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Madam Speaker, the next petition deals with the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Petitioners highlight the history of the terrible persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party. They call on the House to take additional and stronger steps to try to combat the scourge of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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Madam Speaker, next I would like to table a petition regarding the human rights situation in Eritrea, as well as implications for foreign interference here in Canada. Petitioners observe that Eritrea has been ruled by an authoritarian, brutal dictator under a totalitarian system for the last 30 years with no constitution, no elections, no parliament, no freedom of the press, and no freedom of move…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, well-connected government elite insiders have been pretending to be indigenous in order to take contracts intended for indigenous people, but until today, we did not know just how high the rot went. Today, the Liberals' indigenous contracting scandal just got a bit “randier”, with revelations that the company owned by the Liberal minister from Edmonton Centre tried…
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Mr. Speaker, the first petition I am presenting is from constituents concerned about the penalties associated with paper filings of tax returns. The petitioners note that tax filing is a requirement for most Canadian citizens, regardless of their ability to use or access online platforms. The paper filing has been available for decades, and the recent decision that CRA will no longer print line-by…
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Mr. Speaker, the final petition I will present today is similar to that presented by a colleague. It raises concerns about proposals for the radical further expansion of what is already the most extreme, most liberal euthanasia regime on the planet. The petitioners are deeply concerned about a proposal to allow involuntary euthanasia for infants. They believe that killing children is always wrong,…
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Madam Speaker, here in the House of Commons, Conservatives have repeatedly made our priorities clear. We stand for the common sense of the common people. We stand for the common good. We defend the interests of everyday, extraordinary Canadians, who work hard and play by the rules. They are people who expect their tax dollars to be treated with respect and who expect a government to uphold the ide…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague across the way began by telling us that his mother used to say common sense is not that common anymore. I want to assure the member's mother and all Canadians that we will soon be restoring common-sense leadership in this country. Right now, if we listen to the announcements coming from the government, we would think common sense has gone out of fashion, but after the n…
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Mr. Speaker, right before we concluded on Friday, the member for Louis-Hébert asked me a question about the Conservatives' dollar-for-dollar rule. It is a question I am very pleased to address because the Conservatives believe we need to fix the budget. That means when a new spending commitment is made, we need to be able to identify where the money will come from. This is unlike the Liberals, who…
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Mr. Speaker, in broad strokes, the member's description of the OGGO committee's agenda is simply incorrect. I know he has not been a member of OGGO for a very long time, but I understand he may be back. I look forward to giving him the opportunity to get reacquainted with the committee's agenda and working with him again at that point. Here is what happened with respect to the studies on outsourci…
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Mr. Speaker, in terms of the future of this Parliament, I believe it is time now for a carbon tax election. It is time to put to Canadians what we have put forward, our proposal to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime, as well as the Liberal government's record of failure over the last nine years. Right now, the Liberals have refused to hand over documents that Parliamen…
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Mr. Speaker, let me seize on the idiom the member used. What is going to come first, the chicken or the egg: the study proposed at committee or getting the documents? The chicken needs to lay the egg, that is, the documents are needed first, and then the study can be done. If we send this to a committee without having the documents, the committee will be severely limited in the work it can do. It …
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure whether the member opposite has a security clearance, but let us talk about how we got here. All of the opposition parties voted to order the production of these documents. Parliament is sovereign. A majority of members of Parliament voted to order these documents. The member, representing a minority of the House, does not like the decision the House has made, and that i…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition I am tabling raises concern about another proposal for the expansion of euthanasia. While there have been so many abuses already, with Canadians who are struggling with the cost of living, for example, being pushed toward considering this option, the focus of the government, rather than being on alleviating the suffering of Canadians, has been on trying to propose fu…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' indigenous contracting scandal is the biggest Liberal scandal yet. The Liberal government used the indigenous contracting program to send money to well-connected, non-indigenous insiders using shell companies, shady joint ventures and outright fabrication. Indigenous leaders say that most of those who benefited from this program are shell companies. Will these fraudsters…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to table a number of petitions on behalf of my constituents. I hope there will not be too much heckling. Although heckling is allowed, we certainly would not want to throw out the baby with the bathwater in that regard. The first petition I am tabling is in support of Bill C-257, which is an excellent private member's bill I have tabled in the House. It would add pol…
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Mr. Speaker, next I am tabling a petition highlighting a variety of concerns regarding human rights and abuses by the Government of Eritrea. Petitioners want the House to note first of all that Eritrea has been ruled by an authoritarian, brutal dictator under a totalitarian system for the last 30 years, with no constitution, no election, no parliament, no freedom of the press, and no freedom of mo…
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Mr. Speaker, I will table one more petition, highlighting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The petitioners are very concerned about how Falun Gong practitioners have faced a decades-long campaign of violence by the CCP in China. That campaign of violence has included various forms of persecution, including forced organ harvesting. The petitioners who have signed the petition would like…
