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Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, it is time for the Thursday question. I note that the calendar is just about to change over to November. That means the government has kept Parliament paralyzed through the latter half of September and all of October, and now tomorrow will be the third month it would rather tie up the business of the House with a privilege motion on the refusal to hand over evidence…
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Mr. Speaker, actually, the Liberals' own housing adviser said that the Liberal plan is “turning out to be nothing more than a heist of tax dollars flowing from the feds to the municipalities.” They fund bureaucracy and photo ops, not building new homes. It used to be, in this country, that it took 25 years for the average family to pay off their house. Now it takes 25 years just to save up for the…
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Madam Speaker, I am off by a day, September 26. It is now October 28. They have paralyzed Parliament for a month rather than simply complying with the production order. What is a production order? For those watching on CPAC who want to know the intricacies of this parliamentary word, I note that Parliament has the power to compel every government agency, institution or department to produce inform…
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Madam Speaker, I already addressed that. What is important is what would not happen. The whole point of being here to get this information is to prosecute wrongdoers and try to get Canadians their tax money back. I ran out of time to talk about what happens when the Liberal government tries to fix things. They only make things worse. If we look at housing, our leader had a fantastic announcement t…
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Madam Speaker, that is a fantastic and timely point made by my colleague. Perhaps she is on the right track to finding out the motivation as to why the Liberals are going to such great lengths to keep this hidden. I know what this is like, as an opposition House Leader, as someone who was Speaker and as someone who sat in the government benches from 2006 to 2011. Being willing to sacrifice a month…
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Mr. Speaker, this is coming from the minister who admitted at committee that his housing plan does not actually build homes. Their plan funds bureaucracy and photo ops. The more the Liberals spend, the less they build and the more Canadians have to pay. Since this Prime Minister started giving hundreds of millions of dollars to city politicians, housing starts are down. They are down 10% in Ottawa…
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Madam Speaker, I should not say it is a pleasure to still be debating this privilege motion, because it is very unfortunate. We are now on a subamendment, which I would like to share my views on with the House today, but I should remind members of the government caucus that their refusal to comply with a lawful order of Parliament, with a lawful production order, is the reason the House is still d…
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Madam Speaker, that last point was just a ridiculous red herring that has nothing to do with the debate at hand. I want to go back to something my colleague from New Brunswick said in response to my question. Why are we here today debating this motion? The government party has a whole bunch of people who sit around the cabinet table. I am not sure how big cabinet has expanded to these days, but a …
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal member just complained about the tactic. However, does my friend believe that this production order would have been necessary if the government had done the right thing from day one? As soon as the whistle-blowers started raising the alarm about conflicts of interest and money being funnelled to Liberal insiders' own companies, the government should have called the polic…
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Madam Speaker, I can tell the member what would not happen: The government would not comply with the production order. It all comes back to the “who made who” type of thing, so let us go all the way back. Corruption happened at SDTC. Liberal insiders lined the pockets of their own companies, knowingly putting themselves in conflict of interest positions. One of the board members actually ran away …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, it is clear the Prime Minister is not worth the cost of housing. He created housing hell by doubling rents, mortgage payments and the needed down payment, and as housing prices skyrocket, the greedy federal government rakes in the cash. The Prime Minister now collects more in taxes on the sale of a new home than the carpenter or electri…
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Madam Speaker, we are not the ones who decided that Parliament had to debate this motion. It was the Speaker. The government is the one that decided not to abide by the Speaker's ruling. That is why we are continuing to debate this motion. It is not the Conservative Party's decision. It is the decision of the Liberal Party and the government. Only the government can comply with the order of the Ho…
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Mr. Speaker, it has not been a tough couple of years, it has been a tough nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister. Now taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. It is not just Conservatives saying that; it is Liberal MPs too. They cannot do it anymore. They cannot convince voters that taxes are going down when in fact they are going up. They cannot convince their voters that hom…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister, it is clear that he is not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption or chaos. The Liberal caucus is revolting, because even in once-safe Liberal seats voters are angry. They are angry that the Prime Minister raised their prices and devalued their paycheques with his inflation. They are angry that their grocery and home heating costs…
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Mr. Speaker, that is baseless and false. We are going to cut the carbon tax, eliminate it, and defund the CBC and put that savings back into the pockets of taxpayers. However, consider where we are. It is actually kind of amazing. Liberal MPs are so frustrated that they are not allowed to speak in caucus that they are actually confiding in Conservatives. They have to sneak out to the bathroom to h…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, our country witnessed a horrific attack on the heart of our democracy. Corporal Nathan Cirillo, standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, was senselessly murdered. That was 12 days after Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent was murdered at the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu military base. Both were targeted for wearing the uniform of our country, defending our freedom. In …
