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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise on Bill C-2. I have been here almost 10 years, long enough to remember the Liberals in 2015 and their campaign promise of no more omnibus bills. Obviously, that promise, along with so many others, has been broken. This is another example of an omnibus bill, with the government trying to squish everything into one large bill and jam it through Parliament despi…
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Mr. Speaker, the emperor has no clothes, clearly. These are the government's own numbers. These are not my numbers. These are not Conservative numbers. These are the numbers of the current Liberal government. The Treasury Board posts these numbers. I would encourage the member opposite to, instead of spending all his time in this House spewing misinformation, maybe take a few minutes outside the H…
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Mr. Speaker, the government was just talking about adapting for criminality. Should, perhaps, the government adapt to keeping prisoners in jail instead of releasing violent offenders immediately on bail?
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if my colleague actually read the public accounts before making a statement that the Conservatives cut, because if he had, he would have seen the high point for several years was during the Harper years. In the first three years, the Liberals cut spending, labour and FTEs for the CBSA, which the member's party supported. Would he like to clarify his statements?
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With regard to funding provided through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives program in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem since January 1, 2016, and broken down by year: what are the details of each such Canada Fund for Local Initiatives grant, including the (i) amount, (ii) recipient, (iii) file number, (iv) description of the local initiative, (v) date, (vi) location?
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With regard to contracts for the provision of research or speechwriting services to the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, since April 1, 2021: (a) what are the details of all contracts, including the (i) start and end dates, (ii) contracting parties, (iii) file number, (iv) nature or description of the work, (v) value of the contract; and (b) for speechwriting contracts, what is the…
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With regard to all expenditures made by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General since April 1, 2023: (a) what was the total amount of expenditures, broken down by fiscal year; (b) what are the details of all expenditures made, including, for each, (i) the date, (ii) the amount, (iii) the vendor or payee, (iv) the description of the goods or services, (v) the line item or object code us…
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With regard to funding provided through special warrants by the Governor General since Parliament was dissolved on March 23, 2025: (a) what were the dates and amounts of the funding provided through each warrant; (b) what is the detailed breakdown of how the funding in (a) was spent, including how much each department, program or government initiative received from each warrant; and (c) did any of…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague talks about nation building. I ask a simple question: Does he believe pipelines would be nation building? The natural resources minister cannot even say the word in the House, and the Liberals' Quebec lieutenant says Canada does not need more pipelines. Does my colleague believe a pipeline would be a nation-building project?
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, as much as I am enjoying this harangue, what is the relevance to Bill C-5?
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Mr. Speaker, we can always tell the level of truthiness from the member's speech. The louder he gets, the less factual it is. So, we can certainly hear the level of truthiness, I guess, in today's speech. The member talks about the one strong economy, and yet the government is a government that helped kill pipelines, energy east, which now leaves us bringing in $20 billion a year of oil from from …
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the following two reports from the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, known as the mighty OGGO. The first is a report entitled “Canada's Postal Service: A Lifeline for Rural and Remote Communities”, and the second is a report entitled “Renewal of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's Mandate”, where the com…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for Winnipeg North on his maiden speech of this afternoon. It is remarkable to sit here and listen to the member drone on and on, blaming Harper. It is almost as if the member had not been sitting in that exact same spot for the last 10 years as part of the government that sat and did nothing about this problem. On a different issue, the immigra…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the issues we have with the government is the abject failure of minister after minister on the immigration file. We have seen it here today. When I look at the departmental plans that just came out, late, of course, from the government, over the last four years, I see that it has failed on over 50% of its metrics. Every single year, the department is failing more than it is suc…
