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Mr. Speaker, I think we are going to see the Liberal tendency to use massive, omnibus pieces of legislation, stifle debate and close down investigations at committees or prevent them from starting. This is something we have seen repeatedly over the last number of months. It is something we are going to see increasingly; it is going to accelerate. The Liberals will not accept amendments from the op…
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Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely true. The Liberals are filibustering at the HUMA committee, like I described, to block the production of documents. They are filibustering at the ethics committee to avoid accountability for the finance minister, who is in a conflict of interest. I think we are going to see that increasingly. One thing that I suspect will also start happening now is that the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, it has now been widely reported in the media that part of the Liberal strategy to get Trump's tariffs removed is to delay. Yesterday at the foreign affairs committee, the Canadian ambassador to the United States said that they have detailed analysis on exactly how much this hurts Canadian businesses. They know the cost, so if the Brampton auto plant closes, that is no problem. It is p…
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Mr. Speaker, the answer from the Liberal government is $5 billion collected on Canadian automakers, which is putting Canadian auto workers out of work, and $4 billion of those tariffs are to be paid by Honda and Toyota. They will not continue to pay those tariffs. The government's answer is, “Don't worry. There's nothing to see here because we're going to sign a free trade deal with Ecuador”. The …
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Mr. Speaker, it has been seven months since there has been a formal meeting or negotiation to exchange offers to remove these American tariffs. What is worse is that it is now being reported that this is a Liberal strategy, which has led to the loss of tens of thousands of Canadian jobs, the closure of the Brampton auto plant, the closure of steel mills and the closure of pulp and paper mills. Thi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal answer to the tens of thousands of Canadians who have lost their jobs about their strategy of delay is tell them to not worry about their EI, not worry about their families and not worry about how they are going to pay their mortgages because they signed a free trade deal with Ecuador, which is a rounding error in Canada's GDP. If these Liberals are serious, they will expl…
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago, the Liberal Prime Minister said he would have tariffs with the United States removed by July. He failed. The cost of that failure was tens of thousands of jobs in the Canadian auto sector, the Canadian steel and aluminum sector, and the softwood lumber sector, and now expanded tariffs on Canadian manufactured goods, which will have a devastating impact. Meanwhile, Mexico, …
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Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to have the opportunity today to talk a bit about Bill C-22, which deals with lawful access. Lawful access is, of course, critically important in the modern era with respect to the investigation and prosecution of crime. It is encouraging that we are talking about lawful access here in the House of Commons today. However, I would be remiss if I did not talk about a few…
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Mr. Speaker, the cognitive dissonance of that question is really stunning. Once again, the member is suggesting that the audacity of Conservatives and other members of the opposition to get up and speak to this particular piece of legislation is somehow an affront to democracy. Meanwhile, we had a Liberal minister speaking to this particular piece of legislation literally 15 minutes ago. If the Li…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question. Let us think about this bill. If it had been brought forward as Bill C-2 in its original form today, on the cusp of a Liberal majority government, there would have been no consultation. There would have been no splitting of the bill. The Liberals would have proceeded forward with this at committee to get it passed through the committee as quickly as possible.…
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Mr. Speaker, I am always happy to engage in an intellectual fight with people, but I refuse to get into an intellectual fight with someone who is unarmed.
