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Madam Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby gives a very interesting revisionist history. The NDP has been the party that has kept the Liberals in power; the Liberals are here because of the ongoing support of the NDP. Going into the by-elections this fall, the leader of the NDP said that he had torn up the agreement, which was so they could win their seat back in Elmwood—Transcona. Ther…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his hard work in making sure we always stand up against corruption, we stand up for democracy and we stand up for the proper governance of the House of Commons and of cabinet. Meanwhile, we are witnessing the Liberals' refusing to co-operate with the Speaker. They are refusing to hand over the documents so the RCMP can do its work. We have been waiting for t…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence and NORAD modernization: (a) what are the spending projections year over year for the June 2022 NORAD modernization announcement until completion of all listed projects, broken down by (i) fiscal year, (ii) project; and (b) what are the spending projections year over year for the additional projects related to NORAD modernization with separate fund…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence and the NATO definition of defence expenditures as “payments made by a national government specifically to meet the needs of its armed forces or those of its allies": what are the expenditures from eligible Other Government Departments (OGDs) included in Canada's defence spending calculations, broken down by (i) department, (ii) fiscal year beginni…
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Mr. Speaker, for 1,000 days we have witnessed Russia's unprovoked and unjust invasion of Ukraine. For 1,000 days we have witnessed horrific war crimes and atrocities committed by Russian soldiers. For 1,000 days Ukrainian civilians have been subjected to indiscriminate attacks by Putin's war machine and forced to endure violence and fear. For 1,000 days our hearts have been broken by all the innoc…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to hear the member talk about a fox in the henhouse when the NDP's supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals has allowed the foxes to be in charge of the henhouse for the last two and a half years in their coalition. I really do believe that nuclear is an important part of our energy mix that is required with everything that we are doing, not just in reduci…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister knows that a tax plan is not an environment plan. With the Prime Minister's out-of-touch policies and reckless spending, one quarter of Canadians are relying on food banks this fall. Sadly, this includes members of the Canadian Armed Forces who cannot afford to eat under the costly Liberal-NDP government. Earlier this year, military personnel doing cyber training at Willi…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise. I also want to follow up on a petition in support of Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China by the Chinese Communist Party, like Gao Lijuan who is a prisoner of conscience. Because she is a Falun Gong practitioner not allowed to practise, the government has thrown her and many others in jail, which is disgusting. However, as we all know,…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that the carbon tax is costing Canadians more than they get back. The Prime Minister's plan to quadruple the carbon tax will cost Manitoba families an extra $1,300 per year. Evergreen Basic Needs, a food bank in Gimli, Manitoba, has see…
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Madam Speaker, the first thing we would do, and it is in recommendation 18, is “impose a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by [all] policing services” to ensure that they are not engaging in racial discrimination. As can be seen in recommendation 6, we want to make sure the algorithm tools also address facial identification technology. We know that is also true in reco…
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Madam Speaker, I agree with my hon. colleague that there are a lot of great recommendations in the report that the government should be using as the guide rails on developing any legislation. Recommendation 2 states that we have to “ensure that airports and industries publicly disclose the use of facial recognition technology including with, but not limited to, signage prominently displayed”. We a…
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Madam Speaker, a lot of censorship has been coming from the government in all its various forms of legislation, and the Liberals have failed to regulate and protect Canadians' privacy. For example, the Liberals have failed to properly prosecute generators of intimate images. Instead of protecting our youth, the Liberals want to make everybody a criminal, or they want to censor the entire Internet.…
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With regard to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, between January 1, 2016, and September 16, 2024, broken down by year: how many certificates of exemption from registration under the Controlled Goods Regulations were granted to or on behalf of (i) visitors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea within academia, government, and industry, (ii) temporary workers from China, Russia, I…
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Madam Speaker, it is a great privilege to rise to speak in the House. I should note that I will be splitting my time with the great member for Bay of Quinte. A couple of years ago, when I was on the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, we tabled this great report on facial recognition technology and the growing power of artificial intelligence. The concurrence motion on…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Northumberland—Peterborough South for laying out the various problems we have with the Liberal government and the ongoing culture of corruption. He mentioned a number of the scandals before us, including the one we are dealing with, the green slush fund. Almost $400 million has been stolen and misappropriated by Liberal insiders, even to the benefit of the …
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present e-petition 5150, signed by over 3,000 Canadians who are expressing their disappointment in the production of Russians at War, a documentary film that spreads Russian misinformation and propaganda. Unfortunately, it was funded with taxpayer money through the Canada Media Fund and TVO. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to recover all of those …
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Mr. Speaker, we have been sitting here listening to the member for Winnipeg North spread misinformation relating to whether the leader of the official opposition should have security clearance. The reality is that information in this country is overclassified, and things that should be declassified should be made—
