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With regard to the findings of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with respect to Canada's implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: (a) what is the position of the government regarding these findings; (b) is the government considering changing any previous policies or positions in response to this report; (c) is the governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, just two months ago, Canadians were fully tuned into an election campaign set against the backdrop of a tariff war and uncertainty about Canada's relationship with our largest trading partner. Looking for a solution, they saw a Liberal leader who claimed to be a fresh face, declaring that he would be different from the last decade of inaction on the nation-building projects that we de…
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Mr. Speaker, it is pretty clear to me that our effectiveness on this side of the floor has been significant. On resource development, the Prime Minister made a revealing admission: He acknowledged that his government's own laws made it nearly impossible to build anything, and his solution is to give political exemptions to a few hand-picked projects. However, here is our question: If Liberals admi…
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Mr. Speaker, one year ago today, the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs released a landmark report. “Invisible No More. The Experiences of Canadian Women Veterans” was the first of its kind, finally putting on record women veterans' unique and often painful stories. From poor equipment more likely to injure than protect to unimaginable sexual trauma, more than 50 women showed their immense cou…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that the first carbon tax is being taken off. It is a retail carbon tax, which, yes, is also a consumer carbon tax. The truth of the matter is that the industrial carbon tax is also a consumer carbon tax, so I am wondering if the government has taken that into account as it is looking at these new homes that are to be built and looking at what the additional cost would …
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Madam Speaker, we have heard that the Liberals are going to be removing the carbon tax, called a consumer tax. However, I would like my colleague to speak to the fact that it is actually a retail carbon tax, which they are replacing with an industrial carbon tax, which would ultimately impact the consumer. Does my colleague think that it will impact the cost of homes? They are taking the GST off b…
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Madam Speaker, I noticed the member referred to the issue that the GST rebate on homes is only for first-time homebuyers. Our plan as the Conservative Party was to use this as a tool to help deal with the housing crisis, but giving only first-time homebuyers the opportunity to use the GST rebate is significantly more truncated and is not going to make a difference, especially with young people who…
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Mr. Speaker, with Christmas, Christians celebrate the hope and love that God provides through the birth of his son, Jesus Christ, who lived, died and rose again so that we could choose his free gift of eternal life beginning right here on earth. When I was accused of allowing my Christian faith to impact how I engage in this place, my response was that everyone in this place has faith. The differe…
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Mr. Speaker, the petitioners are calling on Canada to do the following: because Louis Roy of the Quebec college of physicians recommended expanding euthanasia to babies, from birth to one year of age, who come into the world with severe deformities or very serious syndromes, this proposal for the legalized killing of infants is deeply disturbing to many Canadians, and infanticide is always wrong. …
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition is in regard to the Falun Gong. It is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, consisting of meditation exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. We are very concerned about the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is persecuting practitioners extensively. Canadian lawyer David Matas and former Canadian sec…
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Mr. Speaker, I am so pleased. I was worried that the member would not ask me that question. Here is the truth that needs to be shared in the House, which veterans know. When we took government and had to deal with the extreme load of debt of the previous government, we went to every department and said that we needed them to help out and to please inform us of where cuts could be made. I think it …
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Mr. Speaker, it means a great deal to me to be able to stand in this place today and speak to the issues that are impacting our veterans and, specifically, this one issue. As the previous speaker mentioned, I had the privilege of being the deputy shadow minister for Veterans Affairs when I first came in as a brand-new member of Parliament, and I was able to travel with my colleague across Canada t…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to be as brief as possible: We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada, draw the attention of the House of Commons to the following: Whereas: Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians recommended expanding euthanasia— —
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Madam Speaker, an initial catalyst to the current extreme and growing drug crisis that Canada is facing at its borders was the government removing mandatory minimum penalties for drug dealers. How incredibly inappropriate is it for the government to signal more leniency on drug dealers right now? With premeditation, they are benefiting more than ever from the addiction and death of Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, I want to say that, of all the speeches I have had the opportunity to listen to in the House, this one has been remarkable. I see the member's depth of understanding and appreciation for what she sees happening with the government, which is something I share her frustration with. Even more importantly, the vast majority of Canadians and Quebeckers are also frustrated to extreme limi…
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Madam Speaker, safe supply is not safe. The member's suggestion is that we need a safer safe supply. There are now 47,000 people dead because of this approach, and their families are devastated. Addiction has skyrocketed since this has been brought in. I have seen every day, walking from my home to this place, over the course of months and years now, what is happening directly in front of me on ou…
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Mr. Speaker, there was a time, a couple of years ago, when the Liberal government decided it did not want to do any work. As far as I am aware, it is the only government in the world that did not function as a government during COVID. Suddenly, we were simply a committee of the whole, and nothing was done. How long did that last?
