Emergency Debate
Mr. Speaker, it was interesting to listen to the member talk about the challenge we have with the potential of 25% tariffs being imposed on Canada, because it is kind of like Groundhog Day. The member might not know this, but in 2018, the United States slapped section 232 tariffs on Canada: 25% for steel and 10% for aluminum. Some people may be wondering why I would bring this up. What does it hav…
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting that the member talked about the border and said that there is nothing to see here; everything is great. I was listening to a CBS News report from about a week ago, which talked about the border. A 295-mile part of the border between Canada and the United States includes New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. In 2023, 19,000 illegals were captured crossing that borde…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member would comment further on the explosion of hate that is happening in this country, particularly directed at the Jewish community, with the open display of terrorist symbols and the lack of action or condemnation from the Liberal government. We are seeing unprecedented hatred directed toward the Jewish community in our country, and the response from the government…
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With regard to the processing of applications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC): (a) how many employees or full-time equivalents have been processing applications at IRCC, broken down by month since January 1, 2024; (b) how many applications were processed by IRCC, broken down by month since January 1, 2024; and (c) what is the daily target or quota of processed applications f…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost of housing. In December 2023, the incompetent Liberals gave the City of Toronto $471 million in the so-called housing accelerator. What was the result? In October 2024, housing starts, versus October 2023, are down 33%. The only thing this housing accelerator is accelerating is bureaucracy. When will the NDP-Liberals get it thr…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals passed a terrible piece of legislation. I voted for it, because at least it was better than the garbage the Liberals have delivered over these years. I do not know how that member sits there. You have allowed billions of dollars of goods made with forced labour to come into Canada, and you stand there and laugh. Your government is corrupt. It is a disgrace—
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians actually need a minister who will build housing. Despite what the minister is saying, the facts are very clear. The housing accelerator does not accelerate anything but bureaucracy. Here are some statistics. Housing starts in Nova Scotia are down 54% October 2024 compared to 2023. In Ontario, for the same period, they are 35% down. In British Columbia, for the same period, t…
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Madam Speaker, the one who should apologize is the one who gave the unhinged rant that was just delivered. Yes, a private member's bill was passed, which requires a voluntary website where they have to maybe disclose whether or not they think they might have forced labour in their supply chains. Look, I am sorry, but the bill is a joke.
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Madam Speaker, yes, we will absolutely eliminate forced labour from our supply chains, as opposed to this government that pretends it is going to and had a minister charged in their mandate letter to introduce legislation to get forced labour out of our supply chains, but no minister has done that. Instead, it relies on some private member's bill from a random backbench Liberal and says that it ha…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Prince Albert. After hearing the parliamentary secretary's speech, I thought it would be fun for us to take a little trip back in time to understand how we got here and why Canada has such an abysmal track record on stopping goods made with forced labour from entering Canada. It is as a result of the corrupt Liberal government. I have …
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Madam Speaker, it is well known how the temporary foreign worker program has been turned into a disaster by this NDP-Liberal government. What is amazing to me is the member from the NDP, and all the other NDP members, who could actually bring the abuse of this program to a halt. They could stop all of the corruption that is going on if only they had the guts to vote no confidence in this governmen…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC): (a) how does IRCC use artificial intelligence (AI) in the processing of applications; (b) what concerns or issues about the use of AI in the processing of applications is IRCC aware of, and how has each one of those concerns or issues been addressed; and (c) does IRCC use AI in any circumstances outside of the processing of applic…
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Madam Speaker, in the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, there is a provision to prevent the use of forced labour in supply chains. The United States enacted strict and bold legislation to do this four years ago. It has seized goods worth $3.62 billion because it took it seriously. The Liberal government has not taken it seriously. I know the Bloc Québécois cares about it and I know the NDP cares a…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, almost 50% of young Canadians believe they will never own a home. This Liberal housing accelerator is an absolute joke. Common-sense Conservatives have a plan. We would axe the GST on new home builds. On an $800,000 house, this would save $40,000. The Conservative leader has now written to the premier of every province asking them to match this ta…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal housing adviser Mike P. Moffatt has asked, about the Liberal housing accelerator, if anyone in the federal government could tell him why Toronto deserves $471 million in housing accelerator funds to massively hike development taxes. Housing starts in Toronto are down 20%. Even Liberal advisers know that the housing accelerator is a joke. Will the NDP-Liberals finally realize t…
