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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, Canadians' grocery bills look less like a Christmas list and more like Clark Griswold's electricity bill. The Prime Minister told Canadians that he should be judged by the costs at the grocery store. Well, eight months later we are feeling even more uncertainty and facing even higher grocery bills. Today's food price report shows that grocery …
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to ask a question of my neighbour, the hon. member for Bowmanville—Oshawa North. We each represent a portion of the city of Oshawa. His heart for youth and young people is probably what resonates the most in the House, along with his conversation around addiction. I would like to give him an opportunity to address the cost of food. It has doubled, but income, the amoun…
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Yes, Mr. Chair, it does send a dangerous message, and the message is that their jobs really do not matter. They are scared, worried and uncertain. When we speak to anyone in the auto sector right now, their comments are simply that if we could deal with the uncertainty, we could invest more in Canada. We have bad deals abroad and terrible policy at home, or no deals abroad, with the U.S. or anywhe…
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It would be great, Mr. Chair, if we could get a good deal. What the Prime Minister told us in April was that he was the guy who could do it. He told Canadians to elect him to be Prime Minister because he knew how to handle Donald Trump and how to negotiate a deal, yet he has failed over and over again. When he is asked to make a call or if has he spoken to the U.S. administration, he says, “Who ca…
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Mr. Chair, yes, I would agree. We are negotiating from a position of weakness. I mean, we were told in the last election that the Prime Minister was the man with the plan and would negotiate a deal by July 21. It is now December. We do not have a deal. Clearly, Canadians were sold a bill of goods and did not get what they supposedly wanted when they elected this minority Liberal government. For 10…
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Mr. Chair, who cares? Can members believe that is what the Prime Minister said when he was asked when he had last spoken to the President of the United States about tariffs like the ones threatening thousands of Canadian jobs? “Who cares?” Well, Oshawa cares. Canadian auto workers care, their families care, Conservatives care, and every community shaped by the sweat and determination of this great…
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Mr. Chair, I am not quite sure the member understood what I said. I certainly did not say that we should get out of the way. We are standing for auto workers. We called this debate tonight because we care about what is going on. If anyone needs to get out of the way, I would say the Liberals should get out of the way so that Conservatives can get the job done.
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Mr. Chair, I am so grateful that the member here just mentioned my riding of Oshawa. He can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that very close to his riding, the V8 engines that are being manufactured are for the Silverados that are built in my riding. I wonder if the member can speak to the camaraderie and the solidarity that auto workers have in all the different places where we have assemb…
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Mr. Chair, I wonder if the member could comment on that uncertainty a bit more. That uncertainty, according to the auto manufacturers and the auto workers I have talked to, is because of the EV mandate and the fact that we have policies at home that are hurting us. Would the member agree that these policies are hurting our auto workers and that the Liberals right now could do something about that?
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Mr. Chair, I want to thank the member for his speech and for his passion. He cares a great deal about Canadians. It is very clear to see every time he stands in this House how much he is looking out for the residents who live in his neighbourhood. I wonder if he could take a few moments and talk a bit about the contradictions we constantly see coming from the other side of the House. Out of one si…
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Mr. Speaker, I see that I am getting some heckles, and that means that I am touching on some points that they do not like too much. The industrial carbon tax increases the cost of transporting food, growing food and processing food. It increases the cost of heating barns, operating tractors and running food production facilities. Farmers feel it, truckers feel it, food processors feel it and famil…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not my job to stand here and decide whether or not a premier of a province is right or wrong, unless it is my own province. It is my job to stand here and tell the government what we think about its budget implementation act. This is what we are discussing here today.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to rise this afternoon on behalf of my wonderful neighbours in Oshawa and speak to the recent Liberal budget and Bill C-15, the budget implementation bill. As a mother of two, a 21-year-old and a 15-year-old, I cannot help but look at the direction of our beloved country with some deep concern. In fact, it is why I decided to run and why I stand here today; it is bec…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not quite sure if that is true. I ask that the member provide me, maybe at a later date, some proof of this. I would love to see it. However, that still misses the point. Canadians are tired of being placated with words. They need action that will actually make a difference for them. My last name is Kirkland, which means it is deeds, not words: facta, non verba. I sure would love…
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Mr. Speaker, well, I am happy to contradict the governor of the central bank sometimes, especially when eventually he might become our Prime Minister, like the one we have right now. Canadians are not stupid, and they are getting tired of being treated like they are. Listen, the truth is this: We know that with a carbon tax on the big emitters, that cost will be passed down to the consumer. It was…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very thankful that my colleague brought this up, because that is something that is near and dear to my heart. I believe Oshawa is the centre of the heart of auto in the country. I believe our folks in Oshawa are very concerned about their jobs. We are looking at 1,000, possibly 2,000 more on the supply chain, auto jobs that are being lost next month at Christmastime. Everyone is …
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise this morning on behalf of my neighbours in Oshawa to speak in strong support of Bill C-225, a bill that would protect victims, hold repeat offenders accountable and strengthen Canada's ability to respond to the growing epidemic of intimate partner violence. For 10 years, Canadians have lived under Liberal hug-a-thug policies that have made our communities less …
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister was asked whether he had spoken to Trump about trade, and guess what he did. He brushed off the question, saying, “Who cares?” The Prime Minister may not think it is a serious matter, but Conservatives do and so do auto workers in Oshawa and across Ontario and Quebec, who are seeing their jobs disappear. Thousands of auto jobs are leaving Canada, and workers justi…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if my colleague would like to take some time to elaborate on what our jobs are here, and specifically the jobs of the government and the ministers. Why do we need an extra layer of bureaucracy when they can simply keep promises?
