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Mr. Speaker, touting a fourth Liberal housing bureaucracy is an admission that the first three bureaucracies failed. The Bank of Canada said housing activity is subdued or declining in most cities. New home sales are down 45% in the GTA, 52% in the Golden Horseshoe and a staggering 56% in Vancouver. Builders are laying off workers, projects are being shelved and first-home buyers are being squeeze…
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Mr. Speaker, according to a Missing Middle Initiative report, 69% of Canadians say unaffordability is reshaping who can live in their communities, and nearly half of young Canadians have considered leaving their city or province just to find an affordable home. Meanwhile, ownership-focused housing starts have fallen from 69% to 49%, and Canadian home builders warn that this could be a lost decade …
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Mr. Speaker, I have some advice for the Liberal member. Maybe the Liberal government needs to get their hands out of the pockets of Canadians. A report released last fall shows that gen Z Canadians have virtually no disposable income left, just $9 to $16 in spendable cash at the end of the month. Half say they will need to take on more work over the next year, 28% are borrowing from family and 12%…
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Mr. Speaker, a new report shows that home ownership among 30- to 34-year-olds has collapsed from 60% to 52%, with the steepest declines affecting younger Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, for every 100 new adults, there were just 12 housing starts meant for home ownership, less than half the rate of earlier decades. It is no wonder that 87% of Canadians are concerned about housing, and that rises …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have become very familiar with Liberal rhetoric on public safety, unfortunately. We hear their words about combatting crime, standing with victims and protecting women and children, but words are not results, and rhetoric does not keep communities safe, unfortunately. Bill C-16 is a case study in the government's approach to justice: announce the right intentions, borrow Con…
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Mr. Speaker, today I rise in solidarity with the brave people of Iran. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have joined solidarity rallies across the country, including in Richmond Hill, where tens of thousands have gathered, braving the cold winter storms to stand on the side of freedom. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of Iranians have been massacred, with many more inju…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister promised Canadians a win with the President by July 21. Five months later, there is no win, no elbows and no deal. From factories to steel mills, Conservatives will always stand with the workers who feed, power and protect this country, and today, those Canadians are paying the price. Back in May, the Prime Minister said Canadians would judge him by the pric…
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Mr. Speaker, people should be able to work hard, save their money and buy a reasonably priced home in a reasonable timeline. That was the Canadian promise. However, today, the parliamentary budget watchdog confirmed that the Liberal Prime Minister has broken this promise. The report says that the Liberals' brand new housing bureaucracy is nothing more than a shiny, billion-dollar photo-op machine,…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister called himself the master negotiator, bragging that he alone could land a deal with President Trump by July 21. He puffed out his chest, promised “elbows up” and told Canadians he was ready to fight, but now that he has failed, he shrugs, asking, “Who cares?” and says he does not have a “burning issue” to discuss with the President. In months, he went from…
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Madam Speaker, every time the Prime Minister talks trade, he seems to be closing deals for his old firm Brookfield, while Canadian workers and taxpayers are left out on the sidelines. He went to Washington and Brookfield walked away with an $80-billion nuclear deal. He went to London and Brookfield got over $500 million for the European Space Agency. He hosted Swedish royalty and Brookfield announ…
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Madam Speaker, I see almost nothing for Richmond Hill South in this budget. This is what I see. The cost of living remains high, putting financial pressures on families and small businesses. Unemployment has increased, driven by weak hiring and layoffs. Businesses face ongoing uncertainty, delaying investment and expansion. Productivity remains weak, limiting wage gains for workers. That is the cu…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister went from promising elbows up to throwing his hands up and saying, “Who cares?” the moment the President pushed back. He caved on the digital services tax, abandoned countertariffs, and walked away from the softwood legal fight, leaving Canadian workers totally defenceless. We thought he got nothing in return, but it turns out he got nothing for Canadians, because j…
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Madam Speaker, budgets are not just about numbers; they are about trust. They are a promise, a promise that a government makes to its citizens: that it will be responsible with their money, transparent with their books and honest with their future. When Canadians open their credit card bills, they do not see “operating” and “capital”. They do not get to move expenses around to a different column t…
