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Mr. Speaker, all that adds up to not a single tariff reduced in the Prime Minister's eight months of travelling the globe. Now let us move on to his costly agenda on pipelines. In June 2014, the Conservative government approved a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific. On November 29, 2016, the Liberal government cancelled that pipeline, ordering the energy board to dismiss it. On March 27, 2021, th…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think anybody has been able to cram that many slogans into one answer, and this is coming from me. Let us take housing. The minister says they are spending billions of dollars more on housing. The results are out today, and housing starts are down 17% year over year. Where we need the most, in Toronto, they are down 42% year over year. In Vancouver they are down 36% year over…
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Mr. Speaker, what are Canadians getting for the 28 trips, the 150,000 kilometres, which is enough to circle the world four times, that the Prime Minister has billed back to Canadians? He met with the Americans, and they doubled tariffs on our steel, aluminum and autos, and tripled them on our forestry. He met with the Chinese, who increased tariffs on our farmers and fish harvesters. He met with t…
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Mr. Speaker, what are Canadians getting for the 150,000 kilometres this Prime Minister has travelled? That is the equivalent of circling the globe four times. He met with the Americans, and they doubled tariffs on our steel, aluminum and vehicles. He met with Indian officials, and they increased tariffs on our peas. He met with the Chinese, and they also increased tariffs on our farmers and fish h…
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Mr. Speaker, with the Prime Minister billing millions of dollars for his high-flying trips around the world, 28 trips and 150,000 kilometres, now is the time for a scorecard. The Americans have increased tariffs on Canadian autos, aluminum, steel and lumber. The Indians have increased tariffs on our peas. The Chinese increased them on our farmers and our fish harvesters. Now, allow me to introduce…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are cash-strapped and needed a break. Instead, the Prime Minister gave them the costliest budget in Canadian history and put it all on the national credit card. The Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed that the Prime Minister doubled Trudeau's deficits, added $16 billion more to the debt than he promised and is increasing the debt-to-GDP ratio, breaking another promise. The…
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Mr. Speaker, let us say someone mortgaged their house and took risks. They stayed up late wondering how they would pay the bills. Finally, after all that, they have success: a wonderful business with 30 to 50 people that is growing every day. Then suddenly the phone rings, and on the other end of the line, someone is threatening that if they do not pay millions of dollars to a gang, their house wi…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians needed an affordable budget for an affordable life. They can no longer pay their bills or buy groceries, yet the Prime Minister's latest budget has saddled them with more inflation. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, this is the largest deficit in the country's history other than during the pandemic. It is twice as big as Justin Trudeau's deficit. It is $16 billi…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe it is a good day for the Prime Minister and his Brookfield buddies, who are dodging their tax bills, but it is a terrible day for the Canadian people, stuck paying record-high grocery bills. In fact the Prime Minister said he would be judged by prices at the grocery store. Today, Statistics Canada revealed that grocery price inflation is almost double the Bank of Canada's target…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve an affordable life with an affordable budget, but this Prime Minister is using his budget and the deficit like a credit card with no limit. In doing so, he is driving up the price of groceries, housing and future taxes. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the Prime Minister has doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit. That is a record deficit outside of COVID‑19.…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not investing in Canada; he is dodging his taxes by putting his money outside Canada, while the Canadian people cannot afford to eat, to heat, or to house themselves. Inflation is now nearly twice the target rate when it comes to the measurement of food, rising 40% faster in this country than south of the border. We have 100% more people lined up at food banks th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was right by Surrey the other day, handing out tax dollars and doughnuts in a photo op, but he refused to take questions on the 330% increase in extortion that Liberals caused with soft-on-crime laws and open border policies. They have allowed extortionists out of prison by eliminating mandatory prison sentences, and they have allowed foreign gangsters to have visit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's costly deficit gambles our future on the national credit card, and it drives up food, housing and tax bills. In fact, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has revealed, in his recent report, the Prime Minister has doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit and he has brought in the biggest deficit in Canadian history outside of the pandemic, which is $16 billion bigger than he …
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Mr. Speaker, this is multi-generational debt. Canadians deserve affordable groceries. In fact, the Prime Minister promised that he would be judged by the price of groceries. Today, Statistics Canada released data showing that food inflation is almost double the Bank of Canada's target. It is increasing 40% faster here than in the United States, all because of Liberal taxes. The Prime Minister is u…
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Mr. Speaker, it is twice as expensive as any other budget, and it makes generational debt. Speaking of sovereignty, what about food sovereignty? The Prime Minister's budget increases taxes on food production. With the industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer, storage bins and food processing plants, Sylvain Charlebois, Canada's food professor, says it is arguably the most damaging aspec…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister is becoming the most costly Prime Minister in the history of our country, and it is actually the bankers who stand to benefit the most. Now the interest on the national debt is going to cost Canadians $55 billion. That is more than we spend on health transfers, and it is more than the government takes in from the GST. Every penny that Canadians pay in GST does not …
