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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, 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, 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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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, you know as well as anybody that we often talk about different things when we are supposed to be focused on the particular topic at hand in this place, and you give us certain latitude. The member who is speaking goes on many rants, but he is far off topic. I am not sure what he is referencing that is on the table today.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, the member across the way was asked a very clear question. The only answer he seems to have is a diatribe about the Conservative Party. I wish he would just simply—
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Madam Speaker, just to be very clear, I was sitting right behind the member who was giving his speech. All he was doing was adjusting to actually find the piece of paper he was looking for. He found it, and he is ready to present it. That is from somebody who was close. I would challenge the clerk; we actually saw what was happening right in front of us. The member was looking for the document he …
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Madam Speaker, I was not allowed to finish. When I said “challenge”, I was going to challenge you to look at the video to see that he did not sit, because he did not actually sit. I was sitting right behind him and saw that he was looking for a paper and trying to find a document.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, the member said the NDP has done so much work for our ridings. I was just at a committee meeting where we heard that we have lost thousands of forest workers because—
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Mr. Speaker, what we are here for specifically is the privilege motion, as she spoke about, and how it involved a minister who has since stepped down. However, the green slush fund, the whole scandal and the redacted documents involve another sitting minister, the Minister of Environment, who is still part of cabinet and the Prime Minister's close inner circle. The member just gave a great speech.…
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With regard to the Giant Mine remediation project: (a) how much of the over $800 million that Public Services and Procurement Canada has received for the project has been spent (i) internally, (ii) on outside contractors, (iii) on consultants; (b) what are the names of the consultants in (a)(iii) and their organizations; and (c) how much has been spent to date on the project, in total and broken d…
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With regard to the new General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS) contracted by the Department of National Defence: (a) what are the details of the contract, including how much money was allocated for the (i) development, (ii) manufacturing, (iii) distribution, of the GPSBS; (b) which companies were contracted with regard to the GPSBS, broken down by the (i) contracting parties, (ii) value of the…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Certainly, parliamentary language is something about which the NDP pretends to care. The member has gone on a bit of a tirade with unparliamentary language. I wish he would get back to the subject at hand and proceed with parliamentary language, as he should.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member for South Shore—St. Margarets just brought up relevance to this debate, and now the member across the way is talking about the member for South Shore—St. Margarets. The focus should be on banking fees or Interac fees and I wish the member across the way would get back to the topic at hand.
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Mr. Speaker, we just had a conversation about personal attacks. The member across the way has a problem with personal attacks, as she should, and she proceeded to make a personal attack on our leader. I am not sure of the inconsistency with personal attacks. We either have them or we do not. I wish the member would be consistent in what she is doing.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to present a petition today in the House. The government has attempted to ban and seize the hunting rifles and shotguns of millions of Canadians. The targeting of farmers and hunters does not fight crime, and the government has failed those who participate in the Canadian tradition of sport shooting. The petitioners call on the Government of Canada to stop…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years and three U.S. presidents, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister has failed to get a deal with the Americans on softwood lumber, while our previous Conservative government got it done within 80 days. Two more mills in B.C. are closing because of the Prime Minister's incompetence. Wayne and Marie Harder have seen their logging businesses in Fort St. John destroyed by the NDP-…
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Madam Speaker, I give a shout-out to Kaylee Erickson, who was really behind this petition which reached almost 1,000 signatures. The petition says that the crime rate in Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies continues to rise and poses a significant threat to public safety and community well-being. Many residents in the cities of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Prince George and surrounding comm…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and their time is up. The NDP-Liberal government is refusing to turn over documents to the RCMP showing that Liberal-appointed managers used the green slush fund to pay nearly $400 million to companies that they themselves owned. The Prime Minister is not worth the cost or the corruption. In northern B.C., r…
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Madam Speaker, I can only speak to what happened in my riding when we were in government. When we formed a majority, when projects were on hold and money was not being spent, the gears of the economy started turning again. That was because of the leadership of Stephen Harper. We have not talked about forestry a lot today, but as I mentioned, within the first 80 days we had a softwood lumber agreem…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. You have ruled, Mr. Speaker, that the NDP-Liberals have violated a House order to turn over evidence to the police for a criminal investigation into the latest Liberal $400-million scandal, effectively obstructing justice. The Auditor General's findings were that Liberal appointees at Sustain…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague asked a question for those watching out there today. Many have heard about this. What is this green slush fund and why are we here today? The Liberal government is obstructing justice by refusing to turn over documents to the RCMP showing that Liberal-appointed managers used the green slush fund to pay nearly $400 million to companies that they owned. There is so much s…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague pointed out that “a recording of a senior civil servant slammed the ‘outright incompetence’ of the [NDP-Liberal] government, which gave 390 million dollars' worth of contracts inappropriately.” The Auditor General found the SDTC gave $58 million to 10 ineligible projects that, on occasion, could not demonstrate an environmental benefit or development of green technology…
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Madam Speaker, I always get a kick out of the member accusing others of character assassination and then going on to do that exact thing himself. He is gaslighting Canadians. The bottom line is that the Liberals need to produce the documents. If they were to produce the documents unredacted, then this would all go away.