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Madam Speaker, how is it that the member sees this as putting more money in people's pockets, or, to be more accurate, more of their own money back in their pockets, when the funds to help them out will come in April when the government is raising the carbon tax, quadrupling it, and totally nullifying anything that they would be doing with those funds?
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Madam Speaker, what I heard this member say is let us “make their Christmas”. Somehow, Liberals are saying that this is the way for Canadians to find joy over Christmas. He says that they are even putting more money in their pockets. My constituents do not agree with that terminology. I would suggest to the member that what the Liberals need to say is that what they are doing is putting even more …
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Madam Speaker, the member wants to make Canadians' Christmas and says that they deserve a tax break over Christmas. What we are prepared to do is give them a tax break permanently, axe the tax completely and take the GST off home purchases. This short little gift of giving Canadians back more of their own money into their pockets is a sad comment on the government not knowing how to run its busine…
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Madam Speaker, Tommy Douglas was from Saskatchewan. He was an amazing man, a man of God who valued people for the right reasons and did a good thing. However, since then, I watched my province over the last years, prior to the current government forming power, being driven into the ground. There were no jobs. Out of six children on my side of the family and five on my husband's, everybody left the…
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Madam Speaker, I want to say that I appreciate what the member said with respect to the increased use of French in western Canada. I grew up in approximately the same time frame as he did, and it bothers me that I so often have to say the following words: “I am sorry. I do not speak French. Please speak to me in English.” Today the language is much more used across our nation and in our schools. M…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate what the member had to say about this issue. I actually question the motivation on the other side. I am a little harsher on this than perhaps he is, mostly because of what I hear from my constituents. I want to mention that, very early on in the government's existence, it brought forward a bill around an environmental framework. The Liberals just brought it to the House…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague said that in the last year and a half people have come to the realization that they cannot trust the government. I would bring to mind a bill that came before this House on the environment in the current government's first year. That bill talked about giving more power to the minister and giving power to an outside governing body. When I asked the member speaking about …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. When the member for Calgary Nose Hill indicated that it was a quote, that has happened in the House before, and in that circumstance you ruled that in light of the fact that it was within a quote, it needed—
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No, it is not debate. It is a comparison of his behaviour. Mr. Speaker, you need to go back and look at whether this was done in the past, because it happened in the House where you made a different ruling on this same issue.
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With regard to government assistance available to clients of the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: (a) what is the duration of the program from a client’s date of arrival in Canada to its end; (b) what are the criteria for determining the duration of the program for each client; (c) what are the criteria required for extending the duration of th…
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Mr. Speaker, we just heard from the member for Nunavut about the incredible disappointment over what happened with this fund. There were so many things the money could have been spent on properly. I would like my colleague to talk about our young people, who, of course, are concerned about the environment, having a home and being able to afford to go to school, all those dynamics. The Minister of …
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Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated what my colleague had to say today. He expressed concerns about a number of different scenarios where the government has behaved as it is now with the green slush fund. I wonder if he has anything to say to young Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet while going to school or trying to buy a home. With all of the challenges they are facing, they are very c…
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Madam Speaker, I come from those prairies where that grain is grown and needs to be shipped. We are very landlocked, and the ports are incredibly important to us. Everyone who runs a small business or any kind of agriculture business, anything in our province that needs the ports, is looking at the bill and saying it would be new reporting requirements, increased red tape and regulatory burdens, a…
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With regard to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) released data regarding "provisional deaths and excess mortality in Canada" which reported "significant excess mortality starting in January 2022" especially “among individuals younger than 45” and the Privy Council Office’s (PCO) use of “Winning Communication Strategies” to “not shake public confidence” (ATIP, May 2021): (a) why did StatCan wait until …
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With regard to government approval of the mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines (heterologous vaccination): (a) what data did the manufacturers of the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have with respect to mixing their products with other COVID-19 vaccine products; (b) in mid-2021, when Health Canada (HC), the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the National Advisory Commi…
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With respect to Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP): (a) how many claims have been filed to the program from December 8, 2020, to present day, broken down by age group; (b) how many of those claims have been approved, broken down by age group; (c) of the approved claims, what have been the diagnoses and their frequencies, broken down by age group, date approved, and the corresponding CO…
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With regard to the COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force (TTF) who oversaw submissions for grant funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)’s Strategic Innovation Fund: (a) in total, how many projects were considered for funding; (b) with respect to the projects which were funded, (i) how many received funding, (ii) how much funding was allocated per project, (iii) which dr…
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Madam Speaker, today, I stand to congratulate a young man in my riding of Yorkton—Melville. Jake Soltys, a grade 11 student from Sturgis Composite School, wrote a Remembrance Day poem that pays homage to our fallen heroes, entitled A Tribute to the Brave. Jake's poem won at the local, zone, district and provincial levels. He then went on to receive first place on the national level, winning a priz…
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Mr. Speaker, we hear the Liberals all the time on the other side of the floor claim they are investing in Canadians, and we know at this point they are running out of Canadians' money, printing it and borrowing it. Whatever we had is pretty well gone. They are taxing it as well. Could you explain to the Liberals the true definition of investment in Canadians?
