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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is offensive when he says that our caucus is libertarian and that we do not wear masks. First of all, we follow the rules. We are allowed to remove our masks when we sit down to eat. When we are finished, we put our masks back on. No one walks without a mask outside the House except at mealtime. Second, the insinuation that my colleagues are creating a situation that is d…
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Mr. Speaker, for three years, the Prime Minister told Canadians that it was impossible to close the Roxham Road crossing. However, during the pandemic, all of a sudden, miraculously, we stopped letting illegal migrants cross. This proves to Canadians that it can be done if there is the will to do it. Since Sunday, the border has reopened to illegal migrants from the United States. Why?
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I would like to thank the people of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles for allowing me to return to the House, in person, for a third time to debate and pass important legislation for Canadians. First, I would like to know the real reasons behind this motion that we are debating and voting on today. If the motion were intended to provide a tool for the House of Commons i…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very good question. Currently, there is the case of the member for Beauce who is double-vaccinated and who caught COVID‑19. He cannot participate in the debates this week. That is an example. That is part of a much broader debate that could be held. Yes, there are technological possibilities these days. Could we decide that in future only people who are si…
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Mr. Speaker, I understand very well. Throughout the history of Canada and the United States, Canada has always welcomed immigrants, people fleeing their country because of poverty or war. In this specific case, we are talking about people leaving the United States and coming to Canada. In January 2017, in response to Donald Trump's actions, the Prime Minister told them to come to Canada. Joe Biden…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague must understand that there is big difference between being in the House to experience the intensity of the debates and being in front of a screen where you can mute it and wait for it to end. Seeing my colleagues in person is quite different, and I enjoy it a lot more. My question is simple. If all members of the House of Commons could have been vaccinated, would we …
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Defence is in hot water again. The military ombudsman, Gregory Lick, who reports directly to the minister, had this to say about his failures to act on sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces: “When leaders turn a blind eye to our recommendations and concerns in order to advance political interests and their own self-preservation or career advancement, it is the membe…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to highlight the fact that, despite the great importance we place on arts and culture, I find it unfortunate that we are debating Bill S-205, which seeks to create the position of parliamentary visual artist laureate. At a time when the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons are going around telling the media and anyone who will listen that the …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech and her frank and honest views on the environment issue. We can see that she really cares about effecting change. I can understand her disappointment at having believed that the Liberal government would bring in the changes it had announced during the 2015 election campaign. In the end, on this file and several others, the Liberals did not keep thei…
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Mr. Speaker, the defence minister does not seem to grasp the seriousness of the problem. He refuses to even acknowledge the anger of the victims, the military and his own ombudsman. The ombudsman was clear about the minister's role, saying that he is the one who has been fuelling the problem. According to the ombudsman, “The erratic behaviour of leadership defies common sense or reason. The concep…
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Mr. Speaker, if the media and the Conservative Party had not been so vigilant, the Prime Minister would have allowed the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our embassies around the world through the company Nuctech, which installed X-ray machines. We managed to convince him that it was a mistake, and he cancelled the contract. However, the same company has installed the devices at our borders a…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Yes, there was some filibustering at the Standing Committee on National Defence, in a bid to cover up what happened, once again. Who are the victims in all that? The victims are the women of the Canadian Armed Forces, who are once again looking at the Minister of National Defence and the Prime Minister and wondering whether these men deserve thei…
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Mr. Speaker, I take no pleasure in rising in the House today. First, I must mention that the Minister of National Defence and I have something in common: We each served honourably in the Canadian Forces for over twenty years. We both rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanded infantry units. These are the things we have in common. The minister served our country particularly well in the …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for all his questions. I will take the time to answer at least one or two of them. With respect to Vice-Admiral Norman, it all started in 2014 and 2015, and we started debating it in 2017. Why was nothing done in the meantime? Because we only learned of the problem on the day the information got out. Ever since that time, we have been asking questions about this m…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The minister was appointed on November 4, 2015. He is the one who made all the wrong decisions or who covered up all the decisions that were made and that I mentioned in my speech. I think there are enough of them for members to understand that the minister no longer deserves to remain in cabinet. Had Vice-Admiral Norman not suffered the fate the…
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Mr. Speaker, that does not answer my question. What is the real reason? We do not know. I have another question. This minister oversaw the wrongful indictment and unconscionable dismissal of Vice-Admiral Norman. When Norman stood up to defend Davie's construction of the MV Asterix, the minister did the Prime Minister's bidding rather than think of the best interests of the Royal Canadian Navy. Tha…
