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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, the signature promise on which the Prime Minister was elected was to negotiate a win with the Americans, to get a deal by July 21. Here we are in late October with still no deal, still no win, still no elbows and still no jobs, and the American tariffs have doubled since the Prime Minister promised he would get rid of them. Yesterday, his latest excuse was that an Ontario government a…
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Mr. Speaker, being serious means being honest. Did the Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, if any of those promises were actually coming true, we would not have had a 100% increase in the number of people lined up at food banks, a number that has increased again this year after the Prime Minister took office after promising that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store. A record 700,000 kids are lined up at food banks while the Liberals make phony promises that…
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Mr. Speaker, being honest is a joke to these Liberals.
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Mr. Speaker, if they want their budget passed, they have to make it an affordable budget so that there is affordable food and an affordable quality of life for the Canadian people, including people like Jaclyn Stone. As I said, she works at a grocery store and cannot afford groceries. We already know about carpenters who build homes but cannot afford a home after 10 years of the Liberals. This is …
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Mr. Speaker, if any of that were true, there would not be a 100% increase in the number of people relying on food banks. The numbers speak for themselves. This is after a decade of Liberal inflationary taxes and deficits that have driven 2.2 million people to food banks. One of them is Jaclyn Stone. She works two jobs. She works at a grocery store. She cannot afford to shop at the grocery store wh…
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Mr. Speaker, we will not support a budget that drives up the price of groceries like the last nine Liberal inflationary budgets have done. According to Food Banks Canada, there has been a 100% increase in the number of people using food banks. One of those people is Jaclyn Stone, a Manitoba mom who works two jobs but cannot afford food. She works at a grocery store, but she cannot buy groceries. H…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian farmers are the backbone of our economy, in particular our canola producers. I would add that producers in the great riding of Battle River—Crowfoot are particularly renowned. Unfortunately, this $5-billion industry is under attack by unfair Chinese tariffs imposed by the regime in Beijing. This goes along with tariffs on seafood harvesters and other Canadian agriculture and …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine Liberal tax-and-spend inflationary and costly deficits, Canadians are hungry for an affordable budget and hungry according to a report by Food Banks Canada called the “HungerCount”, which shows that there has been a 100% increase in the number of people relying on food banks since the Liberals brought in numerous taxes on food. Will the Prime Minister finally, for the first…
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Mr. Speaker, the signature promise on which the Prime Minister was elected was to “negotiate a win” with the Americans, and he promised to get a deal by July 21. Today, there is still no deal, still no win. U.S. tariffs have doubled since the Prime Minister promised to eliminate them. He is blaming an Ontario government ad for the fact that he cannot get a deal. Did the Prime Minister or anyone on…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of inflationary deficit budgets driving up grocery prices, Canadians are literally hungry. According to Food Banks Canada's 2025 HungerCount report, the Liberals have doubled food bank lineups. Now, people with two jobs cannot even afford to buy food. Will the government table, for the first time, an affordable budget for affordable food and affordable living?
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to paraphrase what Food Banks Canada said in its Hunger Count report. It took decades to reach one million visits to food banks in a month, but just half a decade to more than double that. Let us talk about the Liberals' programs. They have been in power for 10 years and there are now 700,000 children who need food banks. The Liberals' programs feed bureaucracy, not childre…
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Mr. Speaker, Food Banks Canada released its report today, “HungerCount 2025”, showing that the number of Canadians relying on a food bank has more than doubled since the Liberal government took office. It shows that 39% of the population experienced food insecurity, 82% did not have enough to eat, 34% went an entire day without eating, 53% missed a meal to afford something else and 28% went hungry…
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Mr. Speaker, their programs do not feed kids. They feed bureaucracy, consultants, lobbyists and Liberal insiders. If members want to question that, 700,000 kids are lined up at food banks every single month. Let me quote from the report: “It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to more than double that.... These are not outliers. This is Canada’s …
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Mr. Speaker, Food Banks Canada released its HungerCount 2025 report today, which shows a 100% increase in the number of people who have to rely on food banks in Canada since the Liberals came to power. Last year, 39% of the population experienced food insecurity; 53% skipped a meal; 34% went an entire day without eating and 82% of households did not have enough to eat because of the Liberals' infl…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal programs feed bureaucracy, lobbyists, consultants and insiders, but they do not feed kids. Children cannot eat Liberal press releases or Liberal photo ops. Mothers cannot fill shopping carts with Liberal boasting. Canadians need food. Right now, after 10 years of Liberal government, there are 2.2 million Canadians lined up at food banks, 700,000 of them kids. A third are i…
