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Mr. Speaker, I welcome the new member to the House. I just want him to reflect on, if he could, the importance of this House and being able to spell “Parliament”.
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Mr. Speaker, tents are not houses. The Prime Minister told us during the campaign that Canada was facing the biggest crisis of our lifetime. Well, here is a crisis: In 2015, housing costs were an average of 38% of Canadian household budgets. Today, it is overwhelming. It is 52%. A recent study found that Toronto residents spend more of their income on housing than nearly every other city in the wo…
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Mr. Chair, since we will have the legislation by, I believe, tomorrow, and I look forward to the technical briefing, will the minister commit to providing all economic analysis of the financial impact and economic impact of the legislation?
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Mr. Chair, I thank the minister for that, but those numbers were all calculated on the basis of eliminating all barriers. We are not even sure if any barriers will be eliminated by Canada Day. This was a disingenuous false promise by the Prime Minister. Does the minister think he set her up for failure?
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Mr. Chair, I think I have just seen two prime ministers in a row set the minister up to fail.
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Mr. Chair, my question, again, is, will we have free trade in Canada by Canada Day?
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Mr. Chair, the member mentioned the number $200 billion. That has been stated by academics to be for the removal of all barriers. It has been stated clearly today that we will not have all barriers gone. What will be the economic impact of the barriers that will be removed by Canada, if any?
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Mr. Chair, Conservatives are committed to eliminating interprovincial trade barriers. My challenge, though, is with what I heard at the doors quite often. I cannot say how many folks I heard from who said they were tired of politicians saying one thing and then doing another. The Prime Minister, then the Liberal candidate, said on five separate occasions that we would have free trade in Canada by …
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Mr. Chair, will we have all federal barriers eliminated by Canada Day?
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Mr. Chair, what percentage of total barriers are federal barriers?
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Mr. Chair, just to answer the question, we will read the legislation and then find out whether we are going to support it. I think that makes sense. I was actually hoping that we might get draft legislation in advance so that we would not have to be slowed down by amendments or other contributions we may have. Once again, will all barriers be gone by Canada Day?
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Mr. Chair, the Prime Minister committed five different times during the campaign to eliminating “all barriers”. These are his words, not mine. I realize there may be some reasons why he cannot, but that is why I never would have made that promise to begin with. Does the minister think the Prime Minister was being disingenuous when he made the promise that we would have free trade in Canada by Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, on April 5, 17, 20, 21 and 29, the Prime Minister committed to “Free trade in Canada by Canada Day”. Almost immediately after the election, the Prime Minister already broke his promise, saying instead that the Liberals would only introduce legislation to eliminate federal and provincial trade barriers by Canada Day. I have a simple question: Why did the Prime Minister mislead Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for St. Catharines talked a bit in his speech about the removal of interprovincial trade barriers, the federal ones, to be specific. There has not been any degree of specificity as to which of them will be there. Will they be the ones that remain, such as the exemptions remaining in the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, or will the government be removing additional ones beyond…
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Mr. Speaker, the consensus among economists, experts and even the Parliamentary Budget Officer is that this government has exceeded all of its fiscal anchors. The only question is: How badly has it failed? Can the government confirm whether the Minister of Finance has gone way past the guardrail, or completely off the cliff, with a $46-billion deficit?
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Mr. Speaker, let us return to the facts here. The current and former governors of the Bank of Canada, Tiff Macklem and Stephen Poloz, agree: The Canadian economy is in big trouble. The phantom finance minister's economic plan is failing Canadians. The sad part is that these Liberals do not even know how badly. Can someone go behind the curtain on the other side and simply ask carbon tax Carney wha…
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Mr. Speaker, the corruption and rot of the government have destroyed many institutions, including SDTC.
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have a very different view and vision. The Liberals want to build bureaucracy. We want to axe the tax, fix the budget, build the homes and stop the crime. We look forward to that, and I believe fundamentally that a dollar in the pocket of a Canadian goes a hell of a lot farther than a dollar in the pocket of a bureaucrat.
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to serve with the hon. member. That was actually in response to my question with respect to the contaminated sites. There are 24,000 of them, and $400 million would not have cleaned up those 24,000 sites, but it sure as hell would have been a lot more effective than the $400 million that was spent to pad Liberal insiders' pockets.
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Mr. Speaker, I am just going to spend a little time quickly talking about efficiency and how an economy works. We can think of capitalism as the allocation of resources based on consumer demands; what consumers want, they will get through a system of purchases and otherwise. The more efficient that is, the more those goods get out effectively and the wealthier everyone is. Every time the governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, I actually had the opportunity to ask the Minister of Housing about houses. This is a question I put to him. I was in a committee, the Minister of Housing was right there in front of me, and I asked him how many houses the accelerator would build. He said none, that it would not build any houses. We can hear the tape. In fact, if anyone has seen our commercials, they probably have see…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not exactly what my speech was on, but I am happy to answer the question. The reality is that we have a supply and demand issue. The government benches have one solution: building bureaucracy. We have another solution: building houses. According to experts, the leader's plan of just removing the GST would create over 30,000 home builds. The more homes we build, the less houses…
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Mr. Speaker, before I start, I would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Today, we will talk about the SDTC and some of the actions that happened. It can be a bit technical, but in essence it is a horrendous but fairly simple scandal. It is involves the formation of an organization, a company on the behest of the government, and it had a laudable objective. We are suffering through a producti…
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Mr. Speaker, there is an epidemic on this side of the aisle. It is called “whataboutism”. The Liberals refuse to accept accountability or responsibility for anything. Quite frankly, I do not care if the contamination can be traced back to John A. Macdonald. The fact is, over the last nine years, the government knew about it and did nothing.
