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Mr. Speaker, here is what the president of Unifor Local 222 said, “Finally, a...plan to protect the livelihood of thousands of Ontario Auto sector workers.” Under the Liberal plan, production is down and exports are down, but job losses are up. The Conservative plan would double auto production here in Canada. The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association supports our plan. The local unions supp…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have thrown in the towel on Canada's auto sector. Since 2015, auto production is down by half, exports are down by 53% and over 5,000 auto jobs are gone. The Conservatives' auto pact would restore tariff-free access to the U.S., doubling auto production here at home. Instead of giving up on our auto sector, will the Liberals stand with their auto workers and support our m…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish we could feed families with the word salad the member served up in the House today. It is funny, because when the Liberals are asked about the housing crisis, they blame the Iran war. When we ask them about the 100,000 job losses, they blame the Iran war. When we ask about food insecurity and the cost of living crisis, they blame the Iran war. The Iran war started three weeks a…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister promised safety with 1,000 new RCMP officers, but that is just typical banker spin. The Auditor General is now reporting that there is a 3,400 officer shortage with the RCMP. Recruitment is failing. Training seats are going unfilled, and after a year-long process only 6% of applicants are making it through. With crime rising at alarming levels, when will the…
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Mr. Speaker, as parliamentarians we are entrusted with something special: the duty to do what is right, not what is easy. What is right is very clear. It is right to build a criminal justice system that protects Canadians and protects the most vulnerable, that listens to the stories of victims and that recognizes the profound impact that every life lost and every family shattered truly carries. Be…
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Mr. Speaker, after 11 years of Liberal government, Canadians are now struggling to feed their families. We have a record number of visits to food banks, with 2.2 million people in a single month. We have the highest food inflation in the G7, which is double that of the U.S. We have a 10% increase in homelessness in Ontario. These numbers are more than just stats. They affect Canadians every single…
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Madam Speaker, it was great to have the parliamentary secretary visit our riding. I welcome any member who wants to come take a look at some of the greatest things that get made. They should come to Oxford County; we will take them for a nice tour and show them all the great things that are happening in my riding. It is a beautiful place to be. One thing that is very clear is that we were making h…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to start off by sending my deepest condolences and prayers to everyone in Tumbler Ridge. What we saw and what we heard are heartbreaking stories. As a father, I mourn with them. As Canadians, we all stand with the community, and we are sending our prayers to the first responders, the victims and their families. May God bless them all during this challenging time. Canadi…
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Madam Speaker, like my hon. colleague across the aisle, I represent an agriculture community. The farmers in my riding are telling me that input costs are being driven by the government. Whether by taxes on farm equipment or taxes on fertilizer, the Liberals are the ones driving up the costs, which are then, obviously, being sent to our consumers. I have said it before and I will say it again: Whe…
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Madam Speaker, I have heard it loud and clear. That is why I stand with them every single day, and that is why our plan is the common-sense plan workers want right now, not the Liberals' failed photo ops.
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, Canadian auto production is down by half. Mass auto layoffs in Oshawa, Brampton and Ingersoll are devastating our communities. We gave the minister a very reasonable solution to help auto workers. Under section 153 of the Income Tax Act, he can bring forward a regulatory change to reduce the mandatory withholding rate on lump sum severances for impacted w…
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Madam Speaker, we have the best farmers and the best land in the world, yet our farmers are being punished with these extra taxes. We have brought forward motions in this chamber to take off the hidden food taxes, which include the industrial carbon tax. We have talked about removing the food packaging tax and making sure we could bring more competition to our grocery chains. We are bringing solut…
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Madam Speaker, in the last election, the Prime Minister said Canadians should judge him by the prices at the grocery store. Those were his words, but since then, he has actually failed. The stats are in; the facts are in. We have the highest food inflation in the G7, higher than in the U.S., actually double that of the U.S. There are 2.5 million food bank visits in a single month. A quarter of the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance called standing with auto workers “political malpractice”. It is easy to talk about that here in Ottawa, but try saying that to the workers who lost their jobs, to the workers who cannot feed their families, to the workers who cannot pay their mortgages. The government is sending billions of their tax dollars outside of Canada to fund foreign jobs and foreign p…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not get an answer to my question, but it is sadly ironic that while Canadian workers are losing their jobs, and while more than half of their payouts are taken by taxes, the Liberals are handing out $2.3 billion in subsidies for American-made electric vehicles. All this is happening while the U.S. is slapping tariffs on Canadian-made autos. Canadian tax dollars should not be fun…
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Mr. Speaker, CAMI workers were devastated last year when they lost their jobs, but it got worse. Last week they received their layoff payout, only to see that more than half of it was clawed back in taxes. That is thousands of dollars, and many of them cannot afford to wait for next year's tax return. They need the money now to pay their bills, their mortgage and their rent, and to put food on the…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of petitioners from Oxford County who are concerned that the Liberal-Bloc amendments to Bill C-9 could be used to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts. The state has no place in the religious texts or teachings of any faith community, and freedom of expression and freedom of religion are fundamental rights t…
