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Mr. Speaker, October is Latin American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the contributions of over one million Canadians of Hispanic and Latino heritage. When we think of Latin America, we think of flavour and music: food like tacos or a soup that warms the soul on a cold Canadian winter, or music that makes us dance before we even realize it. At Fiesta in the 6ix, hundreds gathered to celebrate…
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Mr. Speaker, a business that fails to meet its service standards 95% of the time would go bankrupt, but under the Liberal government, that is the standard of the CRA. Its answer is to throw more money at the problem. Costs are up 70%, but still, 8.6 million calls are still being deflected, and 83% of the answers to individual tax questions are wrong. Even the CRA chatbot got questions wrong two-th…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like the hon. member to comment on why the Liberal government refuses to shut down consumption sites that are close to schools.
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Mr. Speaker, my heart goes out to the hon. member and her family members for the loss of a family member. In my riding, I am receiving calls from constituents in Newmarket who are worried about the safe injection sites that are close to schools and day cares, as they often have to go into lockdown because somebody has come onto the property. I wonder if the member could expand on that and give her…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the member to give us his thoughts on the Liberal government pretending to get tough on fentanyl traffickers, yet there are no mandatory minimums in this bill. Can the member speak to that?
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Mr. Speaker, if I were to describe an entity that changes its fiscal reporting midway through the year, alters the financial metrics by which it judges itself, repeatedly misses every fiscal anchor it sets, racks up unsustainable debt and refuses to provide transparent answers to basic financial questions, one might assume that I was describing a corporation on the brink of collapse. However, thos…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the member that the Parliamentary Budget Officer is non-partisan. He is independent, and he himself has said that the government's finances are very alarming, that they are “unsustainable”, “stupefying” and “shocking”. In the financial sector, the integrity of financial statements is crucial. If we start to change the definitions of what “expenses” are, that is …
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Mr. Speaker, that is one of my main concerns. I truly wish that the government would be honest and would focus on balancing the budget and reining in spending so that we can actually have a future for our children. We cannot spend our way to affordability. We cannot continue to spend and spend and pretend there are no consequences. There are consequences. It is generational debt. It is generationa…
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Mr. Speaker, all I hear from across the aisle is arrogance and no desire to actually work together for a better future for Canadians. Fiscal responsibility is important. It has long-term consequences, but the Liberals seem to be laughing and think that it is a joke. On the topic of seniors, there is a senior in my riding who shared a story with me. He said that his father taught him to work hard a…
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Madam Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer called our finances “very alarming”, “shocking” and “unsustainable”. He warned if we do not change, “something's going to break”, and it already has. Every dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends is coming straight out of Canadians' pockets, wrecking our finances and driving up the cost of food. He said he would be judged by grocery prices. Well, Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I hear it every day in the calls, the emails, the letters: We cannot afford food. The Daily Bread Food Bank expects four million people to visit, which is a lot of Canadians in despair. Today, the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that the deficit will be double that of Justin Trudeau. That is the reckless spending that drives up inflation and increases the cost of everything we …
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, Canada's immigration system is broken. The Prime Minister promised he would be different, but nothing has changed. The only way to stop illegal border crossers from abusing our asylum system is to end the incentives that turn it into a back door for economic migration, yet the immigration minister has done literally nothing all summer. Therefo…
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Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to speak to recommendation 430 of the House of Commons finance committee's pre-budget report proposing removing the advancement of religion as a recognizable charitable purpose under the Income Tax Act. Religious organizations are more than just places of worship; they are pillars of civil society. Every day, they run programs, food banks, shelters, counselling ser…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised more jobs, but the only thing that is booming is unemployment. EI use among women aged 25 to 54 is up 12% in just one month, and overall, EI claims are up nearly 13% year over year. It is yet another Liberal broken promise. In Newmarket, I met a mother. She cannot find a stable job. She worries about feeding her three kids and paying her rent, and that worr…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' inflation is the slow undoing of a family's dignity, yet the government keeps driving the deficit higher with reckless inflationary spending that is even worse than Trudeau's. We already know, based on last year's economic statement, that the deficit was $62 billion. Now, unfortunately, Canadians are bracing for something even larger. What do the Liberals tell us? They t…
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Mr. Speaker, I received no answer to my question. How much will the deficit be? Let me remind the member that the Liberal government has been in power for the last 10 years. It is the reason why we have the statistics that we do. I also want to point out that the government, the Liberal government, likes to wrap itself in its social programs as if these slogans were solutions, as if these programs…
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Mr. Speaker, I very clearly laid out my concerns with the bill, predominantly around the violation of civil liberties for Canadians and government overreach and its desire for control. That is what we do not agree with. The reality is that criminals will adapt, and they will adapt quickly. They will change their methods. We have seen pigeons and drones. Left behind will be ordinary, law-abiding Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague. I do not understand how government members can stand time and time again, applaud after their failures and say that they are actually trying to save Canadians from themselves. I do want to mention that I knocked on thousands of doors in Newmarket—Aurora and heard the concerns of my constituents, which are around violent crime. If I were to go back to the mot…
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Mr. Speaker, I would have the same question for the Liberal government, which has failed to deliver real bail reform. I am glad that Conservatives have talked tough on crime. We have a member who is working on bail reform. I am very much looking forward to that, and I have been sharing that with people in my riding. I can tell members that they want a serious government to tackle violent crime.
