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Mr. Speaker, that is right in the motion. The NDP is calling out the Liberal failure and the Liberal Minister of Labour for what he has done when it comes to not respecting the right of union workers to strike. It is that minister and those members of the Liberal government who have answered the question that took away union workers' right to collective bargaining. They talk a big game and their a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour—
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's reminder to Canadians about the question that the NDP is going to be voting on. We are putting their own words to a vote. I did not make anything up. I am not even putting my words in there. Those are not even Conservative words in this opposition day motion. We are being non-partisan and letting the NDP finally let that stress relief out. If they have ripp…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc-Liberal coalition with the NDP is alive and well. The member is saying the House has been paralyzed, but the Liberals are holding back on the $400-million green slush fund documents that should go to the RCMP. If Bloc members tried to negotiate with the Liberals and got nowhere, it is their credibility that is shot, no one else's.
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Mr. Speaker, despite 25% tariffs threatening to kill Canadian jobs and crush the economy, the Liberals have created border disorder between Canada and the United States. Yesterday the Minister of Public Safety said that bolstering the power of CBSA to secure our borders is “not a priority.” After nine years, the hands-off approach is no surprise. There are half a million people here in Canada ille…
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Mr. Speaker, here is further proof of the Liberals' border disorder: Today at committee, the Minister of Public Safety was asked whether more CBSA officers will be deployed on our border. The minister does not know. Will CBSA officers be authorized to patrol between border crossings? The minister does not know. Will RCMP officers be redeployed to patrol the border? The minister does not know. The …
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Mr. Speaker, they are still defending the member for Edmonton Centre. How unethical does someone have to be to get the boot out of the Liberal Party of Canada these days? It is crazy. He says he is indigenous. He is not. He says he is not the other Randy working at his company. He is. His company is not supposed to get contracts from the government. It did. Now his business is under multiple crimi…
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Mr. Speaker, we have millions of dollars in fraud, the other Randy still in hiding, numerous lawsuits, business addresses connected to cocaine trafficking and people being held in contempt of Parliament. What a few weeks it has been for the disgraced former minister from Edmonton Centre. After he arrogantly lectured other members in the House about their morals and integrity when it comes to their…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians can trust Conservative members of Parliament to hold the Liberals to account and make sure the RCMP has every single document that it should have, unredacted, for a full investigation. That is completely reasonable because Canadians do not trust the current government. They do not trust the Liberals anymore. I will read from an editorial in The Globe and Mail. We talked ab…
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Madam Speaker, I could not agree with my colleague more. I was at the meeting today when the law clerk did confirm exactly that, which is that what the government House leader told the CBC and media yesterday was absolutely inaccurate. Members do not need to take my word for it or my colleague's word for it. They can take the words of the Speaker himself. They can think what they want of the Speak…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to rise, as always, on behalf of the good people of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry in my part of eastern Ontario. Here we are, nearing the two-month mark of the Liberals' refusal to adhere to what they told Canadians when they came in nine long years ago: that they were going to be sunny ways. The number one line I remember them saying was “open by default”. They were…
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Madam Speaker, the Kool-Aid over there must taste really good to the member, holy mackerel. Again I will put right here before the House the words of the Speaker with respect to the order and what Parliament has said. The Speaker himself said that the government clearly did not fully comply with the House order. It did not honour it. Here is the thing. I sit on the procedure and House affairs comm…
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Madam Speaker, I think the New Democrats need to take a little more time door-knocking and listening to Canadians. Trust me; I have spent a lot of time this year in many parts of the province of Ontario alone, and I do not know where the New Democrats get the idea that they should have been propping the Liberals up for the last number of years and delaying what Canadians want, which is a carbon ta…
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Madam Speaker, I am honoured to serve in the House of Commons and have done so for the last five years. The thing we know and Canadians know is that Parliament reigns supreme. When Parliament speaks, it has the right to order persons and papers. In this case, it is the production of documents. We have the right and have exercised that right. Multiple parties have voted in favour of doing it. The S…
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Mr. Speaker, with bluster and confidence the member asks his ironic questions on this side of the House's abusing power. It is the government that is shuttering the RCMP from having full and unredacted access to documents on a $400-million green slush fund corruption scandal, and the government has been stonewalling for over a month on being able just to produce the documents. If that is not abusi…
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Mr. Speaker, a great way to resolve the impasse would be for Canadians weigh in on an election right now, but that is why there is an absolute, steadfast, stubborn refusal of the Liberals and the NDP to do that. There is an eerie resemblance to the last nine years in what we have seen right here: a lack of transparency, a lack of respect for Canadians and an unwillingness for the democratic proces…
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With regard to travel expenditures incurred by the government, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity: what were the total travel expenditures, broken down by object code and type of travel (i.e. 0251 Public servant travel - OperationaI activities, 0264 Non-public servant travel - Training, etc.) incurred during the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24, fiscal year?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals need to come clear. If the member is so interested in getting back to work and getting back to government business, the Liberals should provide all the documents as the House of Commons explicitly stated and as the Speaker said was appropriate and must be done. If the member is so anxious to get back to work, maybe he could raise that at the next Liberal caucus meeting. I…
