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Mr. Speaker, we are going to chop the carbon tax. That Liberal member, just like his NDP coalition partners, has betrayed Albertans, who are ripped off by the carbon tax, just like people right across the country. That member, just like the NDP, decided to betray his constituents and vote for the Prime Minister's plan to dig deeper into the pockets of hard-working people. Will the government aband…
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Mr. Speaker, we have made our choice. We will axe the tax to bring home affordability. Interestingly, the Liberal members of Parliament from Atlantic Canada tell their constituents that they agree with me and not with the Prime Minister. When they are on the home front, they tell their constituents that they are on the Conservative team to axe the carbon tax, but when they come here, they seem to …
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Mr. Speaker, for five days the Prime Minister was in hiding, and he is hiding from answering my questions today about the people who are starving. Seven million Canadians are not eating enough because of the price of food, and 1.5 million are going to food banks. Food banks across the country have lineups that go around the street, never seen before. The middle-class hungry is the new phenomenon t…
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Mr. Speaker, the whole world sees the Prime Minister as a clown. Whether or not we hold the Liberal former speaker of the House responsible for recognizing a Nazi in Parliament, the reality is that for five days, the Prime Minister went into hiding and avoided his responsibility to defend and repair Canada's reputation. The Prime Minister is seen as a clown on the world stage, but whether we blame…
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Madam Speaker, if I were that NDP member, I would be back in Edmonton apologizing to Albertans for her betrayal of that province. Her leader wants to shut down the single biggest industry in Canada, which is our responsible energy sector. The NDP literally works against the union jobs in Canada's energy sector in that member's own province. The member votes in favour of a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax th…
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Madam Speaker, where is the lie? The motion we moved in the House states that “the Bloc Québécois supported the so-called ‘Clean Fuel Standard’, a second national carbon tax, which will raise gas prices in Quebec by 17 cents per litre, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer”. That is true. On June 5, the Bloc Québécois voted against our motion to eliminate this second carbon tax. That is on…
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Madam Speaker, I did. I spoke out against the carbon tax. One can look at the records of this chamber. I have been speaking out against the carbon tax since 2007. One does not have to go back to 2021; one can go back almost two decades. I have been fighting the carbon tax completely consistently. This member has people line up at food banks in his riding. He votes in here to quadruple the tax that…
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moved: That, given that, (a) the Bloc Québécois supported the so-called "Clean Fuel Standard", a second national carbon tax, which will raise gas prices in Quebec by 17 cents per litre, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer; (b) the Bloc Québécois said carbon taxes need to be “increased much more radically than it is now”; (c) the New Democratic Party and Liberals supported measures to qua…
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Mr. Speaker, he keeps repeating the same election promises he broke eight years ago. The cost of housing has doubled after eight years. The inflation rate is the highest it has been in 40 years and interest rates are going up faster than at any other time in our country's economic history, but he is not thinking about economic policy. The number of shootings has doubled. Seven million Canadians ca…
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Mr. Speaker, the country is in a shambles. Interest rates are rising faster than at any time in monetary history, but the Prime Minister does not think of monetary policy. Housing costs have doubled, but housing is not his job. We have the lowest growth since the Great Depression, but he does not know what growth is. Three million people live in poverty, a quarter million are homeless, seven milli…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has finally come out of hiding from his cottage, but he still follows his old practice of failing to take responsibility. It reminds us that, when he was caught dressing up in racist costumes so many times he cannot remember them all, he said everyone else needed to learn from his personal racist misconduct. When he broke the law to help a Liberal-linked company to …
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Mr. Speaker, we do not have to change hundreds of years of tradition. This rule is already in place. The House of Commons has already given the authority to the RCMP to lead integrated security operations throughout the parliamentary precinct and on the grounds of Parliament Hill. That means that logically, if a foreign head of state were here giving a speech while that head of state is at war, we…
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Mr. Speaker, if he had been listening and not hiding, he would have heard me mention President Zelenskyy many times, in particular the damage that he has caused President Zelenskyy. The question was about the RCMP vetting. Nobody is suggesting that the 98-year-old Nazi was a security threat but had he been vetted, even with a Google search, it would have been known that he was a Nazi and this mass…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims that his government has nothing to do with security for a state visit in this chamber but this is the agreement that his office signed with the RCMP. It states that the RCMP will lead integrated security operations throughout the parliamentary precinct and on the grounds of Parliament Hill. His police agency, which reports to his public safety minister, is re…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is responsible for state visits. Foreign heads of states come here. They expect they will be protected not only against security threats but against massive global-scale embarrassments and shames like the one he allowed to unfold before Canadians. Will the Prime Minister commit to personally calling President Zelenskyy and apologizing for his personal failure to vet…
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Mr. Speaker, it would have taken a mere phone call for the Prime Minister's diplomatic, intelligence or police services to get the names of all of those who were approved to enter this building. It would have taken a day of vetting for them to perform Google and other intelligence background searches on those individuals. Let us take it to another president. We had President Biden here. Is he real…
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Mr. Speaker, of course nobody is suggesting that. What we are suggesting is that the leader of a war-torn country, who is the obvious target of propaganda and possibly even assassination, should be protected from danger not only to his person but also to his reputation, and that it is the job of the Government of Canada to carry out. The Prime Minister has, at his fingertips, the RCMP, Global Affa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was too frightened to get up and answer my last question, so I will ask it again. The Prime Minister is now saying that anybody can walk in and be within feet of a foreign head of state when they address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament. That is crazy, because staff members of MPs actually need to have their fingerprints taken and have background checks ju…
