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Mr. Speaker, in the last four months, $54 billion in investment has fled Canada, and that is in addition to nearly half a trillion dollars lost in 10 years under the Liberal government. The Prime Minister promised strength, but all he has delivered is weakness. His oil and gas production cap is killing Canadian prosperity. Conservatives today are calling for the end of this production cap. Will th…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-236, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to reintroduce McCann's law in the House today. In 2010, Lyle and Marie McCann of St. Albert were tragically murdered, and to this day their remains have never been found. The individual responsible has refused to d…
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Madam Speaker, as wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate their homes, criminals are taking advantage of the situation to loot homes and businesses and steal emergency equipment needed to fight the flames. In Redwater, a man was arrested for tampering with sprinkler equipment during the fire, and in Yellowhead County, emergency equipment was stolen. The RCMP is saying that this is the work o…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal government's record is a clear failure. I spoke with an RCMP officer in Drayton Valley who told me that he had arrested a meth dealer only to see them back out on the street four hours later. The Liberals' catch-and-release bail policies have endangered our communities, as drug dealers and violent criminals are released back out onto our streets in record time. There is …
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Madam Speaker, I know the member is very sincere. All of our hearts are with the evacuees, but some of the words from the Liberal government ring hollow when it comes to talking about lessons learned from these wildfires. An iPolitics article from the 2021 election, stated: Trudeau said a re-elected Liberal government would spend $500 million to train and equip 1,000 new firefighters across the co…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for bringing forward this emergency debate. In my riding, there is some good news. It appears people have been able to get back home after an out-of-control wildfire was, fortunately, stopped just south of the hamlet. The member talked about the federal government's need to get involved earlier in the case of Manitoba. She is surely aware that under our legislatio…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for raising in particular Candle Lake. I know we have a mutual friend who holds that community very dear. I am glad he brought that up. Something he talked about was what Premier Moe was talking about, the surge capacity with water bombers. We know that building water bombers cannot be done overnight. We have De Havilland, now outside of Calgary, building world-cl…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague for sharing the experiences of her constituents in this very important debate. This past fall, I had the opportunity to sit on the environment committee, where we explored the devastation following the fire in Jasper National Park this past summer. One thing I was quite struck by was the numerous testimonies we heard from indigenous groups who talked …
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Provencher. Conservatives stand in solidarity with those who have been devastated by the wildfires. We know this is happening across the country, but it is particularly bad in the Prairies right now. We have almost 200 active wildfires, and over half of them are out of control. I want to thank the first responders, all those who are ai…
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Madam Speaker, this debate cites Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but my home province of Alberta has been impacted by these wildfires as well. A number of years ago, there was a disagreement between the Province of Quebec and the federal government related to the Species at Risk Act. One of the indirect consequences of the Species at Risk Act that I have been informed about is its impact on increasing …
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Mr. Speaker, I think we have to hold the government up to its own standards, and those are the promises that were made in the 2021 federal election. The prime minister at the time went to British Columbia as they were undergoing a massive fire season and said, “We are going to spend $500 million by the next firefighting season. We are going to buy water bombers and helicopters, and we are going to…
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Mr. Speaker, indigenous peoples are literally at the front lines of these wildfires, and with their traditional knowledge and their experience on the land, they are very well suited to support firefighting efforts across this country. Federal, provincial and municipal governments, all levels of government, need to work together to empower them and give them the training and the tools needed to do—
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Mr. Speaker, that is one concern here. We need to make sure that all levels of government are working together to increase capacity. We cannot have one level of government step up and then have another level of government say, “Hey, this is our opportunity to pull back spending.” We need to have a coordinated effort to ensure that we are increasing our capacity to respond to all emergencies and na…
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Mr. Speaker, I do recognize this reality. One of the best things that we can do as Canadians to lower global greenhouse gas emissions is displace coal in countries like China and India by shipping our clean natural gas to those countries. Actually, there have been reports that have shown that if we ship our natural gas overseas and displace more greenhouse gas-emitting fuel sources like coal or ev…
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Mr. Speaker, as fires burn across the Prairies, I know I speak for everyone in the House when I say that our hearts are with all of those who have been impacted and those who are working tirelessly to protect our communities. In the wake of the Jasper fire, we learned about the devastating consequences of the poor forest management that failed to clear swaths of dead forest. Experts are now soundi…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-424, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and the Prisons and Reformatories Act. Mr. Speaker, I am proud today to reintroduce McCann's law. In 2010, Lyle and Marie McCann from St. Albert were brutally murdered, and their bodies have never been recovered. Their murderer has yet to reveal the location of their remains and …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control of spending and his cabinet. He forced his finance minister to blow through his ridiculously high $40-billion guardrail, and now he is getting ready to throw her off the fiscal cliff so he can replace her with his phantom finance minister, carbon tax Carney. This is a man who will spend whatever it takes and take our country down with him, as long a…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in the House. I have always been proud to stand behind my colleague, the member for Calgary Shepard, and today I am quite literally standing behind the member for Calgary Shepard as I give my speech. After nine years of the Prime Minister's reckless policies, Canada's border is broken. Drugs, stolen cars and even terrorists are now evading detection a…
