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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. I can assure my colleague that the Conservative Party had no position on that debacle at that point in time. He should retract that comment and make sure that he is actually giving a speech that actually speaks to Canadians and not just to his own followers for a clip.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech, but I have heard this speech several times today. It seems to be an excuse mechanism on why we do not need to deal with this as forcefully as we should. This was $65 million of taxpayers' money that disappeared to a group, which was previously at the bar of the House of Commons. I remember, at that point in time, the Liberal Party across the way wa…
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Mr. Speaker, I think you have to give some consideration to all the things that happen in the House. We are still reeling from the comments from the other side, so we are just getting our thoughts together. I hope you will entertain me while we get a little point of order and get some things happening again in the House. I really appreciate your entertaining my interjection here.
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Mr. Speaker, the average Canadian family is going to spend $800 more on food this year because of Liberal inflationary spending. The Calgary Food Bank organizers say that 65% of working Calgarians are now experiencing severe food insecurity. What affects this, of course, is bad government budgeting. Deficits lead to inflation, and the government plans to spend 8% more this coming year. The Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, to help the minister again, the answer is $46.5 billion. How much did the government miss that estimate by last year?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is $25.6 billion. It has nearly doubled in 10 years. Of the $49 billion, what does it represent for each of the 16.9 million households in Canada?
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Mr. Speaker, does the minister see the government's taxation revenue growing by 10% per year?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer, of course, is $1,800 per household, so it has gone up significantly. The Parliamentary Budget Officer foresees the interest on Canadian government debt growing by around 10% per year for the foreseeable future. Does the minister see the economy growing by 10% per year?
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Mr. Speaker, given this, does the minister understand that he has inherited a debt spiral from his Liberal predecessors in finance?
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Mr. Speaker, is it the minister's plan to kick this debt spiral problem down the road?
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Mr. Speaker, is it the minister's plan to masquerade Canada's debt problem with the reclassification of debt announced by the Prime Minister?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is $49 billion. How much did the government forecast to spend on interest in the year's estimates last year?
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Mr. Speaker, the answer, of course, is $2 billion more than it forecast in the estimates last year. How fast has that interest expense grown over the past 10 years?
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Mr. Speaker, what is the Government of Canada going to spend on interest payments this fiscal year?
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Mr. Speaker, it is $2,900 per Canadian household. How much did these Canadian households spend on interest on Canadian government debt 10 years ago?
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Mr. Speaker, how much did the government forecast to spend on interest in last year's estimates?
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Mr. Speaker, that is a record stuck on skip, but Canadians are now facing the consequences of the Liberal government's economic drift. Oxford Economics says that Canada is heading into a recession with 200,000 more job losses and unemployment reaching 7.7% this year. Full-time workers are turning to food banks in record numbers, and mortgage defaults are rising. Meanwhile, the Liberal government w…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I challenge the member on the other side of the House who raised the point of order. Frankly, I gave a 30-second summation of a petition two days ago, and he stood up and interrupted that one because he did not want to hear it at that point in time either. If he does not want to hear summations of petitions, then let the summation be what—
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Mr. Speaker, last night, this House delivered a clear verdict: The Liberal government must table a budget. The Prime Minister is asking Canadians to blindly approve over half a trillion dollars in spending with no plan, no transparency and no accountability. The Prime Minister promised to cap spending at 2% and then shattered that promise and jacked it up to 8%. What do Canadians get in return? Th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of Canadians who are lamenting the fact that there is no budget going into the summer holiday the government plans to take without presenting to Canadians how it is going to be spending their hard-earned tax dollars. The petitioners talk about this being the first time in Canadian history that a legacy government has not presented a spring …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of Canadians who are lamenting the fact that the government is going to go right into its summer holidays without presenting a budget to Canadians about how Liberals are spending their hard-earned tax dollars. This is the first time this has happened in Canadian history, especially with a legacy government.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague from Quebec on his return to the House of Commons. What a great achievement. I believe this is his second term in the House of Commons. Immigration is a federal government program that coexists alongside provincial government programs. I know that Quebec has a more elaborate program than some of the other provinces, but all the provinces still have to work …
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Mr. Speaker, welcome to the Speaker's chair. Today I will be splitting my time with the member for Long Range Mountains. It will be her premier speech in the House. For many of us, it is our first time rising in this House of Parliament. I want to welcome everybody to the 45th Parliament. I thank the voters of Calgary Centre for sending me here for a third mandate, in the 45th Parliament. I have m…