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Madam Speaker, we all remember the campaign in 2015 of sunny ways. I even had sunglasses made with “sunny ways” written on the side. We all knew it was a clever slogan, but we also knew that sunny ways would not last very long with the government. It was supposed to shine a light on things so there would be an open and accountable government. That went away pretty quickly. With some of the languag…
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Madam Speaker, there is a bit of a discrepancy in what the member just said. Back when we were in government, when I was part of the 2011-15 government, we had some pretty good economic things going on in this country. We had natural resources in my riding, natural gas was being developed, forestry was going and we had a softwood lumber agreement within the first 80 days. Contrast that with the go…
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Madam Speaker, maybe the member is misremembering, because the government never owned CNRL, so it could not have been sold by the Canadian government. Maybe that is the vision the New Democrats have, where governments own corporations. We have a different vision, where corporations and the workers who work—
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, the member across the way is referring to Conservatives in the Conservative caucus by using the word “Con”, which has a very negative connotation to it. It is unparliamentary, and I would hope that she would use the proper terminology, which is “Conservatives”, and correct her statements from now on.
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Mr. Speaker, before you rose to speak to the chamber, my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill still had about three minutes left of questions. We just want to know what is happening with that time.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and their time is up. The Prime Minister was on a U.S. talk show last night and dismissed his failures on softwood lumber as a small issue. This was weeks after the U.S. slapped Canada with a 14.5% tariff on softwood lumber. Since then, two more B.C. mills have closed, putting 500 more workers out of a job. …
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With regard to the RCMP's Canadian Firearms Program in British Columbia (BC): (a) how many full-time individuals are currently employed by the program in BC; (b) how many staff members in BC work exclusively remote or from home; (c) how many BC staff members work exclusively in person; (d) what percentage of all BC work hours are spent (i) in person, (ii) remotely or at home; and (e) what is the (…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence and NORAD 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 time, (ii) delayed; and (c) for ea…
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With regard to the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS): (a) how many employees or full-time equivalents were employed at CHARS during the last 12 months; (b) how many foreign nationals have worked or researched at CHARS, broken down by year and country of origin for each of the last eight years; (c) which countries are currently allowed to send individuals to work at CHARS; and (d) what …
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax is costing northerners billions. We found out that the radical minister's carbon tax will cost Canadians over $30.5 billion per year, and that will be $2,000 per family by 2030. Last week, I was in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, where the carbon tax has caused diesel to rise to $2.73 per litre. High fuel costs are the reason food is so expensive in the Arctic. A ca…
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Madam Speaker, I will rephrase that. The current government's buyback firearms program plan may cost up to $6.7 billion. This is what it is estimated to be. We all know that the long gun registry was supposed to cost $2 million, but it ended up costing $2 billion. That $6.7 million, I am sure, will easily double, triple or quadruple by the time the government is all said and done with it. All the …
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With regard to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada's Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program: (a) how much has been spent to date on the Giant Mine, in total and broken down by the (i) purpose, (ii) recipient, of the funding; (b) how much is allotted to each purpose and recipient in (a), in total and broken down by (i) purpose, (ii) recipient; and (c) what are the details of…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to talk about the budget, but specifically firearms. Some might wonder why. There are really some simple points. The NDP-Liberals are spending billions of dollars that will not fix the problem. The NDP-Liberals are making us more unsafe by spending that money and, lastly, something we have all heard before, the NDP-Liberals simply are not worth the cost. Let us get into i…
