Parliamentary Speeches

Orders of the Day

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…

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, certainly we are very blessed in this country to have the natural resource sector. The hydrocarbon sector ensures that transfers to various provinces are possible. It ensures that health care in this country is possible. In fact, given the new Trump administration coming in, thank God we have the energy sector, because the Americans depend on that energy; in fact it makes their gas …

Orders of the Day

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…

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, what I have heard from the Jewish community is that they want those hostages released and to be able to bury their dead with dignity, which they have been denied for 13 months. Many of the hostages are still alive, from what we understand. They need to be released and they need to be released now. That is what needs to happen. The NDP supported that GST tax cut yesterday, which amou…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, we are facing a very scary situation in Canada, with Canadians really struggling. As we know, one in five children is living in poverty, two million people are at food banks and homeless encampments are popping up all over our cities all over the country. What is really interesting about this measure is that it almost seems like the Liberals are finally admitting that Canadians are …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Winnipeg law enforcement community is reeling from a violent incident last night in which an officer was stabbed in the neck. Thankfully, he is in stable condition, but this is the reality faced by our brave police officers every single day. In fact, in Toronto, 637 police officers have been injured on the job just this year alone. It is no wonder when there has been a 50% rise in…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government often blames the provincial courts, for example, for the crime wave we are seeing across this country. Of course, the provincial courts are governed by the law, and the Liberals changed the law with Bill C-75, which made bail the default for repeat violent offenders. The results are clear: There has been a 116% increase of gun crime in Canada and a 50% increase …

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I move that the third report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, presented on Monday, April 25, 2022, be concurred in. I will be splitting my time with the member for Sturgeon River—Parkland. Today, we are discussing a report from the public safety and national security committee about guns and gangs, and frankly, we have been on this for quite some tim…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, unfortunately, the member for Winnipeg North was not listening to my remarks. I was talking about Bill C-75, which was passed by the Liberals with support from the NDP in 2019. That is what caused all of the mayhem that police are now having to deal with. The member is talking about Bill C-48. Bill C-48 was a seven-page bill in contrast to Bill C-75 that was 200 pages. It was a meas…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I have a question about this concerning subamendment moved to our amendment on this issue of debate today. Our amendment is calling on the public safety and national security committee, which the member and I are both part of, to review in detail the situation of crime and bail going on in this country, given what we are seeing day in and day out in the headlines about violent crime…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, it is difficult to apologize for something that is true. The member has voted in favour—

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her hard work on FEWO. Certainly, she brings up a lot of good points about Bill S-205. I was proud to sponsor that on behalf of Senator Boisvenu, who has since retired but certainly made it his life's mission to protect women from violent offenders and abusers. The member has pointed out a number of things that happened at status of women last year by Liberal …

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I would like to end my remarks commemorating Karolina Huebner-Makurat, who was shot by a man out on bail in Leslieville, Toronto. There are many women who have been killed by people out on bail. That member voted for softer bail legislation. That is on him. If he is not comfortable with it, then maybe he should do something about it and stop supporting the Liberal government.

