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With regard to Microsoft licenses paid for by the government, in total and broken down by department or agency: (a) how much was spent on Microsoft licenses in the last fiscal year; (b) how many licenses does the government pay for and how many users are able to access Microsoft products through those licenses; (c) how many licenses are currently unused; and (d) how many licenses are not currently…
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With regard to Adobe licenses paid for by the government, in total and broken down by department or agency: (a) how much was spent on Adobe licenses in the last fiscal year; (b) how many licenses does the government pay for and how many users are able to access Adobe products through those licenses; (c) how many licenses are currently unused; and (d) how many licenses are not currently assigned to…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. We have seen this place descend to a place where we do not want it to go, but this member knows better than to use the word “cowardly” to describe the Leader of the Opposition. He should retract that and apologize.
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Mr. Speaker, we know that a government is circling the bowl when it throws up all of these distractions. We are talking about a $400-million scandal here, which 183 connected Liberal insiders benefited from as a result without any oversight for conflicts of interest. The very thing the Liberals said they came to Ottawa to do, which is to be transparent and accountable, they are now anything but. W…
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Madam Speaker, watching the debate and watching the Liberals this morning, I cannot help but feel that this is a bit of a magician's act: “Oh look, a squirrel.” The Liberals are trying to distract from a lot of things. This includes a real whopper this morning, which plays into the SDTC scandal. The Auditor General found that Accenture received $313 million, or 92% of a total of $342 million, in c…
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Madam Speaker, I think the worst part of what the member for Edmonton Strathcona is talking about is that for the better part of two and a half years, the NDP has been supporting, through a coalition agreement, all of the scandals, corruption, expenses and everything, including the loss of civil liberties.
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Madam Speaker, I believe what I was saying was with respect to going in camera. That was not unanimous and that is what I was referring to. I do want to say that the hon. member conducts himself with great honour and great integrity at the committee.
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Madam Speaker, I am wondering if a page could provide me with some tape so I can tape together the coalition agreement that was apparently ripped up by the leader of the NDP. What a shame and what a sham.
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Madam Speaker, I would remind the member that the NDP, despite the fact that it is a fourth party, has never formed government and will likely never form government in this country ever, has been involved in corruption issues in the past. It is quite rich for them to talk about that and to lob, as they do, from the corner over there—
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Madam Speaker, I have had a front row seat, for the better part of two years, to all the things that have gone on. The SDTC scandal, for example, although it has touched many committees, started at the ethics committee. Generally, the ethics committee has been working well, and actually working better recently. I cannot even say that the coalition agreement has been ripped up because it seems like…
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Madam Speaker, if she does not like what I am saying, tell her to cite a standing order rule on this, because everything I am saying is correct.
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Mr. Speaker, it was the shortest speech in the history of the Westminster parliamentary system, I would argue, but we will have to do some research on that. I thank you for adding the extra second to allow me 20 minutes to speak about the important issue before us. If someone were writing a Hollywood script, they could not write a better script than this. It has everything, and I am going to touch…
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Madam Speaker, they can make those claims all they want. I will stand by everything I said. In 2022, the NDP signed a costly coalition agreement with the Liberals whereby they would support the government—
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Madam Speaker, in the vein of The Simpsons, I would like to thank Montgomery Burns for asking that question. I prefer the character of Homer Simpson to the Prime Minister any day, too, by the way. We are talking about $110 million in contracts. We are talking about seven civil suits that have been engaged against the former minister's company, a sworn affidavit in which he has been named by the pe…
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Madam Speaker, I did mention Gérard Depardieu, but he is from France. I was born in Montreal. When I was young, I listened to René Simard and Céline Dion. I think that I am dating myself. I really liked Quebec music. I am very familiar with the song Bye bye mon cowboy. I have a great deal of respect for Quebec. It is the province where I was born, and my parents were born there too. A family frien…
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Madam Speaker, I want to tape this back together, but I will do that later. What a shame and a sham. Instead of fixing the structural problems that exist in our economy, the government, through its NDP partner in this costly coalition, are throwing crumbs around. The problem, as we have heard from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, is this is going to create challenges for businesses…
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Madam Speaker, I think that the country's financial problems are actually structural problems. There are a lot of people across the country with debt. Next year, a million people in Canada are going to renew their mortgages. Does my colleague agree that, if the government throws an extra $6.5 billion into the economy, there is going to be a problem and there is a risk that inflation will go up?
