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Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment and thank, again, the incredible citizens of Calgary Midnapore, who have returned me here for my fourth term. It is an honour to be here to represent them once again. When our citizens vote for us, when they bring us to the House, they really bring us here with one thing, and that is their trust. They trust that we, when we come to this place, which they have c…
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Mr. Chair, is the minister aware that his predecessor promised Canadians to recoup that money?
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to be here. It is such an honour and a pleasure to be here once again on—
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Mr. Chair, has the minister reviewed the report on GC Strategies?
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Mr. Speaker, this is what the government does. It provides breadcrumbs of examples of things, trying to indicate to the Canadian people that it is doing right. However, the reality is that GC Strategies is only banned for seven years; it is not banned for a lifetime. It can create another entity to win a contract with the Canadian people. This minuscule piece of good is simply tiny and incomparabl…
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree that seven years is not enough. We need to ban these two men and, of course, GC Strategies from ever receiving Government of Canada contracts through other companies. I completely agree with my colleague.
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Mr. Chair, yes, that is right. I will be splitting my time three ways. What is the total amount of authorities that require approval by Parliament in the main estimates?
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Mr. Chair, it is $49.1 billion. What is the dollar amount increase in debt servicing over the last year?
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Mr. Chair, it is $69.9 billion. What is the per capita breakdown for Canada's debt interest currently?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague as he makes his return to the House. Yes, GC Strategies should pay the interest as well, as Canadians are required to do on their taxes, for example. The member touches on something far more important, which is doing the right thing. How can the government, or even Canadians, have faith in a Prime Minister who is not committed to doing the right thing, when he has…
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Mr. Speaker, I think that this is a unique issue and very different from the other motions that we have seen in the House over the last few days. Yes, of course, if Quebeckers paid, then they deserve some of the money that went to GC Strategies.
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Mr. Chair, it is $1,265.46 per person. What is the per capita breakdown for Canada's debt currently?
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Mr. Chair, I welcome the minister. What is the current debt?
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Mr. Chair, it is $0.7 billion over last year. What will the public debt charges be in fiscal year 2029-30 as outlined in the PBO report? What is that amount, please?
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Mr. Chair, what is the current deficit in Canada? The debt is approximately $1.4 billion. What is the current deficit, please?
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Mr. Chair, last year's deficit was $61.9 billion. What was the amount requested in the main estimates just two weeks ago?
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Mr. Chair, how much will the debt grow in the two hours that we have committee this evening?
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Mr. Speaker, if someone is spending $64 million on a product, they would probably think to at least do some price comparisons. However, the Liberal government did no such thing. The Auditor General said that in 82% of GC Strategies contracts examined, there was no evidence that fees being charged by this two-person company were based on a fair market value. Is this the Prime Minister's idea of a n…
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Mr. Speaker, if it was not bad enough that the government did not check for fair market value, Canadians could hope that at least we got something in return for $64 million. That is not the case here. This is how Liberals are spending taxpayers' money, overpaid and with nothing to show for it. The Auditor General said only 54% of contracts audited could prove deliverables were received. Is this th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister continues to talk out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to Canadian energy. He says he wants Canada to be an energy superpower, but then says it can only be done with national consensus. He says he wants to green-light projects, but then presents an approval process of a minimum of two years. He says he wants provinces to present a list of ready-to-go project…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he would be guided by a new fiscal discipline. He said that he would limit operational expenditures to no greater than an increase of 2%, yet he has presented a bill of half a trillion dollars to Canadians. Single mothers, seniors and small businesses all make a budget before they spend. One would think that a highly esteemed banker would know that and wou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he would be guided by a new fiscal discipline. He promised to rein in spending, yet here he is bringing in a bill that includes $500 billion in expenditures with no budget. Single mothers, seniors and small businesses make a budget before they spend. Why in the world would a banker not do the same? Is he really committed to an new fiscal discipline or is h…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals never learn, and they never keep their promises. The Treasury Board president said in the last Parliament that she would find savings of $7.1 billion on high-paid consultants. Instead, the government is now spending another $6 billion on high-paid consultants. The Prime Minister said that he would limit increases in operational spending to no greater than 2%, yet he has prese…
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The Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his caucus, of his cabinet and of Canadians. The Deputy Prime Minister resigned because the Prime Minister said that he had lost confidence in her. She wrote, “a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence”. Just last week, the …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, of his caucus and of Canadians. He blew through the $61.9-billion deficit, over the $40-billion guardrails he had set. The former finance minister tried to warn him, and he fired her for trying to warn him. He offered her another position, and she refused. Why is it that the Prime Minister only has confidence in women until th…
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Mr. Chair, I wonder whether the President of the Treasury Board could confirm that the supplementary estimates bill is in its usual form?
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Madam Speaker, just over three months ago, the leader of the NDP ripped up the agreement he had with the government. He said the Prime Minister was “too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for [Canadians]”. This coming week, on Monday, the leader of the NDP has an opportunity to decide if he will prop up the government again or not. Is he going to prop up the Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, the facts do not lie. The leader of the NDP, with the Prime Minister, voted for the carbon tax 24 times, and New Democrats will do it again next week. The leader of the NDP, along with the Prime Minister, will quadruple the carbon tax in the spring. He is the one who created the coalition agreement with the government that has doubled mortgages, doubled housing prices and sent two m…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of broken fiscal promises, the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister has zero credibility. He promised that the budget would balance itself. His finance minister promised that the 2023 deficit would not exceed $40 billion. Now the Parliamentary Budget Officer has told us that the Liberal government has shattered through its $40 billion-deficit promise by $7 billion. I have one q…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, Canadians are worse off. The U.S. GDP is up 2.8%, while the Canadian GDP is only up 1%. The Canadian GDP per capita is down 0.4%. This is the sixth consecutive quarter in which the Canadian GDP has been down. The Prime Minister does not have a plan, so will he step aside for a prime minister who does?
