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Mr. Speaker, I really do believe that as a Crown corporation, Build Canada Homes will be not only something on paper as a resource tool, but it will have the financial means, and it will have individuals who make up the corporation with just the type of experience that is necessary in order to ensure that we are building more affordable homes. Among many other things, I mentioned the issue of tech…
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Mr. Speaker, my friend and colleague brings up a wonderful point, and it reinforces what I said about how far the Conservatives have gone. Their bumper-sticker answer is to get out of the way, but look at the cost of that. I will stay away from the bill we are talking about today, but rather look at the bill that was brought forward to the House for a vote. It was on a national strategy for housin…
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Mr. Speaker, I get it that the far right Conservative Party does not support Bill C-20. I will not have a hissy fit, to quote a member from across the way. There will be no hissy fit here. My very first assignment, when I was first elected to the Manitoba legislature back in 1988, was as housing critic, and I argued even back then that housing was important. We met with individuals like Doug Marti…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has demonstrated very well how quickly we want to move forward as a government in co-operation with and working with provinces, territories, indigenous communities and the different stakeholders on this particular file. I was saddened when there was a provincial government in the province of Manitoba that did not act quickly enough on a lot of infrastructure, and I …
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Mr. Speaker, I have had the opportunity to talk about the contrast between the government and the official opposition, or the Conservative far right. I have found that it is a good example to show that contrast. The leader of the Conservative Party, when he was the minister responsible for housing, did not actually do anything as a minister of housing. This is consistent with what the Conservative…
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Mr. Speaker, as my colleague knows, this was a very important issue for our new Prime Minister and the government as a whole. In fact, it was incorporated into the throne speech that was delivered back in May of last year. It is good to see the legislation before us. Could the member provide his thoughts in regard to how important this issue is for the government of the day, in particular the Prim…
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Mr. Speaker, there is absolutely no surprise in the member's comments. That is what we have been hearing all day from the Conservative Party. The Conservatives do not support Bill C-20. They do not support the federal government's having a stronger, healthier role in working with provinces, territories, indigenous communities and the many different stakeholders. They want to just get out of the wa…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I suspect if you were to canvass the House, you would find unanimous consent to call at 1:30 p.m. so we could begin Private Members' Business.
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I am pleased to see that Bill C-14 is before the House. In fact, I argued back in December that there was no reason Bill C-14 should not pass the House of Commons and the Senate before the end of the year. In the last election, the Prime Minister and ministers came with an election platform based on crime and looking at ways we could bring in legislation. The Conservativ…
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Mr. Speaker, another piece of legislation is Bill C-2, on lawful access. We hear a lot about the importance of fighting extortion. When I think of Bill C-2, this is a very powerful bill that would enable us to bring in lawful access, which would give more tools to our law enforcement agencies. I wonder if the minister would provide her thoughts on why it is so critically important that we not forg…
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Mr. Speaker, in the last federal election, under a year ago, Canada's new Prime Minister made a commitment, an election platform, to deal with crime. Before the House of Commons, over the last number of months, we have seen a series of bills that deal with making our communities safer. Bill C-14, which we are debating today, should have passed at the end of 2025. It did not pass because of the fil…
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Mr. Speaker, less than a year ago, Canadians elected a prime minister and a large Liberal government. At the end of the day, part of that platform was to bring together a legislative agenda to deal with crime and issues such as lawful access, hate propaganda, bail reform and restoring mandatory minimums. We have substantial legislation to deal with making our communities safer. The problem is that…
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties, and if you seek it, I believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: That, notwithstanding any standing order or usual practice of the House, Government Business number 5, standing on the Notice Paper in the name of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, be deemed adopted.
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand at this time.
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Mr. Speaker, we request that it be carried on division. (Motion agreed to, bill read the third time and passed)
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Mr. Speaker, I would request it be carried it on division. (Motion agreed to)
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions amongst the parties, and if you seek it, I believe you will find unanimous consent to adopt the following motion: That, notwithstanding any standing order or usual practice of the House, Ways and Means Motion No. 8, notice of which was tabled on January 28, 2026, be deemed concurred in on division, and a bill based thereon standing on the Order Paper in the…
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand at this time.
