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Mr. Speaker, in the last election, the Prime Minister ran on being the more responsible economic adviser type, saying he would do a much better job with our economy and would spend more wisely than his predecessor. Justin Trudeau was going to add $154 billion to our debt over the next five years. The current Prime Minister is adding $321 billion to our debt over the next five years, and this new p…
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian sovereignty act is meant to get our economy going, but I listen to the Liberals, and we have listened to them for the last 10 years. They basically destroyed our economy. One would think they would support this particular act and our bill. I was surprised to hear their opposition to it, as I am sure the member is. Our motion is supposed to repeal federal blocks and penalt…
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Mr. Speaker, we voted for Bill C-5 so the Prime Minister could approve projects quickly, but nothing has changed. I was in Yellowknife last week. Diamond mines used to be 20% of NWT's GDP. Only two mines are left, and one will close in March. In the last 10 years, 1,600 resource-related jobs have been lost, but our Canadian sovereignty act would repeal federal blocks and penalties to development a…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish you a merry Christmas. The Prime Minister wrote a book called Values, in which he said that 50% of Canadian oil, 50% of natural gas and 75% of coal “need to stay in the ground”. He reiterated those points in interviews prior to the previous election. I would ask a simple question of the hon. member from Alberta. Does he fully believe that the Prime Minister really wants to buil…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from Prince George. We share the city of Prince George and also many of those hits that have been given to our local mills and forestry workers. We have heard that 10,000 direct jobs and three to five times that in indirect jobs have been affected by the fact that the Liberals cannot get a softwood lumber deal done. We have heard that the government has given…
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Madam Speaker, it has also been pointed out by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that in the new lingo the Prime Minister uses, “spend less...invest more”, even the invest more part apparently is not true, and not just in a little sense; it is actually close to $100 billion short of his investment promise. Can the member speak to the Prime Minister's words? Should Canadians hold him to his word tha…
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Madam Speaker, that was a great speech by my colleague. I just spoke with a councillor from Prince George yesterday. She is in town for FCM. Cori Ramsay told me a story about being on a ride-along with the local RCMP in Prince George. They caught someone breaking into the local Value Village and had them arrested. She saw the person go to jail. Within an hour and a half, that person was back on th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win with the United States. For British Columbia, that means negotiating a softwood lumber agreement. In response to the collapse of trade negotiations on Friday, the Prime Minister failed even to mention softwood. Since he took office, softwood tariffs have tripled, going from 14% to 45%. Just yesterday, Sinclar Group Forest Products r…
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Mr. Speaker, the B.C. forestry workers I know do not want handouts; they want their well-paying jobs back. The BC Council of Forest Industries president and CEO, Kim Haakstad, said last week, “The recent increase in U.S. tariffs and duties is a serious blow to an industry already strained by years of uncertainty, mill closures, and job losses. The federal government must make resolving the softwoo…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I would question the member's use of language and the term “false”. I think we are not allowed to say something indirectly—
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Mr. Speaker, the shadow minister and I serve on INAN together, the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. We have served on that committee for several years now. We often see Liberals trying to look busy. They try to look like they are getting something done. Indigenous communities have heard only hollow and empty promises without any delivery. Then Liberals stand up today in the H…
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Mr. Speaker, it really comes down to building bureaucracy versus building actually real things and getting real things done. I think there has been ten years' worth of examples. Even just recently, there was a supposed housing announcement in Ontario, but it was all a big facade. There was not anything actually there. It is something that the government created. The government is great at building…
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Mr. Speaker, all I would say is similar to what I said before. There are already agencies that have been established. The Auditor General has done many reports, as I said in my speech. There are already mechanisms in the country, in the government for that matter, and the bureaucracy to actually get the things done. Establishing a separate, whole other bureaucracy once again would only make it loo…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong. I rise today to address a matter at the heart of our nation's identity: the relationship between the Crown and indigenous peoples. The relationship is grounded not merely in history but in honour. Its strength is proven not by grand speeches or new offices but by actions, by the promises we keep and by the comm…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree that it is a distraction. We have a terrible economy. Our resources are not getting developed. The Premier of the Northwest Territories was here today with some grand chiefs. They want to get economic development up in the territories. All we are seeing is a decline in the economy there. We need to get real things done. That is going to be with a future Conservative government…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to negotiate a win with President Trump by July 21. There is still no win and still no deal. Because the Prime Minister failed to negotiate a deal, U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood jumped to 35% this summer, and next week, they will jump to 45%. Since 2015, in B.C., 29 mills have closed and we have lost over 68,000 jobs. For the sake of all British Columbi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition calling on the government to not cause Christian churches to lose their charitable status. The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to reject recommendation 430 of the FINA pre-budget report, reaffirm Canada's commitment to an open culture and support each citizen's freedom to promote the common good through the advancement of religion with…