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Madam Speaker, I have a petition today from 114 individuals who want the House of Commons to consider the following. After eight years, it is clear that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. The Prime Minister and the NDP-Liberal government fail to take responsibility for their failures, which have increased the cost of everything. Crime, chaos, drugs and disorder are fill…
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With regard to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and its funding of the study titled “Impact of population mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated subpopulations on infectious disease dynamics: implications for SARS-CoV-2 transmission”: (a) to what funding opportunity stream, and what application criteria, did Fisman et al. submit their grant application and receive funding appr…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot wait for a Conservative government to restore all the rights and freedoms that the government has destroyed. After nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister has driven two million people to food banks. With record-smashing demand and donations drying up, the CEO of Food Banks Canada says that food banks are becoming unsustainable. Knowing Canadians are suffering, the…
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With regard to Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada, National Advisory Committee on Immunization and Privy Council communications in 2022: (a) were there communications between any of the entities or their personnel with the Ottawa Police Services Board or Ottawa Police Services personnel or the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario; (b) if the answer to (a) is affirmative, was any of th…
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Madam Speaker, a generation of young people has become acutely aware of the fact that the government has put their future at risk. I would like to ask the member this. In light of the fact of all this spending that people hope is for real, what has the government done to create funding to be available? How many of its consultants has it fired and how much money has it set aside now of real money t…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday’s budget just offered more of the same after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government. It was the worst news possible for Canadians struggling to buy food, heat their homes and save for a down payment. The Prime Minister just will not listen to Canadians. He will not stop adding to his inflationary deficits that balloon interest rates. He will not stop putting social program…
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With regard to Health Canada’s (HC) approval of mRNA vaccines for pregnant and lactating women, and children, youth, and adults of reproductive age: (a) what is the cause of the reported menstrual irregularities in vaccinated women; (b) what is the safety data on any single exposure and repeated exposure to lipid nanoparticles (LNP) for (i) pregnant women, (ii) unborn fetuses; (c) do LNPs, spike p…
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Prime Minister's record high debt and deficits, he is not worth the cost of his overpriced socks. Inflation and interest rates continue to make lives worse. Now an economist has said that interest rate cuts may be further delayed because of the NDP-Liberal government's out-of-control spending. The Conservatives have offered a common-sense solution to fix the u…
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Madam Speaker, I listened intently and I have to mention in the House something that I do not think the member even knows. Over 20 years ago, Saskatchewan, on its own initiative, without any kind of punitive action on the part of the government, removed oil heating from our province. The Global Institute for Food Security put forward and commissioned a study in 2022 that examined the carbon footpr…
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Mr. Speaker, we are aware and these individuals are aware of the crisis of domestic violence and violent crimes associated across Canada specifically with women. The risk of violence and coercion of women is greater when they are pregnant. The injury or death of a child in the womb when a woman is pregnant is not considered as aggravating circumstances when an individual is charged with a crime an…
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Mr. Speaker, I have one more petition that I will bring forward briefly. These individuals are very concerned about sexually explicit material that is so demeaning and sexually violent and can easily be accessed by young people online. A significant portion of this sexually explicit material is made available for commercial purposes and is not protected by any effective age verification method. Ho…
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Madam Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government voted to increase the carbon tax by 23%, making the cost of groceries, gas and home heating even more expensive. The Prime Minister is not worth the cost, as he will raise the carbon tax to $2,618 in Saskatchewan. Why are the Liberals ignoring 70% of Canadians and seven of our best premiers, who want to axe the tax?
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Madam Speaker, I would hope the individuals on the other side of the floor would also show that respect to me. I am not for more division in this country, and every time we come up with these ways to say someone is saying this or that, which divides people, it is shameful and it needs to stop. This country is one country full of amazing people who want to be united. That is what I focus on and tha…
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Madam Speaker, last year alone the Prime Minister paid consultants $21 billion, and now the RCMP has multiple investigations into these Liberal contracts. On the carbon tax, I would love nothing more than to watch the member, face to face with the good people of Yorkton—Melville, try to explain to them why they are paying $525 more in the carbon tax after the rebate this year. Why do the Liberals …
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