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Mr. Speaker, the House of Commons has the right to request the documents, as it did, and it has the right to have them. That is what the Speaker said. We are not interested in pushing this over for a committee to go somewhere to study it. The Liberals are trying to divert and distract from the issue. They should just provide the documents. To the matter at hand regarding security clearance, the Le…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague for raising today's news, which I heard probably about an hour ago, of Murray Sinclair's passing. He was a wonderful Canadian and gentleman who served in the Senate for a couple of years and played instrumental roles in the efforts of our country when it comes to reconciliation and advancing the awareness of the challenges facing indigenous Canadians in this …
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Mr. Speaker, the interesting part is that the member for Kingston and the Islands is saying that I am protecting my pension. I am not here for my pension; I am here for Canadians. I do not want to back the election up by a week. I want to call the election now—
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise again in the House. It has been over a month that the House of Commons has been paralyzed. The Liberals are not able to advance a single piece of legislation in the House; quite frankly, I am not complaining about that part, after the last nine years and a lot of things they have done. The number one question that remains in my mind as I begin my comments today is t…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your intervention to bring some order during my speech here. However, the interventions and the heckling do not bother me; they reinforce just how tired and out of gas the Liberals are. The Liberals changed the date for the election, which is absolutely ridiculous. They changed it to secure power in the votes of the NDP to keep them in office and avoid having to go to an …
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Mr. Speaker, we learned last week at the House and procedural affairs committee that the NDP was given special secret briefings by the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office, which have said, in fact for months now, that Bill C-65 was an important part of the changes to the Election Act. The reason it was important was that, to the member's point, there are dozens of NDP and Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, they are not worth the cost of their failed housing programs that have only doubled the cost of rent, mortgages and down payments. Housing starts have dropped across the country and the Liberals' own forecast says they are only going to get worse in the years to come. That is why our bold, common-sense Conservative plan to axe the GST on new homes…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, time is up for the Prime Minister's endless chaos and failures. Let us use his own words on immigration from last year to prove it: “as our government is raising immigration levels to the highest levels they've ever been...people are like, ‘Well, we already are facing challenges in housing. Where are we going to house these 500,000 people a year?’…
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud of who I am and proud of my integrity. The minister cannot even name the other Randy, so I am not going to take any lectures from him. Here is what the Prime Minister said just last year about the immigration system: “There are a lot of pressures on our system. Increasing the immigration levels, interestingly, will take some of the pressure off of the system”. The Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, even Liberal MPs now acknowledge that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption and, now, the chaos. Instead of trying to fix their mess of doubling housing costs or the record number of food bank visits, Liberal MPs are in full panic mode trying to save their own jobs. After 24 Liberal MPs told the Prime Minister yesterd…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday's report from Stats Canada was nothing to celebrate. It confirmed that income inequality after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government has never been higher. The gap increased by 50% between the richest and poorest Canadians, the highest it has ever been on record. It has been nine years since the Prime Minister first promised to help the middle class and those working hard…
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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 on the Prime Minister's costly carbon tax. Yesterday, once again, the Parliamentary Budget Officer reaffirmed that Canadians are out when it comes to the tax. If we add up the two carbon taxes, and of course the tax is taxed again with the GST, it will cost households anywhere between $900 and…
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Mr. Speaker, what is happening in this country is nothing to celebrate. For the first time in this country, there are two million visits to food banks per month. That is 24 million visits, which is record-shattering in this country. We have thousands of encampments that have popped up in every part of the country. There are children struggling to get meals. One in four are skipping meals because o…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the official opposition for an important part of the day that all of us look forward to on Thursday afternoon, and that is the Thursday question. I think many Canadians are watching this. It has been two weeks today since the Speaker's ruling that the Liberal government has been found in contempt of Parliament for refusing to turn over all document…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the life of a remarkable community leader, Monsignor Kevin Maloney, who, after 52 years as an ordained priest, left us last month. Father Kevin, as he was best known, dedicated his life to serving with compassion and kindness, touching the hearts of countless people in Cornwall and SDG. His contributions to the Catholic Church and to our entire community were immeasur…
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Madam Speaker, Tip O'Neill, a couple of decades ago, said that “all politics is local”, and the debate we are having here in the chamber today certainly echoes that. The Bloc has brought forward a committee report that was done a year and a half ago regarding continued concerns about the Liberal government's inaction when it comes to shoreline erosion, in this case particularly along the St. Lawre…
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Madam Speaker, I am proud to rise on behalf of the people of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry as a Conservative member to speak to the paralysis in which we have found ourselves in the House of Commons over the course of the last week.