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Mr. Speaker, I spent 15 years in the financial sector, and I can say with full confidence that criminals will move way faster than the government can ever move, and what will be left over is ordinary, law-abiding Canadians with their civil liberties violated and a government that can go into anyone's mail without a warrant, just a will, and violate people's privacy. I do not support that.
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Mr. Speaker, this summer I sat with agencies in Newmarket and learned of the urgent need for mental health counselling, yet the funds are never enough. However, today we obtained new data that shows that the Liberals have increased funding for services like mental health counselling for a group that includes bogus asylum claimants by nearly 1200%. There are many Canadians who have paid taxes their…
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Mr. Speaker, in June, Canadians pleaded with the Liberal government to keep Parliament open and deliver real bail reform. Its members refused, and they went on vacation. While they were away, tragedy multiplied: A three-year-old girl was assaulted in her own bed, a boy was killed by a stray bullet as he slept in his mother's arms, a father was slain while defending his family and a grandmother was…
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Mr. Speaker, even the government's own fiscal watchdog said that he is in the dark on the government's financial plans. He would not even comment on whether the finances are sustainable and is in the dark on how the Liberals are going to pay for nearly half a trillion dollars. It is not enough to have a plan but not know how they are going to pay for it. Perhaps they do not want their broken promi…
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Mr. Speaker, we all remember that one teacher who made a lasting impact on us, the one who believed in us before we believed in ourselves, the one who would stay up late to push us further and who made us feel worth every minute of their time. At Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newmarket, I saw that spirit alive. I saw it first during the election, when teachers organized a candidates' debate…
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Madam Chair, it sounds like the answer is no, so why is the minister asking Canadians for a blank cheque for his spending?
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Madam Chair, many thanks for that. I do request an answer, though. Why did the minister make the time to prepare a spending plan but not a plan for how he was going to pay for it?
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Madam Chair, for 60 years, governments have tabled budgets in the spring. Why can the minister not do the same?
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Madam Chair, does the minister not have the will to prepare a budget this spring?
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Madam Chair, if the minister has the will, does he not have the time, then, to prepare it?
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Madam Chair, if the budget will be so great, why is the minister afraid of tabling it this spring?
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Madam Chair, there is an affordability crisis. People are going hungry, and they are going to the food bank. The hunger and the affordability crisis are not going to wait until the fall. We need a budget this spring. Why is the minister forcing Canadians to wait?
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Madam Chair, the measure was going to reduce taxes by $800, but the cost of food is also going up by $800: $800 minus $800 equals zero. Canadians are not going to be better off. Will the minister please deliver a budget?
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Madam Chair, we are talking about a difference of $40, but I have another question. If single mothers can budget to feed their kids, why can the minister not budget to run this country?
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Madam Chair, we are talking about the respect for taxpayers' dollars. I have a scenario, an example, for the minister. Will the minister hand me $486,000 today if I give him a list of the investments I am going to make but I cannot tell him how I am going to pay him until the fall?
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Madam Chair, the minister prepared a spending plan, but he did not make the time to prepare a plan for how he was going to pay for it. Why is that?
