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Mr. Speaker, we see the Prime Minister rant and rave and point his finger at police, after they have been crying out for the government to scrap Liberal bail for years. We have Constable Greg Pierzchala, who was killed by a man released, yet again, on bail. We have a woman killed by her husband after he was arrested and released 30 times because of Liberal laws. We have 1,600 crimes every single d…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister broke his promise to negotiate a win with the Americans by July 21, lumber tariffs have more than doubled and job losses are piling up. Kap Paper is potentially laying off 300 workers in northern Ontario. That is on top of 800 workers losing their jobs at Imperial Oil. TransCanada and Enbridge are building more in the United States as their headquarters move s…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to live in peace and security. That security was shattered like bullets through broken glass at a radio station in Surrey once again. Swift radio was hit with a third extortion-related gunfire attack just yesterday. I spoke with owner Kulwant Dhesi, who had invited me to his station earlier. He said his family cannot sleep. This joins countless other examples in Bram…
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Mr. Speaker, since the Prime Minister took office, 86,000 more Canadians became unemployed. We have the second-highest unemployment in the G7. This is all the result of out-of-control government spending and taxes. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians, and now the Parliamentary Budget Officer rates his deficits as “very alarming”, “stupefying”, “shocking”, “…
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Mr. Speaker, he says, “spend less”. Deficit spending is up almost 100% since the Prime Minister took office. As for investment, it has fallen. In fact, $50 billion of net investment has left since he took office, yet he repeats the same promises the Liberals have been making for a decade. They said their deficit would lead to more investment. Since they took office, investment is down by 10%, the …
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Mr. Speaker, I know that it sometimes gets heated in this place. Recently, I said that the Prime Minister is just as irresponsible with money as Justin Trudeau. I now realize that was unfair to Justin Trudeau. In reality, he has increased the deficit by almost 70% above what Justin Trudeau left behind. Now, the Parliamentary Budget Officer describes the Prime Minister's deficit as “alarming”, “stu…
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Mr. Speaker, that came from a true expert in economics, the Parliamentary Budget Officer. He said, and I quote, that the this Prime Minister's deficits are very alarming, stupefying, shocking and unsustainable. He also said that if things do not change, then this is done, that something is going to break and that Canada has not gone over the edge, but it is looking out over the cliff. Every dollar…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that Canadians would be able to judge him by their experience at the grocery store. Well, that experience is what is now being called struggle meals, with Canadians now sharing tips on how they can scrounge together meals that are often of lower nutritional value because that is all they can afford. Food price inflation has accelerated to almost double the …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is on yet another costly and useless photo op tour to escape inflation, criminality, the housing price crisis and, of course, the scandal around his public safety minister. That is the minister who lost track of 600 foreign criminals on our streets, broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 new border guards and was caught on tape admitting that the Liberal plan to ha…
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Mr. Speaker, my mother and people like her actually built this nation, and today is my mom's birthday. It reminded me that even when my schoolteacher parents were struggling, we always had delicious, nutritious meals. We had meat and potatoes on our plate, and we had to eat all the broccoli. When I called her today for her birthday wishes, she said grocery prices are terrible. I did not have the h…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is off on another pointless and costly trip to escape the scandals, inflation, crime and problems related to the Minister of Public Safety here at home. This minister lost track of 600 foreign criminals who are here in Canada. He broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 border guards and he admitted that his program to harass farmers and hunters will not protect Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, my mother, as a substitute teacher, sometimes taught math. She would not be happy with the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report today, which reveals that the Prime Minister is more expensive than even Justin Trudeau. The PBO reports that the deficit is now two-thirds higher than the one Trudeau left behind. Over the next five years, the Prime Minister will add an amazing $300 billion…
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Mr. Speaker, we are proposing that we export our clean energy, namely nuclear, hydroelectricity and natural gas, to replace much dirtier and more polluting modes of production. That is the Conservative approach. I forgot to mention another tax: the plastic tax that the Liberals want to impose. It is a tax on food. If plastic is banned, food will spoil more quickly. This will rapidly increase the c…
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Mr. Speaker, that is more money for bankers and less money for nurses. I know the Prime Minister likes to help make profits for bankers and people who work for banks instead of taxpayers. That is why he has no problem doubling the deficit that Justin Trudeau left us for the next five years. It is unbelievable that we now have a Prime Minister who costs more than Justin Trudeau did. I would never h…
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Mr. Speaker, I can confirm that he definitely does not know my mother. My mother knew how to budget better than anyone. She could stretch a dollar further. In fact, I think she should come in here as the finance minister. We would have a balanced budget right away. We would surely not have a PBO report showing the government adding a third of a trillion dollars of extra deficits. We know that ever…