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago, the Liberal Prime Minister said he was the one to get a deal from Donald Trump. Fast-forward to this year, and we have seen tens of thousands of job losses in the auto sector, the softwood lumber sector, and the steel and aluminum sector. Now we have new tariffs on our manufacturers that are punishing our tool and die makers. What is the Liberal Prime Minister's response? …
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Mr. Speaker, has anyone ever had the experience of listening to people talk who actually say nothing? It is the Liberal response to every single question that we get in question period. There is the illusion of progress, the illusion that things are getting better with the trade relationship with the United States, and yet everything continuously gets worse. The Liberals always say something is ju…
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Mr. Speaker, if we were to listen to the Liberals, we would think that Canada is going through some kind of an economic boom. The reality is so far from that truth, as 43% of Canadians are now saying that they are within $200 of not being able to make ends meet. This is despite all of the programs they continuously announce and reannounce. This is despite doubling the deficit. When will the Libera…
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Mr. Speaker, if we want to talk about manipulation, manipulation is telling Canadians that they have never had it so good. It is the definition of gaslighting. That is what the Liberals do every single day in the House of Commons. They deny the facts. Members can think about it, as 43% of Canadians are saying they are within $200 of not being able to make ends meet. That is one minor car repair. T…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the Liberals' plan is, and I do not think they know what their plan is. What is amazing to me is that the member over here, in his question, said that we never talk about tariffs, which is patently false. I have been talking about tariffs and the Liberals' failure to get tariffs removed for almost a year. Let us be very clear what the Liberals do not talk about. The…
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Mr. Speaker, what is incredible is how they never tell us what their plan is on anything. What is the Liberal plan to get tariffs removed from the United States? What is their plan for CUSMA review? How close are we to any of these things? We never know, because the Prime Minister never tells us. The Liberals have no plan to get rid of tariffs, and it is embarrassing.
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moved: That, given that, (i) auto production in Canada has halved since the Liberals took office in 2015, including another 7.8% since this Prime Minister took office, (ii) Canada lost over 5,000 jobs in the auto sector since the Prime Minister took office, (iii) exports of passenger cars and light trucks have fallen by more than 53% since the Prime Minister took office, (iv) unjustified American …
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Oshawa. What we have witnessed over the last decade of Liberal governance of this country is the decimation of the Canadian auto industry. There is no other word that appropriately describes the decline that the Liberals have allowed to happen to our once proud auto sector. Look at where we were under the last year of a Conservative gove…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable. The Liberals' defence to overseeing the decimation of the Canadian auto industry is to have competing quotes. I have a quote from the Unifor local in Oshawa, the people who actually make the vehicles, who said that it is a great plan. Rather than talk about the plan or say the Liberals have a plan to get tariff-free access, the member tries to say there is a bad qu…
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No, Mr. Speaker, this will grow our auto production from 1.2 million vehicles a year to two million vehicles a year, and the parts ecosystem it puts into that is across the country. There are parts suppliers in Quebec that are going to benefit incredibly from this. There are parts suppliers in Ontario that are going to benefit from this. If we get our production up to two million vehicles a year, …
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Mr. Speaker, we all have things we want. What Canadians want is tariff-free access. What is the plan for tariff-free access? We keep hearing about the Liberals doing this and doing that, but while they are doing this and doing that, auto production has gone from two million to 1.2 million. Since the Liberal leader became Prime Minister, auto exports to the United States are down 55%. Despite all t…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the fantastic speech my colleague gave. He talked about EVs. The Liberal government says it has an EV manufacturing strategy. How can we have an EV manufacturing strategy when we do not really manufacture any EVs in Canada, only about 700 Dodge Chargers, and the government is going to let in a flood of Chinese EVs, which will undercut any domestic Canadian EV industry? I…
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Mr. Speaker, I thought that was a fantastic speech by my colleague. What we continue to hear from the Liberals during this debate is our plan does not make sense, or this, that and the other thing, but we have actually seen no plan from them. We have seen production go from two million vehicles a year to 1.2 million, and then they talk about these programs, yet exports of autos are down 55% over t…
