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Mr. Speaker, I have just a quick question for my colleague from the NDP. The federal government says it is doing so well and its policies are just great, and its members are always patting themselves on the back. If the government is doing so well, why are so many Canadians struggling across the country?
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Mr. Speaker, all we hear from the Liberals is how great they are and that the government is doing so great. My question for my colleague is simple. If the government is doing so great, why are so many Canadian citizens struggling every single day?
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Mr. Speaker, this member from northern Saskatchewan is the biggest embarrassment to come out of Saskatchewan since the Riders lost the Grey Cup for having too many men on the field. Let me make a list of what this guy has actually delivered. He cancelled the Snowbirds. He shuttered two agriculture research stations. He never delivered money for the RCMP museum in Regina. If the Liberal government …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said affordability is the best it has been in decades, but in reality, 38% of Canadians face food insecurity. One in five say all food in the home has been eaten and there is no money left to buy more. It is no wonder Food Banks Canada gave the Liberal government an F on food insecurity. Will the Prime Minister reverse his costly policies, which caused this cris…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Yorkton—Melville has been a great colleague. She really embodies the three things we talk about as Conservatives: faith, family and freedom. She always asks about people's families. I am a big family guy, and the fact that she is resigning to spend more time with her husband, their beautiful kids and grandkids really is a testament to her leaving on a high note and at t…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to extend petitions by 10 minutes.
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Mr. Speaker, I am tabling a petition signed by members of my community on Commissionaires, which remains the largest employer of veterans in Canada. Commissionaires had an agreement with the federal government that gives Commissionaires the first right of refusal for security at federal buildings for government departments. The government decided that policy will end in April 2027, with a clear la…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a very interesting point from the Liberal across the way. I wonder, if I crossed the floor, if the Liberals would fund the RCMP Heritage Centre.
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Mr. Speaker, the member from northern Saskatchewan can beak all he wants, but this is a serious question about a serious bill. There has been such a rise in hate over the last 10 years, and who has been in government? Why are people so much more angry? Is it the fact that the Liberal government trampled rights and freedoms when it froze people's bank accounts? Was it the fact that it brought polic…
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Mr. Speaker, I would love to debate back and forth with my colleague, because, as I said, we helped the Liberals pass Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act. We needed it. We co-operated. They needed it to make the economy stronger, but they have not used the bill once. Even when we are trying to help them grow the economy, they fail. I will take no lessons from the colleague across the way. We wi…
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Mr. Speaker, there are so many ways the Liberals have wasted money. I can talk about the $300 million in PrescribeIT. I can talk about the tens of billions of dollars given to third party consultants and about the growing size of bureaucracy. If they hire more consultants, they should not have to have a larger bureaucracy. We can talk about the millions, even billions, of dollars sent out of the c…
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Mr. Speaker, we hear them cheering that, yes, they would. They tricked one of the Conservatives by promising to fund something in their riding. That is how the member for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong got tricked into moving over to the Liberal side. She was promised money from the housing minister. I find it very interesting that the Liberals are willing to try to buy people. I will tell my friend ac…
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Mr. Speaker, it is truly heartbreaking that, under the Liberals, the Snowbirds are going to be grounded. I remember, as a young kid, our driving to Moose Jaw from our farm in Rush Lake and watching air shows for the Snowbirds. Seeing those planes in the sky was a special moment. In Barrie, 150,000 people got to see that for the last time. The fact that the Liberals did not have a plan to make sure…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to join in this debate on Government Business No. 12 on the spring economic update. A lot has changed since the spring economic update. The most recent PBO report says the government has slowing growth, a larger than promised deficit, a weakening fiscal outlook and a 1% chance of meeting the government's own fiscal anchor. That has all happened since the last spring e…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not happy to rise to my feet, but I do have an interesting question about Bill C-9. The Liberals talk about all the hate and mistreatment of other people.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not have to be very bold. I think the provincial governments do need some federal funding. I do not think the federal government needs to have another bureaucracy in order to listen to municipalities and provinces and get them the funding they need to build homes. It does not have to be in the business of homebuilding. It can actually help the provinces when it comes to funding. …
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the value of the Canadian dollar has gone down. Actually, it has just gone down again over the last couple of days, so our dollar is not going as far as it did in years prior. When it comes to interest rates, what has happened to the Canadian dollar and our purchasing power is that the more the government spends, the greater the deficits are. The PBO just said that the de…
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Madam Speaker, I listened to one of the Minister of Housing's answers, and he said, “We are in a housing crisis”. The simple question is “Why?” The Liberals have been in government for 11 years, and they are acting like this housing crisis came out of nowhere. The policies that they have put in place caused this housing crisis with red tape. We talked to municipalities. The fact that the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, my NDP colleague's comments go to the heart of my argument. The federal government should not be picking winners and losers. The provincial government and municipalities can put programs forward to make sure that the people who most need homes can get them. The government can supply some of the funding, but the people on the ground doing the building should be able to get that money a…
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Mr. Speaker, here is what really confuses me about this. I was part of a government in Saskatchewan that had a housing plan. It actually had numbers in it. This plan in 2011 by the Saskatchewan government said head start on a home would build 1,000 homes, the affordable home ownership program would build 600 homes, the rental construction incentive would build 2,900 homes, with $35 million for ren…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to join this debate on Bill C‑20, Build Canada Homes, which was a promise the Liberals made in the 2025 campaign. I cannot remember the name of the Liberal guy I ran against, but he was very excited about this, saying that he was going to get these homes built and that this was going to be a great policy. I remember thinking, from a Saskatchewan point of view, that we are h…
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Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister was asked about the recession he created, he ran away like a scared jackrabbit. Can the member tell me where the Prime Minister is?
