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Mr. Speaker, last year, we worked with the Prime Minister to get things moving again after a decade of Liberal roadblocks. We helped fast-track Bill C-5, giving him incredible powers to approve major projects that would make Canada richer and more secure. However, no new projects have been approved. If someone goes to the Major Projects Office website, it is pathetic. In Saskatchewan, only the For…
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian taxpayer is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the European Space Agency. Canadians could be expected to wonder why so much of their money is being spent on the European Space Agency and its private corporation, Harwell, but do not worry, we know the answer, which is that 50% of the Harwell Science and Innovation facility is owned by Brookfield. That explains it.…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to ask my colleague about the insane policies of the Liberal government, in which it ignores the importance of treatment and plows recklessly toward more drug use in our community while claiming safe supply will cure all. I would like to hear from the member, why is the government so driven to be against treatment options for addicts?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is the most expensive in Canadian history. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians, driving up the cost of everything. Year after year, food costs have gone up and the Liberals want us to pay more for their food packaging taxes. The Liberal tax on food costs Canadians an additional $5.6 billion a year, driving up the cost for…
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard from experts, since 2015, that if we brought in Liberal bail, we would have problems in our streets. Ten years later, we have premiers from coast to coast demanding to get rid of the Liberal bail. We have heard from police associations that want the Liberal bail gone. We now have lip service from the Liberals about reforming the system. What we really need is to go back …
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Mr. Speaker, hard-working Canadians spend all day at work, and on the way home, they are not stopping in a grocery stores. They are stopping in food banks. For millions of working Canadians, they have to go to food banks because they cannot afford the hidden Liberal food taxes, such as the industrial carbon tax and the food packaging tax. Food Banks Canada reports a record smashing 2.2 million vis…
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Mr. Speaker, it is frustrating to hear these words out of this member. We know that there are 86,000 people out of work. There are now four million visits to the food bank, and one in four people in Toronto rely on the food bank for food. The Liberals are talking about these major projects that are going to get fast-tracked. A major project near this member's riding in Darlington is the GE Hitachi…
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Mr. Speaker, through you to my hon. colleague, there is a disconnect. Canadians are not buying it. Tonight, unfortunately, someone is going to tuck in their loved ones for the last time, because of what is going on in our streets. If we believe what the member is saying, that crime is down for the people in his province, for those who are watching the evening news, it is hoped that something horri…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure whether members caught all that, but Ottawa has messed things up in our provinces and has dictated to the provinces in their jurisdictions. The courts have ruled how unconstitutionally Ottawa has been treating our provinces, and that includes Quebec and Saskatchewan. Now with Bill C-5, if someone is a Liberal insider, they are going to be successful in this country. It i…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a case study on how not to build a nation, how to destroy a country from within. To understand how bad this bill and the government are, we need to understand how we got here if we are ever going to get through this as a country. Since day one, the Liberal Party of Canada has been trying to reshape Canada into this weird reality. Many Canadians do not recognize this country, a…
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Mr. Speaker, I share some of my hon. colleague's frustrations. The provinces have been told by Ottawa what to do, what not to do and how to do it, but we have heard from the courts how unconstitutional what the Liberals have done in the last 10 years is—
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is right that Bill C-5 is not a fix; it is how to get Liberal insiders on a select list of projects that will get done. This is ethically challenging, and it opens up a litany of opportunities in which insiders are going to get rich, once again, because of the Liberal government. It will pick winners and losers, versus letting the market decide. To the example that y…
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Mr. Speaker, the member claims $3.9 billion has been put into this project. How many mines have been built? It is zero. I think back to my province of Saskatchewan. BHP has the largest mine that is getting built right now. The only reason that mine is going forward is that it was grandfathered in under old regulations, not under Bill C-69. This is a failure of the Liberals. They spent billions of …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and his anti-energy ministers say there are no pipelines in Canada without consensus, but there is not even consensus in the Prime Minister's cabinet. The Prime Minister has stacked that cabinet with ministers who want to kill the Canadian oil and gas industry, but there is not even consensus in the Prime Minister's own head. He said he wanted to make Canada an ener…
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Mr. Speaker, they are the same old Liberals. Our allies, like Germany, are desperately needing energy. Canada has the energy but, due to 10 years of anti-energy policies from the Liberals, we have blocked all pipelines in Canada and we cannot sell to Germany. The German ambassador says that they will now need to import LNG from America. The Prime Minister is selling out our country by sending our …
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Mr. Speaker, I would also like to carry on with a question about nuclear, because we know that in the last Parliament, the Liberals actually proclaimed that nuclear was a sin and categorized it as a sin stock, which included many other vice stocks in the mind of government. The government changed the credit system, and nuclear companies could not have access, because they were characterized as a s…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Liberal government has unleashed crime and chaos from coast to coast to coast. Nationwide, violent crime has skyrocketed by 50% since the Prime Minister took office, while violent gun crime has increased by 116%, and they are using weapons that were smuggled over our insecure border. Let us look at the numbers closer to home. In Saskatoon, crime has absolutely ex…
