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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control of the cost of housing, which has doubled since he became Prime Minister. Just this week, the OECD published a report showing that Toronto and Vancouver are now the two most expensive housing markets in all of North America. Vancouver's housing is significantly more expensive than that of Seattle, even though Vancouverites make half as much mon…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he is going to leave the economy to bankers. He says that he does not think much about monetary policy, that budgets balance themselves and that he is not very good with numbers, but he did get one thing right: He said that deficits cause inflation, as did his finance minister right before she introduced his budget, saying that there would be no deficit above $…
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Mr. Speaker, inflation is on the rise as a result of this Prime Minister's inflationary spending. In fact, the four measures of inflation are higher than the Bank of Canada target, and this election-minded, inflationary spending is making it harder for the Bank of Canada to reduce interest rates for Canadians who are struggling to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. I will repeat my…
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a Prime Minister who is helping Donald Trump take away our jobs. We can just imagine the President-elect in the Oval Office calling our businesses to say, “Hey, I saw that you have a quadrupling carbon tax north of the border. Why not come south of the border where there's no carbon tax and other taxes are falling?” How about the latest electricity tax the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims he is taking taxes off fresh-made produce. He really does think that food comes from the grocery store, not from the farmers who actually grow the produce. That is why he, I guess, thinks he can carbon tax those farmers without taxing the food. Then there is his friend, the Maserati Marxist. He wants to tax their gas. They are both out of touch. Canadians are…
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Mr. Speaker, the results are in on the Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs. He teamed up with the BC NDP to decriminalize fentanyl, crack and heroin, he lowered jail sentences for mass producers of deadly fentanyl, and 80% of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using ingredients that are not even regulated and come right into our country where they are cooked into poison, whic…
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Mr. Speaker, we do not complain to the CBC; we complain about the CBC. However, I digress. The Prime Minister says that, if he gives more money to local bureaucracies, they will speed up homebuilding, so he gave a half billion dollars to Toronto City Hall. What happened after that? Homebuilding slowed down by 40%. He gave Vancouver City Hall $115 million, and housing construction slowed down by 15…
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Mr. Speaker, the results are in: The Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs has led to a 200% increase in overdose deaths; 47,000 people have died, and the worst deaths have been in NDP-controlled B.C., where the liberalization has been the most extreme. Worse, he is allowing 80% of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl come in unregulated and legally over our border, to be …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control. He has lost control of the borders, immigration and spending, and now he has lost control of his party. The Ontario Liberal leader is against his tax hikes. The Liberal Premier of Newfoundland is against his policies that attack natural resources. There are 20 Liberal MPs who want to fire him. How can the Prime Minister continue to clin…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is the head of the government, responsible for monitoring who comes in our borders and who leaves our borders. Surely he will be able to answer a very simple question. How many are in Canada illegally?
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Mr. Speaker, he cannot stand up because he has lost control. I already said that he has lost control of our borders and immigration. He lost control of his inflationary deficits, which are increasing the cost of living. That is how he doubled the national debt, the cost of housing and the number of people who need to use food banks. He promised to cap the deficit at $40 billion in his budget. In h…
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Mr. Speaker, this weak Prime Minister has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending. Now he has lost control of his cabinet and party. In fact, his foreign minister is now announcing her leadership campaign in The New York Times. The Liberal leader of the Province of Ontario has announced she is against his quadrupling …
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Mr. Speaker, I guess “diversity of opinions” means the opinion that he should not be Prime Minister. That is the predominant opinion among Liberals across the country. On the front page of The New York Times, we would think the foreign minister would be fighting Trump's tariffs. Instead, she is fighting for her boss's job, where she is described in the headline as a “possible successor” after she …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gives tax dollars to big-city politicians, and then he gives tax dollars to CBC to interview those big-city politicians to say that they liked getting the money. Well, if giving more money to big-city politicians were to solve the problem, we would have the most affordable housing in the world, after revenues for cities has grown twice as fast as inflation and popul…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister created all of those problems. A food program that has not served a single meal or a temporary, tiny 10¢ tax cut on a bag of potato chips will not fix what he broke, especially considering that his next plan is to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. We can just picture President-elect Trump calling our businesses, encouraging them to leave Canada and set up sou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has given President-elect Trump some big gifts. Tax hikes, the doubling of our debt, and the bureaucracy that is holding up our natural resources projects have sent $500 billion in net Canadian investments to the United States to create jobs for Americans. In the meantime, Canadians' personal income, which used to be on par with Americans', is now $20,000 lower. Wil…
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Mr. Speaker, no matter what we think of Mr. Trump's tariff threats, whether it is a negotiating tactic or a real plan, we should focus on what we can control. The Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of the borders. He has lost control of immigration. He has lost control of spending. Canadians are suffering in these difficult times. Will the Prime Minister reverse his decisions to …