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Mr. Speaker, I was very touched when I heard the member for Cambridge talk about her grandmother and how, when she came to Canada, her fridge was full of groceries. I thought very long and hard at that moment about the seniors and the mothers in my riding who are struggling to feed their family and to keep the lights and the heat on. I would ask if the member would take a few moments and share som…
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Mr. Speaker, what is clear is that instead of negotiating deals for Canadian auto workers, what the Prime Minister cares about is being more interested in negotiating deals for Brookfield. Oshawa is set to lose thousands of jobs this January, even though the Prime Minister promised to negotiate a win. This is a burning issue for Oshawa auto workers, so why is it not a burning issue for the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister was asked this weekend whether he had spoken to Trump about trade, he said, “Who cares?” Apparently, there is not a “burning issue”. Well, Conservatives care, and so do the thousands of Oshawa auto workers at the GM assembly plant who are losing their jobs because of the trade war. How can the Prime Minister look Oshawa auto workers in the eye and tell them he …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is the most expensive in Canadian history. Food prices are rising 40% faster here than in the United States, crushing workers, families, seniors and young people. Today, Simcoe Hall Settlement House in Oshawa shared heartbreaking news. Families who have never needed help before are now walking into the food bank. Even long-time donors cannot give anymore because…
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Madam Speaker, it is a privilege to rise in support of this bill. It holds deep meaning for victims of violent crime and for me, personally, as a resident and the newest member of Parliament for Oshawa. Bill C-221 builds upon years of advocacy for greater transparency and fairness in Canada's parole system. It also continues the work of my predecessor, the former member of Parliament for Oshawa, D…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes directly out of Canadians' pockets. The Liberal government's 10th budget delivers the largest deficit outside of the COVID years at $78 billion. It will add more fuel to the inflation fire, and Canadians will continue to struggle to afford groceries. Poverty and food insecurity have risen nearly 40% in just two years, yet the Liberals keep …
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberals spend comes straight out of the pockets of Canadians through higher taxes and the skyrocketing cost of living. The Liberals can gaslight and call the fuel regulations tax imaginary all they want, but my neighbours in Oshawa will feel the hit of up to 17¢ per litre more for gas. Will the Prime Minister stop trying to engineer a costly election with a costly bu…
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Madam Speaker, let us get back to the truth, which is that the Liberals have no credible jobs plan for young Canadians. My son happens to be with me this week. He is a fourth-year economics student at the University of Western Ontario. This past summer it took him until August to find a summer job, and now he is unemployed again and looking for something else. What does the member have to say to m…
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Madam Speaker, I will ask my colleague a similar question to that I asked a colleague previously. It has to do with the statistics from 2019 to 2023, which state that 1,074 murders were committed by criminals who were out on bail. We do not have the numbers for 2024 and 2025 yet. The member opposite continues to ask if the Conservatives will pass the bill quickly, and he says we should pass the bi…
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Madam Speaker, I wonder if my colleague could comment on a couple of things. I very quickly looked at a few numbers. Since Bill C-75 passed, there were 182 murders committed by people out on bail in 2019, 198 in 2020, 171 in 2021, 256 in 2022 and 267 in 2023. We do not have numbers for 2024 and 2025. This does not include intimate partner violence abuse and child abuse by criminals who were out on…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member would comment on what he would say to young people in my riding of Oshawa about this. We recently put a post on social media about two fast-food restaurants that had applied for temporary foreign workers, and I simply asked whether it was possible that young people in my riding did not want the jobs. Many folks wrote that it was not true; they had applied and, f…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my speech was super clear on this. The problem, in the first place, started with Bill C-75 in 2019 and continued with Bill C-5 and the reduction of mandatory minimum sentences. Canadians have been feeling so completely unsafe in their communities for six years. Police associations have been begging us to change this for years. The comments made by folks in Whitby, under a Face…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a legitimate question. Yes, we had Bill C-242, which is still on the Order Paper. However, the measures in Bill C-242 go far beyond what Bill C-14 would do. Of course, if we can see some marked improvement with Bill C-14, a small step is better than no step at all. We will certainly put the public safety of Canadians first, as always.
