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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is again a pyromaniac masquerading as a firefighter, this time on immigration. He blames bad actors for his decisions that destroyed our immigration system. He decided to open the door to 726% more asylum claims. He decided to approve 211% more international students. He decided to lift the ban on temporary foreign workers in communities with already high unemployme…
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Mr. Speaker, the employment minister first denied that he and his company were profiting off government business, and then text messages showed the contrary. They referred to a Randy. He claimed that it was another Randy. We now know there is no other Randy. We know he falsely claimed he was indigenous so that his company could steal resources that were meant for real indigenous people, and now, h…
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Mr. Speaker, given that we have just seen an American election, I can quote another American president, who could aptly describe the Prime Minister's economic policy: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Instead of doing none of the above, which would allow our entrepreneurs to actually build things on their own without sticking taxpayers wi…
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Mr. Speaker, when we were in government, we did not have to offer $30-billion bailouts for pipelines, because they made money. That is how business works. The Prime Minister wants to create a bailout economy. Let us clarify how this worked. Of the $30 billion, $7 billion went to a Texas oil company that took our tax dollars down to Texas to build American pipelines. All our exes are in Texas. Why …
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Mr. Speaker, I have already explained how half a trillion of our dollars have left the country since the Prime Minister took office. Canadian investment dollars are paying American workers while our people cannot afford food and homes. Do not take my word for how uninvestable the country has become. Take the word of carbon tax Carney. The Prime Minister's lead economic adviser has just moved his $…
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Mr. Speaker, common-sense Conservatives approved and saw the completion of four pipelines with no tax dollars to subsidize them because we believe businesses should make money rather than take money. By contrast, the Prime Minister has pushed $100 billion of energy investment out of Canada, most of it into the United States. I can imagine that the champagne will be popping over at the Trump Tower …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister likes to spread crackpot conspiracy theories instead of defending his economic record, but why would he not? When someone doubles housing costs, they distract. When they double food bank use, they divide. When they double gun crime, they use fear to turn people's attention away. When they double the national debt to a point that even their top economic adviser is fl…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister capitulated and allowed Mr. Trump to reimpose softwood lumber tariffs, three sawmills in Saguenay shut down. One way to stimulate demand for Canadian lumber is to build houses. However, the Prime Minister is working hard to build bureaucracy instead, by creating programs that he admits do not even build housing. I have proposed eliminating the GST on new homes…
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Mr. Speaker, it would be bad enough for the Prime Minister to want to give our energy jobs to the Americans, who have doubled their production over the last couple of decades, but he wants to actually give our energy jobs over to the Venezuelan, Iranian and Russian dictatorships by cutting Canadian energy production by 35%. The Americans reduced their emissions, while ours went up, by increasing n…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. We know that Parliament has been paralyzed for weeks now because he refuses to hand over evidence to the police in the $400-million Liberal slush fund scandal. We have now found out what he might be hiding. It turns out that his radical environment minister has a stake in one of the companies that got 10 million of those d…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister was caught paying nine million tax dollars to buy a luxury, super exclusive condo on Billionaires' Row for his media pal and diplomat in New York Tom Clark, the diplomat in question denied he had any involvement in it. Well, now we have documents showing that he said his housing “requires immediate replacement”. It was not suitable for hosting or living. Wait …
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Mr. Speaker, those MPs were just trying to solve a case of unsolved mysteries. Where are all these homes? Can someone point out any one of them? They wrote the minister 18 letters. He got 18 letters and he could not respond with even one home that his $8 billion bureaucracy has built. All of these 18 MPs tried to help the hopeless minister. Let me try again with a real plan to build the homes: axe…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister has doubled housing costs and Canada has the fewest homes per capita of any country in the G7. Maybe it is because the housing minister said, of the $8 billion of bureaucracies, “the housing accelerator fund doesn't go toward the cost of building houses”. He also said, “It doesn't actually lead to the construction of specific homes.” The housing ac…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lots of politicians who love to receive other people's money, but he does not have any homes to show for it. He is too afraid to have a carbon tax election. Let us have a compromise here. Why do we not have a housing tax election? Here is how it would work. The NDP-Liberals will campaign on giving billions more to bureaucracies and we will campaign on a plan to …
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Mr. Speaker, this morning the Journal de Montréal reported that Cycle Capital received $10 million from the green fund, which is at the centre of a major $400-million scandal. Who owns that company? Who has a stake in in that company? It is the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Is that why the Prime Minister is paralyzing Parliament, to withhold evidence of this scandal from the RCMP?