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Mr. Speaker, whether one thinks that President-elect Trump's tariff threats are a negotiating tactic or a real plan, what we do know is what we can control, and the Prime Minister has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration, lost control of spending and the deficit, lost control of inflation and housing costs, and lost control of his own caucus. …
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Mr. Speaker, breaking things is not responsible, and that is what the Prime Minister has been doing for nine years. My job is not to cover that up for him. In fact, he has broken our economy. He has doubled the cost of housing, doubled the national debt and doubled trouble across our economy with higher taxes on working Canadians. He is in the process of raising taxes on investment and energy righ…
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Mr. Speaker, over the last five years, food prices in Canada have increased 37% faster than in the United States. That gap opened after the introduction of the carbon tax, which this government now, with the NDP's help, wants to quadruple. The consequence is that in the last four years, food bank use in Ontario is up 86%, and one in four children go to school hungry, according to this government's…
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Mr. Speaker, our members champion their constituents who are eligible for assistance, not 77,000 companies that should not have received the $3.5 billion in misspent dollars, all while Canadians are starving. Today, the hunger report is out from Feed Ontario, and there have been one million Ontarians who lined up seven million times at the food bank after the Prime Minister brought in a carbon tax…
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Mr. Speaker, today, we have even more proof that the Prime Minister has lost control over spending. The Auditor General has confirmed that this Liberal government gave $3.5 billion in CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify. Fully 10%, or 77,000, of those businesses were not eligible. The whole thing was handled by the Accenture consulting firm, which cost $200 million more. Is that not proof…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know now that I was right. Rather than helping businesses in need that qualified for the money, the government wasted $3.5 billion. What is more, it grew the bureaucracy by 40% to administer programs. To top it all off, the government spent $200 million to hire the Accenture consulting firm, which provided most of its work from Brazil. Why is it always consultants, bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, there is more proof today that the weak Prime Minister has lost control of spending. The Auditor General reports that the Prime Minister's government gave out $3.5 billion of so-called CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify, a total of 77,000 of them. That is 10% of all recipients. On top of that, the Liberal government then gave a massive implementation contract to high-priced …
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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of immigration and he has lost control of our borders. Now we are facing massive threats to our economy. Right now, there are as many as 500,000 people here illegally. There are 700,000 students who came here with the implicit promise they would be able to stay forever. Now they are being told they have to leave, with the t…
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Mr. Speaker, the member hallucinates almost as badly as his weak leader, who refuses to stand and answer for his own border failures. Let us look at his record. He opened Roxham Road. He kept it open for a year longer than the Americans required. He put out a tweet saying, “Welcome to Canada”, inviting people to come here illegally. According to that minister's department, there are half a million…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, this shows the erratic, out-of-control government we have over there. The Prime Minister is hiding from questions. His minister is losing control of his words and his mind. The government is falling to pieces. The Prime Minister has lost control of the border, lost control of immigration and lost control of our finances, and he has now lost control of his caucus, whose mem…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control of our borders. He is the one who opened Roxham Road and kept it open for a year after the Americans offered to close it. He is the one who invited at least 700 international students here, implicitly promising that they could stay here permanently, and now they have to leave the country. He is the one who lost 500,000 people. What is hi…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister likes to encroach on provincial jurisdictions, he has lost control of his own responsibilities. In fact, he is being irresponsible about the borders, which fall under the most important federal jurisdiction. The premiers have now lost confidence in the Prime Minister. The Quebec premier is sending the provincial police to protect the border. The Alberta premie…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's radical drug agenda is not the only thing that is broken. Our economy is broken as well. We now have two million people being forced to go to food banks every single month, a 38% increase in chronic homelessness and 1,400 homeless encampments. Just today, Equifax reported that consumer debt is $2.5 trillion. We have the worst household debt of all the G7 countries…
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Mr. Speaker, he is showing once again that he is a weak Prime Minister who has lost control. He lost control of the borders, he lost control of immigration, and he lost control of government spending. He says he cannot say how big the deficit is, even though he already tabled a budget for this year. That is odd. It is the first time I have heard that from a Prime Minister. I will ask him an easier…
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Mr. Speaker, we are facing Donald Trump's threats with a weak Prime Minister and from a weak economic position. Now we find out that the Prime Minister does not even know how big the deficit is. Spending is out of control and getting worse by the day, as the Prime Minister tries to buy support from the Bloc Québécois and the New Democrats to stay in power. I will ask the question again very slowly…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan to protect our economy from President-elect Trump's threats. The Americans and the provincial premiers have warned of chaos at the border and in the immigration system. There are 4.9 million permits and visas that are set to expire within the next 13 months, or about a year from now. If those people do not leave or if they enter the United States illegally, that threate…
