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Mr. Speaker, last year, at the beginning of the pandemic, we asked the Prime Minister whether it was possible to stop flights from China from landing in Canada. The Prime Minister called us racist. Last week, we asked questions about Canada's top-secret laboratory. The Prime Minister called us racist. However, my question is very simple and clear. Are there still people from the Chinese Communist …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are well aware that the Prime Minister wants to call an election as soon as possible. That is why the Conservatives are offering Canadians a recovery plan now, since Canada has changed. We have watched as the government made all kinds of decisions without any transparency. By putting our country first and passing stricter accountability and transparency laws, we will deliver…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister labels us as racists when we ask him a legitimate question on a serious national security issue because he is trying to evade the question. His government was negligent in allowing scientists with ties to the Chinese People's Liberation Army to work in a Canadian laboratory with the intention of sending secret research information to the Chinese army. If it was the …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised an open and transparent government, but here is yet another example of how he never intended to keep that promise. Canadians need answers about this national security threat. Two scientists with ties to the Chinese Communist regime shared top secret research information from the lab in Winnipeg with the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The two scientists w…
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Mr. Speaker, everything this government does is shrouded in secrecy. The Prime Minister refuses to inform Canadians about allegations of sexual abuse in the military, about contracts signed with Liberal friends and, now, about a threat to national security. The Prime Minister has given the Chinese military access to research information that includes deadly virus samples. The Prime Minister has cr…
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Mr. Speaker, for the Liberals, the easiest defence is to label us as racist. However, we are talking about the Chinese Communist regime, which has nothing to do with the people of China. We know that CSIS advised the National Microbiology Laboratory that something had to be done. However, we want to know whether there are still Chinese scientists working on behalf of the Chinese Communist regime i…
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Mr. Speaker, two Chinese researchers, Dr. Qiu and Dr. Cheng, will not be returning to work at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. This long-awaited decision comes two years after the pair were escorted from Canada's highest-security lab for policy violations. The two doctors coordinated shipments of Ebola and other deadly virus samples from the Public Health Agency of Canada to the W…
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Mr. Speaker, I would point out to the minister that I did not suggest a connection to COVID-19. What is clear is that there are reports of these scientists collaborating with the Chinese People's Liberation Army to experiment on deadly pathogens. That is a really bad idea. Moreover, the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada and this government are refusing to answer questions. None of ou…
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Madam Speaker, the allegations of sexual misconduct against General Vance were properly handled. Who said that? It was the feminist Prime Minister of course, during an interview. He said with a straight face that far too many sexual assault survivors, both women and men, do not feel safe when it comes to testifying, and that is why we must make changes. What a joke. He has been Prime Minister for …
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Madam Speaker, in the same interview, the Prime Minister was asked why he was keeping his Minister of National Defence on. He said that the Minister of National Defence had done an outstanding job. Those words came from someone who treated two of his ministers callously, behaved inappropriately towards a journalist, and did nothing in six years to fix the problem of sexual abuse in the Canadian Fo…
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Madam Speaker, it is not partisan to state the facts. The fact is that the Deschamps report was filed in 2015, and it spelled out everything. The Prime Minister did not do anything, and neither did his Minister of National Defence. In 2018, everyone was aware that there were allegations against General Vance, but we are being asked to believe that the Prime Minister knew nothing. Does he honestly …
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec and Ontario have suspended the first dose of AstraZeneca, and four other provinces are preparing to follow suit. Canadians who got the first dose are worried. They want to know if they will have to get a second AstraZeneca shot, if they can get Pfizer or Moderna for their second shot, or if they have to start all over and get two doses of another vaccine. Can the government giv…
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Madam Speaker, I cannot wait to start campaigning and present the Conservatives' plan for forming government once again to Canadians. There is one big caveat, however, and that is the pandemic. This is why we agree with our colleagues in the Bloc Québécois that a pandemic is not the time for an election campaign. How is any party supposed to go meet Canadians and present their plans? The only thin…
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Mr. Speaker, is it normal for me to have to ask the Minister of Health how it works? From the beginning, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health have often contradicted the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and Theresa Tam. I will ask my question again. What should people who got the first dose of AstraZeneca do? Will they have to take a second dose of AstraZeneca? Can they get Pfi…
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Mr. Speaker, I was simply trying to point out that we very much understand how difficult this is, since we are working both in person and online. The parliamentary secretary is participating virtually today. Can he explain how he will campaign virtually? How will he meet constituents and explain why the Liberals are better than us? How can we run an election campaign right now, when all members ar…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague should make no mistake. The first thing we want to do, as quickly as possible, is to regain power. My colleague will then be able to stand on this side of the House again and ask questions of the new Conservative government that will be running Canada. However, now is not the time for that, since there are just seven of us here in the House of Commons, which seats 338.