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, our economy per capita was equal to that of the United States. In fact, Canadian workers were earning more than their American counterparts. However, after nine years of taxes and economic roadblocks imposed by this radical Liberal government, we see that Americans are $34,000 richer per person and that the United States' economy has grown by 18% per capita, while Canada…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, our per capita GDP, which is income per person, was equal to that in the United States. The New York Times said that Canadians were richer and that our workers were making more money. Since that time, the American economy has grown by 18% per person. In Canada, it is actually smaller. We have had the worst per capita GDP decline of any G7 country since the year before CO…
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Mr. Speaker, what President-elect Trump must not understand, and must actually find kind of humorous, is that while he wants to take jobs from other countries and give them to Americans, he sees, here in Canada, a Prime Minister who wants to help him do it. Let us review the track record. The Prime Minister brought in a massive tax on energy that he wants to quadruple, which will drive our truckin…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot think of anyone who would more favour quadrupling the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre in Canada than the Prime Minister. Maybe there is one person. Perhaps President-elect Trump would not mind, because of course it would mean that our trucking companies, our factories and our mines would all shut down and go south of the border, where they would pay zero carbon tax. We have enough …
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Mr. Speaker, after Mr. Harper managed to lift the softwood lumber tariffs, the Prime Minister capitulated and let the Americans reimpose those tariffs. Then, Mr. Biden doubled them. President-elect Trump is threatening to go even further. Hundreds of workers in Saguenay have already lost their jobs because this Prime Minister capitulated. When will an election be called so that Canadians can choos…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, The New York Times reported that Canada had the richest middle class in the world and that median income in Canada was higher than in the United States. Today, Canadian workers earn $34,000 less than their American counterparts after the Liberal tax hikes and economic barriers. Now an American president wants to take our jobs away and move them to the United States. Why …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister also capitulated on buy America, a policy that discriminates against our construction, steel and aluminum companies. They can no longer sell their materials to the U.S. for government construction projects. This provision was withdrawn during the Harper years but was reimposed by then President Trump, with the consent of this Prime Minister, who agreed to sign a so-…
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Mr. Speaker, while Prime Minister Harper managed to get the buy America policies lifted, the Prime Minister capitulated and allowed Donald Trump to reimpose them. While Mr. Harper managed to get rid of softwood lumber tariffs, the Prime Minister again capitulated to Donald Trump, who reimposed them. Will the Prime Minister call an election so that Canadians can elect a leader who will stand up for…
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Mr. Speaker, The New York Times reported a decade ago that Canada had the richest middle class in the world and that median incomes for Canadians were higher than in the United States. How things have changed. After nine years of Liberal taxes, red tape and attacks on our energy sector, Americans make $32,000 more than Canadians, and now a newly elected American President wants to take our jobs fo…
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Mr. Speaker, his approach was dumb. It was dumb to let the Americans reimpose buy America rules that Harper had gotten lifted. It was dumb to let Trump impose softwood lumber tariffs that Biden has now doubled. What is dumb, dumber and dumbest of all is imposing a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax that will force our trucking companies, our factories and our mines to head south of the border into the arms of…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the reason Conservatives were able to get rid of buy America and softwood lumber tariffs is that we helped the Americans crush the Taliban and ISIS, whereas the Prime Minister could not even shoot down a Chinese weather balloon over northern Canada. Now he wants to impose a tariff on his own companies, a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax, 300% higher than it is right now, where there is a …
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Mr. Speaker, with the Prime Minister having capitulated and allowed former president Trump to reimpose the softwood lumber tariffs that Stephen Harper took off, and now Biden having doubled those tariffs, our softwood industry is hemorrhaging jobs. One way to boost the industry is to build some homes. It turns out I have a common-sense plan to cut the wasteful bureaucracy that has built zero homes…
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Mr. Speaker, now we know the Prime Minister's real agenda. He wants to distract from all the economic misery he has caused at home, and so he uses divisions here at home. These divisions are as a result of him. Under his leadership, we have seen a 251% increase in hate crimes, firebombings of synagogues, bullets shot at Jewish children's schools, a hundred churches burned and vandalized, and now w…
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal Prime Minister not only capitulated to Obama, Trump, and Biden, but he also gave away half a billion dollars in investments that left our country and impoverished our citizens. Ten years ago, the New York Times published an article entitled “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. The article said that Canadians' average income seemed to have surp…
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Mr. Speaker, in the New York times 10 years ago, “Life in Canada, Home of the World’s Most Affluent Middle Class....median income in Canada appears to have surpassed median income in the United States.” What a decade can do. Now, American workers make almost $20,000 more than their Canadian counterparts. They get twice as much investment every single year. The gap between our per capita GDP and th…
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Mr. Speaker, it took then-Prime Minister Harper only 80 days to get a softwood lumber deal that put an end to the tariffs and we were reimbursed what was already collected. Then the Liberal Prime Minister capitulated, allowed Trump to reimpose the tariffs and Biden to double them. Harper got us an exemption to buy America. The Prime Minister then capitulated and allowed Trump and Biden to reimpose…
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Mr. Speaker, a mere 80 days after Stephen Harper became prime minister, he reached a deal to end softwood lumber tariffs, but this Liberal Prime Minister capitulated. He allowed Donald Trump to reimpose those tariffs and Biden to double them. Stephen Harper reached an agreement with Obama to exempt Canada from the discriminatory buy America policies, but this Liberal Prime Minister capitulated and…
