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Mr. Speaker, thank goodness for our leader. Thank goodness for the Conservative Party, because we were the only ones for years standing up for the rights of law-abiding citizens and victims in this country. If the hon. member feels there is something inaccurate in anything I said, I would encourage him to be specific. I am citing the government's own material from when Bill C-5 was introduced, whe…
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Mr. Speaker, as my friend said, there are some positive aspects to the bill, which I mentioned. The work of my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill on the issue of deepfakes is included in this legislation. Some of the work by my hard-working colleague from Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola around intimate partner violence is included in this legislation. However, also included in this legislation is a weakeni…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his hard work on behalf of victims. He has introduced many pieces of legislation to run counter to this Liberal agenda, which has been soft on thugs but hard on victims. To answer the question, absolutely, Bill C-5 eliminated mandatory jail time for serious offences like drive-by shootings. In the brilliance of that legislation, what has been the result? It ha…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to speak here today to this important subject matter. To understand where we are today, it is important to understand where we have come from, particularly over the last decade. Over this past decade, we have seen lax Liberal laws deliberately reshape the balance of our justice system. They are deliberately going much easier on criminals and much harder on law-abiding …
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Mr. Speaker, as it is Thursday, I would like to ask the government House leader if he can inform the House on the agenda we can expect in this place next week.
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Madam Speaker, I first want to acknowledge the passing of Ernie Fage. Ernie was an MLA and cabinet minister who served ably in Nova Scotia. Our condolences go to his family at this time. I listened intently to the hon. member's speech. He mentioned putting the rights of criminals over the rights of everyday Canadians, and that is a theme I hear over and over in my own riding of Fundy Royal. I woul…
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Mr. Speaker, this just shows how out of touch the government is. Families in my riding of Fundy Royal and throughout Canada are feeling the pinch at the grocery store. Every month under the government, over two million Canadians are now visiting food banks. Food inflation in Canada has doubled just since the Prime Minister took office, making us the worst off in the G7. Conservatives will fast-tra…
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Mr. Speaker, failed Liberal policies got us into this mess, and more failed Liberal policies will not get us out of it. The cost to feed a family of four has increased by $1,000 just in the last year. Liberal taxes are hiking the cost of fuel at every point in the supply chain. To make food more affordable, we need to get rid of the Liberals' fuel standard tax and the industrial carbon tax. When w…
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Madam Speaker, indeed, I hear from my rural communities that in rural parts of the country, in rural New Brunswick, people have to travel farther. That is a cost. The government has increased the cost of fuel. The government has increased the cost of food. The government has increased crime, and we hear about that a lot in rural communities. I am hearing about the affordability issue for families …
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Madam Speaker, in the last 10 years under the Liberal government, the cost of food for families and seniors has doubled. In the last four years, the cost has gone up by 25%. A senior's income and a family's income have not kept pace with that. It is going to require a complete change in direction from the government to end its inflationary policies and make life more affordable. Whether it is hous…
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Madam Speaker, as we approach Christmastime, it is an honour to be able to stand here in this place and speak to the budget. When I think about the needs of Canadians and what we are all hearing from constituents, I look to the budget to see what is in there for the families struggling to make ends meet, the families we talk to at the grocery store or at the hockey rink who are talking about the s…
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Madam Speaker, it is unbelievable that the Liberals, after a decade during which crime has skyrocketed, the cost of housing for families has skyrocketed and the cost of food has skyrocketed, can get up and ask us questions about affordability. The cost to families for groceries has doubled since the member's party took government. We are not going to take any lessons from them on affordability. Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, the disgusting criminals who prey on innocent children must face consequences that reflect the evil nature of their crimes and the suffering of their victims. However, on Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada decided to strike down mandatory jail time for child sexual abuse material offences. One of the offenders from the case had hundreds of images of young girls, some as young as thre…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister is going to spend millions, if not billions, of taxpayers' dollars to confiscate the property of the good guys, law-abiding firearms owners, instead of going after the bad guys. Liberal laws have actually led to more gun crime. Incredibly, gun crime is up 130% under the government. Licensed firearms owners follow the rules, unlike the violent criminals shooting up …
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Mr. Speaker, if anyone has an interest in taking dangerous guns off the streets, it is the police. In a stunning indictment of the Liberals' gun confiscation scheme, the Ontario Provincial Police has just told the government it will not participate in the Liberals' ridiculous gun grab. The OPP knows what we have been saying all along: that spending hundreds of millions of dollars to confiscate the…
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With regard to findings of inadmissibility for misrepresentation under section 40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, since 2014 to 2025 to date: (a) how many findings of misrepresentation under section 40(1) have been made by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada each year, broken down by type of application (e.g., study permits, work permits, visitor visas, sponsorship applica…
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With regard to audited contributions by department, agency, and Crown corporation, since January 1, 2024: (a) what is the total number of contributions audited; (b) for each department, agency, and Crown corporation, what is the (i) total number of contributions, (ii) number of contributions that were audited; (c) of those audited contributions, what number and percentage were found to be abiding …
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Mr. Speaker, my apologies for the interruption, but the hon. member has referred to a “new government”. The government has been in power for the last decade. I am wondering if he might correct that.