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Madam Speaker, I find that rich coming from the member. We are not attacking the Prime Minister's character; we are attacking his record. The member said we are spreading fake news. I am going to read directly from the costly Liberal budget so he cannot say we are spreading misinformation. On page 53 of this costly credit card budget, it states, “If Canada’s productivity growth had matched the U.S…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to continue reading from page 53 of the Liberal costly credit card budget. It starts with “Over the past decade,” and it is no coincidence that the government has been in power for exactly one decade. It reads: Over the past decade, Canada’s productivity performance has been persistently weak. In this time, productivity grew by only 0.3 per cent annually—less than one-thi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister told young Canadians that they must make some sacrifices. They have already had to sacrifice good-paying jobs and the dream of home ownership, and they have already paid the price as food costs keep going up. Liberal inflationary deficits throw fuel on the fire. A 19-year-old girl from Halifax said it best on the national news: Food insecurity is not good; f…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing generational with Liberal deficits is the debt the next generation must pay. Liberal inflationary deficits are driving up the cost of everything. Young Canadians cannot find jobs, they cannot afford homes and they cannot even afford food. Twenty-five per cent of Canadians face food insecurity. They are sacrificing by cutting back on nutritious food. It has gotten so bad…
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Mr. Speaker, I have some advice for that member. He should maybe stop parroting the talking points of the corporate lobbyists who are courting his office, because that is what it sounds like he is repeating right now. Although that story sounds rich, the numbers from StatsCan do not lie. This is a government agency that provides these unbiased statistics: Youth unemployment is up to 14.7% and it k…
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Mr. Speaker, the root cause of this youth unemployment crisis is one person. It is this Liberal Prime Minister, because he calls himself a new Liberal prime minister, but he has just proven that he is just another bait and switch. He chose to double down on the same failed Trudeau-era policies of the last 10 years instead of turning the page and trying something new. Our Conservative plan would be…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals are trying to pass their so-called bail and sentencing reform act today. However, as Canadians may recall, Conservatives tabled our jail not bail act just weeks ago. It is a piece of legislation that we thoughtfully and carefully drafted in consultation with police departments, victims groups and police associations to close all the Liberal loopholes. We worked all summ…
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Mr. Speaker, in the midst of a generational youth unemployment crisis, the Prime Minister has a message for young Canadians: to keep sacrificing. After 10 long years of Liberal failure, he is asking young people, the very generation crushed under the weight of his economic mismanagement, to make even more sacrifices. What more is there left to give? Young Canadians have already sacrificed the drea…
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Mr. Speaker, it is getting worse every single day. In Ontario alone, over 17,000 young people lost their jobs just last month. Ontario's unemployment has now topped 700,000, up 83,000 in a single year. In Windsor, unemployment has soared past 10%. In Toronto, joblessness is up 46,000 year over year, a record high. This past summer, it was the worst in a generation, with returning full-time student…
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Mr. Speaker, I will look directly into the camera. I know the Liberal member is a little perplexed, but so are young Canadians. The Liberal Prime Minister went into a room full of students and told them they needed to sacrifice more, to lower their expectation and to be content with less, because the Liberals robbed them of their future. Those students and young Canadians all across the country wh…
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Mr. Speaker, every single dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends comes straight out of the pockets of Canadians, through higher taxes, higher deficits and higher inflation. While food bank use surges to 2.2 million visits per month, the Prime Minister thinks it is a brilliant idea to blow $8.2 million on gender-just, low-carbon rice in Vietnam. While the Liberals feed their bloated DEI bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives do not believe in two-tier citizenship. We believe all people applying to become a citizen should be treated equally. That includes things such as a security assessment, language—
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Mr. Speaker, I first want to talk about what Canadian citizenship is. It is not merely a piece of paper or a legal status; it is a solemn promise. It is a bond of belonging that unites generations who built this country through hard work, sacrifice and shared purpose, a shared purpose that has been eroding under the divisive rhetoric of the Liberal government over the last decade. Canadian citizen…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Liberal Prime Minister told a room full of students that they are going to have to make some sacrifices. Young people have already sacrificed enough over the last 10 years. They have sacrificed by paying skyrocketing food costs. They have sacrificed with an entire summer without jobs because Liberal job-killing policies have driven youth unemployment to recessionary leve…
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Madam Speaker, when I was campaigning for the election and was knocking on doors, parents told me that they do not want their kids to be stepping on needles when they go to the park to play.