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Madam Speaker, it is very unparliamentary that any member would accuse another hon. member of being a traitor to our country. The member for Timmins—James Bay is simply putting his head in the sand when he claims there is not a fentanyl issue in our country. We know that the majority of our ally Australia's fentanyl supply is coming from Canada. We cannot ignore this fact. We need to take action t…
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Madam Speaker, the member should have stopped at “amazing”. That is what I took from his comments. The proof is really in the pudding. Obviously, things were not perfect before 2015, but they certainly were not the disaster we see today under the Liberal government. I just quoted a litany of statistics about how bad things have gotten, and now an incoming U.S. administration wants to penalize Cana…
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Madam Speaker, we know that, when mandatory minimum penalties are removed, the instances of repeat criminals, not just people who commit one crime and are rehabilitated, increase on our streets. When I talk to law enforcement, they tell me that they are apprehending the same people over and over again. We need tough penalties to get tough on drug dealers who are peddling death in our communities. …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of crime, chaos and disorder, the legacy of the NDP-Liberal government's radical soft-on-crime policies is in tatters. The Prime Minister's hug-a-thug recklessness has caused violent crime to surge, and Canadians were shocked to see a violent armed carjacking on our streets. It is time to put Canadians' safety first. When will the government admit its failure, crack…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is scrapping the iconic Royal Canadian Navy march Heart of Oak, the song of our navy for over 100 years. No one is asking for this change, except the out-of-touch Liberal elites. Meanwhile, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, the Canadian Forces lacks the subs, ships and sailors needed to fulfill its mission. Instead of going woke, the government sho…
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Madam Speaker, it is quite telling that we have a Liberal member over there who is unhappy that Conservatives want to do more work. That is what we are here to do: We are here to talk about the issues that are important to Canadians. All the issues that the member cited are important to Canadians. However, if the Liberal government set out to implement a series of justice and public safety policie…
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Madam Speaker, I would just ask members to look at the public accounts from the time. Conservatives were investing in our border. We were supporting our border agencies and giving them the technologies and the support they needed. However, I think it is also somewhat of a simplistic solution to say that we need to hire more people. Of course if there are people who are ready and willing to do the …
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for bringing up that question. Technology is absolutely going to be essential in the fight against not only smuggled guns but also stolen vehicles. However, we cannot view technology as a crutch or an entire solution when we have a policy that lets repeat violent offenders or repeat car thieves out on the street in months. Humans are very capable of adapti…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the crime or the chaos that they have unleashed on Canada's streets. This study on gun and gang violence was conducted back in 2022, two years ago. In rereading our common-sense Conservative recommendations and conclusions that were made at that committee and in that report, I see that everything we said at the time has come to pass. …
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Mr. Speaker, what do five Range Rovers, two Porsche Cayennes, a post office box co-owned by a suspected drug trafficker, a warehouse full of medical supplies destroyed by arson, millions of dollars in fraud and a company falsely claiming to be indigenous all have in common? The Liberal member for Edmonton Centre. The Prime Minister continues to stand by his MP. He sees nothing wrong with these sca…
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Madam Speaker, on the same point of order, I think you have made the absolute correct ruling in this case, but the fact is that the point of order in your ruling would not have been necessary at all if the member for Timmins—James Bay had not misinformed the House and attributed a false statement to my colleague. I am happy to apologize—
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Mr. Speaker, now that the Prime Minister's minister in charge of Jasper's recovery has resigned under a cloud of suspicion, who is going to oversee the rebuilding of this beautiful community? Will it be the radical environment minister, who ignored warnings for years from forestry experts that the dead forest around Jasper was a powder keg waiting to blow? Will the Prime Minister assure Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister keeps explaining himself, but the answers are not coming. The minister is facing multiple scandals. We know that his company has been charged with fraud. We know that he was illegally involved while he served in cabinet. We know that the minister for years claimed he had indigenous heritage, and we now know that is a complete fabrication. Today, we learned that the minist…
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Madam Speaker, I would just like to give a round of applause to my colleague, the member for Edmonton West Edmonton Mall, as he often says, for an excellent speech. I am thankful to participate in this debate because this is what Parliament is all about. It is about debating these very important issues. I am very proud to come here, not only as a representative of Sturgeon River—Parkland but also …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great parliamentarian. Sadly, John Glass Williams passed away in July. A 15-year veteran of the House of Commons, John served the people of St. Albert with class and distinction. Born in Scotland, John immigrated to Canada as a young man to continue a career in finance, working for the Royal Bank before starting his own accounting business. In 1993, he…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, it is clear that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost or the corruption. Now we have a Minister of Employment who says he sees nothing, he hears nothing and he knows nothing, but there is too much here to pass up. First he claimed he was not the other Randy implicated in his business partner's text messages. We now know that he was. Then he claimed that h…
