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Just for the Speaker to clarify, is it the word “fake”? The minister is now admitting that he is not indigenous, so he admitted to be someone very—
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Mr. Speaker, we do not know what it would take for this guy to get fired by this Prime Minister. We do know what will get someone fired. Let us remember Jody Wilson-Raybould. She was fired for telling the truth about the Prime Minister's attempts to interfere in a criminal case. Here is what she had to say: “A Prime Minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed [this minister] (and …
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Mr. Speaker, I will withdraw the word “lying” and replace it with “telling falsehoods”.
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Mr. Speaker, when I sat in that chair, I heard the word “fake” being used many, many times—
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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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Mr. Speaker, he said pick up the slack. Under the Liberals' policies, Canada keeps falling on performance indexes. The only thing the carbon tax is doing is making Canadians poorer, and the results are devastating. A damning new report from the Salvation Army shows the human suffering the Prime Minister is inflicting on Canadians. The report says that first-time users of food banks shot up this ye…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a cap on production and his own department says it will kill jobs. Let us listen to something else the Liberals' own officials are saying. The Prime Minister's own environment commissioner has blasted the carbon tax as a failure. Here are some of his conclusions: The government has “not made sufficient progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” and “Canada remains the worst pe…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of brutal assaults on Canadian energy workers, the Prime Minister just delivered a knockout punch with a production cap on oil and gas development, which his own department admits will kill jobs and drive investment south of the border. Canadian energy company Enbridge just announced a $700-million project in the U.S. The Prime Minister is creating powerful paycheques…
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With regard to the Prime Minister's announcement that Mark Carney would chair the Prime Minister's economic growth task force: (a) what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that Mr. Carney is not in a conflict of interest, including, but not limited to, any requirements to divest assets, put assets in a blind trust, or recuse himself from any advice that could impact the economic well-being of…
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Mr. Speaker, all this production cap will do is make other countries richer while making Canadians poorer. That is something the Prime Minister is so good at. Members can consider this: GDP per capita in Canada is down. In the U.S., it is up. Nine years ago, average wages in the U.S. and Canada were almost identical. Now, an American worker brings home $22,000 more than their Canadian counterpart.…
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Mr. Speaker, I join in my hon. colleague's sending of condolences. However, we are witnessing economic vandalism in real time. Last Thursday, the government was briefed that the only sector of the Canadian economy that was actually producing any growth was the energy sector. What did the government do today? It slapped a punishing cap on Canadian production. This will only chase investments and jo…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister's economic vandalism, over two million Canadians are visiting a food bank in a single month, housing costs have doubled and inflation continues to eat away at Canadians' paycheques. The Prime Minister's massive deficits and tax hikes are causing extreme damage to the Canadian economy. For eight out of the last nine quarters, Canadian …
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Mr. Speaker, flowing from the rulings you just gave, where you indicated that you would not recognize members who refused to withdraw remarks, you ordered the Prime Minister to withdraw his libellous and baseless personal accusations, and he refused to do so. You gave him multiple opportunities. If you check Hansard for that day, you will see that he in fact did not withdraw the term or the phrase…
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Mr. Speaker, I have an even better idea that would save even more time: Produce the documents.
