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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, 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, Jaskirat Sidhu, a non-citizen, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, yet, yesterday, he was granted a stay of deportation. The psychological and physical harm to the Humboldt Broncos victims and their families was not adequately considered in the stay decision. My question is for the Minister of Public Sa…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join this private member's bill debate around the national framework on skilled trades and labour mobility act coming from the member for Richmond East—Steveston. He made some interesting comments in his speech that I would like to address. He talked about there not being so many people leaving our country and going to the United States, which is blatantly untrue. I wo…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to join this debate about, basically, the Liberals taking a backdoor majority through floor crossing. I have been here for only six years, and I know that my colleague from Regina—Qu'Appelle has been here much longer. Has this happened before? Has the committee structure been altered like this by any governments in the past? Is this really precedent-setting? I believe this …
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Mr. Speaker, I am quite shocked by the question coming from the member for Burlington in saying that it is theatrical to care about accountability and oversight in the House of Commons and in committee structures. The government that she is a part of, the Liberal government, has more ethics violations than any government in the history of Canada. There is corruption, there are scandals in the gove…
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Mr. Speaker, on April 8, Saskatchewan's 21st lieutenant governor, the Honourable Vaughn Solomon Schofield, passed away, marking an end to a life of service, strong community values and humility. Vaughn will be remembered for her outstanding contributions to Canada's Armed Forces, highlighted by the numerous honours she held including recently becoming the honorary colonel of 15 Wing Moose Jaw. Tru…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join the debate around Bill C-22, the lawful access act, 2026. To figure out where we are at, we have to figure out how we got here. I think any conversation around giving law enforcement agencies better tools to be better able to fight crime is a good thing. However, the devil is always in the details, as people say. With respect to this bill, there are some conc…
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Mr. Speaker, there are a few things I disagree with. First of all, the government is a tired, old government, an 11-year-old one. It is not one year old. It has the same faces in the same places. Changing one person does not make a different government. I would say that, yes, if members listened to my speech, they would realize there are some things in the bill we do agree on. I have been listenin…
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Mr. Speaker, I could not agree more with the member. The government would be a total disaster if it had a majority more often. NSICOP is a very important committee, and the committee members it has would do a very good job of reviewing and getting material in a more timely fashion. That is a very good suggestion. When it comes to reviewing this bill at committee, I hope every party takes a serious…
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Mr. Speaker, we have to take the bill to committee to make sure that people's privacy is protected. We have heard time and time again, as I have mentioned, from law enforcement agencies that they need more tools to ensure they can catch the online criminal element faster and make sure they can protect citizens and their data when they are online. My big fear, and the fear of many people on this si…
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Mr. Speaker, the biggest question I have been asked over the last couple of weeks, and years, when it comes to democracy is with respect to the longest ballot committee. That is something that has weighed on people. It has made it very difficult for them to cast their ballot in a proper way. Some ballots have been a metre long. Therefore, I would ask my colleague if this bill addresses that issue.…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have brought forward a plan to eliminate the gas tax, the GST on gas and diesel, the industrial carbon tax and the fuel standard tax for the rest of 2026. That would cut costs at the pump by 25¢ per litre and save a family of four up to $1,200 this year. Why is the Liberal Prime Minister shortchanging Canadian families and not cutting all taxes for the whole year?
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Mr. Speaker, I have known that member for a very long time. I have made a career out of cleaning up his messes. He and the NDP destroyed Saskatchewan for 16 years, and now he has come here to be one of the Liberals destroying the economy of Canada. Once again, after he finishes ruining the economy for Canadians, we will clean up his mess for all Canadians so they can get ahead.
