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Mr. Speaker, the German ambassador said again yesterday that he still wants to import our natural gas. With Bill C‑69 and Bill C‑48, the production cap and the industrial carbon tax, this Liberal government is stifling our economic growth with its anti-energy measures. When will the Liberal Prime Minister finally allow Canadians to build pipelines, help our allies and benefit from Canada's resourc…
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Mr. Chair, it is funny how the minister is unable to answer our questions. She refers them to other ministers. In any case, there is also a housing shortage in Canada. Quebeckers are sleeping in their cars right now because they cannot afford to pay their rent. However, the government continues to increase its immigration levels. Why?
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Mr. Chair, earlier, my colleague asked what the population of Canada was, and the minister was unable to answer. Will she answer by saying how much this 5% decrease represents?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is not answering my question. Some economists are predicting a recession by the fall with the potential loss of 100,000 jobs, many of them in Ontario and Quebec. However, the government is bringing in immigrants. Why?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister think that we should reduce immigration to Canada? If so, does she think that should happen soon? If so, by how much should we cut immigration? I would like the minister to give me a number.
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Mr. Chair, these two numbers are public. The minister must know what they are.
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Mr. Chair, unemployment is rising across Canada. According to some experts, there will be approximately 100,000 job losses by the fall. However, you keep increasing immigration. Why do you insist on pushing newcomers into unemployment?
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Mr. Chair, what number is the minister talking about?
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Mr. Chair, the government is going to bring in hundreds of thousands of people this year when millions of Canadians do not even have access to a family doctor. Why?
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Mr. Chair, how many people in Canada are currently subject to removal proceedings? Does the minister know? Can she give me a number, please?
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Mr. Chair, she is referring the question to another minister. Last December, 460,000 people were awaiting removal. That figure is equivalent to the population of the city of Laval, Quebec. However, the government has lost track of 30,000 of them. How many are actually going to leave the country this year?
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Mr. Speaker, we were deeply saddened yesterday to learn of the passing of a former Conservative MP and minister. Monique Vézina was an exceptional woman who left a lasting mark on Quebec and all of Canada. Elected in 1984 as the member for Rimouski—Témiscouata, Mrs. Vézina became a vital player in Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government. She held key roles, including Minister for Exte…
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Mr. Speaker, still today, after nine years under this Prime Minister, Canadians once again have to suffer the consequences of this Liberal government's lack of leadership. The Prime Minister is having a fiscal spat with his Minister of Finance over the budget, which will certainly exceed the $40-billion deficit mark, a limit she herself promised. Endless broken Liberal promises are becoming the ha…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, the cost of living has become unsustainable. Canadians are experiencing an unprecedented crisis. What is the Bloc Québécois doing? It is betraying Quebeckers by voting in favour of $500 billion in spending. This year, more than 33,000 Quebec children are asking Santa for heartbreaking gifts: a winter coat, a lunch box or, even worse, hous…
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Madam Speaker, the inflationary Liberal policies of this Prime Minister, supported by the Bloc Québécois, have crushed Canadians. Today, children in Quebec are turning to Santa Claus in the hope of having their basic needs met. There are 114 children asking for mittens and another 500 asking for winter coats. It is unbelievable. This kind of heartbreaking request should not exist in a country like…
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Madam Speaker, the Bloc Québécois betrayed the interests of Quebeckers by blindly supporting this Liberal government's $500 billion in inflationary spending. Quebeckers are reeling from this crushing inflation. The cost of groceries, housing and heating has skyrocketed. Our families and businesses are in crisis. Meanwhile, rather than defending Quebeckers' interests, the Bloc Québécois is supporti…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years of this Liberal government means nine years of financial irresponsibility. Yesterday, the Auditor General of Canada revealed that 77,000 ineligible businesses managed to get $3.5 billion from the Canada Emergency Business Account. This program was in part managed in Brazil. Why does this Liberal government prefer to enrich foreign businesses and costly consultants instead o…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, we find that the mess it has made at our borders is alarming. The Liberals are creating chaos, and Canadians are paying the price. The Liberal Prime Minister decided to fling Canada's doors wide open in 2016, with no controls whatsoever. This has resulted in a broken immigration system, growing tensions at the border, and now threats from…
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Madam Speaker, for nine years, this Liberal government has been imposing inflationary taxes, creating bureaucracy that stifles business. Because of the unfair application of the harmonized sales tax, or HST, recreational vehicle dealers in Quebec are being forced to pay an Ontario tax on products sold in Quebec. The result is that thousands of jobs are in jeopardy and businesses are under financia…