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Mr. Speaker, what the minister failed to mention is that thanks to 10 years of Liberal inaction on crime, half of those 18 individuals were out on bail when they were arrested. Thanks to the good work of the Peel Regional Police, half of them were charged with violent crimes like arson and extortion. Incredibly, half of those individuals are already out on the street today. It used to be that in C…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the same old government with the same old failed solutions. The housing crisis did not just happen; it is the direct result of 10 years of Liberal government mismanagement. After only a decade, rent in Canada has doubled, the amount required for a down payment to buy a home has doubled and mortgages have doubled. The dream of owning a home in Canada is slipping away for many Can…
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Mr. Speaker, Atlantic Canadians are suffering under a Liberal government that has allowed housing costs to double and housing inflation to rise faster in Canada than in any other G7 country. In Halifax, homelessness has doubled in just the last two years. Over 1,100 people in the city are homeless, and 123 of those, at least, are children. These children do not want more government bureaucracy; th…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians were shocked to see footage of a violent carjacker shooting at commuters. Of course, this individual was out on bail. The rate of violent crime in Canada has gone up 50% since the Prime Minister took office, and gun crime has gone up every year. According to a report just released by the Fraser Institute, Canada's rate of crime is 14% higher than it is in the United States…
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Madam Speaker, at their busiest time of year, the Prime Minister has just buried small businesses under a mountain of complicated bureaucracy. Only Liberals could dream up a policy where Pokémon cards are GST-exempt but hockey cards are not, where train and Lego sets for kids are GST-exempt but train and Lego sets for adults are not and where physical video games are GST-exempt but downloadable ga…
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Madam Speaker, this is ridiculous. These guys have been in government for nine years. What happened yesterday is a direct result of their policies. Auto theft is up 45% since 2015. In Toronto, it is up 328%. This is a direct result of the government's failure on bail and failure on crime. Gun crime is up 116% and homicides are up 28%. When will the government step aside so Conservatives can crack …
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Madam Speaker, this is the House of Commons. As members of Parliament, we represent our constituents, so I am going to allow one of my constituents to answer that question. They wrote, “Ridiculous. No break on groceries, fuels or utilities. I was just reading the PM's plan to take a tax break, and I am not impressed. First off, we all know the government will want to recover this lost revenue late…
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Madam Speaker, where do I begin? This is a government that has increased the cost on Canadians exceptionally, beyond anything we have ever seen before, doubling the cost of a mortgage, doubling the cost of rent and increasing the cost of home heat. It is all due to its carbon tax, its inflationary measures. How is it possible the Liberal government has been able to do that? It is with the support …
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Madam Speaker, that is what is so perplexing about this. The essentials Canadians are really struggling to pay for right now, based on what I hear from my constituents, are fuel for their vehicle to get themselves to work and get their kids to school, food to put on their table, heating their home and paying their mortgage or rent. Canadians are suffering as they try to pay for these essentials. T…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to join in this debate tonight. A desperate government makes a transparent attempt to distract Canadians, Canadians who have been suffering. I listen to constituents in my riding of Fundy Royal, where individuals and families are struggling to make ends meet. They are struggling to put food on the table, to pay their mortgages and to pay their heating bills. Why is t…
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Mr. Speaker, we know the Liberals would rather talk about anything else than the fact that their 61¢ per litre carbon tax would mean Canadians would have among the highest fuel prices in the world. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that the Liberals' carbon tax costs Canadians more than they get back. Canadians have no confidence in the Prime Minister or in his costly carbon tax.…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The government is forcing families to pay more for gas, groceries and home heating at a time when they can least afford it. Now the Province of New Brunswick is taking the Liberals to court to hold them accountable for the money their carbon tax is making off the backs of everyday C…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member cannot be real. Conservative members of Parliament come here every day to fight for a better Canada and their constituents. What our constituents are telling us is they cannot afford more years of the government. They cannot afford skyrocketing crime. They cannot afford groceries, heat, their mortgage, their rent or to put food on the table. We have the worst inflati…
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Madam Speaker, the motion that we are debating today is pretty simple, but the effect it is having in Canadians from coast to coast is profound. The motion says that the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government. That is not just what we are saying here as a Conservative caucus, but that is what I am hearing in my riding of Fundy Royal, where people now are hurting in ways t…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member is missing the point of the debate today. The Conservative Party is calling for non-confidence. The House does not have confidence in the Prime Minister or the government. Everything about the government is wrong because it is not putting the people of Canada first. It is selfishly, with much greed, taking more than it should, taking too much from taxes, making it to…
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Madam Speaker, a new Conservative government is going to focus on improving the livelihoods and lives of all Canadians. We have to end the government's misuse of taxpayers' dollars, this waste we see. When we have waste and scandal in the system, there is less money to go around for the services that we so cherish as Canadians. This is why we are going to stop the crime, fix the budget and build h…
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With regard to Temporary Resident Permits (TRP), broken down by year for each of the last five years: (a) how many TRPs have been issued in total and broken down by those who applied (i) abroad prior to arriving in Canada, (ii) at a point of entry, (iii) while already in Canada; (b) for each part of (a), how many and what percentage of the applications required a police certificate or a criminal r…
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With regard to the event named "Symposium: Building a Safe and Respectful Digital World" hosted at the Governor General's residence on April 11, 2024: (a) what were the costs associated with the event, in total and broken down by type of expenditure; (b) was this event initiated by the Governor General and her staff or officials, or by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General and his staff or …
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With regard to top secret security clearances provided by the government: how many employees or representatives of registered political parties currently have top secret security clearances, in total and broken down by party?
