who are going to pay $800 more for groceries in 2025. This Prime Minister is forcing his outgoing finance minister to take the fall for the effects of his inflationary spending that is pushing right past his $40-billion defic…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister has lost control of spending and he has lost control of his own cabinet. The outgoing finance minister promised that a massive $40-billion deficit would be her fiscal guardrail, but it looks like the Prime Minister and the incoming finance minister, carbon tax Carney, are pushing her through the guardrail and over the fiscal cliff with the rest of Canadians.…
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Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, the Archbishop for Toronto was inducted into the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica. I was honoured to attend the ceremony with the Canadian delegation on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition. Witnessing this historic ritual was a deeply spiritual experience and a moment of profound inspiration, hope and promise. Born in Montreal to immigrant p…
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Mr. Speaker, today, the NDP leader has a chance to prove he did not sell out Canadian workers for his own pension. He famously promised Canadians that he ripped up his coalition with the Liberals, saying they were “too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. Conservatives agree and Canadians want a carbon tax election. Will the Prime Minister allow the NDP l…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks like the Prime Minister has lost control of everything, except his control over the NDP. According to the NDP leader's own words, “You're never going to count on us if you're going to take away the rights of the workers. Never.” We have seen that the Prime Minister has done just that, ordering binding arbitration. What has the Prime Minister promised to the NDP in exchange fo…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a brief intervention on the question, to follow on the points from the member for Kelowna—Lake Country and the member for Calgary Nose Hill, who spoke well to the facts of what occurred last night. Some of your consideration, Mr. Speaker, of the evidence can be found on the ParlVU feed, with the member for London—Fanshawe's storming the Speaker's chair. The Speake…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a significant amount of evidence that can be offered by members of the official opposition in the form of video. It is not offered with any form of partisan context; it would simply provide an unbiased accounting for what occurred. I will close with this: It is important that when there is an accusation of harassment in this place, it be taken seriously, but it is also import…
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Madam Speaker, while the U.S. economy roars, real GDP per capita in Canada falls. It is a made-in-Canada recession, and these NDP-Liberals have presided over the worst standard of living decline in this country in 40 years. Food bank use is at records never seen before. The United States is going to hit us with a 25% tariff. What is their plan? It is to raise taxes. The NDP-Liberal government is g…
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Madam Speaker, let us talk about a record of the failed government that does not have a plan to address the 25% tariffs that are going to be imposed by the U.S. government, that is except for the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister to introduce his carbon tax being raised again on April 1, along with a host of other taxes. Poverty is up. Food bank use is up. Mortgage costs have doubled. Rent has doubled. I…
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Madam Speaker, while he interrupts me, I will note that he repeated his name more than one time. He needs to withdraw it.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, do we have quorum?
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Madam Speaker, no apologies to the parliamentary secretary are necessary. I think you will find, if you review his comments, that the member is intentionally and inappropriately using the proper names of elected members of the House, which, as you know, is a violation of the Standing Orders.
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Mr. Speaker, in the past, the Chair has found that words used in this place that can be seen to incite violence are deemed to be unparliamentary. I want to provide context to the Chair. There was a protest that took place at the home of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General. When that occurred, I said, “Protest government buildings and MP offices - absolutely. But the intended target of thi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to hide from Canadians that the company owned by the disgraced Liberal from Edmonton Centre is still eligible to get government contracts. The Prime Minister may believe that his former and failed employment minister is the victim, but the real victims, of course, are indigenous people and the people who were defrauded by his company. To this point, the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, let me get this straight. The disgraced former minister, the member for Edmonton Centre, a Liberal, started a pandemic-profiteering business, and that business lied about being indigenous to get government contracts. They are under investigation by the Edmonton Police Service for fraud, and this Liberal government is still allowing them to bid on government contracts. Now they are say…
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Madam Speaker, it is quite clear that the Liberals have run out of arguments. They have been demonstrated to be wrong. What they are doing is not consistent with exactly what the law clerk for the House of Commons has said. Since the member is not able to engage in a debate worthy of this place, I have nothing further to add.
