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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 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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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, there is more proof that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost nor the corruption. The department of immigration is in disarray. Canada's once-respected immigration system is another casualty of the government's failures. The Liberals have issued a passport to a convicted human smuggler responsible for the deaths of eight migrants, despite a court order forbidding it and th…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is always entertaining, and he always gets to make up some of his facts. Let us talk about that. He is looking at the number of jobs that were cut from the CBSA by the previous Harper government, which cut 1,000 jobs from 14,000 to 13,000 and then put them right back to 14,000, where it continued until two years ago. If the facts were on the table as opposed to the rhetoric…
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Mr. Speaker, I will rise to address my colleague across the way when he says nobody asked what he was talking about. Let me ask, what the heck are you talking about? This is a fantasy you spew in the House of Commons that there is all kinds of conspiracy behind the scenes in what Conservatives are trying to do. We are trying to get things done in the House. We would like you to stop impeding gover…
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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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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, no character assassination was intended here. What we are trying to do is get accountability for government, which does not exist with the government right now. We have made that quite clear over the last handful of weeks as the green slush fund needs to present its documents in regard to conflicts of interest and investments in insiders' companies. That needs to be disclosed to Can…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Can I ask for a quorum call? And the count having been taken:
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to address a question. On September 9 of this year, before Parliament came back in session, the Liberal Party of Canada, not the Government of Canada, asked Mark “carbon tax” Carney to join the Liberals as a special economic adviser to advise on the economics of the country. Again, this is not the Government of Canada, but the Liberal Party of Canada, and that is to avo…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Crime is up in Toronto, with shootings up 45% and gun-related homicides up 62% since last year. While the Prime Minister celebrates on social media, police associations are condemning his failed handgun policy. The Toronto Police Association said, “Criminals did not get your messag…
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Mr. Speaker, when the member responded on social media to similar claims, the Toronto Police Association said, “We are sharing data about gun violence in Toronto. These facts represent the work of our members and the lives of victims. Shame on anyone who suggests otherwise.” After nine years, violent gun crime has doubled in Canada. In Calgary, it has quadrupled. That is the Liberal record. Will t…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am just wondering how long you were going to let the member give his speech for, when he should have been asking a question.
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Madam Speaker, the current Parliament has been here for three years now. We have, hopefully, just another year to put up with the government. Hopefully it ends sooner than that, quite frankly, because there has been a litany of what we deem to be corruption. We are trying to get it to the police. Can my colleague from Saskatchewan please give us some relative terms as far as any other government i…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague touched on a number of fairly important issues that are also impacted by what the government is trying to do in withholding documents from the House of Commons. This is a matter, as he and the government know, of parliamentary supremacy in what we get to see. I will remind the government again that Parliament has the right to demand documents and that the Speaker has rule…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Speaker ruled that the government violated a House order to turn over evidence about the latest $400-million Liberal scandal, effectively obstructing justice. We have heard new excuses for weeks about why the ruling should not be respected. What smoking gun is in those documents…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a load of Stove Top stuffing. This is the latest in a series of scandals involving Liberal insiders riding the gravy train, mashing the truth, stuffing their pockets with taxpayer money and treating Canadians like turkeys. Parliament has demanded these documents. The Speaker ordered that they be provided. The Liberal government believes that it is above the rules. Canadians ar…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her great question. If we form the government, we will work with all stakeholders to ensure that Canadians see accountability and transparency for all government spending. That is one thing. As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. That is why we would release this information.