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Mr. Speaker, auto workers in my riding want their jobs back. Auto workers have kept our country moving for generations. They are hard-working, they are tough and they are highly skilled, but the government keeps selling them out. We need Canadian cars made with Canadian steel and made by Canadian workers. The Liberals promised a deal. They promised they would defend Canadian jobs, but we are seein…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada once built over two million vehicles in a single year, but under the Liberals, that is now down to 1.2 million. That is nearly half, and as production drops, 1,200 more auto workers in Oshawa worked their last shifts just this last week. CAMI workers who lost their jobs are now getting heavily taxed payouts, and they are struggling to make ends meet while their plant sits idle.…
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Mr. Speaker, despite our differences, one truth still unites Canadians: the strength, resilience and the talent of our people. Oxford is home to many of these superstars. From the hallways of Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute, astronaut Jeremy Hansen is reaching beyond the stars as he looks to make history as the first Canadian to go to the moon. Ingersoll's Ella Shelton will be representing…
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Mr. Speaker, soft-on-crime Liberal laws ended mandatory jail time for extortionists and released repeat violent offenders back on our streets. Since then, violent crime has doubled and extortion is up over 350%. Businesses, media studios and homes are being shot at. Literally, we are seeing bullets fly through the bedrooms of our children. Canadians are terrified and feel like they are the ones on…
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Mr. Speaker, we were once promised that hard work meant a great life, but with the Liberals, that promise is gone. Ryan, a single father from Thamesford, works extremely hard but is struggling to put food on the table. He is struggling to put gas in his car, and he is struggling to keep his house warm for Christmas. Just like millions of other Canadians, he is now relying on a food bank to feed hi…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, food prices have doubled and Canadians are struggling to get by. There are now 2.2 million food bank visits in a single month, with one in 10 of those users being a senior. Paul, a 70-year-old from Woodstock, was forced out of retirement and is now working night shifts to stock shelves just so he can survive. The seniors who helped build this country are now the pe…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of petitioners from Oxford County who are calling for the exemption from taxes for registered massage therapies, removing GST and HST from these services and putting them in line with physiotherapy and chiropractic care. Massage therapy is prescribed by medical professionals to help with chronic illnesses, occupational injuries and physical injuries, …
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Mr. Speaker, on the Bill of Rights, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said, “I am...free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I [believe is] right, free to oppose what I believe wrong”. Those are the foundations our country was built on, which are the same values the Liberal government is attacking. It is attacking faith all across the spectrum: Hindus, Si…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We sit in the House and listen to, a lot of times, pure nonsense from the member on a regular basis, but we have never called it “garbage”. We respect the member's right to speak his mind, even though he says a lot of words but does not say much. For him to say that the member's speech was “garbage” is absolute nonsense and unparliamentary. Every member—
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Mr. Chair, it is an honour to rise on such an important issue, which not only affects my riding but Canadians right across our country. Canada's auto sector is the backbone of our country. We have over 100,000 auto sector jobs here in Ontario. We are very proud of our auto workers, who have done a fantastic job. They give $14 billion to our economy. That is a lot of money. That is a lot of workers…
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Mr. Chair, the auto industry is being burdened by the regulatory burden, the EV mandates, the weak action on tariffs and, obviously, the industrial carbon tax. They are setting up roadblocks at every step of the way. That is taking away the certainty. They are now saying that they are pausing the EV mandates. That is not a permanent solution. There is still no certainty on what is going to happen.…
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Mr. Chair, this is an urgent issue. As my colleague said, this is a five-alarm fire. Is it not a burning issue? People's lives are at stake. Christmas is around the corner. People do not know what is going to be there the year after this. The problem we have is that the Prime Minister is going to all these countries, but who is benefiting? Brookfield is benefiting. If it is for Brookfield contract…
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Mr. Chair, when $15 billion of Canadian money is being sent out to executives and we do not know if there are job securities, that is a problem. Just recently, we heard in committee about when Conservatives demanded that the contract be presented to the House so that we could examine the contract. First, we learned that the government did not review its own contracts before signing, and second, we…
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Mr. Speaker, termination letters are starting to roll out for CAMI workers out in Ingersoll, just weeks before Christmas. One of the workers said that it is “a punch to the gut”. On October 23, the Minister of Industry said, “I expect a full update within 15 days” from GM. Well, her self-imposed deadline has come and gone. There is no plan. There is no action. There is no update. Our workers canno…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the chamber to fight for the great residents of Oxford County. There was a promise in this country that if someone worked hard and played by the rules, they could achieve anything. People made sacrifices, but they knew those sacrifices would one day pay off. They knew that if they worked hard and sacrificed with time away from their families, they cou…
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Mr. Speaker, the only people benefiting from this Brookfield budget are Brookfield's management on Bay Street, so maybe what she is quoting is from Brookfield. The folks who live on main street in our communities are struggling. Homelessness is at record numbers. Encampments are popping up everywhere. Food bank lineups are right around the corner, and people are barely struggling to get by. I unde…
