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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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Mr. Speaker, former Liberal minister Navdeep Bains appointed Annette Verschuren as chair of SDTC, notwithstanding the fact that he knew she was in a blatant conflict of interest. The public accounts committee ordered that the Prime Minister's department, the PCO, submit all communications between the PMO, former minister Bains's office and the department of industry. Surprise, surprise, not one em…
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Mr. Speaker, with yesterday being Brain Cancer Awareness Day, I am pleased to present a petition on that subject. The petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day. Fewer than three in 10 Canadians diagnosed with a tumour survive five years after their diagnosis. Brain cancer research is critically underfunded in Canada. Canada is years behind the U.S. …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost or the corruption. Under the government, GC Strategies, a two-person firm working out of a basement, received a sole-sourced contract for arrive scam. They did no work, the app did not work and they ran off with 20 million taxpayer dollars. It was a total scam. In the face of that, what specific steps is the government…
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Mr. Speaker, for months the corrupt Liberal government has obstructed a clear and unambiguous order of the House to turn over the documents, and bizarrely, it has wrapped itself around the charter as a basis for withholding the documents. In other words, it is trying to make a virtue out of its corruption. Could the member speak to that?
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the government has taken no concrete measures to make taxpayers whole. The RCMP has opened an investigation into GC Strategies and this week the Auditor General announced that she is investigating the $100 million in contracts awarded to GC Strategies by the Liberals. If the Liberals will not even try to get taxpayers their money back, then will they get out of the wa…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to table the 71st report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. There has been consultation among the parties, and I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to concur in the 71st report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. There have been discussions among the parties, and I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to revert back to the Routine Proceedings rubric of presenting reports from committees.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day. Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, and there continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada. Therefore, petitioners call on the Government of Canada to increase funding for brain cancer research; to work …
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Defence, who was then the minister of public safety, slow-walked the issuance of a CSIS warrant to investigate a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister. The minister stalled the issuance of a warrant for 54 days, a warrant that national security officials say should have been issued within four to 10 days. What is the minister's explanation for this highly su…
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Mr. Speaker, talk about a non-answer from the minister. It was 54 days of delay to issue a CSIS warrant to investigate a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister, and this is at the time when the minister was issuing other warrants within a matter of days. Is it just a coincidence? Come on. Again, what is the explanation for this highly suspicious delay?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians a day are diagnosed with a brain tumour. Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, which could have an impact on thousands of brain cancer patients. There continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada. With that in mind, the petitioners call on the Governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday at the public inquiry, the chief of staff to the then public safety minister was unwilling to explain why a CSIS warrant sat on the minister's desk for 54 days when, according to national security officials, such a warrant is typically signed off in between four and 10 days. It has been reported that the subject of the warrant is a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister. Do…
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Mr. Speaker, there is no other plausible explanation for the delay. It was about Liberals protecting Liberals. The Attorney General is responsible for seeing that cabinet upholds the independent and non-partisan principles of our justice system. His cabinet colleague put the partisan interests of the Liberal Party ahead of the administration of justice. What does the Attorney General have to say a…
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Madam Speaker, there is mounting evidence that the environment minister was grossly negligent in his handling of the catastrophic Jasper wildfire, a fire that cost $1 billion, destroyed a third of Jasper and left 40% of town residents homeless. The minister was repeatedly warned that Jasper was a tinderbox, yet, in the face of that, his officials cancelled prescribed burns out of concern for polit…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which the petitioners call on the government to permanently scrap its expansion of MAID for when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. The petitioners characterize this as reckless. They note that it is impossible to determine whether someone with a mental illness will get better. It is impossible for clinicians to distinguish a rational MA…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conflict of Interest Act is clear that a minister shall not be involved in the operations of a business while in cabinet. Text messages indicate that someone named Randy at the minister from Edmonton's shady company was involved in its business operations, including an alleged half-a-million dollar fraud. No one from the company named Randy can be identified except the minister, a…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister seems to be in hiding. The fact is that it is no coincidence that after months of inquiry there is no other Randy who can be identified but the minister. The minister's own business partner even admitted that the only Randy ever connected to the shady company is the minister. Again, will the minister stand in his place, fess up, admit he broke the law and, better yet, res…