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Madam Speaker, what is very apparent is that the Conservative Party of Canada does not have any concept of what it means to build and have a Canadian strategy on automobiles. I hope to be able to expand on that in great detail when I get the opportunity to address this issue. Talk about incompetency and an inability to show Canadians that they have an automobile strategy; this is truly amazing. Co…
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Mr. Speaker, let me start by offering my condolences and prayers to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., for the horrific things that have taken place over the last couple of days. I echo what the Prime Minister, the leader of the Conservative Party and others have expressed in regard to our love and prayers going to the community. I want to expand on a bit more of a holistic approach to the auto…
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Mr. Speaker, there is EV manufacturing in Manitoba. The best buses in the world are being manufactured in my home city of Winnipeg, and they are EV buses. Imagine the shell shock on the other side. The silence is deafening when reality finally sinks in. Even though we have emphasized a great deal about Ontario today, we are really talking about an industry that impacts everyone, every region of ou…
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Mr. Speaker, that would be a good question to ask Doug Ford, a Conservative who made many investments, recognizing, contrary to what the member just put on the record, that the government does have a role to play. I am not alone. Progressive Conservative provincial governments and NDP provincial governments also understand the reality that government can make a difference. We have seen that in Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to pick up on the point that the member who represents the province of Quebec talked about, which is the rebates, what they are and how it is important that we support the EV industry, its growth and its potential. This is why we have brought forward through the automobile strategy a program that will sensitize Canadians to purchasing EV vehicles when the opportunity might …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague has made a very important observation. At the end of the day, when we look at the details of what is being proposed by the government, we see that he is 100% correct. I would add to that by saying that roughly 35% of our EV purchases in Canada will come from the United States, but for many of those vehicles coming in from the United States, parts are being supplied by Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask all members present who own an EV to please raise their hand. I do not see any on the Conservative side. Having said that, let me suggest that it is the NDP and PC governments at the provincial levels and the Liberal federal government that have recognized that providing the rebates in some form or another is a good thing. The Conservatives gaslight people on the issue, an…
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Mr. Speaker, I remember former prime minister Joe Clark making the statement that he never left the Progressive Conservative Party but rather that the party left him. There are a lot of progressives, red Tories, or call them what we like: Conservatives with a conscience, Conservatives who believe in the environment and in having good, strong policy dealing with the environment. Those have all been…
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Mr. Speaker, first, I recognize how important the RAV4 vehicle is, and I compliment the workforce at Toyota in Canada. Someone mentioned that it produces, I believe, one car every minute or less than a minute. I thought someone said 30 seconds. Canada also produces the Dodge Charger, which is the number one car in North America. It was recognized as the car of the year by Detroit. We should be pro…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party is gaslighting people on an issue to create anger. Let me give an example. I think of the community of Aurora, where Magna International employs 17,000-plus employees. That is a lot of people. They are not producing a car, but they are manufacturing parts that go to the United States. It seems that the Conservative Party does not care a damn about those jobs. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, the member does not seem to recognize the integrated automobile industry between Canada and the United States. Many of the parts come from Canada or will be manufactured in Canada. They will go to the United States to be put into electric vehicles, and then, yes, some of them will come back to Canada. Does he recognize the integration of the automobile industry in Canada?
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Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the parties, and if you seek it, I believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move: 1. That, in relation to its study of Canada and the forthcoming CUSMA review, six members of the Standing Committee on International Trade be authorized to travel to Washington, D.C., United States of America; and Detroit metropolitan area, Mic…
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand, please.
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would ask if there would be unanimous consent of the House to allow Bill C-2 to pass.
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Madam Speaker, I understand the Bloc is going to be voting against the motion. I see that as a positive thing. I really do believe there is a lot of hypocrisy in the Conservative motion today. If we take a look at it, the biggest barrier in terms of actually dealing with these issues today is the Conservative Party of Canada. We have seen, whether it is Bill C-2, Bill C-14, Bill C-9 or Bill C-16, …
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I was in the middle of making a statement and the member stood up on a point of order. I would suggest that maybe I should be given the chance—
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Madam Speaker, we will remember that when we go through on others. They are being silly.
