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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-287, An Act to amend the National Research Council Act. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to present my private member's bill, the housing cost transparency act. Canada is in a housing crisis. Families, young Canadians, renters and first-time buyers are watching the dream of home ownership slip further out of reach. Before entering politics, I worked as a …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to speak about a devastating fire in Hampton Village in Saskatoon West. In a matter of moments, four homes were destroyed, and 20 properties were damaged. Families lost the places where they had built their lives, raised their children and made their memories. One family also suffered the heartbreaking loss of their beloved dog Mocha. These are the kind…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to speak today to this motion and, of course, Bill C-30, which underlies it. This is the spring economic update. There are billions of dollars of spending, there is new taxation and there are significant legislative changes. This programming motion that the Liberals are trying to ram through the House right now in the last week of sitting just demonstrates to me how po…
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Mr. Speaker, it is just like a typical Liberal government to say that standard procedures and things that we do every day in the House are a waste of time. That is right on brand for that party. I would like the parliamentary secretary to answer the question of why it has taken so long to get this through. Why all of a sudden, on the third- or fourth-last day of Parliament, is there a panic, and i…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague highlights the value and importance of committee work, wherein questions can be asked, ideas can be brought to the government and the government has to defend these things. On the specific issue he raises, I think there are a lot of things with the government, like a lot of spending that happens, that is completely wasteful. We talk about consultants, we talk about all ki…
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Mr. Speaker, unemployment is a problem in our country, and as the member indicated, in his part of Ontario, it is a really significant problem. To me, this raises an important issue. Why is the government continuing to bring temporary foreign workers into this country? Why do we keep bringing more workers into this country? We have a lot of capacity for jobs. Our youth unemployment rates are even …
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Mr. Speaker, the member raises a good point. As I was trying to say, the government introduces things and then gets sidetracked onto other things. Weeks and weeks go by, in this case a month or more, and then all of a sudden somebody wakes up one day and says, “Oh my goodness, we have to get this done or it is going to make us look bad.” It would make the government look bad, frankly, if we went i…
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Mr. Speaker, after a decade of Liberal mismanagement, Canadians are paying the price. Under the Liberals, Canada is now the only G20 country in a recession, and families are feeling it at the kitchen table. Do members want proof? A recent United Way poll shows that 38% are struggling with food insecurity, with one in five saying that all the food in their home was eaten with no money left over to …
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Madam Speaker, the government loves to create bureaucracy, and a good example is what is happening here today. I guess my question for the minister has to do with building codes. There are ways the government could simplify and get more housing built without spending money and creating more bureaucracies, but actually simplifying life and letting industry and other people get the job done for pric…
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Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned taxes and costs from the government. The member has already spoken about that. The government has other tools. Instead of setting up a bureaucracy to spend and waste money, the government could be doing other things. One of the things that I would like the member's comments on is building codes. It has been estimated that the latest round of building codes created…
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Mr. Speaker, I stand on a point of order. I believe the member was referring to Conservatives and our ideas and he called us a bad word, an unparliamentary word. I would like him to retract that word.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I would like to advise you that the Conservatives would like to respond to this at a future time.
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Mr. Speaker, the temporary foreign worker program suppresses wages, creates poor working conditions and kills entry-level jobs for our Canadian youth. Now, we have learned that the Liberals spent $1.6 billion over the last five years to administer the TFW program, and they lost $500 million in the process. Instead of issuing 215,000 new foreign work permits this year, the Liberals should immediate…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals blew $500 million on the temporary foreign worker program in the last five years. Let us see who spent that money. That $500 million was spent while the current Minister of Justice had the file. That $500 million was spent while the current Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture was in the role. The current immigration minister is on track to spend even more. That is q…
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Madam Speaker, I am sure Liberal MPs are hearing the same thing. They are hearing about food prices, housing costs, safety on the streets, all the same things we hear about. It is pretty uniform across the country. It is a very good question. Why does that not make its way into something like a budget bill? There are tiny little smatterings of it in here, but most of it is about other things, and …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to speak on behalf of the people of Saskatoon West. I would like to advise members that I will be splitting my time. Bill C-31 is the second budget implementation act from the 2025 budget. If members are paying attention, that was passed back in November, so it was seven months ago that we talked about this. The government still has not learned how to get stuff …
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question, actually, and there are two things in there I want to talk about. First of all, this is exactly my point. When there is a cost, for whatever reason, whether it is a climate issue or whatever it is, there should be a benefit. It should be easy to understand what the benefit is on a per house basis. This is exactly what I am asking for here. It would be helpful…
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Mr. Speaker, given the Prime Minister's comments over the last few days, I guess we now have MAGA Liberals in the House. It is quite interesting that the government is unable to follow the normal process of introducing bills in the House, having them debated, having them go to committee and having them go through the normal process all bills go through. This is where important questions need to be…
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Mr. Chair, this is the exact opposite of what we heard in committee. We, Conservatives, suggested some conditions that people might have to adhere to, but the minister suggested the law is the law; if people check these boxes, they automatically come in. Does the minister want to revise her numbers up?