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Madam Speaker, the minister from Edmonton misled committee when he testified that he had no communications with his shady business partner at or around the time of an alleged half-million dollar fraud implicating a “Randy”. When phone records demonstrated that that was not true, he changed his story and admitted to phoning and texting the shady business partner at that very time. If the minister i…
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Madam Speaker, let us get this straight: text messages implicating Randy, the minister's shady business partner cannot identify another Randy, we know that the minister contacted his shady business partner at the time of the alleged fraud, and text messages place the Randy in Vancouver at the same time as the minister. How much evidence is it going to take for the Prime Minister to fire this corru…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which petitioners are calling on Parliament to pass Bill S-281, known as Brian's bill, in honour of Brian Ilesic, who was murdered in a triple murder at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The petitioners are calling for this bill to be passed to prevent criminals convicted of multiple murders, or murder for that matter, from being eligible for par…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Nepean said he was concerned with conflicts of interest and is disappointed. I would say that is putting it mildly because we are talking here about 186 conflicts of interest involving board members, in which $330 million improperly went out the door, much of it funnelled into board members' companies. The Minister of Industry knew about it or had to have known about it…
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Mr. Speaker, well, where is Randy? Speaking of not being forthcoming at committee, the minister testified that he had absolutely no communications with his shady business partner at or around the time of the half-million-dollar shakedown. However, now that phone records have proven otherwise, the minister has been forced to admit that he phoned and texted his shady business partner at the very sam…
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Mr. Speaker, the shady business partner of the Minister of Employment testified that the Randy in the text messages implicated in a half-million-dollar shakedown is someone other than the minister. However, surprise, surprise, when he was ordered by the ethics committee to identify this so-called other Randy, he refused to do so. Everyone knows why. Will the Minister just stand in his place and ad…
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Mr. Speaker, what the order of the House required the government to do was turn over all relevant documents to the RCMP. When corruption is identified, it is appropriate to turn over that evidence to the RCMP. The RCMP can do what it wishes and pursue what it wishes based on the documents, which should have been sent to the RCMP months ago but were not thanks to the government's obstruction.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost or the corruption. At a time when Canadians are facing a cost-of-living crisis with surging rent and mortgage payments, the Prime Minister awarded his bought-and-paid-for media ally Tom Clark with a $9-million luxury condo, courtesy of the taxpayer, on Billionaires' Row in New York City. By no coincidence, the purchase…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is quite right. I highlighted the whistle-blower's testimony in my speech. Not only did the whistle-blower say that, but the whistle-blower said that the minister acted corruptly and deceptively, and that the minister was more interested in damage control. It demonstrates that the government and the minister were complicit in the corruption at SDTC and that the minister is …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on your finding of a prima facie question of privilege arising from the Liberal government failing to abide by a clear and unequivocal order of the House, namely to turn over documents relating to a massive scandal involving Sustainable Development Technology Canada, more accurately known as the Prime Minister's billion dollar green slush fund. On June 10, a majority o…
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Mr. Speaker, what it demonstrates is the total and utter contempt that the government has for Parliament and for the supremacy of Parliament. We have Liberal members challenging the validity of a Speaker's ruling. They are trying to defend what is tantamount to the blatant obstruction of a clear and unequivocal order of the House. I would note that it is not an isolated incident. This, again, is p…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from South Shore—St. Margarets noted that the minister had to have been aware of this corruption over the months he has been in office, during which millions went out the door and there were conflicts of interest. Last week at the public accounts committee, there was bombshell testimony from the whistle-blower, who characterized the minister's conduct in this matter, amon…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Edmonton Strathcona seems to think that $400 million going out the door is a funny thing. Well, I certainly do not. I think it is a very serious thing. It is too bad that she and her party sold out time and again to prop up the corrupt Liberal government. Be that as it may, we have that finding from the Auditor General. The minister says that he had no idea. Now, given …
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Mr. Speaker, when the member claims that the government has been co-operative all along, he is uttering a falsehood. I have been involved, along with the member for South Shore—St. Margarets, in trying to get to the bottom of the corruption, and every step of the way, the Liberals have voted to block and obstruct the ability of various committees to do their work. They have voted against every mot…
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Mr. Speaker, to break it down, the member correctly noted that $330 million went out the door and involved conflicts of interest of board members. Not only were those cases of conflicts of interest, but in many instances, they were straight-up violations of the SDTC act, which provides that no board member shall in any way profit from the foundation. In addition to that, somewhere in the neighbour…
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Mr. Speaker, talk about pathetic. The member has exposed herself for propping up the Liberal government and proving how phony of a display it was when her leader ripped up the agreement and then turned around the next day and said maybe he would prop up the government. Then, sure enough, when he and the NDP had an opportunity to vote non-confidence, they propped up the government. Here we have mas…
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Tell her that. Tell her to be respectful.
