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Mr. Speaker, it would really not be difficult to vote against giving $250 to a person who earns $150,000 a year. If two people with that income live in the same household, they will get $500, when their household income is $300,000 a year. Meanwhile, a single mother who earns $45,000 will get only $250. This is a really poorly targeted measure.
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Mr. Speaker, yes, my little Octave's diapers will cost less this holiday season, but he will be paying for the rest of his life. This inflationary spending comes on top of the $500 billion in Liberal budget appropriations, supported by the Bloc Québécois. It seems that the Liberals' next step is to buy everyone refrigerators. When are the Liberals going to give Canadians back their purchasing powe…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have found yet another way to favour their close personal friends. They are going to be able to celebrate in style at a restaurant or at home by paying no GST on wine, beer and alcohol of all kinds, while the average family is struggling to pay their heating, gas and grocery bills. When will this Prime Minister show some judgment and give Canadians permanent relief by cal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are cutting the GST from beer and wine during the holiday season in the hope that people will forget how bad they are, but Canada's food banks do not have time to celebrate. This Liberal government's priorities are all about pandering for votes. Does the Liberal government understand that Canadians want tax cuts all the time, not just during the holidays?
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Mr. Speaker, child poverty is up in 97% of ridings across the country. One in five children are now living in poverty under this Liberal government. Instead of inviting us out for “a glass of beer, my dear”, as the song goes, here is a common-sense solution to help families: axe the carbon tax for everyone, permanently. That would make it less expensive to pay for gas, groceries and heating during…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by congratulating you on having succeeded in restoring some peace in the House. The government members opposite are calmer than they were during question period. It is a privilege for me to rise once again to discuss the Liberal green fund scandal. It is another opportunity to shed light on the devastation felt by thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast for…
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Mr. Speaker, the green fund scandal just keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the Journal de Montréal reported that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change holds an interest in a Montreal investment firm that received money from the green fund. Between 2020 and 2021, $10.4 million in federal money was paid to four companies in which the minister has personal interests. The more we look, the more…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the two leaders of the “Liberal Bloc” are not worth the cost of housing. Common-sense Conservatives will eliminate the federal sales tax on new homes sold. On an $800,000 home, which cost $400,000 back when our leader was the minister responsible for housing, this tax cut will save buyers $40,000, or $2,200 a year in mortgage payments. When will the two leaders of th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have failed spectacularly on housing. The two leaders of the “Liberal Bloc” have doubled the cost of housing, mortgages and down payments. Because the Liberals have done such a poor job, the common-sense Conservatives will cut $8 billion from the Liberals' failed and ineffective housing program. When our Conservative leader was the minister responsible for housing, he bui…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” is not worth the cost of housing. Rents, mortgage payments and down payments have doubled. The good news is that a Conservative government is going to axe the federal sales tax on new homes sold in Canada. This tax cut will save homebuyers $40,000, or $2,200 a year in mortgage payments, on an $800,000 house. This tax cut will spark 30,000 extra hom…
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Mr. Speaker, if I did something wrong, I apologize. I am sure that my colleague feels so ill at ease in her party that she has the Prime Minister's name ringing in her ears. I will continue. The leader of the Bloc Québécois systematically supported the Prime Minister's measures. This ended up—
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Madam Speaker, Halloween is a great opportunity to rise in the House and tell scary stories about the Liberals and all their close friends who have been collecting candy since 2015. Trust me, there are a lot of them. Over the past nine years, we have dug many skeletons out of Liberal closets and gone on witch hunts to unmask all the Liberal “ghouls”. From the sponsorship scandal to the green fund …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague just has to think back to what I said at the beginning of my speech. I spoke about that then, and I will likely speak about it again at the end. Today, street gangs are distributing drugs in high schools across the province and the country with impunity. I had the misfortune of learning that this phenomenon is also occurring in my riding of Lévis-Lotbinière. The Lévis pol…
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Mr. Speaker, on the subject of safety, I would like to know why this government, which my colleague currently represents, has not worked on the safety of our children for some time. Our schools are under attack by street gangs. They are infiltrated by people who want to sell drugs and destroy the lives of children, parents and our society as a whole. Something must be done. Will this government fi…
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Mr. Speaker, everyone here in the House, or at least, the members on this side and possibly some on the other side, would like to get back to working for the interests of Canadians. Unfortunately, the only way to work for the interests of Canadians is to let Canadians choose their government. We have reached the end of a minority government. Its time is up. Politically speaking, the Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague of how much time has been wasted because of the Bloc Québécois. Since 1993, the Bloc Québécois has passed three bills, changed the names of two ridings and declared a national day. That is the Bloc Québécois's record since 1993.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent question. This member is doing a great job for his region. He has become a legend. We would have to take that $400 million and use it to feed Canadians. Since this government came to power, food banks have been struggling to meet demand. Every month, two million Canadians use food banks. It would take a lot more than that $400 million to feed the…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. I would like my colleague to know that I do not understand the influence that the NDP has right now on the Liberal Party of Canada. It is undoubtedly artificially keeping the Liberal Party in power. Does my colleague want to share his idea of what image this sends?
