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Mr. Speaker, we could do what the Liberals are doing right now, which is sitting back, doing nothing and managing the decline that is happening. What we can do, instead of simply offering supports, new job training and all these things to manage this decline, is not sit on our laurels. We can present a plan. We can try to negotiate. Something that Unifor members across this country understand is n…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very proud of the work that our Conservative opposition has done on this plan. I would like my colleague, if he would, to summarize the difference between the Liberal plan and the Conservative plan.
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Mr. Speaker, the basis of any successful negotiation strategy is figuring out what the person we are negotiating with needs, what they are looking for and what they want. Our country, as it currently is run, seems to be capitulating to everything that the U.S. wants. I suggest we look at negotiating: They are looking for this; we are looking for this. How can we make that work together to the bene…
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Mr. Speaker, it is interesting. We hear words like “appreciate,” “we understand,” and “we stand with our auto workers.” I suggest the Liberals stand with them in the unemployment lines, and that is unacceptable to Conservatives. We are not the government right now. We are the opposition. It is up to the Liberal Party of Canada and the Liberal Prime Minister to negotiate a deal to the betterment of…
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Mr. Speaker, let me correct the record. Conservatives do not want to end the electrification of future manufacturing and of vehicles. We simply would like the market to decide how that will go. On the other hand, I think we can have both. I think we can have oil and gas. I think we can have electrified vehicles, and we will move away. What I do not agree with—
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Mr. Speaker, as always, it is an honour to rise this morning on behalf of my neighbours in Oshawa about a great concern that touches so many of our lives. I would like to take a brief moment, though, to thank those of this House, as well as those of the Christian community who joined us this morning at the 60th National Prayer Breakfast. I was honoured to be in attendance. In my community, the aut…
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Mr. Speaker, as for the heckling from the other side, what I do not agree with is the idea that we are giving EV incentives to the United States and folks like Elon Musk. Why are the Liberals doing that?
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Mr. Speaker, it would be awfully nice if we saw the Liberal government do something. I know first-hand that Unifor members love our Conservative auto strategy. Maybe it is time that they spoke with folks on the assembly line. Since 2015, auto production in Canada has been cut in half. It is down another 7.8% under the Liberal Prime Minister. At a time when unjustified American tariffs threaten our…
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Mr. Speaker, last week I was privileged to walk the line at the Oshawa GM assembly plant, speaking with auto workers directly. I could see first-hand the pride, skill and dedication that built Oshawa's auto industry. They are the ones paying the price for the Liberal government's inaction. Uncertainty is making it harder for them to plan their futures and count on stable livelihoods. We need to pr…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not have to say this, but I am going to say it anyway. I am splitting my time with my beautiful seatmate, the member for Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay. As always, it is an honour to rise on behalf of Oshawa. Of course, I speak in support of today's Conservative motion. Oshawa is a proud and welcoming community. Our city has been shaped by generations of newcomers who c…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think that the member is quite understanding. As an educational therapist, I look for evidence-based solutions for things all the time. This is simply what this Conservative motion is proposing: an evidence-based solution. The interim federal health program has quadrupled. Canadians are having a hard time finding a doctor and getting care. It is a simple cause and effect. Let…
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Mr. Speaker, the simple answer to that is that they are not naive. I think they know exactly what the problems are. I think they know what the issues are, but they do not want to admit that the Liberal government's terrible policies over the past 11 years have caused the problems. To admit there is an issue would be to admit that they are the reason for it.
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Mr. Speaker, interim federal health program costs have quadrupled in four years. Providers are billing up to five times the provincial rates for care for rejected asylum claimants. Meanwhile, folks in Oshawa are waiting for care. They cannot find a doctor or access to benefits like vision care, physiotherapy and counselling, despite paying into the system their whole lives. Rejected claimants are …
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Mr. Speaker, I will focus more on the second question, simply because I sit on the Standing Committee for Public Safety and National Security. I speak to CBSA agents and others quite often who tell me that they are concerned by the number of false claimants who are coming to Canada and that it feels as though it is 1% who are really legitimate refugees. Juxtapose that with the fact that we have vi…
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Madam Speaker, it does not seem the Liberals want Parliament to work. They keep saying things like Conservatives are obstructing. It seems to me they are obstructing many of their own bills from going forward. We have been helping them or trying to help them speed up good government legislation that helps Canadians. I wonder if the member would comment on that and the fact that we would like to mo…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from the Bloc's speech, and I appreciate the fact that he talked about the human aspect of it and his concern about things being human. I can assure him that that is exactly why this opposition day motion was presented. It was because of the human factor. A lot of my concern today is about legitimate refugee claimants who are possibly at risk or whose claim…
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Mr. Speaker, so many pieces of the member from Winnipeg North's speech did not make a lot of sense. A couple of things were regarding Bill C-14. The Liberals were the ones who decided to defer Bill C-14. The member mentioned the BIA. Portions of that are going to be looked at in the public safety committee. The minute that motion came forward, we all voted in favour of looking at it right away to …
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Madam Speaker, I understand the member's point of view. I guess the Liberals are admitting that they cannot do the job unless a commissioner tells them what they are doing wrong or right. They clearly have trouble implementing and making commitments, and following through on ones we have already made. As I said before, promises were made. Let us keep those promises. Clearly, the legislation is an …
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Madam Speaker, I think it is just that: We have to hold the minister responsible for implementing a treaty. We already have the commitments and agreements. Another body having to make sure it happens is redundant if the ministers responsible are doing their jobs.
