Routine Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 50th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is alarmed by extreme levels of crime caused by the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, like Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Bill C-75 allows violent reoffenders to …
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Mr. Speaker, it is no surprise that, after nine years of the Liberal government, Statistics Canada reports violent crime has risen by 50%. The people of Swan River see crime in the streets every day, and that is why they are calling for jail, not bail, for violent repeat offenders. The people of Swan River demand that the Liberal government repeal its soft-on-crime policies that directly threaten …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. I recently visited a local food bank in Dauphin, Manitoba, where the volunteers told me they cannot keep up with the increased demand. However, the Prime Minister does not care, as he plans to quadruple the carbon tax and force Manitoba families to pay $1,300 in carbon taxes every single year…
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Mr. Speaker, that was a great intervention by my colleague. I wonder what he is telling his constituents when he goes back home. Are people truly surprised to hear that the Liberal government is this corrupt? The reason why Parliament is backed up right now is because the government and the Prime Minister will not release the documents for which we have all asked. The Conservatives are trying to c…
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Madam Speaker, the Speaker ruled that the Liberal government has violated Parliament's order to hand over evidence to the police for criminal investigation into the Liberals' $400-million green slush fund scandal. Instead of respecting the will of Parliament in handing over those documents, the Prime Minister has instead chosen to paralyze Parliament. As such, the Prime Minister has made it imposs…
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Madam Speaker, I believe Annette Verschuren's donations were to Lisa Raitt and Jean Charest. She is from Cape Breton. She also donated at the same time to the Liberals in 2023, $800 in 2020, $800 in 2019; donated $1,600 to two riding associations; and in 2009, was a max donor to Michael Ignatieff. I hope that answers some of the member's questions.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I have been extremely patient. I have been waiting to get to the actual study that we are debating today. This has been a history lesson. I do not mind the history lesson, but this has nothing to do with the debate.
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Madam Speaker, it is what everybody else in Canada thinks the Liberals are hiding: corruption. The Auditor General found over 186 conflicts of interest. We are supposed to be professionals. We should be outraged about it. Are we? No, the Liberals have an excuse. They cannot show anybody any facts or figures. That is why we have become the laughingstock of the country. The Liberals and the Prime Mi…
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Mr. Speaker, relevance is very relevant. I am looking for at least a reference to SDTC, $400 million and a scandal, just some kind of relevance—
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Madam Speaker, it is another day and another Liberal scandal. Canadians have watched Parliament grind to a halt because of the government's green slush fund scandal, and now that the Liberals have been caught, the Prime Minister is preventing Parliament from moving forward in order to cover up the truth. Members of the House fully understand that Parliament has ground to a halt because the Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague's outrage. It is unbelievable. The Liberals and the Prime Minister are in their back pockets of every person he mentioned, and that is the travesty of all this. That is the bad thing about it. They are stealing from Canadians and should be held to account.
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Madam Speaker, I just want to clarify the record. The Auditor General found that SDTC awarded $59 million to 10 ineligible projects that at times could not prove an environmental benefit or development of green technology; $334 million over 186 cases to projects in which board members held a conflict of interest; and $58 million to projects without guaranteeing that the terms and conditions were m…
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Madam Speaker, I have about 10 more examples, but I think the member is really jealous that there are no NDP donations in them.
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 49th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is alarmed by the extreme levels of crime caused by the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, like Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Bill C-75 allows violent offenders…
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Madam Speaker, as I was saying, we cannot address the doubling of housing costs. We cannot address the crime and chaos. We cannot address the inflation caused by the Liberal government. The Prime Minister must end the cover-up by handing over the evidence to the police so Parliament, all of us elected MPs, can get back to working for Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, this reeks of elitism and out-of-touch Liberalism. I cannot honestly believe this. I just went on in my speech about the billions of dollars at risk for hard-working Canadians taxpayers, and all this guy can come up with is asking about the RCMP. We are legislators. We are the Parliament of Canada. We on this side have asked the Liberals to produce some documents. It is very easy an…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 48th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is overwhelmed by the extreme levels of crime because of the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Jail has become a revolvin…
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Madam Speaker, I asked the minister about his failed environmental policies in my original question in question period. Since then, Canadians have discovered more environmental failures by the Liberal government. An email obtained from the environment minister's department revealed that, for some reason, a senior official at Parks Canada was considering the political perception of prescribed burns…
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Madam Speaker, the member talked about the cost of inaction. Inaction and improper forest management cost the community of Jasper $1 billion. We can let that sink in a bit. Again, was the environment minister aware that his senior officials at Parks Canada discussed cancelling prescribed burns because of political perception, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if my colleague from Portage—Lisgar has any more examples of not so much corruption but conflicts of interest. Have any other projects come to his mind as he has been working as an MP in Ottawa?