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Madam Speaker, for weeks and weeks, the former minister of employment sat here and defended himself. In fact, the Prime Minister defended him as well until he had to release him in absolute shame over identity fraud essentially. Even leading up to that identity fraud, it was just a series of moral lapses. Where there is smoke there is fire. I have no doubt that there are so many more fires burning…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canada faces yet another threat to its economy. The U.S. has threatened a 25% tariff on all goods exported from Canada. The greedy government has increased taxes with the carbon tax, the housing tax and capital gains tax. This is not just bad vibes. Will the Prime Minister admit that it is not bad vibes, but bad policies, that force Canadians to suffer?
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Madam Speaker, I like the colleague and appreciate him, but that is so rich coming from someone whose leader is just holding on to the horrible current government in an effort to get his pension. It is really hard for me to hear that question. I genuinely do not believe that the New Democratic Party understands economics. The Conservatives understand that the administration of this two-month tax t…
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Madam Speaker, as a member of the government operations committee, the government will go to any lengths to hide anything. We have found that time and again, whether it is its work with McKinsey or ArriveCAN. We are going to have to look into Accenture now and see what happened. There is indigenous procurement. The government knows no limits when it comes to covering up.
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Madam Speaker, it is obvious that the government wants to spend money. The problem is what it spends that money on. We know that the Conservative leader has four priorities, namely to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. People can expect good changes from a Conservative government with the member for Carleton as the prime minister of Canada.
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Madam Speaker, I was very proud to serve as the Alberta campaign chair for the member for Carleton. I can tell the member that we swept Alberta, so I am not concerned at all about the support and tipping the scale. It sounds absolutely ridiculous. It is unfortunate that she would say such things about that. Again, it speaks to the desperation of the Liberal government.
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in the House and speak on behalf of the good people of Calgary Midnapore. I was very fortunate to have my annual general meeting this weekend. It was just so lovely to reconnect with so many supporters, so many constituents. They are also supporters of the leader of the official opposition. I am very lucky to have the mother of the leader of the offic…
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Madam Speaker, first, no one likes fruitcake and no one likes the scandal and corruption of the Liberal government. We all know that the government should just release the names, and the member for Carleton knows that. The member for Carleton knows that if he receives a clearance, it will be the clearance that the Prime Minister wants to give him. He would like the same briefing that The Washingto…
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Madam Speaker, in her last response, the member mentioned children. Like I am, the member is a mother; she has two beautiful young children. We were talking earlier this week, when the announcement was made, about the different expenses she has as a mother. Perhaps the member could make some comments on the new announcement, relative to being a mother and as to the little impact that the announcem…
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Mr. Speaker, what advice would the member give the current government?
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Mr. Speaker, this government says that it supports women's equality and reconciliation, but its actions show anything but. This Prime Minister was very quick to fire the first female indigenous minister of justice because she was not willing to lie for him, yet it took him weeks to fire a minister of employment, a white male, who faked his indigenous identity. Why was it so easy to fire one but no…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not real reconciliation. It took weeks for this Prime Minister to fire the minister of employment, or to allow him to resign. Real reconciliation, according to the former minister of justice, would have been to fire that minister of employment immediately. She says that she is left to “watch white people play ancestry wheel of fortune.” She says that it is “shameful” and it is…
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Madam Speaker, what is funny is that the worse the scandal, the more quietly the government House leader speaks. After nine years, there is another scam in the arrive scam scandal. There are three new cases of fraudulent billing that have been sent to the RCMP. This is now a total of seven cases of fraudulent billing that have been sent to the RCMP. Canadian taxpayers have been scammed a total of …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, this NDP Liberal government is not worth the cost. The Minister of Environment invested $275 million in a company that he owns. The government continues to hide the documents. The green fund continues to paralyze the House. When will we receive the documents?
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Mr. Speaker, last month, over 10 million Cubans spent nearly a week without light after their communist regime plunged them into darkness. Cubans took to the streets to protest the repressive government responsible for the hardships they continue to endure, but it is clear that they need the international community to speak up in support. Canada used to be a voice that Cuban dissidents could rely …
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Mr. Speaker, Tom Clark lied to committee, saying that he did not know about the purchase of a $9-million condo. The Minister of Foreign Affairs also said that she did not know about the purchase of a $9-million condo. She also said that she did not know that a Canadian warship was next to Russian warships in the port of Havana and that she did not know that a senior global affairs official attende…
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Mr. Speaker, I had the honour of serving with the member on the human resources committee during the pandemic and I think that was a very special time, as we worked together to find solutions for Canadians. Perhaps we can expand upon that answer in the future.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe two things. Programs are excellent if we can figure out how to fund them. The government is just incapable of even funding the programs it puts forward to Canadians, with a $42-billion deficit this year alone. We really must think about how we are going to fund something before we present it and implement it. This has been a fault of the current government, unfortunately. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell members what is disgusting. Carbon tax conflict of interest Carney is moving his headquarters out of Canada. This is the individual who is using his position as an adviser to lobby government. He is pocketing profits as a member of the board of Stripe. He is reaping the benefits of amortization rules through his role at Brookfield. Why is the Prime Minister exempting confl…
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Mr. Speaker, I think that a government always strives to be more transparent. I think that the next Conservative government and our leader will strive to do so. Of course, with any party, government and leader there is always room for improvement. I think that transparency is truly a priority for the member for Carleton. We could have a more transparent Quebec and Canada with a Conservative govern…
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