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Madam Speaker, I think what would be kind of ironic in all of that, as I stood here in the House to speak about this issue, it is not a point of order, it is on the debate itself, in 15 seconds—
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Madam Speaker, the NDP and the Liberals, in addition to their laughing, mocking and heckling again 10 seconds into my speech, are desperate to break up the Conservatives' ability to stand and remind Canadians that here we are—
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Madam Speaker, as you have said, after you realized and looked at the comments, and we can clarify with the Table, I did not say anything that was out of order. Again, from a disruption point of view—
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals refusing to provide the RCMP with full access to the documents on their $400-million green slush fund is funny to the New Democrats and the Liberals. They are laughing and mocking it, a further slap in the face to Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, the member can defend and say that, at SNC-Lavalin, there was nothing to see. The RCMP made it very clear that its investigation closed and that it did not have access to everything that it wanted to see to do a full-scale investigation of that issue. That is the bottom line, and that is what happened. Here we are again in a massive corruption and spending scandal where the Liberals…
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Madam Speaker, I had to check the seating chart to make sure it was a member of the NDP criticizing anybody else after they voted confidence in this out-of-touch and tired government after nine years. The $400 million under investigation, they voted for it.
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Madam Speaker, I love debating with the member. Some days it is really easy. He is now saying that, on this side of the House, because we want to expose corruption and make sure that law enforcement in this country has full access to investigate criminal wrongdoings, which in this case is the $400 million of taxpayer money that was given in conflict of interest cases, how dare the Conservatives do…
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Madam Speaker, here is the interesting thing about the member for Timmins—James Bay—
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Madam Speaker, I will try again to stand here in the House and make my contribution to the privilege motion today regarding the government's $400-million corruption scandal. More importantly, the government is so obsessed with denying the RCMP access to all the documents in this major corruption scandal that it is allowing the House to be paralyzed and seized with this issue because it will not pr…
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Madam Speaker, they yell and heckle in an attempt to distract here. We are talking about this case and the RCMP having full access to documents on a scandal of the magnitude of $400 million. Here is the thing the NDP says, and again, it is so typical. Over the course of the last couple of years, we have found out about this through committee work. This issue has already been discussed, and it is t…
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Madam Speaker, there was $40 million in the sponsorship scandal, and there is $400 million in their latest scandal. Inflation has been pretty bad, but I would argue that that is pretty excessive. It is ten times the size it was for the sponsorship scandal. We can think of the outrage that Canadians had when that money went missing, and fast-forward to the next Liberal government, we now have $400 …
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Madam Speaker, I will conclude the speech that I was literally 15 seconds into before several Liberal and NDP MPs started laughing, heckling and mocking the very serious subject for which we are here. To go back, in the points of order by the member for Timmins—James Bay, he notes his constituents. I find it very interesting that after many years of service, he became so out of touch with his cons…
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Madam Speaker, I am about 15 seconds into my speech talking about a $400-million corruption scandal, and the New Democrats are bursting out laughing already. This is—
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Madam Speaker, I wish the Liberal member had the same furor and upset that she has about the use of the word “corruption” about having the government provide the RCMP with all of the information and all the documents that this democratically elected House has ordered it to provide. In the past few days, millions of Canadians have watched the continued stonewalling and blocking by the Liberals. The…
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Mr. Speaker, we have already answered that question very clearly. We voted for this legislation to proceed. My colleague just before me outlined that several times. In addition, we talked about the amendments that the Liberals and NDP defeated, amendments to provide more clarity about what the benefits and eligibility were. They passed on that. There was also an amendment to ensure that clawbacks …
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