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Mr. Speaker, I would also like to quote a Mr. Chaplin, one whose first name was Charlie. However, since he was a silent film star, it will be hard for me to quote him. He was as silent as my Liberal colleague has been about this government and all the scandals it has managed to cause over the past nine years. We never heard my colleague denounce the sponsorship scandal. We never heard my colleague…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would like to tell my colleague that she was right; I probably called the Prime Minister by his name. As someone who holds the rules of the House in high regard, I withdraw those words from my speech and I hope she will forgive me without delay.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” proves to us every day that it is not worth the cost of housing. The “Liberal Bloc” has doubled rents, mortgage payments and down payments. Only common-sense Conservatives will remove the GST from new homes. That is $40,000 in savings, or $2,200 a year, in mortgage payments on an $800,000 home. Will the Liberals, backed by the Bloc Québécois, have …
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Mr. Speaker, under the previous Conservative government, our leader built 195,000 housing units. Back then, the average percentage of a family's income spent on housing was 39%. Today, it is 60%. The Liberals' failed housing policies have ruined Canadians' purchasing power. In nine years, $8 billion in Liberal programs have doubled the cost of rent, mortgages, and down payments. When will the Libe…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. As we can see, it is somewhat chilly in the House. Perhaps it is because there are not enough people. I would like a quorum call.
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Mr. Speaker, while the Liberals continue to obstruct Parliament by refusing to hand over the unredacted documents, they have also been caught red-handed awarding a $20-million contract to GC Strategies to develop the ArriveCAN app. That company has only two employees. That is quite the hourly rate. At a time when two million people are lining up at food banks, how many Liberal friends have lined t…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague from Chicoutimi—Le Fjord on his speech. He is a real member of Parliament who works very hard for his constituents. In his speech, he talked about something that caught my attention, specifically, the woodland caribou order. We have often heard my colleague say in the House that 1,400 jobs could be lost and will soon be lost because of an or…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal government supported by the Bloc Québécois, we already knew that the size of the federal government had reached unprecedented proportions. This week, however, we learned that the total number of federal public servants has increased by 42%, with more than 108,000 new employees added to the payroll. Costs have gone up 68% since 2016, with public service…
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Mr. Speaker, you have ruled that the NDP and Liberals violated a House order by refusing to turn evidence over to police for a criminal investigation into the latest $400‑million Liberal scandal. This is paralyzing Parliament. The Liberals' refusal to turn over these documents is an insult to the honesty of everyday citizens. Will the Liberals put an end to the secrecy and hand the evidence over t…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are struggling, well-connected Liberal cronies have never had it so good. The Auditor General identified major failures in SDTC's financing of SMEs. The organization betrayed its noble mission by using its $1‑billion budget to line certain people's pockets. Will the Liberals finally give Canadians the transparency they deserve?
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Mr. Speaker, according to a senior official, there is a lot of negligence and laziness. There is also sheer incompetence, and the situation is simply untenable. The lapses at Sustainable Development Technology Canada are on par with the sponsorship scandal when it comes to allocating funds. Canadians' tax dollars are being squandered without any consideration, and nothing is being done on the othe…
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Mr. Speaker, in the green slush fund scandal, the government is openly refusing to provide the RCMP with the documents it needs to investigate the corruption at SDTC, where, as the Auditor General pointed out, the Liberals allowed their friends to benefit from taxpayers' money. Will the Liberals stop hiding things and provide the evidence to the police so that Parliament can work in the interest o…
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Madam Speaker, that list was relatively long; on the other hand, it was relatively inaccurate. The Senate scandals have all been completely cleared up. The F-35s were bought by the Liberals. It seems to me that there was another one; yes, the Phoenix payroll scandal. It is true that the initiative was launched by the Conservative government, but it was disastrously implemented by the Liberal gover…
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Madam Speaker, it is truly a privilege for me to take part in the debate on this question of privilege today. As members know, I have been in the House since 2006, and history has been repeating itself year after year since the election of the Liberal government. Unfortunately, the scandals have been piling up under this government, and the green fund scandal is just the cherry on top to crown the…
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Madam Speaker, yes, we all need to trust the RCMP and the police. However, it is our duty to give them the documents so that they can complete their investigation. If they receive redacted documents, or if some documents have been withheld, how can we expect RCMP investigators to do their job? I am confident that they will do a good job. We have to do our job here and demand that the documents be …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague threw out a lot of numbers. He seemed relatively well informed, which means there was a lot of transparency. I invite him to ask the Library of Parliament the same questions. He will no doubt get the same answer because all the documents were submitted.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for pointing out my achievements here in the House. It is true that this is very important, because, if members will recall, the Liberals used basically the same strategy in the sponsorship scandal. The money was hidden in a program, and they did not want to disclose where the money was going or what it was being used for. After looking into what was going on an…
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Madam Speaker, with all due respect, I think my colleague is starting to have cognitive problems. The Harper government is the best government Canada has ever had. That government managed to balance the budget, despite the global economic crisis of 2008. The country emerged stronger because we made better investments to get Canadians back to work. Those investments did not create inflation. Let us…
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Mr. Speaker, we learned from the Auditor General that the Prime Minister broke the Conflict of Interest Act by using the green fund managed by Sustainable Development Technology Canada to give gifts to his friends. The Liberals have refused the Conservative Party's legitimate request to hand over the documents related to this slush fund to the RCMP so that it can conduct its investigation. These L…
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Madam Speaker, what we are going to cut is wasteful spending.
