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Madam Speaker, we just saw exactly the lack of common sense from the Liberal side when it comes to this discussion. My colleague gave a wonderful speech as a producer. The Liberals were very quiet, because there is not as much farming knowledge on that side. He laid it out perfectly. The price of beef has gone up 33% in this country, the price of coffee is up 30%, and the price of lettuce is up 40…
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Madam Speaker, it is always entertaining to see my colleague, the Liberal member for Winnipeg North on his feet. The louder he gets, the more I wonder if he is telling the truth or not. I would just add this: If it were such an important policy, if the new old food rebate were so important, why was it not in the budget a couple of months ago? Why did the Liberals not budget it? It has a $3-billion…
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Mr. Speaker, these are not my words; the Liberal finance minister said he would have grocery prices under control by Thanksgiving of 2023. Even my kids know that we should do what we say we are going to do. Why can the finance minister not figure this out? It is time for the Liberals to make sure Canadians can afford to put food on the table. Will the finance minister keep his word to Canadians so…
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Madam Speaker, that is a great question. The government is always asking our producers to do more with less, and that fertilizer reduction is an example of that. Our farmers would do better. I hear the member from northern Saskatchewan chatting. I worked with him for many years, and everywhere he goes, I have to clean up his mess.
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Mr. Speaker, it took the minister a long time to get there. The finance minister promised three years ago that he would stabilize grocery prices by Thanksgiving of 2023. Since then, coffee has gone up 33%, beef has gone up 27% and lettuce has gone up 40%, and Canada is leading the G7 in food inflation. Now he is announcing another temporary rebate, which would not reduce the cost of a single food …
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Foothills for his amazing speech. The start was something that hits home for me, being from Saskatchewan. We had the Humboldt bus crash a few years ago. Whenever there is a tragedy in the hockey community, it hits everyone pretty hard. A few years ago, I used to think about it from the perspective of being a hockey player myself, playing some hockey…
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That is a tough but very fair question, Madam Speaker. I thank my colleague for being a continuous advocate for her people in Lakeland. The problem is that there is less and less rural representation on the Liberal side. They are getting further away from the people who produce the food, the fuel and the fertilizer that run this country. It would be wonderful if they would take more opportunities …
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Madam Speaker, that question would have a little more validity if the Liberals would stop stealing our ideas. Taking the GST off first-time homebuyers was our idea in the campaign plan, and they took it. Removing the consumer carbon tax was our idea, and they took it. Providing a first-time homebuyer account so Canadians can save money when buying their first home was our idea, and they took it. A…
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Mr. Speaker, I am shocked by what I just heard. I asked the Minister of Finance how much money he has collected in GST on food. He said that Canadians do not pay GST on food. However, Sylvain Charlebois, the famous food professor, did an interview in Saskatchewan a couple of days ago about this very tax credit, and he said that Canadians are paying between $7 billion to $10 billion a year on food,…
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen this before. We saw this in 2023 when the Liberals rolled out the grocery rebate. Today, we have the highest grocery inflation in the G7, so I am just wondering. Does the member expect that this will lower grocery prices, or will it be a one-time payment to Canadians, where they go to the grocery store, groceries are going to cost about $300 a trip and they get a $10 coup…
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Mr. Speaker, I just asked the member a question, and she did not have an answer. Food price inflation has been an issue for years and years. If this was so important, why was this not championed at the cabinet table? Why was this not in the budget that was presented last fall? They would have had that $3 billion in the already massive deficit that they delivered to Canadians. I would like the memb…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to talk for a few minutes about what is actually causing some of the food price inflation. The outlook for net farm cash receipts went down 15% in 2025. What do farmers do if they have less cash? They produce less food. The economy just shrunk by 0.5% in the last quarter, meaning that we have less production in our country. If farmers are producing less and the economy is shrin…
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Mr. Speaker, it is ironic that today is Groundhog Day, because I have heard this speech before. It was in October 2023, when the minister promised to have groceries lowered by Thanksgiving 2023. He gave this exact same speech. It is recycled, and the Liberals are good at recycling speeches. This is about $3 billion in taxpayers' money. Sylvain Charlebois said the government collects $7 billion to …
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Mr. Speaker, we can tell by the member's speech just how important this bill is, because he talked about food insecurity for about two minutes and then spent about eight minutes on a far right wing-nut theory that he thinks he has a handle on. However, I do have a legitimate question for the member. When he brought forward this bill, I asked the finance minister how much GST Canadians pay on food.…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing I am trying to wrap my head around is that they are talking about how important Bill C-19 is and how important this initiative is, to give some money back to Canadians. That in itself should really be a signal to Canadians that the Liberals have failed when it comes to grocery price inflation. Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7 right now, and it has been that wa…
