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Mr. Chair, the minister spoke earlier about the importance of critical minerals in Canada. Can he confirm that all critical mineral development currently under way or planned will be subject to Canadian regulations, priorities and benefits, not directed by foreign governments or foreign laws?
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Mr. Chair, I will give the minister one more chance. Does he know which sectors have lost the most jobs since May?
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Madam Speaker, after their last job-killing, anti-development decade, Liberals now claim they want Canada to be an energy superpower but will approve pipelines only if there is consensus, yet there is no consensus even in their own cabinet. Most of the ministers have stopped pipelines for years. The PM's top gun said, “It is essential not to...[increase] oil... production”, and the PM himself says…
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Madam Speaker, that rhetoric and the Liberals' photo ops do not matter; actions do, and the truth is that no private sector pipelines will be built to coasts with shipping and drilling bans. Companies will not build pipelines while the government is the only one in the world to cap Canadian oil and gas and to carbon-tax Canadian industries; the U.S. and others do not. The Liberals will not kill th…
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Mr. Speaker, the truth is that in five years, the Liberals killed 16 major energy projects and $176 billion in options to make Canada affordable, safe, self-reliant and united. Half the ministers are the same. The Liberals must kill Bill C-69, but they cannot get their story straight. Two weeks ago, the culture minister said that Canada does not need more pipelines. Last week, the energy minister …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister said that Canadians should not focus on pipelines. He should tell that straight to the hundreds of thousands of workers who lost their jobs when the Liberals killed pipelines, killed LNG exports to allies and capped Canadian oil and gas. Last year, 98% of Canadian crude went to the U.S., Canada's biggest customer and competitor, because of the Liberals. Ho…
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Mr. Speaker, we all know the Prime Minister says that women experience him differently, but it is his pattern to elbow them to the side. It is sad to see a woman spinning for him. He is incompetent and unaccountable; he bullies subordinate women, blames and shames them, then replaces them with his buddies. He has aggressively recruited carbon tax Carney, yet calls himself a proud feminist. Canadia…
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister actually admits that deficits cause inflation. She promised a cap of an already wacko $40 billion, but the Prime Minister bullied to crash her through that so-called guardrail with billions more. He sets her up to take the fall, and Canadians will pay the price. Now, like he did with a long line of women, the Prime Minister kicks her to the curb, for his conflict …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canadians are paying the price for the NDP-Liberals' economic vandalism. The carbon tax and job-killing oil and gas cap hurt rural people and non-profits the most. The Dewberry Agricultural Society paid over $5,000 in carbon taxes in just six months and cannot afford to heat its hockey rink much longer. The NDP-Liberals said small business owners are tax cheats. The …
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With regard to the Sustainable Development Technology Canada fund from 2015 to present: (a) which companies were allotted funding; (b) how much funding was each company allotted; (c) what was the reasoning for allotting funding to each individual company; and (d) what are the results to date of each company's work?
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With regard to the government's approach to the long-term drinking water advisories on public systems in First Nations communities, since December 11, 2017, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation or other government entity: (a) does Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (KZA) have safe-to-consume drinking water; (b) how many individuals remain affected by a lack of access to clean drinking water …
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With regard to the government's commitment to plant 2 billion trees by 2031: (a) what are the total expenditures to date in relation to the commitment; (b) how many trees have been planted to date; and (c) what is the projected number of trees to be planted under the commitment in (i) 2024, (ii) 2025, (iii) 2026, (iv) 2027, (v) 2028, (vi) 2029, (vii) 2030, (viii) 2031?
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With regard to the $32.9 million non-competitive contract awarded in October 2022 to McKinsey, issued by the Trans Mountain Corporation: (a) what were the reasons behind awarding this non-competitive contract without justification; (b) what were the scope and results of McKinsey's work; (c) on what day did work by McKinsey begin; (d) on what day did work by McKinsey end; and (e) how were the contr…
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Madam Speaker, on the same question of privilege, I will add my voice as a person who was standing right here, which as you can see, is just eight seats away from where—
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Madam Speaker, I thought I was saying a different last name. However, just like the member for Peterborough—Kawartha, I too have had many professional jobs before I was elected to this place almost a decade ago. This is somewhat like the incident where we all pretended that the Prime Minister did not do what he did in our first or second year of being elected here, when he stormed down to that end…
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Madam Speaker, what I dearly hope is that we do not run into a situation where he experienced it differently and that we all pretend that what we cannot see with our functional brains and our seeing eyeballs is the opposite of what happened. The members for Peterborough—Kawartha and Kelowna—Lake Country are tough women. None of us are shrinking violets. Many of us have gone through challenging thi…
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Madam Speaker, if I am allowed to speak and continue, I will do that. The unique thing would be my perspective, given that I was standing right here, eight seats away from where the incident happened. It is categorically false that there were hundreds of Conservative MPs here at that time. That is just not true. Second of all, I was standing right here when the member stormed all the way down here…
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Madam Speaker, the new thing, though, is my very close and direct perspective on everything, which is a unique perspective. The new thing I am really asking for is what the consequences will be.