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Mr. Speaker, research and innovation are key to Canada's future, yet the disastrous government has caused runaway inflation, unaffordable homes and an explosive deficit, which are hurting the students and teachers we need to do this crucial work. That is not all. The Liberals have looked the other way while anti-Semitism has escalated on campus, and the government's tri-councils have funded studie…
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Madam Speaker, new data has been released and it is bad. Canadians' economy is on life support. It is so bad that Stats Canada just reported our economy is collapsing. GDP per capita has declined for six consecutive quarters. The United States is eating our lunch. The U.S. economy in the last quarter increased by 2.8%; in Canada, 0.3%; not 3%, but 0.3%. Canadians are going broke and the Prime Mini…
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Madam Speaker, new damning data has been released confirming the results of nine years of economic vandalism by the NDP-Liberal government. We saw the worst decline in living standards in 40 years. Consumer debt has hit an all-time record high and today we learned that GDP per capita fell again for the sixth straight month. Americans are threatening a 25% tariff and the Prime Minister does not hav…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I ask for unanimous consent to give my right of reply.
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Madam Speaker, I believe I have one minute left. When I asked for unanimous consent, the clock continued to tick. I believe there is an error that caused me not to have the full five minutes.
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Madam Speaker, it is incredibly dangerous to be right when one's government is so wrong. The NDP-Liberal government is wrong, and it is ignoring Canadians. It is ignoring the science, common sense, the cost of living crisis it created and the courts, when it tries to ban plastics. The NDP-Liberal government hates the facts on plastics. If Canadians are suffering now with skyrocketing bills, wait u…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are being greasy. They are the greasy Liberals. This is why we are here. For everyone watching today online or in the galleries, they are fighting to not turn evidence over to the RCMP. That is what this is. We just heard from an hon. colleague from the NDP, which has been propping up the Liberals. Its members talk a big game that they are going to force that evidence ove…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank every man and woman who works in our public sector. Public service is an honourable calling, and I thank all the men and women who work in our public service. I especially thank the ones that call out corruption and improper management of funds. That is what we had at SDTC. We know that these workers are feeling abandoned by the NDP. The Conservatives have a plan…
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Mr. Speaker, the member wanted to heckle about the $250 bribe. That is what this is. It is a cheque that the NDP-Liberal coalition—
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Mr. Speaker, what is going on here is the pain that Canadians are feeling because of the NDP-Liberal coalition and a cost of living crisis that is out of control because the Liberal-NDP government is finding new and creative ways to blow taxpayers' money. This one is $400 million, and that is gone. It is actually not gone because we never had the money to start with. It is on the credit card, and …
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Mr. Speaker, this, in a nutshell, is about Liberals getting rich. They like to protect their own. Any time they are questioned or there is the demand that evidence be turned over to the RCMP, Liberals clam up. They attack and do anything but provide the evidence to the RCMP.
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Mr. Speaker, “call in the cops”. That is the stage we are at in this most recent Liberal scandal. Why are we here? There is evidence that the Liberals have on the SDTC green slush fund. They are refusing an order from Parliament. There is no higher power than the 338 men and women who get sent here to represent the 40 million Canadians. With how our Constitution is written, there is no higher powe…
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Mr. Speaker, a two-month temporary tax trick is all it is. For two months, the Liberals are going to do a little trick and save a bit of money. The problem they have is the comments they made, and that the finance minister made last year, that driving up the deficit is only going to make inflation worse. What a surprise; we are in a cost of living crisis because the Liberals kept spending more and…
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Mr. Speaker, it is very telling that the Liberals get triggered by this. The member brought up the $16 glass of orange juice, and he is right; it is an outrage. The expensing of dollars that are not owed to oneself is wrong, and we had wall-to-wall coverage on this. He brought up the F-35 and the monies the former government looked at spending for that plane. Guess what happened. Liberals bought i…
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Mr. Speaker, well, folks, the NDP-Liberal coalition is back. Did it ever really break up? I do not think so. Remember when the NDP leader said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”? He just announced that he has confidence in the Liberal Prime Minister until February 2025. I wonder what happens then. Canadians cannot afford this. Now …
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals have been ripping off Canadians for the last nine years, and Canadians will not be tricked by this most recent trickery. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the States. We have over two million people using the food banks every month. In Saskatchewan, food bank use is up over 42%. Now the Liberals are promising a temporary two-month tax break. Here is a little…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the difference: The NDP-Liberals want this to go to the committee, and Conservatives want it to go to the RCMP. Canadians can be the judge. If there is a crime that happens in their house, do they call a town meeting or do they call the cops? We want the cops brought in. This is what the Liberals and the NDP are hiding.
