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Madam Speaker, what this individual does not understand is the beauty of this country that already exists and was totally ignored by the government when the Liberals came into power. In this country, our agriculture, and any industry that did anything of significance, which was done extensively in agriculture across this country, made us the most innovative and clean country to grow food. In this …
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Madam Speaker, we all know that Liberals want us to buy from Canada, and food in Canada is the best. However, it requires fertilizer. We heard about a number of issues where the government is attacking our farmers and all types of foods that farmers grow. Now, on top of what has been mentioned already, the government wants them to grow more canola and more grains but use 30% less fertilizer by 203…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals claim they care, yet they create a problem and end up coming up with a solution for it that is short term. A member across the floor, when talking about the school food program, said that parents should be grateful because they do not have to spend the $800 on food that the government is spending on a food program in schools. I am just wondering what the member might have…
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Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to rise on behalf of the wonderful hard-working farmers and producers in the constituency of Yorkton—Melville and across Canada. While I speak tonight in the dead of winter, it is important for all Canadians to know that a farmer's work does not end with the harvest; it is a relentless, continuous job of meticulous planning, precision and execution, w…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to stand today on behalf of Canadians across this country who have been tuning in to the committee study of Bill C-9. They are concerned that the Liberal and Bloc amendments to Bill C-9 could be used to criminalize passages of scripture. The state has no place in the religious texts or teaching of any faith community. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion are fund…
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Mr. Speaker, our farmers are the cleanest in the world and have the most innovative farming in the world. They should not be penalized. Judging from the empty rhetoric we have heard from the government in recent days, farmers and producers are in for another season of uncertainty when it comes to keeping their businesses competitive. It is also clear that Canadian families must brace for another y…
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Mr. Speaker, I am standing today on behalf of people who are calling for freedom of choice in health care, which is becoming increasingly curtailed and further threatened by legislation and statutory regulations of the Government of Canada. It is a fundamental right of individuals to be able to choose how to prevent illness or how to address illness or injury in their own body. Canadians want the …
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Madam Speaker, the member's industry minister spoke prior to him. She talked about the importance of learning from Trans Mountain, that we have to have a proponent for the pipeline and indigenous buy-in. Well, here is the thing that causes a total lack of confidence on the Conservative side of the House and among Canadians. It was the current government that forced Kinder Morgan to go south, takin…
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Mr. Speaker, I will gladly send over an article that describes exactly where that $4 billion is being cut. A portion of it is in regard to cannabis, but I guarantee that it is far from accounting for the total amount of $4 billion. Let us talk about the offices that were closed. They were closed on the recommendation of the bureaucrats, who said that they were not being used extensively. Did we sh…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like my colleague to respond to this: The government has indicated it is going to increase spending in national defence and give us the armed forces we should have. However, at the very same time, it is cutting in every department. In this moment, those of us studying suicide in veterans' lives have found out they are stressed to the nth degree because they thought this is whe…
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Mr. Speaker, that is the crux of the problem I have been pretty much entirely focused on in my concerns around this budget. When we have a Prime Minister who blatantly puts his money in offshore accounts and who blatantly refuses to admit that there are 1,900 different organizations that he is profiting from, we know that the Prime Minister does not have the best interests of Canadians at heart.
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Mr. Speaker, definitely that was something that was being mused about. Whenever Canadians get upset, and I must say that in my province they have expressed themselves well throughout the whole decade I have been here, the Liberal government tries to drop little things in as a possibility but then has to reverse its stance, as with Remembrance Day wreaths and with chaplains' being able to pray at L…
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Mr. Speaker, it is obvious the government does not care about telling Canadians about the true state of our democracy and about the true state of our economy. In addition to that, it appears that the Liberals are very intentional in misleading Canadians. That is why we need to remove the current government, so that Canadians can have a prime minister who truly is a servant of the people.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased today to stand and give my perspective on why I personally, and a number of my colleagues, voted against the budget. The Prime Minister advised Justin Trudeau and his ongoing Liberal government to construct and keep the roadblocks and red tape that have decimated Canada's ability to compete for investment. As an example, Nutrien's recent announcement is a huge blow to Sas…
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Mr. Speaker, a good government has a moral and legal duty to safeguard children from all harms. The Supreme Court of Canada has failed to uphold that duty. Its decision to strike down a one-year mandatory minimum sentence for child sexual abuse material offences is sickening. Let us examine how the scales of justice balance out in this case. On one side of the equation, two individuals made consci…
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Mr. Speaker, I hear the member and appreciate her question. At committee, these are the things we will have the opportunity to discuss and consider for amendments. My personal feeling is that a year is an extensive amount of time. What Canada needs to do is get back in control of our immigration environment, and that may very well be part of the challenge. We have to do things in a timely manner. …