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Madam Speaker, I have to admit that I am somewhat confused because I am never sure which New Democratic Party I am going to see in the House today. When my colleague from Edmonton West was speaking, there were members of the NDP standing up and holding the government to account. When I get up to speak, there are members of the NDP looking like they want to join the Liberal Party and parroting its …
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to push back against the member's assertion. I think members can check the record. I have raised issues numerous times on behalf of my constituents, including my indigenous constituents, related to the Enoch Cree Nation. It has made multiple attempts to access rural broadband funding, housing funding and waste-water funding from the federal government, o…
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Madam Speaker, the Canada we knew nine years ago seems so far away. It was a Canada where we did not have widespread foreign interference in our elections. In the 2021 election, my colleague Kenny Chiu, a Conservative who lost his seat in this place, faced significant foreign interference that was not dealt with by the Prime Minister and the government. They allowed it to happen because they benef…
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Madam Speaker, I go out and talk to my constituents. I had a senior couple reach out to my office. During the pandemic, the government told everyone to take CERB money, saying, “Just take the money. We will deal with the issues afterwards.” This senior couple did not really know what they were doing, but they took the money. Once the government decided to claw that money back because it was not ap…
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Madam Speaker, this issue is not relegated to just one part of our country. We are seeing this issue across the country. As we go into Remembrance Day next week, it is very relevant to talk about veterans' food banks. There are veterans' food banks in this country that are seeing a massive increase in the number of veterans who are reporting homelessness and food insecurity. The way the Liberal go…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals' cap on Canada's prosperity is a threat to the livelihood of all Canadians. All Canadians benefit from the support of our oil and gas sector, in terms of jobs, investment, royalties, taxes and, perhaps most importantly, our dollar. This production cap will mean fewer jobs, less investment, less taxes to fund hospitals and schools and higher inflation on everything, as o…
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Madam Speaker, when I door-knock in my riding, people say to me, “Just get rid of the Prime Minister. We need to get rid of the Liberal government.” That is what they want, and that is what Canadians across this country are saying. They are sick and tired of nine years of Liberal costs, Liberal carbon taxes and Liberal corruption, and they want a carbon tax election. They want a confidence vote. W…
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Madam Speaker, I will tell you what is not okay. The Salvation Army released yet another devastating report on rising food costs. The Liberals' tax and spend policies are driving up costs for farmers who grow the food, for truckers who ship the food and sadly, for families who eat the food. With malnutrition on the rise and scurvy making a comeback, it is no wonder that Canadians are dissatisfied …
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Madam Speaker, speaking of misinformation from this Liberal, the Environment Commissioner confirmed that the Liberal government is not on track to meet its own emissions reduction targets. Canadians are paying the cost of the Liberal government's carbon tax, and it is all pain and no gain. Under the Conservatives, Canada's economy grew and emissions actually went down, but under the Liberals, Cana…
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Madam Speaker, as I said in my speech, the rights of Parliament have been violated. That is not just my opinion. That is the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons, somebody who was elected by a vote of all the people in this place. He has ruled that the government violated the rights of Parliament by refusing to hand over documents in a fully unredacted form, as Parliament requested, rela…
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Madam Speaker, I am always pleased to rise in the House on behalf of the great people of Sturgeon River—Parkland to talk about their priorities in Parliament. After nine years, the evidence is clear that the NDP-Liberal government has proven too costly in terms of crime, taxes, corruption and just plain incompetence. I am proud to rise in the House once again to hold the Liberal government to acco…
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Madam Speaker, it is mighty generous of the member to ask me for one. I could name several. The GDP per capita in this country has been collapsing under the Liberal government. It sounds as if the Liberals are saying that Canadians have never had it so good. I said in my speech that two million Canadians are going to the food bank. If that is not an economic indicator, I do not know what is. There…
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Madam Speaker, it is not going to take me much of a minute to outline what Canadians already know, which is that the government is too costly and too corrupt to be trusted to continue governing this country. We need a carbon tax election. We need an election to deal with the government's corruption and waste. The Liberal government is undermining our democracy. Throughout this scandal, the Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, indigenous people are outraged that government contracts meant for indigenous businesses are being scooped up by shady companies with no indigenous connection. Today we learned that the Minister of Employment's fraud-ridden company, Global Health Imports, claimed to be indigenous in order to try to secure millions in lucrative government contracts. This all happened while the Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to rise to table a petition from Canadians who are concerned about the practice of forced organ harvesting that has been taking place in China. Members of the Falun Gong community have been disproportionately targeted by the government for forced organ harvesting. Petitioners are calling on the Canadian Parliament to pass a resolution to establish measures to stop th…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to table a petition from Canadians who have expressed very serious concerns about serious proposals to expand the medical assistance in dying regime in Canada to infants under the age of one. They are very concerned about recommendations relating to the expansion of MAID for infants with severe deformities or a very serious syndrome. The proposal is very concernin…
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