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Mr. Speaker, we are in uncharted territory. I do not believe there has ever been a time when a finance minister has resigned on the day of a budget or a fall economic statement. The current government and the Prime Minister have totally lost control. The Prime Minister has lost the moral authority to govern, yet the NDP leader, after purportedly ripping up his agreement, has taped it back together…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners are calling on the Liberals to scrap their unfair capital gains tax hike. Petitioners note that it would make Canada less competitive and have adverse impacts, including limiting access to affordable housing options, straining health care resources, exacerbating financial challenges for farmers and compromising the retirement savings of Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, yet again, the leader of the NDP has sold out Canadians, who are being pummelled by the economic vandalism of the Prime Minister. The leader of the NDP said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests”. It turns out his words mean absolutely nothing, because this week the NDP had an opportunity to support a Conservative motion of non-confidence tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I wish to very briefly add to the submissions made by my colleague, the member for Thornhill, on the question of privilege she raised last Friday. I wish to add that the member for Edmonton Griesbach was among the NDP MPs who participated in the anti-Israel demonstration. My staff observed the member among the protesters as they blocked the driveway in fron…
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Mr. Speaker, it is highly pertinent, insofar as that there were NDP MPs who were actively involved in facilitating this illegal anti-Israel protest, and contrary to the—
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Mr. Speaker, I wish to very briefly add some additional information in respect to the question of privilege raised by my colleague, the member for Thornhill. Specifically, the member for Thornhill cited that three NDP MPs were actively involved in this illegal anti-Israel protest, and I would add that there was a fourth member of the NDP who was involved—
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Madam Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition has been very clear. He has called on the Prime Minister to release the names of all MPs who have wittingly collaborated with hostile foreign states. The Prime Minister refuses. With respect to a security clearance, the Leader of the Opposition has also been clear. He will take the same briefings that the government provided The Washington Post and that …
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners call on the government and the Minister of Finance to scrap plans to increase the capital gains inclusion rate to 66.6%. They note that increasing the capital gains inclusion rate will put Canada and Canadian business at a disadvantage. It is estimated that this change will have an impact on one in five Canadian businesses over the next …
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Madam Speaker, I would observe that the Liberals are the ones holding up the work of Parliament. They are defying a clear and unambiguous order of the House to turn over all documents related to the Liberal billion-dollar green slush fund to the parliamentary law clerk. The law clerk can then turn them over to the RCMP. The Liberals are hiding and obstructing that order in the face of one of the l…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Battle River—Crowfoot is entirely right. This is unprecedented. It is unprecedented because of the degree to which and the lengths this government will go to obstruct a clear and unambiguous order of the House for the government to turn over the documents. However, this is part of a pattern, as the member alluded to, because there have been other bad precedents set by…
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 104 and Standing Order 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 72nd report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, entitled “Pilot Project to Include Inuit Languages on Federal Election Ballots in Nunavut”.
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on the massive scandal at Sustainable Development Technology Canada, more appropriately known as the billion-dollar Liberal green slush fund. This is a scandal involving $400 million in taxpayer dollars that improperly went out the door, according to the Auditor General. Of that, $330 million involved conflicts of interest involving board members; that was186 conflic…
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Madam Speaker, the company of the disgraced member for Edmonton Centre applied fraudulently for two government contracts, representing itself as a wholly indigenous-owned company when that was not true, in a disgraceful effort to steal contracts from legitimate indigenous businesses. The Prime Minister was aware that the minister did that, yet for days he defended him. It was only when the Edmonto…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Edmonton Centre has a lot to answer for, notwithstanding the fact that he recently resigned from cabinet in disgrace. Among the serious matters that the member must answer for and be held accountable for is the fact that his shady, pandemic-profiteering PPE company falsely held itself out to be a wholly owned indigenous company when it applied for two federal government…
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Madam Speaker, yes, on the same point of order. I would remind the member for Edmonton Strathcona of one Dave Stupich, the former finance minister of British Columbia and member of Parliament, who stole from charities to puddle it into—
