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Mr. Speaker, Easter is the most important celebration, because it marks the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. Humans are not perfect. We sin, and this sin requires justice. That is why it is an incredible act of love that our Creator descended to earth to bear our punishment and rise again on the third day. As Jesus himself said in the Gospel of John, “I am the resurrection a…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what to say. I do not think the member even listened to my speech. I made the exact opposite case. I said there are sentiments that Ottawa does not listen to Alberta. Once again, this here is an example. When trying to get our beef into the U.K., we see the dissimilar rules around beef coming into Canada or beef going to the U.K. They are different. Again, it does not fe…
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Mr. Speaker, I love the topic of free trade. Canada's Conservatives are the party of free trade, and we have been advocating desperately for free trade between the provinces. We have been calling on the federal government to stand on the provinces a little bit to ensure that the barriers between provinces are also eliminated. While we are excited to be assenting to the free trade agreement with th…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not aware of why we did not vote for that amendment. I am not familiar with the amendment, to begin with. What I do know is that our allies that are also part of the CPTPP are looking forward to this being assented to, so that the U.K. can enter into the CPTPP. I do not think we want to hold that up. I do not know the particulars of that, but I do know we want this to go through.
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Not at all, Mr. Speaker. I think I laid that out very well in my speech. Another thing that is really cool about free trade and free markets is that high prices cause these products to move, so I am excited to see increased production here in Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, it is my honour to rise today on behalf of the good people of Peace River—Westlock and to talk about the accession of the U.K. and Northern Ireland to the CPTPP. As a bit of background, it has been frustrating for me to watch the government let one opportunity after the other pass us by as it governs Canada. It speaks on our behalf around the world. When Brexit happened, I thought tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition brought by constituents from across Canada who are concerned about Bill C-9. They are concerned that this bill could be used to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran or the Torah. They call on the Government of Canada not to pass this bill. They want to ensure that the Government of Canada protects religious freedom, upholds the right to rea…
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Mr. Speaker, we see that the Liberals would set up another bureaucracy, the board of which they would then stack with their friends. Where have we seen this before? We saw this with the green slush fund. I know that the member was here before, when this broke, when directors of the board of the green slush fund were handing their own companies money. There were over 180 conflicts of interest in th…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things we have been pointing out is that the bill is only adding a fourth bureaucracy to the government. I am wondering why the ministry cannot just fund some of these projects on its own. Why does it need a second party to do that? Is it perhaps because the government wants to distance itself from when this operation gives a whole bunch of money to Brookfield?
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Mr. Speaker, they are not even hiding it anymore. The previous member was asking about modular homebuilding. It is interesting that Brookfield just acquired a modular homebuilding operation. This is going to be the green slush fund all over again. Would the member not agree that these big institutional investors in the Canadian housing market may be a big problem?
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Mr. Speaker, our motion today calls on the federal government to review the federal benefits that have been given to asylum claimants, in order to find some savings for the taxpayer; to restrict benefits being given to asylum claimants who have had their asylum claims rejected; and to provide transparency on federal spending on this whole thing. We have put in Order Paper questions and found that …
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Madam Speaker, our motion today is about people whose asylum claims have been rejected. I think the member would have to acknowledge that the government recognizes that this is a problem, because it has put the copay mechanism in place. We are talking specifically about those who have had their request rejected. Would the member not acknowledge that the government's copay plan acknowledges that th…
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Mr. Speaker, we put forward this motion to close a billion-dollar loophole in our health care system and to restore order to our broken immigration system. Our motion is about fairness and protecting people who need emergency care. It would stop the government from giving top-tier health care programs to non-citizens who have had rejected refugee claims, while six million Canadians cannot even fin…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member could comment a little more on this adding of bureaucracy. We already have the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, we have the Canada Lands Company, and we have the first-time homebuyers' programs. We have a number of federal government programs in place already. What we said during the election was that it was oftentimes municipalities that were standing i…
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Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to present a petition today on behalf of Canadians from across the country who are concerned about human rights protections in India. The petitioners are stating that according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, various actors are supporting and enforcing sectarian policies to establish India as a Hindu state, and they are concerned about the tr…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill S-211, an act respecting a national framework on sports betting advertising. I want to thank the member for Waterloo for bringing this forward. When the average Canadian sits down to enjoy a sports broadcast, they are inundated with a barrage of endless advertisements for sports betting sites and online casinos. For example, in Ontario, a viewer can liter…
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Mr. Speaker, over the last 10 years, we have seen the economy in our country flounder, and the auto industry in particular is under significant threat right now. I wonder if the hon. member would at least acknowledge that the auto industry was in pretty significant decline under the Liberals' watch before Donald Trump started with his tariffs.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to note that the Liberals keep bringing up the RAV4, and the member for Winnipeg North, for example, said that Toyota is developing hybrid technology. I have news for him: The RAV4 has been a hybrid since 2016, more than 10 years. Toyota has complained to us that hybrid technology is not recognized by the government's rebates, emissions caps and all these kinds of things. It sa…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things I have learned in researching this bill is that a lot of these gambling sites will even offer money in order to get people to come back to the app. If someone has not used their app for a while, it will say, “Here is $10 to go gambling.” I am wondering if this bill will address that as well.
