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The member for Courtenay—Alberni has time for a 30-second question.
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Order. The hon. member for Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations has the floor.
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I have to provide some time for a response. The Minister of Public Safety may give a brief response.
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Resuming debate, the hon. member for Winnipeg West.
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I am sorry, but I need to give time to the member to respond. The hon. member for Calgary Nose Hill.
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Order. Can we have a little order here? The hon. minister has the floor.
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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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Is that agreed?
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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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I have to give time to the hon. member for North Okanagan—Shuswap to respond very briefly.
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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, 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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Mr. Speaker, we would request a recorded division.
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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 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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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, 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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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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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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Madam Speaker, I move that the 31st report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the House on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, be concurred in. It is indeed an honour to rise in the House today to move concurrence on the report. Why is this important? Why should we be debating this motion? This report refers to the Auditor General's report on chronic homelessness. It is truly a damn…
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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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Mr. Speaker, it seems that the member for Courtenay—Alberni may have a concern with his provincial NDP government in British Columbia, if it is not doing the work necessary to make sure that those who are unable to find housing can access the services that might be available. Let me be very clear about what a Conservative government would do: Conservatives will ensure that the municipal gatekeeper…
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With regard to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the Auditor General of Canada's Report 7 entitled "Combatting Cybercrime", paragraph 7.47 which states "a decision was made by the CRTC to delete data on the devices on an accelerated time frame after obtaining the consent of the owner of the devices. The CRTC subsequently contacted the law enforcement agency…
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With regard to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), since January 1, 2016: (a) what is the average time it takes for the CIPO to process an application for a trademark or copyright for (i) international applicants, (ii) domestic applicants, broken down by the year the application was received; (b) how many and what percentage of …
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With regard to the change announced by the Prime Minister on May 24, 2024, that Catherine Blewett, the Secretary of the Treasury Board, was being reassigned to become a Senior Official at the Privy Council Office (PCO): (a) what will her responsibilities be as a Senior Official at the PCO; (b) why was the Senior Official position not listed in the last organizational structure chart published by t…
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With regard to the government's appointment of Catherine Blewett to be Secretary of the Treasury Board, effective February 6, 2024: (a) since February 6, 2024, broken down by month, how many days did the Secretary work in person at the Treasury Board Secretariat's main office at 90 Elgin Street in Ottawa; and (b) is the Secretary exempt from the government's requirement that employees are to work …
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would say that I believe today is the 50th anniversary of the member for Abbotsford's 19th birthday. I do wish him well on this special occasion. The member talked about foreign interference in Canadian elections. How concerned is the member about the government's response and the other coalition partner's response to foreign interference into Canadian elections? Does …
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Mr. Speaker, 80 years ago this week, the brave soldiers of the Perth Regiment were fighting in the Cassino region of Italy. On May 26, 1944, shortly after the Hitler Line was breached, the Perth Regiment moved into the Liri Valley where they were heavily shelled by the enemy, but the brave fighting Perths advanced forward. Over the next several days, they crossed the Liri River and liberated the t…
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With regard to information services (IS) employees (Treasury Board code 305) within the civil service, broken down by department, agency, or other government entity: (a) how many IS workers are currently employed by the government, in total; and (b) how many executives or workers, at the EX level or higher, do the IS workers report to, in total?
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Mr. Speaker, to clarify, the NDP is trying to bring time allocation to a bill using a point of order.
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Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition today on behalf of petitioners in the riding of Perth—Wellington. The petitioners request that the government institute a citizens' assembly on electoral reform.
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Madam Speaker, we know that Canadians are going to be footing the bill from this massive Liberal spending. We are now going to be paying more in debt servicing charges than we pay on health care. How does the hon. Leader of the Opposition propose that we fix the budget?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Just to clarify the record, artificial intelligence was mentioned. I want to clarify that it was Adam Church intelligence for those amendments.
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Mr. Speaker, on that same point of order, I would draw your attention to the Debates from February 12, 1997, at page 8014, 8016 and 8017, in which the Speaker found that the unwillingness of the then member for Fraser Valley East to fully retract and apologize without conditions constituted a breach of the authority of the Chair and subsequently named the hon. member, pursuant to Standing Order 11…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Barrie—Innisfil for the excellent work he is doing as chair of the ethics committee, which has been working overtime these last number of months to root out scandal and corruption. He talks about the decline in democracy and the challenges that we as parliamentarians face in getting information. The concept of “open by default”, that we should be able to …
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Madam Speaker, let me first say I do agree that we need to focus on the issue of calling Mr. Firth to the bar, because we need answers. My colleague brought up the member for Carleton, the leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition, so let me be very clear about where the member for Carleton stands here today. He stands on axing the tax, building the homes, fixing the budget and stopping the crime. …
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With regard to the government's rebranding of the carbon tax: (a) which consulting, polling or research firms is the government using services or data from, in relation to the rebranding; (b) what are the details of all contracts related to the rebranding, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) value, (iii) vendor, (iv) description of goods or services, (v) manner in which the contract was awarde…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the key concerns that was raised by the Auditor General in the ArriveCAN report was the lack of documentation. The Auditor General herself said that the most surprising thing for her was what she did not find: documentation. She did not find copies of contracts confirming this. However, the other thing that has come out of the investigation is the idea and the concept of double…
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With regard to the government's claim that 97% of fuel used on farms is exempt from the carbon tax: (a) how did the government come up with that figure; and (b) what specific data was used, and what assumptions were made by the government in arriving at that figure?
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