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North continually stands up and filibusters for the government. This comes down to the information we are debating, which is the release of documents. The government refuses to hand them over to the House and the RCMP to ensure that Canadians can see exactly what is going on. We also know that he keeps raising this false pretense that the member for Nepean has …
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to listen to my colleague from the Bloc defend Liberal corruption. To answer his question on Afghan detainees, because I was here during that time, the government does have the power to limit access on things that affect national security and national defence. SDTC has nothing at all to do with anything other than Liberal embarrassment. With respect to the Afghan d…
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Madam Speaker, I could not agree more with my colleague and friend from Kelowna—Lake Country. Canadians are concerned about transparency. They are concerned about the attack on democratic institutions. When we have the behaviour by the Liberal government of cover-up and corruption, bringing more polarization to this House because it refuses to comply with an order of the democratically elected Spe…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad to join in on today's debate on the question of privilege and the violation of parliamentary privilege by the Liberal government in its refusal to produce documents as they relate to the SDTC scandal. I will do a quick recap for whose who are just tuning in. We know that the government took Sustainable Development Technology Canada and turned it into a green slush fund for L…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North is once again standing up here working as the government's mouthpiece to deflect, delay, dither and essentially try to make false arguments. The RCMP and the Auditor General have never said anything of the sort, naming any party. That is complete misinformation coming from the member. We need to also understand that Parliament is the supreme power in th…
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Madam Speaker, even the deputy minister of industry is saying that the money taken, potentially criminally but illegitimately, by Liberal insiders at SDTC should be paid back. We have not heard that from the Liberals at all. On the issue of transparency, if the Liberals want to be transparent, they can turn the documents over today. However, no, they would rather sit here. As the member mentioned,…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from the Bloc for raising a lot of great questions about the evacuation and the role the Canadian Armed Forces will play. She and I work very closely together on the national defence committee and want to ensure that the resources and capabilities are there to support the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon. As someone who has constituents with family in …
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Madam Speaker, I believe that, if we look at it, Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations funded, backed and armed by the terrorist regime in Tehran. We hear all the time here that we want to have a ceasefire, but I never hear from the Liberals or the NDP about the government in Lebanon. Why can it not stop Hezbollah? Why does the Palestinian authority not stop Hamas? They have not been abl…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley for his strong advocacy for Israel and his ongoing strength in speaking on behalf of the Jewish community in Canada. Truth to power is key to making sure that we get to the bottom of this situation. The member clearly laid out that the ongoing attacks by organizations that we recognize as terrorist organiz…
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Mr. Speaker, listening to the member for Winnipeg North, every time he gets up, try to cover up Liberal corruption and this scandal is just sickening. I want to thank the member for Battle River—Crowfoot for his articulation on this. He laid out that it all started with Navdeep Bains, when he was the minister of industry, appointing Liberal cronies that then were able to line their pockets with ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank all of my colleagues who have been speaking on this corruption that has been exposed and that needs to be escalated. We are hearing from the Liberals, again, another cover-up, that they are trying to hide behind all sorts of excuses rather than turn these documents back over to Parliament, as has been requested and as has been ruled on in a question of privilege by the…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister, our warships are rusting out, our fighter jets are worn out, this army has been hollowed out and we are so short of soldiers, sailors and aircrew that our troops are burnt out. We found out last week that the Prime Minister spent almost $35 million on new sleeping bags for our troops, but nobody checked to see if they were suitable for arctic …
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Mr. Speaker, let us just remind everyone that, if we actually look at what we bought and got delivered in a very short time for our Canadian Armed Forces when they were deployed and in theatre, there were five brand new C-17s and a whole fleet of new HERC-130Js. The Liberals had thrown away our Leopard tanks. Can members guess what we did? We bought a whole new fleet of Leopard tanks. We upgraded …
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present a petition today that is signed by Canadians who are very concerned about a film that has come out, which was funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Media Fund and by TVO, called Russians at War. The film paints a nice picture of the Russians fighting in Ukraine without laying out all of the war crimes that they are committing and the illegal invas…
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Madam Speaker, when my colleague from the Bloc and I work together on the bill, we will be vigorous in our analysis and will ensure that we get it right. The member mentioned the member of Parliament for Vancouver South, who is the current Minister of Emergency Preparedness and the former minister of national defence. Does she believe that his protection of his war buddy, his brother in arms, form…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the minister's tabling Bill C-66 at second reading. The Conservatives will be supporting Bill C-66, but we want to send it to committee. We know that it needs to be thoroughly studied, and we want to make sure that it is going to work for victims. We want to hear from stakeholders, military justice experts and the CAF itself to ensure that the appropriate action is being …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to stand in this House and speak for the brave women and men who serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. Conservatives are proud of our soldiers, sailors and aircrew, and we want to support all those in uniform who serve Canada. Conservatives believe that sexual misconduct, discrimination, racism and other forms of harassment must be stomped out of the Canadian Arme…
