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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, 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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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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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, 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, 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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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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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, the Liberals have said this is the time for diversification. I hate, as much as anybody, the “I told you so” phrases, but I remember back in 2007 when Stephen Harper said we needed to diversify our markets. He then became prime minister and signed 43 free trade agreements around the world, built pipelines and pursued pipeline projects to both the west and east coasts. The time for div…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the speech, and I think the member is making a false dichotomy. I think we can streamline the effectiveness of a lot of these approval processes while maintaining the constitutional rights of Canadians. Would the member not agree that she is perhaps making a straw man in this argument?
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Madam Speaker, would my hon. colleague not recognize that his rhetoric in the last speech is maybe a little antiquated, as the world is moving away from the concerns around climate change and is more concerned about human poverty and human suffering? Even Bill Gates has moved away from this. I am just wondering if he recognizes that.
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Mr. Speaker, something I have brought up over and over in this debate is around trend lines and crime in general. Over the last decade, we have watched mandatory minimum sentences be reduced by the Liberal government. We watched, under Bill C-5, many crimes be hybridized so that human traffickers could just stay home under house arrest. More broadly, I think there is a sentiment that the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand today to present a petition signed by residents of Canada who are concerned about the Liberal-Bloc amendments to Bill C-9 that could be used to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts. The state has no place in deciding what religious texts are proper for each faith community. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion ar…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague for his great speech on the issue. Sometimes I feel like we do not see the forest for the trees. This particular bill does make some dramatic improvements, but what it fails to take into account is the last decade of Liberal failures on our public judiciary, but also public safety, and just the crime rates in general. Could my hon. colleague zoom out …
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Mr. Speaker, I too join my voice to the debate around Bill C-16. This bill comes in the wake of a decade of the Liberal soft-on-crime agenda. Now the Liberals seem to want to be the solution to the problems they have caused. Over the last decade, we have seen crime across the country. If violent crime in Canada were to be plotted on a graph, we would see that it was steadily going up until about 2…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Madam Speaker, I think my hon. colleague mentioned this in her speech, and I am wondering if she can clarify it a little more: Part 5, division 3 of this bill talks about $1.5 billion for the Canada Lands Company. I thought this was a company that was supposed to sell off federal assets. Why are we giving it money to do that?
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure the government is wasting some money; there is no doubt about that. The Liberals' measure of success is how much money they spend. Whenever they have a solution, it is always just this: “Here is how much money we have spent.” I pointed out in my speech that $1.5 billion is going to the Canada Lands Company, a corporation that is dedicated to selling off federal assets. I do …
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Mr. Speaker, I outright reject the premise. Nonetheless, I would point out that I think the dollar value when Mr. Harper was in power hit $1.13 American. This increased our buying power. It was a great time to live in Canada because we could afford to live.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to rise again in the House of Commons to represent the people of Peace River—Westlock. I thank them for putting me here again. Today, we are debating the budget implementation act, Bill C-15. It is a monster of a bill. It has five major parts. Part 5 has 45 divisions. It is broad-ranging. It deals with removing the GST, getting rid of the carbon tax and getting rid o…
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Mr. Speaker, I am 100% hearing the same thing in northern Alberta. Life is getting unaffordable under the Liberals. It is baffling to me that even after the Liberals cut the carbon tax, which was totally inflation-inducing, they brought in a massive deficit that is also going to continue to increase inflation, all the while driving our dollar value down, which also causes inflation. Most of our fo…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his great speech on Bill C-4, the unaffordability act, as the government wants to call it. We know that the Liberals have no good ideas of their own, and that when they take our good ideas, they wreck them. Conservatives put forward a proposal to take the GST off new home builds, and the Liberals came in with something that sounds like that, but it is o…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the member's speech. While he is new here, his ideas are quite outdated as Canadians fully rejected a carbon tax in the last election. Even people like Bill Gates are saying that we have to focus on things like eliminating hunger and poverty, which are on the rise right here in Canada. This bill purports to do some of those things. Why is the member bringing the…
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Madam Speaker, I have two questions for the member: One, was he making the point in his speech that this is an austerity budget? Two, will he confirm for me, as he been a finance minister before, that deficit spending does drive inflation?