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Mr. Speaker, giving a sentence that is worthy of the crime is something the government just does not understand. The reason for the growth in extreme violent crime is that criminals see the opportunities and are quite happy to go to jail and be let out again immediately. Again, the government is not meeting the—
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Mr. Speaker, I am speaking today to Bill C-12, a broad omnibus bill that, in its current form, seeks to make changes on a number of issues related to the border, immigration and crime prevention. I am thankful to my many constituents, and those throughout Canada, who added their voices of disapproval to its predecessor, Bill C-2. They raised their voices against the infringements it sought to plac…
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Mr. Speaker, I believe in both. I want to thank the federal government for bringing attention to this issue and raising the viewership of Northern Perspective. I encourage more people to watch the interview and listen to the full statement that was made. Northern Perspective did a great job of rebuttal on this issue. I am very proud of the RCMP and the individuals who work so hard in my riding. Co…
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Mr. Speaker, parents are struggling to secure healthy food for their families because of the Liberal government's out-of-control spending. Skyrocketing food inflation is up again to 4%. Liberal food taxes and regulations do not show up on their receipts, but Canadians feel them every time they shop for groceries. The Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices Canadians pay at the grocery…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, the issues around fentanyl are Canadian made. The government has allowed the precursors to this drug to come into this country for years without any oversight, knowing full well that this was going to mean we would have gangs and drug producers in this country making this situation far worse. This government has to take responsibility for its behaviour, and as far as tha…
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Madam Speaker, I understand that, at the health committee, one of our colleagues called on the Liberals to shut down fentanyl consumption sites next to areas with children. However, the Liberal health minister refused to rule out approving more consumption sites next to schools and day cares, despite acknowledging the fentanyl usage in the area. I live in an area where there is a school downtown a…
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Quiet. Mr. Speaker, they were moved so they could serve veterans without the overhead of the offices. The call to have those offices removed came from the bureaucrats who responded across the government to the fact that we needed to remove some funding—
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Mr. Speaker, I want the member to respond to something her colleague from Whitby said. He said the government will spend less so it can invest more, and he referred to the operating budget, which means it will have to lower expenditures on the operations side to have the funds to spend on more development. Would she know what the cuts will be to the public service and programs the government will …
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Mr. Speaker, there was a point of misinformation from the other side of the floor. Every opportunity the Liberals get, they discuss the shutting down of veterans offices. The truth of the matter on that is that those offices were not shut down; they were moved—
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Mr. Speaker, those of us who have to run our own budgets know that it is never wise to invest borrowed or printed money to dig ourselves out of bad debt. As to the capital expenditures the government is speaking of, where is that money coming from? The Liberals talk about direct private investment. The wealth that has already been removed from the country by the government will not be offset by wh…
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Mr. Speaker, the member's colleague, the member for Whitby, stood up and said the government would be spending less to invest more and referred to the operating budget. Could she share with the House and Canadians what the cuts will be to the public service?
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Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated hearing the comments with regard to sovereignty. I would like the member to provide the House and Canadians with a definition of what the government means by Canada being a postnational state. I think he is capable of doing this. Could he please define that?
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Mr. Speaker, the member said that the government is committed to strict measures against violent offenders, yet it continues to fuel violent crime by refusing to repeal Bill C-75. The Liberals complain about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the Conservatives bringing in minimum sentences that they claim hampered judges' independence, but they were proven to reduce the number of incarcerations. By compar…
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Mr. Speaker, the whole premise of this does not relate to other bills that may come forward. It is the need to scrap this bail non-reform bill. It is not just us speaking about this. The premiers and attorneys general for Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the member's province of B.C. have called for the removal of this particular bill. It is from across the country. What does the membe…
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Mr. Speaker, I heard the member claim that the government is committed to strict measures against violent offenders, yet it continues to fuel violent crime in Canada by forcing judges to release offenders at the earliest possible opportunity and under the least onerous conditions. Canadians are owed an apology from the government for its failure to keep them safe by releasing repeat violent offend…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have committed to strict measures against violent offenders, yet they continue to fuel violent crime by refusing to repeal Bill C-75. The bill is forcing judges to release offenders at the earliest possible opportunity and under the least onerous conditions. Violent criminals have been emboldened and are taking advantage of their new freedom to terrorize Canadians because…
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Mr. Speaker, what the member on the other side of the floor observed was very astute, which is that the Liberals come up with bills that always have something of value in them, but there are always poison pills that make it impossible to support them. That was the case for the Conservatives with Bill C-75. Over and over, today in the House, the Liberals said they are committed to strict measures a…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that my colleague across the floor indicated that it is wonderful that families can save $200 on groceries because the government is spending their tax dollars on a national blanket food program for children in school. Parents are the ones who should be earning an income to feed their kids the way they want to. The issues in schools right now are due to the government…
