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Mr. Speaker, just to show how weak the Prime Minister is, he actually had to read a script just to talk about his tiny two-month tax break. My question a moment ago, though, was about the deficit. He admits that deficits contribute to inflation. We now have a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who the Prime Minister appointed, showing that the deficit is far bigger than he advertised in…
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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 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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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he will leave the economy to bankers. Well, the bankers sure are rolling in cash. They are collecting interest on the national debt, which he has already doubled, while Canadians line up at food banks. The question, though, was about the size of the deficit. Somebody cannot run a half-trillion dollar G7 government if they do not know anything about the fin…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I note that the Prime Minister was not courageous enough to debate me here directly on this today. He should be here in the House debating the future of protecting our trade. Secondly—
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Mr. Speaker, in the last round of negotiations, we remember what happened: The Prime Minister capitulated. He did not get us an exemption to buy America, as the earlier prime minister Stephen Harper had successfully done. Not only is buy America still in place, but it now applies to all levels of U.S. government procurement, which it never did before. The Prime Minister did not get us out of the s…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising in the House today to speak out against President-elect Trump's threat of imposing tariffs on Canada, to propose a real action plan to respond to that threat and to put Canada first. We have a president south of the border who has made it clear he wants to put American workers and American security first. That is his right, but he and everyone else should know that when I …
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Mr. Speaker, that is even worse. The statement went out promising tariffs before they even had a chance to speak. It is kind of like the Prime Minister backing down on buy America and backing down on softwood lumber. Now let us move to the tariffs the Prime Minister wants to impose on our economy. Quadrupling the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre would cripple our economy. New tax increases on work and en…
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Mr. Speaker, at least the Bloc member is speaking up for once. The Liberal government has been threatening his region with an order against the forestry sector for months now, but we have not heard a word from that member. The two Bloc members who live in that region are doing nothing. Some Bloc members have even supported the federal government's power to impose a radical order that will kill job…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan for the economy and for security that puts Canada first, but, despite the fact the Prime Minister has known for years that Trump was threatening these tariffs, and for three weeks that Donald Trump had won the election, the only plan he has is a Zoom call. There is no plan to reverse his disastrous liberalization of the drugs that have killed people and now threaten our…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister spoke with the incoming president and, moments later, Mr. Trump put out a tweet slapping a 25% tariff on Canada. That worked about as well as the Prime Minister's efforts on buy America and softwood lumber, which continue to be penalized even though the previous Conservative government got both of those things lifted. Let us move over to drugs. The Prime Minister's …
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Mr. Speaker, no, because in fact we increased the number of frontline CBSA officers, and we actually armed them. Furthermore, what we spent less money on was back-office bureaucracy and consultants. This member is busy bragging that he voted for a more expensive CBSA. Yes; it went to consultants. The money did not go to boots on the ground. Tens of millions of dollars went to back-office bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the call did not work, because just a few minutes later, President-elect Trump threatened Canada with tariffs. It is the same thing with softwood lumber and the Buy America program. After three presidents, in nine years, this Prime Minister has not made any gains for Canada. Now, he has admitted that he broke the immigration system. We know that there are 700 international …
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Mr. Speaker, we need a bring-it-home tax cut. The reality is that rising taxes and increasing delays to approve massive projects have driven half a trillion dollars of investment south of the border. In 10 years, we have gone from The New York Times printing a headline that says, “[Welcome to] Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”, an article in which it stated that Canada's medi…
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Mr. Speaker, we are facing this economic threat at a time when Canada is very weak. Our economy is in free fall. Our GDP has shrunk faster than any other G7 country since the year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-five per cent of Canadians are living in poverty. The cost of housing has doubled. It has increased faster than in any other G7 country. Canadian families have more debt than in any o…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan for security and the economy that puts Canada first. The Prime Minister has known for months that Trump was threatening tariffs. The only plan he has at the moment is a Zoom call. There is no plan to reverse the drug liberalization policy that is of such concern to the Americans. There is no plan to fix the chaos the Prime Minister has caused at our borders. There is no…
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Mr. Speaker, well, the NDP leader is giving Canadians whiplash with his latest flip-flop and the flop on the flip. First he said he tore up his deal with the Liberal government. Then he said that he had taped it back together because it had signed on to his two-month tax trick. Now he rises on his feet to say that the trick is a rip off of seniors and persons with disabilities. Why will the NDP le…
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Mr. Speaker, after doubling housing costs and inflating food prices 37% faster in Canada than in the United States, with inflationary carbon taxes and deficit spending, the Prime Minister now has a tiny two-month tax trick that will save Canadians 10¢ on a pack of chips, a few pennies on a Christmas tree, but only after their Christmas tree is already up and decorated. They will even save on Hallo…
