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Mr. Speaker, I am presenting a petition today regarding Bill C-9. Canadians are concerned that Liberal-Bloc amendments to Bill C-9 could be used to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts. The state has no place in religious texts or teachings of any faith community. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion are fundamental rights that must be preserved…
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Mr. Speaker, I am asking for grace to table a petition. I did not do it in my first standing, but I do have another one today.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition submitted by Canadians and by residents of Kitchener Centre who are deeply concerned about the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in Canada and China. They are calling on the Government of Canada to take these concerns seriously and to stand firm in the defence of human rights and the safety of Canadians. I want to thank the members of the Falun G…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for bringing the temperature down in the House a little bit and for bringing some pragmatic solutions to the table. In Kitchener Centre, there are constituents who are worried about their jobs. They are worried not just about assembly but also about the broader ecosystem of parts manufacturing for the auto industry. Can my colleague please explain briefly …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to challenge the member opposite on the statement he made that this has only happened in the past year in our auto industry, when in the past decade, we have gone from the production of two million cars down to 1.2 million. My question is, why are you continuing with a plan that is trying to mitigate production losses, instead of supporting our Conservative plan, which wo…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to mention that we literally just heard from the opposite side that the Liberal plan and strategy for Canadian auto workers is to “wait it out”. Yes, we have come to the table with a plan, a common-sense plan, that would keep workers working in Canada. All I have heard is scrutiny of that plan and cherry-picked quotes from Unifor to say that the plan is not okay. I would like t…
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Mr. Speaker, I have just listened to 10 minutes of literal rage baiting across the aisle, and then they are saying that we are the ones doing the rage baiting for what we are trying to do here. It is absolutely incredible. I want to be very clear. I am from Kitchener Centre, and I am incredibly proud of the asylum seekers who have come to my riding, like the Rohingya community, like all the other …
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Mr. Speaker, two-tiered health care policies that reward non-citizens who have no legal right to be here, rejected asylum seekers, are unfair to everyone. That is why the Conservatives have proposed an opposition motion to restrict health benefits for failed asylum claimants to emergency life-saving care. It is not fair to anyone to have taxpayers paying for premium benefits like vision care and p…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to say that today has been a pretty difficult day in the House, all day long as we have been debating. We have had our character attacked. We have been compared to the U.S. administration. We have been told that we on this side of the House do not care about Ukrainian asylum seekers. We have had standing ovations from members on the other side when they attack our intelligence.…
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Mr. Speaker, they are not investing in Canadian auto workers; they are subsidizing Tesla. Canadians are watching our auto sector get hammered by Trump slapping illegal, unjustified tariffs on Canadian-built cars, putting paycheques at risk in Ontario and in Kitchener. While Trump punishes Canadian workers, the government is rewarding the U.S. auto sector. I am wondering whose side they are on. Can…
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Madam Speaker, today we are speaking to Bill C-10, and we understand the frustrations of indigenous communities and partners that there have not been any modern treaties completed within the past decade. That understanding is true; it is valuable, and what we want to have from the government is action towards the modern treaty, not creating extra bureaucracy and extra levels where accountability c…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to clarify. I did not say the reports would not be read. What has been happening is that the reports are read; they are tabled; the failures are acknowledged, and then nothing is done. Creating another level of bureaucracy is not going to change what is happening right now. We need to get things done. We need accountability, full stop.
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-10, legislation that would create a new office of the commissioner for modern treaty implementation. This bill is presented by the government as a step toward accountability and reconciliation, but when we look closely at what it would actually do, or just as importantly, what it would not do, it becomes clear that Bill C-10 mistakes process for progr…
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Madam Speaker, the Auditor General also can produce independent reports that the minister would be accountable to answer to. Creating another level of bureaucracy is not going to implement actions that are required to meet modern treaty. We do not need another level of bureaucracy. We can already get the reports and the actions from the Auditor General, so let us just work on actioning instead of …
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Madam Speaker, I absolutely agree that we need more accountability and we need more action. We do not need more research. We do not need more reports. We need to work with indigenous partners and complete the modern treaties of today. We need accountability to make sure it is actually done.