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With regard to all types of standby pay for Government of Canada employees since January 1, 2016, broken down by year: (a) what is the total cost of standby pay, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity; (b) how many employees had annual standby payments over $5,000 in each given year, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity; and (c) what was the single h…
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Mr. Speaker, just like the parliamentary secretary, the individual he quotes is wrong. That has been affirmed by the parliamentary law clerk. The law clerk for the House of Commons has testified that the House has the absolute unfettered power to order the production of these documents.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a real pleasure to have the opportunity to rise in the House and to be recognized by the Chair. The circumstances, though, are unfortunate. We are talking about a $400-million scandal, over 186 conflicts of interest and a lawful order from the majority of democratically elected members of Parliament, passed in the House, ordering the NDP-Liberals to hand over to the RCMP the doc…
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Mr. Speaker, for a guy whose government presided over more than $400 million being pilfered from Canadian taxpayers, he seems pretty incensed about things unrelated to the subject matter that we have talked about. I will say a couple of things. First of all, he did not quote any member of Parliament so I am not sure what kind of fantasy fiction he is spinning. I scrummed with the media today. As a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a great question from my hon. colleague. We have said that common-sense Conservatives, when in government, will restore accountability, just like we have said on matters of national security. Any elected parliamentarian who has been knowingly participating with a foreign state in surreptitious activity will be named. We will name them. We will not engage in the games like the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard from the Liberals before about what they think about objective reporting. The Liberal Prime Minister famously said of the scandal involving himself when he interfered in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin that the story in the Globe was false. Now we know what the Prime Minister said in that case was dishonest. However, the question from my hon. colleague from Welli…
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Madam Speaker, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the member for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Quite simply, we are going to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. We are going to get rid of the carbon tax and, of course, take the GST off new home construction.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Employment has said there is more than one Randy, and I maintain that I was referring to the other Randy as cocaine Randy.
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad the minister showed up for work, but she must have been late enough to not hear our statement, in which we of course expressed our support for Ukraine. Let us focus on the facts. The facts are that the Liberals' cabinet colleague is involved with cocaine traffickers and that their cabinet colleague is pretending to be indigenous in order to disenfranchise indigenous-owned co…
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Mr. Speaker, to get government contracts, the Liberal minister from Edmonton said that he was indigenous, but he is not. He said that he was not the Randy who was involved in the ongoing operations of the company that was applying for government contracts, but text messages show that he was. He also said he was not directing his company from the cabinet table, but we now know that is not true. The…
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Mr. Speaker, I will withdraw the last word. He should be fired.
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure that I was referring to the other Randy as cocaine Randy.
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Withdrawing the previous words, Mr. Speaker, we will talk about the Liberal minister from Alberta who has been implicated, in media reports, in fraud. Some of them he has even apologized for. He misrepresented his identity, claiming to be indigenous, trying to steal contracts from people who are in fact indigenous. The same minister said that he was not the Randy at his own company. We know that t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable that with the cocaine connections to the Liberal minister from Alberta, the Liberals and the Prime Minister want to allow him to continue to be in cabinet. The minister said he was indigenous to try to steal contracts from individuals who are indigenous. That is okay as long as someone is a Liberal. The company is involved in more than half a dozen lawsuits because …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal minister from Alberta is a fake and a fraud. He said he was not the Randy involved in his company, but we know that there is only one Randy. He said he was not involved in his company at the cabinet table—
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are rightly disappointed, especially those who voted for the NDP, to see the NDP members supporting and voting for a Prime Minister and a Liberal Party that have attacked workers. It is really shameful and I understand why they are so upset. The NDP members must be taking marching orders from their leadership to support a Prime Minister, to support a Liberal Party that is at…
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Mr. Speaker, I will restart. The Liberal minister from Alberta has been implicated in fraud in media reports. Today, we have seen that. It is very clear—
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Mr. Speaker, it is hard to imagine how the Liberals and their NDP counterparts can defend the Prime Minister and the Liberal minister from Edmonton, when he had to come out and apologize now that he has been caught for misrepresenting himself as being indigenous when he is not, and for being involved in a business that is facing fraud allegations and is under investigation for arson. It is just un…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's Liberal minister from Alberta has said a lot of things, but we know he is a fake and a fraud. He said that he was not the Randy involved in the company in question in hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud cases that are now before the courts. He said he was not involved with the company while he was in cabinet, but of course now there is evidence that is not t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a real shame that, today, Canadians who voted for NDP members see those NDP members supporting a Liberal government and a Liberal Prime Minister that has attacked workers—
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