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Mr. Speaker, this year we celebrate remarkable milestones in Manitoba's faith community: the 100th anniversary of St. Anthony of Padua Parish and St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, as well as the 200th anniversary of St. Paul's Anglican Church. I am proud to represent all three. For a century, St. Anthony of Padua Parish has strengthened neighbourhoods through compassionate ser…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister talked a big game during the election, but he has since failed to deliver on a U.S. trade deal. He has backed down on every Trump demand, from the digital services tax to countertariffs to softwood lumber. He has delivered exactly zero results for Canadians on the U.S. trade war. To be fair, he is seeing some results with his Brookfield shares, with the Americans co…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is hitting on something really important about how the Conservatives would be approaching this situation versus the Liberals. The Liberals look at the economy like it is a big switchboard that they get to control, and if they just turn this knob, pick this industry and dump billions of taxpayer dollars here, or maybe here, but not over there, they will create a prosperous e…
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Mr. Speaker, I am so glad that the member for Winnipeg North got up to engage me in debate because no one in the House has stood up to say more words defending the Liberal record than that member has over the last decade. No one has defended the Liberals' productivity decline in this country, as well as the policies that have impoverished Canadians and that have sent businesses south, more than th…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that, after 10 years of Liberals and their soft-on-crime policies, we have seen incredible rates of increase with respect to sexual assault and sexual assaults on children in this country. For a lot of that, again, we have to look at the Criminal Code and how the government views the Criminal Code. The Liberals repeatedly, time and time again, go soft on the people who …
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is an amazing place that builds incredible things. This is something that I have learned over the last six months I have been the shadow minister for industry and technology in Canada. I have seen, first-hand, Winnipeggers building part of the F-35 fighter jet, the world's best, most powerful fighter jet, right here in Winnipeg. It is incredible what Winnipeggers are building. …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister positioned himself as the so-called man with a plan to save Canada from Mr. Trump. He promised he would deliver a trade deal by July 21, but he failed to deliver on that promise. As a result, Canada is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs. Breaking his promise has real consequences. Businesses are packing up and leaving Canada for greener pastures in the U.S., whe…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is claiming that his massive new deficit spending is an investment in the economy, but Canadians heard this promise for 10 years under Justin Trudeau, who doubled the national debt. As a result, productivity flatlined, investment collapsed and business competitiveness fell behind that of the U.S., which meant lower wages and fewer opportunities for our workers. Now …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals keep insisting that more deficit spending will strengthen our economy, but the data says quite the opposite. Despite doubling the national debt and promising Canadians that it was an investment, after 10 years, Canada ranks well below average among the world's advanced economies in productivity, and business research and development investment. Again, that means lower wag…
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Mr. Speaker, the experts are telling us that the food packaging tax will add $5.6 billion, and that is just one of them. The Liberals are also forcing the food industry to redesign food labels, of all things, which will add an additional $8 billion to the cost of food. Canadians are not asking the Liberals to redesign food labels; they are asking for more affordable food, so will they scrap this h…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberals spend, as we know, comes from the pockets of Canadians, which drives up taxes and inflation. Now they are making it worse with their hidden food taxes. For example, the Liberal plastic packaging ban will add $5.6 billion to food prices, because, of course, it forces producers to use more costly packaging that does not preserve food as well. This means a short…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her incredible speech outlining how, since the 1970s, successive Liberal governments have worked very hard to dismantle a national identity in Canada and the obvious detriment that has caused in society. My question for my colleague is in regard to what is happening through the courts with respect to those people who are not yet citizens in Canad…
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With regard to the program evaluation of the College and Community Innovation Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Community and College Social Innovation Fund, launched in May 2024: (a) what is the current status of this evaluation; (b) when will the evaluation be completed; (c) where and when will the results of the evaluation be published and made available to the p…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been nearly two years since the tragic disappearance of Earl Moberg, a beloved husband, father and grandfather from my community who suffered from dementia. Despite exhaustive search efforts, he has not been found and is presumed deceased. By 2030, nearly one million Canadians will be living with Alzheimer's, with almost 60% going missing at some point. If not found within 12 h…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think Liberals understand the state of Canada after 10 years of their government. Ms. Stone lost her home because mortgage rates skyrocketed as a result of rising interest rates caused by their massive Liberal deficits. She works at a grocery store, yet cannot afford the food at the grocery store. In fact, of the over two million Canadians who used food banks in a single mont…