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member just spoke about something extremely important, about the structural problems that exist within our economy right now, the debt and deficit. People are looking for relief, but they are not looking for short-term relief; they are looking for long-term relief from an affordability standpoint, which, in our view, also includes axing the carbon tax because it is having a…
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Mr. Speaker, many Canadians are waking up, especially after what happened in Montreal, but they were aware of the situation of these lawless mobs taking over the streets. I was speaking to the Canadian Association of Retired Persons just a month ago, and the question of why this is happening in this country came up. On the issue of SDTC, there are 11,000-plus documents that have not been submitted…
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Mr. Speaker, I am an advocate for free speech. We have laws in this country that address the issue of hate speech. If one crosses the line, they should expect to be visited by law enforcement. I listened to the answer of the hon. member for Thornhill, and I agree with her. Are we going to get to a point, which we would through Bill C-63, but hopefully with a change in government we would not, when…
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Madam Speaker, the source is the CBC. That is enough said.
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Madam Speaker, I do not think there is. The proof of that is the government's reluctance to provide the documents to Parliament. What is in those documents that is so damning and could cause potential damage to the government? I will tell members what my big fear is. I understand that we have laws to protect information in this country. When we do change government, which is coming, although we do…
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Madam Speaker, I recall watching The Muppet Show and there were these two characters called Waldorf and Statler, who used to sit there and just launch insults at people. It is funny how it seemingly plays itself out here, too.
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Madam Speaker, I would like a recorded vote.
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Madam Speaker, if anything, this scandal has taught us that “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play...the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake”, and the government cannot shake this scandal off. There is a reason why this scandal is so profoundly scandalous, and that is that Canadians are impoverished. They are finding it hard to afford their groceries, yet Liberal-connected insiders …
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Madam Speaker, I meant nothing. I am not looking at that member or the hon. member for Kingston and the Islands. We have $400 million that, in 183 circumstances, have been funnelled to board members of SDTC without seemingly following the Conflict of Interest Act. We know the Auditor General ruled on this. Should this not go to the police rather than a committee, if criminal wrongdoing is at play …
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Mr. Speaker, in many ways, the governance and the rules are already in place, either through the Conflict of Interest Act or through the conflict of interest laws that exist in this country. Primarily, it is the appointments. In the SDTC scandal, many of the appointments to the board of SDTC were made by the current Liberal government. The problem is, as the hon. member noted, that many of the con…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague from Thornhill, the deputy leader of our party, for her passionate statement today about what happened in Montreal on Friday night. I recall that in the days after October 7, I went to the Am Shalom synagogue in south Barrie. I was there participating in a service that was directed by the rabbi, which involved many community members and community lead…
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Mr. Speaker, as all Canadians did, I sat there on Friday night and saw what was going on in my hometown of Montreal. I was absolutely disgusted by the display of a lawless mob that was destroying such a beautiful city. In fact, it is happening right across the country, and it is escalating. Canadians are becoming increasingly concerned about this escalation. What would my hon. colleague say we sho…
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Mr. Speaker, if we want any evidence of just how difficult the situation is for Canadians, I think I pretty much addressed that in the course of my speech, but we just have to ask young people right now who have felt lied to and let down by the Prime Minister after he was elected in 2015. They do not just feel lied to or let down; they feel despondent right now because the hope of a better future …
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for St. Albert—Edmonton, like myself as chair of the ethics committee, has had a front-row seat to what I would call a charade, a mockery and contempt of this institution. Mr. Anderson came to the committee. He would not answer questions directly and this is why we are in this situation. I want to ask the member about the minister. We have seen text messages. We have s…
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Mr. Speaker, quite frankly, we could not write a Hollywood script better than what this Parliament has been experiencing with this latest scandal that has been before the ethics committee and is now making an appearance before the House. We have had a former member of Parliament start a business with a character of suspect. They got government contracts. They defrauded companies and are facing civ…
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Madam Speaker, I think the hon. Leader of the Opposition has stated very clearly and succinctly his reason. In fact, the former leader of the NDP, Tom Mulcair, agrees with the Leader of the Opposition. It is baffling that the government was talking to the Washington Post about foreign interference a week before the announcement on Thanksgiving Day. If it is truly an issue of national security, why…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise in this place. It is Veterans' Week; Remembrance Day is coming up. When I rise, whether it is in this place or the other place, I think of what an incredible privilege it is to be able to stand and represent the people of Barrie—Innisfil and all Canadians, frankly. Whether we align ideologically or not, our job is to represent everyone. When I think abou…