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Mr. Speaker, every government has to make choices. The continuation of blowing Canadians' money is putting a burden on future generations of Canadians. It is putting a burden on inflation. It is creating a monetary mess in this country. We are going to have to address it. We do have to make choices, and yes, as the member will probably know, even my party during this election projected deficits fo…
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Mr. Speaker, it is one of the most fundamentally imperative jobs of the House of Commons to hold the government to account for the spending it is going to undertake. Right now the government thinks it is going to have a blank cheque for the next year, so it has to put its election promise on the table. However, now it is not actually being accountable at all, as 150 days from the time the governme…
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Mr. Speaker, let me welcome my new colleague to the House of Commons. It is always great to have one's first speech the first time one is in the House of Commons. I apologize; I did not recognize the member. I thought it was the twin brother of the member who held that seat before him, who said exactly the opposite things in the previous Parliament, which ran this country up to a $1.3-trillion deb…
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Madam Speaker, I really enjoyed my colleague's speech. I want to ask him a question because he did touch on carbon taxation and the effect it is having on our citizens and on our economy. A short time ago, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development gave a quote when he reported on one of his audits. He said, “The recent decreases to projected 2030 emissions were not due to cli…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control of spending and his cabinet. A former adviser to two prime ministers, Robert Asselin, has said the rising debt burden limits Canada's ability to act during future economic slowdowns and unforeseen circumstances. The Minister of Finance set a fiscal guardrail of a $40.1-billion deficit in her last budget, which looks drastically off the rails. This i…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the speech and I would just follow up on the last question. I do find the Prime Minister in contempt of Parliament, several times, since I have been here five years and not 19 like my colleague. If the NDP put forward a motion to find the Prime Minister in contempt, which NDP party does he think would show up, the one that actually is an opposition party or th…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a minister who has never seen a cheque he did not want to sign of Canadian taxpayer dollars. Former Liberal adviser Robert Asselin also stated, “You can't pick and choose fiscal anchors as you go, and renege on a commitment you made only a year ago”. There is a huge disconnect here. The Prime Minister wants to spend his way to popularity and the finance minister is trying to h…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sorry that my colleague across the way misunderstood my question, but we are talking about real metrics here, not hoped-for inventions that will come along in the next little while. This is six years down the road the Liberals are talking about with this cap, in 2030 versus 2024, and a million-barrel cut from what we are producing now, which is a significant part of the economy o…
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Mr. Speaker, my question from November 8 was on the doublespeak on the government's oil and gas production cut. The parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, at that point in time, responded by telling me that “[the] energy sector can increase its production while decreasing its emissions.” I actually agree with that part, and I point to the decrease in carbon emissions per barrel demo…
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Madam Speaker, the first thing the government has to get right is the basics. For Canadians, that is food and shelter. After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, these costs are way up. Housing costs have doubled; even more, basic food costs continue to escalate, and food bank usage is up 90%. “Let them eat cake” is not an effective strategy. Escalating deficits are the root cause of inflatio…
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Madam Speaker, the member keeps trying to talk about putting band-aids on the wounds his economic policies are causing, but step one is to reverse inflationary policies and cancel the carbon tax, which hikes the price of food, fuel and rent. Food inflation has skyrocketed by over 36% in the past eight years. Higher deficits lead to higher inflation and a weaker Canadian dollar, leading to more inf…
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Madam Speaker, I take some exception to how my colleague across the way just responded to my other colleague on this side of the house. We all believe there is climate change going on here, and no matter what the narrative of his party is, we actually understand what to do about it. His party has been failing at it for nine years now, quite frankly, because they are spending money and getting abso…
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Madam Speaker, I will dispel a few myths that the member threw at us. He said thousands of pages of records have been provided. These were thousands of pages of blacked-out documents. This is not transparency at all. This is the way the government actually operates, and it has to change. As far as the RCMP goes, we all know that the RCMP can ignore evidence. It has not given any indication that it…
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Madam Speaker, in the House there are two official languages: English and French. I do not understand what the member means by “coded language”. If she could—
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Mr. Speaker, I heard the speech from the member on the other side. This is a motion that really just says that if a member says something in the House of Commons, says something to the Canadian people, says something to their electoral base, then they have to be held to account for that. We are actually siding with the NDP on this motion and asking them to put their motions where their mouth is, o…
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Madam Speaker, I think the member for Edmonton Strathcona just reiterated a mistruth in the House, and it is up to you to make sure she withdraws that comment.
