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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the “Liberal Bloc”, which doubled the debt and increased taxes, seniors are having a hard time paying their bills. A record number of them are being forced to go to food banks to put food on the table. They are struggling to pay the rent after the cost of housing doubled. They are seeing that their children and grandchildren are unable to buy a home like before. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Bloc Québécois is still picking fights with the Government of Quebec. Instead of standing up for the Quebec nation, he says he is glad an order might be issued against the forestry sector. Quebec's environment minister says the opposite. I would like the Bloc Québécois to be more assertive than it is being right now. Will the Prime Minister listen to common sense and…
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Mr. Speaker, the famous carbon tax Carney became conflict of interest Carney when the Prime Minister named him to be effectively the phantom finance minister to advise on economic policy while he presides over a massive multi-billion dollar, multinational corporation that sought 10-billion Canadian tax dollars to take over our pension system. He got a $2-billion loan for a friend, and now we have …
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Mr. Speaker, almost a year ago today, Tehran-backed terrorists unleashed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Ever since, they have continued to push this genocidal aim. Today, hundreds of rockets came from Tehran towards Israel, forcing millions into shelter. Two terrorist attacks were carried out. The Prime Minister has talked out of both sides of his mouth, saying one thing to one grou…
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Mr. Speaker, today the very courageous and common-sense Premier of New Brunswick launched a renewed lawsuit against the quadrupling carbon tax. He is pointing out that the carbon tax would force the layoff of nurses, doctors and teachers because of the extra costs it would impose for operating schools and hospitals. Instead of requiring courts to decide on the quadrupling carbon tax, why will the …
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First of all, Madam Speaker, that is false; that is not true. Second of all, the member and her party have continually acted against first nations people. They have attacked first nations people's rights to have resource projects that they support. When 20 out of 20 first nations communities supported the Teck Frontier mine in Alberta, she and her party took the paternalistic “government knows bes…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize. I would have liked to debate the leader of the Bloc Québécois, but he does not speak in the House when I am here. However, he may have other opportunities to debate me during an election.
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Madam Speaker, that is not true. I invite him to participate in a debate. He is not here now. He could have asked me questions, but he is not here—
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Mr. Speaker, let Canadians decide in a carbon tax election if that is true. Unfortunately, the Bloc Québécois is telling Quebeckers to wait. Those who cannot pay their bills will have to wait. Those who cannot buy a house after nine years of this Prime Minister will have to wait. Those who are afraid to go out on the streets because of the crime wave the “Liberal Bloc” has unleashed on our streets…
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Mr. Speaker, no, in fact, the motion specifically demonstrates that the NDP-Liberal government has doubled housing costs. I find it interesting that the NDP has now discovered that they have doubled housing costs. A second ago, a Montreal MP stood up to point to a young woman, Pascale, who can no longer afford to rent, much less to own, after housing costs have tripled in that city. When I was hou…
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Madam Speaker, I will simply read the motion and then go over each item to prove that no one can vote against it. That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build t…
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Mr. Speaker, who could be against the following motion? That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
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Mr. Speaker, at least someone over there thinks about monetary policy. Who could be against the following motion? That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build t…
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Mr. Speaker, moments ago I asked the government who could be against a motion, pointing out that the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work and unleashed crime, to give Canadians the chance to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. She said that Canadians were against all those things. If that is the case, why will she not let them decide in a car…
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Madam Speaker, we will not interfere in Quebec's business by forcing people to have a tramway. I know that the “Liberal Bloc” wants to force people to have a tramway that would cost at least $15,000 per family, even though the people do not want it. I respect the will of Quebeckers, who want a third link. I know that the Liberals are against the third link. The Bloc Québécois wants to interfere in…
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Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, rent and mortgage payments were half of what they are now, and there were almost 200,000 of those affordable homes built right across Canada. Now, the Prime Minister wants to bring in a massive tax on home builders with hikes to capital gains. The most pre-eminent economist in Canada, Jack Mintz, reveals that would cost our economy 400,000 jobs and $90 bil…