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Mr. Speaker, never before have Canadians had to spend so much to get so little. The budget, with its record deficit outside of COVID, has a deficit twice the size of the one Trudeau left behind and $16 billion bigger than the Prime Minister promised. It has, in its spending, $5,400 of extra costs for every family, in more expensive government. While Canadians are already unable to eat, heat and ho…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the Prime Minister is still under the misconception that Canadians do not use steel. Do members remember that interview when he asked the CTV interviewer, Steve, if he used steel? Of course, farmers use steel in order to produce their food and in order to store their grains. Processors use steel in the apparatuses of their conveyor belts. The tax on fertilizer and equipment…
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The Prime Minister still thinks we use zero steel, Mr. Speaker. On another subject, unfortunately a much darker subject, last week, the Supreme Court ruled that a one-year prison sentence was too much for possession of child abuse and exploitation materials. That sentence was already far too low for the two dirtbags who had literally hundreds of impressions and videos of children being tortured. W…
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Mr. Speaker, he says it is imaginary, but it is in his budget. Does that mean the budget is a fictional document? Here it is, on page 106: “Strengthening Industrial Carbon Pricing”—
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Mr. Speaker, they say their budget is a prop and its contents are imaginary. We are in real trouble today. Homes take steel. They take aluminum. They take concrete, cement and glass. The industrial carbon tax drives all those things up. With our youth unable to afford homes, why do the Liberals not get rid of this tax so that we can bring down the cost of housing?
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister's depressing speech demanding that young people make more sacrifices, I think the Liberal House leader asked ChatGPT to write him up a little poem about how he could inject hope into his message. It did not work. Young people need houses for them to have hope. Houses are needed to raise families. Houses are needed to build equity, collateral and credit history…
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Mr. Speaker, since they started promising that program, the number of children lined up at food banks has doubled to 700,000, and food prices are actually rising 40% faster in Canada than they are in the United States of America. The questions I have been asking are for the Prime Minister. Apparently, he does not have time to answer questions about homes and food when Canadians cannot afford to fe…
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Madam Speaker, I must admit that I am not jealous at all. In fact, I am a little depressed to see the size of the Liberal deficit. When the Conservatives were in power, yes, there were some short-term deficits, but we managed to balance the budget a few years later, after the financial crisis in the United States. We left Canada in the best fiscal position of any country in the G7. That is the app…
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Mr. Speaker, never before in history has a budget forced Canadians to pay so much for so little. Every dollar that the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians. He broke his promises. He promised to spend less, yet he is increasing net spending by an additional $90 billion. That amounts to $5,400 per family. He has doubled Justin Trudeau's deficit and has added more debt than in…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has doubled lineups at food banks to well over two million people, and right now food prices are rising 40% faster in Canada than they are in the United States, which means we cannot blame some global or foreign factor for those rising costs. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada's leading food price expert, says the industrial carbon tax, which not only is still in place …
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I have to say that this is the first time that anyone on that side of the House of Commons has congratulated me for speaking for a really long time. I did not expect that. Second, I have not read the book Abundance, but frankly, the member opposite says that one cannot build anything in the United States. The economy there is actually growing. The most recent quarter w…
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Madam Speaker, since the Liberals brought in this program, the number of kids relying on food banks has doubled, to 700,000. By the way, according to their own government data, 90% do not get any meals at all from this program. It is not clear what happens with the remaining 10%. The member uses the term “garbage”. There is a Facebook page called the “Dumpster Diving Network” with Canadians who sh…
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Madam Speaker, there are times in the life of a Parliament when Canadians are not looking for showy speeches, sound bites for TikTok or corporate buzzwords. Sometimes people look to the House of Commons and wonder whether the people entrusted with power are listening to them, are able to understand them, and are making efforts to solve the real problems in their lives. Canadians are exhausted. The…
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Madam Speaker, yes, I do see a lot of inconsistency in the member's question. His leader was elected promising to spend less, and he is spending 100% more in deficits than his predecessor. He promised that he would deliver the fastest-growing economy in the G7, and he has delivered the fastest-shrinking economy. He promised more investment, but the government's own documents in the budget demonstr…
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Madam Speaker, that is a great and very important question, and I thank the member for serving in the Canadian Armed Forces in a very distinguished way. He indeed is a proud father, as am I, and we both worry about our kids and what future they will have in this country. A third of Canadian youth believe they might have to leave this country because they cannot afford to live here. That is an asto…
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Mr. Speaker, in addition to cooking the books, the Prime Minister also rigged his GST rebate on housing to make sure that 95% of homebuyers would not qualify for any break at all: zero, zip, zilch. The Prime Minister meanwhile would put a new rising tax on steel, aluminum, glass, cement and concrete, all the things that go into making a home. In other words, the industrial carbon tax is a housing …
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Madam Speaker, we are indeed going to cross the floor after the election. We are all going to do it. We are responsible when it comes to money. The idea of an $80‑billion deficit that is going to increase the cost of living and inflation on the backs of Canadians, including Quebeckers, is unacceptable. That is why we cannot support this costly budget.