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Mr. Speaker, he speaks of a partisan attack. This is a Prime Minister who, though he says he forgot to vet the people who were recognized during the president's visit, remembered to tell members of his caucus to pull out their phones and tape record other members of Parliament during the speech to make Liberal Party attack ads. That is the shameful politicization he was focused on. However, I will…
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Mr. Speaker, the RCMP reports to the public safety minister, who reports to the Prime Minister. That Prime Minister is now saying that, when he has foreign heads of state here, terrorists, assassins and convicted murderers would all be allowed to just walk right into the building and be within mere feet of a potential assassination target. How does he ever expect another head of state to come back…
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Mr. Speaker, actually, the Speaker's Parliamentary Protective Service reports to the RCMP, which reports to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister says that his national police agency did not vet—
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Mr. Speaker, again he deflects blame and responsibility for his personal failings. It is the duty of the Prime Minister to protect our diplomatic reputation. Therefore, it was, his duty to make sure that his diplomatic intelligence and security forces ensured that no one who could potentially present a danger to either the reputation or the physical safety of the people was present at such a massi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has just said that he allowed the president of a war-torn country, who is perhaps the biggest target of false propaganda and potential assassinations, to be surrounded by hundreds of people who had not been vetted for their security background, the potential risks they present or, in this case, the massive diplomatic disasters they could have brought to the event. I…
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Mr. Speaker, did the Prime Minister's national security, intelligence or diplomatic officials vet the names of the people the Prime Minister allowed within mere feet of President Zelenskyy?
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Mr. Speaker, it was the personal responsibility of the Prime Minister to invite President Zelenskyy to the floor of this House of Commons. It was his personal responsibility to make sure it was a diplomatic success. It was his personal responsibility to continue to lead the government, which has the security, intelligence and diplomatic agencies that could have and should have vetted all individua…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister's personal responsibility to invite a head of state to the House of Commons. It was the Prime Minister's responsibility to invite President Zelenskyy here. It is the Prime Minister's responsibility to lead the government, which has security, diplomatic and intelligence agencies that could have and should have vetted the list of all people who were present and …
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Madam Speaker, government targets have nothing to do with the ability to build houses. That is why the Conservative Party had common-sense targets when it was in power. We welcomed immigrants, but we were also able to build housing, create jobs and reduce wait times in the health care system, all at the same time. That is a common-sense approach. The Bloc Québécois, on the other hand, will never b…
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Madam Speaker, we are not. I do not know what he is talking about. Speaking of 5,000 homes, if he believes removing the GST on purpose-built rental is what is needed to build 5,000 homes, then why did the Liberals not do it eight years ago when they promised it? More importantly, why did the Liberals decide to do it now? It is because they got wind that I was going to announce it, and they wanted …
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Madam Speaker, of course. Just name it: co-ops, market housing and purpose-built private rentals. We need it all. However, to get a co-op housing complex completed, there need to be rapid permits. The local gatekeepers need to get out of the way. The NDP premier in the member's province said recently that he was trying to fund housing for developmentally disabled people that has been held up for t…
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Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Louis-Saint-Laurent. After eight years of the Prime Minister, housing costs have doubled, rent has doubled, mortgage payments have doubled and the down payment needed for a new average home has doubled. Before the Prime Minister, it took 25 years to pay off a mortgage. Now, in Toronto, it takes the average family 25 years to save fo…
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Mr. Speaker, I am responsible enough to show up for work. I mean this literally. Has there ever been a greater diplomatic embarrassment in the history of our country? In coffee shops, gyms, businesses and boardrooms around the world, people are reading about this massive and shameful disgrace that unfolded under the watch of a Liberal Speaker and a Liberal Prime Minister; yet, he cannot even show …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he is not responsible for our diplomatic reputation, even though that is precisely the job of the head of the government. He also said he is not responsible for the inflationary spending that led prices and interest rates to rise faster than at any time in history or for housing costs doubling after he promised to lower them. He is not responsible for dressing …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Speaker has taken the fall for this massive international shame and embarrassment. However, we had a war leader from a country that is trying to defend its freedom from not only an invasion but also a propaganda war. The Prime Minister's protocol and intelligence units had the right to ask for the list of all those who would be present and recognized around him. The Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's protocol and intelligence services had the right to ask for the list of everyone whose presence would be acknowledged. What is more, the responsibility to defend Canada's reputation falls on the Prime Minister. We are now in the worst crisis of our history when it comes to our reputation. Where is the Prime Minister? Where is he hiding? Why does not he not rise in…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Speaker has resigned because of the great shame and embarrassment of paying tribute to a Nazi in the House of Commons. However, the fact remains that the Prime Minister is ultimately responsible for our international reputation. The Prime Minister is responsible for the diplomatic and intelligence services that could have asked for and checked the list of all guests. Today…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are sick and tired of a Prime Minister who never takes responsibility for the things that happen under his watch. Whether it is the record-high inflation or interest rates, the doubling of housing costs, or the constant international embarrassments, he always finds someone else to throw under the bus. Are you that person?
