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Madam Speaker, you have referenced convention of the House. Could you cite any precedent? I have been a member for a long time; I follow the procedure, and I am not aware of a single case in which a member who had a question of privilege, especially one with the urgent nature of that being raised, was told to wait. If there is a convention of the House I am not familiar with, I wonder if you could…
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Madam Speaker, my conscience was prodded by the intervention from the member for Northumberland—Peterborough South. I may too have at some point used the term Maserati Marxist to refer—
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Madam Chair, I apologize for the technical issues. I want to follow up on the point of order from the member for Manicouagan. Members are presumed to be hon. members when they hear something and when they raise something. It is not the tradition of the House to say that we need to wait for the video evidence. If two members contradict each other, that is another matter. The member for Manicouagan …
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With regard to Canada-Sudan relations: (a) what are the complete details of development assistance dollars spent with the intention of having an impact in Sudan over the last two years, including, for each spending item, the (i) amount spent, (ii) recipient and any additional delivery partners, (iii) allocation timeline, (iv) amount spent on each item; (b) what are the complete details of developm…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a very significant issue. I think many, if not most, members of Parliament have lost family members to cancer, of one kind or another. It is a little disappointing to see the amount of time Liberals have devoted in their speeches to partisan talking points about concurrence and aspects of the business of the House. There is a lot of time to discuss those issues and the appropr…
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Madam Speaker, I have breaking news. Tomorrow morning, at the indigenous affairs committee, at 8:15 a.m., the member for Edmonton Centre, the former Liberal minister, not the other Randy, but the member for Edmonton Centre, is going to be coming to committee. I cannot guarantee he will answer questions, but he will respond to questions from Conservative members about the Liberals' indigenous procu…
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Madam Speaker, we still have not gotten any response from the Liberals about the rampant abuse that has taken place. The most we have heard is them trying to deny the testimony of indigenous leaders. It is like they were not there. Previously, we pasted together their denials with the actual statements of multiple indigenous leaders. If the Liberals are really committed to this reconciliation conc…
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Madam Speaker, I want to ask this member about the rural top-up. I think it is a subject he is familiar with. In all seriousness, it is a great tribute to a member when as soon as we see that member, we know what issue he is going to mention. He has been such a dogged, effective advocate for his riding on the issue of the rural top-up. For those who have maybe been living under a rock for the last…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition highlights the horrific ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China. Falun Gong practitioners practise a spiritual discipline that emphasizes meditation and moral teachings based on the virtues of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance, yet they have faced horrific violent repression by the government. That repression goes back…
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Madam Speaker, I suspect this will be my final petition because of time. This petition draws the attention of the House to human rights abuses in Eritrea, as well as actions of the Eritrean government that constitute foreign interference. Eritrea has been called the “North Korea of Africa”. There is a complete lack of basic political freedoms, and many have gone into exile. However, many of those …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Peace River—Westlock had so many petitions, I was afraid I would not get a chance, but here we go. I have a few petitions to present to the House today. The first raises concern about the government's extreme euthanasia agenda, already the most liberal regime in the world. We see continuing proposals for further radical expansion, including one that draws the ire o…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition I am presenting is in support of Bill S-210, a bill that seeks to bring about meaningful age verification for those accessing sexually explicit material online. Bill S-210 had the unanimous support of the Senate and the support of a majority of the House at second reading. The petitioners note that a significant portion of the sexually explicit material accessed on…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition is regarding human rights in Russia. Some aspects of this petition are a little dated, but it raises concern about the serious domestic repression in Russia, including violence and other measures targeting those who are advocating for freedom and democracy within Russia. We have seen, while Russia has been invading Ukraine, an escalating repression of democracy act…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a number of petitions to present to the House today. The first petition responds to concerns that have been raised by many people in the Eritrean Canadian community about ongoing human rights abuses in Eritrea, as well as foreign interference emanating from Eritrea. Petitioners want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that Eritrea has been ruled by a brutal authorita…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition is an issue of concern to many Canadians who file their taxes and would like to have more flexibility in how they do so. Nobody likes filing their taxes, but petitioners in this case are frustrated by the fact that paper filing is being discouraged. Petitioners note that Canadians need to file their taxes regardless of their level of connectivity. They are frustrated…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition raises concern about the very radical and extreme agenda of the government and of some of the people who have testified in support of it on the issue of euthanasia. Canada already has the most liberal euthanasia regime in the world, which is being used as a cautionary tale in debates around the world on this very issue. This particular petition highlights with grave …
