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Mr. Chair, the minister has not. The government is letting in hundreds of thousands of foreign students and temporary foreign workers. Why is the minister persisting in letting in hundreds of thousands of people when Canada is in the middle of a health care crisis?
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Mr. Chair, that is baloney. All the statistics show that the government has actually increased those numbers. Meanwhile, Canadians cannot get into an emergency room. Why is the government persisting in bringing in hundreds of thousands of students and temporary foreign workers on temporary visas when people cannot find a job?
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time three ways. I have an article here from the CBC wherein the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship asked the federal government to fully eliminate the cap on new immigrants, with no limit. Does she still believe that there should be no limits on how many people enter Canada?
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Let me contextualize it for you, Mr. Chair. The reality is that there were way fewer than 290,000 housing starts last year, and there are a lot more than 290,000 people waiting for a family doctor right now. Why is the minister persisting in raising immigration levels when people cannot find a doctor or a job?
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Mr. Chair, the minister claims she has been on the job for only a couple of weeks, but she was the minister of immigration in Nova Scotia for many years, close to a decade, I think. During that time, the Auditor General, in 2022, found that there was no process to determine labour market needs. The minister also asked for no cap on the number of people coming into her province. Is this what we can…
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Mr. Chair, what is the minister's plan to get those people to leave?
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Mr. Chair, they are not being followed. Does the minister not understand that if we do not remove people who do not have a legal right to be here, the system is meaningless? Will the minister admit that the Liberals broke the system and that it is out of control?
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Mr. Chair, we were living in different times. It was a Conservative federal government and we had a balanced budget. I am thankful to the minister for acknowledging that. That is wonderful; it warms my heart. Earlier, the minister said that the economy would have collapsed if it had not been for immigration during COVID. Does she want to stand by that statement?
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Mr. Chair, how many more people is the minister going to let into the country while those people stay here?
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Mr. Chair, Canadians literally pay the minister's $100,000 top-up and give her a car to know the numbers. How many of the 500,000 people who were supposed to leave in December actually left? This is pretty simple: How many is it? Does she know?
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Mr. Chair, let us talk about challenges. Our ERs are overflowing, people cannot find a home or a job and the levels report says immigration is going up. How many people have been removed of the 500,000 who are on deportation orders announced in December 2024?
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Mr. Chair, during COVID, the federal government asked everybody to give up their civil liberties, and it shut down the economy to bend the curve to lower the impact, supposedly, on emergency rooms. Then the government added a hockey stick curve of immigrants to the strain on the emergency rooms. Why did it?
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Mr. Chair, however, the minister's purview is to set the levels plan. If she is setting levels with hundreds of thousands of foreign students and low-skilled labourers but does not know how many low-skilled labourers and foreign students who are not supposed to be in the country have left, how can she set levels if she does not know that number?
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Mr. Chair, tonight we have heard the minister not know how many people have left the country. She has claimed that the processing time for asylum claims, while people with potentially fraudulent asylum claims claim social benefits, is 18 months. Her department said it was 44 months in committee just a few short months ago. She will not answer basic questions about the file. She does not take respo…
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Mr. Chair, the minister said earlier that they brought immigrants in because of COVID. All right, there is a lot to unpack here. There are 500,000 people, as of December 2024, who should have been removed from Canada. How many were removed?
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Mr. Chair, how many of the 500,000 people who are not supposed to be in Canada have been removed? I would like just the number.
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Mr. Chair, here is the thing: The minister cannot set levels if she does not know how many people have left, so it is her job. I need to know how many people of that 500,000 have left. How about this: Does the minister even know? Does she have any clue?
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Mr. Chair, they are not leaving the country, which is the problem. They are not leaving, and the minister will not tell us how many have been removed. What is the plan to get them to leave?
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Mr. Chair, if the government does not remove people from Canada, why do we have an immigration minister to begin with?