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite did a very good job of giving scenarios of who would get this credit. What was not mentioned, though, is that less than 30% of the population will actually be supported by this. That being said, the government has looked to the opposition for support to pass this, which we will. Why was the same collaboration not extended to us, as the opposition, when we wanted to…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I heard over and over again the new attempt at a temporary solution on inflation. How can this government justify being responsible for driving up inflation and then give a benefit because people cannot afford to buy groceries and essentials on their own? Think about what this message actually is. It says, here, let the Liberal government help people pay for groceries and b…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his passion about Bill C-9. When we serve on committee, we are doing really important work for Canadians. That is currently where the legislation is: in committee, where we work on and review legislation. Conservatives are working in committee right now to protect the religious freedoms of Canadians. On this side of the House, that is what we are tryin…
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Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart that I share today the loss of one of my oldest friends, Belinda Cradden. On November 17, her life was taken through an unimaginable act of violence by a person she stepped in to help when our justice system had failed them. Belinda had an open, generous heart, and her compassion was her strength. Her murder is not only a personal heartbreak for me but also a …
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Mr. Speaker, I just heard about that this second, but I would like to focus on the drug crisis in this country because it is always overshadowed by other stories and other things happening. We have to talk about this drug crisis, and we have to take the lead and focus on rehabilitation to bring our loved ones home happy, healthy and drug-free.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is right that this is a nationwide crisis. This is not just on my doorstep; it is on the doorstep of every single of us sitting in this House. When I was speaking with people when I was door knocking in my community, I do not think there was one family I talked to that was not affected, either directly or indirectly, by the drug crisis. That is just in my community. I kno…
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Mr. Speaker, it was more than five years ago that the federal government launched its so-called safe supply. It was more than five years ago that it decided the answer to this growing drug crisis was to use federal taxpayer dollars to expand access to hard drugs, not treatment, not recovery and not healing, just drugs. After a half a decade of chaos and heartbreak and $1 billion spent, what did th…
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Mr. Speaker, as a proud Conservative standing in this House, I will reflect on what we will do about this drug crisis. A billion dollars has already been spent by the government, only to perpetuate the problem. As a Conservative, I stand here today to say we will focus on recovery, we will focus on rehabilitation and we will take the lead and do what is right for Canadians in this country.
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Mr. Speaker, in Kitchener, families are making heartbreaking sacrifices just to get by. Alex, a father, told me he eats barely half a meal a day so his children can have three meals a day. Kirby, who has to worry about not only his children but also his grandfather, shared with me that when he feeds them, he waits until they are finished, and if there is none left he will just have to wait until t…
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Mr. Speaker, we need to work together. All governments need to work together to find a solution to this crisis. It is the Liberal government that has perpetuated this crisis, though, and it put $1 billion into making it worse. We need to focus on rehabilitation and recovery. I agree completely with what the member is saying, but I also think we all need to collaborate and work together to find sol…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague mentioned the SR&ED tax credit and that it is to support innovation in Canada, which I agree with. It is intended to support Canadian companies with research and innovation in Canada. Can the member explain why Huawei, a non-Canadian, Chinese company, got $100 million back in this credit?
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Mr. Speaker, we are continually being told that we are attacking, that we are not being non-partisan with these issues and that we are not working with the government to pass bills on these issues, but the truth is that it is the other way around. We believe in democracy, and we believe the public needs to know what is in this legislation and what the Conservatives are doing to protect them and to…
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Mr. Speaker, first off, these things are absolutely devastating. Our children are our next generation and our children are not safe. I have no words to say other than that these offenders should not be on our streets. They should not be victimizing our children. Our children are our legacy. We need to, as a country, keep them safe.
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Mr. Speaker, yes, there was crime before the government came in, but since then, violent crime is up 55%, gun crime is up 130%, extortion is up 330%, sexual assault is up 76% and homicide is up 29%. We need to keep these criminals in jail.
