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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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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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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, 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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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 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, I thank my colleague for the responses he gave to my question. I do not think they are proper responses; there are a whole bunch of holes in what he has provided here. Number one, the RCMP is the agency looking into whether there will be charges here to press or not. All we are providing, at the end of the day, is the unredacted documents. Those unredacted documents right now are unav…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the tone brought to the question by my colleague on the other side of the House. I do not agree that the issue is something we should just push off to a committee at this point in time. The committees are actually not working well. We want the documents now in Parliament, not at committee for examination and for pushing down the road, as the case may be. The documents wer…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising to ask a follow-up question to a question I had about a month ago in the House of Commons. We are listening to all kinds of stuff, and this pertains to the debate we had today, which was about providing documents to the House of Commons on the green slush fund, the SDTC scandal. What we are trying to get, of course, is real information that the government has to provide fr…
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Mr. Speaker, it is something I confess I have not looked at. I think anything that provides us with better information in this House of Commons is going to be good for the outcome, which of course is good government for all Canadians at the end of the day and making sure we have that information available. What I am seeking today in this speech is the information from the government on a $400-mill…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I am going to address one thing. The member should never put words in my mouth. If he wants them to stick, he can say them from his own mouth. Everybody knows the climate is changing. It is something people are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. I hope you discipline him, Mr. Speaker, because that is just absolute nonsense, and I would like him to withdraw that comment.…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her interesting question. Are the Conservatives the ones causing this obstruction right now? I think it is the government that is systematically obstructing the House by not turning over the documents that we as parliamentarians need to do our work. If the Bloc Québécois does not want to have the information that the government has a responsibility to provide …
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Mr. Speaker, $100 million a day is based on the reduction of a million barrels a day of export capacity towards our main trading partner, the United States of America. It is based on the price of oil, obviously, that is going to be there at times and not there at times. We could say that between $60 million and $120 million will be the amount. Multiply that by 365 days and there is a whole bunch o…
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to be the member for Calgary Centre. My friend is actually the member for Calgary Confederation. He and I collaborate on a lot of things because we are both the downtown members from Calgary. We have great constituents. We are here tonight, again, because the government refuses to turn over documents the Speaker demanded. The Speaker demanded that the government provide the…
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Madam Speaker, I will quote Canada's destructive environment minister. He said, “Look around the world, no other...oil and gas producer is doing what we’re doing.” One could wonder why; one could also ask why he ignored the warnings of the economic destruction this Canadian energy cap would cause while offering no environmental benefit. Any reduction in Canada will automatically be met by supply f…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government has shown again that it is not worth the cost. This week, the government announced a new policy, a cap on the Canadian economy. Since 2015, the United States has increased oil and gas production by 40%, which is much more than Canada has done. The world needs Canadian oil and gas. With the incoming U.S. administration promising to unleash…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the preamble and the actual question. However, my colleague is sort of saying, “We want to do indirectly what we could do more efficiently directly,” and he has some RCMP friend who tells him he is uncomfortable with this process. We are Parliament and our job here is not to make somebody comfortable. There has been some very serious corruption and we want to get to the b…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a good question. I know everybody in this House wants to do well for the Canadians they represent. Whatever program that is, I am certain they want to deliver it. I will put on the table, pushing back to my colleague across the way, that if we tell Canadians there is a new, free program but their kids are going to pay for it 20 years down the road, with interest along the way,…
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Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of things we are not dealing with in this Parliament because the government digs its feet in the sand and is not going to abide by the rules of Parliament. It is not us who set those rules. It is the Speaker's rule, saying no other order of business shall be dealt with in this House until this matter has been dealt with, because the rules of Parliament say these docume…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank all my colleagues for the financial advice they give me in the House. I appreciate it. The issue of what is investing and what is spending is nonsense. Governments are not investing right now. Governments are spending like crazy. It is not an investment to say, “We are spending everybody's money today, but do not worry about it in the future.” It is gross overspending, and the…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of concerned citizens and residents of Calgary regarding the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline rooted in truth, compassion and tolerance, and it is practised by diverse communities across our nation. Since 1999, practitioners of Falun Gong have endured a brutal campaign against them, resul…
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Mr. Speaker, as I rise today, I follow a great speech by my colleague from Aldergrove, British Columbia. The member is a lawyer who has had a great deal of sophisticated input into the debate we have been having in the House over the last number of weeks. I am very appreciative of what he brings to the table as far as his legal input goes. We have to make sure that we follow the rules of Parliamen…
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Mr. Speaker, that is an interesting question. This is a rule of Parliament. Who is going to force compliance with the rules of Parliament, other than the opposition? If our Bloc Québécois colleagues want to support us in our campaign to demand the documents from the Government of Canada, I invite them to stick with us. It is important to have the documents, for all of us here in Parliament. It is …
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Madam Speaker, there was a whole bunch of misinformation. There were some facts in there, but there was a whole bunch of fiction as well, and I will go through some of that. Number one, the OECD predicts Canada being one of the worst-performing economies over the next decade. He can reference that. When he talked about the IMF's status about where Canada sits, he completely misled this House and C…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's comments, particularly his faith that we still have the best country in the world, which we are going to turn around. I would ask the member what metrics he would like to show us that show, in the nine years the government has been in power, how much crime has risen, how much unemployment has risen, how much the economy has gone down in Canada, how much fur…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak to a question I raised in the House back in the spring session, shortly after the budget was delivered, when the government issued more debt and extended the debt it was going to visit upon Canadians. I asked that because the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions talked about follow-on risks of the added debt the government was bringing into the fina…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Carbon tax Carney's appointment as the de facto finance minister is more of the same boondoggle the government is famous for. Almost immediately, a $10-billion contribution to one of the companies he serves on was announced, shovelling an extra $200 million per year to Brookfield …
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Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise today in the House, the day after by-elections in two provinces in Canada. There are some commonalities in these two outcomes. In both ridings, the Conservative vote went up by 50% from the last general election. In addition, as in the election in June, when a Conservative was elected in Toronto—St. Paul's, another safe Liberal riding turned out to be not s…
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Madam Speaker, that is something I am not too familiar with, but does the member have an example we could discuss? I am on board with discussing this with him. Maybe there are many examples of situations to draw from. We could look at a certain situation, but here we are developing a policy for all immigrants in Canada. I would be happy to look at this with my friend.
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Madam Speaker, nine years would be a long time for a problem to exist, but somebody should have fixed something in nine years if that problem actually occurred nine years ago. If it was created nine years ago, I would ask this of my colleague on that side: Why did her party support the party that brought it to the House and voted, every one of them, for the same motion.
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask my colleague about the actual unconstitutionality of the bill. The bill came from a ruling of unconstitutionality from the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, which is a lower court in Ontario. Six months ago, it did not advance to the Court of Appeal in Ontario. Some judges may actually have some other, perhaps more experienced views on what is constitutional and …
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