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Mr. Speaker, nine years of economic vandalism proves that the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost. The radical environment minister's own department now admits the carbon tax will cut $25 billion from Canada's economy in the next six years, but he does not care. He said that the Liberals will quadruple it anyway. Canadians already cannot afford to eat, heat, house or drive themselves, so with the …
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Madam Speaker, Parliament is still at a standstill after six weeks because the Liberals refused to turn over documents related to their Sustainable Development Technology Canada fund, SDTC, or better known by Canadians now, more accurately, as the Liberal green slush fund. Common-sense Conservatives want transparency and accountability for Canadians about the Liberals' repeated pattern of entitled…
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Madam Speaker, they keep telling Canadians they have never had it so good. The truth is that the NDP-Liberals hurt Canadians every time but help the U.S. and hostile regimes. It is nuts because so many countries want Canada's energy. Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Greece and Latvia all ask for LNG, but the NDP-Liberals say no. A million Canadians need powerful paycheques from oil an…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost to Canada. We have the worst decline in living standards in four decades, the worst drop in income per person in the G7 and the worst economic growth in the OECD. What is their wacko plan now? It is to slap a job-killing oil and gas cap on Canada, make everything even more expensive and drive out jobs, businesses, money, tech…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member is an incredible advocate for fiscal sanity, common sense and actions actually matching words. He is an advocate for the energy sector and the oil and gas workers, not just in Alberta but in every single part of this country. They help fuel and power our country, and we need them more than ever. The member is exactly right. Nine years of coercive chaos and corruption…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my powerful, compassionate, joyful, loving colleague from King—Vaughan. I was moved and appalled by the experience that she talked about last night. The worst part is that it is becoming common; violent crimes, crimes by gangsters, drive-by shootings, kidnappings, violent thefts and robberies have all skyrocketed, by more than 100%, since the Liberals took office. That is wh…
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Madam Speaker, that very Speaker has, of course, said that the House has the undoubted right to order the production of all of the documents, so the Liberals should give them to us. Common-sense Conservatives are here to hold the government accountable for its failures, corruption and wrongdoing. MPs request the documents for scrutiny, not only by the RCMP but also by members of Parliament, as is …
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Madam Speaker, is that eloquent, articulate, powerful colleague not exactly right on? That is what is so disgusting: these high-flying, high-carbon hypocrites bringing in tax after tax and ban after ban and punishment after punishment to make it so Canadians cannot afford to heat, house, fuel, power or drive themselves, especially, as the member just said, as our big northern country heads right i…
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Madam Speaker, the member of Parliament seems like a very kind gentleman, and I appreciate his demeanour in the House of Commons, which is certainly one that I cannot claim to have, and the way in which he made his comments. However, I would just say that it is exactly that kind of answer that Canadians watch and that makes them think elected people, particularly government members, literally have…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for such a powerful speech about his role and duty as a member of Parliament since 2015 and for all of the advocacy he has done for his constituents, including the most vulnerable among them. I wonder if he has more to say about the advocacy he has done for the essential needs of indigenous people and indigenous communities. What does he think…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister and the Liberals have complete control over this. They can release the names.