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Madam Speaker, I am pretty sure we only have one Privacy Commissioner. We have one oversight for that and one oversight for the others. Let us remember that, between 2015 and 2017, the Liberal government opened six oversight bodies: the modern treaty implementation office, the assessment of modern treaty implications office, the modern treaty management environment, and on and on it—
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure I completely understand the question. I believe it was implied that the Liberal government is the first to speak with first nations, which does not make much sense to me. Perhaps I did not understand the question. I will reiterate that we either keep our promises or do not. There are promises and commitments that we have made. Adding another layer of bureaucracy will s…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today, as always, on behalf of my neighbours and friends in Oshawa to speak about something that touches the honour of the Crown and the relationship that has shaped this country since long before Confederation. That relationship cannot be repaired with press releases, new titles or fresh layers of bureaucracy. It is rebuilt by keeping promises and by doing t…
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Mr. Speaker, as always, it is a privilege to rise in the House on behalf of my wonderful neighbours in Oshawa. My neighbours are struggling today after 1,200 folks worked their last shift, the auto workers in Oshawa, but today I am here to speak to other measures of affordability that should help those folks and to our Conservative motion, which is a solution-oriented proposal. It would provide re…
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite sounds angry. The truth is that he would be angrier if he realized that the simple measure we Conservatives agreed to yesterday is one that should provide some relief for some Canadians, but that relief is about $10 on a $300 grocery order. The truth is that long-term solutions are what we need. Short-term, band-aid help is welcome, but it is not going to solve the…
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Mr. Speaker, I saw a sign a couple of years ago in Ottawa before I was elected, and it struck home with me. It said that as long as the world needs oil and gas, it might as well be Canadian. The truth is that the world is still using oil and gas. Canada has it and can provide it. How much better would it be for us to provide it, and also eliminate the industrial carbon tax, than for countries like…
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Mr. Speaker, in 2016, Canada assembled 2.3 million cars. By 2025, that number collapsed to 1.2 million. Under the Liberal government, Canada's auto industry has been cut in half, and on Friday, 1,200 more auto workers in Oshawa worked their last shift. The Prime Minister promised Canadians he was the one to be trusted to get us a deal. Instead of saying “who cares”, will the Prime Minister commit …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister has sat at the cabinet table for more than 10 years, and under her watch, the Liberal government has deindustrialized Canada, leaving the auto industry to be sacrificed to the U.S. Her inconsistent answers, from suing auto manufacturers to saying the government is getting its money back or restricting GM's access to the Canadian market, only continue to fuel the uncertain…
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Mr. Speaker, there is so much to unpack there. I agree and disagree with different portions of what the member asked me. I lived in China for a couple of years, and I will always say no to policies that sound quite Communist. I will say yes to increasing competition among our grocery stores. If we increase competition and get rid of our industrial carbon tax, we are going to make groceries more af…
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Mr. Speaker, on Friday, 1,200 auto workers in Oshawa worked their last shift. Families are hurting and good Canadian jobs are moving south, all while the Prime Minister stalls on a trade deal with the United States. Remember that when he was asked about those stalled talks, the Prime Minister said, “Who cares?” Those 1,200 auto workers in Oshawa are watching today. They want to know: Does the Prim…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians and all members of the House know that communities are facing a food inflation crisis, with 2.2 million Canadians now relying on food banks in a single month. Tiffany Kift from Simcoe Hall in Oshawa is seeing this crisis first-hand. She says people who never needed help before are lining up, including those from dual-income families. The Conservatives want to work with all p…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a reason free money always sounds too good to be true, which is that it is. The Liberals take and take, and then they gift a tiny portion back and call that good for Canadians. With rebranded one-time payments and additional funding for food banks, the demand will continue to rise as long as the cost of food keeps going up. They cannot rebate their way out of high food prices…
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Mr. Speaker, real change can begin when one person finds the courage to speak when it would often be easier to stay silent. This summer, I met Oshawa resident Caroline Harlow, a former Canada Border Services Agency officer. Caroline worked through cancer treatments, expecting to return to the specialty position she had earned. Then she became pregnant and was pushed out of the work she loved. Rath…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. Quite frankly, it was expected. I knew it would be coming from him and I was prepared with these few thoughts. On this side of the House, we feel it is very rich for the Liberals to say that we are holding back progress on public safety when for 10 years the opposition put forward motion after motion, private member's bill after private member's bi…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague that this is a step forward. I think it is very important that we take people at their word. It reminds me of legislation the previous member for Oshawa tried to bring forward in this House regarding human trafficking and convicting human traffickers. The Crown had to prove that the victim felt fear in order to get a conviction. We have such a low conviction …