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Madam Speaker, today we found out that unemployment has climbed to 7%. Canada's youth face a 14.2% unemployment rate, and Canadian students returning to school this fall face a whopping 20.1% rate. The future outlook is even more grim. TD Bank expects 100,000 job losses this fall, and the Bank of Canada just stated that businesses are planning to significantly reduce hiring, yet the Liberals issue…
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Mr. Speaker, if 2025 me travelled back in time to 2015 and said, “The government is going to use the Emergencies Act to freeze Canadians' bank accounts and then introduce a bill to criminalize thought crimes and cause news bans,” in 2015, I would have said, “What?” However, that is exactly what happened. Call me skeptical, but I am saying no to any bill that has provisions that give the government…
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Mr. Speaker, as I rise in debate for the first time in this 45th Parliament, I would like to present colleagues with some statistics about what a rare and unique privilege it is to serve in this place, if they will give me the floor. Of the millions upon millions of people who have lived in Canada throughout its entire history, fewer than 5,000 individual Canadians have served as members of Parlia…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said, there are elements of this bill that are worthy of study that could make things safer. The problem is that the Liberals have, once again, forced all of us, including my colleague, into a situation where we are supposed to choose between civil liberties and protecting our constituents. I am hoping there can be some sort of resolution here that does not involve that choice. I…
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Mr. Speaker, millions of people in Canada are here on expired visas or visas that are about to expire. In order to fix the immigration system, the Canadian public should have publicly disclosed information on how many people exit. Why did the minister not include a departure-tracking mechanism in this bill? Is it because she does not want one?
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Mr. Speaker, I think we are getting somewhere. I am sure my colleagues from the Bloc Québécois have concerns about some of the deep incursions into provincial jurisdiction as well. Again, we are getting some consensus in debate, and as with Bill C-63, which had provisions about increased reporting requirements for child pornography, there might be a few things in this bill we can agree to agree on…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals promised to cap foreign study permits, which also allow people to work in Canada, but new data shows that the Liberals blew their cap out of the water by handing out a whopping 500,000 foreign study permits last year, roughly the same population as all of Halifax. Why did the Liberals bring half a million foreign students to Canada during a massive housing shortage and wh…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think anyone in Oakville West would think that going from absolutely crazy, insane levels of car theft to mucho, extra crazy levels of car theft is acceptable. The problem is that the Liberals are saying there was a drop, but it is still out of control. There are people in Oakville who have to buy bollards to put in front of their cars because their cars get stolen. The membe…
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Mr. Speaker, if Bill C-2 passes, it would allow CSIS, police and peace officers to demand personal info from online service providers without a warrant based only on vague suspicions of potential crime or legal breaches of any act of Parliament. Whether or not a Canadian uses an online service, where they use it and when they use it are personal information, and the government has not provided a c…
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Mr. Speaker, I got the numbers from the minister's website; I went onto the website and read them. In the middle of a housing crisis, she brought 500,000 people to Canada. These people compete with Canadians for jobs, and they require housing and health care. If the minister's department's numbers are not the real numbers, what are the real numbers?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Earlier in question period, the Minister of Immigration accused me of misleading the House. I would like permission to table the date I referred to, which was from her website. It might help her out. I can deliver it by the page if that is what she would like. It is—
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Mr. Speaker, the government put this bill out and did not explain to Canadians specific instances or why Canadians should be giving up these liberties. I do not think we should be giving them up. It is completely unreasonable for the government to say “just trust us” when there is an entire burden of proof that we should not ignore. I remember the former finance minister, during her description of…
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Mr. Speaker, I doubt the hon. member my colleague is referring to who made the comment actually read the bill, because he has not. This is what the bill says. As my colleague across the way mentioned, there are some provisions, although not that one, that could ostensibly, maybe, help fix the mess that the Liberals created themselves. However, there are some things in there so egregious that I thi…
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Mr. Speaker, just to reiterate, by the end of this year, nearly five million people will be in Canada with expired or expiring visas, and the government has no plan for how it is going to get them to leave. We have a housing crisis, a youth jobs crisis and a health care wait-time crisis. Knowing this, the Liberals have already issued nearly 177,000 new temporary foreign work permits this year, a 1…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals invited millions of migrants into Canada, knowing full well they did not have the economic and social infrastructure to support them. Canada now has a massive housing crisis, endless health care wait times and countless Canadian youth without jobs. Newcomers themselves are not to blame. It is the Liberals who misled everybody about Canada's capacity to absorb millions, es…
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Mr. Speaker, for weeks the Prime Minister has been repeating over and over again that a team Canada approach is about knowing the time to do the right thing, but he sure does not understand that point. Multiple cabinet ministers have resigned, including the finance minister on the day she was supposed to deliver the disastrous Liberal budget update. In her resignation letter, she said the governme…