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Mr. Speaker, it is hard to know where to begin. He compares the new system to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom requires, with regard to applicants for a wrongful conviction, for the commission to consider that there is a real possibility that a wrongful conviction occurred. In the case that he has put forward now for Canada, the new rule will be that a miscarriage of justice “may” have occur…
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Mr. Speaker, the bill, as amended from committee, is now a significant departure from what was presented by the minister's predecessor, former minister Lametti, on the miscarriage of justice bill. Originally, when the bill was presented by former minister Lametti, he noted: It is important to note that the miscarriage of justice review process is not an alternative to the justice system, nor is it…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to be able to participate this evening in this important debate. I want to state at the outset that I will be splitting my time for the last five minutes with the member for Thornhill. I am going to start off with an easy question for the minister, just to get things started. What year did the Liberal Party form its majority government?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's soft-on-crime agenda has led to a crime wave of motor vehicle theft, and Canadians are paying the cost. The cost of insurance claims for auto theft has skyrocketed to $1.5 billion, smashing the previous record. Not only are Canadians having their vehicles stolen, but they are also facing higher insurance premiums, thanks to the Liberal government's refusal to crac…
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Mr. Speaker, 2015 is important, because you are going to hear the number 2015 quite a bit. I will note, Minister, that when you were first appointed, one of the things you said in your new role was that for Canadians it was empirically unlikely that Canada was becoming less safe. I would say Canadians would say that is not true. I would say Statistics Canada would say that is not true. There has b…
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Mr. Speaker, I notice once again that I have given the minister a lot of opportunities, and he has not answered any of my questions directly. He knows the answer to this one, and he is not going to give it, so I will have to give it on his behalf. The Victoria Police Department statement says, “Bill C-75, which came into effect nationally in 2019, legislated a 'principle of restraint' that require…
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Mr. Speaker, if it was not so serious, it would be laughable. The minister is talking about steps his government has taken, but I will answer the question. Violent gun crime is up 101% since 2015 alone, when the Liberals took office. We are hearing from the minister about what he is doing, but, unfortunately, the statistics tell us that everything they are doing, every step of the way, has been to…
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Mr. Speaker, I will answer the question. Sexual assaults are up 71% since 2015, when the Liberals took government, nine years ago. It is beyond ironic that the minister questions why Conservatives on this side would not support their agenda. Of course we do not support their agenda. We want to make Canada a safe place, where kids can play in playgrounds and parents can send their kids to school an…
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Actually, Mr. Speaker, what the minister said was that his role was to tell Canadians that it was empirically unlikely that Canada is becoming less safe. In fact, violent crime is up 39%. Now that he has been briefed, could the minister tell us how much, according to Statistics Canada, gang-related homicides have gone up since 2015, only nine years ago?
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, just the opposite is true. Every step the government has taken in the last nine years has made the situation worse. Can the minister tell Canadians tonight how much violent gun crime, according to Statistics Canada, has gone up since 2015?
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Mr. Speaker, it is tremendously unfortunate that before even being briefed, the minister was telling Canadians that it was all in their heads that we were experiencing a crisis in our justice system, but it is not all in Canadians' heads. The statistics tell us that violent crime has gone up tremendously. In fact, the rate of homicide has gone up 43% since 2015, the highest it has been in 30 years…
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Madam Speaker, after listening to my colleague's remarks, there is no doubt in my mind or in Canadians' minds why crime is absolutely out of control after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government. Liberals simply do not get it. They talk about resources for police; I will share one story we heard recently. Police in Victoria arrested the same man three times in three days for stealing vehicles and…
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Mr. Speaker, I guess the truth hurts. The hon. member who just protested was proclaiming that he has all the answers and that, in British Columbia, auto theft is not an issue. Did colleagues know that in Victoria, British Columbia, an individual was arrested for auto theft? He was let out on April 21. On April 22, he was arrested for auto theft and let out again. Then, on April 23, he was arrested…
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