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Mr. Speaker, Jaclyn Stone is a mom from Landmark, Manitoba. She is working two jobs, one as a bus driver and one at the grocery store, yet she cannot afford to feed her own family and lost her home because of rising interest rates. She said, “You find yourself going to the grocery store, grabbing what you need [and doing] an audit of your cart to see [what] you can afford.... Sometimes you have to…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals signed a $15-billion deal to subsidize Stellantis to produce electric vehicle batteries in Canada, promising that it would secure Canadian jobs. Now plant production in Brampton is relocating to the U.S. and 3,000 jobs are at risk here in Canada. At the same time, Stellantis has announced $13 billion of investment in the U.S., which will create tens of thousands of Americ…
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Mr. Speaker, the fact is that Canadians are paying $15 billion for EV battery production. It is a 100% subsidy for those batteries, but there is no public evidence that the Liberals have secured job guarantees for the broader Stellantis footprint here in Canada. There are thousands of auto sector jobs on the line here. Canadians deserve to know. In exchange for 15 billion of their tax dollars, did…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very interested to know whether the Minister of Industry knows about these contracts. Perhaps she can answer this simple question: How many Canada-wide jobs did the Liberals guarantee for the $15 billion that they gave Stellantis? How many jobs? Can she tell us?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win with President Trump and have a deal by July 21, but there has been no win and there is no deal. Major U.S. tariffs on Canada have doubled, and the Prime Minister has repeatedly conceded to Americans' demands. Now his office is telling media that all steel and aluminum tariffs may be lifted tomorrow, finally, but what about the auto…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has been full of contradictions over this whole tariff ordeal. He blames U.S. tariffs for shrinking the economy and job losses, but he also says Canada is getting a great deal with the U.S. on tariffs. Since the Prime Minister took office, the deficit has doubled, Canada has the fastest-shrinking G7 economy with the second-highest unemployment rate, $54 billion of n…
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Mr. Speaker, the PBO, Canada's top budget watchdog, has painted a dismal picture of the Prime Minister's economic record, saying, “the labour market sucks, wages are not going up”. It gets worse for the Prime Minister, with his big plan to split the budget into operating and capital. The PBO is not fooled by the smoke and mirrors. He said, “The bottom line of the government will not change. The in…
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Mr. Speaker, however the Liberals want to try to spin their massive deficits, the top financial watchdog in the country says there is only one bottom line, and we will trust the PBO's word over 10 years of Liberal deficits any day. With the plan to split the budget, it is as if the Prime Minister has forgotten that it is all linked to the same bank account, and there is really only one taxpayer. W…
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With regard to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office: (a) what is the current wait time between when a patent application is received and the patent is issued; (b) what is the current backlog of patent applications in terms of the number of applications and projected wait time; (c) what is the breakdown of (b) by province or territory and…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been 18 months since the tragic disappearance of Earl Moberg, a beloved husband, father and grandfather from my community. Mr. Moberg suffered from dementia and despite exhaustive search efforts, he has not been found and is presumed deceased. Unfortunately, by 2030, nearly one million people will be living with Alzheimer's in Canada, and nearly 60% will go missing at some poin…
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Mr. Speaker, we learned some disturbing news today. A Liberal cabinet minister from Manitoba has been found to have a serious history of harassment and unprofessional conduct in the workplace. A former subordinate said they endured humiliation, intimidation and months of psychological warfare by the minister in her previous job. This is obviously completely unacceptable and unworthy of a minister …
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Mr. Speaker, the victim's experience was substantiated by an independent review conducted by a law firm. Many people have been victims of workplace bullying, and few have the courage to speak out. This brave woman did, and she attempted to contact the Liberal Party, who did not even dignify this with a response. Really, what message does this send to victims, that if one's boss engages in months o…
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Mr. Chair, I am honoured to rise in the House to discuss a very important issue today. In the recent election I heard loud and clear from my community, as many MPs did across the country, that interprovincial trade barriers must come down for the sake of our economy and the strength of Canada. I want to congratulate the new minister on her role as the Minister of Transport and Internal Trade. Cert…
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Mr. Chair, of course, though, the minister has a real leadership role here. The trucking industry itself and trucking businesses in my community are asking and expecting, based on the promises made by the Liberals in the last election, the Prime Minister himself and the minister, that there will be serious leadership and results by Canada Day. Those are the promises that were made by the Liberal P…
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Mr. Chair, I appreciate the response, but the problem is that I do have a difficult time having confidence in it. About 10 years ago, in September 2016, the Department of Transport, the department the minister is responsible for, had a partnership with provinces to put together a task force that made quite an extensive report on this very issue, “Supporting the Efficient Movement of Trucks Across …