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, it is really interesting to hear the arrogant tone from that member when every step of the way he has voted in favour of soft-on-crime legislation that has cost the lives of women, children and innocent people across this country because of his efforts to support the Liberals.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to add my comments to the question of privilege raised by the member for Cowichan—Malahat—Langford on November 7 concerning the 14th report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, of which I am vice-chair. I echo many of the comments made by the member of Bloc Québécois, who is also a vice-chair of the committee. Conservatives are very concerned …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, crime is up and churches are being targeted. A Winnipeg neighbourhood saw a 61% increase in crime. Churches are having to pay thousands of dollars for repairs and security. One church had to put up an eight-foot barbed wire fence to keep criminals out. A woman was victim to an armed carjacking while leaving church, and two people died last month a…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of Liberals, crime is up and small businesses are fed up. The Liberal Prime Minister changed the laws to make it easier for violent repeat offenders to get bail, and now break-and-enters, thefts and vandalism have become everyday realities for small businesses in Canada. Nearly 60% of small businesses in B.C., for example, are being directly impacted by crime; eight i…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I am going to let the police associations speak for themselves to the Liberal minister and to the Liberal Prime Minister. This is from Surrey, B.C.: “The federal handgun freeze fails to address the real issue: the surge of illegal firearms coming across our borders and ending up in the hands of violent criminals.” This is from Vancouver, B.C.: “Stopping legal sales won't stop criminal…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, violent crime is up and police have had enough. Frontline officers in Toronto, York, Vancouver and Surrey are all slamming the Prime Minister for his self-congratulatory social media campaign where he promoted his failed handgun policy that has done nothing to stop violent gun crime, which is up, in fact, by 116% since the Liberals took power nine…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Toronto police are on the front lines of gun violence in Canada. One of their officers was recently shot by a repeat violent offender, yet shockingly, yesterday, the Liberal Prime Minister took a deranged victory lap on social media for his attack on licensed, trained and police-vetted sport …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I will read the words of the Toronto Police Association to the Liberal Prime Minister. It said, “Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the United State…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House among my colleagues and talk about this critical issue facing Canadians. I know many Canadians have been hearing about this over the past week; certainly, for this kind of news to break on a Thanksgiving Monday was quite unprecedented, so I am honoured to put some words on the record. Certainly, we are hearing about very serious allegations from th…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I think what I am expecting is what all Canadians are expecting, which is a leader who is going to make our country strong, a leader who is not going to have our country, after nine years, turn into a country that is being bullied by multiple foreign adversaries, and now friends, in fact. That is the status quo under the Liberal government, which that member is a part of, a government…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we have been very clear on this. We feel, as do others, that this security clearance would, in essence, be a gag order. It is very transparent, in fact, why the Prime Minister dropped this so-called bombshell and made a circus out of what was otherwise a very professional undertaking, the foreign interference inquiry. It is because his own caucus is looking to revolt.…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I have shared this with the NDP member. I find it interesting that the former leader of the NDP would agree with the leader of the Conservative Party that in essence it would be a gag order. Again, there is a very political reason that the Liberals are doing this right now. What was interesting in that foreign interference inquiry is that the Liberal leader, as we already knew, later …

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I think the hon. member is right. Our job in the House of Commons, as opposition parties, is to ensure that the government is held accountable. The government should spend the money that hard-working taxpayers provide to government while ensuring that it is ethically used. As the member said, we have a role to hold the government accountable. As I mentioned in my speech, this is what …

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I seem to have touched a nerve with that member of Parliament, and I am sorry that she has to be part of a government that is so corrupt. I can understand why that is so upsetting. Faced with the facts, it would be hard to have any association with the Liberal government. I understand her angst.

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, the House of Commons has been ground to a halt for over two weeks because the Liberal government refuses to comply with an order of the House to permit the distribution of the documents concerning a $400-million corruption scandal. These are heights we have not seen in quite some time, with a scandal of epic proportions. The Liberals have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that t…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to see and work with the member on the public safety committee. I do find him to be a respectable individual and highly intelligent. It seems that NDP members are starting to drop little markers that they will be helping the Liberals bring this to an end. I do find that quite regrettable. Considering the powers of this place, and the Speaker's ruling, the Liberals hav…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, what we have to look at is all the members who were appointed to this board, and Annette Verschuren is one of them. She got very wealthy off of her own appointment, which cannot be ignored. If the Prime Minister approved her appointment, to me, that is someone who is in great favour. Being the chair of this was not nothing, and when she was there, that is when we saw a great decline o…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I read that article as well, and I worry that Mr. Coyne is correct in that we are seeing what really amounts to a lack of respect for Parliament, for what we have been in power to do and for the privileges and power that we have as an opposition to hold the executive branch accountable. Our House leader, the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle, did an excellent speech on the ancient parliame…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I listened to the commentary from the member for Winnipeg North, who repeatedly said that Conservatives are abusing power. I find that very illuminating in terms of the Liberal mindset on this. They believe that our holding the government accountable and exercising the most ancient parliamentary privilege, which is to call for persons, papers and things, is an abuse of power. I would …

Statements by Members

Mr. Speaker, one year ago today, Jews experienced the worst attacks since the Holocaust. Innocent Jews were barbarically slaughtered; women's bodies were broken from vicious rape. Children were tortured in front of their parents, and people were burned alive and mutilated. Twelve hundred Jewish lives were horrifically ended that day, and 101 hostages continue to be held by the Hamas terrorists res…