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Mr. Speaker, since taking office, the defence minister has been making decisions that defy logic. His government promised to help the victims of ISIS, and yet what was one of the first decisions this minister made? He decided to pull our CF-18s out of the bombing campaign against ISIS. That campaign was protecting the victims. Can the minister tell us the real reason for the withdrawal of our CF-1…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like the minister to explain why he has always said that politicians should not get involved in the complaint against General Vance, when he personally handled Major-General Fortin's case.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. My answer will be the same as the one he got from my colleague from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. The individual in question is a public servant and is not responding to orders from the House. It does not matter if we are talking about one, 10, 20 or 100 employees; what matters here is the rule of law and the primacy of the House, and this ind…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I would say that it is more than a pattern. This government's lack of respect for the institution of the House of Commons is a systematic pattern. I remind members that a few years ago, the Prime Minister said that he admired the Chinese dictatorship and how the Chinese could turn the economy around on a dime, since they did not need to negotiate…
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Mr. Speaker, I urge the minister to go back and look at the committee blues. She clearly said that she did not know anything; she never knew anything. The other issue we have is that when we talk about the security breach at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, the Prime Minister always accuses us of being racist and fearmongering. However, last week at the G7 meetings, the same Prime…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Minister of Health honoured us with her presence before the Canada-China committee to answer our questions. However, she wasted our time for three hours. She did the same thing she does during question period, which is repeat platitudes. The minister even tried to make us believe that she had not received a briefing about the breach at the Winnipeg lab. Can the Prime Mi…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Lac-Saint-Jean for his question. I do not want to be rude, but I have to say it turned my stomach to witness the Minister of Health's three-hour appearance at the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations. Let us not forget that the House ordered the Minister of Health to appear before the committee to explain and answer our questions. Such orders are not u…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the truth of the matter. When the Prime Minister says that the protection of public safety is at stake and that that is why he is hiding the truth from Canada, it is because the real problem is that if people knew what went on, it would put him in conflict with China. The Prime Minister is still having problems with China. We saw that with the development of the vaccine with C…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister keeps saying that public safety is the reason he is hiding the truth about the security breach at the Winnipeg lab from Canadians. The truth is that, if that information were made public, it would show how badly he was fooled by the Chinese Communist regime, just as he was fooled by the CanSino company, which is owned by the Chinese Communist regime. Can he at least…
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Madam Speaker, the Conservative Party definitely supports the report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on the contract awarded to Chinese firm Nuctech. However, we consider it urgent to table a supplement to this report because we believe that it is essential to uncover the extent of the systemic flaws in the federal procurement process. This standing offer is just t…
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With regard to sole-sourced contracts signed by the government since February 1, 2020, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity: (a) how many contracts have been sole-sourced; (b) what is the total value of those contracts; and (c) what are the details of each sole-sourced contract, including the (i) date, (ii) description of the goods or services, including the volume, (iii) …
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes. I am pleased to rise this evening to speak to our privilege motion, which I am going to take the time to reread for those who are watching at home. This is what we are calling for: That the House find the Public Health Agency of Canada to be in contempt for its failure to obey the order of…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister can say what he wants, but one thing is certain: Right now the Canadian Armed Forces is in chaos. Things have only gotten worse since this minister took office in 2015. The minister is always saying that he is absolutely determined to bring about a culture change in the Canadian Armed Forces. What did he do with the Deschamps report that was submitted in 2015? He did noth…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister will never get the findings because the committee must keep the information secret. Only the Prime Minister can know. On another topic, we learned that Lieutenant-General Mike Rouleau played golf with former chief of defence staff Vance, even though Mr. Vance is under investigation for sexual misconduct. Mr. Rouleau has authority over the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal a…
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Mr. Speaker, the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations twice asked the Liberal government to provide unredacted documents concerning the security breach at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. The government refused to do so twice. We then moved and adopted a motion in the House to make these documents available. Instead of complying with the will of the House, the Prime Ministe…
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With regard to contracts signed by the government for gowns, ventilators and syringes in 2020 and 2021: (a) what are the details of each contract for gowns, including the (i) vendor, (ii) contract value, (iii) date the contract was signed, (iv) title of the official that signed the contract; (b) what are the details of each contract for ventilators, including the (i) vendor, (ii) contract value, (…
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With regard to signed or amended contracts for COVID-19 vaccines entered into by the government with Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, Covavax, Medicago, Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. & Serum Institute of India, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson: (a) broken down by manufacturer, what are the details of how each contract was negotiated and signed, including the (i) date signed, (…