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Mr. Speaker, to be clear, the Prime Minister promised elbows up against U.S. tariffs. He promised dollar-for-dollar countertariffs. He promised it would generate $20 billion in revenue, but he broke those promises. He secretly dropped countertariffs to effectively zero. He stopped fighting back against President Trump pretty early on, and now Trump is threatening to double tariffs on Canadian stee…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not hear a dollar amount on revenue from those countertariffs, so we can assume it is effectively zero. If the steel tariffs were not bad enough, the Prime Minister is determined to keep the industrial carbon tax on our steel production, driving up the cost of steel production here at home, which perhaps is really no surprise, given the Prime Minister claimed that Canadians do n…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to put on the record that the Conservatives of the public safety committee have included a dissenting report on the public safety and national security committee's auto theft report. We heard a lot of testimony from police that the government's soft-on-crime measures have increased auto thefts in this country. We need tougher bail measures. We need tougher Criminal Code sentenc…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate where the member is coming from, but I talked about a few of the young women who were killed as a result of the taxpayer-funded drugs that were gateways to this horrific end for them. What the NDP fails to recognize over and over again is the community impact. It is not just on the individual drug addict. It is the community impact of these drug dens, of the needle dist…
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Madam Speaker, today we are talking about the deaths of 47,000 Canadians, many of them young people. Forty-seven thousand Canadians have died in the last number of years in drug-related deaths. Two of them, I am going to be talking about today. Young Brianna MacDonald was 13 years old when she overdosed. She was found in a homeless encampment after having a cardiac arrest. She was 13, still a chil…
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of the Stephen Harper Conservative majority, there were almost 1,700 more CBSA workers than when he started and an additional half-billion dollars of investment. That is the Harper record. At the same time, we balanced the budget and decreased crime by 20%. Contrast that with the Liberals' record, with an increase of violent crime of 50% and the largest debt of all pr…
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Madam Speaker, the suggestion made by the member is certainly worth looking into. I have enjoyed working with her on the public safety committee, and of course, we had the Minister of Public Safety there and asked him a number of questions about the border and the fact that Canada is basically staring down the barrel of a 25% tariff from our biggest trading partner. We trade 80% with the United St…
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With regard to firearms statistics held by the government, broken down by year since January 1, 2022: (a) how many firearms were seized by (i) the RCMP, (ii) the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), (iii) other police forces, broken down by source (domestic or foreign); (b) how many firearms were seized and traced by (i) the RCMP, (ii) the CBSA, (iii) other police forces; (c) how many firearms se…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to put a few words and facts on the record concerning the privilege motion put forward by the member for Thornhill.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a few more facts that have not been discussed regarding the privilege debate, and I will be brief. I am the—
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Mr. Speaker, I will try to be very brief. I did want to put a few points on the record for your consideration of the privilege question, particularly from a public safety standpoint. As you know, I am the official shadow minister for public safety, and the RCMP falls under my portfolio. I am accountable to hold the government accountable. My concerns are regarding the protective policing program. …
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Mr. Speaker, I am not speaking quickly enough to the standard of the NDP member, but I will speak to this. I would say that I do believe the Speaker should consult with the director of the PPP program for those considerations because I do have grave concerns in this regard. It increases the threat, the access that individuals have and the idea that they can come to a sit-in right in our offices, o…
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Mr. Speaker, at the status of women committee, we hear from abused woman after abused woman who have been hurt and their lives endangered because of Bill C-75. Their abusers are getting out on bail easier than ever before.
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Mr. Speaker, the statistics on women speak for themselves. There is a 75% increase in sexual assaults. That is a 75% increase since the Liberals have been in power. Sexual violations against children are up 120%. Why is this? We have heard, at the status of women committee, over and over from abused women that it is Bill C-75. These monsters are getting out on bail and killing women. That is on th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has no credibility when it comes to protecting women. In the nine years the Liberals have been in power, sexual assaults have increased 75%. Ninety-four municipalities and the Province of Nova Scotia have declared intimate partner violence an epidemic. In Canada, one woman in Peel region is strangled to death every single day and violent abusers of women are get…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the people of Toronto were shocked to see a man attempt a violent carjacking, shooting up cars all over the 401. It is not just Toronto. Gun violence is up 116% under the Liberal government. In fact, it is the ninth consecutive year that gun violence has increased in this country. What are the Liberals doing today? They are making another announcement, but not targeting the…
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With regard to applications for warrants made under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act between November 20, 2019, and October 26, 2021: (a) how many warrant applications were provided to the office of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness between November 20, 2019, and December 31, 2020; (b) how many warrant applications were provided to the office of the Minister of…
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Mr. Speaker, we are two months into the longest privilege debate in House of Commons history and Canadian history. It has been two months of Liberals running from accountability after the Speaker's ruling, in agreement with the opposition parties, that the government must produce the documents. Of course, it is a constitutional power that we have in the House: The House can compel the order of doc…
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Madam Speaker, yes, I do. The last 13 months have been horrific in the Middle East. We support Israel's right to defend itself and we hold Hamas responsible for all this destruction and for the terrorist attacks of October 7. This is on Hamas. What we are not hearing is a clear denunciation of that from the Liberal government. We feel that when a terrorist organization is happy with the position o…
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