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Resuming debate, the hon. member for York—Durham.
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Resuming debate, the hon. member for Richmond Centre—Marpole.
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Before I go to the member for Don Valley West, I just encourage members to address their comments through the Chair.
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I would like to remind hon. members that they cannot name members and that they must use the riding name. The hon. member for Compton—Stanstead.
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Mr. Chair, dean of the House of Commons, I am very pleased to see you presiding over the election of a Speaker for the seventh time, and I wish to inform you that I am withdrawing my name from the list of candidates.
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Mr. Speaker, as you would know, that was an order of the House that the minister is trying to unilaterally withdraw. I seek guidance from you and from the table on whether a minister of the Crown can withdraw a unilateral order of the House to prevent the government from making a statement. I am looking for your advice on whether the government, due to its own disorder and chaos, can now unilatera…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, now that the fall economic statement has been tabled, I believe we would now proceed to questions to the minister. Therefore, I would like to ask the government to stand in this place and tell us exactly how big the budget deficit was last year. How much did the government blow past the $40 billion? Is it a big deficit, or is it a super-duper deficit?
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I have to give time to the hon. member for North Okanagan—Shuswap to respond very briefly.
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The hon. parliamentary secretary is rising on a point of order.
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Is that agreed?
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Is that agreed?
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With regard to ministers' and government entities' compliance with paragraphs 74(d) and 88(c) of the Access to Information Act: (a) has each minister or government entity subject to those provisions of the Act prepared or had access to "back pocket" briefing materials for parliamentary committee appearances; (b) if the answer to (a) is affirmative, what is the distinction between regular and "back…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hard-working, common-sense Conservative member for Fundy Royal. It is always an honour to rise to address the House, but unfortunately I do so this evening without optimism and without enthusiasm. Instead, I am forced to rise with disappointment and frustration given the state of the House of Commons. In the past 24 hours, we have seen the tired,…
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Mr. Speaker, we would request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I would say that it is offensive to clowns to be compared to the NDP.
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Madam Speaker, I am very proud to stand up on behalf of the people I serve, the great people of Perth—Wellington. What the people of Perth—Wellington and what people across the country are demanding is a carbon tax election. They want the ability to have a say on where the carbon tax goes. On this side, we will oppose the carbon tax. That is the comparison. On the Liberal side, they are offering a…
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Madam Speaker, what is deeply undemocratic is a Liberal government that campaigned on not using it and then hypocritically uses it so often, allowing only hours of debate. In this case, we were allowed to debate for an hour and 15 minutes on a major tax policy measure; it will have almost no debate in the House, no debate in committee and no room for amendments.
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Madam Speaker, I know the member for Simcoe North speaks a lot with the constituents in his riding. I want him to comment on whether his constituents agree that our tax system is far too complicated, and whether it might be smarter to have a simpler, fairer, lower tax system for Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Beauport—Limoilou for her question. Much like in the ridings of many of my colleagues, people and families in my riding are turning to food banks. These folks are not going out to restaurants. They cannot afford it. This bill is not going to help families using food banks or those who cannot afford to spend any money on their families. This Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the mayor of the Township of Perth South, Jim Aitcheson, following his sudden passing last week. Jim was dedicated to his family and his community. He was a proud life member of the Downie Optimist Club. In politics, he was first elected as a Downie Ward councillor, and he would go on to serve as deputy mayor, mayor and three-term warden of Perth County. Jim s…
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With regard to usage of the government's fleet of Challenger aircraft, since April 1, 2024: what are the details of the legs of each flight, including the (i) date, (ii) point of departure, (iii) destination, (iv) number of passengers, (v) names and titles of the passengers, excluding security or Canadian Armed Forces members, (vi) total catering bill related to the flight, (vii) volume of fuel us…
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With regard to usage of the government's fleet of Airbus and Polaris aircraft since April 1, 2024: what are the details of the legs of each flight, including the (i) date, (ii) point of departure, (iii) destination, (iv) number of passengers, (v) names and titles of the passengers, excluding security or Canadian Armed Forces members, (vi) total catering bill related to the flight, (vii) volume of …
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Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, I would like to ask the government House Leader if she would inform the House what business she intends to call before the House for the remainder of this week, as well as the week after our constituency week, and if she could inform the House whether the documents related to the $400-million green slush fund have been tabled, as was ordered by the House?
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With regard to simultaneous interpretation services provided by the Translation Bureau since January 1, 2020: how many requests were received for interpretation at meetings of the Cabinet or its committees where the Translation Bureau was unable to fulfill the request at the originally suggested or scheduled time due to a lack of resources, broken down by calendar year?
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Madam Speaker, I will rephrase that. We would call on the Prime Minister to rise in the House and make known the names of those individuals. If the member for Winnipeg North wants to take a little walk down memory lane, let us talk about the corruption of the Liberal government. We have a Prime Minister who was twice convicted by the Ethics Commissioner of breaking ethics laws. The Prime Minister'…
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Madam Speaker, on the first point, the fact that one out of six projects was indeed ineligible is a concern. In addition, of equal or perhaps even greater concern is the number of conflicted projects in the sample that the Auditor General looked at. This means that the board members themselves were voting specifically on matters they ought not to have been voting on. They were voting on enriching …
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Madam Speaker, the member for Brandon—Souris is right. We are talking about a centuries-old tradition that gives Parliament the authority and, in fact, the constitutional authority to call for documents, and virtually the only limitation on this ability to call for documents is that the records have to exist and they have to exist within Canada. It does not matter whether they are written document…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Winnipeg North for his 324th intervention now on this issue. Let us be very clear: The Prime Minister can release the names at any point he wishes to inside this House where he has the privilege to do so as a parliamentarian.