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Mr. Speaker, the government talks about all the things it thinks it is doing in the budget, and it asks where the waste is. In a budget with a more than $78-billion deficit, what could possibly be wasteful? I was doing some research. The government budgeted between $4 million and $8 million to build a rink at Rideau Hall. I have great news: I built a rink for my kids in my backyard this weekend. I…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and friend for showcasing the giving spirit in Saskatoon and how, if the government got out of the way, lots of private companies and benefactors would fill the void and help the less fortunate in our society. With all the money the Liberal government is spending and giving to their friends, insiders, Brookfield, bondholders and bankers, does the member believe it…
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Mr. Speaker, I have been here for most of the day, and I find the line of questioning coming from the government member for Winnipeg North very interesting. He stopped talking about Bill C-15, because he does not have any more questions to ask and we put forward the argument that it really would not help everyday Canadians. Now I think he is worried about an upcoming cabinet shuffle and that he ma…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to join the debate. My colleague's speech was wonderful. Listening to the member for Winnipeg North, it is as if he lives in an opposite world. He will twist and turn and try to make comparisons, but these are the simple facts. Food bank usage in our country is higher than it has ever been; there are more people in Canada using the food banks than ever. With regard …
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Mr. Speaker, in the budget, the Liberals talked about investment in the future. There is an operating budget and an investment budget. The PBO, whom the Liberals do not like, said that $90 billion of the investment budget should actually be in the operating budget. The deficit is actually skyrocketing past $78 billion to $90 billion. The PBO said that. What does my colleague think about the misinf…
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Mr. Speaker, I represent the home of the RCMP depot in my riding, so if the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I will do that every day. I actually go to graduations, and the rank and file support the Conservatives' tougher-on-crime approach. If the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I would love to have him come out to the depot and we can have that debate. He is the…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this adjournment debate and talk about a question I asked a few weeks ago in question period. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about food bank usage in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan, 35.1% of children live in a food-insecure household. However, the answer I got was really found lacking. The member from northern Saskatchewan sometimes goes off on …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise to try to get a more expansive answer on a question I asked in question period a couple of weeks ago. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about the spike in food bank usage in Saskatchewan, where 35% of children are food insecure and over 30% of households are food insecure. I found the answer the member gave me lacking. He went on some rant about no…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments on the food program, because there were private food programs in place. I can think of some in my city: Chili for Children, the Nutrien food program, the Mosaic food programs and the Mother Teresa Middle School food programs for less fortunate kids. The problem is that, while there were programs in place, the Liberals never had conversations with any…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to address some of the questions I had about a month ago regarding housing starts. I watched a very interesting interview with the housing minister on one of our local political panels, which I think was this past weekend. He was asked a question about why he would not take the GST off all homebuilding. He stuttered and stammered and said the Liberals did not want to make b…
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Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I do not trust a government that bought a pipeline, spent an extra $38 billion to build a pipeline and had time extended on how long it took to build that pipeline. The Liberals have never seen a problem they did not think government could fix. I do not believe building a bigger government bureaucracy is going to build more homes for Canadians. I do see, though, 30 mills…
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Mr. Speaker, this debate is very much like the crime debate. The comments just made by my colleague from Barrie South—Innisfil were interesting. We also heard the member for Kingston and the Islands across the way say the Liberals have not dropped a budget in 18 months and they still won the election.
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Mr. Speaker, we always know what a Liberal is going to do. The Liberals are going to do the best thing for the Liberal Party of Canada, and when Canadians get hurt, it does not matter. We have seen it with their crime bills. They will support the criminals and support the Liberal Party, and try to protect their record, but not care about Canadians. We will see it in this motion too because we want…
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Mr. Speaker, we heard the member for Swift Current—Grasslands—Kindersley talk about his constituents. The deputy House leader talked about how they want to protect the Liberal government. When we talk about failed policies, we talk about the failed Liberal policies. The Liberals are not Canada. Does the member agree with that?