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Madam Speaker, I do not think the member asked one question related to my speech. I was talking about firearms and how the government is wasting billions of dollars to take firearms away from law-abiding Canadians while spending money on things that are not fixing problems. I met a Kevin up in Iqaluit. He is living in absolute squalor in a house there. He has three grandsons he is taking care of. …
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Madam Speaker, interestingly, this is from the member who said to me with her own mouth that if she could, she would shut down every natural resource job in the territory, every single one. She would not develop any natural resources in Nunavut. Where are the jobs going to come from with this particular member in Nunavut? I am not sure. If the member wants to talk about what is cruel to local folk…
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Madam Speaker, I was there. We got to see the brand new port of Iqaluit open up, which provides great opportunities for the people of Iqaluit and Nunavut. That is from a previous Conservative government, and it has finally been realized. I hope the member supports jobs in her community, and I hope she changes her current position.
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Madam Speaker, that is the best question I have had all night. That is why when I speak about this particular gun buyback program, which is the Liberal terminology for it, I call it the gun confiscation program. That is what it is. It is about the confiscation of law-abiding firearms owners' firearms. Ironically, guess who does not turn in their firearms. It is criminals and gang members. We have …
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Madam Speaker, I think a lot of Canadians watching out are not sure what this bill actually refers to. I will quote an article quickly. It states, “Canada soon to be governed by the pension coalition in Ottawa.” It says this new law, Bill C-65, proposes to move the election date, meaning 80 MPs would get vested in their pension. Let us just call the government we have in Ottawa what it would be af…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government is once again hiring foreign mercenaries to shoot deer on a B.C. island. This will cost taxpayers over $12 million to cull less than 900 invasive deer, this while local hunters had previously removed over 2,000 of the invasive fallow deer for free. Why is the minister wasting $12 million on a deer hunt that Canadian hunters said they would do for free?
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Mr. Speaker, we have Canadian hunters that say they would even pay to hunt these deer, yet the NDP-Liberals have found a way to make it cost millions. Scott Carpenter says, “It’s a real slap in the face to Canadian hunters, and there’s millions of us in this country who would’ve been more than happy to spend our own money to go in there and harvest some of the meat ourselves.... To...invite foreig…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, northern Canadians are going hungry and it is getting worse because of the carbon tax. In 2018, 57% of Nunavut families lived with food insecurity versus the national average of 12.7%. That number now is a whopping 69% and is among the worst in the developed world. Almost 70% of Nunavummiut are going hungry every single day. The Prime Minister knows the carbon tax is…
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Mr. Speaker, if it takes nerve to stand up for the people of Nunavut, I will do that every single day. It is getting worse in Nunavut, not better, on the minister's watch in Nunavut, and he knows it. I visited a grocery store in Iqaluit a few weeks ago. A can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup is over six dollars. A small can of tuna is over eight dollars. McIntosh apples are three dollars each. A …
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Yukon talks about innovation and the cost of climate change to the world. To me, it seems interesting, because we have the opportunity to get more liquefied natural gas to global markets. As a Wood Mackenzie report just showed, if we get more Canadian LNG to Asia, we can actually reduce emissions, yet the climate change minister across the way, one of the radical minist…
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With regard to the items listed in the Main Estimates, 2024-25, under Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency: (a) of the $7.5 million listed under "Grants for the Inclusive Diversification and Economic Advancement in the North initiative", what are the details of all funded grants, including, for each, the (i) name of the recipient, (ii) amount, (iii) purpose of the funding, (iv) project de…
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