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Mr. Speaker, what we are debating today is the fact that the Prime Minister made a promise that Canadians would judge him by the cost of food at the grocery stores. Instead of focusing on that, the Liberals have pivoted to this thing around affordability and a focus on food being available on a national blanket level through schools. One of the members across the way made a comment, and I would li…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to share with my colleague that he did a great job of describing the amazing work that happens in Saskatchewan, where we value our land and the environment. However, across the floor, the previous speaker made a comment. I wrote it down, as I could not believe it. He said that the Liberals are pleased to be able to relieve parents of the pressure to feed their children b…
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Madam Speaker, I am really pleased to have this time today to respond to our question about why the Prime Minister would say that we are to judge him by the cost of food in grocery stores. We heard nothing tonight about why he has failed to impact that cost for Canadians. I want to focus on agriculture. Agriculture is huge in my area, and I had a call yesterday from a farmer. We played phone tag a…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciated my colleague's speech. He spoke of the reality that there are fewer farmers. He also spoke of the reality that there are more Canadians who have no understanding whatsoever of the amazing work our farmers do, and that they are so innovative and care about the environment, because that is where they earn their income and how they feed Canadians. What does the member think…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate what the member is saying. This debate today is on the cost of food and the Prime Minister saying he would bring it down. What we hear constantly is a pivot to affordability, which of course is an issue that we have a lot to say about, but the reality of this circumstance is that the cost of groceries is not dropping and Canadian families are not able to afford food. Putt…
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Madam Speaker, what I heard from my colleague tonight was that words really matter. The government plays a great deal with words. As an example, quickly, a young person told me that the Prime Minister said into the camera that he would build homes people can afford. I said that was an open-ended sentence and asked if he heard “homes you can afford to buy” or “homes you can only afford to rent”. He…
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Mr. Speaker, this colleague of the Prime Minister is forgetting that the same Prime Minister told Canadians to judge his government by the price at the checkout counter; they do not like the verdict. Families are falling behind, with millions resorting to food banks, while Liberals are lining the pockets of consultants, bureaucrats and certain investment portfolios with their tax dollars. Many of …
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Madam Speaker, the speech on Bill C-2 has been good. There are some good parts to it, but there are some that are very questionable, for our side of the floor, that need to be addressed. The thing that concerned me, and that I picked up on, was the comment that there are a lot of mental health issues in our country right now and that they have grown. The question has to be, why? When Canadians are…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to elaborate on a question I posed to the government before the summer recess. In my question, I referenced half a trillion dollars in new inflationary spending that the government had ushered in. I spoke of Canadians' stress and frustration with the rampant inflation, causing the price of essentials to continue to climb month after month at the grocery st…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague spoke about the difference of ideology and priorities that seem to appear very evident across this floor. In 2015, before the Liberal government was in force, Conservatives brought in the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights, which was to be reviewed in 2020. I remember trying to get the government to do that, but I do not know that it ever did. It would be really good if a fe…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciated hearing about the corrections programs. Actually, our colleague from New Brunswick brought forward the Reduction of Recidivism Framework Act, Bill C-228, which was passed in the House. This is an important concept, and we of course value these individuals and the opportunities they need to change their life. However, what we are dealing with and hearing about in the Hous…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising today on behalf of the 38,942 Canadians who signed e-petition 6586. They are united against the finance committee's 2025 pre-budget report that called for the removal of advancement of religion as a recognized charitable purpose under the Income Tax Act. Canadians from all walks of life, different faiths and different beliefs have signed this petition. They value the irrep…
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Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated the comments from my colleague, because over and over again in my mind, I ask why Canadians are so apprehensive as to the intent of the government with the bill before us. The truth of the matter is that they are very concerned about their privacies, and rightly so. The member mentioned already the abuse of Canadians' rights and freedoms when the warrantless surve…
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With regard to communications sponsored by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic: (a) which individual or agency developed the “Pregnancy, childbirth and caring for a newborn during the COVID-19 pandemic” communication, which was first published on July 13, 2021, and last updated on October 25, 2023; (b) who provided the final approval of the communication in (a) and when; (c) which individu…
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With regard to the recommendations in Health Canada’s publication through the National Advisory Committee on Immunization titled, “Vaccination and pregnancy: COVID-19”: (a) how do these recommendations differ from the May 27, 2025, announcement by the United States of America’s Health and Human Services, stating the COVID-19 vaccine would no longer be included in the Centers for Disease Control an…
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With regard to Veterans Affairs Canada’s public and private directives to veterans concerning the certification of service dogs: (a) what are the directives currently issued; (b) how has each directive changed between January 1, 2016, and today; and (c) from January 1, 2016, to today, what are the details of any internal or external communications or briefing materials between Veterans Affairs Can…
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