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Madam Speaker, the question we were just asked by the only Liberal in Saskatchewan was about the qualifications of a member of Parliament. Our qualifications are that we work hard, we get voted in by the people and we bring their voices to the House. My big problem with this member is that he represents northern Saskatchewan and has voted against every common-sense motion we have had. He voted to …
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Mr. Speaker, on Friday, it was announced Canada had entered a recession and it is no coincidence that shortly thereafter, Food Banks Canada brought out its poverty report. Perhaps Liberals will not believe what we are saying about their reckless policies that are harming Canadians. The Food Bank report gave Canada an overall grade of a D+, an F for employment rate and an F for food security. Right…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague across the way talked a lot about investment in research, so I am going to ask a straightforward question. When it comes to investment in research in Saskatchewan, we are losing two research farms in the agriculture industry because the Liberals have cut the funding for agriculture research. Also, at Environment Canada, they have cut funding for radar research, which is g…
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Madam Speaker, what we always hear from these Liberals is that Canadians have never had it so good. Now that we have been talking about how Canada was on the wrong track and we are in a full-fledged recession because of these Liberal policies, they think this side is giddy. No, we are just disappointed. We have been bringing up stories about how everyday Canadians are finding it hard to make ends …
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Mr. Speaker, do members know what was amazing about the chief government whip's speech? He did not mention Canadians once. He did not talk about the 2.2 million people at a food bank. He did not talk about the food bank survey, which just came out, that gave them an F in food security, an F in employment and a D +in legislation. He did not talk about the things that real Canadians are talking abou…
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Madam Speaker, we have a steel mill in Regina as well, InterPro Pipe and Steel. It employs a lot of people, so steel is very important to us. The Prime Minister should have kept his word. He was the one who could deal with Donald Trump. He promised to get a deal done by July 1, 2025. He misled Canadians, and he cannot get the deal done, because he is all talk and no action. The biggest disappointm…
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Madam Speaker, I believe this is the House of Commons in Canada. However, I want to go back to the member's comments about day care. The member should be ashamed of himself for his day care program, because it has created very few spots. The Liberals have actually misled Canadians, which they do all the time. We brought forward solutions at committee, actually, to make the day care program better,…
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Madam Speaker, the biggest issue we have is that the Prime Minister is so out of touch. The fact that Brookfield can make 19% growth in its portfolio but Canada cannot grow its GDP shows whom he is really here for. He is here for Brookfield—
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Madam Speaker, it is with pleasure that I join the debate today on Bill C-31, part of the budget implementation act. This budget is from November 4, 2025, so it seems a bit weird talking about a budget when we are in a different year already. Nevertheless, there are some comments I would like to get on the record about the budget. Obviously, we cannot talk about the budget implementation act witho…
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Madam Speaker, a Liberal is heckling across the way, but they do say that. They think that having a grocery benefit is a good thing, but it means they are failing. It means the economy is going down the dumpster, because they have to give food stamps to Canadians. The fact that they have to give out food stamps is not a measure of success. Those guys should wake up over there. It is actually a sig…
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Madam Speaker, that speaks for itself. The fact is that the Prime Minister is so out of touch that he refuses to recognize that there has been a recession in Canada. To the point, the Prime Minister has not talked to anyone about a recession since Friday. He has been in hiding. He is in the witness protection program. He will not let the media ask questions. They can take some pictures of him in s…
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Mr. Speaker, while millions of Canadians struggle to put food on their table, the Liberal Prime Minister's luxury inflight catering costs soared to $195,000 for three trips, at a time when one in three employed Canadians is using debt to pay for their food. In my home province of Saskatchewan, people are talking about whether or not it is okay to steal groceries from grocery stores. How out of tou…
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Mr. Speaker, what an out-of-touch answer that was. How arrogant can the Liberals get? Seriously, the topic on Tuesday on the most listened-to radio show in Saskatchewan was whether it is okay to steal food from grocery stores. Is stealing and microlooting okay in the breadbasket of Canada? After one year of the Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians are struggling so much that they need to steal food t…
