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Mr. Speaker, in 2012, the Liberals accepted the resignation of Minister Bev Oda over a $16 glass of orange juice. Welcome to Mark Carney's Canada in 2025, where every Canadian now drinks $16 orange juice. The Prime Minister told Canadians that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Well, let us judge. Families in Miramichi are trying to survive on about $300 a week for groceries. W…
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Mr. Speaker, there is something happening in this country that the government does not want Canadians to know, but my constituents can feel it in their paycheque. They sure notice it at the grocery store, and it really hits home when they open their heating bill and swallow hard before they look at the number. For the first time in our history, thanks to the Liberal government, Canada is getting b…
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Mr. Speaker, I can guarantee the member that I wrote the speech myself, but if a Conservative member had written the speech, they would have gotten it right. That is one thing we can guarantee on this side of the floor. Over the last 10 years of the Liberal government, it has not gotten anything right for the real working Canadians we represent every day.
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Mr. Speaker, it seems the government has spent as much as it could since 2015, and the Liberals have kept deficit after deficit. Now with the new Prime Minister, they want to say they are a new government, but they are not a new government; it is the same circus, different clown. What we have going on here is that the Liberals are saying it is all about investments instead of spending. They are ju…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a problem when the Prime Minister says he is putting in investments. If I invest in my house, I am spending money on it. At the end of the day, investments mean spending money. I was in a classroom yesterday with grade 12 students in Rogersville. There were 20 kids in the class, and 15 of them told me they did not know what they were going to do when they were done university…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives always believe in investing in Canadians. What we do not believe in is saddling future generations with debt they will never be able to afford and with higher taxes, over and over. When someone says “investment”, they are spending. It does not matter which way they put it or how they shape it, it always means spending money. That is what the Liberal government is goo…
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Mr. Chair, tonight's debate is not academic. It is not in theory, and it is not a matter of charts and tables on some Ottawa desk. Tonight's debate is about workers and small towns. It is about the people who built this country with their hands and who are watching their livelihoods get crushed because the government cannot get a deal. In my riding, in Miramichi, we do not need a briefing note to …
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Mr. Chair, there are two points that I thought of when the member asked his question. One of them was about what we do. We are not the government; we are in opposition. The Liberals are the ones who stood up and said they had their elbows up and that they were going to have a trade deal by July 21. They got absolutely nothing. The mill workers in New Brunswick, along with the rest of them in Canad…
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Mr. Chair, I could not understand completely what the member was saying—
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Mr. Chair, we have not seen any proposal. We want to see the government negotiate with the U.S. to get a trade deal that is fair for Canada.
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Mr. Chair, I agree with my colleague. When I look at Miramichi—Grand Lake, I look at the Doaktown mill. Doaktown has 800 people in the community. They have 165 jobs. We look at Chipman. There are 1,200 people in the community and 250 at the mill. That cripples those areas. When those jobs go, that is the end of those communities. Those people are moving out west. They are moving to different parts…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised Canadians he would negotiate a win with the United States. When the Prime Minister took office, softwood lumber tariffs were at 14%; they then climbed to 35%, and now they are at 45%. Because of his failures, mills have closed their doors, and forestry towns are paying the price. In Miramichi, we have seen mill closures at Arbec Forest Products because the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the people's House on behalf of the good men and women of Miramichi—Grand Lake. My constituents are honest people. They work hard; they follow the rules, and they expect their government to do the same. They believe the purpose of government is not to manage their lives but to protect their freedoms, the freedoms that their parents and grandparents fo…
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Mr. Speaker, this is rich coming from the other side. The Liberals had a prime minister who called the RCMP racist. On this side of the floor, we respect all frontline workers, especially the police officers, men and women who go into danger every time they take a shift and get in their car. On this side of the floor, the Conservative Party respects all police officers and frontline workers across…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for giving me the opportunity to speak to the bill further. There is a lot here. The government has chosen to make the bill about a number of unrelated matters: immigration, public safety, law enforcement and, most concerning, the increased surveillance of ordinary, law-abiding Canadians. At home we have a saying: “If your dog barks at you, someone is …
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny to listen to the Liberal government talk about wanting an apology from the leader of our party and how terrible it is for the RCMP when the former prime minister of Canada called the RCMP racist. On this side of the floor, we always respect frontline workers and RCMP officers, especially in this day and age, with the bills the government has passed over the last 10 years, …
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Mr. Speaker, as we approach Remembrance Day, I am mindful of the sacrifices of those who served our nation. We remember their courage. We honour their duty, and we thank them for our liberty. I am ashamed that our government intends to restrict public expressions of faith in our military, or in plain terms, to ban prayer. It is cowardice to ask our sons and daughters to put themselves in harm's wa…
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Mr. Speaker, across Canada tomorrow, rallies are being planned to celebrate the martyrs of Hamas. Let us be honest about who they are celebrating. They are not martyrs; they are monsters. They raped, tortured and murdered nearly 1,200 innocent Jews on October 7, 2023, and now their supporters plan to dance in our streets. This is not free speech; it is hate speech meant to intimidate. This is not …
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Mr. Speaker, it is great to be back. I want to welcome you and all our colleagues back for another session. I am pleased to have spent the summer back home in my constituency, Miramichi—Grand Lake. I spent the past few months connecting with friends, neighbours and constituents and listening to their concerns. Just last week I attended a standing-room-only public meeting called by the downtown New…
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Mr. Speaker, it is no small wonder that the crisis in our communities and across our nation is getting worse. I mentioned last week that there was an emergency meeting in my riding called by the downtown Newcastle Business District. In addition to myself were provincial members, the mayor and the chief of police. No one in the crowd or on the stage suggested that if the government could just searc…
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Mr. Speaker, where is it in the legislation? It says “suspicious”; suspicious is an open-ended word, without a warrant. It makes no sense.