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Mr. Speaker, is their focus affordability? Here are the facts from the HungerCount report: 78% of food banks had to buy more food than normal because they were running out and not collecting enough donations. One quarter of food banks ran out of food while there were still people lined up waiting for something to eat. We now have nearly a third of Canadians going hungry at least once a week. This …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister made a very depressing speech. He said that there were plenty of opportunities when he was young, but that our young people's future will not be as bright as his past. He said that young people will have to make sacrifices. Young people have been making sacrifices for 10 years, while the Liberals doubled the cost of housing, cut jobs and racked up interge…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the minister did not hear the speech in which the Prime Minister said that young people are going to have to make even more sacrifices after 10 Liberal years that have already forced them to make at least three major sacrifices. The Liberals have made housing unaffordable. They have killed jobs and they have the worst employment numbers in 30 years. They have created interg…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister made a very depressing speech to Canada's youth. He said they would have to make more sacrifices. This is more sacrifices after 10 Liberal years that doubled the cost of housing and drove out the possibility that youth could own their own homes, after the sacrifice of their jobs with the worst employment numbers since the 1990s and after the sacrifice of …
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Mr. Speaker, three apprentices do not account for the countless job losses and the highest jobless rate in 30 years, outside of COVID, caused by this government, nor does it account for the doubling of housing costs and that 80% of young people believe they will never be able to afford a home. The Prime Minister tells our youth that they have to sacrifice even more. All he offers is more costs, mo…
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Mr. Speaker, it is too bad that the minister did not write the Prime Minister's speech yesterday, because it would not have bored and depressed to tears all the poor students stuck in the room where the Prime Minister spoke about how they would have to sacrifice more and about how it would take time to reverse all the misery that has built up over the last 10 years. Young people want to have homes…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently nobody on the other side listened to the depressing, miserable, hopeless speech the Prime Minister gave to Canadian youth yesterday. He said that Canadian youth need to sacrifice more, when in fact quite the opposite is true. The youth of this country have sacrificed enough. They cannot afford homes, they cannot get jobs and now they have a generational lifetime of debt to …
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Mr. Speaker, today, the Prime Minister and I will meet to discuss the 10th Liberal budget deficit. Our priority as Conservatives is an affordable budget for an affordable cost of living for the Canadian people. The Prime Minister promised he would spend less, but his deficit spending is 100% more. He promised he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store; they are now rising at two times t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is now lecturing Canadians who are lined up at food banks, telling them that they have never had it so good and that, if only they appreciated the many promises he has made, promises he has not even begun to keep, they would then be appreciative of the fact that fresh and frozen beef are up 14%, fresh and frozen cut chucks are up 12%, frozen meat is up 11% and coffe…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the Prime Minister meant to say, “Are you with us for the bankers and bondholders, who have been collecting record interest payments on the newly doubled national debt?” The Prime Minister has literally doubled the deficits that he inherited from the Liberal government, deficits that were already exorbitant and out of control, and inflation immediately started to rise. Two of …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister expects us to believe government-funded, so-called experts paid to push his agenda instead of believing in the obvious fact that, when we tax the things that go into making food, we tax all who buy food. This is a Prime Minister who says he is a great expert, but he told CTV Nova Scotia that Canadians do not use steel anymore. Does he not know that there is steel in…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians, according to the Prime Minister, have never had it so good. If someone is a single mother out there walking down the grocery aisle, looking at prices rise before her eyes; if they are a senior choosing between eating and heating; if they are one of the countless Canadians who see that roasted coffee is up 41% since the Prime MInister took office, that nuts and seeds are up …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is saying to that single mother, that small business owner and that senior I just referenced that he needs to give them economic lessons. You are the one out there who is watching prices rise right before—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has tried to deny the existence of continued hidden Liberal taxes on groceries, but Canada's leading food price expert, the food professor, Sylvain Charlebois, has said the exact opposite. He said, of the industrial carbon tax, that the worst part is that it is still there. He was referring to the fact that farmers pay the tax on the steel that goes into their farm …
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Mr. Speaker, first, we are all disappointed to learn that Liberals think that Canadians who see grocery prices rising at record rates are just imagining things. I am further disappointed to see that the Prime Minister cannot stand in his place and address real questions about the cost of groceries for Canadians. It is not just the industrial carbon tax. It is also the government's fuel standard, w…