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Madam Chair, does the minister actually think it is right to show the deficit after the money is spent?
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Mr. Speaker, yes, I wonder if the Liberal government would take a lesson from private industry, a lesson from Brookfield Asset Management, because Brookfield does prepare a budget before it spends. It is a basic practice, but the Liberals are refusing to put forward a budget, and they are taking the time to ask for $486 billion in new spending. That is irresponsible.
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Mr. Speaker, it is said that inflation is cooling, but families are not feeling it. That is because the real cost of living is not measured on spreadsheets. It is measured at the grocery store, the gas station and the dinner table. Everywhere I go, I hear about it. The price of groceries has soared. Homes are out of reach. Mortgage renewals have doubled. Rents are breaking records. Families are li…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the government stole three platform points from Pierre Poilievre's plan, one of which was cutting income taxes by 1%. We are talking about the budget here. Let us talk about numbers. This tax cut would save Canadians $800, but the Liberals' inflationary spending is increasing the cost of food by $800 a year. The simple math is that $800 less $800 equals zero. How a…
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Mr. Speaker, the responsible thing to do is what every family, every business and every government must do, which is to deliver a budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, not after authorizing $486 billion in spending.
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that inflationary spending causes our dollar to weaken because the government floods the economy with excess borrowed money and it weakens our dollar, raising the cost of everything.
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Mr. Speaker, when mothers go grocery shopping, it is about their kids. They would rather go hungry than see them go without. In Newmarket, I met a mother of three little boys who was in tears. She did not know what she was going to feed them the following week. Who can blame her? Two bags of groceries now cost $100 and barely last two days. The Liberals' inflation is the slow undoing of a family's…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Prime Minister introduced his first spending bill for the coming fiscal year, called the main estimates. He promised to spend less. Instead, he is spending more, a lot more. In fact, this bill proposes 8% more spending than in Justin Trudeau's final year in office. That means that overall government spending is set to grow nearly three times faster than inflation and po…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and his cabinet took the time to prepare a spending plan, but they did not make the time to prepare a plan to pay for it. Last week, I asked a simple question: “With the economic storm clouds moving in, how is it possible not to have a budget this spring?” Since then, the Liberal government presented the main estimates to Parliament to request nearly half a trillion…
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Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is that there is no plan to pay for the $486 billion in spending that the Liberals have asked Parliament to authorize. It is not a plan to have no plan. If there were a plan, they would have presented it. Our GDP is struggling. Our productivity is down. Our purchasing power is crumbling. The unemployment rate is rising, and tariffs are hurting our industries. The purpo…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the people of Newmarket—Aurora for entrusting me to be their voice in Ottawa. I thank my campaign team, who gave this mission 18 months of relentless effort. We knocked on 100,000 doors to earn our neighbours' trust. I thank my family, especially my husband Matthijs, for standing beside me with his wise counsel, and my three beautiful children, Matthijs, Martina and Isabella, …
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Mr. Speaker, when I was running to be a member of Parliament, I was recalling my early days here in Canada and called my mom to ask her a question. I said, “Mom, did you rely on any government programs when we came to Canada? What did you need, because you came with three young children?” She said to me, “All we needed was opportunity. All we needed was a job so that we could work hard, work long …
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Mr. Speaker, as I was door knocking in Newmarket, Doug, a sweet senior in my riding, opened the door and invited me in to share some of his concerns. As we were talking, he said to me that when he was a little boy, his father taught him to work hard: that if he wanted something, he needed to work hard and give it his all and he would have it. Doug was sitting in his living room and said, “I gave i…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claimed to be the man with a plan. That is very well, but where is it? After 14 years in finance, I have learned that, if someone does not know the numbers, that person is out. We know the Prime Minister is committed to spending more than Justin Trudeau, but he will not even tell Canadians how much. TD reported that Canada is nearing a two-quarter recession, with up…
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Mr. Speaker, my team and I knocked on 100,000 doors, and the priorities at the doors were very clear: affordability, crime and unleashing our economy. When a young mother is choosing between rent and groceries, she does not need a promise to consider her needs in the fall; she needs action today. We have just returned and are about to adjourn. This is unacceptable.
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