Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, gun crime is up 130% under the Liberal government, and what is the Liberals' answer? It is to target law-abiding hunters and sport shooters. The public safety minister was caught on leaked audio accidentally telling the truth about the Liberal gun buyback scheme. He admitted it is not worth the money, that it will go over budget, that it is politically motivated and all for optics, an…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it was the public safety minister who set the record straight when he was caught on tape saying that this program will not do a thing for public safety. The Liberals are not taking guns away from criminals; they are letting criminals out on the street, and now they are diverting $750 million that could go to things that would protect Canadians. That is money being diverted away from t…
Read full speech →Government Orders
moved: That the House call on the Prime Minister to immediately repeal the oil and gas emissions cap, which in effect is a production cap. Mr. Speaker, there is breaking news today, really good news for some. TC Energy just announced that it is investing $8.5 billion in the energy sector. In fact, it said it is betting big on the energy sector. The bad news is that it will be in the United States.…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, first of all, I know we do not debate points of order, but I think it is so telling that the first moment of this debate kicked off with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change's admitting that what he said on Friday was not true and that emissions are not going down under the Liberal government's plan but are in fact going up. He has to make up s…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, we had a fantastic meeting, and we heard loud and clear that as long as there are not new major pipelines built in Canada, as long as there are not new major energy projects, companies will have to continue looking to the U.S. to make their products. As long as the tariffs are in place, Canada is even more vulnerable to this situation. When I tour energy facilities all over western Ca…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, let us be very clear: Canada can help lower global emissions by developing our own natural resources. The two go hand in hand. After 10 years of a Liberal government's vetoing natural resource projects and chasing away foreign investment, those investment dollars have just gone to other countries, countries that do not have anywhere near the same environmental standards as we have her…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of passing catch-and-release laws that let dangerous offenders free just hours after getting arrested, the Liberals are still obstructing efforts to undo these laws. They voted down our motion, shut down Parliament, called a snap election, went on summer holidays and still have not even started the process of fixing what they have broken, so the Conservatives will do it…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, is that the best they can do, that one day they might get around to doing it? The evidence is in. Their plan is what caused the crime and chaos plaguing our communities. They deliberately changed laws to let thousands of dangerous and repeat offenders back on the street. Now they are admitting that they were wrong, but they are obstructing any efforts to fix the problem. Thousands of …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it being the first Thursday after the summer holidays, I want to welcome my counterpart, the government House leader, and ask him if he could inform the House as to what the business will be for the rest of this week and into next week. I will make two quick points. We have extended an olive branch, in the spirit of co-operation and non-partisanship, that we would quickly pass Conserv…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the Canadian Thalidomide Survivors Support Program: (a) how much has the government paid Epiq Class Action Services Canada Inc. related to the program to date; (b) how much is Epiq scheduled to be paid in each of the next five years; (c) how much has been paid out and to how many survivors through the program, broken down by year; (d) how many survivors receive ongoing payments, and…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to bonuses paid out at government departments or agencies for the 2024-25 fiscal year, broken down by department or agency: (a) what was the total amount paid out in bonuses; (b) how many and what percentage of officials (i) at or above the executive level or equivalent, (ii) below the executive level or equivalent, received bonuses; and (c) of the amount paid out in bonuses, how much …
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to bonuses paid out at Crown corporations for the 2024-25 fiscal year, broken down by Crown corporation: (a) what was the total amount paid out in bonuses; (b) how many and what percentage of officials (i) at or above the executive level or equivalent, (ii) below the executive level or equivalent, received bonuses; and (c) of the amount paid out in bonuses, how much went to officials (…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, as this is the last Thursday projected before the summer recess, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the House administration, which has supported members of Parliament as they resumed their duties after the election. There was a lot to do to get so many new members of Parliament sworn in and oriented and ready to go for this session. I just want to commend the Clerk's team…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, we do not have to allow Canadians to buy one type of vehicle by banning their ability to buy the ones that they actually want. This is raising a lot of questions. Canadians and auto workers for GM do not want the EV mandate, but the Prime Minister is intent on pushing it through. Why? Well, right before becoming Prime Minister, he was chair of Brookfield, and he advocated for a ban on…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is doubling down on its insane ban on gas-powered vehicles. The latest Liberal overreach kicks in next year, and soon one's favourite car, truck or van will be illegal. However, this mandate is already driving up prices. The average price of a new car is $67,000; used cars are approaching $40,000, and the Liberal mandate will add an additional $20,000 per vehicl…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, there absolutely is a ban. It starts to come into effect next year, and it will absolutely devastate the auto sector here in Canada. The auto sector is already under fire from unjustified U.S. tariffs and the PM's inability to get a deal. GM and Ford are also saying that this ban will kill jobs. In fact, a new report says that this ban on gas-powered vehicles will kill 90,000 auto job…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I have in my hands a document entitled “Canada’s Electric Vehicle Availability Standard”, with a timeline where it says that the requirements increase to—