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Mr. Speaker, another thing my mother always taught me is to keep my promises. The Prime Minister promised to spend less, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer showed today that this Prime Minister is going to make his inflationary deficit two-thirds higher. He is going to add another $300 billion, or a third of a trillion dollars in deficit. That is double what it was under Justin Trudeau. That cau…
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Mr. Speaker, of course she does not. The answer to the question really is that we have the ultimate corporate lobbyist as the Prime Minister of Canada. He is lobbying for tax evasion. His investments are stashed away in offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean, where they do not pay the taxes that Canadians pay. He wants to force Canadians to subsidize the electric car production system that profit…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk about our objectives as the official opposition and as the future government. Our goals are very clear: stronger take-home pay with affordable food and homes, safer streets by locking up the criminals Liberals turned loose, secure borders by fixing the broken Liberal immigration system, and a self-reliant Canada by unlocking the power of our resources, industry an…
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Mr. Speaker, the member across the way, who is the whip, is saying he did not know the Bank of Canada had a website. That is another example of a Liberal who should do a little more research before opening his mouth. There are a lot of things they do not know over there or that they do not want Canadians to know. We know that inflation is very good for Brookfield, because the CEO of that company s…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's own Minister of Public Safety says the government is doing it wrong. He was caught on tape saying the program will not work, and yet the Liberals are going to rip $750 million away from our border services and police services to harass duck hunters and farmers by banning the firearms they use. This approach has led to a 130% increase in gun crime under the Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, I voted against the Liberal policy of reducing criminal sentences for those who use guns to commit extortion, commit robbery and commit other serious offences, while voting in favour of locking up criminals who use guns in the commission of crime. The police say that 90% of gun crime is done with guns that come illegally over the broken Liberal border. The Liberal public safety minist…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just admitted that he does not even know what his gun ban applies to. For example, this gun ban applies to 10-gauge and 12-gauge shotguns, which are used by the great people of Alberta and all Canadians for duck hunting. It applies to 70 .22-calibre firearms that are used by almost every farmer to go after gophers. Will the Prime Minister stop wasting money banning …
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, gun crime went up by 136% in five years. Their policy has been to waste money going after hunters and farmers and take money away from border services and law enforcement, and that is what led to this crime wave. The Minister of Public Safety admitted that this policy does not work. What they did was strictly for electoral reasons. The public safety minister has ad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has absolutely no idea what guns he is banning. He is banning twenty-twos. These are known as farmers' guns for going after gophers and other pests. One of them is even called the Plinkster because that is the sound it makes when it bounces off a pop can. The Prime Minister is wasting precious border and police resources, harassing farmers and banning duck hunters w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's knowledge bank on this subject is now depleted, so we will move on to something else: the subject of food prices. The Prime Minister said that he would be judged on prices at the grocery store. Well, the verdict is in: Food prices are rising 50% faster in Canada than in the U.S. and are almost double the Bank of Canada's target. The Daily Bread Food Bank says that…
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Mr. Speaker, he said exactly the opposite in the recording. He admitted that seizing $750-million worth of weapons will not work. He even offered to bail his tenant out of jail. He broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 border agents, even though 80% of the firearms used to commit crimes cross the border illegally. He lost track of 600 dangerous foreign criminals on our streets and does not even …
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Mr. Speaker, I have to admit, in all my years here, I have not seen this before. On Monday, a minister says that his program will not work. On Tuesday, he says he is going ahead with the program, a program that will take $750 million away from frontline border and police services to go after Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle. It is a waste of money that police say they will not implement and that the mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister did have a real conversation about guns. He was caught on tape admitting that his program will not work because it will go after legitimate hunters and sport shooters rather than after the 80% of guns used in crime that come illegally across the border. He admits that his $750-million program will not work. He offered to bail his tenant out of jail if he breaks the rules.…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems the Liberal strategy is to say that the public safety minister is not incompetent enough to be fired because the Liberals have, by comparison, an even more incompetent Minister of Justice. I guess everything is relative. To prove his incompetence, I am glad the minister brought up the issue of border security. We asked the government in an Order Paper question last week wheth…
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Mr. Speaker, I must admit that I have never seen anything like this. On Monday, in a recording, a minister said that his program will not work. On Tuesday, he announced that he is going ahead with the program. He was right in the recording: It is a waste of $700 million. This money is being taken from our border and police services to go after hunters and sport shooters, which will endanger the li…
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Mr. Speaker, it is incredible. Only this minister, who ruined the immigration system and the housing market, could simultaneously repeat a promise while breaking it. It was last week that the Liberal promise of another—
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Yes, that is right; a Liberal promise is a prop.