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition highlights the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China and shares some of the history of that persecution. Petitioners call for stronger steps by the Government of Canada and Parliament to combat the ongoing, now 25-year-long, persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who simply wish to exercise their religious freedom and to practice…
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Mr. Speaker, the next petition is regarding the Liberals' so-called feminist international assistance policy. Petitioners note that the Muskoka initiative, launched by the previous Conservative government, involved historic investments in the well-being of women and girls around the world and that the initiative emphasized value for money and ensured that investments were made in priorities identi…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Timmins—James Bay has claimed the Liberals and the NDP have broken up, but I think there is some evidence to the contrary. I will be cautious extending that analogy and describing exactly how there is evidence to the contrary, but I think there is evidence. Here is why the privilege debate is important, to directly address comments the member made. Some $400 million o…
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Mr. Speaker, the member suggests I may have the record for moving the most reports for concurrence of any member. I want to thank him very much for those kind words. It is very gracious of him to acknowledge my work in that regard. I am very proud of having had the opportunity to put important motions on substantive policy issues before the House. In this particular case, I spent my entire speech …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate working with my colleague from the Bloc on the various issues of Liberal scandal. I want to ask the member specifically about the company owned by the member for Edmonton Centre, who is still a member of the Liberal caucus. This company continues to be eligible for bids on government contracts. It has committed indigenous identity fraud, falsely claiming to be indigenous-…
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Mr. Speaker, this motion is about policies that allow outsourcing to people who are inside the house. It obviously does not make sense to allow outsourcing to people who are already inside the house. It sounds to me like the NDP members are saying that they would oppose any instance whatsoever of the government using outside contractors. We have said that there has been a significant growth in spe…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to pick up on comments the member made about indigenous identity fraud. We have been studying the Liberals' indigenous contracting scandal and how non-indigenous elite insiders, such as the member for Edmonton Centre, have had companies try to gain access to government contracts that are supposed to benefit indigenous entrepreneurs. One of the concerns I have been hearing from …
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Madam Speaker, when it comes to the issue of double-dipping, we know that the company owned by the member for Edmonton Centre, Global Health Imports, is still eligible to bid on government contracts, even though that company has engaged in indigenous identity fraud by falsely claiming to be indigenous owned based on false claims that the former minister was indigenous. It is our position in the Co…
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the 37th report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, presented on Friday, March 22, be concurred in. I will be sharing my time. I think colleagues know about my general fondness for poetry, so as I move this motion with respect to Liberal corruption and double-dipping, I thought I might elevate the conversation by briefly reflecting in verse on last week's events:…
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Mr. Speaker, I will present one final petition, regarding the situation in Burma. The petitioners draw to the attention of the House the horrific crimes of the military junta in Burma, with the continuing indiscriminate killing, torture, rape, imprisonment, displacement of civilians and air strikes targeting civilians and vital humanitarian supplies. They note that the state-owned Myanmar Oil and …
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Mr. Speaker, I will next table a petition from Canadians who are troubled by the radical and extreme proposals we continue to see for the expansion of Canada's euthanasia regime. The petitioners note, in particular, a call for euthanasia to be expanded to include babies from birth to one year of age who come into the world with severe deformities and very serious syndromes. This proposal for the l…
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Madam Speaker, speaking of Hamlet, something is rotten in the state of Canada. Rent has doubled. Housing costs are way up. Young people cannot afford to buy a home. It is all because of the failing policies of the Prime Minister. We saw one cabinet minister resign today. Does the member agree that what we really need to do is replace the Prime Minister with a common-sense Conservative alternative?