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Mr. Speaker, obviously, the carbon tax scheme is not making Canadians better off. Otherwise, two-thirds of low-income Canadians would not be reporting that they cannot afford to pay for groceries and would not be lining up at food banks or waiting hours to get rejected potatoes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer, the government's own watchdog, has concluded that when we factor in all the costs of t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians are worse off. The effects of his deficits, inflation and carbon tax hikes have been devastating. A new report by the Angus Reid Institute says that a majority of Canadians are struggling just to buy food. Of course, that is even worse for low-income households, with two-thirds of those Canadians saying they cannot even aff…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal Prime Minister, Canada has experienced a shocking rise in anti-Semitism and an increase in hate crimes of 165%. His divisive politics, where he pits one group of Canadians against another, only makes matters worse. It also does not help that he takes years to list terrorist groups on the list of banned organizations, allowing them to fundraise and recru…
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Mr. Speaker, they continue to drag their feet. There has been another blow to the Prime Minister's carbon tax scheme. A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows yet again that Canadians are worse off under the tax. Here is what the total bill will be when the NDP-Liberals finish quadrupling this tax: It will cost people in Ontario $1,400; it will cost people $1,500 in Newfoundland an…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister might want to read the rest of the report, because in the quote he cited, he focused on a very key word, “only” the direct costs. When we factor in all the economic costs, it costs the Canadian household $1,400. Canadians are net losers under the carbon tax scheme, and the minister knows it. If the minister is so sure that Canadians want the government to quadruple the ta…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I wonder if you could clarify; I believe the rules about putting out absences or presences are about specific members. I would also point out to the NDP House leader that there are several Conservative members here ready and willing to—
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, the House leader said that Liberals were not participating in the current debate on Liberal corruption, and I just wanted to know if I could table the speeches from the member from Winnipeg—
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Mr. Speaker, if the government House leader scrolled up just a little more in your ruling on the website, she would see where you ruled that withholding evidence after a parliamentary production order is a contempt of Parliament. We are talking about Liberal insiders funnelling cash into their own pockets. Why do they not want to get to the bottom of this? While Conservatives are putting forward r…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is violating a parliamentary order to hand over evidence to the RCMP. At issue is the Auditor General's finding that officials at SDTC broke conflict of interest laws 186 times and funnelled $400 million of taxpayers' money into their own companies, all this at a time when Canadians can barely afford to eat or heat and house themselves. Now, by refusing to accep…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw the government House leader's attention to the following passage from page 95 of Eugene Forsey's “The Question of Confidence in Responsible Government”, which is considered to be the Canadian bible on the confidence convention: “A Ministry which could not control the House sufficiently to carry Supply and essential business would have to be dismissed if it did not…
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Mr. Speaker, because the government House leader was trying to impute motives to my Thursday statement, I believe it would be fair for me to point out that there is nothing “cute” about Liberal insiders funnelling $400 million to their own companies.
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Mr. Speaker, the charter is there to protect people from the government, not to protect the government from accountability by the people. While millions of Canadians are suffering from higher taxes, higher prices and doubled housing costs, all caused by the government, the Speaker has ordered that the House of Commons can deal with no other business until the corruption motion is dealt with. It st…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and corruption is way up. Here is what we know so far. The Liberals stacked the SDTC board with their close friends. That board makes decisions as to which companies get grants worth millions in tax dollars. The Auditor General uncovered a massive scandal. The Liberal insiders funnelled…
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Madam Speaker, does Israel have the right, within the confines of international law, to destroy the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Hezbollah?
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Madam Speaker, I just want to point out how disappointing it is that a government that tries to present itself as an ally of the only democracy in the region, of standing shoulder to shoulder with a people and a country that have been subject to the worst attacks that human beings have been able to conceive of, will not unequivocally and clearly state that the country, Israel, and its people have …
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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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Madam Speaker, the member just said that Israel has a right to defend itself. Israel was attacked by terrorist entities, Hamas and Hezbollah. Today, during question period, a very simple question was put to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Minister of Foreign Affairs refused to answer it during question period, so I would like to give my hon. colleague an opportunity to do so. It is a very sim…
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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, 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, I have an even better idea that would save even more time: Produce the documents.
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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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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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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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