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Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned the child care program. The fact is that there are fewer child care spaces in Canada, across the country, now than there ever were before. The Liberals are committed to building 250,000 child care spaces. They are at 165 spaces. In the GTA, there were 5% fewer child care spaces. Their program is a failure. Every time government goes into a program, it becomes less…
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Mr. Speaker, if my kids gave me that answer when I asked them a question, I would be bitterly disappointed. It is always someone else's fault with these Liberals. It is never their fault. Regarding gasoline prices, they say, “It is not our fault. We took the tax off.” However, there is not a place in the country where the price of gas is lower than it was before. They only went a third of the way.…
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Mr. Speaker, I have an honest question for my friend from the NDP. Earlier, we had the member for Winnipeg North laughing about seniors not being able to afford food in one of our members' ridings. He said—
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what I said, so I would say to—
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Mr. Speaker, I will go back to the question I had for the member from B.C. I am wondering, how many Canadians in your riding are actually better off than they were five or six years ago? Are there lots of people in your riding saying that things have gotten better, or can you say that they have collectively gotten worse?
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to take to my feet today to ask for a more substantive answer to a question I asked in question period about a month ago. I asked the Liberal finance minister if he should be held to his own words. I remember back in 2023 that minister had said he would have grocery prices under control by Thanksgiving 2023. Those are not the only comments we have heard about g…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join in debate today on our opposition day motion on the sovereign debt fund. The motion reads: That, given that, (i) sovereign wealth funds must have wealth that comes from budget surpluses and resource revenues, (ii) this government has run no surpluses, only deficits for the last 11 years and has no funds to invest, (iii) the Prime Minister is proposing to put …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to give notice under Standing Order 43(2)(a) that all remaining Conservative caucus speaking slots are hereby divided in two.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a very simple question. Which one of the Prime Minister's banker buddies is going to be the CEO of this fund?
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Mr. Speaker, what I would recognize is one thing that the member for Kings—Hants left out. Nutrien, which is headquartered in Saskatoon, has decided to build a port in Washington state instead of Vancouver because there is so much red tape and bureaucracy. They have no faith that the federal government would allow them to build in the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert. They had to go to the Uni…
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Mr. Speaker, that is such a great point from my colleague from the Bloc. I did not get a chance to comment on that in my speech. We have no idea who is going to be the head of this debt fund. We have no idea who is going to be on the board and how those decisions are going to be made. There is such a lack of transparency. I would say to my hon. colleague that this is a case where the government is…
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Mr. Speaker, despite the member being super immature and saying “duh”, I would say the Canada Infrastructure Bank was supposed to distribute a $35‑billion capital envelope by 2027-28. However, as of July 2025, the PBO reported that it had disbursed only $14.9 billion, $21.1 billion short of the target. Only a Liberal would cheerlead a failed project that delivered 50% less than it was supposed to.…
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Mr. Speaker, the member said I made a false statement. I would like him to clarify what statement was false.
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Mr. Speaker, generally, I enjoy the speeches from my colleague from Kings—Hants. We worked on the agriculture committee together. However, I think he has been listening to the member for Winnipeg North too much, because he made a lot of misleading comments toward Canadians throughout his whole speech, specifically around the sovereign debt fund. He talked about the Norway sovereign fund. It is unb…
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Mr. Speaker, people in Saskatchewan have lived through this nightmare before: “Trust us; the government can do it better.” This reminds me of the NDP in the 1990s and early 2000s in Saskatchewan, when the government invested money from Crown corporations and taxpayers' dollars in things like Spudco, where it lost $30 million, things like Navigata, where it lost $12 million, and things like mega bi…
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