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Mr. Speaker, it really unfortunate for the member opposite to say that these are exaggerated things happening in this country. These are real things. These are real lives being lost. These are the real consequences of what the Liberals have done to our justice system. We are not trying to block anything. We are trying to show Canadians how we are working to protect them and make sure these crimina…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years of the Liberal government has turned Canada into a country where mothers kiss their children goodbye in the morning and pray they come home at night. Last month, Savannah Kulla, a 29-year-old mother of four, was shot dead in broad daylight in a Brampton strip mall. Her killer was a man who had already been charged with firearms offences and intimate partner violence, a man …
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Mr. Speaker, while families in Kitchener are increasingly using food banks at alarming rates, the government had a chance to lower food prices by scrapping the fuel standard tax. Instead it chose to increase it by another 17¢. This increases the cost of things like coffee, which is already up 34%, and beef, which is up 16%. Why does the Prime Minister seem so determined to drive Canadians into pov…
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Mr. Speaker, I asked a question on food, and in typical Liberal fashion, I got an answer on child care. I am going to ask again. Why is the Prime Minister not only refusing to scrap the fuel standard tax that is driving up food prices but also actually increasing it? This will drive up the cost to grow food, package food and deliver food across the country. Does the Prime Minister want groceries t…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are being forced to choose between heating and eating, the government has chosen to increase our national debt by $80 billion. Can the Prime Minister please explain how driving up debt and increasing the cost of living are going to help the single mom skipping meals, the senior afraid to open their hydro bill or the young family priced out of their new home? Is this ju…
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Madam Speaker, for generations, Canadian citizenship has been a symbol of pride, opportunity and belonging. It has been the envy of the world, a beacon of hope for those seeking freedom, safety and a better life. Countries around the globe have looked to Canada as a model for how to build a fair, compassionate and principled immigration system, but today, that reputation is destroyed. After a deca…
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Madam Speaker, that is something I did not talk about in my speech, and it is incredibly important. This is a minority government, and opposition parties have worked together to amend this bill. I have to remind the government that it has a minority, and we are working together in opposition and have put time and effort into this. We represent the other voices of Canadians, and it would be very di…
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Madam Speaker, I think that question was just a smokescreen for the fact that the Liberals are not listening to the proper, thought-out amendments being brought forward for this legislation. On that, there is a lack of transparency from the government in not telling Canadians what chain migration is going to do to the systems we currently have in place and what it is going to cost Canadians to do …
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate the member opposite's wife for being a graduate of our amazing U of W in Kitchener. The fact of the matter is that the Liberals are not being transparent about what this bill would do and how the chain of migration would bring in extra strain, hurt, crime, and affordability and health care problems, as well as extra wait times at our hospitals. We need to talk more ab…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberal government spends comes out of the pockets of Kitchener Centre residents. Hidden, not imaginary, taxes, such as the food packaging tax, are baked into the sticker price, which is driving up the cost of food. Will the Liberals' own numbers show Canadians the $1.3 billion in costs over the next decade for this tax? The more they spend, the more Canadians pay. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, affordability in the Waterloo region has never been worse. Since 2019, monthly visits to Canada's food banks have more than doubled. In the Waterloo region alone, one in eight families is currently accessing food assistance programs just to feed their families, spending $1,350 a month on groceries alone while housing prices are increasing, yet the Liberal government has failed to deli…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are feeling the financial squeeze, not just at the pumps but across the board. While the Liberals claim that these are imaginary taxes, the truth is that there are hidden fuel taxes on buried regulatory fees and carbon pricing, quietly driving up the cost of groceries and transportation. These are not just line items; they are daily realities for working families in Kitchene…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is a failed Ontario Liberal finance minister. He failed so miserably that his own PM will not even put him in cabinet. He failed Ontario financially, and now he wants to keep criminals on the streets. Will he support the jail not bail act and not fail on this?
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Mr. Speaker, just yesterday, the Liberals voted against our motion to lower hidden food taxes for Canadians. They voted to keep taxing food with their industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment, and with inflation tax from increasing spending. These Liberal policies mean families are paying more at the grocery store. Pork was up 37.2% in March alone. When will the Liberal government fi…
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Mr. Speaker, I just listened for 20 minutes to the member across creating a bunch of slander against the Conservative Party and a wonderful smokescreen. The Liberals are not taking any accountability for what their bills have done with repeat offenders in our communities. I ask the member how he is going to respond to the family in my community whose six-year-old child was assaulted. The accused w…
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Mr. Speaker, a quick Google search might have indicated some crime, potentially, coming down, but the statistics are coming straight from the Waterloo Regional Police Service, and we are talking about repeat violent offenders here. Therefore I am going to ask this question: Will the member across the aisle support Bill C-242, the jail not bail act?
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have put forward a bill on intimate partner violence that I am hoping all parties also support. Today, we are debating Bill C-242. I ask the member if she will support our Conservative bill, Bill C-242, the jail not bail act.
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C-242, the jail not bail act, would stop repeat offenders. I cannot say that enough. A majority of the offences happening in Canada right now are from repeat violent offenders. The bill would help reduce crime by keeping them in jail and not letting them free on the least restrictive conditions. That is what the bill would do to help Canadian families.
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to make this answer very quick. It has not been dropped. We still support “three strikes and you're out.” The bill that we are debating today is about real bail reform: Bill C-242, the jail not bail act. Will the member opposite support it?
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour to rise on behalf of my riding of Kitchener Centre. I rise not just as a member of Parliament today but as a representative of a community. My community, Kitchener, is hurting. It is hurting from rising crime, broken trust and a justice system that no longer puts public safety first. After a summer of violent crime and eroded trust in our public safety, Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians would judge him by the cost of the food at the grocery store. Because of Liberal spending, the average two bags of groceries now cost $150. We used to be able to fill two carts for that. According to the Waterloo regional food bank, in the first half of September alone, over 15,000 people accessed its services. When will the Prime Minister show some u…
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