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Mr. Speaker, the only response I can give to that is, what took so long? We have had 10 years of Liberal failure and, for six years, we have seen the devastating effects of Bill C-75 and Bill C-5. There is so much that needs to be done. What about all the people lost in all that time for whom we have been advocating? We have been speaking to the police associations. In six years, how many deaths w…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. As always, it is a privilege to rise on behalf of the wonderful folks of Oshawa. I also want to wish all families in Oshawa a happy Halloween tomorrow and remind everyone that on the last Friday in October, we mark poppy day, when Canadians begin wearing the poppy in remembrance of those who have served and cont…
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Mr. Speaker, I will make this quick. There is an old proverb saying that a wicked man flees when no one is pursuing him, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Basically, that means if someone has done nothing wrong, what is the reason for holding up this motion? If there is nothing to hide, why are they running? Let us just deal with it.
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Mr. Speaker, it was refreshing to hear a speech in this House that was brought down to everyone's understanding and simplified. We understand that very simple amendments were made at committee. We have the committee process for a reason. I am wondering if the member would give his opinion on why the Liberal government is against simple amendments that would protect the safety of Canadians and the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is once again an honour to rise on behalf of the resilient residents of Oshawa. Those are the residents who I believe are among some of the hardest-working Canadians in the country, but they are concerned about their safety. They are concerned about their safety when they are in their neighbourhoods and walking downtown, and they are concerned about border safety and the drugs that…
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Mr. Speaker, police and law enforcement throughout the country know that Conservatives stand behind them. We always have. We always will. We support our police officers. We will never do what some Liberals across the way have done and call for the defunding of police. I find it despicable that they would accuse us of things that make no sense.
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Mr. Speaker, before we broke for some time, I was discussing the fentanyl crisis here in Canada. I mentioned my nephew, who lost his life to an accidental overdose six months ago in the middle of our last federal election campaign. I brought him up because I do not think the Liberals—
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Mr. Speaker, as I continue my speech, I want to re-mention my nephew, Cody Kirkland, whom we lost in the middle of the last federal election campaign. He passed away due to an accidental overdose, and fentanyl was the cause, so it is close to home. I know folks in my community and folks across the country recognize how important this fentanyl crisis is and what is going on. I hope the Liberals acr…
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Mr. Speaker, the members opposite continue to try to distract and make a scenario out of this by using political spin, which they are very good at doing. The comments made were regarding the former RCMP commissioner, who has a lengthy track record of publicly documented scandals, deceptions and public interference, to the benefit of the Liberal government. We know that. The Conservatives at the ti…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments regarding the loss of my nephew, who passed away during the middle of the last election due to a fentanyl overdose. The Liberals continue to push so-called safe consumption sites, even next to schools and day cares. At committee, my Conservative colleague from Riding Mountain asked the health minister to rule out approving more sites near children. S…
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Mr. Speaker, do members know what I think is despicable? I think the member's comment, after I shared my nephew's death due to a fentanyl overdose, was uncalled for, uncaring and despicable. That is what I have to say to him.
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Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that we need just a few more moments to touch on the fact that, as I watched this over the years, the Liberals are very good at creating chaos and then pretending, by throwing money at it, that they are fixing what they created. We are supposed to trust them after they created the problem in the first place. I wonder if the member could touch on the matter of trust.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister failed to negotiate a win with President Trump, and Canadian auto jobs are on the line. Stellantis was handed $15 billion, and it has now announced it is moving 3,000 jobs to the United States. The current finance minister negotiated the deal and bragged about it. Now these auto jobs have left Canada for the U.S., and he refuses to be transparent. The Liberals are h…
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Mr. Speaker, in the G7, Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy and the second-highest unemployment, and it is only getting worse for auto workers, like the ones in my hometown, Oshawa. The Prime Minister promised to protect Canadian auto workers, yet one day after his trip to Washington, the Trump administration confirmed no relief on auto tariffs and a promised $1 trillion for the U.S. Why is t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the only auto workers these Liberals stand with are U.S. auto workers. This is personal. These are good, livable jobs that help families find homes, raise kids and retire with dignity. They have done everything right, and now they are being told that their jobs do not matter. These losses are the direct result of the Prime Minister's failure to stand up for Canada's a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that for the first time, Oshawa residents sent a woman to be their representative in the House of Commons. I am thinking about that a lot as I listen to the folks across the way in the Liberal government say things like “cultural change”, “fairness”, “trust”, “inclusive”, “respectful”, “we hear them”, “support” and “independence”. These words are being used over and …
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Mr. Speaker, growing up in Oshawa, the nightly routine was simple: dinner at home, or at Teddy's if we were lucky, and then spend as much time outside as possible knowing it was time to go home when the street lights came on. However, now that crime has gotten so bad, the new nightly routine is for a person to lock their car, hide their valuables and turn on their security system if they have one.…
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Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned that victims deserve justice. I wonder if he can comment on whether he feels that they will receive fair justice currently in the civilian courts when they are instructed by Bill C-75 to let people out on bail as early as possible and under the least onerous conditions. Until we fix that, we are not getting them justice.
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