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, the member asked about a few points. First of all, there are lots of ways we can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions without depriving Canadians of choice, and that is what this Conservative motion is all about. Conservatives have a long track record of investing in technology and incentivizing advancements in new methods of production and whatnot that will help reduce those emission…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of all my constituents in Regina—Qu'Appelle, indeed on behalf of everyone in Saskatchewan and, I dare say, across Canada who would like to continue to have the choice to buy the vehicle that suits their needs at a price they can afford. That is what today's motion is all about. Let me read it for them, because it is important that people watching unde…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, if the Liberal member wants to tell Canadians that car prices are not becoming more expensive, I will go with him. I will go with him door to door, and he can tell every household he wants to that cars are not getting more expensive. We all know they are. They are being pushed higher and higher out of the grasp of hard-working Canadians who used to be able to afford them. All the ques…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague has it exactly right. I know many of these points have been raised, but it is worth repeating because we are dealing with an unprecedented assault on consumer choice from a Liberal government that just cannot help itself. It is always increasing costs. It is always banning things. The government is like a no fun government. Why do we not let Canadians make the choice…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Chair, there is a lot of noise over there on the Liberal benches, and it is kind of hard to listen to the exchange, so I would ask the Liberals to settle down a bit so we can—
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, I have breaking news: Conservatives will force a vote here in the House of Commons to get Canadians their money back for the ArriveCAN scandal. The Auditor General slammed the Liberal government for giving GC Strategies, the top arrive scam contractor, $64 million in contracts since it took office. There was $64 million given to a two-person IT company that did no IT work and is under…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, he is settling into old Liberal habits of not being bothered by wasting taxpayers' money and funnelling it to his friends. The Prime Minister is trying to act like he is new to the job or he just got here. He was Justin Trudeau's senior economic adviser while the contracts were being handed out. The Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, the Minister of Jobs and the Minister of F…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Chair, the hon. member for Saanich—Gulf Islands asked a question directly to the minister. You have, correctly, reminded colleagues this evening that they should be asking their questions through the Chair. This is an important principle in our system because it provides some separation between members directly, so there is a bit of separation there. I just want to make sure of that.
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it being the first Thursday that I have had the opportunity to do this, I would like to welcome my counterpart back to this role. We have worked together in the past, and while we definitely do not agree on much, we do have a great working relationship on behalf of our two parties, which represent the millions of Canadians who voted for us. I look forward to continuing that constructi…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, let us be clear, Trump's tariffs on Canada are wrong, unjustified and an attack on our workers and our economy. Now, while other countries have gotten deals to lower their tariffs, not only has the PM failed to do that, but he has gotten Canada's tariffs doubled on steel and aluminum. He promised he was the man with the plan; he cannot even get a deal. Our workers are terrified about …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, one way to deal with the Americans is from a position of strength, but now the Prime Minister is saying that he will not even approve a new pipeline unless there is consensus. This is already unravelling. The radical B.C. premier is saying no pipeline through his province, and there is not even consensus in the Liberal cabinet, with top ministers committed to killing oil and gas proje…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, if photo ops and phony rhetoric actually got things done in this country, then Justin Trudeau would still be prime minister. However, in all seriousness, the Liberals' half-trillion in new spending without a budget will make inflation worse. The PM said that he wants to be judged by prices at the grocery store. So, let us look at those prices. The verdict is in: Beef is up 34%; apples…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, my hon. colleague was trying to seek unanimous consent for the House to have an emergency debate on the unjustified U.S. tariffs applied on Canada. It was ruled out of order by the Speaker. The Speaker made his decision earlier, but of course the House can do whatever it agrees to, so we are seeking unanimous consent for the following motion: That, notwithstanding…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals must be really afraid to come clean with Canadians if they are going to punt it off into the fall. With the throne speech yesterday, Liberals have effectively admitted that it was their policies that caused the suffering for Canadians. Their reckless borrowing and massive deficits caused the inflation. The carbon tax drove up prices and drove away investment. Their anti-d…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, of course, there is always a desire to have people work together, but there is working together for the sake of working together, and there is working together to achieve an end to the disastrous policies that caused the suffering in the first place. If the government is sincere, and if its actions and legislation match its rhetoric, then it can expect that we will work together to pa…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I think the President watched the throne speech and was probably glad that the government said it was not going to change much. The Canadian economy will continue to be weak, thanks to the government's disastrous policies. Taxes will go up. The red tape threatening our businesses will stay in place, because there is nothing in the throne speech that addresses these issues. I do not th…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, he did not take long to pick up old Liberal habits of not being able to answer questions. Since the election, Canadians have been inundated with grand rhetoric and pretty speeches from the Liberal Party, but they are still suffering under all those policies. Household debt is up to record