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Mr. Speaker, if he does not find it, it will be over $100 billion in brand new spending, to respond to the Prime Minister's heckles. He also promised that he would invest more. His own budget document lays out a graph showing that every quarter of this year will see private sector business investment collapse. This costly budget forces Canadians to spend more on debt interest than on health care t…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the minister on his first budget speech. It was a very long speech, and given that this Liberal government is adding about $10 million to our national debt every hour, it must be the most expensive speech in the history of this Parliament. I think we can say that while talk is cheap, it is very expensive when a Liberal finance minister speaks. Every dollar the g…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will be the 10th costly Liberal budget. For 10 years, the cost of living for Canadians has been going up. Canadians are already paying too much, but the Prime Minister is asking them to sacrifice even more. The choice for Conservatives is simple. If the budget brings down the cost of living, we will support it. If the budget brings up the cost of living, we will vote against …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have been making those promises for the last nine Liberal budgets, which doubled housing costs and drove 2.2 million people to the food bank because of higher grocery prices. If the member wants ideas for an affordable budget and an affordable life, here is one: There is the Liberal industrial carbon tax, which applies to the steel, cement and other inputs to build homes,…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has to get his story straight. First, he started his answer by saying that there is no industrial carbon tax, and then he finished it by saying that the industrial carbon tax is great and does not cost anybody any money. He has to decide which it is. Here is how it works, for a prime minister who does not understand that Canadians need steel: The industrial carbon tax on st…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will be the 10th costly Liberal budget. After the Liberals doubled housing costs, doubled food bank lineups and doubled the national debt, now they are making exactly the same costly promises. The Prime Minister says that Canadians who cannot afford to eat or heat or house themselves need to make more “sacrifices”. The choice for us is simple. If the budget brings down the co…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has been in the Liberal government for 10 years. He says that he is new but he is making the same promises that deficits will result in investment. The last time the current finance minister promised that, we saw that investment dropped more than in any time in Canadian history and more than in any other G7 country. What went up? The cost of housing doubled. Food went up, d…
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Mr. Speaker, for 10 years, the Liberals have been making exactly the same promises. The Minister of Finance and National Revenue, who used to be the industry minister, is the one who has caused the biggest decline in investment in Canada after promising that deficits would promote investment. Ultimately, the debt, the number of people in food bank lineups and the cost of housing have all doubled. …
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Mr. Speaker, these Liberal programs do not feed children; they feed bureaucracy, consultants, lobbyists and insiders. We know that because since they have brought in all of these promises, we have seen food bank use more than double. By the government's own admission, 25% of kids go to school hungry after 10 years of these Liberal policies. Why? It is because the more the government spends, the mo…
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Mr. Speaker, the member and the Prime Minister are trying to provoke a costly election on their costly budget. They are again playing costly games. This is not about games; this is about the people lining up at food banks, the 2.2 million of them. That number has doubled since the government took office 10 years ago. It's about Jaclyn Stone, who says, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s hard.... It was just…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot afford a 10th costly budget that drives up the price of groceries and housing. What they need, in fact, is an affordable budget for an affordable life. The Prime Minister, though, has driven up the cost of the bureaucracy, the consultants and therefore inflation, so Canadians are paying more for everything. We have put forward common-sense proposals to make life more …
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Mr. Speaker, there he goes, trying to use a costly budget to trigger a costly election. We know he wants to distract from the fact that the Prime Minister has broken every promise he has made, by triggering a costly election on a costly budget, but Canadians should not have to choose between a costly budget and a costly election. They can choose an affordable budget with an affordable life, and we…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 costly Liberal deficit budgets that caused the debt to balloon and pushed up the cost of food and housing, Canadians deserve an affordable budget for an affordable life. The Prime Minister promised that Canadians would be able to judge him by the prices they pay at the grocery store. Prices have ballooned and the number of people using food banks has doubled. Will the governm…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the Liberal House leader wants to trigger a costly election on a costly budget. However, Canadians should not have to choose between a costly budget and a costly election. They should be able to choose an affordable budget for an affordable life, and that is what we are proposing. Here is one of our proposals: Get rid of the industrial tax on our farmers so that Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he would have a good deal by July 21. That date has come and gone. His latest excuse is an ad from the Government of Ontario. He claims that is why he could not keep his promise to get a deal. Yes or no, did the Prime Minister see the ad before it went out?
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister who said that the ad prevented him from keeping his promise and getting a deal. He claims he was on the verge of getting that deal, so surely, if he saw an ad that would interrupt the deal, he would have said no and hit the brakes. The question is, yes or no, did the Prime Minister or anyone on his staff see the ad before it went out?
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Mr. Speaker, being serious means being honest. Did the Prime Minister—
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