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Mr. Chair, did the minister understand that Bill C-3 could apply to millions of Americans?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister really believe that all fraud has been found by the Auditor General? It sounds like she is not looking for any more in her department. That seems like a very naive belief. Much of the fraud in Canada originates with unscrupulous immigration consultants. Has IRCC opened up investigations into immigration consultants for fraud?
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Mr. Chair, we know there are certain things that have to be done, but this still allows millions of Americans, potentially, to become Canadian citizens. The minister never told Parliament about this. Did she deliberately hide this information from Parliament?
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Mr. Chair, how many of these cases came into the country and were flagged but did not have adequate security?
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Mr. Chair, how many of these cases are being reviewed right now?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister direct the IRB not to use these new guidelines to delay the removal of serious criminals?
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Mr. Chair, it will use these rules, then? If a serious criminal stays in Canada because of these rules it will use from time to time, as the minister just said, will she take responsibility for this?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is responsible for the Immigration and Refugee Board. Who sets the refugee policy in Canada: Parliament, the minister or the IRB chairperson?
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Mr. Chair, perhaps the minister remembers that I asked her questions just about 45 minutes ago. The IRB is independent, so does Parliament have no authority to set refugee policy in Canada? Is it all up to the independent IRB?
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Mr. Chair, if a foreign national or a permanent resident is convicted of a serious crime, should they leave Canada?
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Mr. Chair, if Parliament says serious criminals must leave Canada, does the minister believe that the Immigration and Refugee Board should do the opposite and help them stay?
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Mr. Chair, I am confused. If Parliament has laws on refugee policy, and if the Immigration and Refugee Board does the opposite of what those laws say, is that a problem in the minister's mind?
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Mr. Chair, I am sure the minister is aware that the IRB chair just issued new guidelines to create new ways for serious criminals to delay deportation. Did the minister personally approve these new guidelines?
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Mr. Chair, who appoints the IRB members?
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Mr. Chair, the minister seems to be avoiding the question. Who actually appoints the IRB members?
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Mr. Chair, the government will not tell the independent Immigration and Refugee Board what to do. I do not even know what to say about that. Let us talk about exit tracking. Does the government know exactly when temporary residents leave the country?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister saying that up until now we could not track exits in our country? Is that what the minister is saying?
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Mr. Chair, I guess I am curious as to why the government chose to bring in millions of people without having a decent exit tracking system.
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Mr. Chair, the minister is still confused. I know it is getting late. She is the one who appoints the IRB members, just for the minister's record. Is the minister in support of the IRB's making up these new rules so convicted criminals can delay deportation even more?
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Mr. Chair, what confidence should Persian Canadians have in your answers about IRGC members, when cases like this are still sitting unresolved?
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Mr. Chair, the IRCC had 105 misconduct and wrongdoing cases in 2024-25. Is the minister satisfied with this level of failure?
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Mr. Chair, how many IRCC officials were fired last year?
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Mr. Chair, I take it that the minister does not know. The Auditor General found many cases of fraud that were missed by IRCC. The minister committed to fixing this problem. Since her committee appearance, how many new cases of fraud have been found?
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Mr. Chair, the minister still did not answer whether there have been new cases of fraud found. Have there been new fraud cases with permits that have been nullified?
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Mr. Chair, the minister told committee that citizenship by descent has never required security screening. Does she still defend that?
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Mr. Chair, should an adult claiming citizenship through distant ancestry become a citizen without a criminality check?
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However, Mr. Chair, it did not with immigration consultants, so I take it the minister has no concerns about immigration consultants. One category of people who did not have to enter fraudulently was IRGC terrorists. The government blindly approved these applications. How many permits have been flagged for review because of potential connections to IRGC regime officials?
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Mr. Chair, how many permits have been flagged for review because of potential connections to IRGC regime officials?
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Mr. Chair, how many of them have been removed? We know that there are IRGC officials in Canada.
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Mr. Chair, at our last count, only one IRGC official has been removed. How can Persian Canadians living in fear trust the word of the minister?
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Mr. Chair, the minister well knows that IRGC officials are here in Canada right now. There are many of them, up to 700 according to some numbers. Why is the government slow-walking the removal of IRGC officials from Canada?
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