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Madam Speaker, imagine that we are a CFO of a billion-dollar enterprise and, when the fiscal year ends, we refuse to disclose the assets, the liabilities and the revenues. Then we ask to borrow billions of dollars more for next year. That is exactly what these Liberals are asking of Canadians, asking for billions of dollars without disclosing the numbers. The government's own budgetary watchdog sa…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to defend the right of the member to finish off her statement. She said she had two more sentences. Bosc and Gagnon is clear that privilege takes priority over nearly all matters. She was not repetitive. She was telling a story about her children. She was literally crying at points. My goodness, we have to decide: Are we parliamentarians, or are we humans?
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Madam Speaker, my point of clarification is this: You ruled earlier that, of course, when members referred to a party as being useless, that was okay because it was a party. If I refer to the NDP as a team of Maserati Marxists, that is acceptable.
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Madam Speaker, we have the right to raise points of order in the House.
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Madam Speaker, I will get that if that is what you desire. I will come back and talk a little about points of order, if that is what you want, or we can continue with the point of order, which was—
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Madam Speaker, I rise a separate point of order, and as part of my privilege, I have the ability to raise points of order. Neither the Speaker nor anyone else can stop that.
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Madam Speaker, I have used the past inappropriate term of sellout Singh, referring to the NDP leader. I would like to withdraw that.
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Madam Speaker, on that point of order, I heard behaviour, quite frankly, that was intimidating to my colleague. I do appreciate your admonishment. I hear more of that heckling and more of that intimidation, but I—
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Madam Speaker, I do believe an apology is required.
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The leader of the NDP just referred to the Bloc Québécois using unparliamentary language, not only with respect to the group but also the individuals.
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Just as it is right now. Madam Speaker, this is completely unacceptable.
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Madam Speaker, I was trying to hear my colleague, and I heard considerable disruption. I would ask that the Speaker have control of the—
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Madam Speaker, my point of order, which was a separate one, is that I have the right, not for me but for the people of Northumberland—Peterborough South, the 100,000 people I represent, to speak on their behalf. That is why I was elected; that is why I was sent here. Mine is a point of clarification—
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Madam Speaker, then it would be fine for me to say that the Prime Minister once called someone in the House a piece of shit.
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Madam Speaker, on another point of order, the Standing Orders also state that we cannot call another member a liar. We cannot do indirectly what we cannot do directly, so—
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Madam Speaker, it cannot be a jumping off point to lecture us. That is not appropriate.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, the rules of Parliament are clear. The retraction shall be short and to the point—
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Madam Speaker, it is my privilege and honour to present a supplementary report on behalf of the Conservative Party. We continue to call for the abolishment of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, and we call for greater transparency in order to prevent future conflicts of interest, such as those that Dominic Barton had. We need a government that works for Canada, not a government that continues to take…
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Mr. Speaker, “let the bankers worry about the economy”, “you'll forgive me if I don't think about monetary policy”, “the budget will balance itself”: these are the actual words of the Prime Minister of Canada. Given his complete disinterest in managing the economy, no one should be surprised that GDP per person has declined in eight of the last nine quarters. It is time for a common-sense Conserva…
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Mr. Speaker, I urge the member to get on with Canadians' business and call a carbon tax election. After nine years, according to The Economist, Canada is now poorer than Alabama, the fourth-poorest state in the U.S. While the Liberal government drives our economy further and further into the ditch, with excessive taxation and regulation, the Canadian economy falls further behind while the American…
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With regard to the Canadian Heraldic Authority's (CHA) issuance of coats of arms, emblems, and other insignia: (a) which departments, agencies, or government entities have commissioned something from the CHA since 2015; and (b) what are the details of each commission, including (i) the total cost, (ii) a breakdown of the spending (design, printing, calligraphy and any other relevant costs), (iii) …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a great honour to rise, but particularly now because I believe I am the last speaker this evening. I am happy to bring it home tonight. It is an honour and privilege. I do have a very serious topic to raise, and I am hoping I can have a serious discussion with my colleague on the other side. This serious issue is one that has been brought forward by several first nations.…
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Mr. Speaker, how can Canadians be reasonably expected to see that the costly coalition that got us into this economic quagmire could possibly see a way out? The Prime Minister has increased food costs by 35%. He has increased the cost of gasoline by over 50%. He has increased the cost of mortgages and housing by over 70%. I have a simple question: When will the Prime Minister allow for real chance…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not have to wonder anymore. The cost of living crisis coalition never really left us. Just a few months ago, though, the NDP leader said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. I could not agree more. However, today he flip-flopped; he announced his full confidence in the Liberal Prime Minister. If the coaliti…
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