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Mr. Speaker, it is true that I represent a great rural farming community. I want to thank the hon. member for all the great work he does in championing our farmers. As we all know, farmers are the ones who feed our families, and I can tell members that farmers are not happy with the government either. We are asking for some sort of relief on tariffs, but every time the Prime Minister travels the w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is actively doing absolutely nothing for our workers. He literally campaigned on getting a deal with the U.S., but now, since he is failing, he is brushing it off. He says, "Who cares?” The thousands of auto workers who are losing their jobs care. The tens of thousands of spinoff workers who will not be able to pay their bills, pay their mortgage or feed their famil…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said he was a master negotiator, and he looked our auto workers in the eye and promised a deal with the U.S., but now that he is failing, he is shrugging it off, saying that it does not matter. He said, “Who cares?”, and that it is not a “burning” issue. He is wrong, because it is a burning issue for Denise, an auto worker in Oxford who is losing her job, and for th…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question by hon. colleague. He and I share a passion for building a strong justice system. I looked at the budget, and I do not think the word “crime” is mentioned even once. The Liberals keep reannouncing the promise that they are going to hire new officers, yet they have not done that. Even the public safety minister, who is responsible for this, says it is not his j…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister spends more time in the air than he does here in Canada, jet-setting with global elites. In just eight months, he has taken 28 trips, racking up over 153,000 kilometres, which is enough to circle the globe nearly four times. What does he have to show for these air miles? He has absolutely nothing: no trade deals and no results. Every time he is wheels up, Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, I could spend all day discussing the differences between our bills. The Liberals have kept the principle of restraint intact in their legislation. We would repeal it and add the principle of public safety as a primary consideration. We would make changes to the conditions for those being released. We would make changes to the legal test to make it tougher for repeat violent offenders …
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Mr. Speaker, all the member said was that they talk and talk. The Prime Minister has talked about it. He has talked about it. They have had discussions about this and discussions about that. Talking is all they have been doing for the last 10 years. Our deputy leader brought Bill C-381 to the floor of Parliament last year. What did the Liberals do? They voted against it. They had an opportunity to…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to be in the chamber to rise on an issue that is affecting Canadians from coast to coast to coast. I have spoken about this issue many times. I brought forward the jail not bail bill to help crack down on repeat violent offenders. We held town halls right across our beautiful country, in Surrey, Winnipeg, St. Thomas, Vaughan and Peel. Canadians are very concerne…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a presumption of innocence in our country. That is a fundamental principle that we will defend all the way. The people we are targeting are the repeat violent offenders who have made this a business, who are part of organized crime and who are constantly terrorizing our communities. The statistics do not lie. In Kelowna, the RCMP and the mayor said the same 15 people were res…
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that all levels of government have to work together. The problem with the Liberal members is they do not want to take responsibility for fixing in the chamber what they have control over. The Criminal Code is a federal responsibility. The RCMP is a federal responsibility. The CBSA is a federal responsibility. Instead of pointing fingers at everybody else, maybe they shoul…
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moved that Bill C-242, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the chamber to intervene on my private member's bill, the jail not bail act. Before I dive into the topic at hand, I want to take a moment to honour the veterans. They are the brave men and women who served o…
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Mr. Speaker, this Brookfield budget has the largest deficit in history outside of COVID. The interest payments are topping $55 billion, more than what we spend on health care transfers. This means less for doctors, less for nurses and less for our hospitals, but more for bondholders and Liberal insiders. The only thing that is getting healthy under the government is the bankers’ profits. They keep…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a great honour to stand in this chamber to discuss such an important piece of legislation. Before I dive right into Bill C-242, the jail not bail act, I would like to take a moment to reflect on and thank our veterans: those who have served and have paid the ultimate sacrifice and those brave men and women who continue to serve today for the freedoms that we have and we e…
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Mr. Speaker, our jail not bail act is fully constitutionally compliant. These targeted, reasonable, proportionate measures to change the Criminal Code go after a small number of repeat violent offenders. I am strongly confident that our bill is charter-compliant. Speaking of charter-compliance, on this side of the House, we stand for the charter rights of victims and law-abiding Canadians, unlike …
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Mr. Speaker, I agree. There is time for us to modernize our justice system, but it is important that we modernize our Criminal Code to defend the rights of law-abiding Canadians. When it comes to our prison capacity, it is important for everyone to understand that this bill targets repeat violent offenders. To share some facts, in Kelowna, the same 15 individuals committed 1,500 crimes in a single…
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Mr. Speaker, we have all seen the stories. We have seen the headlines in the media, the social media posts and the cries for help. The headlines seem like they are from Hollywood movies. Families get destroyed. Sometimes the person who is killed is the only income-earner. Sometimes they are the only person taking care of their kids. It is not only about the stories we want to share, but about the …
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