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend's flair for the dramatic, and he said something that was really on point, which does not happen a lot in his speeches. He said the Harper government balanced three budgets and the Justin Trudeau government balanced zero budgets. That is the truth. I would agree with him. Harper went through a recession, a financial meltdown, in 2008. Trudeau went through COVID. …
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Lethbridge has been around this place for a fairly long time. I have been here about six years now. We have heard these wonderful slogans. One was during COVID, that we were going to go into debt so that Canadians would not have to, which was said by Justin Trudeau. Another one was that we were going to “build back better”. Another wonderful slogan from Justin Trud…
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Mr. Speaker, the member can yell all he wants and insult me, but it was not me who said the tax cut did not measure up. It was the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The member just said it was $800. I will take the Parliamentary Budget Officer's word when he said people would get $15 a month and low-income seniors would get $10 a year. The way the member is talking, everything is great. It is pretty e…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to rise to talk about a question I asked a couple of months ago. This was in my original question: ...Canada's fiscal watchdog confirms another broken Liberal promise, this time on the Liberals' tax cut. On the campaign trail, the Prime Minister promised Canadians an $800 income tax cut, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer just confirmed that the average Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, what an idiotic response. A thousand people just lost jobs—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store, but I find it interesting that the Liberals do not think there are any hidden taxes. There is the industrial carbon tax, the food packaging tax, the second carbon tax and their inflationary deficits, which make prices at the grocery store higher and higher. Why will the Liberals not scrap their hidden carbo…
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Mr. Speaker, what a tone-deaf response that is. A thousand people lost jobs in Calgary. Under their failed Liberal policies, 86,000 people have lost their jobs. In Saskatchewan, 35% of people are food insecure, so he can go and tell them that he is going to take their jobs with the Liberals' energy policies. My question is this: Will they scrap the hidden carbon tax and maybe have a heart for peop…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, my heart goes out to little E and her family and friends. I hope people are watching today, because they will see the difference between Liberals and Conservatives. A parliamentary secretary got up today and said Liberals will do anything to defend the Liberal Party of Canada; Conservatives will do anything to defend the rights of victims of crime in Canada. That is the …
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Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to take up the question I had during question period a little while ago. It was about the hard-working men and women at Evraz steel, the steel plant in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the fact that they have continually had to lay off more and more workers because there is just not as much work as there used to be back in the good old days, one might say. We have had yea…
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Madam Speaker, there is a lot to unpack there. First of all, the Harper government built four pipelines. The only difference was that it used private money. The Liberals used $38 billion of taxpayers' money. Second, the member said that their one economy is already showing results, but 1,000 people were laid off in Calgary. That is probably not the result he wants. I would say the results have def…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's speech, and I think she has selective amnesia, because she said that it was easier to get bail in 2014 than in 2025. The Liberals brought in bail reform, so I think it is time to scrap the Liberal bail reform and make it so that we put prisoners in jail, not let them out on bail. Does the member know whether it was harder for criminals to get out on bail in …
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Mr. Speaker, this northern Saskatchewan member of Parliament has abandoned his constituents faster than any MP I have ever seen. The member voted in favour of a gun buyback program, so his people could not hunt on their own land. There is the fact that he got up and voted in favour of a gun buyback program and supports that program, and then there is the fact that there is a 259% increase in food …
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Mr. Speaker, how do the Liberals not understand that if they would stop taxing Canadians to death, we would not need the programs? After 10 years of the Liberal government's reckless spending, prices of groceries continue to rise. The Prime Minister said he would be judged by the costs at the grocery store. Well, among Saskatchewan children, 35% live in food insecure households. When will the Libe…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to be here this evening to maybe get some more answers to the question I asked in question period before we rose last spring. We had an election and an election campaign, and a lot of commitments were made by the Liberal Party about building infrastructure. There was a lot of talk about pipelines during the campaign but not a lot of action after. The Prime Minister has be…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that kind of, sort of answer. There was a lot of word salad there. I heard “build back better” again. As I always say, instead of build back better, I would love it if the Liberals put it back the way they found it. One question I have for the member across the way is this: We just brought in a new bill for the Major Projects Office to get things fast-tracked, but we co…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, we did have an election on April 28, but eight million Canadians voted for our platform, and they should have a voice in the House. If you assume that you do not have to listen to anyone who did not vote for you, I think you are in the wrong job. That is not right. The member talked about trying things that have not worked in other countries. The Liberals tried safe supply, and i…
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Mr. Speaker, this proposal would help victims through their knowing that the people who commit crimes against them will be in jail and not in the community with them and their family members. If we are going to put victims first, the people committing these crimes against Canadians should serve the time and not be out on parole. If someone commits serious offences three times, and victims know tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the commitment of my colleague from Yorkton—Melville to victims' rights. Yes, I think that act should be strengthened. As the member said, the review did not happen. It would once again be another arrow in the quiver of making sure victims do get justice and have their rights heard. If it was reviewed, we would strengthen it to make sure we are listening to the people who…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this debate on the opposition motion put forward today. However, before I do that, as it is one of the first times I have been on my feet after the last election, I would like to thank a few people for once again allowing me to be here as the voice of the good people of Regina—Lewvan. It is my third term, so 2019, 2021 and 2025. It has been an honour to be he…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to be back in the House of Commons representing the people of Regina—Lewvan. If I can have some leeway, we obviously had the summer to go back to our ridings to talk to our constituents to find out some of the main points and topics they would like us to discuss here in the House of Commons on their behalf. We did some barbecue circuits and had lots of events in Regina—Le…
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Madam Speaker, with a new session, there is a new demeanor. I appreciate the calm demeanor of my colleague from Winnipeg North. Sometimes he gets a little robust in his debate. I find it interesting that the member who probably speaks the most on the floor of the House of Commons has an issue with us standing up and putting our concerns on the record for our constituents. I think a bit of debate a…
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