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Mr. Speaker, we can talk about the member's leader's pension and how ridiculous it is that a country is held hostage until his pension is vested in February. More and more Canadians are finding out about this. They think it is a travesty. It is an insult to democracy that an unholy coalition is holding this place hostage because of its members' ideologically bent ways. They would like to tax every…
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Mr. Speaker, love it or list it. When the Prime Minister's old media buddy, Tom Clark, got to New York, he was disgusted with the 2,700-square-foot, cramped penthouse condo on Park Avenue with only 12 rooms and five bedrooms. Tom took one look at the dump and called his friend, the Prime Minister, and demanded that this property be listed. What is on Tom Clark's must-have list for his New York pen…
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Madam Speaker, what does my hon. colleague make of the shortage right now of medical isotopes? Last year, there were some critical shortages that unfortunately may have cost lives in Canada, and we are very grateful for Chalk River. Some of the developments of utilizing the CANDU reactor to make medical isotopes would not have been possible without Chalk River, so I thank the men and women who wor…
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Madam Speaker, those watching this debate today should be thanking a nuclear worker. We thank the nuclear workers for keeping the lights on. Nuclear energy is the one technology that we have that has proven to have zero emissions, and it is low in cost and reliable. It is because of the workers, the men and women who work in nuclear, that this is possible. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, how is this relevant to the debate?
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Madam Speaker, that is a lot of hot air coming from that politician. There are no words to describe the hypocrisy of this. We have a Prime Minister who jet-sets all over the world, not worrying about the carbon he is emitting, and then lectures us to turn down the heat, to not drive our car and to be better for the planet. His boss is jet-setting everywhere and anywhere he wants to go. The carbon …
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Madam Speaker, I have a point of order. I just got confirmation from an engineer that a natural gas plant would not produce brown exhaust—
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Mr. Speaker, we heard some nice words from the Liberals today about nuclear energy, which nuclear workers are used to. It is a lot of lip service but very little support. That is historical. It goes back decades and decades. The Liberals say one thing to one group and then something different to another group. I am encouraged by the member's new and profound love of nuclear energy. I know the nucl…
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Madam Speaker, on the question on SMRs, the GE Hitachi reactor being developed at Darlington is the very first of its kind. We do not know what the price is actually going to be on that SMR, just as when we have innovations and we try a new model of something. The story she recapped, that NuScale SMRs were actually leading the campaign to bring a grid-scale reactor online, is accurate. I would not…
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Madam Speaker, the Algonquins supported it from day one, so his facts are wrong. As for the process, we welcome feedback. Most government programs should be run this way. It does not mean someone will get their way, but they will get a say. Encouraging dialogue has taken place with indigenous groups, suppliers and local communities that want this technology and want nuclear in their community.
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Madam Speaker, that is a bit rich coming from a government that violated people's charter rights and freedoms. However, it is also coming from a government that has, I would say, put our reputation around the world and our institutions in the sewer. I think of the proud history of our RCMP. To pretend to have the RCMP giving coverage to the Liberal government over the turning over of evidence is f…
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Madam Speaker, to the other side, was it worth it? Did they hold their noses and look the other way? When the truth comes out about SDTC, this might be the largest scandal that could dwarf the sponsorship scandal tenfold. The government needs to hand over all evidence to the RCMP unredacted today.
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Madam Speaker, it was not a full $200 million to Cycle Capital, I do not believe, but it is enough to probably feed some of those two million Canadians who are right now relying on the food bank to eat. This is a statement we would never think would be uttered in a country like Canada, a country that is so rich with resources, technology and hard-working people who wake up every day and go to work…
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Madam Speaker, how did we get here? It is because the NDP and the Liberals are one and the same. The New Democrats pretend their coalition is over, but meanwhile they continue to support the government. They ripped up the agreement but then voted with the Liberals. How much can we believe about anything the NDP says, when the evidence is in front of us about the fact that it is not really an oppos…
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Madam Speaker, the SDTC program was set up to help Canadian companies and individuals with technology and programs related to the environment. It was set up to help meet the needs of the challenges we have with the environment. One of the signature pieces of the Liberal platform was the environment. However, what happened when the Liberals got control, when they got keys to the bank and to SDTC? I…
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