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Madam Speaker, we know that Liberals struggle with numbers, but axe the tax, build the—
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary claimed that members of the Conservative caucus are no longer able to write letters to the government. That is in fact false. In order to demonstrate the point, I wrote a letter to the government while he was speaking. The letter says as follows: “Dear Government, please help my community by calling a carbon tax election now.” If one of the pages could co…
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Madam Speaker, I said a few weeks ago that the Liberals' indigenous procurement scandal was the biggest scandal we have seen yet, and I think Canadians saw why today. A senior Liberal cabinet minister from Alberta with multiple different areas of responsibility, the member for Edmonton Centre, left cabinet because of the Liberals' indigenous procurement scandal. Now members across the way think th…
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Madam Speaker, it is really unbelievable that the government persists in its arrogant pretense that everything is totally fine. The member did not at all mention the fact that today, a minister of the Crown left cabinet because his company was trying to abuse this program. She said, “extremely rare instances of bad actors”. That is completely the opposite of what we were told by the Assembly of Fi…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague's speech was an excellent one. We are dealing with so many different Liberal corruption scandals concurrently. Just today, a senior member of the Liberal cabinet, who was the only minister from Alberta, resigned. The stack of scandals that is continuing to be investigated with respect to the member for Edmonton Centre is probably the largest that has applied to any one …
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Madam Speaker, this is clearly the choice. The Liberals have had nine years. They have objectively failed to build homes. We are not building homes at nearly the rate we need to. Housing costs are up dramatically for all Canadians. It has been nine years of failure under the government, and its members believe that announcing additional funding for existing bureaucracies is going to change that. C…
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Madam Speaker, this is unbelievable, if we listen to this member. He says that when Conservatives were in power, yes, things were going well in terms of housing, but it was not because the Conservatives were doing a good job. Then he says that now, after nine years, things are going poorly for Canadians, but it is not the government's fault. This member would have us believe that these dynamics—
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Mr. Speaker, I have a petition from Canadians who share their condolences with the member for Kingston and the Islands on being passed over for cabinet again. I am sorry, I am misreading it. This is a petition in support of Bill C-257. It is a private member's bill I have tabled that seeks to protect the fundamental rights of Canadians by adding political belief and activity as prohibited grounds …
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Madam Speaker, the member is wrong, and I will explain the difference again. Conservatives would tie existing funding to results, and we would use this money to put it back into the pockets of Canadians in the form of a significant tax cut. We would provide tax relief to Canadians, and we would use existing funds to incentivize the construction of new homes. That is completely different from the g…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I believe the rules require a petition to be addressed to the House or the government. The Leader of the Opposition will soon be Prime Minister. He is not Prime Minister yet. I wonder if it is in order for a petition to be addressed to a person who is not the Prime Minister, the government or the House.
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Mr. Speaker, my next petition is from folks who are deeply concerned about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China. The petitioners share some of the history of that persecution and call on the House to strongly condemn this persecution, continue to take steps to combat that persecution, and express its solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners, who see…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to my children for abruptly hanging up on them. I am pleased to be back in the House to be able to speak about this important report on homelessness. I will start by following up on comments made by the member for Kingston and the Islands, who actually admitted what the government's so-called housing accelerator program does. He admitted it does not build homes. Let us b…
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Mr. Speaker, during committee and just now, the Minister of Indigenous Services refused to defend her colleague, the pretend-indigenous Minister of Employment. The Minister of Employment pretended to be indigenous so that his company could steal contracts from indigenous communities and businesses. While the Prime Minister continues to be the defender of the pretender, even his cabinet colleagues …
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Mr. Speaker, the report on forced labour uses very strong language to denounce the government's failures. It describes the government's failures to take seriously the issue of forced labour as deplorable. I note that in the committee meeting where this report was adopted, the Liberal chair of that committee, the member for Humber River—Black Creek, voted in favour of the motion. We have a Liberal …
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Madam Speaker, the point of order took much more time than I intended to take. The petition I was just tabling highlights a call for Ukrainian youth to access the Canada summer jobs program.
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Madam Speaker, I will conclude with a petition in support of Bill C-257, which would ban discrimination on the basis of political belief or activity. The petitioners want to see the House support Bill C-257 to protect Canadians from political discrimination.
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Mr. Speaker, it is very gracious of colleagues to finally give me the time I need to table a sufficient number of petitions. The first petition highlights the horrific persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China. We table these petitions regularly, but there are a number of practitioners and leaders of the Falun Gong community on the Hill today, and I think all member…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition I am tabling highlights the situation in Ukraine, as it is 1,000 days since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I join colleagues in deploring that invasion and in calling for strong action to deliver the support to Ukraine, weapons and other forms of support, that it urgently needs and to do so without delay. The petitioners further highlight some of the inconsist…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals are repeatedly taking issue with our efforts to get ministers to come to committee to be held accountable for the Liberal indigenous contracting scandal. In fact, the indigenous affairs committee had ministers before it who simply refused to answer questions. In committee, all opposition parties agreed to order ministers, in particular the Minister of Indigenous Service…
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Prince Harry, or both actually. Madam Speaker, kidding aside, this is a very serious issue and the minister needs to be held accountable. He needs to resign for his deplorable conduct. We need to continue to do the work at committee to get to the bottom of these outrageous abuses, taking advantage of these programs by elite, privileged insiders pretending to be indigenous, including right up to th…
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Madam Speaker, there are actually early reports out that the Minister of Employment was trying to get into the game for free by pretending to be Prince William.
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