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Mr. Speaker, there was so much incoherence and drivel in that speech that I do not know where to start. I will start with this: Is it really the Liberal government's position that the United States wants no trade? Is that what the member thinks its position is? If the U.S. wants no trade, we understand why the Liberals are getting no deal on trade, if that is what they think the position is. Secon…
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about some auto facts. A decade ago before the Liberals took office, Canadian auto producers produced two million vehicles a year. After a decade of Liberal incompetence, that went down to 1.2 million. Now it gets worse, unfortunately, because since the new Prime Minister has taken office, auto exports are down a further 54%. It is a decimation. We have lost the Brampton p…
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Mr. Speaker, it is actually shocking how uninformed the industry minister is when it comes to the auto strategy. They announced their auto strategy, and auto exports, since they announced it, are down 32%. This is a decimation. The reason this is happening is that there are tariffs on our autos at about 15%. The Liberals have been completely incapable of removing the tariffs. They have no plan to …
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Mr. Speaker, the industry minister has said some strange things, like we are going to build the cars the world wants and export them. For question number one, I wonder if the Leader of the Opposition has any idea which markets the industry minister might be talking about that we would export these fantasy cars to. For question number two, the Liberals talk about bringing investment into Canada wit…
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Mr. Speaker, when we all rise in this place to speak, we hope that we are going to be accurate. The member speaks a lot, but I think he hopes to be accurate as well. He read into the record that the Conservative plan does not include, for example, engines. That is patently false. If he took the time to read the plan, he would know the plan talks about vehicles and vehicle equivalents, which includ…
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Mr. Speaker, the last decade of Liberal government has been absolutely devastating for the Canadian auto industry. We have seen auto production go from two million vehicles a year down to 1.2 million, and even worse, this year we have seen auto exports decline by 55%. This is devastating for auto workers. Plants have closed. Many have lost their livelihoods. The Liberal plan for the auto sector se…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know what is more troubling: the fact that she does not recognize that a decline from two million vehicles a year to 1.2 million is devastating or the fact that she talks about her plan, which includes exporting vehicles to Europe. More vehicles were stolen in Canada last year, including two of the justice minister's, than were exported to Europe. We have a plan to get tariff…
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Mr. Speaker, remember the sponsorship scandal? It was a bunch of Liberals running around with money in brown envelopes, handing it out to other Liberal insiders. Well, the Trudeau Liberals said, “That's too complicated. We have to get the money, then we have to get the envelopes, then we have to run around and hand it out.” Therefore they created the green slush fund and appointed the people to ru…
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Mr. Speaker, we care what happens in Canada as well. We want development. We just do not want corrupt Liberal development, because no matter which government it is, the Liberals find a way to engage in corrupt practices. Under the Chrétien Liberals, it was the sponsorship scandal, handing out money in envelopes. Under the Trudeau Liberals, it was creating a fund run by Liberals who gave the money …
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Mr. Speaker, for months we have said that the punishing auto tariffs that have been put on our auto industry are devastating and would devastate the industry. With 10,000 jobs lost, the Liberals did nothing. Three plants closed, and the Liberals did nothing. There has been 2.5 billion dollars' worth of tariffs charged to our auto manufacturers, and now the roosters have come home to roost. StatsCa…
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Mr. Speaker, as usual, the minister's answers to questions about the auto sector are some combination of suggesting that we are not doing enough, and fake news. Let us look at the results, which are clear. The exports to the United States are down 32% for light-duty and passenger vehicles. That is billions of dollars. This is a direct result of the tariffs the Liberals said they would have removed…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals sure love to talk a good game. For months, they have been saying they are going to build the fastest-growing economy in the G7. I mean, at least they got the fastest right. The problem is that it is actually the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. That was just reported. This is what we get when we get a Liberal government that is all talk, all photo ops and all fancy announ…
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Mr. Speaker, what is laughable is how these Liberals get up and talk about things they know very little about. Let us talk about the auto sector. What is very clear is that the Canadian auto sector cannot survive at a 5% tariff. These Liberals somehow bungled it into a 25% tariff, and we have had the result of thousands of auto job losses. They have some strange strategy that includes giving EV re…