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Madam Speaker, I have to say from the outset that I agree with the motion moved by our friends in the Bloc Québécois. However, I would like to know what my colleague thinks about how some people are saying that the Bloc Québécois would not want an election because they are polling lower than they were in 2019 and Bloc members fear they would lose their seats to the Liberals. What does the member h…
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Mr. Speaker, today, I have the honour to rise in the House to commend the organizations, businesses and residents of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles for their strength during the COVID-19 crisis. We talk about resilience and acceptance, but I have also seen wonderful examples of people who came together to help each other. Since March 2020, the Knights of Columbus, food banks and other organizati…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning, the Prime Minister said at a press conference that a “one-dose summer” is setting us up for a “two-dose fall”. We will let the confusion go. Besides, we are used to it, it is always confusing with the Liberals. The Prime Minister had already said that everyone who wanted to be vaccinated would be by September 30. However, I remind him that fall begins on September 21. Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, calling oneself a feminist has to mean something. The Prime Minister told everyone that he is the greatest feminist in the world, but that is clearly not true. A feminist would take action when a woman in the Canadian Armed Forces files a complaint with the ombudsman. The ombudsman went to the Minister of National Defence, who covered his eyes and plugged his ears so that he did not h…
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Mr. Speaker, the award for letting the cat out of the bag goes to two Liberal members: the member for Kingston and the Islands and the member for Whitby. They admitted, here in the House, that if their government had done its job in procuring vaccines for Canadians on time, we would not be in this mess. Canada is now in a third wave. The Prime Minister keeps making announcements about more vaccine…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals keep saying that Canadians should follow the advice of scientists. We agree. However, this Liberal government has totally ignored the recommendations of the scientists who developed the vaccines. Scientists are saying that the second dose of the vaccine should be taken three months after the first and the Liberals maintain that it should be four months. Worse yet, a Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind the minister that I am not inciting fear in Canadians. We are listening to the experts, whose advice is different from the minister's. I have another question. Millions of masks ordered by Ottawa for the pandemic were not delivered because they were defective. However, a payment of $80 million was made to the Montreal company Tango Communication Marketing for this order…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. Having served in the Canadian Armed Forces myself for 22 years, I have seen and experienced many different situations. That is why the Conservative government of the day mandated Justice Marie Deschamps to investigate and issue a report. The report was clear, and one of the things it recommended was that mechanisms be put in place to enable victi…
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Mr. Speaker, the vaccine rollout in Canada is a perfect example of the Prime Minister's lack of leadership. He boasted about having the best portfolio of vaccines in the world, but that was never true. Yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization confirmed that Canadians should wait for one of the two preferred vaccines, if they can. Canadians are hearing two messages: get vaccinated…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. We agree. The Conservatives commissioned the report by Justice Deschamps at the time, but there had been a change in government by the time the report was filed. If the Conservatives had remained in government, we obviously would have implemented the recommendations, which were valid. It is hard to understand why the Liberal government has done n…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Calgary Nose Hill. I am pleased to speak to this motion. While the Prime Minister continues to say things in his speeches that are not true, we need to continue to tell the truth about him. There is no doubt that over the past six years, this Prime Minister, who calls himself a feminist, has shown Canada that he definitely does not put his…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. What I can tell him is that General Vance was initially appointed in 2015. In 2018, even though the new Prime Minister knew about the allegations of sexual misconduct, he extended General Vance's contract by three years. He did so even though he was aware of the facts and his entourage was aware of the facts, the ombudsman having sent everyone an…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very relevant question. It is important to understand the situation. We know that the chief of staff was aware of the facts and that the Prime Minister says he was not aware of the facts. If the Prime Minister's chief of staff, who has an extremely important role in the Canadian government, did not tell her boss, she deserves to be severely reprimanded and…
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Mr. Speaker, today we found out that the chair of the defence committee cancelled today's meeting on the instructions of her Prime Minister. Her disregard for the parliamentary process is clear, because she did not even provide committee members a reason for the cancellation. This is another shameful attempt by the Liberals to cover up the Prime Minister's inaction on sexual misconduct at the Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. Some days the Bloc Québécois is on our side, and other days it supports the Liberals. Today, the Bloc Québécois has decided that the Liberals took the right approach. Will my colleague admit that if the Liberals had not initially negotiated with China and CanSinoBIO, there would not have been a three-month delay and all Canadians would have had at …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I serve with her on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. From the beginning, we have been asking many questions in committee about contracts and everything related to procurement. We have met with the minister a few of times. Would my colleague agree that if the Canadian government had not wasted so much time with China in…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise to wrap up our day of debate on the Conservative Party motion. I am taking this opportunity to broadcast my remarks on Facebook Live. This may be one of the last times I will be able to do so because there is now a bill that seeks to control what we can say online. Getting back to today's motion, we asked the government to give all Canadians access to at least o…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. Could he explain to me why everyone is so worked up about our motion today? If we add up the number of Canadians who have already been vaccinated and the number of doses we expect to receive in the coming weeks, from Pfizer in particular, we are not far off from the late May deadline we set in our motion. We also know that negotiations are under …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her speech. It sounded wonderful, but in reality, we have a real problem. When they attack the motion and say that the plan or option we requested is unrealistic, that is open to discussion. However, the fact is that all the Liberal government has achieved so far is a series of failures. Think about last year, when the government decided to go …
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, someone said that there was no awareness that it was a #MeToo complaint and that nobody knew the nature of the complaint, of this allegation. Who said that? Obviously, it was the Prime Minister. However, documents obtained by Global News show that his office had asked bureaucrats to open a probe and that those bureaucrats had been informed the allegation was about sexual ha…
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Mr. Speaker, an email from March 2, 2018, clearly indicated that there were allegations of sexual harassment, but the Prime Minister claims that he was not aware. Even though senior officials knew, his Minister of National Defence knew and his chief of staff Katie Telford knew, the Prime Minister claims that he did not know. Had he known, would he have fired General Vance?