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Mr. Speaker, I would simply say that the member for Winnipeg Centre has, today and on many occasions, made comments that are clearly unparliamentary in making accusations against members. Regardless of whether we couch them in whatever kind of framing around demographics, there are clear rules on parliamentary language, and this member from Winnipeg consistently uses unparliamentary language, as w…
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Mr. Speaker, with respect to the accusations about what I allegedly said during question period, as I recall, I honestly was not even paying attention to the member's question during question period. However, the point is, holding one's arms out is not an act of violence. This member is repeatedly using unparliamentary language in the House. One cannot say in the House the things that this member …
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Mr. Speaker, today we have an opportunity in this Parliament to reflect on the different priorities of the parties. In the Conservative Party, our priorities are clear. We want to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. The Conservatives will axe the carbon tax everywhere for good. The carbon tax is a failed NDP-Liberal policy that has driven up the cost of everything. It …
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Mr. Speaker, the rules of the House do not allow us to say the name of a current member of Parliament, but they do allow us to say the name of a former member of Parliament, so I think I was getting a bit ahead of myself by using his name. The time will come. The time is soon coming. They cannot put it off forever. As one former British parliamentarian said, “even these turkeys won’t be able to pr…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal member across the way would like me to keep it short. I will never be silenced when speaking on behalf of my constituents. The first petition I would like to table is regarding the ongoing horrific persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. In particular, I want to join colleagues in drawing attention to particular cases of individual practitioners who either are Canadian …
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Madam Speaker, next, I would like to table a petition in support of the private member's bill, Bill C-257. This bill proposes to add political belief or activity to the Canadian Human Rights Act as prohibited grounds for discrimination. Right now we cannot discriminate against someone on various named criteria but there is no prohibition against discriminating against someone on the basis of their…
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Madam Speaker, next, I am tabling a petition raising concern about proposals to further expand the already very troubling euthanasia regime in this country. The House has heard calls to expand euthanasia to include children. In particular, one Louis Roy from the Quebec college of physicians recommended expanding euthanasia to include “babies from birth to one year of age who come into the world wi…
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Madam Speaker, next, I would like to table another petition regarding the ongoing detention in a Chinese prison of Huseyin Celil. Mr. Celil is a Canadian citizen. He is a Uyghur human rights activist. He was taken from Uzbekistan and sent to China decades ago. He has four sons who live in Canada, the youngest of whom he has never had the opportunity to meet. This is a terrible, tragic situation th…
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Madam Speaker, it was just in case I got a call in the middle of tabling petitions. I have turned it off, in all seriousness. This petition is about seeking the release of Mr. Celil. Petitioners want the House to formally state that the release of Mr. Celil from detention is a priority for the Canadian government and is of equal concern to the unjust detention of the two Michaels. They would like …
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Madam Speaker, finally, I would like to table a petition opposing the Liberal government's attack on natural health products. Petitioners are deeply concerned about the attack we are seeing on natural health products, which was part of the last budget, and how the Liberals have increasingly taken steps to make natural health products more expensive and less accessible and to undermine the natural …
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Mr. Speaker, next I am tabling a petition that raises concerns about a 2021 election platform commitment from the Liberal Party to politicize charitable status. In that election platform, the Liberals proposed to apply political criteria to the charitable status definition and to deny charitable status to organizations that disagree with the Liberal Party's position with respect to abortion. The p…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems that some members, during petitions, have ventured into expressing their own personal opinions on subjects. I think it is important to remind members to be studiously careful as to only share the petitioners' views, not their own personal view. With that in mind, I am tabling a petition that I received from my constituents, which asks the House to axe the tax, build the homes…
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Mr. Speaker, I do want to assure members that I was as surprised as anyone when this petition was sent to my office. I am but a servant of the people in this chamber, and if my constituents want me to petition the House to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime, I can assure all hon. members that I will do that, regardless of my own personal views on that subject. As I was…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition that I am tabling is in support of a private member's bill that I have tabled in the House, Bill C-257. It is an important bill, according to petitioners, who say that Canadians have a right to be protected against discrimination and that Canadians can and do face political discrimination. Petitioners note that it is a fundamental right to be politically active and t…
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Mr. Speaker, next I am tabling a petition respecting concerns about religious freedom in India. The petitioners draw attention to findings of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, reporting that various actors have sought to establish an explicit religious nationalism within India, contrary to India's secular and pluralistic foundations, and that this has posed a grave threat to …
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition that I am tabling is regarding human rights in Hong Kong and applicable immigration provisions. The petitioners note how many democracy activists in Hong Kong have been subject to arbitrary, politicized sentences, some of them under the national security law, but there have been many cases in which offences not under the national security law have nonetheless been us…