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Mr. Speaker, next week, Kosovo will celebrate the 18th anniversary of its independence. Canada has had a long and proud friendship with Kosovo, and I am proud, as a Canadian, that we were one of the first countries to recognize Kosovo's independence. My wife is from Kosovo, and we spent part of our honeymoon there, where we enjoyed amazing food and I learned so much about their rich culture. Kosov…
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Mr. Speaker, for almost two years, flight attendants told the government and parliamentarians they were working for free, and we believed them. Conservatives introduced a bill to fix the problem. Liberals did not believe them and ordered a study. After six months, the study determined that we need to do another study. This stuff can't be made up. Why will the Liberals not believe flight attendants…
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Mr. Speaker, the probe the Liberals ordered determined they needed to do another probe. I am sure there are a lot of things we could say about that. Here are the facts: The head of CUPE Air Canada came to committee when we were looking into this and asked what the Liberals were going to study next. Is water wet? He went on to say, about this study, “We called for action last summer, and instead we…
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Madam Speaker, “We are in the middle of a trade war” is what the Liberals say in response to questions Conservatives raise every time there are more layoffs in the auto sector, in the softwood lumber sector, in the steel and in the aluminum sector. They repeat it to justify their failure to get a deal with the Americans on these tariffs. Let us be very clear about something right at the get-go: Th…
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Madam Speaker, it is kind of unbelievable to me that the member would ask that question. I think I was very clear that we would take the HST off every vehicle made in Canada. That would spur the automakers in Canada to invest in Canada. They might decide they are going to invest in multivehicle platforms at their remaining factories here in Canada so they can produce more different models of Canad…
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Madam Speaker, that has a pretty simple answer. Number one is that those are things available in the tax code; they are not a direct rebate. Those are totally different things. They are tax advantages that every company that operates in Canada gets. Number two is that they are actually operating in Canada, creating Canadian jobs, paying Canadian taxes and creating Canadian wealth. Vehicles manufac…
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Madam Speaker, the challenge is that the government likes to pick winners and losers across a whole host of things. The problem with that is that governments do very few things well, the current government even less than normal governments. When governments are trying to pick winners and losers in industry, they almost always pick the wrong things. We could look at what happened with the battery p…
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Mr. Speaker, I know this member likes to raise his voice a lot, shout a lot and feign indignation at a whole bunch of things, but I have a serious question, which I have asked in question period over almost two weeks now, and I have not received anything that even resembles an answer. I suspect I will not get one now, but I will try again. We are in the middle of a trade war with Donald Trump and …
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Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday evening, I was in Toronto for the Unifor skilled trades conference. Those are the men and women who work in our auto plants to make sure the machinery and equipment work. When I told them that their tax dollars were going to go to subsidizing the purchase of American EVs, they were outraged and disgusted. They could not believe it was happening. It is …
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Mr. Speaker, I have been meeting with auto workers for the past two years. It is how we came up with our policy to take the HST off of all Canadian autos. That was actually an idea of union workers. What is not their idea is to give their tax dollars to Donald Trump's America to build American vehicles. These Liberals will not answer this question: Why are they giving these subsidies to EVs made i…
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Mr. Speaker, the happiest person in North America when the Liberals announced their EV subsidy plan was Donald J. Trump. Let me explain. He has explicitly said he wants to take every single Canadian auto job and bring it down to the United States. Under the Liberals, he is succeeding; 5,000 auto workers have lost their jobs. The plant in Brampton that was supposed to build the Jeep Compass is now …
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Mr. Speaker, I almost feel bad for the minister, pathetically trying to justify sending money to Donald Trump's America to subsidize the production of American EVs. The President has declared economic war on Canada. He has said he wants every single Canadian auto job in the United States, and under the Liberals, he is succeeding. The Canadian auto economy is being decimated. The Liberals' plan is …
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Madam Speaker, last night the industry minister said the quiet thing out loud. When pressed on how many Canadian vehicles the Liberals' EV rebate will apply to, she admitted it is only one. The vast majority of these EV rebates will go to foreign car manufacturers, including in Donald Trump's America. He is the guy who is tariffing our autos, put 5,000 auto workers out of work and closed two plant…
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