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Mr. Speaker, over eight years, one's perspective can change, from hockey player to hockey parent. This winter, my wife ran into Mr. Cross at the Strasbourg rink, watching kids play the sport his son loved. His son was Mark Cross, the assistant coach for the Humboldt Broncos, who died in the crash. On April 6, it will be eight years since the crash. Today my words are inspired by Mr. Cross and all …
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Mr. Speaker, last Saturday my wife, Larissa, and I, along with my fellow Conservatives, the hon. members for Regina—Wascana and Regina—Qu'Appelle, had the pleasure of attending the 32nd annual Evening in Greece, a signature cultural fundraiser supporting the Hospitals of Regina Foundation and the Autism Resource Centre. It is an amazing event filled with live music, outstanding Greek cuisine and, …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague's passionate speech was about laws that are already on the books, and I think that is the comment that we have heard a lot from this side. We just heard the Minister of Justice speak about why he brought in closure. Everything he talked about is already a law on the books, so my question to my learned colleague is this: These laws are already on the books and we are see…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of the thousands of Canadians who have called in to MPs' offices in regard to Bill C-9. Bill C-9 would amend the Criminal Code to address hate propaganda and hate crimes, but the Liberals are proposing an amendment to remove the religious exemption that protects good-faith expression of beliefs based on religious texts. Removing this exempt…
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Mr. Speaker, we cannot control what happens abroad, but the Liberals do control the policies that are imposing an affordability crisis on Canadians here at home. Right now, we have the worst food inflation and the only shrinking economy in the G7. The Liberal Prime Minister is going ahead with his newly renamed carbon tax, the clean fuel standard. This policy now costs seven cents a litre but will…
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Madam Speaker, while the member was speaking, I took a second to look up what the federal health transfers are to the province of Saskatchewan as a whole, and the amount for the program for bogus refugee claimants is actually the same as the amount of the transfer to the whole province. Saskatchewan gets $1.6 billion a year, and the program gets $1.5 billion. How is it even fair to the people of S…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to finish my question after having been rudely interrupted. It is actually in the federal budget that Saskatchewan gets $1.6 billion in Canada health transfers. If the member can read, he can see that. My question is this: How is it fair to the people of Saskatchewan, who pay taxes and work hard each and every day to support this country, to get the same amount in healt…
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Mr. Speaker. I want to thank my colleague for his wonderful in-depth speech on what is wrong with this program and our immigration system as a whole. I asked a question earlier about this. In health care transfers, Saskatchewan receives $1.5 billion a year for the whole province of Saskatchewan. This program will receive, by 2029-30, $1.6 billion. There are several people in this program who recei…
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Mr. Speaker, we know we are having a good day on the opposition side when the Liberal benches are yelling and screaming and bringing out all the tricks in the book in terms of how to discredit what we are trying to say. What we have said, time and time again, is that refugees who have had their claims denied or who have failed should not get the same health care as seniors across our country or pe…
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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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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, 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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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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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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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, my colleague from Portage—Lisgar just landed on something quite relevant, and maybe some of my Liberal colleagues missed it, which is the stifling of debate. He mentioned that, because of the Liberal censorship bill, we cannot share news articles online. The government has prorogued Parliament not once, but twice, in the past 10 years. Once it was to cover up the WE Charity scandal an…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the speech by my colleague from Calgary Crowfoot, and I think that in one of his answers he really hit the nail on the head: He said that maybe it is because there are such weak Liberal chairs in the finance committee. I remember that when I was in government in Saskatchewan, I always thought it was the government's job to make sure the legislative agenda passed, not to …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Calgary East and I are from neighbouring provinces, and I really appreciate his insight when it comes to the financial picture of our country. I would ask him this: It is interesting that the member for Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas is clutching his pearls and saying that we are saying such terrible things, but then he did not say anything that we had said that was…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague talked a lot about food affordability. Food affordability is a major issue across our home province of Saskatchewan, but nowhere more so than in northern Saskatchewan. In northern Saskatchewan, people pay the highest food prices in our province because it costs so much more to truck and transport the food there. We talked for years about how much the carbon tax affected…
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Madam Speaker, I listened intently to the 10-minute speech of my colleague from P.E.I., and he did not mention one new initiative. A whole new budget was brought in, but not one new initiative was mentioned. He mentioned child care, the lunch program, OAS and dental care, but not one new program. I find it interesting that the government is creating a $78.5-billion deficit, which will be about $10…
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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, 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, 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 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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Mr. Speaker, if it is going to happen, sure, but this is a Liberal kind of trick that they play. They say it is going to happen. There was an MOU signed. It is going to happen. They signed it on July 21.
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Did you say that you will send me a press release, because I believe Liberal press releases? Mr. Speaker, if it is going to happen, I would be happy to congratulate them on breaking down some interprovincial trade barriers. I want Canada to succeed. I believe in Canada as much, or more, than every one of those Liberals, but they think they can wrap themselves in the flag when it is convenient. The…
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