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Mr. Speaker, today, my office released a documentary about the addiction crisis. People who are interested in this issue can go to eliteaddiction.ca to find out more about that documentary. In it, we talk specifically about the role of two companies, Purdue Pharma and McKinsey. This is a follow-up to a question I asked earlier about McKinsey. Here is the story. Purdue Pharma developed a new opioid…
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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. The Liberals have allowed fraudulent, non-indigenous insiders and shell companies to steal contracts that had been earmarked for indigenous businesses. Now that companies like the Canadian Health Care Agency and Dalian Enterprises, which got over $100 million each, have been removed from the …
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Mr. Speaker, some members of the House are well-read, and some have read well the sheets that have been given to them. Here is my core question: Why McKinsey? I have detailed the history of McKinsey and its involvement in the opioid crisis. We could talk about how it helped the Saudi government identify dissidents. We could talk about its support for Chinese state-run and state-affiliated companie…
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Madam Speaker, an important part of public service is presenting petitions on behalf of one's constituents, whether one agrees with them. I am tabling a petition, without commenting on my personal perspective, asking the government to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. The petitioners, of their own accord, have observed that after nine years it is clear that the Prime…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We cannot wear props in the House. I know this because it has been brought up in the past when I have been giving a speech on a topic I care very much about and have been wearing a button or something. It is important that the rules be enforced equally for all members.
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Madam Speaker, the next petition I am tabling is in support of Bill C-257, a private member's bill that I put forward in the House, aimed at combatting the pernicious phenomenon of political discrimination. The petitioners note that Canadians have a right to be protected against discrimination and that they can and do face political discrimination, which is discrimination on the basis of their pol…
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Madam Speaker, the next group of petitioners would like to bring to the attention of the House that killing children is always wrong regardless of the circumstances, the level of development or dependency involved. The petitioners draw attention to a recommendation by Dr. Louis Roy, of the Quebec college of physicians, recommending the expansion of euthanasia to “babies from birth to one year of a…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition draws attention to the human rights challenges in Eritrea, as well as foreign interference that is being caused by the Eritrean regime. By way of introduction, the petitioners note that Eritrea has been called the North Korea of Africa. It has been ruled by an authoritarian, brutal dictator under a totalitarian system for the last 30 years. It has no constitution, …
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Madam Speaker, I am presenting a petition that draws attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The petitioners note that Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline. It consists of meditation exercises and moral teaching based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. The petitioners note that, since the summer of 1999, the Chinese Communist Party ha…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition is from Canadians who are very concerned about the government's approach to natural health products. There are changes that are, at best, a solution in search of a problem and, at worst, a pernicious attack on these products and those who use them in order to stay healthy. The petitioners note that changes made in the last Liberal omnibus budget have had the effect…
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Madam Speaker, next, I am presenting a petition regarding the human rights situation in Hong Kong as it relates to potential immigration to Canada. The petitioners note that the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act renders foreign nationals inadmissible to Canada if they have committed or been convicted of an offence abroad. However, many people in Hong Kong have been arbitrarily charged and con…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition deals with human rights issues in Venezuela. I will note that the petition was prepared and certified prior to some of the latest events, so it deals with the issue of political prisoners and does not mention the outcome of the last election. No doubt, petitioners would like to see the Government of Canada recognize the real results of that election, the opposition…
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Madam Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to present a number of petitions in the House today. The first petition calls on the Government of Canada to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. The petitioners note that after eight years, it is clear that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime or the corruption. The petitioners further believe that the fai…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition I am tabling is regarding the brutal regime in Eritrea. Petitioners raise a number of different concerns related to the actions of that regime. They highlight how Eritrea has been ruled by an authoritarian, brutal dictator, under a totalitarian system, for the last 30 years, with no constitution, no election, no parliament, no freedom of the press and no freedom of…
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Madam Speaker, next I am tabling a petition challenging the government's approach to natural health products. Petitioners are very concerned by how Liberal government policies could threaten access to natural health products through new rules with higher costs and fewer products available on store shelves. The concern is that low-income Canadians in particular will be at a disadvantage as they see…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition is regarding proposals that have been heard at committee for the expansion of euthanasia to include children. Petitioners are opposed to the expansion of Canada's euthanasia regime to facilitate the death of children within our medical system. Petitioners say that the proposal for the legalized killing of infants in particular is deeply disturbing to Canadians, and…
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Madam Speaker, next I am tabling a petition highlighting some concerns from financial advisers. Petitioners say that financial advisers, while providing a qualified and professional service to their clients, are currently ineligible to individually incorporate; this causes them to be significantly disadvantaged, in effect, when they are taxed, especially in comparison to similar and related profes…
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