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Mr. Speaker, it was just last week that the minister's own department revealed that the Liberals are breaking their promise on having 1,000 new border guards. Not only have they not hired the 1,000, but they have not even developed the plan to do so. That is the responsibility of the public safety minister. He has broken the promise. Will he be fired?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is that we did. We approved and completed four pipelines. Then we actually approved the northern gateway pipeline, which would have shipped half a million barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to the Pacific, before the Liberal government came along and vetoed and shut down that project. I was curious about what the now Prime Minister thought of that decision, so I hauled …
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government is grossly mismanaging our forests. Take, for example, the massive wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, where government officials, Conservative MPs and real environmentalists and conservationists warned the government to manage the forest and remove the dead wood to avoid a major wildfire. For years, people wrote reports and letters, but the Liberal minister at the ti…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Liberal government blocks criminal justice reforms that would lock up gun criminals, it wants to go ahead and take nearly $1 billion away from border security and police officers to go after licensed, law-abiding, trained and tested hunters and sports shooters, a project that the OPP refuses to enforce and numerous provincial governments have said they will not go ahead with…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister said that his gun grab will not work, that it will go over budget, that it would be better to lock up criminals, as Conservatives have been suggesting, but that the government is going ahead with the gun grab anyway because the Prime Minister wants to pursue electoral politics. When a mother is hit with a stray bullet, a police officer is murdered by a firearm or a bullet…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister did have a real conversation about guns. Unfortunately for him, it was caught on tape. He was caught on tape admitting that the gun grab is a waste of money, caught on tape admitting it would go over budget and caught on tape admitting it would be better just to lock up the gun criminals who are doing the crime. Why is it that Liberals only tell the truth when they do not…
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Mr. Speaker, I and we have voted against policies that have given Canada a 130% increase in gun violence. Speaking of getting things through Parliament, the minister said “seek” to introduce. The government has been in place for 10 years. It has softened penalties for repeat offenders. The minister took the summer off and still has not introduced any criminal justice reforms to stop guns. We put f…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is asking a very tough but fair question. The member points out that the Prime Minister has changed his tune. He is plagiarizing Conservative words, but he is governing like Justin Trudeau or worse. In reality, he has not changed anything. That is the grand illusion. In reality, he has a “keep it in the ground” caucus that is rebelling against him. That is why the Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, by releasing criminals and wasting money on targeting law-abiding hunters and sport shooters, the Liberals have increased gun crime by 130%. We already knew that. However, the Minister of Public Safety accidentally told the truth and was recorded saying that that to confiscate firearms from law-abiding people was a waste of money. Does the Prime Minister agree with his minister?
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Mr. Speaker, by freeing rampant gun criminals and wasting billions of dollars of police and border resources targeting law-abiding, licensed, trained and tested firearms owners, the government has overseen a 130% increase in violent gun crime. Over the weekend, the Minister of Public Safety accidentally told the truth, and he was recorded doing it. He said that the gun grab is not worth the money,…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal illusion is now on a collision course with reality. See, the Prime Minister ran an entire election campaign promising to be the opposite of who he was and to do the opposite of what he had been saying and writing and what the Liberal government had been doing for the prior 10 years. It was not just on the question of developing our resources; it was on questions of fiscal …
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Mr. Speaker, we have had a free trade agreement with Mexico for almost three decades. The Prime Minister is going for nothing more than a photo op, another fake engagement. The minister talked about interest rates; the Bank of Canada said the reason it is cutting rates while inflation is rising is because our economy is collapsing. The Liberals promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. They …
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Mr. Speaker, we have had free trade agreements with all of those countries and regions for over a decade, yet the Prime Minister is busy looking busy, flying around, grip and grin, pretending to do a lot while doing very little. He could make use of all that expensive travel by asking all of those other places why their economies are so much stronger than the one that he now leads. We have, under …
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Mr. Speaker, these are not new markets. The member might have been asleep. Actually, he seems like a very young man. Maybe he was not born when Brian Mulroney negotiated NAFTA with the Mexicans. Maybe the Prime Minister was sleeping the day the Conservatives negotiated a free trade agreement with the Europeans. He is going around taking credit for things that he never did while his economy collaps…
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to begin by thanking the member for his kind words at the very beginning. He stated half a sentence that was right, which proves that even a broken clock is right twice a day. For the rest of the day, he gets it wrong. He asked me if I would be prepared to fast-track the passage of bail reform. Where is it? He wants me to fast-track the passage of a law his government has not…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is in Mexico today for a photo op and fake agreement, but it is a great opportunity to compare, because both countries are neighbours of the United States. In the last quarter, Canada's economy shrank by 1.6% while the Mexican economy grew by 2.4%. Canadian exports to the United States crashed by 18%, while Mexican exports to the U.S. are up 1.4%. The Canadian unemp…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I thank that member for his incredible and distinguished service to the Canadian Armed Forces. He is a very distinguished member. The other heroes who also wear a uniform are police officers. They tell me they are exhausted from arresting the same offenders over and over again. They say that the criminals laugh at them. They say that, often, criminals now confess to thei…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the time in the life cycle of any Liberal government when it goes from making promises to making excuses. It is blaming its collapsing economy on global tensions. Interestingly, Mexico shares the same neighbour as we do. We are both right next door to America, so we can compare performance. However, in the most recent quarter, the Mexican economy has actually grown by 2.4% and…
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