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Mr. Speaker, I believe that, at this point in time, we have already done a few things that needed to be done, for instance, calling the Bishnoi gang what it was. It is really important that we understand that, right now, people are facing gunfire and extortion in our neighbourhoods. Canadians need a bill that restores mandatory jail time for gun and sexual offences.
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Mr. Speaker, it is time to speak plainly today, because families in Surrey and across Canada deserve the plain truth, not another round of empty words from Ottawa. Over the past months, as I have met with business owners and families across Surrey, Cloverdale, Clayton and Langley City, the conversations have been sobering. Everywhere I go, people lower their voices, look over their shoulder and te…
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when Canadians are being terrorized in their own neighbourhoods, our globe-trotting Prime Minister jet-setted into B.C. for a carefree stroll down the White Rock Pier, while families in Surrey were barricading their doors and while homes and businesses were being shot up for the second and third times. He took a sunset stroll while gangs told victims to give them five more n…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to call attention to a letter that the public safety minister, Mr. Anandasangaree, just received—
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety just received a letter from the Surrey police today. I would like to quote it: Surrey is one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada.... What we are now facing—a significant extortion crisis that has emerged in just a few short years—demands swift, decisive, and collective action. No Canadian should live in fear.... It says, “We therefore respectfully req…
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Mr. Speaker, what we do have is proof that mandatory minimums do work. Prior to their changing the laws, we did not have an extortion crisis or a crime crisis like we have now. The soft-on-crime framework is intact in this bill still. It keeps the culture of release. It offers no mandatory penalties for dangerous offenders, and it refuses to place public safety at the top of the law. What is missi…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are tired of that spin. The government's bills, Bill C-75 and Bill C-5, turned our justice system into a revolving door of catch, release and repeat. Since then, violent crime is up 41%. In my own riding, I have sat across from small business owners who are terrified of extortion and families afraid to walk home at night. They are perfect examples of why the system does not …
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Mr. Speaker, I know the Surrey Police Board recently sent a letter to the Minister of Public Safety, begging for meetings with the federal government. Does my colleague think that if the Liberals had supported our jail, not bail motion, we could have been much further ahead on protecting citizens today?
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Madam Speaker, the challenge we have is that jobs are not matched to needs in all the different ridings, so we will have to work to make sure that we have a balanced immigration system that meets needs and matches them to the jobs out there.
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Madam Speaker, what our young Canadians are facing is a made-in-Ottawa problem. It is not that our young people stopped working hard; it is that the government stopped letting the economy work for them. When it taxes small business owners into the ground, when it buries job creators in red tape and when it makes it easier to open a shop in Texas than in Toronto, the government drives opportunity o…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians are tired of the spin. The government's Bill C-75 and Bill C-5 turned our justice system into a revolving door: catch, release, repeat. Since then, violent crime is up 41%. In my own riding, I sat across from small business owners this weekend who are terrified of extortion, and from families afraid to walk home at night. Add to that record-high immigration levels with no …
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Madam Speaker, I am going to be sharing my time with my colleague from Elgin—St. Thomas—London South. Do members remember their first job: the smell of the uniform, the feel of depositing their first paycheque and the pride of earning something that was truly theirs? For my generation, that first job was more than just work; it was a rite of passage. It taught us responsibility, discipline and ind…
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Mr. Speaker, Cloverdale's Maurizio Zinetti runs a Canadian-owned company that is doing everything right: feeding families, employing Canadians and doing whatever he can to keep affordable food on our tables. However, thanks to the Liberals' new front-of-package labelling rules, regulations that have nothing to do with food safety, he is now facing a $2.2-million compliance bill. Across the industr…
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Madam Speaker, we are going to reward practical skills, expand apprenticeships and make sure taxpayer-funded education leads to real-world paycheques.
