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Mr. Speaker, one of the issues the Liberals seem to keep putting forward is just little dribs and drabs of a tiny bit of new supply: a hundred homes here, a hundred there. It is clear that Canada needs hundreds of thousands of new homes. We are in a supply crisis, not a government spending crisis. I wonder if my colleague could comment on the fact that there is nothing in Build Canada Homes that w…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the mighty OGGO, entitled “Appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Officer”. This report is important for two reasons. First of all, it is a recommendation from the committee that the government appoint Jason Jacques as the permanent Parliamentar…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, while I find the commentary interesting, I cannot hear it because of constant crackling. I think perhaps the member has an issue with his mic or computer. Perhaps we can move on to the next speaker while he fixes his IT issues.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition from constituents from Edmonton West and across the country regarding the government's provisions in Bill C-15 that would grant individual cabinet ministers sweeping powers to secretly exempt companies or individuals from federal laws. If anyone saw the operations committee the other day with the performance of the President of the Treasury Board, they wou…
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Mr. Speaker, there is rampant use of illegal workers on federally funded infrastructure projects in Alberta. These trafficked workers are being abused, robbed and forced into unsafe work conditions, while union trades are shut out of the very jobs their taxes are funding. Over a year ago, I presented evidence to the government of this corruption, yet there has been no action. We tried to start a s…
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Mr. Speaker, the speech by my colleague from Nunavut was well thought out, but while I respect a lot of what she had to say, I do disagree with a couple of things. One is that I wish we actually had a Conservative agenda being brought forward by the government. The member also talks about a lack of evidence. Daily in the newspaper we see stories of victims of repeat violent offenders and victims o…
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite has a rare talent for speaking at length without disturbing the facts. Imagine what our food inflation would be right now with the carbon tax added in. It is Liberal policies that are driving up the food costs. The U.S., Japan and all the other members of the G7 are facing the same issues we are around climate change and everything else, yet somehow only the countr…
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Mr. Speaker, of course, the member for Winnipeg North never lets the facts interfere with his opinion, and we hear that once again. He talks about how Canadians have never had it so good. I listen to him say we are third-, fourth- or fifth-worst. Canadians have never had it so good, according to the member, but the reality and the facts are that Canadians are suffering. The member talked about pip…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my colleague from OGGO, the member for Windsor West. Canadians are once again finding themselves in a Liberal-caused food inflation crisis. We have the highest food inflation rate in the G7. The government repeatedly promised and continues to promise that it will have the fastest-growing economy in the G7. Unfortunately, what it has delivered to Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague from the Bloc asked a couple of things: one about climate, and one about plastics and pollution. Of all our plastics, 99% end up safely in landfills. A very negligible amount ends up as litter, so that is something of a non-starter. Climate change is a global issue. The Bloc, the Liberals and the NDP would have us believe that climate stops at our border and that putting …
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Mr. Speaker, I wish the member for Winnipeg North had had the same feeling and concern for taxpayers before his government gave millions for gender-just rice in Vietnam and before giving billions to U.S. multinationals that actually use some of that money to fund ISIS in Syria. The member should get serious.
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Mr. Speaker, it always amazes me. I have been here for 10 years, and for 10 years I have dealt with the absolute incompetence of the government and its members in terms of getting legislation across. They had 19 months, since being elected, to table a budget. It is the second-longest period we have had between budgets since the Trudeau government refused to drop one during the COVID era. The membe…
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Mr. Speaker, what are the Liberals trying to hide? It is a lot. I look at my own committee, in terms of trying to get the Stellantis contracts. The government gave $13 billion to Stellantis, only to see Stellantis flee, fire people in Brampton and then show up at the White House with Trump, bragging about a $15-billion investment in the U.S. Specifically, with Stellantis, it looks like the Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague brings up an excellent question about ministerial responsibility. He asks how we could fix this. I think that the government could fix it by actually promoting competent people into ministerial roles. At the public accounts committee, we once heard one of the senior Liberals state that ministers are not responsible for their own departments. They actually stated this. Las…
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Mr. Speaker, [Member spoke in Latin] [English] These were the famous words spoken by King Edward I in 1295 when calling the model Parliament. For those who cannot follow my very poor Latin, he stated, “What touches all should be approved by all, and it is also clear that common dangers should be met with measures agreed upon in common.” This is the basis of our Parliament today. What taxes and spe…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, also known as the mighty OGGO, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26”.
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if my colleague could comment on the hypocrisy of the Liberals. For a decade, they said that, if we did not believe in the carbon tax, the world would burn, and that if we were against the inflationary carbon tax, flooding and catastrophes would happen. Then they turned around and withdrew the carbon tax, saying that it was too inflationary.