levels. The number of people who cannot pay their mortgage is increasing. Food bank use is contin…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my new colleague for her question. I can reply with a message of goodwill. If the government genuinely wants to bring real change for Canadians, we will work with it, and we can find common ground. However, we have already seen that there are few signs of change. These are the same ministers that were in place under Justin Trudeau. These are the same policies and…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, now that Their Majesties have left the national capital region, we can really pick apart the throne speech the government wrote yesterday. Yesterday Canadians heard a throne speech that was not bad on slogans and rhetoric but terrible on any kind of detail and a plan. A lot of times, government members will defend that by saying that the details come out in the legislation. While ther…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely right. In 2011, the government did not miss a beat. It had the budget ready to go after the election. The budget drives departments. A federal budget sets the plan, sets the stage, for every single government department. It sends the signal to businesses, to job creators and to investors as to what they can expect the rules of the game to be for the next 12 mo…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, I would like to welcome the Prime Minister to his first official question period. This is where democracy lives, and this is where we provide rigorous scrutiny of every word he says and every dollar he spends on behalf of Canadians. Let us talk about those words and dollars. During the election campaign, it was “elbows up”, as he put retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. Secretly, he then d…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, as members know, it is the convention here that we not be terribly critical of His Majesty's speech while he is still in the national capital. There will be lots to say tomorrow about the deficiencies, the lack of details and the lack of a plan to implement anything that was in there, but I would be remiss if I did not point out just a few things. I will elaborate more tomorrow, so I …
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
No, members will not like what comes next. Mr. Speaker, in these early days, we already see that the Prime Minister cannot get results, so he is very quickly learning how to be a Liberal politician: Promise a lot and deliver little. That is the track record of the government. The only parts that were even remotely decent in the throne speech, of course, were plagiarized from Conservative policies …
Read full speech →First Session—45th Parliament
Mr. Speaker, the speakership itself has been tested, unfortunately with some Speakers caught in the middle of scandals themselves. I have heard it said that it has all gone downhill since the last time a Conservative was elected Speaker, but I could not possibly comment on that. In all seriousness, you are not a commissioner of Parliament but a servant of the House, and that is an important dynami…
Read full speech →First Session—45th Parliament
Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by congratulating you. You have earned members' support to manage the House for the next few months or years. We will see. I too would like to indulge myself and take this opportunity to thank the voters of Regina—Qu'Appelle, and indeed my spouse. I would like to thank my wife Jill for the sacrifice that she and my family make, as all our spouses and significant others…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the new finance minister for being the fourth finance minister in a 24-hour period, but it is the same old talking points. What the Liberals did yesterday was smash through that $40-billion guardrail. What does that mean? It means Canadians have to pay back all that money with interest, and 43¢ of every dollar they earn now has to go to pay the tax burden.…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are so proud of that fall budget that they tabled it in the House and then ran and hid for the rest of the day. Let us recap. The Prime Minister announced $250 cheques and then had to cancel them. He announced a two-month GST tax trick that businesses say they will not implement and that the Prime Minister now says is optional. We have a broken immigration system. Parliam…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, what a mess. Yesterday was a gong show at the bottom of a dumpster fire, wrapped up in a cluster. The former finance minister resigned and the Prime Minister hid all day, and then he had to beg his MPs not to fire him, but the worst news, buried underneath it all, was a devastating gut punch to Canadian taxpayers: a $62-billion deficit smashing through the already insane $40-billion g…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I just want to remind you that the order that the House adopted was very specific. It states: That, notwithstanding any Standing Order, special order, or usual practice of the House, at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, December 16, 2024, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings to permit the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to make a statement followed by a pe…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I want to go over the facts of this case. Last week, a few days ago, the government House leader negotiated in good faith, with all the opposition parties, a process by which the fall economic update could be tabled in the House. We all agreed on that. That was not something that was going to happen automatically. It took the participation of all parliamentary parties to allow that to…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney is the Prime Minister's official economic adviser, and his plan was always to push out the finance minister and take her place. Let us look at his advice so far. He forced her to bring in the GST tax trick. Carney also forced through insane inflationary spending, smashing through that $40-billion guardrail. Carney's economic plan is so bad the finance minister resign…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, I have been in this place now for over 20 years. I have never seen a situation like this before. Today is the day the government waited until to table the fall economic update where it would publish the true deficit numbers that Canadians will be on the hook for. As the House knows, the former finance minister resigned this morning. Things are unclear; there are some media reports ind…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the attacks on the government's economic record are coming from inside the Liberals' own cabinet, and it looks more and more as though carbon tax Carney's plan to push out the Prime Minister is working as well. For carbon tax Carney, it has always been profits over people. We can look at his record: Since he became the top economic adviser to the PM, he has moved his own company's hea…
Read full speech →