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal member for Kingston and the Islands, a pathetic Twitter troll, has admitted guilt to spreading disinformation. This disinformation was part of a dirty and deliberate attempt to smear the reputation of a fellow Canadian, to change the channel on the absolute rot and corruption that defines nine years of the Liberal government. Only when legal action was taken and the memb…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Canadians are fed up with the corruption, self-dealings and conflicts that define the rotten Liberal government. The latest example is the Prime Minister's decision to hire carbon tax Carney as his economic adviser, conveniently employing him through the Liberal Party to avoid conflict of int…
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With regard to the Special Report on Foreign Interference in Canada’s Democratic Processes and Institutions of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (hereinafter the committee): (a) on what date was it transmitted to (i) the Privy Council Office, (ii) the Office of the Prime Minister, (iii) the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, (iv) the Office o…
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With regard to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB): (a) what is the total number of adjudicators at the Refugee Protection Division; (b) of the adjudicators in (a), how many have postsecondary degrees, broken down by (i) office, (ii) type of degree; (c) of the adjudicators in (a), how many have previous tribunal experience; (d) of the adjudicators with prior tribunal experience, (i)…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the temporary public policy creating permanent resident pathways for Hong Kong residents since 2021, broken down by year: (a) how many individuals of Hong Kong origin have immigrated to Canada under the permanent residency program, broken down by (i) economic class migration, (ii) the family reunification program, (iii) the ref…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the open work permit pathway under a temporary public policy for Hong Kong residents: (a) what is the number of applications received by individuals of Hong Kong origin with "HKPPTR" inputted for the job title since the program was instituted in 2021; (b) of the applications in (a), how many were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected, (i…
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Mr. Speaker, who is Randy? The Minister of Employment has a 50% stake in a shady company. Someone named Randy from the company is implicated in a half-million-dollar fraud. The minister says that he is not that Randy, yet incredibly, for the past two weeks, he has been unable to identify who that other Randy is. Global News cannot find him, and the company's COO conveniently cannot recall his name…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition in opposition to the Liberals' capital gains tax hike. The petitioners note that this capital gains tax hike would strain health care resources, limit access to affordable housing options, exacerbate financial challenges for farmers and compromise retirement savings for Canadians. Accordingly, the petitioners call on the Minister of Finance to scrap this p…
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Madam Speaker, this is about as cynical as it gets. This is a pension bill under the guise of an elections bill. It ought to be called the “loser Liberal pension protection act”, because that is precisely what it is doing. It is designed to pad the pockets of soon-to-be loser Liberals so that they can secure pensions that they otherwise would not be entitled to. The government is literally giving …
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Madam Speaker, the second petition is from Canadians who are calling on the government to use all legislative tools available, including invoking the notwithstanding clause, to override the Supreme Court of Canada's unjust decision in Bissonnette. This struck down a very reasonable law passed by the Harper government giving judges the flexibility and the discretion to impose consecutive sentencing…
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Madam Speaker, yesterday the Auditor General confirmed that a staggering 400 million taxpayers' dollars improperly went out the door at the Liberals' green slush fund. Board members illegally funnelled $319 million into their own companies. Meanwhile, the current minister and former minister turned a blind eye to corruption on a level that makes the sponsorship scandal look small. Now that the cor…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present two petitions. The first petition is from petitioners who observe the gross human rights violations being perpetrated by the Chinese Communist regime against Falun Gong practitioners. The petitioners call on the government to invoke Magnitsky sanctions on the perpetrators of these human rights abuses and to refuse immigration or a visitor visa to those who are pers…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak in support of a motion put forward by my learned colleague, the member for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston. The motion instructs the procedure and House affairs committee to undertake a study to consider a series of proposed amendments to the Standing Orders. The effect of these amendments, if adopted, would be to limit the ability of the government to amend the Standing O…
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Madam Speaker, the cover-up continues. The Prime Minister covered up Beijing's interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections, because it benefited the Liberal Party. When he got caught, the Prime Minister went to extraordinary lengths to cover up what he knew and what he failed to do about Beijing's interference. When the procedure and House affairs committee commenced hearings to get to the bottom …
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is misrepresenting the facts to the extent that he suggested that all relevant documents have been turned over to Madam Justice Hogue. The procedure and House affairs committee passed a motion to get to the bottom of the Prime Minister's obstruction with respect to turning over documents. On June 7, counsel to Madam Justice Hogue wrote to the committee, s…
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