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Mr. Speaker, folks in Windsor have already started diversifying, and they started diversifying over 10 years ago. However, the uncertainty that the last year and a half has brought is something that is unprecedented. They were looking to the government for some solutions, because the Liberals promised them. They said, “We will have a deal by July 21. Don't you worry. We will have the best deal.” M…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is simple. Canada's auto sector has declined over 30% in production, while manufacturing jobs have barely grown, despite millions more in this country. That tells us that the current approach is not working. What we are proposing is grounded in common sense. If people want to sell cars in Canada, they should be building them here. By tying market access to production, redu…
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Mr. Speaker, can I answer? The sad truth is that our production capacity has declined significantly. The U.S. is manufacturing 10 million vehicles, meanwhile consuming 13 million. We are producing one million and consuming two million, and Mexico is leading. We need to do better.
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Mr. Speaker, that is a fantastic question. I still speak with people who used to work when the auto pact was in place. My uncle worked at the Ford Motor Company for nearly 40 years. My other uncle worked at Chrysler for nearly 35 years. They know what that plan was, and they still harken back to it and say, “We wish we had the auto pact.” We talk to people in Windsor—
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today not with an abstract theory but with a testimony, the testimony of men and women who rise before dawn, who punch in, who build, who weld, who assemble and who simply ask only this of their country and its leaders: Stand with them as they stand for their nation. I speak for the good people of Windsor, Oshawa, Kitchener, Oakville, Ingersoll, Simcoe—Grey, Brampton and New Te…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague has just given a fantastic, passionate speech. The chief of the largest police service in this country says that the laws that govern hate crime already exist and that they just need to be used. Would the added legislation help this process any further, or would it make things more confusing for law enforcement officers who are out there in the middle of the country and m…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's sovereignty is not negotiable, but foreign conflicts are spilling onto our streets. Three synagogues have been shot up this past week. An Iranian dissident has disappeared, and the police think he may have been killed. However, the Liberals are patting themselves on the back because they removed one Iranian official linked to the IRGC. There are hundreds more on our streets. …
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Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the comment. Let us say, for instance, I am upset about something and 10 other folks here are upset about something and I call the police. Now those police officers have to respond to my complaints with respect to a hate crime. That is going to compound the whole aspect of response times for police agencies when they have much better things to do. They have extortion, homic…
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Mr. Speaker, I will begin with something that unites every member of the House: Hatred is corrosive, hatred is destructive and hatred has no place in Canada. Anyone who has served in uniform, as I did for nearly three decades, has seen the damage hatred can inflict on families, on neighbourhoods and on entire communities. Hatred tears at the social fabric. It replaces trust with suspicion. It turn…
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No, Mr. Speaker, I did not get the cookies from his mom yet, but I am waiting. Given my colleague's long-standing work on issues of government accountability and protecting Canadian values, can he share his perspective on Bill C-9 and what we should do to confront real hate while safeguarding the freedoms and the ability of people to express themselves in a thoughtful way without compromising thei…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to take a different tack. Let us say this legislation does pass for some reason. How many cops would be needed to address every call that comes in to say that somebody pissed someone off. Pardon my language, Mr. Speaker—
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna is a thoughtful and principled member of the House.
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First and foremost, Mr. Speaker, no politician is allowed to tell a police officer what to do, end of story. Second, the laws as they exist now are more than sufficient to deal with the issues we are talking about. We do not need additional laws. We need clarity. We need rules of evidence that help enforce these laws, not additional legislation that is going to cause more confusion. A policeman ou…
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Mr. Speaker, we are a faith-based people across Parliament and across this country. We need to let people practise their faith as they choose. We cannot go out to censor them and tell them to compromise their values and beliefs just because we do not like what they just said or what they just talked about. That is not the Canada we want to live in.