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Mr. Speaker, I took my colleague up on his challenge about looking at Canada's growth rate versus the other G7 countries. I noticed that, since 2015, when the government came in, this country's performance has shown less than half of the cumulative GDP growth that the United States has accomplished. That is the main metric we have to look at, not European countries that have gone through a major p…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to see my colleague attacking the Liberals, who are not accomplishing anything on the environment. He is right about that. However, he continued by saying that the Canadian government gave $50 billion to the oil industry. That is a joke. The government gave almost nothing to the most productive sector in Canada. My colleague needs to take another look at the facts.
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Madam Speaker, I do not know where the member is getting his facts either because the government does not give any money to executives of petroleum companies across the country. It is a productive sector and when it is doing well, all the employees do well. When it is doing poorly, we can take a look at the employment losses over the last eight years while we were in Parliament. It has only bounce…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleagues today for debating concurrence in a committee report from the environment department on the path forward. In relation to this, one of the main things we come at in our dissenting report is that despite claiming that the cost of carbon tax would address climate change, the current Liberal government has failed to meet any carbon climate target. This is something…
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Madam Speaker, it the first time I have heard that complaint. I apologize. I do have pages here, and I do have to flip them; we do go from significant preparation here. However, I will put this away and just go from what I know of the subject matter as opposed to the notes I have. We have done a lot in this country. We have overspent tens of billions of dollars in this effort and gotten nowhere. W…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know how to respond to the member, because I think I have answered every question he has ever asked in the House of Commons. I will say to him again, in direct response to what he said, that I do not know where he is getting his numbers, because the numbers I have seen very clearly, from his government's department, on emissions in Canada is that we are now around where we …
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Madam Speaker, going back to the debate and what the member said in his speech, what does he think the government is trying to hide in this $400-million scandal we are talking about today where the Liberals refuse to produce the documents? Is he speculating at all about what companies are involved and how much additional money, beyond the $400 million, the government has siphoned off to its friend…
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Madam Speaker, I have a question for my colleague from Quebec, who made a good speech here in the House of Commons. I always enjoy his speeches. My question is this. How much money will we find in the documents that the Liberals must hand over to Parliament as soon as possible?
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Mr. Speaker, even a Prime Minister who does not think much about monetary policy told us this past May, “As soon as you [send people extra money], inflation goes up by...that amount.” The government is now proposing to increase inflation and punch our deficit and debt higher. That is like a pyromaniac dressing up as a firefighter. The most inflationary tax is the carbon tax. Will the Liberals call…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are falling far behind. The government has dragged our economic performance down to just two-thirds of that of the United States. This is costing Canadians on everything they buy, and paycheques have not kept up with the inflation the government has caused. A recession is defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I felt compelled to rise today because of the member's speech. I really appreciate the speech he gave. I want to apologize to him on behalf of the House for the comments he endured during question period today. They were beyond the pale of anything I have seen in the House so far, and he did not deserve that. Frankly, I think the Speaker should have the member who made those comments,…
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