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Mr. Speaker, there are businesses trying to think about making decisions based on what was supposed to be in the statement today. We have senior economists who have been waiting for this information. Literally, the entire nation's business has been waiting for this. All of us in this place have the right to see these finances. This is why we are here. It is almost to the point of a violation of ou…
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With regard to the National Advisory Council on Poverty, broken down by year for each of the last five years: (a) what were the expenditures of the council, in total and broken down by line item; (b) how much remuneration did members of the council receive, in total and broken down by member; (c) what are the details of all hospitality expenses incurred by members of the council, including, for ea…
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Mr. Speaker, on Friday, the Prime Minister told Canada's first female finance minister that she was fired, but to keep sweet and present their wildly overspent budget on Monday so that he and an unelected man, Mark “carbon tax” Carney would not have to take the blame for their broken budget. He then, unbothered, released a video of him making cinnamon buns to get the womenfolk's vote. How can any …
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Mr. Speaker, women are facing violence in the streets. They cannot afford groceries. They cannot afford to buy presents for their kids for the holidays. They cannot afford anything. Canadian women are far worse off under the fake feminist Prime Minister. He has now fired Canada's first female finance minister because she dared question him. That sounds pretty familiar. No strong woman exists in th…
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Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion, given that Bill C-63, the so-called—
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Mr. Speaker, the fact remains that after months of reports that the Prime Minister wanted to turf Canada's first female finance minister, we find out today that he is in talks to put an unelected man riddled with conflict of interest into the role. The Globe and Mail story must have really stung for every single Liberal backbencher who has carried the water of the scandal-plagued Prime Minister fo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, who has long described himself as a feminist, starting in July and through anonymous sources, has repeatedly maligned Canada's first female finance minister by undermining her competency. This week, reports have suggested that the finance minister has been at odds with the Prime Minister, who has been bullying her to blow past her already exorbitant $40-billion def…
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Mr. Speaker, every time there is a ruling about the government on this issue, there is an absolutely material question. The NDP members say one thing over and over again, and then come in and support the Liberals. What have the Liberals promised the NDP in favour of their support? After time and time again saying all of these things, they keep supporting the government. What has the government pro…
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Mr. Speaker, to be very clear, the leader of the NDP has gotten up and railed against the Liberals for the GST measures, for being against workers, for every possible thing. The NDP has said the government is incompetent. New Democrats have said they cannot vote for it, yet every time there is a confidence motion, New Democrats stand up and do what? They vote for the government, so it is the busin…
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Madam Speaker, also on this point of order, I would like to respond to the information presented by my colleague. I will start with the argument the member made at the end, regarding Conservative MPs factually laying out the case of intimidation, and very bad behaviour by NDP MPs in the House, which included several members of the NDP caucus aggressively gesticulating to a seated Conservative memb…
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Mr. Speaker, last month, as part of an anti-Israel mob in Montreal, a woman named Mai Abdulhadi was recorded giving Nazi salutes and stating that the “final solution” was coming. It turns out that this woman was a franchise owner of two Second Cup cafes at Montreal's Jewish hospital. Peter Mammas, the CEO of the company that owns the Second Cup coffee chain, swiftly issued a statement unequivocall…
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I would ask, Madam Speaker, regarding your consideration of this matter, to underscore that the irrefutable evidence that has been presented to the House is that the NDP aggressively stormed the Chair and then aggressively gesticulated at and intimidated members of the Conservative caucus. That is what happened. In terms of new information, I would reiterate that I believe it is incumbent upon all…
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Mr. Speaker, I am being heckled by them right now as I am making this point. They just said, “That's right you are.” Again, what the NDP members are doing is proving their hypocrisy on this point. The last point I want to make is this. If you are going to consider this a breach of privilege, Mr. Speaker, then I need you to go through every instance that the NDP members have mercilessly heckled oth…
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Mr. Speaker, on this point of privilege, I have several points to make for your consideration in response to some of the items just raised by my colleague from the NDP. First of all, she stated that she was not afforded the right to intervene. I was here. What I saw happen was that the Speaker saw the government House leader, who adjourned debate. The Speaker chose to adjourn debate and debate was…
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Madam Speaker, this place has to work, and for it to work, the government must respect the will of Parliament. The way for the government to end this issue is to hand over the documents and respect the will of Parliament. We have to start taking these principles seriously if Canadians are to believe that their democracy works. It is as simple as that. There are so many Canadians who feel disillusi…
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