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Mr. Speaker, as a father of three daughters, I want to make sure that any victim, male or female, who wants to come before our committee is treated with the utmost respect and that the political partisanship that we often play at would have no place in this study on Bill C-66. We need to ensure that they have a safe place to help us do an analysis of Bill C-66. If we are in a situation where there…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I will say that the code of service discipline, the very ethos of the Canadian Armed Forces, holds up the issues of honour and integrity. I think all of us would demand that all those who serve apply that to their daily lives. This situation of sexual misconduct only happens when those individuals are not following through on that ethos, and then they are going to be sub…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, and the deployment of HMCS Margaret Brooke to Havana, Cuba: (a) who authorized the HMCS Margaret Brooke’s deployment; (b) what was the purpose of the deployment in (a); (c) when did the Minister of National Defence become aware that Russian naval vessels would also be in Havana during the d…
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With regard to the Department of National Defence's decision to move employees working out of offices at 400 Cumberland Street to the Major-General George R. Pearkes Building due to safety concerns: (a) how much is the move expected to cost, in total and broken down by type of expense; (b) how many employees are being moved; (c) did the department make any representations to the Minister of Justic…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives on the defence committee are submitting dissenting reports and opinions for both of the reports from the committee. As we learned at the procurement study, the global threat environment is increasingly precarious. The decision by the government to cut $1 billion a year over the next three years from the defence budget is unconscionable. We are asking that the government …
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Madam Speaker, I am hearing-impaired and have incredible difficulty listening to the member for Winnipeg North. I would ask that you show some compassion and ask the member to defer the rest of his speech to this time next week.
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With regard to the Royal Canadian Navy's Halifax-class frigates: (a) what is the number of (i) sea days, (ii) non-sea days, that each frigate has had for each of the last 48 months, broken down by month and by frigate; (b) what is the breakdown of the reasons for non-sea days, including the number of days each month that each frigate was not at sea for each of the reasons; and (c) what is the perc…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question. The Liberals are cutting $2.7 billion from the budget over the next three years. That is having an impact, and we are starting to see it in the issues around readiness and training. We are now deploying our troops to the NATO enhanced forward position in Latvia that we are running, and they are not taking their pretraining before they go and deploy. That pre…
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Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to stand today and talk on Bill C-69, the budget implementation act, or as I prefer to call it, “the economic vandalism act”. This is a budget that continues to build upon the inflationary deficits that Canadians are struggling to deal with. The government's spending continues to be out of control. First it was borrowing money, then it was printing money, and now it is g…
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Mr. Speaker, the member knows my mother was born in Chesterfield Inlet and raised in Pangnirtung, so I have a lot of connections to the Arctic. I really do firmly believe that the Canadian Armed Forces have a major role to play in expansion of the Canadian Rangers to make sure that they are better financed, as well as able to do a greater job in carrying out exercises to establish our control and …
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs told CBC News, last week, that it was news to her that Russian warships were docked alongside one of our Canadian naval vessels in Havana celebrating the Cuban Communist dictatorship. This morning, the Minister of National Defence was asked whether he had told the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and of course he denied it. It is both reckless and dangerous…
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Mr. Speaker, the member over there knows well that no one has fought more and harder for Ukraine than I have. I was one of the first of 13 to be banned from Russia because I have taken a strong stand in support of Ukraine for a long time. I will take no lessons from the member. When we did not support the free trade agreement, it was because we already had a free trade agreement in place. It was b…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the government has given hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to their lobbyist friends. The Department of National Defence handed out $72 million in consulting contracts last year alone. This includes the usual recipients, such as McKinsey, which was awarded a total of 13 non-competitive contracts, but that is not all. The Prime Minister's favourite company,…
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Madam Speaker, as a former Crown prosecutor, my colleague understands the Criminal Code better than anyone. One of the reasons we want to ensure we get to the bottom of this is to ensure there was an accountability based upon the misappropriation of these funds, $123 million, that failed to observe our conflict of interest rules. We have an Ethics Commissioner, and public servants and those who ar…
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties and if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: That the House commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the tremendous sacrifice, valour and victory of Canadians Soldiers, Sailors and Air Crew at Juno Beach as part of the D-Day invasion and subsequent liberation of Europe.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are definitely fighting against having this motion carried and having the production of papers. There are $123 million that the Auditor General has identified that did not follow the rules under the conflict of interest declarations. The SDTC actually continued to use funds to benefit themselves and their friends, and the Liberals stuffed this board with their colleagues.…
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