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard repeatedly, both inside the House and outside, how the Liberal government has broken the immigration system and not just Canadians' trust, but our ability to serve new Canadians. Through my office, I found out that getting an initial work permit or an extension has gone from 60 days to 210 days. Spousal applications for people already here in Canada used to be one year. …
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Mr. Speaker, you are doing a fantastic job. I would like to thank my colleague for his excellent speech today, especially the heartwarming tale of his adopted children. The Liberal government itself even admits that it has broken the immigration system. Its own immigration website states that concern about immigration is at the highest level it has been in two decades. The government notes that it…
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Mr. Speaker, in his well-thought-out speech, my colleague talked about trust and how the government cannot seem to tell Canadians how many people would be affected and what the cost would be. This is from Immigration Canada's own website: Support for immigration among Canadians has decreased substantially. These are the government's own words. The number of Canadians who say we're bringing in too …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are asking Parliament to approve half a trillion dollars in spending without committee oversight, without ministers being able to answer even simple questions in the House and without a budget. The Parliamentary Budget Officer stated that the deficit could be as high as $20 billion more than originally projected and that legislators must risk placing even more faith in th…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Kings—Hants for an entertaining 20 minutes. I give him points for providing more fiction per minute than even the member for Winnipeg North, but he did it without yelling and screaming. I could spend 20 minutes on detailing some of these things, but I want to bring to light a few of them before I ask the member a question. One is that the member…
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Mr. Speaker, at the public accounts committee, we heard the assistant deputy minister testify that the government was actually not going after cases of fraud to recover money, only asking for the money back, saying it was open to negotiations with companies that were defrauding taxpayers through procurement policy. I wonder if the colleague across the way could explain why the government is so len…
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Mr. Chair, under the legislation was the Minister of National Revenue. There was $138 million paid in bonuses of public service management last year, based upon Treasury Board guidelines. The government only achieved 51% of its targets last year. Does the minister support his rules, which paid out so much of taxpayers' money for so much failure?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is reading an answer for the wrong question. Canada Mortgage and Housing paid out $30 million in management bonuses despite the housing hell that the government caused. CMHC's purpose on its website is to promote housing affordability. Does the minister believe housing is affordable and thus warrants $30 million—
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Mr. Chair, I can assure the member that I actually have read the estimates, unlike himself, apparently. The Liberals called small businesses tax cheats. Is this why the government is cheating small businesses of that $108 million?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals are increasing spending on consultants to $26 billion this year. Did the government pay KPMG $700,000 to tell the government to increase spending on companies like KPMG?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberal government campaigned on “Significantly reducing” money spent on management consultants, yet the estimates call for $26 billion this year, $6 billion more than last year. Does the minister think $6 billion in added spending is a significant reduction?
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Mr. Chair, did KPMG report the government could save money by spending billions more?
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Mr. Chair, public accounts show $3.3 billion set aside for small businesses for the carbon tax rebate. These estimates show $3.192 billion. Where is the missing $108 million set aside for small businesses?
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Mr. Chair, I just quoted the main estimates, which show $3.192 billion for a rebate. Public accounts is $3.3 billion. Minister, where is the missing $108 million set aside for small businesses?
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Mr. Chair, whose decision was it to reduce the payout by $108 million?
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Mr. Chair, the Treasury Board paid KPMG $700,000 for advice on how to cut consultant spending. Did taxpayers get their money's worth?
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Mr. Chair, $26 billion is more than $20 billion. That is how much more the government is spending on management consultants this year. Does the minister agree that this is a significant cut, as his election campaign called for?
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from King—Vaughan for her excellent speech and especially for her advocacy for seniors. I introduced a private members' bill in the 42nd Parliament to eliminate the mandatory RRIF withdrawals entirely. It would help seniors. I want to note that every single member of the Liberal Party voted against that and actually voted against affordability for senior…
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Or he is here passionately and speaks often.