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Madam Speaker, I find it very rich. The member is asking for information, so let me give him some. This is from the Health Canada website. Is Health Canada also misleading? The Liberal member keeps accusing members of the House of misleading Canadians. According to the Health Canada website, again, fentanyl and its analogues were involved in 33% of opioid-related poisoning visits to the emergency …
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal failure, Canadians now face a cost of living crisis, a crime crisis, a housing crisis and a border crisis, and the government has the nerve to stand up here today and pretend that Bill C-12 will strengthen Canada's immigration systems and borders. This bill will not fix our immigration system and does not protect Canadians. It does little to stop the flow o…
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Madam Speaker, this is an another example of the Liberals' trying to divide, deny and distract. Canadians are fed up. Over 50,000 Canadians have died from the opioid crisis, which is a higher death toll than from the Second World War. Liberals continue to do nothing about it. Conservatives will lock up the fentanyl kingpins as the mass murderers that they are and keep them in prison for life, but …
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends is taken out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians through inflationary deficits and higher taxes. Let us not forget that, for 10 years, Liberals claimed runaway deficits would spark investments. The current finance minister, back when he was industry minister, helped double the national debt, promising it would lead to growth. What di…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are pushing their so-called strengthening Canada's immigration system and borders act, yet illegal border crossings have surged under their watch, and the system has never been more out of control. Federal health care spending for asylum claimants has now ballooned to nearly half a billion dollars a year, covering vision care, home care and assistive devices, benefits tha…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to import U.S.-style politics. They have a history of that, but now they are importing U.S.-style crime. Property crime rates and violent crime rates are now higher in Canada than they are in the United States. That is because of 10 years of weak Liberal bail laws. If the Liberals could just admit that they failed, after 10 years of their soft-on-crime approach, they…
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is in the question. It is because the Liberals broke our justice system with Bill C-5 and Bill C-75, making house arrest the new norm and bringing in the revolving door justice system that we have now. They broke our justice system. Their bail reform is what caused this catch-and-release system, which has allowed crime to ravage our communities. We are asking why the Libera…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians feel betrayed, stabbed in the back, both literally and metaphorically. Every day, the people of Richmond Hill South and families across Canada watch as violent offenders are being arrested in the morning and then let back out on our streets before nightfall, due to a decade of Liberal soft-on-crime laws. Seniors are afraid to walk to the grocery store. Parents are terrified …
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Mr. Speaker, the people of Richmond Hill South, and Canadians across the country, are demanding safe streets. They want criminals behind bars, not behind the wheel of a stolen car. They want kids playing safely in parks, not dodging gunfire from illegally smuggled guns, which the Liberals let across the border at record levels. They want seniors to be free to walk their neighbourhoods, not locked …
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Mr. Speaker, yes, Richmond Hill would be one of the safest communities across the country to live, raise a family, play and work. The Liberals can just admit that they have failed over the last 10 years with their Liberal soft-on-crime policies and their weak bail policies, and join us in supporting the Conservatives' jail not bail act to, finally, scrap Liberal bail.
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Mr. Speaker, it is simple. After 10 years of Liberal pro-crime laws, violent crime is up 55%, gun crime has more than doubled, extortion is up 330%, homicides are up 29% and sexual assaults are up 76%. Auto thefts are at levels never seen before. There is one simple solution, which is to scrap Liberal bail.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. lnstead, Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy, the second-highest unemployment, the worst household debt and the most expensive housing. It is another Liberal broken promise. He told Canadians to judge him by grocery prices, but the food cost is rising faster today than when he took office. That is another …
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Madam Speaker, no party has divided Canadians more and created more polarization than the Liberal Party of Canada. Canadians are facing a number of crises that the Liberal government has created: a food crisis, an inflation crisis, a crime crisis and an immigration crisis. We are also facing an unemployment crisis and a youth unemployment crisis at recessionary levels. Why is the Liberal Prime Min…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Party of Canada is the party of national division at a time when Canadians are facing an immigration crisis, a cost of living crisis, a debt crisis, a crime crisis and a housing crisis that was intentionally perpetuated by the Liberal government. I am wondering why the Liberal Prime Minister is so keen on distracting Canadians by creating a national unity crisis at this ti…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians elected us as parliamentarians to work together to solve the crises that the Liberal government has caused: the immigration crisis, the cost of living crisis, the debt crisis, the inflation crisis and the housing crisis. I wanted to ask our colleague whether he agrees that this is just another distraction that the Liberal Prime Minister is trying to stir up for Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned the unemployment that people are facing in his community. I am curious why the Liberal government is not addressing the unemployment crisis that Canadians are facing all across the country. We are faced with a youth unemployment crisis that economists are saying is at a recessionary level. Why not address the crisis the Liberal government has created instead of cr…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, our immigration system is in chaos. This summer, illegal border crossers claiming asylum surged by a staggering 277%. Most of their claims will be bogus. This has put massive pressure on housing, health care and benefits across Canada, especially in Quebec. What did the immigration minister do? She did absolutely nothing. She enjoyed her summe…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals call this bill the strong borders act. Canadians want secure borders, something the Liberals have opened up in the last 10 years through their intentional policies. Why do Canadians want a secure border? It is because the root of the issue comes down to public safety, again something the Liberals have completely shattered in the last 10 years with procrime policies that…
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Mr. Speaker, only a Liberal prime minister could promise to secure our border and fail in just six months. Over the summer, asylum claims from illegal U.S. crossings spiked dramatically, piling onto a staggering backlog of nearly 300,000 unprocessed claims. Many of these are likely bogus, yet claimants are immediately entitled to work permits, health care and benefits on the backs of Canadian taxp…
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Mr. Speaker, if the Liberals truly cared about fairness and cared about fixing their legislation, they would clear the backlog that real immigrants are facing right now, instead of turning the bill and this opportunity into a vanity ideological project.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today, not just as the member of Parliament for Richmond Hill South, but as a representative of one of the ridings with the highest concentration of first-generation and second-generation Canadians, where close to 90% of residents are either immigrants to Canada themselves or have parents who were immigrants to Canada. This is not just a statistic. It is the lived experience of…
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Mr. Speaker, rights come with responsibilities. Citizenship is more than a legal status; it is a bond to this country. If someone has never lived here, never contributed and never shown any connection to Canada beyond a parent's passport, how can we say they are truly Canadian? We are not talking about military families or aid workers here. We are talking about a wide open policy with no limits an…
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