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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…
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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…
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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…
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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—
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mr. Speaker, if the minister had just read a little further, he would have read that this is not because of anything the government has been doing, except causing our economy to slow down and underperform. That is why the bank has taken this step. A guardrail is something we are supposed to stay far away from. If we even brush up against it, that is a sign we are way off track. If we smash through…
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Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, it is time for the highlight of many people's week: the Thursday question. However, before I move to that, as this is the last Thursday before we rise for the Christmas adjournment and we will all be back home in our ridings meeting with our constituents and providing them assistance with all sorts of issues, I just want to take this opportunity to wish all my colle…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control of spending and his cabinet, and the fiscal feud over the $40-billion guardrail is worse than we ever thought. New reports show that the Prime Minister is set to replace Canada's first female finance minister with his old boys' network pal, carbon tax Carney. Canadians are on the bus, watching in terror as the Prime Minister yanks her out of the dri…
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Mr. Speaker, even the bank officials admitted that they had to cut rates because the economy is performing so poorly under the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister. Canada's phantom finance minister has been pulling the strings for a while. Carbon tax Carney has been forcing radical new spending and forcing the finance minister to smash through her $40-billion guardrail. Now that Canadians are fed up and an…
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You have no idea what I was going to say. It gets good. Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the House leaders. I move that, given that the Liberal government will—
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Mr. Speaker, I was just giving the government an opportunity to defend its own economic update, but this one is different—
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Mr. Speaker, I certainly listened to your ruling. I understand that it was basically addressed to the question of privilege raised by the NDP member about what may or may not have happened in the lobby. You have ruled that what goes on in the lobby does not fall under the purview of a question of privilege. In response to that, points were raised about the erratic and unhinged behaviour of the NDP…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During question period, there was a disturbance in the gallery, and it was very alarming to see the NDP member for Port Moody—Coquitlam almost immediately not just reference it, but incorporate it, it seemed, into her question. It was a prepared question. We could tell it was prepared because even after you admonished her for pointing out the disturbance in…
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Mr. Speaker, I just noticed the virtually unprecedented attack on a sitting chair occupant in real time. As the member should know, if he has specific complaints about the actions of a chair occupant, he should put it in a formal motion. However, when that was done in this chamber, the member voted against that motion. I just wanted to point that out. I would also point out that, many times in the…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. I am seeking consent for a motion for the House to recognize that everyone living in first nations communities should have access to safe, clean drinking water and condemn the Liberal government, which has failed after—
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Mr. Speaker, I heard the Minister of Labour saying “Please, give a speech.” I will maybe go beyond my normal short interventions. Honestly, I think most members of Parliament would like to know if the government House leader can update the House on the business of next week, should her government survive the confidence vote on Monday. We know there are mixed messages coming from the NDP. We have p…
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No, Madam Speaker, this is what happened on Thursday night. They seized an opportunity to try to deflect from their own strategic error. That being said, Canadians are smart and recognize what they are seeing, and the NDP knows this. All that happened during Thursday night's vote was that 100 or so Conservative MPs, proud to be here to vote on behalf of their constituents, were voicing their opini…
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Madam Speaker, I agree with you, but we find ourselves in this position because that is exactly what the NDP members have done with these outrageous and baseless accusations. I think it is only fair and just that, after making these kinds of allegations, the official opposition be allowed to not only defend ourselves and our integrity, but also put the actual facts of the matter before the Chair i…
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Let me get to the part that is relevant. Madam Speaker, while attempting to record this video, the member for Edmonton Griesbach engaged in disruptive, harassing, obnoxious and nuisance behaviour directed toward my colleague and his work, trying to derail his ability to record the video. At the end of the night, another NDP MP delivered a bizarre and passive-aggressive rant to a second member of t…
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Madam Speaker, I will sum up by saying the New Democrats have made baseless and false accusations that damage the reputations of individual members of Parliament. The old saying that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on is very appropriate here because they can make these allegations and, just by defending ourselves, we are contributing to the propagation of the f…
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Madam Speaker, out of respect for you, I will quickly move through this part. I will just point out in the New Democrats' interventions on this, they had no problem using the House's time to come up with all kinds of wild theories and conjecture about motivations or even fabrications of what was going on. However, I will heed what you have said, Madam Speaker, and quickly just point out that clear…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader put on a big phony show this summer on the eve of a by-election, pretending to rip up the coalition deal. Recently, he said, “[The Liberals] will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power.” We could not have said it better ourselves. Conservatives have put forward a motion agreeing with the NDP leader. Canadians will soon f…
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Mr. Speaker, that is just not true. They just got mixed up about what day the debate is going to be held. It is going to be held this Thursday. The vote will be on Monday, and all Canadians will be watching to see who is on the side of Canadian workers. The Prime Minister launched a brutal assault on workers. He devalued their paycheques with his inflation. He drove up prices with his carbon tax. …
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, my vote was recorded as a nay on the vote on the amendment. I would just like to have that clarified and recorded as a yea and ensure that on the subsequent vote, which was applied, it would be counted as a yea as well.