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great point. It is almost like some of us have seen this movie before. This is not the first production order that the House has had to adopt in order to get information. The Winnipeg lab's document is an excellent example where all kinds of concerns were raised about national security and what information the Government of Canada was allowing to be passed to the Communist r…
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Mr. Speaker, I did rather like my original motion, but out of respect for the Chair, I move: That the government's failure of fully providing documents, as ordered by the House on June 10, 2024, be hereby referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. I would like to thank the Speaker for upholding one of the most important principles of parliamentary democracy, which is that t…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question. I think the hon. member knows that at the end of the day, Liberals get a Liberal. This is a part of their DNA. Looking back at every Liberal administration, there are examples where they used the power of their positions to reward and enrich their friends. I believe many Canadians were fooled by the Prime Minister back in 2015, when he tried to cast himself a…
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Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, I was hoping that the government House leader could update the House as to the business for the rest of this week and into the following week. Perhaps she and her cabinet colleagues have finally seen the light and decided not to sit next week. Instead, they could give Canadians the carbon tax election they so desperately want. Canadians could then vote in a governme…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is very familiar with the inner workings of government, having had a long and celebrated career in public service in previous administrations, so he knows exactly how this works. There is no way that a production order that touched on all of those departments would not rise to the level of being on the Prime Minister 's desk. There is only one person responsible for …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Canadians are suffering. The Liberals look around the country, and they see tent cities popping up in our communities; they see millions lining up at food banks and families falling further and further into debt. What do they think is the cause of all these problems? It is that Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister can tell all the people lining up at food banks that they have never had it so good, but she knows that prices are not coming down. She also knows that her carbon tax will not stop a single forest fire or flood; the Liberals have admitted that. Therefore, Canadians get the brutal double whammy of all the extra cost associated with natural disasters, plus the carbon tax on…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are cutting back as they see their paycheques devalued and prices skyrocket, but it is not just the carbon tax that the NDP and Liberals are hiking. The new tax hikes that the government is announcing today will hit the middle class hard. In the middle of a housing crisis, they are raising taxes on carpenters and roofers. In fact, the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associa…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal House leader's argument was fourfold. She believes that the House order exceeded its authority in adopting the order, that redactions were authorized because the order did not explicitly require unredacted documents, that any use made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of the documents produced could amount to a breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and…
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Madam Speaker, I want to respond to the interventions on my question of privilege concerning the government's failure to obey the House order adopted on June 10. From the outset I want to thank the Bloc Québécois House leader and the hon. member for Windsor West for their interventions in support of my question of privilege. As for the Bloc Québécois House leader's comment about my one-week propos…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian seniors are cutting back because of the government's cost of living crisis. They are cutting back on food and home heating because of the carbon tax and inflation that the government caused. Let us go back to the NDP leader. He had a really dramatic show this summer in which he pretended to rip up the agreement. However, he would never commit to actually voting non-confidence…
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Madam Speaker, it is quite a normal practice for parties to listen attentively to arguments raised by other parties and to respond to them and provide information to the Speaker to consider that would rebut one of those points. This is a very normal course of action. I raised my original point of—
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Madam Speaker, we are not talking about ordering the production of documents by the administration of a hospital or curriculum decisions of a school. Both areas are squarely within the provincial jurisdiction, so the Liberal House leader's concerns about jurisdiction simply do not carry water. Second, on her view that the House may not exercise its power to send for papers that would be, in turn, …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, prices are up, crime is up and time is up, and the NDP leader has sold out workers by devaluing their paycheque by supporting Liberal inflationary deficits. He sold out seniors and families by hiking the carbon tax, driving up the cost of food and home heating, and he has sold out young Canadians, who have given up on the d…
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Madam Speaker, very briefly, I want to contribute to the question of privilege raised by the hon. member for Vancouver East concerning the special report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. The hon. member is right to be worried about foreign interference, and especially about the Liberal government's abject failure to do anything about it. Indeed, several Cons…
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Mr. Speaker, it is that time of the week when CPAC ratings skyrocket: the Thursday question. This being the first Thursday back, I would like to welcome my counterpart, who was the House leader for a while. I see he is going to be answering today. He now has a different portfolio, but I know one of the things he misses most about his previous role is the Thursday question, so I am glad to see him …
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Conservative caucus, I would like to thank you for those very kind words and a fitting tribute to a man who held a position in the Speakership during part of his tenure here. This is a difficult task, to try to sum up in just a few minutes the impact that a man like Chuck Strahl had on Parliament, on politics and on not only the Conservative Party but the Conservative…
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With regard to events sponsored by the government since January 1, 2023, where the sponsorship amount was in excess of $500,000: what are the details of all such events, including, for each, the (i) dates, (ii) location, (iii) title of the event, (iv) event description, (v) amount of the sponsorship, (vi) other costs associated with sponsoring the event (e.g. signage, hospitality, etc.), (vii) rea…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege following my notice under Standing Order 48 concerning the failure of the government to comply with the order that the House adopted on Monday, June 10. A majority of the House voted that day to compel the government to produce a series of unredacted records concerning Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a body engulfed in Liberal scandal …