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Madam Speaker, I will continue in the same vein. We know that the Auditor General looked at a portion of the documents. She stopped because it was a repetition of the amounts that had been allocated to people who were in conflict of interest. I have the following question for my colleague. I think that the Auditor General felt that she had evaluated nearly 40% or 60% of all the data. Inevitably, t…
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Madam Speaker, my NDP colleague must be extremely confused these days. He has to vote with his leader to prop up a party the New Democrats cannot stand. They say so everyday here in the House of Commons, and now my colleague is trying to lecture us. This is truly nuts. The NDP members must be so confused.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, life has become unbearable for Canadians. Rents have doubled, mortgage payments and down payments are out of reach, and food banks are serving record numbers of people every month. Who is enabling this catastrophic management of the economy? The Bloc Québécois. Instead of being there for Quebeckers, it is being there to serve the Liberal Pr…
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Madam Speaker, it is first and foremost a question of management of public funds. Obviously, we all agree about Canadian culture, be it anglophone or francophone, but when we look at how public funds are being managed within CBC/Radio-Canada, we see it makes no sense at all. If this were a private company, it would have gone bankrupt long ago. Obviously, though, this is no public company. It is an…
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Madam Speaker, just a week ago, the leader of the Bloc Québécois wondered what he was doing here. I imagine my colleague is asking himself the same question. The reality is that the Bloc Québécois is in it just for Quebec and does not care in the slightest about the rest of Canada. Nevertheless, the Bloc is delighted to be here and to reap the benefits. This is clear in everything its members do. …
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to a topic that makes me very indignant. My indignation is shared by millions of Quebeckers and Canadians. Let me explain. Once again, CBC/Radio-Canada, an institution funded with taxpayer money, is betraying the values, culture and trust of the people who pay for it to exist, the people it is supposed to serve and represent. The CBC chose to record a podcast i…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' soft-on-crime policies have plunged Canada into chaos. Thousands of vehicles continue to be stolen and shipped out of the country, yet the Liberal government is not lifting a finger to restore order. Meanwhile, Canadians are paying through the nose for insurance and worrying whether their property and their families are safe. Can this Liberal government stop sitting arou…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government, crime is the only thing thriving. Canada is being hit by an unprecedented wave of auto thefts. In Montreal, a victim whose car has been stolen twice now has to pay more than $7,000 for insurance. Quebec has set a new record for most stolen vehicles, with more than 1,213 vehicles intercepted at the port of Montreal. When will this government…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years with this Liberal government in power is nine years of housing failure. The “Liberal Bloc” has doubled rents, mortgage payments and down payments. A recent Habitat for Humanity survey revealed that 88% of Canadian renters believe that home ownership is out of reach, and 75% of them are sacrificing basic needs like food and education to pay the rent. All this is happening in…
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Mr. Speaker, the “Liberal Bloc” doubled the cost of housing, doubled the amount needed for a down payment, doubled mortgage payments and doubled the debt. The Conservatives will scrap the federal tax on new homes under $1 million, potentially allowing Canadians to save up to $50,000. That is what we call common sense. Will the “Liberal Bloc” wake up at long last and implement our idea so Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” is not worth the cost of housing. This week, our leader announced that, once elected, we will eliminate the GST on homes under $1 million. This announcement was welcomed by many stakeholders, including the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec, the Quebec landlords' association, which said the Conservative leader's proposal was one mo…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, we could help veterans, because apparently there is not even one office open for the number of ones closed back then. There are all sorts of things we could do, especially if we continue in the same vein as the announcements we have already started making. Yesterday, we announced that our next election platform will include eliminating the GST on homes. We are going to k…
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny because the Liberals are acting like cornered rats. They are finished and they know it, so they are bringing up old stories from back in the day, from 10 years ago. It is now 2024. People are struggling to make ends meet today. They are having trouble getting by every day. Young people are having an even harder time than my generation did. They are the ones we need to thin…
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Mr. Speaker, just to put things into perspective, $400 million is an astronomical sum. Considering everything this money could have been used for, especially to help young people, it is a huge amount. In my riding, some groups are pleading for help. Let me give just one very concrete example involving non-profit food banks. Knowing that two million Canadians, out of our current population of 41 mi…
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Mr. Speaker, basically, what caused it are the conditions created by this government after nine years in power. I cannot help but draw a link between what my colleague just said and the question my other Liberal colleague asked me earlier. The two witnesses appeared one after the other and both gave testimony along the same lines. They both said, right now, the new generation will have a harder ti…