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 47th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is overwhelmed by the extreme levels of crime because of the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Jail has become a revolving door …
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Madam Speaker, the member talked about disappointment in the Liberal government. I will remind him that he supported all those measures through the Liberals. He supported quadrupling the carbon tax on home heating bills. He supported the housing crisis. He supported the cost of living crisis that we have in Canada right now. He supported the crime problems we have on our streets, which directly im…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 46th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. Community members of Swan River are struggling with the rising rate of crime in their area. They feel the threat that this crime poses to the community's safety and economic stability. Since…
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Mr. Speaker, an email obtained from the environment minister's department revealed a senior official was questioning the political optics of forest management practices that prevent wildfires. The email stated, “At what point do we make the organizational decision to cancel planned prescribed burns in Western Canada?” “...political perception may become more important than actual prescription wind…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague across the way commented on how much carbon tax an individual is getting back, and some are getting more back than they are actually paying. However, what about the hospitals? What about the municipalities? What about the schools? The government has charged all of those publicly funded entities a carbon tax. The government started this all through COVID, and then had a pr…
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Mr. Speaker, my question to the government during question period was about the cost of the carbon tax, what it was costing families, so I am going to read out a letter I got from James from Shoal Lake, Manitoba. He sent me a letter, and he wrote, “The carbon tax is making it harder to survive. It's getting to a point where I will have to sell my house and move in with family.” What does this gove…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that the actual response at first was “check his mail”. I have another letter, from Jack and Donna from Forrest, Manitoba. They wrote that for them as retired members of the area, the carbon tax is making it harder to enjoy travelling and seeing family. What does the government have to say to Jack and Donna?
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Madam Speaker, the member stated numerous times that they are very proud of the government's record. The motion for today reads, in part, “That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history”. In my riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa, crime is out of control. The gove…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of my constituents. I rise for the 45th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. Community members of Swan River are struggling with the rising rates of crime in their area and feel the threat this crime poses on the community's safety and economic stability. In the…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to present a petition for the first time in the fall on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 44th time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The rural region of 4,000 is overwhelmed by the out-of-control crime caused by the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Jail has…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up, but instead of fighting for Canadians, the NDP leader sold out workers by voting to increase the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. In fact, he voted for the carbon tax 24 times. We know that the NDP leader is keeping the Prime Minister in power to secure his own pension. Will the Prime Minister list…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up, but now the Prime Minister has doubled down on his carbon tax by appointing Mark Carney as his new de facto finance minister. As a jet-setting member of the global elite, carbon tax Carney has spent his entire career promoting a costly carbon tax. He supports the Prime Minister's plan to q…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 43rd time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is overwhelmed with alarming levels of crime because of the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Jail has become a revolving door for…
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Mr. Speaker, the environment minister has been caught covering up a damning secret from Canadians. After years of telling Canadians they would be better off from the carbon tax, his own government's data has proved him wrong. The carbon tax will cost the Canadian economy $30 billion every year. That is nearly $2,000 per Canadian family. Now that we know the environment minister chose to vandalize …
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Madam Speaker, we are debating a motion. Just on a point of relevance, the member admitted that she is not going to ask a question related to the motion.
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Madam Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague about making the carbon tax discussion partisan. I am really quite disappointed with the Bloc Québécois and how they think this does not impact them and does not impact the people of Quebec. The carbon tax knows no boundaries, just like carbon emissions. People from Quebec still have to buy energy from other provinces, other entities, actually. W…
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Madam Speaker, before I get started, I would like to inform you that I will be splitting my time with the member for Haldimand—Norfolk. The carbon tax cover-up continues. Canadians already know that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of living. It is increasing the cost of gas. It is increasing the cost of groceries. It is increasing the cost of home heating. Everything Canadians buy is more ex…
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Madam Speaker, I am totally interested. I farmed up until 2019. I am a lifelong farmer. I lived every day with climate change. I called it “weather” at the time. The problem is that I do not have this long timeline and bottomless taxpayer pocket to make a living like the government does. It keeps on insulting Canadians and taxing them until they cannot make a living. What is going on, and how this…
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Madam Speaker, Conservatives will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, the chair of the environment committee, for coming out and having this debate today. I am glad the member brought up the environment committee because the other thing is that we are always trying to get to the bottom of this. The Liberals say that they are reducing emissions, so we are simply asking them to prove it. We had asked a very direct question in envir…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 42nd time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. The community of Swan River is overwhelmed with the alarming levels of crime because of the Liberal government's soft-on-crime policies, such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-75. Jail has become a r…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I asked a very direct question about the motion before us today. This is all about a cover-up. I asked the member—
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Madam Speaker, I really liked the theatrics from the member opposite. I am really confused, though. He made several statements about misinformation. He talked about how the documents proved that greenhouse gas emissions were actually reduced. The member can agree with me on that one. However, I am quite confused here, because we asked an Order Paper question back in November: “[D]oes the governmen…
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Madam Speaker, I wonder what he was apologizing for. Was it for insulting my colleague or not?
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Madam Speaker, I know there was some harassment going on by the NDP, but I came to the member's defence. It was a wonderful speech. There has been a statement made around here all morning about getting facts out, and the Liberals are now claiming they can prove that they have supplied the documents showing that emissions are actually being reduced by the carbon tax. Meanwhile, we have an answer. W…
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Madam Speaker, I was just wondering, and maybe the member knows, maybe the government has shown him, how much emissions have been reduced by the carbon tax directly.
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour to present a petition on behalf of constituents. I rise for the 41st time on behalf of the people of Swan River, Manitoba, to present a petition on the rising rate of crime. They live in crime and chaos caused by the Liberal government's soft-on-crime laws, like Bill C-5, which allows criminals to serve their sentences at home. In fact, Manitoba West District …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are hiding the truth from Canadians. The environment minister is refusing to release a secret government report that proves the carbon tax is costing Canadians more than they get back. In fact, the Liberals have placed a gag order on their own budget watchdog, blocking him from speaking about this damning report. Canadians already know the carbon tax is a complete scam. W…
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How many emissions does that reduce?
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