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Mr. Speaker, today, the Prime Minister and I will meet to discuss the tenth Liberal budget. Conservatives want an affordable budget so that Canadians can have an affordable life. The Prime Minister has broken his promise to spend less. He has doubled the deficit he inherited from his government, and inflation is now on the rise. In fact, all measures are higher than the Bank of Canada's target. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's failures and capitulations are not just vis-à-vis the United States. He promised he would stand up for western Canadian farmers, but canola tariffs have now more than doubled. The Prime Minister, in response to this, has given the Communist regime in China a $1-billion taxpayer-funded loan so that we can buy Chinese-made ships, and now he has announced that he has…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really disappointing the Prime Minister refuses to stand up to debate the real cost of his taxes on Canadian food consumers. It is the same thing with the auto sector. He promised that he would negotiate a win. He promised to get a rapid deal. There is still no win and still no deal. Elbows have gone missing, and so are the jobs. Today, 300 workers lost their jobs at Paccar in Q…
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what this Liberal government promised 10 years ago. The result was that they doubled the debt, doubled the lineups at food banks and doubled the cost of housing. Investments in Canada have dropped more than investments in any other G7 country, and more than at any other time in our nation's history. Today, two million Canadians are using food banks, and food inflation …
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Mr. Speaker, the question was about jobs and the Prime Minister responded with a spelling bee. This is the guy who is supposed to negotiate a win for us, a guy who said he would have a deal by July 21. He is the guy who said he has had his elbows up. Since that time, his elbows have gone missing. The Canadian people need those jobs. He promised he would protect those jobs. Will he stand up today, …
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Mr. Speaker, that was not what the Prime Minister promised. He promised that he would negotiate a win. He promised that he would have a deal by July 21. Neither of those things happened. He went to the auto sector and told the workers that not only would he protect their jobs, but also there would be an all-in-Canada supply chain that is being dismantled right before our eyes. It is not just his t…
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Mr. Speaker, his banker friends in Washington may think they have fiscal space, but the single mothers who cannot afford groceries have no space left at all to pay for Liberal inflation. The government is forcing them to spend 70% more on the Canada Revenue Agency. Today, the Auditor General revealed that only 15% of calls get responses on time, and even if someone does pick up the phone, there is…
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Mr. Speaker, she announced, just now, that she talked to this person, and she talked to that person, and she talked to this other person, and she talked, and she talked, and they talked, and they talked, and nothing gets done. Canadians are tired of talk; they want their jobs. The Prime Minister looked these workers in the eye and said he would negotiate a win, that he would protect auto jobs, tha…
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As they laugh, Mr. Speaker, 1,200 workers at the Ingersoll CAMI plant learned they would lose their jobs after the Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win and that he would keep their jobs here in Canada. They join with 2,000 workers in Brampton and many more in Oshawa. How does the Prime Minister look in the eyes the very workers he sold out and betrayed?
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar that this Prime Minister spends is costing Canadians a lot. Since he doubled the deficits left behind by Justin Trudeau, inflation has picked up speed. Statistics Canada announced today that the inflation rate is rising. In fact, four of the indicators are above the targets, and grocery costs are rising at two times the target rate. Will the Prime Minister use his budget …
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Mr. Speaker, we do not work for Washington bankers; we work for single mothers who cannot afford groceries. Today, we are seeing runaway inflation at a time when the government is forcing Canadians to spend 70% more on the CRA. Today, the Auditor General revealed that only 15% of calls are being answered on time. Even when a call does get answered, the information is wrong 83% of the time. Why sho…
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Mr. Speaker, he admits they have to do better. It is not possible for them to do any worse. The reality is that today we learned that inflation is again on the march. All four measures of inflation are above the Bank of Canada's targets; two are outside of and above the acceptable range. Food price inflation is rising at two times the rate the Bank of Canada targets. It is no wonder we have two mi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is another day with more costly slogans from that member of Parliament. Now Canadians are learning it was a bait and switch, with another terrible tragedy.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, the leader of the NDP, for raising this issue as well. I rise today to discuss the emergency in the lives of 3,000 Brampton area families who received the news, one day after the Prime Minister's meeting with the President of the United States, that their factory would be moving to the U.S. For these families, it is not just an emergency. It is a tragedy. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, that is still no answer. It was the present-day finance minister, who is in charge of a half-trillion-dollar forthcoming Liberal budget, who was the one who signed the deal, and amazingly, barely two years after he signed it and forked over 15 billion Canadian tax dollars, the company receiving it is moving the jobs to the United States of America. The Minister of Industry claims she …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to distract from their inflation by talking about their corruption. They now have four inflationary taxes that apply to groceries: the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment, the tax on grocery packaging, the tax on diesel fuel and, finally, the inflation tax. Canadians can no longer afford to pay their food bills. Will the government finally ge…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to distract from their inflation and rising cost of living by talking about their corruption. This will be the 10th Liberal budget. Already, the Liberals have doubled the debt, food bank line-ups and housing costs. Every dollar the government spends comes directly out of the pockets of Canadians who can no longer afford to eat and heat and house themselves. The…
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