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Mr. Speaker, back home we have an expression, “to have someone by the balls”, which refers to something real. The reality in Parliament right now is that there is an opposition leader who essentially has this government's back against the wall, to avoid using that same expression again. Why is he doing that? Honestly, we do not know since he keeps talking out of both sides of his mouth. On one han…
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Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question. What my colleague is saying or trying to have people believe is that things have never been better in Canada. What he just said is that the superintendent of bankruptcy said that there may be fewer bankruptcies right now, but that is because there are a lot more proposals for bankruptcy, proposals for agreements with creditors. That means there is an inc…
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Mr. Speaker, that was a great answer. He could have added to that list and talked about the things that the Bloc members have not done. My Bloc Québécois colleague says he is ready to take action, but the Bloc members dropped the ball on two votes recently. They just wasted 30 days in the House of Commons. The question I would like to ask my colleague is the following. The cost of living is going …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a real pleasure to rise in the House today and speak to this question of privilege, which has been going on for a month now. Nevertheless, I rise with a deep sense of frustration over the fact that today, as always, we are again discussing a scandal of alarming proportions. It is a scandal that once again highlights the Liberal government's irresponsibility, corruption, and cont…
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Mr. Speaker, the ineligible projects were those that demonstrated no environmental benefit. SDTC is a program designed to help companies implement green environmental technologies. The Conservative Party is very open to the idea of supporting technologies that can help us, rather than imposing the carbon tax on people. We want to implement new technologies that will help us improve the environment…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the Liberals do not understand. It is very simple. We are requesting, and the Chair is requesting, that the government turn over the unredacted documents to the RCMP. It is not complicated. That is all that needs to be done. Then we can get back to work.
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Mr. Speaker, this week is Small Business Week in Canada. I myself have been a small business owner for over 30 years, and I am very proud of that. I am very proud because, for all those years, I have dedicated my life to doing what I love most, and that is giving back. Small business owners tend to be generous with their time and money. They share their innovative ideas and create wealth for all o…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of scandals under this Liberal government, here we are again, paralyzed by Liberal corruption. Canadians need to know where their money is going and why nearly $400 million ended up in the pockets of Liberal cronies. Canadians are struggling to find shelter and put food on the table while Liberal cronies get rich at their expense. Will the Liberals put an end to the s…
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Mr. Speaker, what Canadians want, and what we are asking for, is simply transparency and integrity. The Liberal government continues to hide behind excuses to obstruct justice. Canadians are struggling to put food on the table. Meanwhile, $400 million went up in smoke in Ottawa in another Liberal corruption scandal. Will the Liberals end the cover-up, hand the evidence over to the police, and allo…
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Mr. Speaker, while millions of Canadians are being forced to choose between paying their rent or putting food on the table, the government is using their money to line the pockets of Liberal cronies. We are all waiting for an explanation regarding the misappropriation of $400 million in taxpayers' money. If this corruption was not bad enough, the government is making things worse by refusing to pr…
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Madam Speaker, in fact, we are waiting for the minister. He asked us to tell him what needs to be done. We quickly sent him our response so that we could settle Bill C‑27. We are waiting for his reply. Unfortunately, we still have not received it. He travels all over the world. He is a good salesman. However, when it comes to fixing things, it just is not happening.
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Madam Speaker, that is complete disinformation. The 20,000 amendments he is talking about were not written with artificial intelligence, but with my colleagues here who work at the office. Again, we are trying to work collaboratively in committee. Now we are being accused of things that are not even true. It is a real shame to see because we have a duty to all Canadians to pass legislation to regu…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak today. I thank my colleague for pronouncing my riding name so well. She did a very good job. Above all, she has a wealth of experience, having been a minister in a previous government, which did a great deal for technology, among other things. We are talking about a report on facial recognition technology that was tabled two years ago. The reality is th…
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Madam Speaker, as I explained earlier in my speech, the government introduced Bill C‑27 and then it consulted 300 groups. Ideally, it should have consulted those groups before introducing the bill. That would have been the right thing to do. This government is always introducing bills and then proposing a pile of amendments in committee. That is what we call doing things backward, or not doing the…
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Mr. Speaker, $400 million of taxpayers' money has ended up in the pockets of Liberal cronies. At a time when Canadians are facing doubled rents, food insecurity and crime, Liberal corruption has taken over the parliamentary agenda. Here we are once again, paralyzed by the corruption and fiscal irresponsibility of this Liberal government. Can the Liberals release the documents we requested so that …
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