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Mr. Speaker, the stuff is really flying around the room today. It is an interesting debate. The current government has had more ethics violations and more scandals than any other government in the history of our country. It has spent more than all other governments combined and padded its pockets and Liberal friends' pockets with more taxpayer funds than all other governments combined. The Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, I have a point of order. We are told multiple times throughout the day to be cognizant of our microphones and the placement of our cellphones and papers. The member knows full well there is no need to raise his voice, if not for the sake of the members in here, then for the sake of the translators.
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Madam Speaker, actions speak louder than words. Just a few short weeks ago, the NDP leader said, “The fact is, the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” Instead of listening to the will of the people he claims to represent, the sellout leader of the NDP continues to prop up the corrupt Prime Minister. As it turns out, when he claimed that …
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask the same question that I have asked many of our colleagues throughout this debate. We are talking about the theft of over $400 million by Liberal insiders, who then funnelled the money to their own companies; the Auditor General found over 186 conflicts of interest with respect to that money. The Liberals would say that there is nothing to see here; let us just get i…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost of housing. He has single-handedly destroyed the dreams of Canadians who now believe that they will never be able to afford a home, but hope is on the horizon. Our common-sense plan will axe the federal sales tax on new homes, saving Canadians up to $50,000. Will the Prime Minister axe the federal GST on housing s…
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Mr. Speaker, I have seen the hon. colleague's polls. He should be more interested in dusting off his résumé and updating his LinkedIn profile. Mr. Speaker, our common-sense Conservative plan will axe the GST on new homes, saving Canadians up to $50,000. Under the Prime Minister, the cost of housing has skyrocketed. His housing plan has only doubled the bureaucracy and red tape. It has not even bui…
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I will remind the hon. colleague to direct his questions and his comments through the Chair. The hon. member for Bow River.
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Madam Speaker, as a former prosecutor back home in our province of British Columbia, in a community that I know very well, and as a parole officer, the member has served his community well. I want to remind the packed gallery and those tuning in what we are talking about. We are talking about the theft, essentially, of over $400 million. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest where Li…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always interesting to hear the arguments from the other side during the debate. It is a packed house for a late Friday afternoon. I want to thank everyone who is in the gallery. Those in TV land cannot see but the gallery is packed today. I want to thank those who are tuning in from TV land for watching this. I want to remind everybody who is watching and those who are in the ga…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government's safe supply experiment has destroyed the very communities it claims to help. This week we heard heartbreaking testimony from Masha Krupp, an Ottawa mother who lost her daughter to overdose and whose son is now addicted to government-funded hydromorphone. She revealed that she has personally witnessed so-called safe supply pills being resold right outside t…
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Madam Speaker, I want to bring us back to the topic of the day: the fact that over $400 million of taxpayer funds was essentially stolen. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest where Liberal appointees, the Liberal chair and other members of the board of directors, funnelled $400 million of taxpayer money to their own companies. I am going to ask this colleague the same thing as what …
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the first part of my colleague's speech the week before last and then his finishing up today. He did a great job summing up the corruption we have seen from across the way. I would like to give the member a little more time to talk about what his constituents are saying when he is out door knocking and about what he has seen in his nine years of being a member o…
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind our colleagues from the NDP, with the finger pointing back and forth, not to forget who has propped up the government through the corruption and scandals for the last four and a half years. They are just as guilty as those across the way. Our hon. colleague gave a great speech summarizing the corruption over the last nine years and what we are dealing with here today. W…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague has done an incredible job over the last nine years, since I have been a member of Parliament, of exposing the government's corruption and scandal. For those in the gallery who perhaps missed what we were talking about, and those in TV land who are watching, we are talking about over $400 million in taxpayer funds. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest in wh…
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Mr. Speaker, that is beside that point, as the heckles come from NDP members. They are obviously very worried about their own positions. What we are talking about is essentially the theft or misappropriation of about $400 million of Canadian taxpayer funds, which went to a green slush fund that was loaded with Liberal cronies, like the Liberal chair, who got rich. The Auditor General found 186 con…
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Mr. Speaker, the hypocrisy coming from the other side is mind-blowing. The member started off by talking about breaking news with the RCMP. The Liberals have asserted throughout the whole debate that the RCMP wants nothing to do with this. The member across the way then said, “Well, listen, if only the Conservatives weren't doing what they're doing, the RCMP could do their job.” Is he kidding me? …
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny when NDP members stand up to talk about all the things they say they have done. They fail to mention that for four and a half to five years, as long as their agreement was in place, they propped up the government. They were complicit in all of the corruption and scandal that we are seeing.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to give our hon. colleague just one more brief opportunity to talk about the scandalous nature of the government.