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Mr. Speaker, I quote the Vancouver Sun, from February 25, 2025: “Just weeks after former Abbotsford gangster Jarrod Bacon was arrested in a shooting in [Fort Nelson,] B.C., the charge against him has been dropped.” Witnesses against him simply do not feel safe. Ben Wall, from Fort Nelson, had nine pieces of equipment destroyed. His shop was burned to the ground. Organized crime has set up shop in …
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Mr. Speaker, the public safety minister, while speaking to his tenant about the Liberal gun confiscation program, said, “Don't ask me to explain the logic to you on this.” His tenant said, “But we're not the problem”. The minister's tenant is 100% correct. Canadians know that hunters, sport shooters and other law-abiding gun owners are not the problem, but under the minister, gun crime is up 130%,…
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Yes, through you, Madam Speaker. It is a little rich for the member to say to the House and to Canadians, “Hey, we are going to do better now.” You have had a chance to fix things over the last 10 years. You have actually made things a lot worse, with the drug crisis you have caused on the city streets that has caused this new rise in crime. I frankly do not believe a word you are saying about how…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised lower grocery prices. “Canadians will hold us to account by their experience at the grocery store”, he said. In my travels to northern communities this summer, this is what I saw: In Tuktoyaktuk, a can of Alpha-getti is $6.79, a jug of milk is $14.79 and a 900-gram jar of Cheez Whiz is $17.29. In Cambridge Bay, a can of baked beans is $9.99, a 1.5-litre bot…
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Madam Speaker, to me it is rich when I hear the secretary of state across the way say it is a “new government”. The Liberals have been in government for the last decade, and under their watch, crime waves have gone across the country. This is from Dawson Creek, the small town where I was born in northern B.C.: “The City of Dawson Creek recognizes that there has been an increase in shootings in our…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has been an advocate for getting hard drugs off the streets. He has been to my riding, to Fort St. John, to talk specifically about this really challenging issue for our communities in B.C. The Liberal government is in its 11th year of governing this country. It has attacked law-abiding firearms owners on a regular basis, as the member mentioned. It has also allowed drugs t…
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With regard to the Project Finance for Permanence initiatives and the $800 million announced by the Prime Minister in December 2022 to support up to four Indigenous-led conservation initiatives: (a) how much of the $800 million announced for the projects has been spent to date, in total and broken down by project; and (b) what are the details of all funding provided to date resulting from the $800…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence and North American Aerospace Defense Command modernization: (a) how much of the $38.6 billion announced for the modernization has been spent to date, in total, and broken down by project; (b) of the 20 project timelines announced in June 2022, which ones are (i) on track for the completion of the definition phase or to be finished within the stated…
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With regard to Public Services and Procurement Canada, acting as the contracting agent for the Giant Mine remediation project: (a) what are the details of all contracts related to the Giant Mine overseen by Public Services and Procurement Canada, in this capacity, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount, (iii) vendor, (iv) description of the goods or services, (v) manner in which the contra…
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Mr. Speaker, I hear heckling across the way from the member for Winnipeg, but the truth hurts, I guess. I will finish with this: A recent article called “[Prime Minister] poised to dethrone Trudeau as biggest spender in Canadian history” reads: under [the Prime Minister]'s plan, this year’s deficit will increase to a projected $62.4 billion while the combined deficits over the subsequent three yea…
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Mr. Speaker, I would argue that the platform the hon. member ran on was the one that was actually the Conservative platform. The thing of it is that Canadians are going to be watching whether the Prime Minister is actually going to follow through on this pro-Conservative, developing-the-economy type of language. We have already seen a few holes form, and his costume is wearing thin. I think what C…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not what Canadians expected, even the ones who would say, “Take our carbon tax dollars.” The carbon tax has not gone away, by the way, for all the Canadians watching. We are waiting to see what this new industrial carbon tax is going to be. We know what the Prime Minister has set as the standard to truly cause change. It is in his book. He has said it many times. It is going t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a great question. Again, there is this mirage that the Quebec member spoke about. All of a sudden, this guy who is supposed to be a responsible spender of taxpayer dollars is not. I just mentioned how he is going to spend dramatically more than what the irresponsible Trudeau government already spent in the previous 10 years. Is that even possible? Yes, it is, because they are go…
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Mr. Speaker, we are the company we keep. The Prime Minister, who is desperately trying to rebrand himself and his Liberal government as being new, responsible, pro-energy and non-radical, picked the most radical and corrupt minister from the Trudeau government, who oversaw the most corruption and debt in Canadian history, to be in his Liberal cabinet. Solomon said, “A mirror reflects a man’s face,…
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Mr. Speaker, that answer does not cut it for Canadians struggling to pay their bills in record numbers. These old Liberals have turned arrive scam into a master class in rewarding failure and corruption. The old ministers responsible for this scam are the same old ministers sitting over there as cabinet ministers right now. These same old ministers are ignoring the rules, allowing their insiders t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General released a scathing audit this week on the top arrive scam contractor, GC Strategies. This two-person company, under RCMP investigation, received a jaw-dropping $64 million from the Liberals. The old ministers responsible for this all got promoted by the Prime Minister and are sitting as ministers right there, right now. Canadians are incensed by these same old Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, even though it is factual what I said, their MP will not present the petition—