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Madam Speaker, as promised yesterday, I am rising to make a more structured intervention on the question of privilege raised by the NDP member for London—Fanshawe. I agree wholeheartedly with all my Conservative colleagues who have already risen on this matter. There is no question of privilege here whatsoever concerning the behaviour of the official opposition. If anything, the actual contempt he…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to reserve the right to come back to this question with a more comprehensive response. However, I could not help but stand up and respond to a few of the erroneous points the NDP member just raised. I want to thank my Bloc Québécois colleague for pointing out that the New Democrats are often selective in their sanctimony about decorum in this place. They are often extreme…
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Mr. Speaker, we should have a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. As we know, not only can words be unparliamentary but gestures can be as well. I was in the process of negotiating with the government House leader as to whether we could get unanimous consent to table the text messages from the Liberal member for Vaughan—Woodbridge when he was asking to join our caucus. As I was in the process of doing that, the Liberal me…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to point out that the convention here is that we take people at their word. I clearly saw the member still on his feet. He was leaning over. I had the perfect vantage point. I was just a little behind the hon. member. I could actually see behind the table. He had not made contact with his chair at all. It might have looked like it. He was looking for the document that co…
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Madam Speaker, let us look at what we did. We got heavy lift aircraft delivered. We started the process on F-35s, something the Prime Minister then cancelled. He had to admit he had made a terrible mistake and restart the process. We just lost hundreds of millions of dollars and many years. Nobody was questioning Canada's commitment to our allies and to NATO under the previous Conservative governm…
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Madam Speaker, that is not the case at all. It is normal for a government to put its own country's interests first. Canadian taxpayers pay for all the programs and all the ministers' salaries. Clearly, any country's government is going to put the interests of its citizens before anything else. I think my colleague misunderstood what I said about the drugs and borders issue. I was not saying that w…
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Madam Speaker, first and foremost let me say that the Conservative Party has been unequivocal that these tariffs are unjustified. My point on the border, on military spending and on the fentanyl crisis is that, regardless of what is going on with the United States, regardless of what President-elect Trump might be threatening Canada with, a Canadian prime minister should care about the lives of pe…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister has broken. The first time he went head-to-head with Trump, the Prime Minister was forced into accepting humiliating concessions on agriculture, steel tariffs and buy American. That was when Canada had a stronger position, thanks to a decade of low-tax, pro-job Conservative policies. After nine years of economic vandalism, the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was forced to accept humiliating concession after concession. Now he has kneecapped Canada's economy: He has slapped on a massive carbon tax here, but the U.S. does not have one at all. He is raising taxes on investing in Canada while the U.S. is fighting to attract investment there. He has imposed a production cap on Canadian energy, meaning that Canada will produc…
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Madam Speaker, I have no doubt that many Canadians are watching tonight's debate with a great deal of anxiety for the threat that is facing our country and our economy. Jobs, workers' paycheques and the ability for people to pay their mortgage depend on trade. Canada is a nation that depends on being able to sell what we grow and what we produce here to other countries around the world. We simply …
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With regard to the additional revenue received as a result of the GST, or GST portion of the HST where applicable, being charged on the carbon tax: (a) how much revenue did the government receive from the GST being charged on the carbon tax in the 2023-24 fiscal year; and (b) if the government does not have the data requested in (a), what is the government's best estimate, or what financial projec…
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With regard to grants and contributions provided by the government, since January 1, 2016, and broken down by department or agency, for projects located in China: (a) what was the total value of such grants and contributions, broken down by year; and (b) what are the details of all such grants and contributions, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount or value, (iii) recipient, (iv) project…
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Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, I thought it would be a good opportunity to ask the government House leader what the business might be for the rest of this week and for next week as well. We have been debating a privilege motion, with which the government has chosen to paralyze Parliament through its refusal to comply with a lawfully passed production order wherein the House of Commons demanded th…
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Mr. Speaker, if it is your intention to have a formal ruling in response to that point of order, I would like to reserve the right to come back and issue more formal remarks. However, I would point out that nothing that the member for Kingston and the Islands just referenced would rise to the level of libellous. The section that he quoted from the procedure and practice handbook says that was libe…
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Mr. Speaker, I will withdraw the word “lying” and replace it with “telling falsehoods”.
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Mr. Speaker, let us recap the scandal so far. The minister said he was indigenous, even though he is not. He said his great-grandmother was Cree, even though she was not. He said there was another Randy working at the company, even though there was not. He said that he had nothing to do with the company while he was in cabinet, even though he did and his company got a contract while he was sitting…
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