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Mr. Speaker, I always listen to my communities and to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Myron Demkiw, the chief of police for Toronto, said that the laws that are needed to address hate already exist. We do not need more laws. We just need the courage to enforce them and the courage to carry on. Instead of being drawn by political pressures, we need to use what we already have in front of …
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Mr. Speaker, around the world, there are few festivals as instantly recognizable as Holi. Streets become rivers of vibrant colour as music and dancing fill the air, but beyond the colour and celebration lies something deeper, the timeless reminder of the triumph of good over evil, of light over darkness, and the renewal for a brighter future. As a proud member of the Indian diaspora who has made C…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, the asylum system has become so overwhelmed that the Immigration and Refugee Board eliminated key safeguards. Nearly 25,000 claims were approved without an in-person interview, and in some cases decisions were issued without a direct conversation with an official, which is ridiculous. These policies were put in place when senior members of the current gov…
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Mr. Speaker, workers in Windsor, Canada's automotive capital, are being hit by unjustified U.S. tariffs, while Liberal subsidies and Canadian tax dollars are paying for American-built cars. Investment is leaving Canada. Can the Leader of the Opposition explain how a Canada-first Conservative plan for ending subsidies of foreign-made vehicles and cutting the GST on Canadian-built cars would protect…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like the member to clearly explain how she can say that we are forcing Canadian workers to subsidize Trump-made cars, yet we have no clear strategy of our own to help our own workers. What can she tell Windsor workers that she can do for them to protect their jobs and help our economy first, rather than helping other countries, especially the U.S., when it has declared a trade…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not going to help anybody except Mr. Trump and Trump's America. It is not going to help Canadians. It is not going to help the workers who have been laid off, and there are more than 5,000. There are other workers. I mentioned the Can Art extrusion company in Windsor, which laid off 250 people because it did not have work anymore. There are multiple companies like that, which …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House and speak for the decent and hard-working people of Windsor West. On their behalf, I would like to extend my heartfelt condolences to the good people of Tumbler Ridge as they go through the most challenging time of their lives. Windsor is a border city. For us, when trade works, we work. When a trade war starts, Windsor is on the front lines…
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Mr. Speaker, Ontario aluminum extrusion plants consume roughly 1.3 billion dollars' worth of aluminum from Quebec. Can Art, a company in Windsor, Ontario, has laid off 250 workers because the EV Ford truck is not being produced anymore. It started a plant worth $60 million that is sitting idle because of the tariffs imposed by our friends to the south. This is what we are doing to our own companie…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc has repeatedly said that taxpayer dollars should go into domestic manufacturing and not subsidize foreign competitors. The member has raised questions on climate change, which is important, but climate policy has to work in the real world economy, not an imaginary world. Can the member explain how shutting down Canadian plants, laying off workers in Canada and importing EVs f…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a fantastic question. Here is the answer. Last year, with respect to the Dodge Charger EV that my friends opposite referred to, only about 7,000 of them were made. A little over 500 were sold in Canada and 7,000 were sold in the U.S. It was a losing proposition for Stellantis, which stopped production on it and has not decided if it will restart production this year. The Pacif…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has committed $2.3 billion to subsidizing EVs, yet most EVs sold in Canada are made outside our country. The industry minister herself admitted that only one EV is made in Canada. Canadians are being forced to subsidize rebates for American-made cars, while over 5,000 Canadian workers have lost their jobs to U.S. tariffs. Why is the Prime Minister forcing Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in the House to speak on behalf of the hard-working people of Windsor. Today, I want to talk about something that matters to every family in Windsor and to a whole lot of families across this country: food affordability. I am going to speak based on what I witnessed on the front lines of policing a little over a year ago, before I retired. Current eviden…
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Mr. Speaker, I happened to meet a gentleman who runs a greenhouse operation, and his comment was, “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not adding it to a fruit salad.” That is all I have to say about that.
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Mr. Speaker, no matter which professor we talk to, they will tell us the same thing: Prices have gone up. We can ask any mom or dad going out to a grocery store. I consider them to be professors too, because they have been shopping their entire lives. They know the price of groceries has gone up. We do not need an expert or a consultant to tell us that the prices have gone up.
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Mr. Speaker, we have a whole lot of policies that we are going to be addressing or bringing up. First, we should stop adding costs to food at every step of the supply chain. Conservatives would review and roll back federal policies that directly increase the cost of producing, processing, packaging and transporting food. When government adds costs to fertilizer, energy and transportation, these co…
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Mr. Speaker, the simple answer is that prices will go up. The average Canadian is going to suffer because of those policies and regulations. These are hidden in various ways, but we always hear that they are imaginary taxes. There is nothing imaginary about them. We can step outside the House and ask a regular Canadian who has to go grocery shopping how they feel about the grocery prices they are …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Windsor West, and I am grateful for the privilege they have given me by sending me here to the House. I rise today not just as a legislator but also as someone who spent nearly three decades in policing. Of those three decades, two decades were in policing a border community. In Windsor, the border is not a distant concept; it…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a question of fairness. Is it fair to the Canadian public that we are now going to pay for these 14 asylum claimants that my friend referred to, for the next four years? They are going to have their education, housing and health care paid for. Is that fair to the Canadian taxpayer?