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Mr. Speaker, I will comment on one spectacular social housing project of his and that is the brand-new, lavish apartment he bought his friend the new consul general to New York. It cost $9 million for his friend Tom Clark to have a “stunning powder room...finished in jewel onyx”, “Cristallo Gold quartzite countertops”, a handcrafted “copper soaking tub”, “custom bronze [bathroom] fixtures” and a $…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, Canada has the worst mortgage debt, the worst housing inflation in the G7, and now the worst GDP per capita change since the Great Depression and the worst by far in the G7. Those devastating statistics result in very real human costs. That is the reason we have 1,400 homeless encampments in one province alone and two million people …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that the way he stands up for Canada is by buying a $9-million mansion in the sky for his crony Tom Clark. He goes on a Broadway late-night show and says that it is a small issue that the Americans have illegally taken $9 billion of our softwood money and cost tens of thousands of jobs. The Conservatives got a deal on this 80 days after taking office. He has ha…
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Mr. Speaker, an April 30, 2014, New York Times headline reads, “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. My, how things have changed after nine years of NDP-Liberals. The economy today per capita is actually smaller than it was 10 years ago. Per capita income in Canada has dropped more than in any other G7 country since the year before COVID. The gap between U.S. GDP per ca…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not stand up. He backed down. He has been backing down for nine years, during which time three presidents have imposed illegal tariffs, which Conservatives had originally got taken off, and recently, Biden doubled those tariffs, causing 500 mill workers in British Columbia to lose their jobs. They must have been watching that show, seeing the Prime Minister say …
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Mr. Speaker, beyond the normal fear and falsehoods, what we are seeing from the Prime Minister today is someone who is erratic and who has lost control of himself because he is so desperate to hold onto power. My question was about car theft. My next one is about Nanaimo drug dens, which are now funded and authorized by the government through a permit under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister goes from screaming and waving his arms erratically when I mention the carbon tax to bragging about a program that does not even exist. His multi-million dollar school food program has not served a single ham sandwich or a single little bowl of Kraft Dinner, not one meal to one child. It exists to feed bureaucracy in Ottawa, not kids in schools. Once again, he shoul…
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Mr. Speaker, falsehoods will not change the reality. The Prime Minister's record is this: Common-sense Conservatives got a softwood deal that reimbursed $4 billion in tariffs the Americans had collected within 80 days of taking office last time. Those tariffs were slapped back on under the Prime Minister, and he has capitulated ever since, not collecting one dollar of the tariffs back. In fact, Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, at the same time he was proposing to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre for seniors, small businesses and single moms, the Prime Minister spent his summer in a frenzy of high-carbon, high-taxing and high-flying hypocrisy. Newly released data shows that he went 92,000 kilometres. In flights, on average, every two days, he went through 300,000 litres of jet fuel. Why is it that the…
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Mr. Speaker, there we have it. The Prime Minister was charging Canadians for his 92,000 kilometres of flights so that he could go around repeating the promises that he has broken nationwide while taxing them. His plan is to hike that tax to 61¢ a litre. The Prime Minister emitted more carbon than 114 Canadians combined this summer. Why does the Prime Minister drive people into poverty and children…
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Mr. Speaker, we can resolve that question right now with a carbon tax election. However, we know that the Prime Minister does not want an election because his record on the environment is just as bad as his record on the economy. It is not just tax hikes. Canada now ranks 63rd out of 67 countries for effective environmental measures. Hypocrisy does nothing for the environment. Is he not ready to d…
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Mr. Speaker, he capitulated. He signed an agreement that keeps softwood lumber tariffs in place, the very tariffs that the Conservatives had managed to get rid of. He capitulated in deference to Buy America, which discriminates against our construction companies. He capitulated on the Keystone XL pipeline, and Canada now has $400 billion more invested in the United States than the U.S. does in Can…
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Mr. Speaker, we have already stated that we are not going to change the abortion law, and everything he said is completely false. In fact, we are going to protect women with laws against violence. Violence has increased by 53% after nine years under this Prime Minister because of policies that free the worst and most violent repeat offenders. The Bloc Québécois has supported those policies. Will t…
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Mr. Speaker, screaming and hollering will not distract from the very serious question I asked. Can the Prime Minister tell us how many nurses and how many teachers will lose their job because his greedy carbon tax quadrupling will drive up costs to heat schools and hospitals?