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Mr. Speaker, if something is stolen from him, does the hon. member call the police or does he call a committee? We are talking about over $480 million and 186 conflicts of interest that the Auditor General has identified, and with that, $400 million of taxpayers' funding is gone, given to Liberal cronies, Liberal colleagues and people within that organization. All we are saying is to allow the RCM…
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Mr. Speaker, Brianna McDonald, a vibrant, intelligent 13-year-old girl, was abandoned by a system that should have provided mental health care and addiction care, the care she so desperately needed to help her overcome her demons. The system failed Brianna. On August 23, Brianna was found unresponsive. She died by overdose, alone in a tent in a homeless encampment in Abbotsford, B.C. Instead of be…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues for the rousing round of support. What brought us here today is another day with yet another scandal by the government. It was nine years ago, and it seems like a long time ago, when the member for Papineau was campaigning to be the next Prime Minister of our country. He told Canadians that, under his governance, Canadians would see the most open and transparent …
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Mr. Speaker, I will draw my hon. colleague to the original order of the House from back on June 10, which would have provided enough time, 30 days, for documents to be produced. However, we still have not seen them.
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind my hon. colleague from the NDP that this is not only the current government's record. The NDP has supported and propped up the government for the last five and a half to six years, so this is also its record of scandal and corruption.
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Mr. Speaker, there were 186 conflicts of interest. The member wants to stand up and point fingers, but just as the Liberals do all the time, they say it was not them or that the Conservatives are worse. They are not going to take any blame. That is all they say: Do not look here; there is nothing to see here. There were 186 conflicts of interest, with over $390 million in taxpayer funds.
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Mr. Speaker, time and time again we have seen scandal after scandal and more and more corruption, probably the most corrupt government in the history of our country. I would like to ask our hon. colleague whether he has more examples than just what his six minutes afforded him to provide. I wonder whether he has seen more scandals that he would like to bring forward.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, you clearly set out rules of the House and tried to enforce them earlier on. You had this member withdraw a previous comment. She has just put into the record that members of this caucus are in the pocket of Putin, the Russian president. That is completely false. Madam Speaker, I ask for you to have the member of Parliament withdraw that comment.
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Madam Speaker, we see a government that is proud of its record. Over two million Canadians are using a food bank each month. More and more homeless encampments are creeping up in communities all across our country, with over 1,800 homeless encampments in this province alone. Homeless encampments are cropping up on the sides of freeways and highways in my province of British Columbia. Over 47,000 C…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I appreciate the effort that you are making today. We are seeing aspersions and, quite frankly, lies coming from the other side, or misleading—
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Madam Speaker, you are doing yeoman service in the chair today. You are doing your very best to try to quell some of the activity that is going on in the House, and I applaud you for that. Time and again, what we are seeing, from both the leader from the Liberals and in this speech, is a threat to democracy. I do not believe those comments are parliamentary; they should not be entered into the rec…
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Madam Speaker, there have been 47,000 overdose deaths since 2016. Overdose is the leading cause of death for youth aged 10 to 18 in my province of British Columbia. Thousands upon thousands of forestry workers right across our country are out of work. There are mill closures, job losses and scandal after scandal. We have the most corrupt Prime Minister in the history of our country. It is a govern…
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Mr. Speaker, two million Canadians are using a food bank. More Canadians are facing homelessness. We know that more Canadians are about $200 away from being bankrupt at the end of every month. Murders are up 28%. Gang-related murders are up 78%. Assaults are up 75%. Violent crime is up 50% since the Prime Minister came to power. I will end with, again, the fact that over 47,000 Canadians have lost…
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There is so much to unpack in that tirade, Mr. Speaker. I want to remind my hon. colleague across the way that it was the Liberals, under Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien, who cut the health care transfers by 50%. That is part of the reason the Conservative government struggled and increased health care transfers by 3% every year. It invested in health care as no other previous government had. My col…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister and the Liberal government, our country is broken. Canadians are struggling more than they have in decades. Our communities, our provinces and our cities look like war zones. We have a Prime Minister who has lost his way. Today, we have more Canadians who are facing homelessness, more Canadians who cannot afford to feed their children and more Ca…
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Madam Speaker, there we go. There is the leader who has propped up the Prime Minister for the last four and a half years and sided with the government over 50 times when it levied time allocation and closure on bills, silencing the rest of the House. He is the leader who is complicit in the cover-ups and scandals we have seen from the Prime Minister over the last four and a half years. Canadians r…
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Madam Speaker, just a few days ago, Quebec Premier François Legault urged the Bloc Québécois to vote with the Conservatives on this confidence motion and send Canadians into a carbon tax election. Why does that member, as well as her leader, disrespect the will and request of the premier of her province, who has said that the Prime Minister and his government disrespect Quebeckers every day?