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a minister who, after finding out that the economy is entering its sixth consecutive quarter of shrinking per capita GDP, is income per person, is down while the American income per person is up, and after learning that there are two million people lined up at food banks, 38% more chronic homelessness and 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario after nine years of the gover…
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Mr. Speaker, the lawless hate riot that we saw on the streets of Montreal is what happens after nine years of a woke Prime Minister pushing radical, woke identity politics, dividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion and more. On top of dividing, the Prime Minister erases our heroes and history, saying Canada has no core identity. He opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers. …
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Mr. Speaker, the violent protests in Montreal are the result of a Prime Minister who has spent nine years promoting woke, toxic identity politics, diving people by race, gender, vaccination status and on and on. On top of dividing people, he is erasing our history and allowing terrorists and criminals into our country. The result? A 251% increase in hate crimes. When will he call an election so we…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housing and inflated the price of food 37% faster here in Canada than in the United States. Now he is using a gimmick so people can save 10¢ on a bag of chips or save money on Halloween costumes, when Halloween is already over. What did the Bloc Québécois get for keeping the Prime Minister in power? There is nothing for sen…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec has reached a breaking point because of the decisions made by this bad actor, the Prime Minister of Canada. The last time Trump won the White House, the Prime Minister posted a “welcome to Canada” tweet. By opening the intake centre at Roxham Road, he invited in tens of thousands of people who had no housing, no jobs and no health care. Will he do the exact opposite this time, …
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Mr. Speaker, Roxham Road was not a problem when the Conservatives were in government. There were more law enforcement officers at the borders and less bureaucracy in the offices. He is doing the exact opposite. That is why we have a broken system after nine years. It is exactly the same thing with housing. He has doubled the cost of housing to the point where one-third of young Canadians are consi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister has doubled housing costs. In fact, 80% of people in Canada now believe, for the first time ever, that home ownership is just for the very rich. The cities that have received money from his so-called housing accelerator have had the worst results. In Vancouver, housing starts are down 18%. In Toronto, they are down 21%. In Ottawa, they are down 14%…
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Mr. Speaker, we want to put money directly into the pockets of home buyers. The Prime Minister doubled the cost of housing across Canada and tripled rent in Montreal, after nine years of paying tons of money to local bureaucracies to prevent construction. Nearly one-third of the cost of a home here in Canada is taxes. By eliminating the taxes, we can build more housing for less. Will the Prime Min…
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Mr. Speaker, by passing Bill C‑83, the Prime Minister allowed Paul Bernardo to leave a maximum-security prison for a medium-security one. Now we find out that the Liberal government has decided to bar the families of Paul Bernardo's victims from testifying in person at the parole hearings that could release this monster back onto our streets. Why is the Prime Minister and his government stopping t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister misheard. It was the Minister of Finance who said that deficits cause inflation. The Prime Minister also said that every dollar of deficit contributes to inflation. That is why they made the commitment, he and his finance minister, to “Maintaining the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1 billion”. Last year's books have been closed for six months now. He certainly has …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister decided to pass hug-a-thug Bill C-83, which allowed Paul Bernardo to leave maximum security for more luxury and freedom in a medium-security penitentiary. Now we learn that the Liberal government is blocking the family members of Paul Bernardo's victims from testifying in person at his parole hearing, where his release will be considered. Under subsection 6(1) of th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister who admitted that deficit spending adds to inflation. Maybe that is why there has been a record increase in child poverty this year, with one in five kids now in poverty, and two million people lined up at food banks. This is not my world view; he has now admitted that deficits contribute to inflation. That is why he promised that the deficit would not go abov…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has gaslit Canadians so much that Environment Canada has to do a recalculation of the carbon emissions that have come from the lamp. He is the Prime Minister who tells Canadians they should not believe their eyes when the Parliamentary Budget Officer's data shows that 100% of middle-class people pay more in carbon tax than they get back in rebates, that they should …
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Mr. Speaker, his quadrupling carbon tax is all financial pain and no environmental gain. Today we learned that, after nine years under the Prime Minister, Canada now ranks 62nd out of 67 countries for the climate change performance index. The Prime Minister says that Canadians starving or lined up at food banks should congratulate themselves on the fact that his tax has made us 62nd. He says we ar…
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Mr. Speaker, inflation is again on the rise, with three of the Bank of Canada's four measures now above target. The finance minister admitted about a year ago that deficits cause inflation. She made this commitment in her budget, “the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1 billion”. Since then, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said that number has been blown away. Will the Prime Minister tell us, here …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has brought nothing but costs for everybody else. He has a food program with no food. He has a pharma program with no pills. He has a gun buyback program that has not brought in a single gun, despite spending $67 million. He has a housing program that his minister admits does not build houses. However, none of those things were the question. It was about his inflati…
