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Mr. Speaker, higher prices are the official policy of the Liberal Party. The results speak for themselves: 100,000 jobs lost this year, a shrinking economy, the second-highest unemployment in the G7, the highest household debt and the highest food inflation. Canadians cannot eat empty Liberal slogans. Broken promises do not put a roof over Canadians' heads. Spending is out of control. The Brookfie…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition signed by the law-abiding property owners of Carleton, Kanata, Nepean, Nipissing—Timiskaming and my great riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. The petitioners are raising awareness about the lack of legal protections homeowners and landowners have when they must protect themselves, their property and their families against violent criminals …
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Mr. Speaker, given all the plant closures, not only those that have happened but those to come, the massive layoffs and the anxiety and hardship that go along with that, all the Liberals have to say is, “Well, let them do something else. Let them manufacture defence vehicles.” Even if we could find the companies, even if we could re-skill the workers and retool the plants, I would like to ask the …
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Mr. Speaker, it began in 2015. As the woke agenda and everything else rolled out, it became extreme, so I would say 2016 is when it began.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the kind-hearted, loving people who cannot be censored from Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke to speak to Bill C-9, an act to fuel hate. The Liberals claim that their motivation is to combat hate. The hate Canadians have witnessed in our streets is real. The Liberal commitment to fighting it is fake. Canada was stitched together by people of different faiths…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by the freedom-loving Canadians from my riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. They are concerned over the Liberal government's decision to sign Canada on to the WHO's pandemic agreement that was agreed upon last May, right after Canadians voted in the last election. This legally binding treaty will give unprecedented powers to the unaccountabl…
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Mr. Speaker, right now, the streets are full of murderers, rapists, thieves, extortionists and gang violence. How would this bill fight what is currently the scourge on our streets? Could the Liberals have not spent this time on jail, not bail, instead of wasting our time by blocking freedom of speech?
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Mr. Speaker, there again we heard from someone who does not agree with my seeing a certain bill as overly secular. Instead of just debating the point, the member equated me to the President of the United States.
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Mr. Speaker, the questions and the comments from the opposition clearly illustrate why we are opposed to this bill. People who disagree with what we say or our point of view want us to be accused of committing a hate crime. Just saying what we think, even though it is counter to what they think, does not necessarily mean it is an act of hate. We were here when the original hate law was put into pl…
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Mr. Speaker, that question illustrated my point. I have a point of view that the member disagrees with, so what does he do? He calls me out as a racist and somebody who is fomenting hate, alleging that we are the ones introducing all these different cultures into Canada.
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Madam Speaker, in 2023, a foreign national attempted to buy sex from an underage girl. However, when he got to the location, it was an undercover officer, who arrested him. When it came time to sentence the individual, he was given a lesser sentence so as not to affect his immigration status. Do you believe that an individual who commits a serious offence such as this should one day become a Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, in 2023, a foreign national attempted to buy sex from an underage girl. However, when he got to the location, it was an undercover officer, who arrested him. When it came time to sentence this individual, he was given a lesser sentence so as not to affect his immigration status. Does the member opposite not think that an individual who commits such serious offences should be denied Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, a glass jar of the same volume weighs 10 to 20 times more than a similar plastic jar. Can the member tell us how the new food packaging plastic ban will impact the price of groceries?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are determined to keep their industrial carbon tax even though they know it is making food more expensive. Another new carbon tax hikes the price of gas by 7¢ a litre with another 10¢ a litre to come. This directly jacks up the price of food. Will the government axe the hidden carbon taxes so people can afford to eat?
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Mr. Speaker, everyone likes a cheque in the mail, but those cheques are written on borrowed money and they are going to have to pay it back with interest. Last week, we learned what these Liberals have been denying all along: Food inflation is real and it is the worst in the G7. While Canadians are struggling to put food on the table, a nice little cheque in the mail may help with a week's groceri…
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Mr. Speaker, Hark, the Brookfield PM's sleigh is near, Bringing gifts for all his friends this year! Consultants cheer, lobbyists sing, Corporate stockings overflow with bling. Now the PM poses by a door, A photo op that is only decor. Fake homes for the camera's flash, But taxpayers send real cash. Brookfield's modular dreams take flight, On subsidies through Christmas night. Insiders feast, whil…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, we started campaigning to make sure the softwood lumber agreement would be in place. The Liberals have not even considered putting it in as part of the negotiations for the next USMCA. The truth is that the government does not want a forestry industry. We see that in all the UN declarations, such as 30 by 30, which will become 50 by 50, with land set aside where nobody c…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell my greatest fan that, yes, I will be back. However, the Liberals rewrite history. First, they tear down history, the statues and everything, and then they rewrite it so that it favours their narrative. It is time we went back to what really happened and teach our children the genuine history of Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, for a minute, I thought he was going to ask me how much longer I was going to stay in Parliament. We actually do not know that Canada is not a subsidiary. The government has already provided over a billion dollars a year to a consortium of companies to run CNL, our crown jewel in the nuclear laboratories. He is willing to sell that down without any Canadian participation. My concern, …
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the hard-working exporters of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke to speak to Bill C-13, an act to bring the United Kingdom into the Pacific trade deal. As Conservatives, we support free trade and we support the bill; what we do not support is Liberal incompetence. The bill is a testament to Liberal mismanagement. It is a cautionary tale for Canadians, a war…
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Mr. Speaker, Ukraine had a carbon tax, but it was too low for former prime minister Trudeau. Therefore, he imposed an additional tax so that it would be equal to ours. Ukraine already had one. He just made it worse.