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Madam Speaker, I have a very simple question. It is not a partisan question. It is actually an issue that is affecting a lot of constituents. When the ways and means motion was introduced, it was effective immediately that day. If one had purchased, or had agreed to purchase, a newly built house the day before, even if they were not to be taking possession for a year or two from then, and paying t…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's usual well-researched speech. The platform that the Liberals announced during the election shows that the tax cut would cost the government about $5 billion a year in lost revenue, yet at the same time they have massively increased, by a larger amount, the amount of money they are going to give out to their friends at McKinsey, GC Strategies and other hig…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for an excellent, well-thought-out speech. One of the issues of this so-called significant tax cut, as we constantly hear the member for Winnipeg North call it, is that it only provides $271 this year, according to the Liberals' own numbers from their campaign platform. That is less than one dollar a day. However, according to Dalhousie University, the average f…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to pass on my compliments for your appointment as Assistant Deputy Speaker. It is wonderful to see you in the chair. I cannot speak without referencing the departmental plans. If I look back as far as 2019, when Ralph Goodale was in this place, and the plans from 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, every single one of them mentions cracking down on fentanyl. One of them, f…
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Madam Speaker, before I give my question, I want to put something to rest, I hope once and for all. We have heard the member for Winnipeg North and others repeat the same false narrative about everything being okay that they have not done in the last 10 years because of Harper's cuts. I would like him, the Liberals and everyone in this House to take a look at the public accounts. These are non-par…
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Madam Speaker, I am very happy that someone brought up the issue of the casualty report. One of the items, specifically, was a lack of heavy body armour. We had an Order Paper question come back just recently, about a year ago, which was 10 years after the mass casualty issue, where the government has still not provided heavy body armour to the RCMP. The government is repeatedly saying that it is …
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Madam Speaker, I want to correct the previous speaker, the member for Richmond East—Steveston. If we look at the public accounts and the Treasury Board's own numbers, they show that in 2016, 2017 and 2018, the Liberal government slashed the amount of full-time equivalents at the CBSA. It was not until 2019 that the numbers actually came back to the Harper-era level. I wonder if my colleague could …
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We have gone through this before in the House. In a previous debate I had with the member opposite, I stated the exact same thing: It is either that the numbers are lying in the public accounts, or the member is purposely misleading the House. I was told by the Chair that I could not say that because it implied the member was lying. He is using the exact …
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Mr. Speaker, there is only one person keeping the Prime Minister in power and that is the leader of the NDP. The sellout leader of the NDP is not concerned about Canadians. He is concerned only with keeping the Liberals in power long enough so that he qualifies for his pension. The Liberal-NDP coalition has doubled housing prices, doubled rent and has driven up the cost of groceries, yet the NDP c…
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 23rd report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the mighty OGGO, entitled “Indigenous Procurement”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the Elves Special Needs Society, an organization that has made a profound impact on so many people in Edmonton. We are fortunate to have many charities and not-for-profits that serve Edmonton, and Elves stands out as truly one of the best. Recently celebrating its 50th anniversary, Elves, named for its benefactor, Milton Elves, and not for the North Pole elves, began …
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the following two reports from the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, widely known here and by everyone else as the mighty OGGO. I am presenting the 21st report, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (B), 2024-25”, and the 22nd report, entitled “Canada's Postal Service: A Lifeline for Rural and Remote Commun…
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Mr. Speaker, when my flight was landing last night, at about 10 o'clock, I got a text from our party saying it wanted me to speak on a concurrence debate. I said, “Which debate?” It said, “The scandal”, so of course my first reaction was, “What scandal?” Was it the green slush fund scandal, where the government was funnelling $400 million to Liberal insiders, and where board members and executives…
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the behaviour of the present. There is the green slush fund, where $400 million of taxpayers' money went to Liberal-connected insiders. There is the Minister of Environment, a co-owner of one of the largest recipients of the slush fund. His partner stated to committee that it was okay because they barely defrauded taxpayers of anything. The member opposite should con…
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Mr. Speaker, no, it is not correct. In the government operations committee, we asked repeatedly whether the member for Edmonton Centre and GHI are still able to bid on government business. GC Strategies, embroiled in the ArriveCAN scandal, has been banned from bidding on government business. The Liberals for some reason refuse to ban the member for Edmonton Centre's company from bidding on lucrati…
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Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed my time with my colleague on the government operations committee, the mighty OGGO. He brings up a lot of valid points. We are not blocking Deloitte; we are just seized with other scandals at the moment. Perhaps if he would stop supporting a Liberal government that stumbles from scandal to scandal and would vote with us to bring it down, then we could get back to the business…
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Mr. Speaker, in the public accounts committee, where we have been studying this issue, we had the deputy secretary to the cabinet of the Privy Council, which, as we know, is pretty much the Prime Minister's department. She told us that she was refusing to turn over the documents unredacted despite an order of Parliament because she insisted that the access to information law superseded the will of…
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