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Madam Speaker, my hon. friend is a fantastic advocate for farmers across the country. He talked a lot about the issues and the policies that this government has foisted upon farmers, which are hamstringing them and making them uncompetitive. One thing I would like the member to talk about is the absolute disaster that is the capital gains tax increases on farmers and how it is going to hamper succ…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague very much for the lesson in fiscal policy and monetary policy. I agree that his cabinet needs to have a lot more lessons. Maybe if he got to the cabinet table he could explain to the finance minister that difference, because her fiscal policy and her fiscal guardrails have done nothing but run this country's economy over the edge and create a dumpster fire of de…
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Madam Speaker, there are many more scandals. I think I only got to number 40 on my list of 75. I was not here, but I believe the advice from the then Conservative government was for the Liberals not to continue with the Phoenix pay system and to do something different. This is what I have been told. There does needs to be a system in place to make sure the workers are paid properly. I think we go …
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Madam Speaker, what I did not get to was some of the NDP scandals in Saskatchewan and how poorly the NDP governed our province for 16 long years. People used to call it “Roy's revenge.” Roy Romanow was the NDP premier of Saskatchewan who closed 152 hospitals in our province, devastating health care. Roy Romanow closed 175 schools; that was one school for every week he was premier in our province. …
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Obviously, Mr. Speaker, the minister has not been to a grocery store in a while. The NDP-Liberals driving up the carbon tax will cost people in Saskatchewan $2,000 a year. The latest food price report shows that Canadians are being forced to buy less nutritious food because of the higher prices. This is Canada under the Prime Minister. To make matters worse, the average family will spend an additi…
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Mr. Speaker, this is my favourite time of year for two reasons: First, the Christmas spirit can be seen everywhere we look, and, second, Regina hosts my favourite event. Every year at the end of November, Regina becomes a destination for everything agriculture. The 53rd Canadian Western Agribition was a resounding success. Folks from around the globe gathered in Regina to take in the world-class l…
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Mr. Speaker, Saskatchewan is the breadbasket of Canada. We have the food, the fertilizer and the fuel the world needs. After nine years of the carbon tax coalition, something has changed. Parents are skipping meals and mothers are adding water to their children's milk. In fact, between 2019 and 2024, food bank usage in my province increased by 42.1%. The primary causes are the growing cost of hous…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine long years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Prime Minister has taken his anti-energy crusade to a whole new level after recently announcing his oil and gas production cut. This job-killing policy will result in sending jobs to the United States along with $700 million that will go to build pipelines in America. The NDP-Liber…
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Madam Speaker, this is an important topic, and I listened intently to my friend's speech. I am wondering whether he has heard of other flip-flops on the carbon tax. One that comes to mind is the NDP in B.C. Its members were against it before they were for it. Another one that comes to mind is the flip-flop of the current Liberals when it came to being an open and transparent government. I remember…
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Mr. Speaker, there was so much wrong in that answer. I want to unpack it, but I do not have the time. However, one thing I will say, as a father of three, is that smoking is very bad. Please be assured that I do not think smoking is a good thing for anyone. I would just like to get that on the record. I was not sure that my hon. colleague was going to answer, but I am glad he answered because I en…
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Mr. Speaker, I have had a chance to speak to the amendment and the motion before. I remember, in university, I wrote a paper asking if the Liberal government had lost the legitimacy to govern. I asked if it had lost the trust of Canadians across the country. That was during the ad scam. Could my colleague tell us how the ad scam scandal that took down the corrupt Chrétien-Martin Liberal government…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague gave a wonderful answer to the question I asked a few minutes ago. I have a follow-up question because his answer triggered something. How many innovation ministers does he think might be complicit in this scandal because there have been several since the current one? I am wondering how many innovation ministers, possibly because of the scandal, could still be deeply invo…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to wrap up this evening's events and ask some follow-up questions, on the carbon tax, to what I asked the Minister of Environment a week ago in question period. We all know the carbon tax costs a majority of Canadians much more than they get back in rebates. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that time and time again and recently confirmed it in his most recent …
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Madam Speaker, I have a short question about the environment. About three or four years ago, the government signed an agreement with the City of Montreal to continue to dump raw sewage into the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the government cares about the environment and is so focused on emissions, what about having clean waters and clean waterways down in the St. Lawrence? How can they continue to allow…
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Mr. Speaker, as always, that was an entertaining speech from my colleague, the member for Kingston and the Islands, although he did not talk much about the environment. I asked the member for Winnipeg North a question, and I will ask the same question of the member for Kingston and the Islands. What is the environmental impact of allowing Montreal to dump raw sewage into St. Lawrence? About two or…
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Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded vote, please.