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have laid out real solutions. We do not need to hire a team of university professors to sort this out. All the Liberals need to do is listen and dig the dirt out of their ears; hire thousands more border agents and give CBSA power to patrol our entire border, not just official crossings; install high-powered scanners at every crossing and shipping port to catch drugs, gu…
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Mr. Speaker, we will back any part of this bill that would truly protect our borders and help police officers do their jobs, but we will not sign a blank cheque for a government that confuses heavy-handed intrusion with real security. Safety without freedom is not safety at all. Common sense says we can keep our borders tight and our streets safe without Ottawa dictating how to pay for our groceri…
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Madam Speaker, it goes back to the same old failed policies of the former minister who brought these problems to us in the first place. I cannot say much more than that: a failed minister on the other side who is still a minister and will make more mistakes in the next four years.
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure what happens in B.C., but I know New Brunswick is definitely not ready for EVs at 100%. During the winter, our electrical grid is stressed to the max at all times. If we get two centimetres of snow, we have power outages for days.
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to stand and speak in the people's House. In my riding of Miramichi—Grand Lake, we have great people, folks who do not ask for much from the government except to defend our borders, protect our streets and then kindly get out of the way. Now we have a Liberal government trying to tell us what kind of car we can drive. The government's plan to ban the sale of …
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Madam Speaker, for the last four weeks, I think, this side of the House has been listening to the member opposite get up, pat himself on the back and puff his chest out about all the good things the government has done. Well, the doom and gloom on this side of the House is coming from the doom and gloom from all the Canadians we spoke to, at every door we knocked on, about the last 10 years of the…
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Madam Speaker, the mandate was brought forward by the previous minister. We are talking about the estimates, and I had just started speaking about the $40,000 it is going to cost each person who buys a new vehicle moving forward.
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Mr. Speaker, our political family in New Brunswick suffered a loss with the passing of Judy Scott O'Brien of Durham Bridge. The daughter of the late Anita and Darrell Scott, she is survived by her husband Mike O'Brien, her brother Don and his wife Joyce, as well as nieces and nephews. Originally from Edmundston, Judy was a key resource for former premiers Richard Hatfield and Bernard Lord. While I…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to stand in this House today to give my first speech since being elected back home in Miramichi—Grand Lake. I would like to congratulate you, Mr. Speaker, upon your election to office and offer you my promise to assist in maintaining decorum and order in this House. It is both humbling and an honour to sit in the chamber as a member of Parliament. While I am both prou…
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Mr. Speaker, the tax cut that the Liberals are proposing does very little for my constituents in Miramichi—Grand Lake. If the Liberals wanted to make a difference, they would cut the carbon tax completely: not just the consumer carbon tax, but the industrial carbon tax. Axe the tax completely.
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Mr. Speaker, on the question of emissions, I believe we have to work to fight emissions as well, but we also have to fight for the everyday living of Canadians. If Canadians cannot afford to live, there is no sense in worrying about emissions. The cost of living is going to be too high for people to live in Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague on the other side. We need both Pacific salmon and Atlantic salmon to thrive. It is a major industry, and 25 years ago, it was a $40-million industry in Miramichi—Grand Lake. We need to get back to the table to work with the government, as the opposition, to make sure that we keep our industries alive and well.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know how the government expects to do this. If one runs a household, they do not just fill up their credit cards, empty their bank accounts, and then try to do a budget after the fact to find out how much money they have left. That is not the way people spend their paycheques. That is not the way they run their households. We should not be running the country that way either.
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Mr. Speaker, I never said that we did not like the tax break. I said that it did very little for the constituents of Miramichi—Grand Lake. What I am saying is this: If the government wants to take care of the people of Canada, it should cut the carbon tax completely.
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives and Canadians know that if people pay more taxes to the government, the weather will not get better. Conservatives have been standing up for Canadians and against the carbon tax for more than a decade. The Prime Minister made a big splash in March when he told Canadians he would axe the carbon tax. After the Conservatives pleaded for years, finally his government removed…
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