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Madam Speaker, the Conservatives believe that immigration is a blessing, but it needs to be managed responsibly. Right now, the Liberals have lost control. They have flooded the labour market without any plan for housing or credential recognition. We have young Canadians out of work and newcomers with engineering degrees who are driving taxis. It is chaos. The Conservatives will fix immigration so…
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Mr. Speaker, small business owners used to say that their biggest worry was making payroll. Now it is keeping their doors from being kicked in. In Vancouver, a restaurant owner, Foz, has been hit so many times by break-ins that the latest one looked like something out of a bad comic book. The thief came dressed as Spider-Man with a knife in this hand, but there was nothing funny about it. His staf…
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when our immigration system has been stretched and faith in its fairness is fading, Bill C-3 tells the world that one could be Canadian without ever truly living here. Canadian citizenship is one of the most valuable things in the world. It is something that generations have worked hard to earn and to honour, but Bill C-3 would give automatic citizenship to children born abr…
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Mr. Speaker, being Canadian is something people around the world dreamt of, and for good reason. Our immigration system used to be the best: fair, predictable and built on hard work. However, now it is a mess, with millions of temporary residents, hundreds of thousands of undocumented people, and endless backlogs. Instead of fixing the problem, Bill C-3 would make it worse, handing out citizenship…
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when our immigration system is already stretched and faith in its fairness is fading, Bill C-3 tells the world that one can be Canadian without ever truly living here. Canadian citizenship is one of the most valuable things in the world. It is something that generations have worked hard to earn and honour, but Bill C-3 would give automatic citizenship to children born abroad…
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Madam Speaker, if we are serious about strengthening the Conflict of Interest Act, then we cannot turn a blind eye to the top. The Prime Minister's corporate and shareholder interests are extensive, and Canadians have a right to know whether those holdings intersect with the decisions he is making every day. That is why this amendment calls for witnesses who can shed light on those interests. Is t…
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Mr. Speaker, when a family cannot balance its books, they lose the trust of the bank. When a government cannot do so, it loses the trust of investors, and that is dangerous when we have to refinance $473 billion this year alone. If Canada looks reckless, borrowing will only get more expensive, and every Canadian will pay the price. Canada needs a budget that shows fiscal discipline, but the curren…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians were told that borrowing billions would make their lives better, but 10 years later, the only thing growing faster than the debt is the cost of living. This year alone, the Liberals have to refinance $473 billion in debt, and that will only get harder if the government keeps spending as though the bill will never come due. We cannot spend our way out of inflation. Will the P…
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Mr. Speaker, the number one responsibility of government is to keep its citizens safe: safe in their homes, safe in their businesses and safe in their communities. It is not partisan and not optional; it is fundamental, but right now that promise has been broken. Under the Liberals' Bill C-75, our bail system was rewritten. Judges were ordered to apply a so-called principle of restraint. That mean…
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Mr. Speaker, most important right now is understanding that, across Canada, when extortionists target banquet halls, when young women like Tori Dunn are murdered by someone already facing multiple charges and when seniors in Langley are afraid to walk outside after a brutal attack, those are all costs. They show up in policing, in health care, in lost economic activity and in the trauma families c…
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Mr. Speaker, the real issue here is the catch-and-release law the Liberals put in place that keeps putting dangerous people back on the street. The tragedy of our current system is that it only takes one case to devastate a family or a community. When extortionists target businesses or when someone like Adam Mann, already facing multiple charges, is still free to kill a young woman like Tori Dunn,…
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Mr. Speaker, honestly, I want to come back to the real issue, and that is the Liberal catch-and-release system. That is the problem. Right now, judges are told to start from the principle of restraint, which tilts the balance away from public safety. That is not the fault of the judiciary. It is the framework the House handed it with Bill C-75. We need to scrap the Liberal bail. The jail not bail …
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer just pulled the fire alarm. He called our finances “very alarming”, “stupefying”, “shocking” and “unsustainable”. He warned, “if [we] don’t change, this is done”. Something is going to break. We are standing at the cliff's edge, and for the younger generation especially, this is their future at risk. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends today comes o…
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Mr. Speaker, I am here to speak to the question of privilege that was raised yesterday by my colleague, the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola and shadow minister for public safety. It is my responsibility to ensure the well-being of Canadians, including those behind prison walls, so why was I stymied from entering the Fraser Valley women's prison freely this past summer? What are they hiding beh…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister swaggered in promising a massive surge in homebuilding, with half a million new homes a year. After all that hype, Vancouver families are still staring at million-dollar price tags. That surge has not even made a ripple. Projects are stalled and permits crawl through red tape, and the only thing going up faster than prices is the bureaucracy he is building. …
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-218, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). Mr. Speaker, imagine that someone's son or daughter has been battling depression for some time after losing their job or maybe due to a broken relationship. Imagine they feel a loss so deep that they are convinced the world would be better off without them. Now imagine this. Starting in March …
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Mr. Speaker, I am wondering what my esteemed colleague thinks is the cause of all the broken promises we have seen from the new Liberal government. Does he think it might have something to do with the ministerial musical chairs we have seen going on in the Liberal cabinet? Who on earth promotes failed team leaders in the real world and expects better results?