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Mr. Speaker, I will leave the NDP comments where they stand. The NDP members talk about some of the scandals, but one thing I find fascinating is the fact that this Prime Minister is the first prime minister who has ever been in a conflict of interest, not once and not twice. How many cabinet ministers have also been found in conflict of interests? I would like my friend to answer the question of …
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, you made a comment to the last Liberal speaker that they should not cause disruption. There is name-calling going on, and that is adding to the disruption in the House. I would like you to rule on that.
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With regard to the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Projects, since January 1, 2020: (a) how much funding has been provided by the government for any such projects, in total and broken down by individual project; and (b) has the government received any requests for such projects which it has not yet funded, and, if so, what are the details of the requests and the reason why they have not yet been funde…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague and friend from the Bloc is mistaken. The Liberals could end this today. They would not even have to hear my speech. Produce the documents, give them to the RCMP unredacted and the business of the House will carry on. This is completely in the NDP-Liberal government's court. If they produce the documents to the RCMP unredacted, we can move on. However, unfortunate…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a tough but fair question. We are neighbours by happenstance, but we are friends by choice, and so I appreciate the comments coming from my colleague for Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan. I think sometimes people do not remember, but I remember that the member for Burnaby South sometimes tries to compare potatoes and apples when he is trying to figure out his grocery bill, and so…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure what comment the member is talking about, but I will say to landslide Eby, congratulations to the Premier. I think he got a majority by a seat or two. Yes, there is an NDP government, and that gives me a chance to talk about NDP government scandals, which I never got to. I am from Saskatchewan, and if we think that the list of 68 scandals is bad, I have a book here of 50…
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Mr. Speaker, do members remember CERB and how many people collected CERB that were in jail? There were some who were dead who collected CERB. That would be another scandal. Another one would be the fact the CBC gave bonuses to their executive and fired hard-working employees. Another one would be the CBC's travel. Catherine Tait travelled expansively and spent taxpayers' dollars like they were her…
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Mr. Speaker, this does come down to the heart of the issue, which is that Canadian families are struggling. It is getting harder and harder to make ends meet. No one in the House can disagree with that. Over two million people are going to food banks each month. It is harder, and it is harder than it has been for years. When we talk about the families, when we do door knocking on the doorsteps in …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to take to my feet today to talk about one, maybe two Liberal scandals that have happened over the last nine years. Actually, there are probably 68 Liberal scandals that have happened over the past nine years under the government. In 2015, I remember a young, bright-eyed, beautiful-haired person running to be Prime Minister, and that person promised to lead the most o…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a tough but fair question. I will explain it to the hon. member. It is really cold in Saskatchewan. It gets down to about -40C, minus -50C, but not quite down to minus -51C, which is where the Prime Minister's approval rating is in Saskatchewan.
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Mr. Speaker, that is a tough question. There are so many scandals the government has been a part of in such a short time. The WE Charity scandal was over $600 million, and the Liberals actually prorogued Parliament and called an election to make sure that it did not get discovered how deep that went. There was the $300 billion that was supposed to be spent on COVID. No one knows where that money w…
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Mr. Speaker, we have to do it by taking more tax dollars from Canadians. One of my Liberal friends said, “Tell us.” In an earlier part of my speech, which I will repeat, I said the government does not actually have any money; it only has the money it takes from Canadians. The government has never made a dollar ever, so if it is going to pay back debt, it has to take more money away from Canadians,…
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Mr. Speaker, with that much hot air, I could run a couple of windmills. After nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has once again confirmed that Canadians pay much more in costs than they get back in rebates. In Saskatchewan, after these guys quadruple the carbon tax, it is going to cost a family $2,000 a year. Whe…
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Mr. Speaker, I find it quite amazing that the Liberals try again and again to mislead the public. There were 186 conflicts of interest found by the Auditor General in SDTC. There was $390 million given to Liberal insiders. Therefore I think that a huge problem now with the Liberals is that they will not release the documents to show the actual facts with respect to who got rich, which was most of …
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Madam Speaker, I have a letter written by the RCMP commissioner for the chair of the procedure and House affairs committee, and it says, “I wish to inform you that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation into SDTC is ongoing.” As there is an ongoing investigation, my question for my colleague is simple: Why does he think the NDP and the Liberals will not help the RCMP and release th…
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Mr. Speaker, the debate is actually a very clear signal of how things have gotten in the House. Because of scandal and waste from the Liberal government propped up by the NDP, we are seized with the privilege motion before us. The fact is that there are not any solid questions coming from the left rump over there of the NDP, the eco activists. The fact is that they are okay with the Liberals' cont…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and ask my friend a question. It is funny how history repeats itself. As a young man, I wrote a paper in university called “Have the Liberals Lost the Legitimacy to Govern?” This paper was about the ad scam scandal that eventually took down the Chrétien-Martin government. As my friend from Regina—Qu'Appelle says, Liberals are going to liberal. The more we go t…
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Madam Speaker, I listened to the member's speech intently, but I noticed that he did not mention some of the things that we need to work on in Canada, such as the two million people who are using food banks, which is the highest number ever. That would be one indication that things are not going as well in this country as they should be. Another would be how high food inflation is in this country,…
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Mr. Speaker, we have just seen the tip of the iceberg of who has money and which Liberal insiders are getting rich. The foreign affairs minister's husband got some contracts in other areas. How deep does my colleague think this rot is and how long will it take to have this go through committee and actually find out how many taxpayer dollars have gone to Liberal insiders, friends and family?