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Mr. Speaker, everything the Prime Minister just said there is completely false. I could use another word to describe stating a falsehood knowingly, but we will save that for when we are outside the House. The reality is that after nine years of the Prime Minister's policies, gun crime is up 120%, as he has put all the resources into targeting lawful, law-abiding, trained and tested duck hunters an…
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Mr. Speaker, my common-sense plan is to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. Let us talk about education. The carbon tax will cost Saskatchewan schools $204 million. That is the equivalent of approximately 2,000 teachers losing their job, all to pay tax to heat schools in cold Saskatchewan winters. Why is the Prime Minister forcing provinces to cut teachers and educatio…
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Mr. Speaker, well, the Prime Minister just said that he wants a carbon tax election on his plan to quadruple the tax to 61¢ a litre. If so, will he call it today?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is concerned about our clapping for him. He agreed to a carbon tax election on his quadrupling of the tax to 61¢ a litre, where Canadians will choose between an NDP-Liberal government that has taxed their food, punished their work, doubled their housing costs, and unleashed crime and chaos in their communities, or a common-sense Conservative government to axe the ta…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Today, we will vote to trigger a carbon tax election between the costly carbon tax coalition of NDP-Liberals, who tax our food, punish our work, double our housing costs and unleash crime and chaos, and common-sense Conservatives who will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop …
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is voting in favour of keeping the most centralizing and costly government in the history of Canada in power. This government is bad for Quebec. It has hired an additional 100,000 public servants. It has doubled its exorbitant spending on consultants. It has doubled the debt and the cost of housing. Is it not time to let Quebeckers vote to axe the tax, build the hom…
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Mr. Speaker, the lowest-income Canadians are already making cuts and living under austerity. This is what a single mother wrote in Le Devoir: “I still do not have enough money to buy a home and I feel like that dream is getting further and further away from me, because the crisis keeps getting worse, home prices keep going up and everything is becoming very expensive.” When I was the minister resp…
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Mr. Speaker, actually it is the Prime Minister who is cutting health care. His carbon tax will cost hospitals across this country in heat, in laundry services and in delivering medical equipment. Calculations by the Saskatchewan government show that the carbon tax will cost $175 million, equal to the loss of 1,900 nurses, all to pay the Prime Minister's greedy, quadrupling carbon tax. Why will the…
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Mr. Speaker, hospitals do not get the Canada carbon rebate. A measly little cheque would not replace the $175 million that Saskatchewan hospitals are going to lose to heat their buildings, to power their machinery and to deliver their goods, and yet that is what the Prime Minister imposes. There are 1,900 nurses who could lose their jobs in one province alone because of his greedy carbon tax quadr…
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Mr. Speaker, that is more disinformation from a flailing and desperate Prime Minister clinging to power. I voted in this Parliament to increase health funding, and in the previous government voted to increase it by 70%, more than the Prime Minister's government has. More than that, Conservatives did not impose a carbon tax on hospitals. He claims that people are going to get cheques, but 1,900 nur…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to start by correcting the falsehoods. I encourage the member to find one example where I have not voted to increase health care transfers. When I was in government, we increased health care transfers by 70% because of Stephen Harper's courageous leadership and strong books. The NDP voted against those increases. Now, they propose a pharmacare scheme that would ban union …
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Madam Speaker, the message I heard was that, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, everything is broken. Life costs more, and work does not pay; housing costs have literally doubled. Crime, chaos, drugs and disorder are common in our streets. However, what most disappointed them, especially the ones who voted NDP, is the way that party abandoned them under their radical new leader. The N…
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moved: That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government. Mr. Speaker, Canada made us all a promise. That promise was that anyone from anywhere could do anything. My parents taught me that. They are teachers, after all. They taught me a lot of things. I was adopted by these two teachers because I was born to a 16-year-old single mom who could not raise me at that time. My p…
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Madam Speaker, I know that the Liberals are ashamed of our country and its past. That is why they changed the passport to take out Vimy Ridge, Terry Fox and other historical triumphs of Canadians. However, I am very proud of how we upheld that heritage. We helped defeat the Taliban and ISIS on the world stage, in partnership with Barack Obama I might add. Speaking of the Americans, we got a deal o…
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Madam Speaker, the question contained two errors. The Bloc Québécois has not made any progress. The Bloc Québécois has offered its support to this Prime Minister without getting anything in return. It has not achieved anything at all for Quebec. Progress will be made when a common-sense Conservative government respects Quebec's jurisdictions. The Bloc does not want a Conservative government becaus…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, costs are up, taxes are up, crime is up and time is up. The government has doubled the cost of housing, doubled the debt, forced two million people to the food bank and raised taxes, and now it wants a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax that will grind our economy to a halt. The good news is that in a carbon tax election, Canadians can axe the tax, build the …
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Madam Speaker, no, and what I also do not plan to do is cut health care the way the Liberals did in the preceding years, prior to Conservatives coming in and rebuilding the public health care system. They slashed health care by $20 billion. We increased it by 70% to heal the pain and damage. Furthermore, I will bring in a blue seal standard so that our brilliant 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the Bloc Québécois will have to vote on a motion and decide whether it will enable the most centralizing, costly government in the history of Canada, a government that is bad for Quebec, to stay in power. This government doubled the cost of housing and doubled the national debt. The Premier of Quebec has said that the Quebec nation does not want the House to show confidence …
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Mr. Speaker, this government has doubled the cost of housing for people in the Quebec City area, tripled the cost of housing in Montreal and inflated the price of food, forcing two million Canadians to turn to food banks every month. It has pushed Quebec to the breaking point, with an immigration system that even the Liberal minister says is broken. The Quebec nation does not want a centralizing, …
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that when the member thinks of the prospect of a carbon tax election, he becomes unglued. He becomes very rattled and loses control of himself, waving his hands around because he is desperate to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. He is desperate to push a government takeover that will shut down people's private drug plans and ban them from having access to their med…
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