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Mr. Speaker, the talented scientists, engineers and technicians in Chalk River perform leading-edge nuclear research while also producing life-saving medical isotopes. Now the elbows-down Brookfield government wants to pay an all-American consortium $1.2 billion a year to manage Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. We know the Prime Minister has a financial interest in the consortium. Canadians have con…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my understanding that the member worked in the financial industry prior to becoming a member of Parliament. Could he tell the House of Commons what would have happened to him if he had taken an expense or a credit and put it into another column to make it look like there was extra money in the account, instead of money missing? How would a person who worked at his institution be…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member was concerned about jurisdictions and consultations, and supposedly about the environment. What about the electromagnetic forces of the offshore wind turbines that impact marine life, as well as the electromagnetic fields? Are projects like the wind turbines not really about Brookfield? Is prime minister Brookfield not in this for himself?
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Mr. Speaker, the government does not know the difference between an investment and a purchase. It thinks buying a Lada is an investment. If we add up all the money the Liberals have spent since they became a government in 2015, when there was an actual surplus, it is $500 billion, with our national debt at $1.266 trillion. Each household owes $77,256. For any household that does not have the taxes…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the right-all-along people of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. I would like to begin by congratulating my Liberal colleagues on their resilience. To be able to eat such a huge slice of humble pie and not choke on their own hypocrisy is impressive. Nearly half the omnibus budget bill is just repealing Trudeau-era policies. For my colleagues across the aisle…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to an earlier point. I was relaying what my constituent said to me when the government first announced it might allow people suffering from mental illness to apply for MAID. She told her doctor that as soon as it is available, she wanted to be euthanized because she could not bear being unable to eat, pay the rent or pay for heat.
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Mr. Speaker, I can tell the member that there are 600 pages of things I do not like in the budget implementation bill, but he was correct about something in the preamble of his question. He talked about accounting practices. What the Liberals have done is a perversion of quantitative easing. They are simply taking expenses and putting them in the asset column. That is cheating, and any other gover…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think Canadians believe them. I know of older people who cannot pay their rent or electricity bills now. They are telling me that if this bill goes through, they are going to sign up for MAID because they are already depressed and do not want to continue living this way. They would rather die than suffer the way the Liberal government has been making them suffer.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians spend more on taxes than anything else. They spend more on taxes than they do on housing. The government is the single most expensive purchase we make, yet the Liberals have the gall to stand here and tell us that making government more expensive is an affordability measure. The Liberals had a chance to lower food costs for Canadians by scrapping the industrial carbon tax. I…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the fiscally sane people of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. Recently, I asked this reckless-spending government's minister if he could cancel the Liberals' plan to hike the price of fuel in the budget. Well, the budget is out, and the tax is still on. This tax is just one of many the Liberals have brought in that are hidden and quietly eat away at the p…
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Madam Speaker, my favourite Liberal talking point is when the Liberals compare Canada to the other G7 countries. It feels like when a teenager comes home drunk for the first time and protests, “Well, all the other kids were drunker.” It is a bit like their claim that inflation was not their fault because there was inflation in other countries. I guess it was just a coincidence that all those other…
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Mr. Speaker, I can see from the parliamentary secretary's recycled talking points that the Liberals do not listen. I accept that the arrogant Liberals will never listen to Conservative voices, but I quoted the words they wrote back to them. They still pretend like somehow this is all imaginary. We get it. They will not listen to Canadians who care about affordability or even reality. Maybe our sel…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the very real taxpayers of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. I want to state very clearly that Canadian taxpayers are real, despite the gaslighting by the Liberal secretary of state in her reply to my question on food prices and fuel taxes. The Liberal Party introduced a new fuel regulation that requires all gasoline to be diluted with even more ethanol. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are not satisfied with 2.2 million Canadians visiting a food bank a month. The new fuel tax will chew up any savings at the gas pump. Grocery prices have not come down since COVID. Now we will never get a break at the cash register. Will the Liberals kill the new fuel standards tax so people can afford to eat?