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With regard to the statement on page 99 of the 2023 Fall Economic Statement that "The government will begin purchasing up to an annual maximum of $30 billion of Canada Mortgage Bonds, starting as early as February 2024": (a) when did the government begin purchasing the bonds; (b) what is the amount and value of the bonds purchased to date; (c) what are the government's projections in relation to h…
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With regard to government hospitality expenditures related to the government’s supply and confidence agreement with the NDP, including any expenses related to all meetings, negotiations, or other events attended by those involved in the agreement: what are the details of such expenditures since the beginning of the 44th Parliament, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) location, (iii) vendor, (i…
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Mr. Speaker, I will add my voice to that of the government House leader, thanking all the support staff on the precinct here, the pages who help us out in the Commons, the wise clerks who guide the proceedings and all of the support staff around. I would also like to thank the interpreters. There are a lot of challenges related to simultaneous translation in Parliament. I would like to thank the i…
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Mr. Speaker, the penultimate Thursday question. I am just wondering if the government House leader could use this occasion to inform the House as to what may be the business for the rest of this week and into next week. We heard some very helpful suggestions this week. If the government is telling the truth about its middle-class, working Canadian tax hike on the change to the capital gains inclus…
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Mr. Speaker, for nine years, Canadians have suffered from the terrible consequences of Liberal economic policies. Now what are the Liberals doing? For young Canadians struggling to be able to afford to buy their first home, the Liberals are raising taxes on home builders. For families barely able to afford groceries and lined up at food banks, the Liberals are raising taxes on the farmers who prod…
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister is about to impose another job-killing, wage-cutting, price-hiking tax on Canadians, and she wants us to believe the latest fairy tale that, somehow, we will all be better off if the Prime Minister just raises taxes again. We have heard this for nine years. Let us take a look at the result. Canada is on track for the worst decline in living standards in four decad…
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Mr. Speaker, while I am on my feet, I would also like to address the question of privilege raised by the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre regarding the hon. member for Saskatoon West. First, I am pleased to hear that she accepted the apology of our colleague when he rose on Thursday morning to advise the House that he had misspoken one word. It is an age-old tradition in this place that we accept t…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the most basic responsibilities of any government is to protect the country from foreign threats. On this, the Prime Minister has been a complete failure. Last week, an intelligence report stated that an unknown number of parliamentarians have been “'witting' participants” in foreign interference in Canadian politics. What is even worse, though, is that the Prime Minister has k…
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Mr. Speaker, I wanted to add some additional comments regarding the question of privilege raised by the NDP's deputy House leader. In her comments on Thursday, as in her original submissions the week prior, the member for London—Fanshawe failed to offer any arguments that would extend the applicable requirements for the Speaker's impartiality to the other chair occupants. For his part, the hon. Me…
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moved: That the House order the government, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and the Auditor General of Canada each to deposit with the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel, within 14 days of the adoption of this order, the following documents, created or dated since January 1, 2017, which are in its or her possession, custody or control: (a) all files, documents, briefing notes, me…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member raises another aspect of this that I did not have time to cover, and I am glad he did, which is the abominable treatment of the whistle-blowers in this whole sordid affair. For example, we found out that Andrée-Lise Méthot is the founder of a green venture capital firm called Cycle Capital. During her time on the board at SDTC, companies in which Cycle Capital was in…
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Madam Speaker, we have an Auditor General's report that may very well end up with an RCMP investigation and perhaps criminal charges, and the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader cannot even defend it. There is nothing the member can defend in the Auditor General's report. Did the Auditor General get anything wrong? Was she wrong when she said that $76 million in taxpayer money w…
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Madam Speaker, I think the member is absolutely right. Canadians would ask themselves why a government would do this. Why would there be government officials in the room overseeing these types of decisions, knowing that there were conflicts of interest? I think it goes back to the fact that this is the desired outcome. It is why a Liberal minister put his friends on the board. It is said that a fi…
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Mr. Speaker, governments from countries that are hostile to Canada, that actively try to harm our citizens and our country, interfere with the most fundamental aspect of our society: our democracy. An intelligence report claims that there are members of the House whose loyalty is not solely to the people of Canada, but also to foreign governments that wish us harm. What has been the Liberals' resp…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not about offering secret briefings to MPs who have to keep all that information secret. It is about releasing the names so Canadians can know which MPs are working against the interests of Canada. I have a very simple question and the minister should be able to answer it: Are any of the MPs listed on this report of compromised members who are working against the interests of …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals sat on warnings from our intelligence agencies so they could protect their own partisan interests. They have refused to hand over cabinet confidences to the Hogue commission. This next question should be really simple. Cabinet ministers get to see everything. They get a say on everything the Government of Canada does, and they get to personally lobby the Prime Minister an…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal defence of the carbon tax is in complete shambles. First, they only want Canadians to focus on the direct costs of the carbon tax and to ignore all the secondary effects like smaller paycheques and higher prices, as if Canadians have a choice of which carbon tax costs they have to pay. We now learn that there is a secret report that does show the true cost. The Parliamenta…
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