Oral Questions

Madam Speaker, the fact is, after nine years under the NDP-Liberals, violent crime in Canada is up 50%. That is their responsibility, and it is really no wonder. Police report that there are 790 repeat violent offenders just walking the streets in Mississauga and Brampton. Police say almost everyone they arrest is out on bail, yet Liberals have made it very clear, especially yesterday in question …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, that member voted for Bill C-5, which allowed house arrests for sexual assault. They also supported Bill C-75, which made it easier for repeat violent offenders, including rapists, to get bail. That is their record, which the NDP has supported every step of the way. When will they call a carbon tax election so we can finally stop the crime in this country?

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. After nine years, violent crime is up 50% and sexual assaults are up 75% in Canada. A serial rapist in Edmonton was released on day parole only four years after he sexually assaulted five women. Earlier this year, a child sex abuser was allowed out on bail. A warrant was issued for his arrest…

Private Members' Business

Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.

Private Members' Business

moved that the bill be concurred in.

Statements by Members

Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Under the Liberal government, repeat violent offenders are getting bail and parole; justice for victims is being ignored. In fact, 256 people were killed in 2022 by criminals out on bail or another form of release. These 256 people could still be alive today if not for the broken Liberal b…

Private Members' Business

moved that the bill be read the third time and passed.

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, tomorrow is the day that Canadians finally have the opportunity to go to an election. We are having a confidence vote tomorrow in the House. There is a real opportunity for Canadians to finally voice their concerns at the ballot box. Many Canadians have been waiting years for this opportunity, and we are at a critical time in Canadian history. Many members on this side of the House …

Private Members’ Business

Madam Speaker, I am honoured to rise in the House today to speak to my private member's bill, Bill S-205. It is a very important bill. When researching the bill, I found out that one woman is murdered every 48 hours in Canada. In fact, last year, 205 women were murdered in Canada, and we know that about 60% of murdered women in Canada were murdered by their intimate partner. This bill looks to add…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Under their watch, women and children are being victimized and violated by criminals who, under Liberal policies, are being let out on bail, house arrest and parole. After nine years, the results are truly terrible. Sexual assaults, for example, are up 75% and sexual violations against childr…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, whenever the Conservatives talk about fiscal responsibility, all we hear from other parties is that Conservatives are going to cut, when really it is just their not admitting that they do not care about the future of the financial stability of our country at all. They do not want to balance the budget. They do not care how much they are burdening future generations. I ask the member…

Statements by Members

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The carbon tax has increased the costs of food, fuel and home heating. As a result, we are seeing record numbers of working Canadian families relying on food banks. To make matters worse, the NDP-Liberal government plans to quadruple the carbon tax, and it continues to vote for soft…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his heartfelt speech. I am deeply sorry that he has experienced and his communities have experienced the trauma that he outlined, and no community should have to go through that. I would like to extend sincere apologies to his community members, that they had to go through that. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and the community that he represents. I apprec…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for her remarks, as well as for her remarks in response to another member's questions. She mentioned that progress has been made. Unfortunately, we are seeing that in first nations and Inuit communities, the fact is that crime has gone up significantly in the last number of years. Perhaps she could specify where the progress is being made, specifically…

Emergency Debate

Madam Speaker, I am honoured to be back in the chamber. I have been on a sort of pseudo-maternity leave, working in my community for the last year, approximately. It is really an honour to be back amongst all the colleagues and to be debating very important issues, as we are this evening. I would like to thank the member for Nunavut for bringing this important issue forward. I thank her very since…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I thank the member very sincerely for bringing this forward. I agree with her wholeheartedly that in any solutions and in any work that the government is doing to support first nations, first nations, Inuit and Métis need to be equal partners at the table and the work needs to be guided by lived experience by first nations, Inuit and Métis people. I very much appreciate the member for…

Emergency Debate

Madam Speaker, I appreciate the kind opening remarks by my colleague from Winnipeg Centre. There is a lot I could say on this. The member and I have actually had side chats about it, because it is an important issue to solve or, at the bare minimum, make some progress on. It is desperately needed in Winnipeg on drug issues and the drug deaths we are seeing at an increasingly alarming rate, particu…