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Mr. Speaker, the new fuel tax will put more ethanol in our gas tanks, so we will have to visit the pumps more often. It will also cut supply, so fuel will cost more. When fuel goes up in price, the cost of everything goes up. The Liberals have a chance to kill the new fuel standards tax with the budget. Will the Liberals use the budget to kill the new fuel tax?
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Mr. Speaker, the point of this debate is that people who are applying for Canadian citizenship must have an established connection to Canada. That is the basis on which we are debating, and we are aiming to improve the bill by amending it with those conditions. Without further ado, we should get the bill passed with amendments, not without.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise on behalf of the proud Canadians in the welcoming riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. If anyone is curious about the history of immigration in Canada, they need only drive up the Ottawa Valley. Leaving behind our indigenous-named capital city and the suburbs with English and French names, we begin to see the Scottish influence in places like McNab. Then come the…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. We will vote with the Bloc on a case-by-case basis, or with the government if we feel that the legislation warrants it. However, what the Liberals have re-established is the NDP-Liberal coalition so they can pass anything they want, regardless of what the rest of the House deems proper.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe that is what my speech was all about: having a value to citizenship. It is not something a person can buy from some consultant who has no scruples; it is something a person works for and earns. My grandparents and my mother came from Holland. It took studying and learning the language, and they were quite proud to finally be accepted as Canadians. The rest of the people who …
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Mr. Speaker, here we have somebody who, along with the former prime minister, asked to defund the police. What we are promoting in our amendments is that there be a security check, a background check, to make sure that people who have committed crimes in other countries do not come into Canada and automatically become Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by the outdoor-loving residents of my great riding of Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke. The petitioners are calling on the government to intervene in the aerial spraying of toxic substances. They are concerned that the spraying of these substances may pose serious health challenges to the rural and indigenous residents living in the valley and will …
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Mr. Speaker, there is no chance at this point for justice of any kind. What happens is that when a complaint is made, that person is segregated and put in a different part of the base altogether. They are separated from their job. Their continuing education stops. Any hope of furthering any rank structure is gone. When they go to the padre for guidance, the padre will tell them that when they join…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary said this debate is all about the victims, and one of the victims was navy Lieutenant Patrick White, who testified before the defence committee last year about the navy leadership's attempts, under the Liberal government, to cover up the sexual assault committed against him by Officer X. Today, we learned that the witness and victim, Patrick White, has been…
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Mr. Speaker, that was one of the best speeches I have ever heard the member make. It had a lot of meaning, and it has meaning for the people who live on the base in my riding and work in the Canadian Armed Forces. In the member's speech, he alluded to a time when there were several high-ranking members all charged at the same time with allegations of sexual misconduct. This came at a particular po…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Calgary Crowfoot. I rise today on behalf of the women and men in the Canadian Armed Forces who call the Ottawa Valley home, and to speak to Bill C-11, the military justice system modernization act. This legislation, which was presented as reform, raises serious concerns about the future of justice for our Canadian Armed Forces and the gove…
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Mr. Speaker, that was important. What we are seeing is that the military police would cover up for their buddies. Commanders who were in charge of different prosecutions would cover up issues. The other thing is that the military police did not have the resources to do proper investigations. The chain of evidence was not kept in order. For the purpose of it being more sterile, the prosecution sugg…
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Mr. Speaker, it is encouraging, after over 10 years since the Deschamps report, to see the adoption of the move to remove sexual assault cases to the civilian court. However, in theatre, the military police would still be responsible for this. What training and dollars associated with this training would go into preserving the chain of evidence, investigation and rape kits? Are there going to be r…
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Mr. Speaker, what is important is that any evidence gathered as part of an investigation should happen immediately, be completely transferred to civilian courts and taken over by police who know how to do it, who have the resources to conduct a proper investigation and gather evidence. In fact, in many of the cases, women have not even been afforded the opportunity to have a rape test done, to gat…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is a carnival barker. He promises we can win the prize while he rigs the game. He promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. Instead, he gave us a shrinking economy and the second-highest unemployment rate in the G7. He promised affordability but gave us higher food prices. He promised to get more homes built but gave us a phony housing announcement in front of…
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