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Madam Speaker, I really appreciated the member's speech as it was quite entertaining. There was this new term of “clever austerity”, which I guess is the reverse of austerity. The word “clever” makes the word “austerity” mean the opposite. Justin Trudeau, in all of his time in power, outside of COVID, never had a budget that had this much deficit spending in it. If this is what clever austerity is…
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Mr. Speaker, we have been pointing out for the last little while that it is the Brookfield government, and the Prime Minister has been using the government's plane to fly around the world. Interestingly, he has not secured many deals for Canada, but shortly after the Prime Minister leaves particular countries and places, Brookfield signs major deals with those particular places. I am just wonderin…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are looking for collaboration, no doubt, but the Prime Minister went around to wave just another piece of paper that promises a potential pipeline maybe sometime in the future. In reality, it guarantees nothing. The only thing that was guaranteed today was that Albertans and Canadians will continue to pay more with the industrial carbon tax. Canadians are looking for a guara…
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Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to invite all members to a luncheon tomorrow at noon in 8-053, 131 Queen Street, to mark 11 years since royal assent for PCEPA, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act. This lunch will be hosted by Andrea and Kathy, long-time anti-exploitation advocates. Through PCEPA, Canada's Parliament recognized that prostitution is a form of sexual exploitation and a…
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Mr. Speaker, a Liberal questioner earlier talked about somebody who had been away on deployment and came back and had a child while away on deployment. I do not think this bill addresses that. I think it is second-generation citizenship that this bill in particular answers to. I am wondering if the member opposite could clarify for me if this bill is indeed about the second generation.
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Mr. Speaker, I would just like to, perhaps, pick the hon. member's brain a little about Bill C-3. It is an interesting thing that the government brought this forward. I remember that during the campaign, the Prime Minister talked about how we were going to build projects at lightning speed, we were going to have to change some legislation and we were going to do all these great things in Canada. T…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is saying she is a Canadian citizen, but if she was born in Germany, there would be a process for her to establish Canadian citizenship. If she is a Canadian citizen and has children while she is still in Germany, she too can pass it on. That is all currently—
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad he is clarifying this. The point is that if his daughter became a Canadian citizen, she could easily pass Canadian citizenship on to her children.
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Madam Speaker, I am thankful to the hon. member for his great speech on the topic. I wonder if he has any other examples of how the immigration system has been wrecked. I know that for as long as I have been here, we have been concerned about the Roxham Road crossing. I wonder if he has any other examples he would like to share with us.
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Madam Speaker, I was just wondering if my hon. colleague has any other examples. The last one was great. I was wondering if he has any other examples of how the Liberals have cheapened Canadian citizenship over the last 10 years.
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Mr. Speaker, if someone is a Canadian citizen, they are capable of passing it on. This bill, as far as I understand, is about the third generation and people who were missed.
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Mr. Speaker, I was wondering if the Liberals could please explain to me where I am wrong on that.
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Mr. Speaker, I was interested in listening to the member's speech. Clearly, he has a lot of knowledge on the topic. I did not follow the bill through committee really closely. I was just wondering if he could comment about whether there are other countries that are doing this or proposing this. What are the differences between those countries and Canada, particularly given old-world versus new-wor…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a few petitions to present tonight. The first petition comes from Canadians across the country who are concerned about the treatment of the armed forces chaplaincy. They are concerned about recent reports that have come out saying that chaplains may not pray at Remembrance Day ceremonies. They note that Canada has a long tradition of respecting and honouring the role of faith t…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have to present comes from Canadians across the country who are concerned about the way the Liberal government treats law-abiding firearms owners. They talk about the host of orders in council that the government has put in place targeting law-abiding firearms owners. They talk about Bill C-21, which does nothing to tackle firearm crime, but rather, adds red tape t…
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Mr. Speaker, the last petition I have to present today comes from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about the thousands of Afghans who are still living in vulnerability in Afghanistan given the fall of the Afghan government after the Americans pulled out. Canada has stepped up, but there are still thousands of immigrants left living in concerning situations. The petitioners are c…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have is from Canadians across the country who are concerned about human rights abuses around the world. In particular, they note the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that pointed out that various actors are supporting and enforcing sectarian policies in India to establish India as a Hindu state. The petitioners say that Christians in India are bei…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have to present comes from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about the MAID regime in this country. Choosing medical assistance in dying because of a lack of available services or treatments is not a real choice. That is what the petitioners are pointing out. They also point out that allowing medical assistance in dying for those with disabilities…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have to present comes from people from across the country who are concerned about the treatment of the Falun Gong in China. They note that millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily detained, including family members of Canadians, and they are concerned about the forced labour that is being perpetrated upon the Falun Gong population back in India. T…
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