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Madam Speaker, at the very end, my colleague talked about how Bill C-4 would give new hope to the middle class and how they are going to be able to afford things. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says this Liberal tax cut, which is going to give so much new hope, for a single senior living by themselves, would be 13¢ a day in a tax reduction. A single parent would get 38¢ a day under this new tax …
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Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today. Before I start, I will mention that I will be sharing my very valued time with my colleague from Brandon—Souris. I am rising today to talk about Bill C-4 and its various issues. I will start with the tax cut first. I am a big fan of Milton Friedman, who is famous for the line, “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances...for any reason, …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Mirabel brought up an excellent point about the Prime Minister's temperament and true plans. At the finance committee, the member for Mirabel led a change to this law and the GST credit to allow some flexibility for those who took the Prime Minister at his word when he made the announcement. That passed through the finance committee. The Liberal government, led by …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for the incorrect history lesson he provided. Everyone knows that the debt inherited by the Mulroney government was left by a Trudeau. Where have we heard that before? Oh, we have heard it here, repeatedly. The PC party actually ran an operational surplus, but they were are saddled with massive debt from the previous government. Getting back to his…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently nobody in the government bothered to read the Stellantis contract to see if Canadian jobs would be protected before giving Stellantis billions of dollars in taxpayers' money. The Minister of Industry did not read it. The deputy minister of industry and the former deputy minister of industry did not read it. Finance Canada lawyers did not read it. They all pointed their fing…
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Madam Speaker, that was a great question. The public accounts, volume 1, show that the government has a mandated law to increase health care transfers. It was about 4.5%, while the increase in interest payments was 11%. That just shows how broken the government is, as it prioritizes payments to Bay Street corporations over payments to our provinces for health care needs.
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Madam Speaker, I want to quote for my colleague his own leader. On September 17, in this very House, he said, “We are going to have a declining level of debt.” The budget actually shows the opposite: a growing debt, worse even than what was planned under Trudeau, so who is being forthright and honest? Is it a declining debt, as the Prime Minister states, or is it a massively increasing debt, as th…
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Madam Speaker, I noticed that the most recently released public accounts show that the government increased debt maintenance, payments for interest on its debt, by 13%, or $6 billion, over the previous year. The increase to health care transfers for the province was just $2.6 billion, or 4.7%. I wonder if the member could comment on why the government's policies have led the country to spend so mu…
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Madam Speaker, we saw the previous finance minister quit the government because she said that what turned out to be a $36-billion deficit from last year was so fiscally irresponsible. The current finance minister then dropped a budget with a $78-billion deficit. What does it say about the current finance minister? He says this is something Canadians would celebrate, when the previous finance minis…
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Mr. Speaker, I could just lean over and ask this of the member, but I want him to put it on the record. He talked about the high interest payments caused by the Liberal deficit. Last year, the government increased interest payments by 13%, yet at the same time, it only increased health care transfers by 4.5%. Could the member reflect on government policies? They focus more on paying interest and c…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to let my colleague know that he is always welcome to come back to OGGO. All is forgiven. I know he left us recently. One of the major platforms on housing from the Liberals during the last election was what is called the MURB, or multi-unit residential building, tax provision to build rental units. The government has not put it anywhere in the budget. Why has the governm…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot get enough of the member opposite since he left OGGO. The Prime Minister, in this very House, stated he would have “declining...debt.” The budget they put out actually has $169 billion more debt than that of the previous prime minister, Trudeau, who was not exactly known as someone who would look toward saving Canadians' money. Why did the Prime Minister state in the House th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's costly credit card budget piles his inflationary spending and debt on to our children and our grandchildren. Canadians are putting nearly 50% more on credit cards for basic living expenses than they were just 10 years ago. Now, Fitch Ratings warns that the government has blown past its own fiscal anchors and says “finances run a high risk of further deterioration”…
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Mr. Speaker, Fitch Ratings is sounding the warning. Yes, Canadians are drowning in credit card bills after a decade of Liberal inflation, and, yes, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says the Liberals have abandoned their own debt-to-GDP anchor, the very same anchor they said protects their AAA rating. The PBO further concluded that the Liberals have almost no chance of achieving their declining def…
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Madam Speaker, I think the government's budget is saying exactly what my colleague is commenting on. It is placing a priority on paying out interest to Bay Street bankers and not helping main street Canadians. The $76 billion a year in interest payments could provide a new hospital every single year in the top 100 largest cities in the country. The government's focus is completely wrong. It should…
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Madam Speaker, in this very House on September 17, the Prime Minister stated to Canadians, “We are going to have a declining level of debt.” This budget shows $169 billion of more debt than what was forecast by the Trudeau government. Does this sound, as the Prime Minister said, like a “declining level of debt”, or is it just another broken promise from the government?
