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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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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join and add my comments to what is a disastrous budget 2025. The member for Winnipeg North may be surprised by this, but I find it hard to believe that the Prime Minister can outspend even Justin Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau added more debt to our country than all other prime ministers combined. Then this new guy walks in and is like, “Hold my beer. If you think that is …
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Mr. Speaker, the member talked about youth unemployment as though it just happened out of nowhere. This summer, youth unemployment was the highest it has been in our country in 30 or 40 years. I am wondering what policies the government brought forward that added to youth unemployment, because it did not just happen by accident. Why are so many young people in this country finding it so hard to fi…
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Mr. Speaker, along that same vein of spending so much money and looking so bad, the member for Winnipeg North likes to compare records. I would like to compare records. In 2015, the budget had a $1.9-billion surplus. In 2025, the budget has an almost $80-billion deficit. In 2015, we were $650 billion in debt as a country. In 2025, we are $1.3 trillion in debt, and we have never seen a government t…
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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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Mr. Speaker, I am very happy that the parliamentary secretary can sit there and read a speech that was written for her by someone behind the curtain, but I did not say any of that stuff. Actually, my speech did not even mention the carbon tax. The unhealthy obsession over the carbon tax coming from that side is a bit weird. I talked about out-of-control spending, food inflation and families findin…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to be here this evening to maybe get a little bit better answer to a question I asked in October. I talked about the fact that 86,000 jobs were lost in October and that 1,000 jobs were lost in Calgary, and about how that actually leads to more households' being food-insecure. Since that time, the Canadian food sentiment index report came out last week. It said that 80.6% of…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals think Canadians should be satisfied with begging for scraps from their table. The Prime Minister said he would be a master negotiator. He said he would get a deal with Trump done by July 21. He failed. Now he says, “Who cares?” and that there is no “burning issue”. Well, Conservatives care, and so do the members of USW 5890. They are the hard-working men at Interpro Pipe …
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be the member of Parliament that represents the RCMP depot where all RCMP officers are trained. One thing this budget does, as the member said she wanted to have an honest look at it, is it cuts $98 million from the RCMP budget. How does she expect Canadians to feel safer on the streets when the Liberals are cutting $98 million from the RCMP budget? Also, they are asking…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister should be tired of having a reckless record when it comes to the CRA. He should fix the CRA before he fixes anything else. The agency that gives the government its credit score says that since the Liberal government frequently ignores its fiscal anchors, the federal finances face a high risk of further deterioration. I have a simple question for the Prime Minister: When w…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of reckless spending by the Liberals, Canadians have been forced to put 50% more of their expenses on credit cards since 2015. It is so bad that the budget watchdog has condemned the Liberal spending, saying it is “unsustainable” and “shocking”. When will the Prime Minister finally put an end to his out-of-control spending spree so that Canadians can put food on their t…
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Mr. Speaker, from November 24 to 29, the country comes to town as Regina hosts the 54th annual Canadian Western Agribition. People come out and enjoy great food, the largest livestock show in Canada, four nights of electrifying rodeo, the trade fair and the best beef show on the continent. Whatever one fancies, Agribition has something for everyone. Agribition is about community. Our western way o…
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Mr. Speaker, I enjoy the speeches from the member for Winnipeg North because they are always full of interesting information that does not have much truth to it. We can tell when that happens because he gets louder and louder with the more information he talks about. When he gets really loud, we know he is telling a whopper of a tale. We heard that in the debate he had with the member for Sherwood…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure, like my colleague and friend, many of us were back in our ridings last week talking to people. Affordability comes up in almost every conversation, whether it is about the cost at the grocery store, the cost of rent or the cost of filling our tank. I wonder if the Liberals are not getting that same feedback or are just out of touch. When I talk to people at the grocery stor…
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Mr. Speaker, we know the member for Victoria wants to defund the police. I had a conversation at a Remembrance Day ceremony with Mike Lokken, the commanding officer of the depot division, and I wonder if the member knows that this budget cuts $98 million from the RCMP budget. Did he know when he voted for this budget that it is cutting the RCMP budget by $98 million? The Liberals are asking the RC…
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Mr. Speaker, what I just heard from the member for Winnipeg North is laughable. There is not a more partisan politician in this chamber. He would do anything for the Liberal Party of Canada. This includes absolutely ensuring that everything looks good from their point of view. The only reason we need bail reform is that this member and the rest of the Liberals passed terrible legislation for the l…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comment from the random Liberal on the far left over there about the RCMP and the “despicable” comment. Does he know the budget that he just voted for cut $98 million from the RCMP budget? I represent Depot, and I talked to the commanding officer. The Liberal government cut $98 million from the RCMP budget, and it asked the RCMP to hire 1,000 new recruits with $0 in t…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the talking points from my colleague opposite, but Sylvain Charlebois, the food professor, who is well known on social media, would completely disagree with everything the member just said. He said that the member's government policy has been directly linked to food price increases. He said the policies that the Liberals have had, such as the industrial carbon tax, have…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to join today in the evening's adjournment debate. I asked a question a few weeks ago about food price increases, but I am sure my colleagues will give me one second to give a big shout-out and congratulations to our very own Saskatchewan Roughriders, the 2025 Grey Cup champions. I had the opportunity on Sunday to watch the game with all three of my children. I am proud t…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a problem paying attention tonight. The Liberal member for Winnipeg North just did something very interesting. He brought up a piece of Bill C-14 that he and his colleagues could have passed already. The private member's bill brought forward by the member for Cariboo—Prince George could have been passed two weeks ago. It would have helped to protect first responders by making…
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Mr. Speaker, we are discussing bail reform. One thing from the Liberals' side of the aisle that I find amazing is that they think there is an act of God and they need to reform these laws. They do not finish the answer and say we need bail reform because they have bungled this file over the last 10 years. Bill C-5 and Bill C-75 are the reasons we need bail reform. They messed it up. Why should we …
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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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 an idiotic response. A thousand people just lost jobs—
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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, 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, 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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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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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, 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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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, 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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With regard to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency's Pest Control Products Fees and Charges Regulations: (a) what was the amount collected in fees in the last fiscal year, in total and broken down by each specific type of fee or component; (b) what is the itemized breakdown of how the Pest Management Regulatory Agency spent the money collected from each of the fees in (a); and (c) for which of t…
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