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Madam Speaker, I addressed that at the beginning of my speech. We have seen the contempt for the institution of Parliament play itself out over the last nine years of the current government through the levels of scandal, the levels of corruption and the insiders' connected cronies who have been benefiting far greater than Canadians have because Canadians, whether the Liberals like to think so or n…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member has been in this place for quite a while. She understands how quickly time goes when we get on a roll and we are talking about the people who have served their nation. I actually had some notes on indigenous people who have served our nation. Over 12,000 indigenous men and women are estimated to have served in three wars, including 7,000 first nations members. They e…
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Madam Speaker, as we get closer to Remembrance Day, and I know we are going through Remembrance Week, it is important for us to remember all those who have served and continue to serve and their families, who in many ways serve beyond the battlefield. I was the critic for Veterans Affairs, and I still wear bracelets 24 hours a day and seven days a week, lest we forget. There is a tribute on my arm…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour of presenting two reports today. First, I have the honour of presenting, in both official languages, the 14th report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, entitled “Certificate of Nomination of Caroline Maynard to the Position of Information Commissioner”. I also have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 15th report…
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Mr. Speaker, there is only one person keeping the Prime Minister in power and it is the leader of the NDP. Do members remember the stunt the NDP leader pulled just before the by-election in Elmwood—Transcona when he claimed he had ripped up his coalition deal with the Liberals? Well, it was just a stunt designed to deceive voters there. He said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beho…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the reality. The RCMP is actually criminally investigating SDTC. It has received some documents, but we also know the justice department has 11,000 documents that have not been submitted to this point, as per the parliamentary order, to the law clerk. Does the hon. member think the RCMP should have all of the documentation that was ordered by Parliament, so the RCMP can do a p…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to circle back to an issue that was brought up earlier, which involves the Prime Minister's key economic adviser, carbon tax Carney. We found out this morning that in fact he is moving the headquarters of Brookfield Asset Management, of which he is the chair of the board, from Toronto to New York. This is the key economic adviser to the Prime Minister, who has, seemingly, zero …
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Mr. Speaker, this is interesting. We found out this morning that Brookfield Asset Management, which is led by carbon tax Carney as its chair, has just moved its headquarters to New York. This is a guy who is advising the Prime Minister on economic issues, yet, seemingly, he does not have any confidence in our Canadian economy, so he is actually moving his head office to New York. I wonder if the h…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost of housing. Common-sense Conservatives have announced a plan that would axe the federal sales tax on new homes, which has universally been seen as a game-changer. On an $800,000 house, this tax cut would save homebuyers $40,000 and $2,200 a year in mortgage payments. After nine years, the NDP-Liberals have doubled rent, doubled mor…
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Mr. Speaker, obviously, the member is still on a sugar high from Halloween. I have actually spoken to the City of Barrie's mayor. I spoke to him yesterday, in fact. Mayor Nuttall and council—
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Mr. Speaker, it takes a Conservative to get the job done, and Barrie did that before the national housing accelerator fund was announced. It has set the standard on building permits and processing, and the fact is that the City of Barrie, its mayor and its council stand to gain more from our building homes, not bureaucracy plan because we are going to be in it for the long term, just not for anoth…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Yorkton—Melville because she brought up an interesting point about the despondency of young people, who, as I said earlier, feel lied to and let down by the government. In 2015, there was so much hope and inspiration because the new government was going to provide people with opportunity, but what we have seen over the course of the last nine years is anythin…
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Mr. Speaker, $400 million was misappropriated during this scandal. Can the member explain how $400 million could be used to lower the cost of living for Canadians?
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I want to wish you a very happy birthday today. Are you one? Are you two? Okay, it might take up 20 minutes of my speech if I were to continue. Normally, I would stand up in this place and say it is an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Barrie—Innisfil, but the reality is such that we have an effective standoff going on in this place because of Liberal obstructi…
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Mr. Speaker, I have had the displeasure of listening to the member peddle his conspiracy theories over the course of the last month. I think tinfoil is on sale at Giant Tiger this month if he wants to help support one of our members. The real travesty is that the will of Parliament is not being followed. The supremacy of Parliament is not being followed. That supremacy has been supported by the Sp…
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