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege arising from the troubling notice published by the Parliamentary Budget Officer on Thursday afternoon. In letters to the Speaker, the Deputy Speakers and their counterparts in the Senate, Jason Jacques wrote to provide notice, under section 79.42 of the Parliament of Canada Act, that he is of the opinion he has “not been provided with free and …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague started off by talking about how every dollar the government spends is taken from Canadians. What we see at the end of the budget is that in just a four-year period, more than $10 billion more will be spent on interest on Liberal debt than is actually collected in GST, so instead of money going toward health care, it will be going toward interest on the debt. What does …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Winnipeg North for his yelling and screaming. It is always fun. It is nice to actually see him have a chance to get up to speak in the House. He talks a lot about misinformation. I wonder if he could comment on his leader's, the Prime Minister's, saying in this very place on September 17 that we will have “a declining level of debt.” The budge…
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Madam Speaker, two million Canadians every single month is not a positive, tangible result. Record unemployment for youth is not a positive, tangible result. We have not seen any positive, tangible results from the government for 10 years, and we do not see them in the budget either. What we see is a generational debt being passed on to our kids and our grandkids. The government's own growth proje…
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Mr. Speaker, to start, I will be sharing my time with my colleague, the member for Kitchener South—Hespeler. I am pleased to rise, once again, to speak to the budget. It is nice to actually see the budget finally here after a 19-month delay. That is almost unprecedented, but of course we saw the Liberals refuse to actually table a budget one year during COVID, so I guess they are just keeping to t…
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Madam Speaker, my friend brings up a very valid point. This is what the economist Trevor Tombe was referring to, the difference between reality and truth. There is a large gap between the truth of what the budget is and the rhetoric the Liberals are presenting. The budget constantly talks about how they are changing how they record their expenses to do so as England does. However, when we actually…
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Madam Speaker, my neighbour from Edmonton Northwest or, as I call it, West Edmonton Mall northwest, had an excellent speech and brought up a lot of points. This budget is an omnibus budget, just like other Liberal budgets, despite Liberal promises to not have omnibus legislation. It contains probably dozens of required legislative changes, but none of those will cover the important things for Albe…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the government spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians in higher taxes and higher inflation. The Prime Minister is giving billions of dollars to Liberal-connected insiders and consultants, yet at the same time, he is telling young Canadians they have to sacrifice more. He has promised to cap spending at a 2% increase, but he is actually growing it by 8%. Who is payin…
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Mr. Speaker, through the years, the Liberals have debased our immigration system and our citizenship, whether by flooding the country with foreign students or by being lax on criminals' being allowed in the country. I wonder what the member thinks of the Liberals' stance on Bill C-3 and whether it would devalue the overall value of being a Canadian.
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Mr. Speaker, one issue we have with Bill C-3 is that the government has no idea how many people would actually be affected by it. How many people would receive citizenship immediately or would be affected down the road and thus be a cost to Canadians, both in our health care and in other benefits? I wonder if my colleague could tell me what he thinks of the seriousness of the government, which is …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Cambridge for a very well-thought-out speech today. We have seen repeatedly over the years that the Liberals have debased and destroyed the Canadian consensus on the success of immigration and its value to this country. I would like to ask my colleague to opine on whether she believes devaluing citizenship, as the Liberals are doing in Bill C-3,…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked about the fact that the government has not even looked at, or cannot quantify, what the costs are going to be. I have had the pleasure of serving on the operations committee for close to 10 years. My colleague attended as well for a short period. At one time, we had a visiting delegation from Vietnam, from their version of the operations committee. We were looki…
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Madam Speaker, I will not thank the member for that question, because it is ridiculous. This is a government whose former prime minister called every single member of the RCMP racist by calling the RCMP systemically racist. I wonder if the member would like to ask that same question of his colleague from Victoria, who stated that we should defund the police in June 2020 or the member for London We…
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Madam Speaker, the reason we are at this point is that Conservatives presented this in committee and the Liberals voted it down. I do not know why they are taking the side of corrupt corporations and human traffickers instead of the side of victims and of workers in Canada.
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on Bill C-12, the ugly stepchild of the failed Liberal omnibus bill, Bill C-2. This is, of course, about border security. I am looking through the departmental plan, which was actually signed by the Minister of Public Safety, that covers the CBSA. It talks about human trafficking, and that is what I will be mostly talking about today. Combatting human traffickin…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I am disappointed in my colleague across the way. I realize we joust back and forth, often good-naturedly, but this is a serious issue. Human trafficking is happening on government-funded projects. I want a commitment from the government that if Conservatives bring it up again in the operations committee, to put an end to it, his colleagues will not shut down that stud…
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Madam Speaker, I think we should be thankful that there are no Liberal MPs giving speeches. I do not want to hear the member for Winnipeg North any more than this member does. It is an ongoing issue in the House. The government says it is urgent that we pass the legislation. Yes, it says, it has done nothing for 10 years, but, damn it, this had better get done today. This is just another example t…
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