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Mr. Speaker, when I was the housing minister, housing was half the cost. When I was the jobs minister, I actually cut down the number of temporary foreign workers to make sure that Canadians got the jobs. However, the bad actor he is referring to is the same head of government who allowed 211% more study permits for people who were not supposed to be working. He allowed 154% more temporary foreign…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was just off on another bonanza of high-flying, high-carbon, high-taxing hypocrisy, this time on a trip to Brazil. He dripped with condescension for Canadians who are struggling to pay their bills. He said, “It is really, really easy, when you are in a short-term survive, I gotta be able to pay the rent this month, I've gotta be able to buy groceries for my kids, to…
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A quarter of his caucus members want to fire him, Mr. Speaker, and we know why. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the U.S., a gap that opened up as the carbon tax came into force. The Prime Minister just goes on trying to tell Canadians that their mentality is off. He says, “There’s a sense that affordability is in direct contrast with our moral responsibility to protect the plan…
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a Prime Minister who has 20 caucus members who have signed a letter saying they are ready to fire him. Why would they not? This is a guy who has doubled housing costs, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use, doubled the national debt and kept in place a minister with a double identity. Even his own caucus members know he is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. If he…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has now admitted that the immigration system is broken after nine years of his government. He blames “bad actors”, so let us put our detective hat on and find out who those bad actors were. Who was the head of the federal government that increased permits for temporary foreign workers by 154%? Who was the head of the federal government that issued 211% more permits …
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Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, we had one home built for every 1.5 people added to the population, which meant we were adding houses faster than we needed to and we were providing affordable homes at half the cost of today. Last year, the Liberals added one home for every five new people, the biggest housing deficit in history. So, once again, who was the bad actor running the governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think we have found the bad actor yet. The Prime Minister blames it on labour market needs, but the biggest growth happened in non-labour market immigration. For example, he boosted permits for international students by 211% and refugees by 726%, which has nothing to do with filling job vacancies. When it comes to temporary foreign workers, he allowed more to go to places wit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not helping us find the bad actor. It is like there has been someone else running the country for the last nine years while the system has come crumbling down. He claims that he cares about housing, but on that subject, maybe we will ask him this question: Who was the head of the government that was warned by its public service three years ago that increasing pop…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, in nine years, has doubled housing costs, doubled the debt, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use and, up until a minute ago, had a minister with a double identity. The Prime Minister knew the former minister was directing his business illegally from inside cabinet. He knew the former minister had claimed there was another Randy when there was no other Randy. He…
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Mr. Speaker, on muzzling caucus members, this is the guy who fired the first indigenous attorney general because she refused to defend his corruption. She said, “A Prime Minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy (and the other Randy) from Cabinet long ago. Instead we get to watch white people play ancestry wheel of fortune. So shameful and extremely destructive!” Why is it…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use and, up until a few moments ago, had a minister with a double identity. The Prime Minister knew that the minister in question was directing his business from inside cabinet and that he had falsely claimed to be indigenous, yet the Prime Minister stood by him and kept him in cabinet…
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Mr. Speaker, the former Liberal attorney general, who was appointed by this Prime Minister and was the first indigenous person to hold the position, said it was shameful for a Liberal minister to claim to be indigenous when he is not. Let us look how differently these two individuals were treated. Why did the Prime Minister fire a real indigenous woman for telling the truth, but support a fake ind…
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Mr. Speaker, now we know the difference. We want to axe the tax; he wants to axe the facts. After nine years, it is clear that the immigration system is completely broken, but the Prime Minister likes to blame bad actors for the problem. Will he look at who was the head of the government that increased population growth by 300%, that issued 211% more permits for international students, and that in…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the person he does not know is himself. He says that he is not the Randy in the text messages, but his own business associates say there is no other Randy. He says that he said that he was indigenous in order to get grants and contracts that were meant just for indigenous people. Now he admits he is not indigenous at all. Now, while his company has the same address as a pla…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister took his private jet, burned 105 tonnes of jet fuel and emitted 300 tonnes of greenhouse gases to go down to Brazil, he claimed that Canadians who are opposed to his carbon tax are just confused by disinformation. No, Canadians are not stupid. They know that the Parliamentary Budget Officer has calculated that 100% of middle-class Canadians pay more in the tax…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is still acting like a pyromaniac firefighter, this time on immigration. He blames “bad actors”, to use his own words, for decisions he made that destroyed our once great immigration system. He decided to open the door to 725% more asylum claims in nine years. He decided to approve a 211% increase in international students. He even allowed foreign …
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