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Mr. Speaker, we have to protect our borders if we are going to protect our economy from President-elect Trump's tariff threats. The Americans and the premiers are all concerned the Prime Minister is too weak to do that. The data from his own immigration department confirms that fact. According to documents produced by his ministry, there are between 20,000 and 500,000 people in Canada who are not …
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Mr. Speaker, his minister said that it was impossible to know whether or not these people were leaving the country. His own immigration department just released a document saying that it does not know exactly how many people who should not be in this country are still here, but “[e]stimates from academic sources range between 20,000 and 500,000 persons, although there may be more”. There could be …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs has been lethal for Canadians, 47,000 of whom have died of overdoses since the Prime Minister took office, more than those who died in the Second World War fighting for Canada. Overdose deaths are up 200%. Now our American friends say they may hit us with tariffs because of the Prime Minister's Liberal policies on fentanyl. How…
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Mr. Speaker, that is another weak answer from a weak leader. The reality is the Prime Minister says that people just voluntarily leave when their permits and visas are up. However, his minister admitted this week that is impossible to prove because they do not keep track. The closest thing they could get to an answer was their department saying, “Estimates from academic sources range between 20,00…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks like the member for Kingston and the Islands is not getting into cabinet after all. Some people bring happiness wherever they go; others bring happiness whenever they go. This is a two-month tax trick that will print cash, add to inflation and make Canadians worse off. If the Prime Minister disagrees, why will he not stop being so weak? Why will he not have the courage to cal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has run a groundbreaking experiment. He has put billions of dollars in a sack and offered it to politicians, and the finding is that they are willing to accept the money. It is incredible. It is a groundbreaking sociological study. He wants to give more money to local politicians who block home building. We want to use the same money to cut taxes for the people who …
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Mr. Speaker, it just shows how out of control the Prime Minister has become; he cannot stay on a subject. He brings up housing, so I agree. I just threw away my script and said, “Let us debate housing.” Now the Prime Minister changes the subject back to his two-month tax reform trick. Here is the trick, everyone: After the tax break runs out in February, the Liberals are going to hike the carbon t…
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Mr. Speaker, I think Canadians are ready to stand up and speak for themselves. If the Prime Minister wants to lecture us about democracy, then why not have a referendum, a referendum election where the choice will be the following: a tiny, two-month tax trick with the NDP-Liberals or a permanent axing of the carbon tax and axing the sales tax on new homes? Why not let Canadians decide now?
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Mr. Speaker, “electorally interesting” is the Prime Minister's condescending way of saying Canadians actually like my plan. Canadians have figured out that after nine years of the weak Prime Minister's spending $80 billion on housing, with the result being the doubling of housing costs, spending billions more will not make any difference. We are going to slash the bureaucracy and use the savings t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister needs to breathe. He said he was going to talk about one thing, and then he rambled on about 10 or 15 things. They are all things he hallucinates that one day he might do if only he were given another nine years in office, instead of talking about his real record, which is that he doubled housing costs, doubled food bank use, doubled the debt and now wants to quadru…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians face an unprecedented threat from President-elect Trump's potential tariffs. What is the state of things here in Canada? Our economy is weakened. Our borders are weakened. Our military is weakened, and most of all, our Prime Minister is weakened. Why can we not have a carbon tax election so that Canadians can choose a leader with the brains and the backbone to protect our ec…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is too weakened to protect our economy against Donald Trump's threats. Trump was elected president three weeks ago and has made this threat repeatedly for the past few days and what is the Prime Minister's plan? He is planning a Zoom call with the provincial premiers, who are saying that the Prime Minister is too weak. Quebec is sending the Sûreté du Québec to prote…
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Mr. Speaker, he has lost control of our borders. He has lost control of immigration. He has lost control of spending, and with that erratic performance, we now see that he has lost control of himself. No wonder foreign leaders believe they can walk all over him. They see him as a weak, incompetent leader who does not even have the support of his own party. Why will he not put the country first for…
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Mr. Speaker, it just proves how weak and out of control the Prime Minister has become that he just engaged in a mass hallucination, listing off a bunch of programs that actually do not even exist outside his own head. If he is not prepared to stand up for the country when it comes to trade, then why do we not have a real election about taxes? He can run on his tiny two-month tax trick, and I will …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are facing a threat of tariffs from the United States. What is the state of affairs after nine years under this Prime Minister? Our economy is weakened, our armed forces are weakened and our borders are weakened. Most of all, the Prime Minister is weakened. When will there be an election so Canadians can choose a strong leader to protect our economy and put Canada first?
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Mr. Speaker, it makes no sense; I could not agree more. Here we have the New Democrats claiming to have torn up their deal, their carbon tax coalition, with the Prime Minister, but then they taped it back together when he promised a two-month tax trick. Then, after taking credit for it, the NDP says it did not know what was in it and that it is now opposed to it. The two leaders cannot even figure…
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Mr. Speaker, we have a weak Prime Minister who has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending. Recently, it came to light that the deficit is much bigger than his finance minister reported in the recent budget. The Prime Minister claims that he cannot tell us what the deficit is for this year, so we will make it easier f…
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