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member for Edmonton Centre's company is under police investigation. This is a company that has been ordered by Alberta courts to pay back $8 million to clients for ripping them off. This is a company that fraudulently represented itself as indigenous-owned in a disgusting attempt to steal government contracts from real indigenous businesses. This is not complicated. All th…
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Mr. Speaker, mired in allegations of fraud and conflict and having faked an indigenous identity, this week the Liberal member for Edmonton Centre resigned from cabinet in disgrace. Also this week, the Edmonton police confirmed that they have launched a criminal investigation into the ex-minister's company for fraud. In the face of an active police investigation, why is it that the ex-minister's co…
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Madam Speaker, yesterday the government House leader of the Liberal government went on a CBC program and purported that the government had handed over all of the documents to the parliamentary law clerk and that, therefore, this matter could be simply referred to the procedure and House affairs committee. The member, my colleague on PROC, will recall that the parliamentary law clerk appeared befor…
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With regard to the government’s announcement on September 27, 2023, that it would provide $14 million to help Afghan refugees and host communities impacted by flooding in Pakistan: (a) what is the breakdown of the $14 million, including how much went to (i) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), (ii) the World Health Organization (WHO), (iii) other recipients, including how muc…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Employment is embroiled in allegations of fraud. He almost certainly violated the Conflict of Interest Act. He got caught pretending to be indigenous in an effort to steal government contracts from legitimately indigenous-owned businesses. We have now learned that the minister has a business connection to a cocaine trafficker. In the face of all that, why is he still i…
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Mr. Speaker, one must ask why the Prime Minister has not seen fit to fire the minister. Could it be that the Prime Minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act not once but twice? Could it be that the Prime Minister is a cultural appropriator, having worn blackface more times than he can remember? Is it not the case that if the Prime Minister were to fire the minister, he would have to fire hims…
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Mr. Speaker, what is it going to take for the Prime Minister to fire the minister from Edmonton, the Minister of Employment? It seems that every day there are new revelations surrounding this scandal-plagued minister. With each of these new revelations, it is crystal clear, to seemingly everyone but the minister and the Prime Minister, that the minister is about the last person in the House who sh…
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Mr. Speaker, the short answer is no, no other Randy has been identified. His business partner, Anderson, said the only Randy at the company was the Minister of Employment but then, implausibly, claimed the Randy in the text messages was not the minister because of nine autocorrects, which simply is not credible. The minister himself can identify no other Randy. When Global News embarked upon findi…
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Mr. Speaker, the answer to that question, as to who is Randy, is obvious. It is the minister. The member is quite right in his characterization. What has happened before the ethics committee has been a charade, not just on the part of Mr. Anderson but on the part of the minister. The minister first came to committee and said that he could not be the Randy in the text messages because he was in Van…
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Mr. Speaker, there is something of significance in obtaining official party status. Official party status should mean something. The Green Party does not have official party status. It has two members of Parliament who are the equivalent of independent members of Parliament. If the Green Party wishes to participate in debate and committee, then what it should go about doing is to convince Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, we learned about that because the minister got caught as a result of additional text messages. The minister represented, as the member pointed out, that he had had no communication with Mr. Anderson. Then text messages revealed that the Randy in question was in Vancouver while the minister was in Vancouver. He was asked to explain that. He tried to explain he had communicated with Mr.…
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Mr. Speaker, I would submit that perhaps the reason the Prime Minister has been reluctant to deal with the minister is that he has engaged in similar conduct as the minister. The minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act; the Prime Minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act not once, but twice. In fact, he has the dubious distinction of being the first Prime Minister to be found guilty of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is simply not accurate to say the Ethics Commissioner has cleared the minister. In fact, the minister has not been forthcoming with the Ethics Commissioner, just as he has not been forthcoming with the committee. He was supposed to turn over his phone devices to the Ethics Commissioner. He did not do that. He only turned over one phone, and then when he got caught, he turned over a…
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Madam Speaker, the point is that the minister lied. Let us look at the facts. He tried to scam taxpayers by stealing millions of dollars in government contracts from legitimately owned indigenous businesses. The minister is a fraud. He is a disgrace. He needs to go and he needs to go now. Why will the Prime Minister not fire him?