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are wondering when the NDP will finally stop propping up the Liberal government, but I will get to my petition. The petition comes from the residents of Skeena—Bulkley Valley, who state that the government has attempted to ban and seize the hunting rifles and shotguns of millions of Canadians, that the targeting of farmers and hunters does not fight crime and that the govern…
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With regard to the Order in Council 2024-1112 authorizing Canada Post to transport prohibited firearms: (a) did the government consult (i) Canada Post, (ii) the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, prior to issuing the Order In Council, and, if so, on what date were they consulted and how were they consulted; (b) how is the government addressing the safety issues that Canada Post employees will face …
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With regard to Northern Affairs Canada: (a) what is the organizational chart of departments within Northern Affairs Canada; (b) what are the details of each department for the last three fiscal years, broken down by (i) department, (ii) year, (iii) number of full-time equivalent employees, (iv) budget; (c) what is the purpose of each department; (d) how many employees work remotely or from home on…
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Madam Speaker, for Canadians out there, I will say that the motion we are talking about today is to have the former NDP-Liberal minister, who had to resign in shame, appear at the INAN committee to answer for the issues he has really been a part of, to clear his name. The article states that the MP for Edmonton Centre “‘will focus on clearing the allegations made against him,’ a spokesperson for […
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Madam Speaker, that is a good question and is relevant to the subject at hand. For the Canadians watching out there, that is what a proper question to somebody across the way looks like. Instead of the Liberals' trying to obfuscate and cover up their scandals, there is a great question. The member is very aware of the scandal-ridden government, the green slush fund and the many efforts the governm…
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Madam Speaker, the member from the Bloc is also a sitting member of the INAN committee. I can tell him how first nations feel in my community; they feel absolutely disgusted by former actions of the current Prime Minister and the latest actions to shield a former minister who has been fraudulent in his claims about being indigenous. It is shameful, and in the next election, they are voting Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are struggling. Taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and the government's time is up. Even the NDP leader admits that the Liberal government is greedy and anti-worker. He is right. The Liberals have proven themselves too weak and too selfish to fight for everyday Canadians, but the NDP has propped up the government at every …
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the 18th report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, presented on Monday, November 25, be concurred in. It is my honour to stand here today. I will be sharing my time with the member for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock. The Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs wants to embark on a study to see the appearance of the member of Parlia…
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Madam Speaker, in juxtaposition of what the government has been doing for the last nine years, including corruption and sending money offshore when Canadians desperately needed it here, a Conservative government, under the leader from Carleton, would bring it home and would change the way things are done. We would bring home the Canada that we all know and love. I just appreciate the Canadians out…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to stand in the chamber again today to talk about, once again, the green slush fund. I am going to focus on one particular individual and on how the green slush fund has been a win-win-win for the environment minister while it has been a lose-lose-lose for Canadian taxpayers. Specifically, my focus will be on how the Liberal environment minister, propped up by the NDP,…
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Madam Speaker, we just did a bunch of interviews with loggers in Fort St. John who will be losing their jobs right before Christmas. They will be struggling to put food on the table for a Christmas meal, let alone buy their kids any toys. I would say that that is even worse than the money. Members can imagine somebody taking a person's wallet. That would be bad enough. The minister has come and ta…
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Madam Speaker, I am talking today about the green slush fund. The member across the way, who I respect as well, was one of the members who has constantly said in front of cameras that he has a problem with the Prime Minister and would like him to move over. We could talk about that today, too, if the member would like, because he is not asking questions about what I am talking about. Maybe we coul…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to ask a question of the Canadians who are watching right now. The speech that I just made was about the green slush fund and how the current environment minister, before, during and after, has benefited from the green slush fund and is destroying our natural resource economy across the country. That was the topic I talked about at length. The member across did not ask me…
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Madam Speaker, the only party guilty of contempt in the House is that of the NDP-Liberals across the way, which refuses to put forward the documents, unredacted, regarding the green slush fund. That is what we are here talking about today. The Liberals need to do that. The Liberals need to be honest with Canadians and expose their own members who we are alleging are corrupt. From what we have seen…
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Madam Speaker, yes, I absolutely do believe that. I talk to Canadian taxpayers every day. They come into my office talking about how the CRA is going after them for small amounts of taxes the CRA believes they should have paid. They are stressed and in tears. That money is all going to fund this kind of garbage and this kind of program where Liberals are lining the pockets of their friends with hu…
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