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Madam Speaker, I will respond to my colleague, and I know that sometimes I irritate him when I do. We are not holding up Parliament. The order was for the Liberals to provide the documents to Parliament unredacted and they refuse to do so. The Speaker said that we are not going to deal with any other business of the House until this is finally dealt with. We are awaiting those documents and we ask…
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Mr. Speaker, there are a couple things the member said in that question. She saw that document today, and it has been commented on for two weeks here. I wonder why she did not looked at it sooner. However, we are not the government; we are Parliament. Those members are the government. The government is the front bench on that side of the House. That front bench is not supposed to direct the RCMP. …
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Madam Speaker, I did make reference to the sponsorship scandal in my speech, but I had to cut a couple of pages of it out to fit my speech into the time allotted. My colleague is exactly right. It coalesced Canadians on how their government was working. There were no checks and balances on money going out the door from the Liberal government at the time and money going in the back door through pol…
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Mr. Speaker, a number of my constituents have contacted me regarding this issue, and it is important that we address this series of troubling events, which have not only shaken the foundation of our parliamentary democracy, but also revealed a disturbing pattern of corruption within the Liberal government, highlighting a consistent disregard for the principles of transparency and accountability, w…
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Madam Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague that this is a smokescreen. The government is not giving us the truth in order to avoid the powers of Parliament. I do not know why the Liberals want to circumvent the powers of Parliament because Parliament is very important for democracy in Canada. They have to hand over the documents to Parliament, who will hand them over to the RCMP. The role…
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Mr. Speaker, I have gone through a very extensive illustration of exactly how corruption has been part of the Liberal government as long as I have been in this Parliament, for five years. At the end of the term here it will be six years. We have gone through the ad scam, and it was the Paul Martin government that fell for that, recognizing it fell over a $4-million scandal. Now, $4 million is a he…
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Mr. Speaker, we have more proof that the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost, the crime or the corruption. The Speaker has ruled that the NDP-Liberal government violated a House order to turn over evidence for a criminal investigation into its latest $400-million scandal, effectively obstructing justice. The refusal to respect the ruling has paralyzed the House, sidelining our efforts to …
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Madam Speaker, I have a late show again tonight and it is predicated on a question I asked back in May after the government's budget on the accumulating deficits it has drawn on this country. Parliamentary secretaries for the government at that time told me that there was no problem as Canada was still very highly rated in the world with the best fiscal record. Let us address some of that in this …
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Madam Speaker, Canada has dropped its interest rate. The Bank of Canada has dropped it three times in a row now, and Canada has led the world because Canada's economy is leading the world in going down. Of course, we are entering an absolute recession, and not just a GDP-per-capita recession. The recession is on the horizon. I hope it does not happen. Nevertheless, something is on the horizon here…
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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, 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, I thank my colleague for the numbers, but the numbers have to be correct at the end of the day. I was hoping she would listen to my speech, because the 40% she is stating is actually a fabrication. She is using Canadians' assets as collateral. Would she propose to go into their private pension plans in order to get the balance she is looking for here, the 40%? On the numbers she sta…
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Madam Speaker, that is exactly one of the concerns we have. How many people are we dealing with this actual opening up of the immigration system in Canada? We have asked the question of the minister. We have asked the question of the department. Nobody knows. So there is—
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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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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, I agree with my colleague that actions speak louder than words, so let us talk about actions here. Let us talk about how we are actually dealing with Canadians. Let us talk about the substantive test that made this ruling unconstitutional. That was the action of the Liberal government, which has been unable to deliver any efficiency in getting people through the immigration process.…
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Madam Speaker, I thank you very much for allowing me to speak here tonight. I appreciate my colleagues who are here. Let me address this escalating problem we have with government debt in Canada. I asked a question a long time ago in which I really tried to nail down the government on its debt-to-GDP ratio calculation, which is a fabrication. Canadians understand what debt costs them and the mount…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to this motion to make sure that we continue to look into this as much as we can. We have to ensure that Canadians get their eyes on it and that the government does not bury it under the floor one more time and say that while it is incompetent, it is not guilty of anything. Well, incompetence is guilt in itself. It is $60 million that we have identified so far …
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the name-calling and vitriol. I apologize if I have gotten under his skin one more time. It seems like it is a habit here. We need a government that is accountable. That was the entire perspective of my speech. I hope he listened to some of the words I said, rather than just speak off his cheap little talking notes. We need accountability in government and h…
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Madam Speaker, that is a good question. We will have a Conservative government in the near future, and we will work in the public interest to ensure that Canadians' money is spent as wisely as possible. I am sure my colleague will work with us to ensure that these funds are well spent.
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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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With regard to costs incurred by the government related to court cases and hearings associated with the deportation order or former deportation order of Muhammad Zain UI Haq: what are the costs incurred to date, including any legal costs as well as costs related to administering the hearings or court cases, in total and broken down by type of cost and action related to the expense (federal appeal,…
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With regard to government funding of non-governmental organizations or groups, from November 4, 2015, to the present: (a) how much money has the government allocated to Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors and what are the details, including, the (i) department, agency or other government entity, (ii) date of the funding, (iii) amount and deliverables expected; (b) of the allocations in (a), which one…
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Mr. Speaker, I usually enjoy the speeches from the member on the other side of the House. I often refer to him in public as the “minister of finance” because I think he knows more about finance than anybody on that bench. However, that speech was a ramble. I do not know if it is just because it is Monday and he had not prepared to be here, but he talked about a lot of things, including the capital…
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