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Madam Speaker, the Minister of Employment is embroiled in allegations of conflict and fraud. Yesterday it was revealed that he falsely represented that his business is wholly indigenous-owned, in an effort to secure millions of dollars in federal contracts. This is disgusting cultural appropriation and outright fraud. In the face of that, why is he still in cabinet?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners are calling on the government to scrap its reckless expansion of MAID to those suffering solely from an underlying mental health condition. The petitioners note that it is impossible to determine whether a mental illness is irremediable, meaning that expanding MAID to those with a mental illness would lead to the deaths of people who could…
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Mr. Speaker, who is Randy? That is the central question before the House as a result of the Speaker's ruling that found a prima facie question of privilege after the Minister of Employment's business partner Stephen Anderson refused to disclose to the ethics committee who Randy is. The ethics committee's probe into Randy began when Global News reported that the Minister of Employment was involved …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners note that the government's planned expansion of MAID in cases of mental illness where that is the sole underlying condition would put vulnerable Canadians at risk because it is impossible to determine irremediability, as well as to distinguish between suicidality and a rational request for MAID. Accordingly, petitioners call on the House to st…
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Mr. Speaker, there is one person responsible for propping up the costly and corrupt Prime Minister, and that is the leader of the NDP. I remember when he ripped up his coalition agreement with the Prime Minister. It turns out it was nothing more than a stunt to scam voters right before a by-election. This week, the leader of the NDP officially taped back together that agreement, but who can be sur…
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Madam Speaker, what we have seen from the Liberal government is a total disregard and disrespect for the rights of persons with disabilities. A former justice minister failed to appeal a lower court ruling, ignoring every disability rights community that said removing the safeguard that death be reasonably foreseeable would result in persons with disabilities falling through the cracks. Now we hav…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to express my condolences to the member on the one-year anniversary of the passing of his mother-in-law. I acknowledge that the member has made his position very clear, and I respect it. However, there have been concerns from medical professionals and other experts about clinical, ethical and legal issues associated with advance requests. These include, fo…
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Madam Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby quite appropriately spoke about persons with disabilities. When the Carter decision was rendered by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court reasoned that vulnerable persons could be protected by what it characterized as a set of stringent and well-enforced safeguards. I would submit that the safeguards that have been adopted by Parliament have not…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Montcalm and I did indeed serve on the special joint committee together. He was not able to quite get to his question, but if I took what he said and the context in which I believe he put it with respect to advance requests, if that was what in fact he was alluding to, what I would say is that the committee was seized with a number of different issues, advance requ…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis. Under the Prime Minister's watch, Canada's MAID regime is broken, and the Prime Minister broke it. His government is the architect of a MAID regime that serves as a warning to governments around the world that are contemplating perhaps implementing a MAID regime of what not to do. The world is taking no…
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Madam Speaker, that was a fair question from the parliamentary secretary. I would submit that it is important that there be widespread consultation, not just in the province of Quebec but right across the country, because there are legal, ethical and clinical challenges that have been identified with rolling out advance requests in a safe manner. That was underscored by the expert report that the …
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners note that frequent parole hearings often revictimize and retraumatize the families of victims. They note that the Liberal government has failed to respond to the Bissonnette decision, disregarding the impact that this decision will have on families of victims of some of Canada's most heinous murderers. Accordingly, petitioners call on Pa…
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Madam Speaker, two weeks ago, the Ontario MAID Death Review Committee, out of the Ontario coroner's office, issued a damning report in which it identified multiple cases of abuse and non-compliance, persons who were administered MAID who likely did not qualify under the law, as well as evidence of elements of coercion leading to their deaths. In the face of that shocking report out of the Ontario …
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Madam Speaker, I would remind the parliamentary secretary that I was not elected during the Harper government. Second of all, the Carter decision was rendered at the end of the Harper government. It was up to the Liberal government to pass legislation, and the government has been in office for nine years. The Supreme Court contemplated the need for stringent and robust safeguards to protect vulner…
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Madam Speaker, while I would have plenty of criticism for the member's party on many matters in terms of supporting this government, I will concede that he has worked co-operatively on committee, along with the Bloc, on this particular matter.
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on the subamendment arising from the Speaker's ruling in finding a prima facie question of privilege following the failure of the Liberal government to abide by a clear and unambiguous order of the House that was passed on June 10 by a majority of members. In fact, all members representing all of the opposition parties collectively voted in support of the motion that…
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary refers to the standstill over the Afghan detainee documents, and there was ultimately a solution in the face of that impasse dealing with a matter that dealt with serious national security matters in an active war zone, by the way. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an election, and do members know what Canadians did? They re-elected Stephen Harper, del…
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Madam Speaker, using the language used by the member for Hamilton Centre, what I do find highly suspicious is that a committee ordered that the government turn over all documents and emails between former minister Bains, the PMO, the Department of Industry and the PCO with respect to the appointment of the conflict-ridden chair, Annette Verschuren, and surprise, not a single communication, not a s…
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Madam Speaker, this is a bit rich given that the Prime Minister was repeatedly briefed about Beijing's interference and turned a blind eye to it. He was briefed that one of his candidates was compromised by interference in one of the nomination campaigns, and as Madam Justice Hogue concluded, he ignored it out of electoral concern for himself. There we have it from Madam Justice Hogue: The Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, all I can say is that the sooner we have a carbon tax election to get rid of the corrupt government, propped up by the NDP, the better off this country will be.
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