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Madam Speaker, today I am happy, on behalf of the people of Lakeland, to join the debate started by common-sense Conservatives because of the Liberals' repeated pattern of entitled and immoral abuse of Canadian tax dollars under the guise of programs ostensibly about issues that all Canadians care about. After nine years, the Liberals' corruption is just not worth the cost. The entire House of Com…
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Madam Speaker, I completely, 100% agree with the member's comment that the government made a promise with regard to tree planting that it is completely failing to meet. It might be an interesting point of fact that of all the private sectors in the Canadian economy, the sector that plants the most trees without government funding or initiatives is the oil and gas sector, right across Canada. Peopl…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for all of his work and all of the other Conservatives who have done yeoman's work on this issue to fight for transparency for Canadians. That is the scary question. It is shown in the lengths that the Liberals are willing to go to hide, exactly as he said, 10,000 pages of covered-up, blacked-out information. It is apparently the most important information for f…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I have no idea when these Liberals are actually going to get into 2024. We will all keep waiting, because they keep talking about 15 years ago. The majority of Conservatives on this side have been elected since 2015, so I guess the member can keep yelling about whatever he is talking about over there. In terms of the names he mentioned, of the MPs involved in foreign i…
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Madam Speaker, once again, these progressives are just so regressive and stuck in their angry past, are they not? If the member actually wants to be an opposition party member, and do more than just wax on and on about how he is concerned about all these issues or corruptions or scandals or the things they advocate on every single day, why on earth do the New Democrats keep voting with the Liberal…
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Madam Speaker, the Conservatives want to see the documents, and they want the $400 million that the Liberals wasted in their insider circle-jerk slush fund scheme. What the member is actually saying is that he is perfectly fine with this corruption. He is perfectly fine with this scandal and wants to raise all these other issues instead of focusing on the topic at hand. In his answer, the member i…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up, but this fake feminist Prime Minister is still up to his old tricks. Like so many women before, he shoved aside his female finance minister for his rich, conflict of interest, carbon tax crony, I mean Carney, to take over. Carbon tax Carney will slap the carbon tax right back on home heating …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The NDP leader claimed he would be an opposition voice, but promptly hooked up to help the Liberal Prime Minister hike taxes and food costs, double housing costs, and unleash crime and chaos in once-safe Canadian streets. That is the definition of selling out workers, voters and communitie…
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Mr. Speaker, today I am proud to present a petition on behalf of thousands of Canadians who call on the government to stop its divisive anti-energy, anti-private sector, top-down Bill C-50 just-transition agenda, which would cause fuel and power shortages, and even more energy poverty, while hurting Canada's standard of living. The NDP-Liberal's so-called just transition would hike the cost of liv…
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Mr. Speaker, common-sense Conservatives got proof that the Liberals kicked and screamed to hide, but most Canadians already know that after nine years, the NDP-Liberals' carbon tax is not worth the cost. It will gouge Canada's economy for about $30 billion. That is almost $2,000 for every household each year. In Lakeland, a family farm paid nearly $500 in carbon taxes in one month. An agricultural…
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Mr. Speaker, he should actually listen to what Canadians are pleading with him about, because emissions are up and so is the price of everything. It is all a sham. The truth is that not once did the 1,200-page analysis show that Canadians were better off with the carbon tax and rebate. The worst thing is the Prime Minister fought to hide the real costs of his agenda, even though he has never had t…
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With regard to firearms which were prohibited as a result of the May 1, 2020, Order in Council SOR/2020-96: (a) how many have been (i) turned in, (ii) seized, (iii) confiscated, (iv) otherwise obtained by the government broken down by how it was obtained; (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by those firearms which were previously in the possession of individuals versus businesses; and (c) what is the…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, poverty and food insecurity are emergencies in Canada. Last year, a record two million Canadians had to visit food banks in a single month. Food Banks Canada says nearly half of Canadians feel financially worse off since last year, and 25% cannot afford to feed themselves. An Alberta food bank reported that four times more working people have to access help than in 2…
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Mr. Speaker, two years after Putin's illegal attack on Ukraine, many Lakeland towns, groups and people have opened their hearts to displaced Ukrainians who now call Canada their home. These are families like the Krawecs from Athabasca, who started by filling out immigration forms and then found furnishings for multiple homes. There are volunteer settlement committees, like Vegreville and Area Stan…
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Mr. Speaker, today Conservatives will vote for our motion that calls on the government to axe the carbon tax, the fuel tax and the GST at the pumps this summer. After nine years of the “do as I say, not as I do”, high-carbon, hypocritical Prime Minister, fuel prices have surged by more than 50% in Canada. However, despite the historic cost of living crisis his tax-and-spend inflationary agenda cau…
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With regard to expenditures made by the government under object code 0207 (Employee relocation in Canada) in each of the last three fiscal years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23): (a) what was the total amount spent each year, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity; and (b) what was the total amount spent each year for the relocation of ministerial exempt staff …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canadians cannot afford the costly coalition's carbon tax, but the Prime Minister does not care. He will quadruple it, even though 70% of Canadians and seven out of 10 premiers told him to spike the hike. The Conservatives' common-sense plan is to axe all federal taxes on gas until Labour Day to save Canadians 35¢ a litre. That is more than $955 of needed savings for…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years it is clear that everyone but the out-of-touch, elite NDP-Liberals knows the carbon tax is not worth the cost. Page 4 of last year's parliamentary budget office report says, “Taking into consideration...fiscal and economic impacts...most households will see a net loss”. The NDP-Liberals' inflationary tax-and-spend agenda makes everything more expensive and hurts vulne…
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present a petition on behalf of the good people of Hairy Hill in Lakeland. It calls on the government to increase the tax credits for volunteer firefighting and search and rescue services. Volunteer firefighters make up about 71% of Canada's total firefighting essential first responders, and approximately 8,000 essential search and rescue volunteers respond to thousands …
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Madam Speaker, I believe that governments and politicians have to be honest about their policies and about what they stand for. Just as was the case under the former Conservative government, just as our leader says, just as all of my common-sense Conservative colleagues say, I believe that emissions reductions should be achieved through technology and not taxes, and through Canadians workers, Cana…
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