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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's speech to the House, but I cannot help but be frustrated, and my constituents are frustrated, by the release of criminals back into society. He stated that people who are arrested must be detained if there is a risk of reoffending, yet we see evidence time and time again that they are let go. I visited detachments and police in my riding. They are afra…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister said that Canadians should judge him by the price of groceries. Well, the verdict is in, and the Liberal government is guilty. In Vulcan, the local food bank is overwhelmed. Hampers have doubled year over year. Families are driving at least half an hour just to pick up food, and the food bank is spending thousands on gas cards just so that people can afford the tr…
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Mr. Speaker, I would absolutely agree. The Prime Minister has failed. The Prime Minister is quotable and quoted. It is indelible. He made it absolutely clear how he would be measured by the prices at the till. He failed. Prices are increasing by every measure and in every category across the country. For every demographic and for every person in remote communities and in urban centres, life has co…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time. As we have heard today and repeatedly over the last little while, we know that Canadians are struggling desperately to put food on the table. This past August, food inflation managed to outpace overall inflation by 84%. The average family of four is now spending nearly $17,000 a year just on groceries. That is over $800 more than last year. Abacus Data fou…
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Mr. Speaker, that is awfully rich coming from those across the aisle. They had a past prime minister with drama school experience and have a current Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, teaching is a job, but is a drama school job a real job? The current Prime Minister has an elitist attitude and does not buy his own strawberries. It does not change the attack from the across the aisle on food affordability. Canadians are suffering. That is related to inflation, and the inflation, by and large, is from all the policies of the previous decade of Liberal governments. T…
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Mr. Speaker, seniors are probably some of the most vulnerable members of the population, especially low-income seniors. That still does not change the fact of the decline of the value of the Canadian dollar due to inflation, the overspending of the government over the last decade and the continued projection to double the deficit and thus increase the printing of money. That is what is further red…
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Mr. Speaker, just yesterday, the Liberals voted to keep the Liberal energy production cap in place, a move that kills Canadian jobs and weakens our economy. This is not just bad policy. It is common sense ignored. The Liberals are choking off Canadian energy. The Prime Minister pats Beijing on the back, a regime building two new coal-fired power plants every week. The Parliamentary Budget Officer …
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With regard to the government's policy on pipeline approvals: (a) what is the government's policy, including which specific parties or entities must agree or consent before an approval is given; and (b) how long will it take for the government to approve or reject any new pipeline proposal?
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate your indulgences in a new House with new members who are just learning the ropes. We talked about range anxiety with EVs a lot in the debate, but grid anxiety is something that is emerging. Blackouts all over the world, not just in Alberta and western Canada, are showing that the combination of different input sources to electricity are not balanced, and we have not qui…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the member opposite's comments because the last time he had a question for me, he acknowledged I was right, so I really thought that was good. In this case, he thinks I am far-right, farther right or more right.
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I am fantastically proud. I love it. Madam Speaker, getting back to the subject, I would say this is a first step. We have seen this game play out before, time and time again. I know it is gas vehicles today, but all internal combustion engine-derived equipment is on the block, and it is just a matter of time.
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Mr. Speaker, could the member expand on the damage to the road system that the EV mandate might present?
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Miramichi—Grand Lake. I rise today to speak for the people the Liberal government has forgotten or maybe never understood to begin with: the people who make this country run. They are up before the sun, coffee in hand, long before the world starts moving. They drive into town for feed, parts and mail. There is no home delivery here. Th…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for the comments and for taking the time to respond. Actually, I expected that the Liberals would not have copied so much of the Conservative platform. It is all a question of half measures, but we are the party of building, we are the party of cutting taxes and we will not hold up tax cuts. It is a pleasure that the Liberals are supporting the Conservative platfo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government looks to the last 10 years on indigenous relations to reinforce its record, but it will not look to the last 10 years for its economic record. Can the member comment on why the highest-impact item, oil and gas, has not been included in the economic plan?