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Madam Speaker, very simply, the RCMP officers can do what they wish with the documents, but the order of this House is that they be provided.
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure about criminality, but there sure is corruption and there sure is disgraceful conduct that we have seen at the green slush fund, where we have conflicted board members voting to give themselves massive amounts of contracts. It is simply unacceptable and that is why these documents need to be provided to the law clerk so they can be forwarded to the RCMP for it to do wh…
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Madam Speaker, the point of the Thursday question is very clear; it is to respond to the business of the House, as indicated in chapter 10 of Bosc and Gagnon. What is more, the member is reading verbatim an outside source into the record. As we know, we are not supposed to read verbatim into the record of the House. The member should tell us what the business of the House is for the coming week an…
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Madam Speaker, I am indeed grateful for the opportunity to rise and participate in this debate today on the subamendment. I had the privilege to speak to the amendment and so it is a great opportunity to pick up where I left off and to speak to this important subamendment to this privilege motion. The fact is, though, we are still where we were. The Liberal government continues to refuse to releas…
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Madam Speaker, to reaffirm, I am quoting a passage from the Constitution itself, something that defines the House and defines the very issue at play as well. Not to send a spoiler alert across the way, but I will have some more interesting quotations coming up later in my remarks. I know the member for Winnipeg North will be very intrigued to hear some of those quotations on this important issue. …
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Madam Speaker, as always, I thank the member for Winnipeg North for his question. That was probably his 321st contribution to this debate, so I wish him well on his continued interventions. Let us be very clear: The Prime Minister can and ought to release those names right now. We would call him into the House to release names from any party. If the member wants to take a little walk down—
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Madam Speaker, I was very intrigued by my friend and learned colleague's long list of corruption scandals he indicated had happened over the last nine years. I know him to be a strong local representative for the people of Simcoe—Grey. I am curious to know if he can tell the House what he has been hearing from his constituents in Simcoe—Grey over the last number of weeks about the challenges they …
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Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that the Liberals are offering such a strong defence of Sport Canada. Here are the facts: Senior officials at Sport Canada, a government agency, knew about the sexual assault allegations at Hockey Canada on June 26, 2018, and they did nothing. They knew about them for four years before they did anything. Would my colleague from the Bloc agree that the government …
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Madam Speaker, in the heritage committee, we heard from a senior government official, Michel Ruest, that he became aware of sexual assault allegations by Hockey Canada on June 26, 2018. He did nothing about those allegations for four years. This individual, Michel Ruest, is still a senior government official at Sport Canada. Would the member agree that it is entirely unacceptable that a senior gov…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. You yourself ruled that the government violated an order of the House to turn over evidence to the police for a criminal investigation into the latest Liberal scandal. The government's refusal to accept your ruling has paralyzed Parliament, pushing aside our work to address the doubling of …
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Madam Speaker, I hear a bit of an echo from way down in the far end, but those are the facts. The member is a member of the Privy Council, which comes with the absolute highest level of secrecy. That is an oath that is taken when they are sworn in to His Majesty's Privy Council.
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Madam Speaker, simply put, we will disregard candidates who have clear and tangential conflicts of interest. We will not appoint people to decision-making bodies where they will be in a conflict of approving funds for their own businesses. That is where these Liberals failed. They appointed individuals to decision-making positions at SDTC knowing full well, in advance, that they were making decisi…
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Madam Speaker, the member for South Shore—St. Margarets makes a great point. Prior to this, there were no members of the board who would be conflicted. Not only did they appoint board members who were conflicted, they appointed the chair herself, who was highly conflicted and who was not only caught making decisions of a conflicted nature, where she was approving funds, but also further found to h…
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Madam Speaker, I would just say, first and foremost, that this is complete and utter nonsense from the member for Timmins—James Bay. Let us be very clear. As a minister of the Crown, the leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition is a privy councillor. He is a privy councillor for life, with all the responsibilities that come with that. He has been serving in the House and serving with distinction. …
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Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue for his good question. I will be very clear. We will not give the money to government cronies. We will make sure that every dollar that the government spends is given to organizations that do important work, not to organizations that have ties to the government. We will be very clear on that. Let us not forget that the first bill the…
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Madam Speaker, the fact is, the member said that the government is truly caring about what happened here. Well, no, the Liberals only care about the fact that they got caught. All of this only happened after these allegations came to light through the Auditor General's report, and through the work of my good friend and colleague, the member for South Shore—St. Margarets, who actually put in the ha…
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Madam Speaker, while it is always indeed an honour and a privilege to rise in this House and address it on important matters, it is with some disappointment that we find ourselves once again in this place debating a question of privilege. I have lost count of the number of times in this Parliament and recent parliaments that this House has had to debate questions of privilege related to the action…
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Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I was in that committee meeting. The chair did indeed pause after the final person had spoken, and he looked around the room. He then called the question, as was his right, because no other member had raised their hand. After that, it was challenged by the member, but all opposition members, including from the Bloc and the NDP, confirmed the chair's ruling.…
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Madam Speaker, I know the member for Carleton spent the summer speaking with dozens of hard-working Canadians on factory floors at manufacturing facilities across the country. What message did he hear from the hard-working people who build this country?
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Mr. Speaker, very simply, we kept the economic climate strong so that folks could build homes and could buy affordable homes in safe communities. This is something we do not see today under the Liberal government.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear: Under the former Conservative government, taxes were at their lowest point since John Diefenbaker was prime minister, and housing was actually affordable. One could afford to buy a home in a safe community. In places such as my community, we have seen homes more than double in price in the short nine years that the Liberal government has been in power. From the tim…
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