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Madam Speaker, I am a member of the Conservative auto caucus. We have met with representatives from Toyota several times, and they specifically complained to us about the fact that the rebates and the programs the government has put in place picked and chose losers in terms of technology. Toyota was the world leader in hybrid technology but said that the government is completely ignoring its hybri…
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Mr. Speaker, to my previous point, the Liberals want to be the heroes of the story that they created. They have failed to support the auto industry for the last 10 years, and now they say that we are trying to defend the horse and buggy. The horse and buggy are still not banned from our roads. Are they planning to ban the horse and buggy as well?
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Madam Speaker, I would like to bring to the attention of my colleague a company called Edison Motors. It is a start-up company that is trying to build hybrid trucks here in Canada. The company faces challenges because it put a generator in the truck rather than an on-the-road engine, and generator engine emissions requirements and on-the-road engine emissions requirements are different. The govern…
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Mr. Speaker, if we listened to the Liberals, they would have us believe that crime is down in this country. Nobody believes that. The Liberals have done a complete turnaround. While being the cause of the increase in crime in this country and after having advocated for and protested to defund the police, they are now saying they are the solution to the problem they caused. I am wondering if the ho…
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Mr. Speaker, I always find it ironic when we hear the Liberals talking about crime, crime rates and things like that. They have had 10 years in government, and if we look at any of the trend lines, they show that, once the Liberals got into power, crime started increasing. When Conservatives were in power, crime was decreasing. Will the hon. member at least acknowledge that the Liberals have been …
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Mr. Speaker, I could not agree more with my hon. colleague that it is Liberal failures that have brought us this increase in crime rates across this country. The extortion that the member talked about right off the top is a thing I never heard about when I was growing up. I wonder if my hon. colleague has another story he can share about the extortion happening in Edmonton.
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Mr. Speaker, February 22 is Canada's National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, and this is thanks to the hard work of the all party parliamentary group to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is a crime that turns people into objects to be used and exploited. It is vicious and it is profitable. It is happening right here in Canada. In the book of Isaiah, God calls each o…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his great speech on Bill C-10. He could not have outlined it better. What we are really looking for from the government is a bit of action on a whole host of things. This bill is just adding bureaucracy instead of getting the government out of the way and doing the things that it says it is going to do, much the same way as it says it is going to build pi…
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Mr. Speaker, I am appreciative of the topic we are discussing today, because I think it highlights the Liberals' arrogance in the fact that they can just choose to build a project in northern, not even very northern, Quebec. Today it is kind of a white elephant; there is not a lot going on, but it was overriding all the local interests at the time. I am wondering if the hon. member will acknowledg…
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Mr. Speaker, I find that incredibly rich coming from the member, who adamantly defended Bill C-5 and Bill C-75 in previous Parliaments and also defended the carbon tax. Now, with a new leader in front of the Liberal Party, suddenly he and the Liberals are going to do a complete 180° on all these things and change them. The reality is that the Liberals had the opportunity to pass Bill C-14, the bai…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the Liberals are the government. They do control the agenda of this place. It is incumbent entirely upon them to schedule these things. I would like to remind the Liberals, in addition, that they have a minority government and that they should be working with opposition parties to pass things we mutually agree upon. Fixes to Liberal bail has been something that, ap…
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Mr. Speaker, that is bullocks. The Liberals entirely have the control of this place in terms of scheduling. The member should look in the mirror, and perhaps he should figure out which way he is going, as he has reversed his position on a number of things over the last years.