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Mr. Speaker, I am familiar with the processes, from my time in the Canadian Armed Forces. If I were still in the military, I think I would resign. Soldiers want to trust the Prime Minister and the government. This is simply not the case right now. The Prime Minister is talking about processes, papers and emails, but did he know that a sexual harassment complaint had been filed against General Vanc…
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Mr. Speaker, the former senior advisor to the Prime Minister, Elder Marques, testified Friday before a parliamentary committee that the Prime Minister's chief of staff was aware of the allegations of sexual misconduct against General Vance. He added, and I quote, “Everyone had the same information.” The Minister of National Defence was aware, the former senior advisor was aware, military ombudsman…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Defence can reread his notes 42,000 times, no one believes him. The other problem with the Prime Minister is that, when he talks about women, he always presents himself as a great feminist prime minister. No one who knows what he did with the former justice minister and with the former health minister believes him. Can the Prime Minister please stop misleading…
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Madam Speaker, last night Major Kellie Brennan gave powerful testimony before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. She told the committee that General Vance tried to intimidate her into providing false testimony. She said he bragged about having the military justice system under his control. He even boasted he had the Minister of National Defence under his control. Why did the government…
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Madam Speaker, it is all well and good to talk about millions of dollars, but I would remind the minister that leadership is just as important. My next question is about health care. Experts are saying that we need to vaccinate at least 70% of the population against COVID-19 to reach herd immunity. Quebec's vaccination efforts are orderly, and the province is able to vaccinate more than 100,000 pe…
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Mr. Speaker, three years ago, a female member of the Canadian Armed Forces complained to the military ombudsman about General Jonathan Vance's inappropriate behaviour. She wanted to make sure the minister took responsibility. General Vance's position reports directly to the Minister of National Defence. The solution rests with the minister, but he is washing his hands of the matter, saying he refe…
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With regard to the delays in processing spousal sponsorship applications since the announcement by the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship on September 25, 2020: (a) what is the percentage increase in the number of decision-makers reviewing the sponsorship applications that were added; (b) how many sponsorship applications were reviewed in October, November and December 2020; and (c)…
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Mr. Speaker, that is clearly not working. The measures that have been put in place since the beginning of the pandemic are not working and recent measures are not working either. We must not forget that there were no variants in Canada until just a few weeks ago. The major problem in Canada right now is the variants that are coming in from places around the world, like Brazil. We had special measu…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, Brazilian public health officials announced the discovery of much more transmissible, vaccine-resistant variants. This new state of affairs has brought Brazil's health care system to the verge of collapse. What was the Liberal government's reaction to this news? The Liberals decided to put an end to additional screening for travellers entering Canada from Brazil. The Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister can go ahead and say that she is repeating herself, but I am telling her again that this has been a mess from the beginning. Since the beginning, we have been asking for more measures, measures that are better administered. That never happened, and now, we have variants in Canada. Another problem is the AstraZeneca vaccine. We paid twice as much as the U.S. and four times…
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Mr. Speaker, last year at the beginning of the pandemic, we made it clear that the border was the first line of defence. They did not listen. Then we said Health Canada should station officers at the airports. They did not listen. Now we are being told that we have the best control measures in the world. How can variants from around the world have entered Canada if we already had measures in place…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is giving all kinds of figures, but the results speak for themselves, and they are appalling. We are an international laughingstock. There is another decision that I am having a hard time understanding. Why did the government decide to drop the specific screening measures for travellers arriving from Brazil? What was the reason? I have no idea, because the government is b…
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