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Mr. Speaker, I think that, without a doubt, the oil and gas industry is probably the most nimble high-value and high-impact industry that can react to an opportunity, yet the lost Liberal decade was the result of the same obstructionist members from the previous 10 years who, by and large, still reside in the front bench across the aisle. They would like us to believe they can conduct a ballet pir…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to express how disingenuous it is for Canadians to believe that Conservatives do not support tax cuts. Conservatives support tax cuts all the time and everywhere. The issue is always that the Liberal government never goes far enough. There is always a poison pill in the legislation, and we just cannot let these things pass. The Liberals have been very voracious with announcemen…
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Madam Speaker. I would like to thank the member for Edmonton West. That is supposed to be a joke. The Prime Minister does not buy his own groceries, so of course he does not notice when the cost of beef jumps 34% or the cost of infant formula climbs 9%, but I do, and so do families in Bow River, who are skipping meals so that kids can eat. We do not need lectures. We do not need spin. They need re…
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure whether the Prime Minister does his own grocery shopping yet or not, so maybe that is why he still thinks that food prices are just fine. Let me walk him through this. My wife and I, with two carts, spend many dollars at Costco. Beef strip loin is up 34%. White rice is up 14%. Coffee is up 9%. Sweet potatoes are now a luxury. I have not even talked about strawberries. …
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Mr. Chair, let us move on a bit. How much money has Canada lost because of the Liberal government's tanker ban on the west coast?
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Mr. Chair, this is intimate to transport. The ban is on Canadian territorial waters, internal waters on the west coast. This has impacted the economic circumstance of Canada. How much money has the country lost because we do not allow tankers on the northwest coast?
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Mr. Chair, in the interest of transporting more product from the production of oil fields in Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and everywhere else, when will the Liberal government scrap the job-killing oil and gas production cap?
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Mr. Chair, it has nothing to do with building a pipeline for four times the original cost. It has everything to do with the projects that were stalled and that did not happen because of the actions of the Liberal government. Again, can the minister tell us if there is any other G7 country that has this kind of an internal cap on production?
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Mr. Chair, the TMX was four or five times the cost of the original private enterprise, but be that as it may, I will move on a bit. Can the minister tell Canadians if any other G7 country has imposed a cap on its own internal or external energy production, or is the Liberal government uniquely short-sighted?
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Mr. Chair, this is a transport project. Quite obviously, everything related to the oil and gas industry is involved in transport. Investment has fled the country because of the production cap on oil and gas, so transportation is not happening. Does the minister know how much investment has fled the country?
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Mr. Chair, I would like to again congratulate all members of the House for joining the 45th Parliament. I have some questions for the Minister of Transport. Can the minister tell Canadians how much investment has fled Canada since the production cap on oil and gas was announced?
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Mr. Chair, we just had an election, but we had a decade of the government being involved in this sort of thing. I will move on to the next question. Why is it okay for tankers to bring oil into the east coast?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize and extend my congratulations to the Brooks Bandits on being crowned the 2025 BCHL champions. This remarkable achievement is a true testament to the hard work, discipline and dedication that each player, coach and staff member has poured into this season. By winning the Fred Page Cup, they have not only earned a championship but have …
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Mr. Speaker, one of the axioms we have in the industry is that we always measure future behaviour by past performance. We have not been able to develop our energy infrastructure from coast to coast to coast, and there is a lack of corridors and pipelines. I wonder if the member could comment on how we will be able to develop our energy infrastructure from coast to coast to coast.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate you on taking the chair as Deputy Speaker. That is a fantastic thing, and it is well deserved. I rise in the House today with humility and purpose. I stand here with a promise. It is a promise that shaped my family across generations, which is that if we work hard, raise our family and love our country, we will be free to live in dignity and peace. I am th…
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Mr. Speaker, I am a little remiss in not thanking former MP Martin Shields for all his support and the duty and the service that he gave in the seat that I now occupy. I will pass on the wishes from the member. Let me be clear: I want a strong and united Canada. Albertans want a strong and united Canada. However, unity is not something that can be enforced from the top down; it has to be earned th…
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Mr. Speaker, I take some offence to the member opposite's allusion to my patriotism. Canada is the country that my family came to by choice, for a future. It was very deliberate. It was Canada or Australia, and they chose Canada, and that is the blood that flows through my veins. I think the problem is that the government is failing on the promise to deliver to the people. We want a society that i…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that half of Canada's oil needs to stay in the ground, and now he is backing that up with a production cap that the Parliamentary Budget Officer says will kill 54,000 jobs and gut $20 billion from our economy. This keep-it-in-the-ground agenda does not just kill paycheques; it also makes us more dependent on foreign oil. It weakens our economy and punishes Albe…
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