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Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister were so proud of how he conducted himself, he would be on the floor in the House of the Commons today answering questions instead of hiding under a rock. Canadians are sick and tired of a Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, it is the job of the Government of Canada, the Privy Council Office, which is the Prime Minister's personal department, and the Prime Minister's security forces in the RCMP to vet every single person who comes within proximity of a high-profile foreign war leader who is involved in a very difficult conflict right now. It was the job of the Prime Minister to protect that foreign leader…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is responsible. He is in Ottawa today. He can get on his feet and answer for his massive diplomatic embarrassment and shame. The minister admitted that the government vetted every single person that was here for the speech. That was the job of the government, which has an entire security and diplomatic apparatus set up for that purpose. Will the Prime Minister final…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was for the Prime Minister because, indeed, it is the Prime Minister's sole responsibility to guarantee the diplomatic success of major world leaders who come to this country. It is the Prime Minister and his government who are responsible for both the security and diplomatic vetting of everyone who comes in close proximity of a foreign leader on Canadian soil, particular…
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Mr. Speaker, the news that the House of Commons paid tribute to a Nazi Waffen-SS officer here, in the House of Commons, has sent shockwaves around the world. The incident embarrassed Canada, harmed victims of the Holocaust and gifted a propaganda tool to the Russians. The Prime Minister is solely responsible for guaranteeing the success of all visits by international leaders here in Canada. Will h…
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Madam Speaker, I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion to address what came to light on Sunday, which was that a Nazi Waffen-SS officer was in attendance during the Ukrainian president's visit to Parliament. I move that, whereas on Friday, September 22, a former member of the Nazi Waffen-SS was admitted to and recognized in Parliament, as the Ukrainian pr…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was how one loses a million people. How is it that the Prime Minister scoured his entire front bench, and hopefully he even gave a little attention to his beleaguered back bench when he was shuffling the cabinet, and the one guy he could find to fix the doubling of housing costs that he incurred as Prime Minister was the guy who lost a million people, the guy who will go …
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Mr. Speaker, after doubling the cost of housing in this country, the Prime Minister thought he would appoint someone to fix the mess he made who was in charge of immigration when they put refugees on the streets and under bridges and when they had international students sold into prostitution and human trafficking. He says that I need glasses. This is the same minister who lost a million people. H…
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Mr. Speaker, what my plan on GST would do is make sure we do not give tax breaks for $10 million penthouse apartments, as that member is proposing to do. We want the builders who qualify for it to have affordable apartment rentals so that Canadians could actually live in them. God forbid, the limousine Liberals want all the money to go to the penthouse apartments. As for the minister's program, $4…
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Mr. Speaker, I do tell the occasional joke, but none of my humour meets with the joke that is the government's economic plan. It is a joke that has given us the worst inflation in 40 years, doubled the national debt, doubled rent, doubled mortgage payments and doubled the needed down payment for Canadians to get into a home. A Torontonian has to save 25 years for a down payment; they used to be ab…
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Mr. Speaker, judging by the applause level, it looks as though the fellow from Shawinigan has a bit of a lead in the leadership race right now. Unfortunately, Canada has a lead in having higher inflation than the United States of America does. Even the Bank of Canada's governing council expressed concern that it was giving false hope about interest rates. The recent inflation report that came out …
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Mr. Speaker, when the cat is away, the mice will play. How many others are going to be auditioning for the Prime Minister's job out there? It is okay, they will not be there long regardless. In the meantime, we have a forthcoming crisis the government helped create. Its inflationary deficits mean that the cost of living is rising faster here than it is in the United States. Inflation is up 43% in …
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Mr. Speaker, documents released today show that the Bank of Canada's governing council is worried about creating false expectations regarding interest rates. The Minister of Finance created those false hopes two months ago when she said that we had won the battle against inflation. Since then, inflation has gone up by 43%. It is higher here than in the United States. This could force another inter…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-356, An Act respecting payments by Canada and requirements in respect of housing and to amend certain other Acts. Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to introduce the building homes not bureaucracy act, and now, more than ever, it is necessary. After eight years, the Prime Minister had doubled the national debt, which has ballooned mortgage rates, and he …
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