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Mr. Chair, what other types of firearms have been banned that the government will be seizing?
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Mr. Chair, are all of those firearms semi-automatics?
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Mr. Chair, how many firearms does the government believe have been prohibited that will be collected under this confiscation scheme?
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Mr. Chair, what was the price per gun the government paid for these?
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Mr. Chair, how many guns have been seized so far under the buyback confiscation scheme?
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Mr. Chair, I was asking for the total, but I will move on and we will look at this later. When the figures were presented by the government in September 2024, $11.5 million had gone towards software, logistics and communication support. Did any of that go to any of the suppliers or vendors involved in developing the ArriveCAN app?
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Mr. Chair, how much has the Liberal government spent so far on the confiscation scheme?
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Mr. Chair, is the government extending the amnesty?
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Mr. Chair, will all firearms banned in that, and in subsequent orders in council, be seized by then?
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time, and I have some questions for the Minister of Public Safety. The minister should know that these are direct questions, and I hope the answers will be similarly direct. When does the amnesty period end for firearms banned by order in council on May 1, 2020?
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Madam Speaker, the member opposite just mentioned he was very supportive of a great many of Justin Trudeau's policies. I wonder if one of those was the consumer carbon tax, knowing that it was in full force when he was nominated as a Liberal candidate last October.
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Mr. Chair, the government's own numbers in September of last year said it was $67.2 million. How has the amount gone down in the intervening months?
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Mr. Chair, the question was this: How much has been spent to date?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister commit to taking the Canadian Firearms Safety Course, so he will know what he is talking about?
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Mr. Chair, how can the minister make that claim when he does not know the basic fundamentals of law-abiding gun ownership in this country?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister know what safety classes and safety demands are expected of law-abiding Canadian gun owners?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister giving a number that is deliberately deflated?
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Mr. Chair, how has the number gotten $50 million smaller than in September 2024?
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Mr. Speaker, the picture for first-time homebuyers is very grim right now: 63%, nearly two-thirds, fear that they are going to default because of rising costs and the rising interest rates, which have happened on the Liberal government's watch, and 26% are using debt and credit to pay off debt. The Prime Minister may not know we have to pay off debt, but ordinary Canadians do. Canadians deserve a …
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Mr. Speaker, on December 12, the member tweeted that the carbon tax had a minimal effect on the cost of living and inflation. However, on April 1, when he got his fresh talking points from the Prime Minister, he said that axing the carbon tax made life more affordable. The Prime Minister is not here to tell him what to say. What does the member really think about the carbon tax?
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Mr. Speaker, I sincerely congratulate my colleague on her election. I had the privilege of meeting the member at an event in her city of Kitchener before she was the candidate, and I am so glad to see her here. I know that she worked tremendously hard in the election, and I was wondering if she has any stories she could share about where we are as a country right now that stand out from the doors …
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Mr. Speaker, I am floored. The minister just had four uninterrupted minutes to answer a very simple question about where the government stands on development of the oil and gas sector in Canada and the construction of pipelines. In those four minutes, not once did the minister even say the word “pipeline”. She did not utter the word. It proves the point I made in my initial question, which is that…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, I asked the Prime Minister and the government a very simple question about Canada's energy sector. I even did the homework for the government. I pointed out how the industrial carbon tax is making Canada less competitive and less affordable. I pointed out how the oil and gas production cap is keeping our resources in the ground and scaring away investors. I pointed out how …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my hon. colleague on his re-election. As members of the House may be aware, in the previous Parliament, he served as the shadow minister for ethics, which with the previous government was, I believe, three and a half full-time jobs. He was kept so busy with the litany of scandals and ethics lapses from Justin Trudeau and many of his cabinet ministers, and …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my hon. colleague, the member for Richmond Centre—Marpole, on his election. I was very familiar with his work as a city councillor, which I reported on in my former career as a journalist. I want to thank him for his advocacy on putting forward what was a very unpopular position with the Liberals but a very popular position among ordinary Canadians. The Li…
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Mr. Speaker, it turns out that the Prime Minister was telling the truth when he said he was different from Justin Trudeau; he is actually worse. This week, the Prime Minister introduced his first spending bill, called the main estimates, for the coming year. It is a half-a-trillion-dollar spending bill with no budget. He promised to cap spending increases to 2% but then, one hour later, stuck Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member on her back-to-back re-elections. She mentioned the lack of a plan from the Prime Minister, and I am wondering whether she has stories from her two campaigns of how Canadians view their own budget and the decisions they have to make in their own household, and whether any of those resemble what we are getting from the government. I thought she m…
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Mr. Speaker, while I would love to be sitting here as a government member of Parliament, I cannot address the member's question in terms of what the government will do, but I can say, and it is a very important point, that the breakdown in federalism in Canada, especially for the last several years, has been a consequence of the Liberal government, in which I do not believe there has been anything…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a tremendous honour to be here to make my first speech in this Parliament, my first speech ever as a member of Parliament. Getting here was, as for all members of Parliament, a challenge. We navigated a very tough campaign. I have to give particular thanks to the people I would not be here without. One of them is in the House today, my wife Jennifer, without whom I would not be …
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Mr. Speaker, I am actually proud to say I agree with the member that building a strong economy is incredibly important. Where I differ from the member is on whether the Liberal Party, with all the carnage it has unleashed on Canada, is capable of doing that or is committed to doing it.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my hon. colleague on his re-election. One of the things we put forward during the campaign, as part of the measures we need to take to get our books back in order as a country, was taking aim at the consultants who are getting rich off the taxpayer's back. I have been through a household budget in my own home, and if I ever saw a line item for $2,400 for McKinsey or oth…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals claim that they want to make Canada an energy superpower, but they forget that it is their record over the last decade that has decimated our energy sector and kept our resources in the ground. The Liberals' oil and gas production cap will kill tens of thousands of jobs and cost our economy $20 billion. Their industrial carbon tax will cost Canadian businesses and consume…
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