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to take part in today's debate on the Bloc Québécois motion to pressure the Liberal government. However, if the Bloc Québécois really wants to put pressure on the Liberal government, all it has to do is vote with us, the Conservatives, this afternoon to defeat this government. Otherwise, the Bloc Québécois will continue to be known as the “Liberal Bloc” for some time to…
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Madam Speaker, if my colleague is actually serious and really wants to put pressure on the Liberal government—which does not seems to have any concerns about the Bloc Québécois—all he has to do is vote with us this afternoon. All he has to do is vote for our motion of non-confidence in the government. It just might give the government a scare.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague's question is highly relevant. Very few precedents exist for private members' bills that received a royal recommendation. If the Bloc Québécois had really been sincere, its motion would have demanded that the government incorporate the spirit of Bill C‑319 in the next budget or in an amendment to the budget. The Bloc Québécois would have done that today if it was seriou…
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Madam Speaker, I listened to my colleague and I think she made up some fake news. What we are telling Canadians is that we are going to save a dollar for every new dollar we spend on Canadians. That is how every Canadian family manages their own budget, and we are going to do exactly the same across Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives, along with thousands of Canadians and Quebeckers, have lost confidence in this Prime Minister and are afraid of what an opportunistic Bloc may do. The NDP kept this government on life support for months, and now the Bloc Québécois is the one flip-flopping, hypocritically trying to blackmail the government until October 29. In its eagerness to save this costly, centr…
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Madam Speaker, during their opposition day today, I would have liked to see the Bloc Québécois put more pressure on the government. This afternoon, the Bloc again voted with the Liberal government on our non-confidence motion. That does not do much to scare the government. It is clear that the government is not at all concerned about its future. I am still reaching out to the Bloc Québécois here b…
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Madam Speaker, I am the one with the daunting task of calming things down here in the House. As members know, I have been an MP since 2006. Over the years, I have seen Canada evolve and prosper only to slip backwards and lose the essence of the values it holds dear. That fills me with great sadness as a legislator, but also as a father of five children and a grandfather of seven wonderful grandchi…
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Madam Speaker, I was proud to be elected as part of a Conservative government that expanded the promise of a better Canada, lowered inflation, cut the GST and taxes for small business, and balanced the budget, all while increasing health transfers faster than any other government in history. Personal incomes rose by 10% after inflation and taxes. In fact, we did more than we promised. Now, after n…
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Madam Speaker, let us talk about honesty. During the last election in 2021, the Liberal Party platform never mentioned the possibility of a coalition with the NDP if a Liberal minority government were elected. That was never mentioned by the person running to be Prime Minister. Was it honest to conceal this possibility from Canadians? If Canadians had known that these two parties would form a coal…
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Madam Speaker, we would be delighted to unveil our immigration platform in two days if the Bloc Québécois agrees to vote with us to bring down this government.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for that good question, and I congratulate him on all the good work he is doing in his riding. He has become a legend. I have seen my share of snow, but it never snows as much as it does on the shores of the river where he lives, which is truly exceptional. I had the good fortune to be part of a Conservative government under Mr. Harper. Our finances were sound. …
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Madam Speaker, I love working with my colleague in Lévis. We are really an outstanding pair. Unfortunately, at present, the Bloc Québécois's offices are satellite offices for the Parti Québécois in Quebec. They are in the process of mounting a major national strategy to hold a referendum in the coming years.
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