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Mr. Speaker, the message the government is sending is that struggling Canadians, trauma survivors and those battling depression, schizophrenia or PTSD are being told that death is a solution we are now willing to offer in response to a life of suffering, often compounded by harm this very society has caused them. That is not health care. That is not compassion. It is abandonment. Mental illness is…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just voted to ban gas-powered vehicles, adding up to $20,000 to the cost of a new car. Families are already drowning in bills, and now he is making it even harder to get to work or drop off the kids. Is it just a coincidence that Brookfield stands to profit off this mandate? When will the Prime Minister stop treating public money like his personal investment portfol…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been over 100 days and the Prime Minister still has not set up an ethics screen to deal with his business interests. Just imagine a local school board trustee voting for a multi-million dollar contract, then going to his business partner to build a school without telling anyone he is going to profit from it. Canadians would be outraged, and they should be. When will the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, how many women have to be beaten half to death before the government stops giving repeat offenders a free pass? Hugh Mason is 34 years old with a violent history that reads like a warning label: assault, assault with a weapon, uttering threats, resisting arrest, theft, breaching probation. Over and over again, in just three years, he has been hauled into court and released 37 times, a…
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Mr. Speaker, the housing minister is not starting with a clean slate. His record in Vancouver is well known. As investigative journalist Sam Cooper documented in his book Wilful Blindness, his city hall was part of what he calls the Vancouver model, where laundered crime money, foreign cartels and offshore investment fuelled skyrocketing housing prices while honest families were locked out. Now he…
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Mr. Speaker, the housing minister claims to have the most robust housing agenda in the history of the House, but Canadians have heard this story before. The man making that claim was also the mayor of Vancouver during one of the most disgraceful chapters in Canadian housing history. Under his watch, Vancouver became a global hot spot for money laundering, shady real estate deals and housing specul…
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Mr. Speaker, I attended the public safety forum in Surrey this weekend. I have to say that I felt like we were living in a violent video game: the Reflections banquet hall, shot up; Hub Insurance, shot up; strip mall, shot up. Now, in Fleetwood, an honest businessman was gunned down in his office in broad daylight, which was possibly tied to extortion. The message from these criminals is clear: “P…
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Mr. Speaker, extortion is up 357%, and those are the ones we know about. In Surrey, criminals are shooting up businesses and bragging about it online because they know they will not face serious jail time. People are terrified, and these gangsters are running the show. What did the Liberals do? They voted against mandatory minimums for extortion. They made it easier for violent criminals to get ba…
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C-4 is being presented to Canadians as a solution, a path toward affordability and relief in a time of real struggle, but when we peel back the layers, it becomes painfully clear that this bill is not a bold plan but a political strategy. It is a collection of half measures cobbled together from Conservative ideas, watered down and repackaged by a government that has spent the la…
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Mr. Speaker, we have been watching the legislation come through the House. It has harmed the entire Canadian economy, and we have asked over and over that the Liberal government, this old Liberal government, actually reverse those painful and destructive bills. The hon. member is absolutely right. We need to get rid of the tanker ban. We need to make sure that we can build pipelines. We need to ge…
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Mr. Speaker, it was the previous Liberal government, which is now the new Liberal government, that turned away eight countries when they asked for LNG, so, no, I am sorry, we do not have what we need. We have been turning away many dollars, and we need to actually get our resources to market.
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Mr. Speaker, I can tell members where Canadians are making cuts. I have had conversations with families in my riding who are cutting back on groceries, skipping meals and putting off their bills. The government wants them to believe that a few tweaks to these policies are going to make the difference, but the truth is that the pain is still here. The carbon tax is still driving up prices. The debt…
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Mr. Speaker, we have been asking constantly to finally have a budget. It is with a budget that we would better understand where the money is going and how we are going to pay for it, and it would let Canadians truly understand the actual situation that we are facing.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the AG delivered a damning report that exposed the truth. After 10 years of the Liberal government's housing promises, only 309 homes have been built under the federal lands initiative. It set a target of 4,000 and what Canadians got was smoke and mirrors: inflated numbers, misleading reporting and a government more focused on press releases than people. Can the minister ex…
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Mr. Speaker, according to yesterday's AG report, the government built nearly 40% of its so-called affordable homes in the wrong places. We cannot make this up. Here is the truly shocking thing: It did not base affordability on income, not on what people actually earn. Instead, it used current market rent in the middle of a housing crisis. That means low-income families, seniors and newcomers canno…
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Mr. Chair, the federal government plans to divide the budget into two with operations and investments. Is that correct?
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Mr. Chair, the number is around $1.3 trillion, but how much does our debt servicing cost?
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Mr. Chair, the question was, what are the debt-servicing costs?
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Mr. Chair, it is around $60 billion. How much is the current deficit?
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