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With regard to the government’s response to Order Paper question Q-402, which stated that a negotiating team was assembled in June 2020 with regard to the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines: (a) who were the original members of the negotiating team; (b) what is the current configuration of the negotiating team; and (c) what are the details of any changes made to the membership of the negotiating tea…
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Mr. Speaker, three years ago, the government turned a blind eye to a complaint alleging that some members of the Iraqi forces, trained by Canadian troops, had committed war crimes. The Iraqi soldiers allegedly raped women, tortured and executed prisoners, and proudly showed videos of their victims to Canadian soldiers. Lieutenant-General Michael Rouleau, the former commander of the Canadian Joint …
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Mr. Speaker, I want the Prime Minister to tell me what he is going to say to Canada's Olympic athletes, who thrill and unite us and inspire entire generations. These athletes go into debt to carry the maple leaf to the very top of the podium. The Prime Minister chose to eliminate the hotel quarantine for professional hockey players but not for athletes such as Meaghan Benfeito, Charles Philibert-T…
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Mr. Speaker, when we asked the Prime Minister to close the border to avoid the worst, he called us racists. When we asked him to work with our allies or Canadian firms on vaccines, he chose the Chinese communist regime. When we asked to abolish the hotel quarantine, he laughed at us. Since the Prime Minister will have to quarantine, can he tell us if he will do so in a third-rate hotel as he has f…
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Mr. Speaker, just in time for the Prime Minister's trip to the United Kingdom, he has decided to eliminate the hotel quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Canada beginning in July. While the Conservative Party has been calling for this for months now, the Prime Minister is suddenly realizing how his bad decisions will affect him personally. Will the Prime Minister admi…
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Mr. Speaker, the mandatory hotel quarantine has been a fiasco from day one. There have been stories of sexual assault, hotel room doors without locks and for some travellers the conditions were horrible. Many Canadians have suffered unnecessarily because the Prime Minister did not take action in a timely manner during this health crisis. I will give him another chance. Will the Prime Minister admi…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, at the Standing Committee on Health, we heard devastating testimony about hotel owners who are under contract for the federal hotel quarantine program and are using the pandemic to lay off their workers. It should be noted that 70% of these workers are women, people of colour and new Canadians. The Prime Minister funded this quarantine program without thinking about the det…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, it is clear that the minister did not listen to the question at all. I have another one for her. After spending weeks ignoring a report she had received from a group of experts describing how to ease federal restrictions at the border, last week, the Minister of Finance scoffed at the idea of relaxing the rules for people who are vaccinated. Today, the Prime Minister, u…
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Mr. Speaker, I see that the minister is trying to refer this issue to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, but that is not a regular parliamentary committee. We now know that China stole Canadian intellectual property concerning the development of vaccines through CanSino and is now attacking our top-secret laboratories. When the recipients in Beijing received Dr. …
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Mr. Speaker, Canada has an agreement with China that allowed Dr. Qiu to send information and virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In 2019, less than two months after Dr. Qiu coordinated a shipment of several viruses to China, including Ebola, she was escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab and the RCMP opened an investigation. It is obvious that Dr. Qiu was fired for a far more …
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Mr. Speaker, that is the million-dollar question. Transparency and the Liberal Party are words that do not go together. That has been obvious for going on six years now. That was the case with everything to do with COVID-19, and that is why there will be a public inquiry led by a Conservative government. Why are they like that? I do not know, but I would like to know. It is a great mystery that we…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. Yesterday evening, the chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians did come to testify before the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations about its 2020 report. It was clear that we have serious problems in Canada. He even mentioned that we should act swiftly on the issue of cybersecurity. Should that committ…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a report here that is not secret. This report provides information about the type of viruses that were transferred by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This report refers to Ebola, among others, but all kinds of other pathogens were shared by the laboratories. How Wuhan handles these pathogens is very questionable and …
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Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we most certainly do understand national security. What we understand is that top-secret information was stolen from Canada. That is very clear. Now, as to whether the president of Health Canada has the power and the discretion to hide information about documents, we know he does not. The documents must be handed over to the committee as requested. Does the Minister o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister would sure like us to stop asking questions about the Winnipeg lab, but the point is, top-secret information from that lab is currently in the hands of the Chinese military. The Prime Minister seems unconcerned, but he has to realize that nobody believes the Chinese People's Liberation Army intends to use that technology for humanitarian purposes. Now that the damag…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley. I would like to briefly come back to the Prime Minister's accusations of racism. Let us remember one thing: Since the beginning of the debate on the problem at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, all the Prime Minister has been doing is accusing us of racism. Every time the opposit…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Obviously, national security must be protected no matter which government is in power. We have to protect our security issues. I had my security clearances when I was in the military, so I know a thing or two about it. Even so, what we are talking about here is a unilateral Public Health Agency of Canada decision to redact the documents when that…
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