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Mr. Speaker, the American economy is roaring while the Canadian economy is snoring. In the most recently reported economic quarter, U.S. GDP grew three times faster than Canada's, despite our out-of-control population growth. In fact, per person income is lower than it was 10 years ago in Canada, while it has gone up by 18% in the U.S. The gap between U.S. and Canadian incomes is worse than at any…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's collapsing per-person economy means lower wages, which means Canadians can afford less food and less housing, and governments can afford less for schools and hospitals. This is the direct result. These are the first economic data points that have come out since the government jacked up the capital gains tax now driving billions of dollars south of the border. Why do the Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, Statistics Canada revealed today that Canada's economy grew by a paltry 1% in the third quarter. This is a third less than expected, and two thirds less than the United States. Our per capita GDP has fallen in eight of the last nine quarters. In fact, our GDP per capita has dropped faster than any other G7 nation. Is this not hard proof that doubling the debt and increa…
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Mr. Speaker, what scares people is that their paycheques are getting smaller every year. Their paycheques mean that they cannot afford to buy a house since this government has doubled the cost of housing. This minister went looking for affordable housing in his city. He could not find any, after nine years of his government doubling the cost. When I was minister, we built 194,000 affordable housin…
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Mr. Speaker, Statistics Canada reported terrible news for the Canadian economy today. It grew at a meagre 1%, a third lower than foreseen and less than our population grew. In fact, it was the eighth out of the last nine economic quarters in which our per capita GDP shrunk. It has fallen more than any other G7 country's since the year before COVID. This is the direct result of higher taxes on capi…
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Mr. Speaker, if the carbon tax made people better off, we would not see a doubling of food bank use under the Prime Minister. He cannot blame the rest of the world. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the United States of America in the same time period, and that gap grew as the carbon tax came in year after year over the last half-decade. If we tax the farmers who make the food, t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of releasing violent gun criminals and leaving our borders open to smugglers, the Prime Minister has presided over a 116% increase in gun violence, yet he was out boasting about it on Twitter. The Toronto Police Union, the largest police union in Canada, said his words were “out of touch”. They were offensive to victims and brave officers. Given that his approach has …
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Mr. Speaker, there has been an 800% increase in crime near Maison Benoît Labre since the Prime Minister allowed that centre to host a hard drug consumption site. The families who live in the community are frightened by the chaos this Prime Minister has caused. Section 56.1 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act gives him the power to shut down this consumption site. Will he do it?
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Mr. Speaker, it has never been easier for a criminal to get a handgun, in addition to which he has allowed it to be legal today to own a handgun. He has brought in an amnesty on his own gun ban, re-legalizing all the guns he said he was going to ban. Four years after he held that big press conference with a scary-looking black gun on the front of his podium, a made-in-Hollywood-style cartoon, gun …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, nine million Canadians live in food insecurity according to Food Banks Canada. That is 23% of our population. That is twice as high as the rate in the United States. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the United States, and that gap has happened at the same time as the implementation of the carbon tax and all the government greed. Now the Prime Minis…
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Mr. Speaker, that was more division to distract. Here we have two million people lining up at food banks. One-quarter of Canadians live in food insecurity, a level twice as high as in the United States. Food prices are rising 36% faster in Canada than in the U.S., coinciding with the carbon tax coming into force. Now the Prime Minister wants to quadruple it. Fifty-six per cent of food banks say th…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years after promising he would get rid of chronic homelessness, it has actually risen by 38%. Now there are 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario. It is almost as bad as it is in NDP-governed British Columbia. However, there is good news. The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness heard about my common-sense plan to axe the GST on housing, and its founder said, “This is smart.” Th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that he opposes taking the GST off of new homes. He wants to keep the taxes high and housing prices rising. His solution is to fund more bureaucracy. What has that done? Well, that has doubled housing costs and it has caused a 39% increase in homelessness rates. I have an idea. Why do we not let Canadians decide? If he will not have a carbon tax election, why n…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the Prime Minister do any of his job after nine years, such as reversing the housing price increase he caused. Let me quote British Columbia's Victoria Residential Builders Association, which said: Reducing government costs, including GST, would have a significant impact on housing affordability. [The Conservative leader]'s suggestion is welcome news, and long over…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories and misinformation will not distract. We stand up for women's rights every day on this side. It has been our 20-year-long policy in the Conservative Party that there will be no restrictions on women's reproductive choices or on abortion. He knows that, but he does not want to discuss the issue that we disagree on. Housing costs have…
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Mr. Speaker, the West End Home Builders Association stated that my common-sense Conservative plan to axe the sales tax on new homes under a million dollars is “the most significant housing policy commitment made in the past two decades. Removing the GST shows leadership to cut crippling levels of taxation on new housing, puts money directly back into the pockets of Canadians while combatting the h…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of women's rights, just yesterday, the Prime Minister's former parliamentary secretary, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, came out publicly and said that she was abused, intimidated and mistreated by this Prime Minister, and that he used her for his fake feminist agenda, and that he treated her like garbage. It is terrible the way he exercises hypocrisy: housing hypocrisy by doubling …
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Mr. Speaker, with housing comes security. In Quebec, the cost of housing has doubled. In Montreal, the cost of rent has tripled after nine years of this Prime Minister, who builds bureaucracy, who prints money, who broke the immigration system and who collected taxes from corrupt companies. That is why I proposed a common-sense solution: eliminate the GST on housing. The Prime Minister says he pre…
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