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. You had already mentioned to that colleague that he address, recognize and mention members using their appropriate titles. The “member for Stornoway” is not an appropriate title.
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is the best country in the world; I absolutely agree with the member. Unfortunately, under the Liberal government and the Prime Minister, over two million Canadians access a food bank every month. There are more homeless Canadians, more people losing the hope and the dream of home ownership, more Canadians out of work and more overdoses. That is the record. There are 47,000 Can…
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Madam Speaker, there was so much to unpack in that speech, but I will save that for when I get up to speak to the motion. The former Conservative government, led by former prime minister Stephen Harper, as well as our hon. colleague, the member for Abbotsford, signed more free trade agreements than any other government, including the current government. The former Conservative government also put …
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Madam Speaker, our leader has stood in the House and answered question after question when it comes to women's reproductive rights. He answered very clearly, with a simple one-word answer, when a member from the NDP asked if he was going to reopen the abortion debate. His answer was no. That is not a half-truth. That is a straightforward answer. The only people talking about this are the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, Tina went on to say, “I am being impoverished by the NDP and Liberals. I can call and order MAID as a disabled person before I am deemed worthy of being able to afford to live.” I rise today in the chamber to declare what millions of Canadians already know to be true: The Liberal government, led by the Prime Minister, has failed our country. The Prime Minister has failed the Canadian …
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Mr. Speaker, I find it a little rich that our colleague from the Bloc will stand here and talk about the environment, when his province, in partnership with the Government of Canada and the Prime Minister, dumped billions of litres of raw sewage into rivers. Perhaps the member should ask the Prime Minister's new Quebec lieutenant, the leader of the Bloc Party, if he was allowed to say that.
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Mr. Speaker, since 2016, over 47,000 Canadians have lost their lives to overdose. Overdose is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 18 in my province of British Columbia. The tribal council representing 14 first nations on Vancouver Island has declared a state of emergency over the ongoing opioid and overdose crisis. Under the NDP-Liberal government in Ottawa and the NDP government in…
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Madam Speaker, I wonder how this member is going to reconcile the fact that, for the last nine years, she has propped up one of the most costly and corrupt governments, under her leader and the Liberal leader, the Prime Minister. She is going to have to answer for this on the doorsteps when she goes door to door, asking for votes in what is looking like a Tory seat, coming up. Through you, Madam S…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the speech of my hon. colleague from the NDP. I found it a little rich, because the NDP has been propping up the government for the last nine years and has been complicit in all of the horrific conditions in our communities. We have a leader, our Conservative leader, who has said that he will axe the tax and make things more affordable for Canadians. He will fix…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the hon. member's speech. There were a number of things that resonated with me, but a key one he mentioned was that we need to listen to the people on the ground. We need to listen to the people in our communities. I know that my community, my region of Cariboo—Prince George, has unprecedented levels of homelessness that it did not have nine years ago. I know th…
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Madam Speaker, the government has continued to funnel billions of dollars to municipal gatekeepers. Municipalities, in turn, have raised the prices on permitting and the length of time to get homes built. Our colleague from the NDP is right. We need more affordable homes. A government led by our hon. colleague, the member for Carleton, would incentivize municipalities to build more affordable home…
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Mr. Speaker, as to this point of order, we are all honourable people in this House. How dare our colleague from the Bloc challenge the honour of our colleague here.
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House. It is not my first time rising in the House in this new session, but it is the first time I do so with a lengthy intervention. This is an important debate. I do not think there is a member of Parliament, whether from the Liberal side, the Conservative side, the Bloc side or the NDP side, who can go out into their communities, into their ridings,…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canada is on track for the worst living standards in 40 years. Now the Prime Minister and his radical finance minister are hiking taxes on farmers to pay for their inflationary spending, all during a food crisis. A new report indicates that the Liberal's job-killing tax hike will cost average farmers 30% more in taxes. Canadians know tha…
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