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Mr. Speaker, I recall that in the last Parliament there was a bill precisely to deal with coercive control. I seconded that bill and am disappointed that the government has not adopted it wholesale. I know this has been an ongoing issue over the last number of years. There was another bill in the last Parliament that the Liberals voted against as well that I was hoping they would take on; it was a…
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Madam Speaker, I am presenting a petition today from Canadians across the country who are concerned about the natural health products regulations in Canada. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to ensure that regulations on natural health products and uninsured services be reversed back to the way they were in the past. People from across Canada have signed this petition, and th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is quite something that after 10 years of tearing down our criminal justice system and throwing victims of crime under the bus, suddenly the Liberals want to appear to be the heroes of their own story. One crime I regularly speak about is human trafficking. It is a heinous and growing crime right here in Canada, and it is having an impact on victims all across Canada. Non-governmen…
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Madam Speaker, the second petition I present today is from Canadians across the country who are concerned about human rights protections in India. The petitioners say Christians in India are being targeted by extremists vandalizing church buildings, attacking church workers and threatening and humiliating Christians across India. They are calling on the Government of Canada to also recognize the c…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to present a petition from people from across Canada who want to draw to the attention of the House concerns around Bill C-9. They are concerned that pieces of the Bible could be criminalized, and they are insistent that the state has no place in recognizing or refusing religious texts. The petitioners are concerned that freedom of expression and freedom o…
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Mr. Speaker, I would note that, right off the top, the member said that we are in a trade war with the United States. “I told them so” is not a great campaign promise, but the reality is that Stephen Harper told us that this was a great challenge and that we needed to move from being 100% or 90% reliant on the United States and get pipelines to tidewater. That is why he approved 14 LNG projects on…
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Mr. Speaker, two weeks ago I asked the government, while it was waving around its MOU, whether it could actually offer Albertans a guarantee on a pipeline and when it would be built, not just another headline or announcement. I was told that this memorandum would set out a comprehensive economic path forward for Alberta. The only problem is that there is no guarantee with this plan. It is more of …
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Mr. Speaker, I will present a number of petitions today. The first petition is from a number of Canadians from across the country who want to call the attention of the government to the persecution of Christians around the world. Christians are the most persecuted group in the world. The petitioners call on the Canadian government to prioritize the principles of universal human rights and religiou…
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from Canadians from across the country. The folks who have signed this petition are concerned about the forced organ harvesting that is happening around the world. The petitioners note that the organ trade is a growing concern across the globe. They want Canada to ensure that the legislation in place in Canada is properly enforced and to maybe re-examine some of…
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Mr. Speaker, the final petition I am presenting today comes from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about the state of religious freedom in India. Petitioners want to highlight the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which recognizes the state of India's religious freedom. They point out that Christians in India are being targeted and that their churches are being …
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Mr. Speaker, I have bad news. West Fraser has just announced that they will be shuttering its OSB plant in northern Alberta. This is a softwood lumber mill, so to speak, and this comes after the news of many other mills that have been shuttered or shut down over the last number of weeks. I know that the member is from British Columbia, where this has been hard-hitting as well. Today, the job numbe…
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Mr. Speaker, hard-working Canadians are struggling with the cost of living, but in Sault Ste. Marie, the Prime Minister handed 400 million taxpayer dollars to a company, knowing it was going to lay off 1,000 workers. The Prime Minister's response was “bah, humbug”. Although prime minister Scrooge talks about fairness and sacrifice, after his spending years at Brookfield helping it dodge paying tax…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition is from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about Canada's MAID regime. They say that choosing MAID in the absence of real services or treatment is not really a choice at all. They point out that a number of folks have been suggested MAID by government officials and that medical assistance in dying has been offered as a solution to folks with a chroni…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition on behalf of Canadians who are concerned about human rights protections in India. The petitioners are saying that, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, various actors are supporting and enforcing sectarian policies to establish India as a Hindu state. The petitioners are stating that Christians in India are being targeted …
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Madam Speaker, the second petition I have is from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about the MAID regime here in Canada, or the government-assisted dying program. They are concerned that the lives of those who have a disability or chronic illness are not being valued, and they are concerned about the tacit endorsement of the notion that a life lived with a disability is optional…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition to the House that firearms owners from across Canada have brought forward. They are concerned about past legislation and new orders in council that target law-abiding firearms owners. The petitioners say that Bill C-21 does nothing to tackle firearms violence, but rather adds red tape to law-abiding Canadians. They also describe how the bill does lit…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague gave a great speech on this topic. Every time I listen to him, I feel like I am listening to a podcast. He has very smooth delivery. I want to ask about Bill C-15 and the fact that it has 45 different sections. If we were to read out all of the titles of the sections within the bill, we would be here for 10 minutes. We have time for a 10-minute speech. Does my colleague…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that in the past the school food programs existed to fill an anomaly, a gap. They were not relied upon by the Canadian population in order to feed our children. Canadians had good-paying jobs in resource extraction industries that made the economy of this country function. After a decade of the Liberals' being in power, programs are now coming forward as a solution to t…
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Madam Speaker, there is finally something that I and the Bloc member agree on: this ridiculous idea of pumping air into the ground, or the $16-billion landfill, as I call it. I am wondering if the hon. member understands that there is probably a Brookfield connection to this pipeline.
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