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Madam Speaker, the greatest barrier to Canadians receiving the type of reform we need on crime is the Conservative Party of Canada and the ongoing filibustering that they do, day in and day out, to prevent crime legislation from passing the House of Commons. The motion that we are debating today is trying to put the Conservative Party in a light of wanting to see change, when they are the biggest …
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Madam Speaker, the member made reference to Bill C-16 and that he is looking forward to it ultimately going to committee. I too want to see it go to committee, but if we look at what we have witnessed in the past, and I reference Bill C-9, which deals with hate crimes, the Bloc have come up with an amendment, and as a direct result we have seen a great deal of filibustering on that piece of legisl…
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Mr. Speaker, I will start by thanking the secretary for coming to Winnipeg and addressing a number of concerns, concerns he is addressing here today, by meeting with different stakeholders. I was really impressed with the manner in which he alleviated a great deal of concern. I think a lot of that concern comes out of misinformation that comes from the Conservative Party as it tries to give a fals…
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Mr. Speaker, I absolutely could, and if the member wants to sit down with me, I will go into great detail with her on it. Remember that the reason we stopped calling Bill C-2 was that the Conservative Party refused to pass it. That was why we had to come up with Bill C-12; it was a compromise. It was the only thing the Conservatives would pass that was from Bill C-2, which denied Canadians' having…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise. I found it a bit much when I heard the Leader of the Opposition saying “blocking and obstructing” and attributing those two words to the government. Talk about hypocrisy. At the end of the day, we need to reflect on why we are where we are today. The new Prime Minister was elected less than a year ago. Going through the last campaign, it was well defined that…
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Mr. Speaker, that is the truth. By the way, I will be splitting my time with the member for Davenport. However, it goes far beyond that. Let us look at Bill C-9, on combatting racism and hate. Once again, the Conservative Party is preventing that legislation from passing. Conservatives will not even let it out of the committee. It is filibuster after filibuster. They complain a lot to Canadians, b…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not quite understand that last bit. At the end of the day, the Conservatives can say whatever they want in regard to the bail reform legislation. If they look at one of my 1,000-plus comments, they would find that I have consistently said on behalf of the Government of Canada that the bail reform legislation was absolutely critical. I challenged the Conservatives in November and …
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Mr. Speaker, it is not that we are acting as if we had a majority. I suspect there is a great deal of frustration because there is substantial legislation before us that is election-driven. There is a newly elected Prime Minister, elected less than a year ago, who made commitments to Canadians in the last federal election. Every Liberal member of Parliament wants the legislation we advocated for i…
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Mr. Speaker, I must say, I am disappointed when Conservative members stand up to talk about the issue of extortion when the Conservative Party of Canada is preventing legislation that would deal with extortion, at least in part. I am referring to not only Bill C-2, but also Bill C-14. Those two bills are about bail reform legislation and allowing Canada to have lawful access. How can the member ho…
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Mr. Speaker, when I think of the whole crime package that the Conservatives continue to filibuster, I think of Bill C-2 on lawful access; I think of Bill C-9 on combatting hate; I think of Bill C-14 on bail reform; and I think of Bill C-16 on mandatory minimums being reinstated, along with leading on femicide. These are all important pieces of legislation that Canadians are expecting the Conservat…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, my intention when I asked for unanimous consent on Bill C-2 was to get it to committee stage, not to pass it through the House.
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that the Conservative Party has not even read the legislation. Bill C-16 actually does reinstate mandatory minimums, maybe not in every area that he can imagine, but it does reinstate them. Could my colleague provide his thoughts on how important it is that the Conservatives truly understand what they are filibustering? They are denying Canadians the opportunity to se…
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Madam Speaker, I request that it be passed on division.
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Mr. Speaker, I know the member has been a very strong advocate in regard to the entire crime package that the Prime Minister and government have been trying to get passed, but the Conservatives continue to obstruct and try to prevent it from passing. The member talked a great deal about extortion. I agree with him that extortion is a very serious issue. Bill C-2, lawful access, and Bill C-14, bail…
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Mr. Speaker, it is important to note the Conservatives are preventing Bill C-2 from passing. They are also preventing Bill C-14 from passing, both of which have a direct link to preventing extortion. I have a letter that was emailed to Conservative supporters. It says, “Extortion is spreading across Canada. Businesses are being threatened. Communities are being terrorized. And families no longer f…
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