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Mr. Speaker, I find it amazing that the NDP member asked a question about wining and dining when his leader cost the taxpayers $500,000 last year. He is the most expensive man in Parliament, and he does not know the difference between a bag of potatoes and a bag of apples. How will he ever deliver for Canadians?
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Madam Speaker, there is no doubt that there needs to be more border security. We could use the $67 million from the Liberals' phony gun buyback plan and put some of that money into the border to have more people at border services. Another thing about processing that is really hurting farmers' bottom lines is trucking. Canadian Trucking Alliance members just said that the carbon tax is going to co…
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Madam Speaker, I welcome the member to the ag committee. I have served on it for four years and look forward to his contributions. At the start of the member's speech, he talked about being excited about the possibility of the Prime Minister and the Liberals taxing grocery stores more to try to lower food prices. He said that might be one of the options. Can the member give me an example of when w…
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Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to join the debate today on the concurrence of the 18th report of the Standing Committee of Agriculture and Agri-Food on food price inflation. I find it very strange that the Liberal member would talk about tying up the House's time on things he thinks are not important. When I was in my riding of Regina—Lewvan and our communities all summer, one of the major topic…
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Madam Speaker, I do not do this very often, but to quote a Liberal minister, we will take no lessons from them when it comes to flip-flopping and breaking promises. The Liberals have broken many promises to Canadians. Do members remember when they were going to have a couple of small deficits and then balance the budget in 2015? Do members remember when they promised to lower emissions in 2015 and…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate a question coming from anyone in this House. Everyone has the right to ask questions. However, for a member of the NDP to stand up and talk about anything other than the inconsistency of their leader and how he sold out Canadians for his pension is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this costly coalition, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The NDP-Liberal government's reckless policies have forced two million people to food banks. Its destructive carbon tax has made it almost impossible for farmers to make affordable food to put on the tables of Canadians. Canadians want and deserve a carbon tax election. They can decide b…
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Mr. Speaker, when a single mother is deciding whether to put milk in the fridge or gas in the car for their children, that answer is going to give them no comfort this winter. The NDP has sold out Canadians, and for what? It is time to know the truth. Will the NDP stand with Canadians and make sure there is the carbon tax election that they want? Otherwise, is it true that the leader of the NDP ca…
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With regard to Exhibit 5.1 of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development's report entitled "Agriculture and Climate Change Mitigation - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada": (a) what was the methodology in determining the emissions of animal production; (b) what data gathering techniques were used; (c) what were the earliest and latest data points that were used; (d) can the data…
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With regard to the Canada Dental Benefit, to date: how many Canadians have (i) signed up, (ii) been approved, (iii) received dental care paid for through the benefit?
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With regard to the government's proposed plastics registry: (a) what is the projected cost to establish the registry and maintain it each year; (b) what is the timeline by which the government will implement the registry; and (c) did the government conduct any studies on the impact the registry will have on the price of food and other consumer products, and, if so, what are the details of each suc…
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Mr. Speaker, we always can tell when the Liberals or the NDP members are in trouble because they go back to more divisive policies. If the Liberals have been in government for nine long years, why have they not brought in the law?
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure the member has had a chance to read the report that the Liberals just released this morning. Does he believe that a $30.5-billion hit to our economy is going to affect Canadians' everyday lives?
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