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Mr. Speaker, the failures and weaknesses in the system are nothing new. They have been around for a long time and are being exacerbated by the policies instituted and the new legislation brought about by our friends opposite. It is a disgrace to see this kind of legislation being brought forward. It is an insult to the officers working the border posts and the police officers working the border co…
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Mr. Speaker, it is remarkable that, just this past week, I heard that the government sent letters to senior officers, or officers who have several years of experience, offering them voluntary retirement. Meanwhile, it has not taken any steps to hire the 1,000 RCMP officers or the 1,000 CBSA officers it promised us. It is zero, crickets. Even the minister responsible had no idea how many people wou…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the reminder that we elected a new prime minister seven months ago who has only managed to pass one or two bills in that time period. That is a shameful record for any prime minister in the House of Commons. This is not something that I would say is a badge of honour for any politician worth his salt in this chamber. On co-operation, Bill C-2, the predecessor of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour and a profound privilege to rise in the House as the member of Parliament for Windsor West, a community known for its generosity, its diversity and its deep sense of belonging. Representing the people of Windsor West is one of the greatest responsibilities of my lifetime, and I carry their stories, their hopes and their aspirations with me every time I stand her…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a cost to our inaction. Based on the current state of affairs we are facing, our reliance on just one buyer, to whom we have to sell to at a discount no less, we are losing billions of dollars in revenue and thousands of jobs in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland, as well as across this country. We are losing influence on the world stage because other countries use energy…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a quick question for my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill. Should Canadians trust a government that, after 10 years, still cannot manage procurement, cannot control spending, cannot deliver infrastructure, such as the Gordie Howe International Bridge, and cannot provide basic answers in this chamber?
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Mr. Chair, U.S. leaders have been crystal clear about their tariff intentions, and they have made those intentions known for several years. For the government to act like this is news to it is absolutely shocking to me. Can my colleague explain what kind of message it sends to families in Ingersoll or Windsor or Oshawa or St. Catharines when they hear the Prime Minister say, “Who cares?” and that …
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Mr. Chair, my colleague is right that we have been working hard. We have been meeting all kinds of people to allay their fears. However, I can say that there is a lot of anxiety and a lot of despair. There are a lot of missed opportunities as well. The talks are going on, but there are no contracts being signed, because there is a great deal of uncertainty about the trade deals we can negotiate wi…
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Mr. Chair, that is an interesting question. The bottom line is that we cannot impose government-run mandates on people that say they have to buy something. Ours is not a Soviet-style democracy; it is a Canadian democracy where people have the choice to make up their own mind as to what vehicle they are going to buy. Furthermore, is the infrastructure there, for crying out loud? It is not. I would …
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Mr. Chair, would my colleague agree that after 10 years of Liberal policies that blocked pipelines, chased away investment and left us dependent on the U.S. market, Canada is now negotiating from a position of weakness, and workers are paying the price for this weakness?
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Mr. Chair, here is what matters to people in Windsor: making sure auto workers can count on their jobs, their paycheques and their future, and that is exactly where the Liberal government keeps coming up short. While the Prime Minister says things like “Who cares?” and insists that trade with the U.S. is not a burning issue, families in my community are living the consequences: uncertainty and anx…
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Mr. Chair, cities like Windsor, Ingersoll and Oshawa depend on stable, predictable supply chains. Does my hon. colleague from Oxford agree that the government's delays, uncertainty and endless photo ops have made it harder, not easier, for manufacturers to invest and hire? I would also like to hear some stories from him about what people are telling him in his riding in relation to the auto sector…
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Mr. Chair, it is always an honour to rise in the House to speak on behalf of the hard-working people of Windsor. Tonight I want to talk about something that matters to every family in Windsor, and to a whole lot of families across this country, and that is the future of the auto industry. In my community, we do not need contracts or long reports to understand what is going on; we feel it. We hear …
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 long years of Liberal mismanagement, Windsor is still waiting for the Gordie Howe bridge to open. A project that should have been a symbol of national strength is now becoming a monument to Liberal incompetence. The timelines keep shifting, the excuses keep changing and there is zero transparency. Here is the part that worries me the most: When Windsor residents, local busine…
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Mr. Chair, the member opposite spoke of supply chains and CUSMA. She may have heard of the Gordie Howe International Bridge and how it is a lifeline for cross-border trade. However, the government keeps pushing deadlines and ignoring emails from local leaders and public servants like me. Can my colleague outline how her party's leadership would restore competence and accountability to this critica…
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Mr. Chair, it is indeed quite troubling that folks across the way are still claiming that they have a deal coming. Meanwhile, they are not even talking. Does my colleague agree that when the Prime Minister says, “Who cares?”, it sends a dangerous message to auto workers in Windsor, Oshawa, Brampton, London and across Canada that their jobs do not matter to him or his party at all?
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Mr. Speaker, the Feed Ontario hunger report shows that over one million Ontarians went to food banks, for a total of 8.7 million visits, over the last year. That is the highest ever. While Canadians are struggling, the Liberal Prime Minister has handed over billions of dollars to big corporations with zero job guarantees: $400 million to Algoma and 1,000 jobs lost, and $15 billion to Stellantis an…
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Madam Speaker, it is always an honour and a pleasure to rise in this House on behalf of the good people of Windsor West. They are not impressed with this budget implementation act. This is not just another budget for the people of Windsor. It took the government six full months to bring it forward after forming a minority government. It took six months, while families watched the price of milk go …
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