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Mr. Speaker, as always, it is an honour to rise in the House today on behalf of my resilient neighbours in Oshawa. As this is the first sitting day back in the House of Commons, I want to wish everyone here a happy new year and thank the many Oshawa residents, community organizations and local businesses I had the privilege of spending time with over the winter break, listening, learning and recon…
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Mr. Speaker, with respect to ensuring that people feel safe again, I think there is only one thing that will make that happen, which is that, after another election, we have a Conservative government, because we are the only government to put forward the types of legislation needed to protect victims. The member opposite also asked me a question about when the last time was that we saw this kind o…
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Mr. Speaker, there are so many portions of my hon. colleague's speech that I agree with completely. My colleague sat with me on the public safety committee for a number of weeks previously, and I think she knows that we can agree on a lot of things. Pretty much all of my colleague's speech was about the things needed in this bill that the Conservatives can agree with. We have asked for these thing…
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Mr. Speaker, it is typical for the member opposite to place blame on the provinces and municipalities. I believe that 95%, if not all of the blame, belongs not just to Ottawa, but the Liberal government.
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Mr. Speaker, if we judge the Prime Minister by prices at the grocery store, as he said, he has failed. Canada's food inflation now sits at 6.2%, the highest in the G7. Conservatives are ready to fast-track real relief by scrapping the industrial carbon tax, eliminating the ever-increasing fuel standards tax, boosting competition in grocery stores and cutting red tape for farmers. When will the Pri…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservative members of the House and I know members on the justice committee would be happy to see the bill split in two. There are major portions of the bill that we can get behind and would like to support, but we cannot get behind empowering judges to literally ignore every mandatory prison sentence in the Criminal Code. It is simply not acceptable. Splitting the bill in two would…
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Mr. Speaker, enough with the temporary and recycled Trudeau-era rebates, and enough with blaming global factors when all the other countries have lower food price inflation than Canada. This is a homegrown problem, and we need long-term solutions. My recent visit to Simcoe Hall's Food Bank with the Conservative leader was yet another reminder that more working families are struggling and visiting …
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Mr. Speaker, absolutely every single community is facing that. Durham region has told me on multiple occasions over the last many years of the astronomical amount it is having to spend on policing and keeping our communities safe in the Durham region. The Durham regional chair and the mayors of the eight municipalities in the Durham region have reached out to this Liberal government time and time …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for all of the times they brought up the concerns that were shared with regard to Roxham Road. I assure him that Conservatives share those concerns. We have repeatedly called on the Liberal government to fix our borders and strengthen our officers and their ability at the borders to do their job. It brings up another very important point that one of his colleagues h…
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Mr. Speaker, I am thrilled that the member asked me that question. Clearly, he was not listening to the last few minutes of my speech. I spoke, very clearly, on the bail reform bill and about wanting to move it forward. As we speak, Liberal members of the justice committee are blocking our motions to move on to Bill C-14, so that we can start moving that through committee. Liberal after Liberal, t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise this morning on behalf of my neighbours in Oshawa to speak to Bill C-12. One issue has constantly been at the top of the list for the people I speak to and represent, and that is safety. They want the government to fix its broken border and immigration system and restore public safety. This concern is not limited to Oshawa, of course. Across Canada, people are …
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Mr. Speaker, I think the hon. member probably knows the answer, because, in all of our communities, we are seeing that it is difficult to walk the streets in our neighbourhoods and walk the streets where my office is in Oshawa, without watching people shoot up and overdose. The folks in my office keep Narcan on hand. It is not a safe place to live. I imagine that many places in our country are the…
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Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to see the Liberals get up time and time again to try to trick Canadians with fake good news. They talk about an increase in jobs, but they fail to mention we are talking about part-time jobs versus full-time jobs, and to add on to that, people who are working in full-time jobs right now are still lining up at food banks. This unaffordable budget is going to make thi…
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Mr. Speaker, as a single mom of two, I know first-hand that moms and dads want affordable groceries they can buy themselves. They do not want to rely on a government handout. The Prime Minister is giving better deals to his Brookfield buddies than everyday Canadian families. Moms and dads want affordable, nutritious groceries that, again, they can buy themselves. Will these Liberals ever stop livi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister asked to be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Canadians are obliging, and the result is a political receipt he does not want to read. After 10 years of Liberal government, Canadians already pay $17,500 a year for groceries, and “Canada's Food Price Report” confirms that, next year, Canadians will pay an extra $1,000. When will the Prime Minister finally sto…
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