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Mr. Speaker, this is exhibit A of the problem. First of all, the member noted the use of electric arc to heat up and process iron ore. Electric arc cannot process iron ore. It only works with recycled steel. The member does not even know what he is talking about regarding the steel industry, which means the government probably does not know. That is problem number one. Problem number two is that C…
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Mr. Speaker, a couple of weeks ago, I asked a question about the steel industry. I talked about the brave steelworker who stood up to the Liberal Prime Minister when he was trying to justify the alleged work the Liberals are doing for the steel industry. The Prime Minister had an encounter with this brave steelworker, who, as far as I am concerned, spoke truth to power, which is a rare thing. The …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost of housing. Rent has doubled. Housing prices have doubled. We used to pay off our mortgage in 25 years. It now takes 25 years to save for the down payment. Thankfully, Conservatives have a plan. We will axe the GST on new homes. On an $800,000-house, this will save $40,000. This tax cut will spark 30,000 additional homes' being…
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Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to hear a Liberal member, after nine years, realize the Liberals have now also broken the CBC. They broke housing. They have broken the criminal justice system. I can go down the list of what they have broken over the last several years, including when the Prime Minister broke the English language by inventing the word “brokenist”, which was a treat for all of us to …
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Mr. Speaker, 1,450 CBC staffers are taking home six-figure salaries. Since 2015, the number of CBC employees taking six-figure salaries has spiked by 231%, again, all the while, with absolutely declining viewership, not meeting any of their KPIs and giving themselves these lavish, gigantic bonuses. Catherine Tait has not ruled out taking more bonuses. It is really incredible. In the face of all th…
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Mr. Speaker, Unifor Local 1541 has been without a contract since March 2023, and it has been on strike for almost six months. The employer has called Canadian workers lazy, refused to negotiate a wage increase and refused to bargain. He is effectively trying to bust the union. The union met with the NDP-Liberal minister almost two months ago and took the unprecedented step of asking the minister t…
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Mr. Speaker, I can tell that the Unifor workers at Local 1541 are going to be absolutely inspired by that heartfelt response from the NDP-Liberal minister. Why are the NDP-Liberals never responsible for anything? Two million Canadians using a food bank is not their fault. Violent thugs out on bail is the province's fault. For a local employer trying to bust a union, there is nothing they can do bu…
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Mr. Speaker, gun crime is up 116%. The carbon tax will be up to 61¢ a litre. Groceries are up 45% since 2015. After nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, even Liberal MPs agree that taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up for the unpopular Liberal Prime Minister. Apparently, Liberal MPs confronted the Prime Minister this morning, but there was one small hitch: They had to get wr…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and corruption is off the charts. A fish rots from the head down. Is it any wonder that Liberal cronies appointed to the green slush fund by a Prime Minister twice convicted of ethics violations engaged in corruption? This was not small corruption. It was $400 million. Mr. Speaker, you ordered the production of these documents. Why w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is pretty simple who we are targeting. We are targeting the corruption the Liberals enabled, the corruption they are hiding and the corruption they refuse to produce the documents for. These are documents the Speaker ordered the production of, so Canadians should ask themselves why the Liberals are not producing them. They are not producing them because they are so damaging. The do…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased the NDP is going to vote in favour of this motion. When we do, we will be there as well, but there is a lot that needs to be litigated in the chamber. Why does it have to go to the vote? A Liberal member is laughing because this is all funny to him, corruption is funny. All the Liberals have to do is release the documents. I ask my NDP colleagues to use whatever infl…
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Mr. Speaker, I have had worse things said about me by much better people, so I am not really concerned about what the member has to say. On the specifics, the real problem is that corruption seeps onto people. There are no claims this person had any problems when doing other things with other parties. A few years with the Liberals and the rot just spreads. Therefore, all this crony capitalism was …
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Mr. Speaker, I analyze it this way. There is one way that this ends, which is that the deputy House leader or deputy whip, whatever his position is, could stand right now and say that the government will give us the documents unredacted. Then we all go home. It is literally that simple. The challenge we have is this. The Liberals are going to try to say that we should just stop talking about it. I…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an excellent question and one that the Liberals never want to answer. They will not answer why they are redacting the documents. They will not answer about how they could make it happen in a second. Instead, their questions are to my authenticity because they have nothing to say on this. They know the documents are going to be very bad for the Liberal government. That is why the…
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Mr. Speaker, the first thing to ask today is why we are here and why the House is seized with this matter. It is actually not very complicated. The House ordered documents to be produced that the government has not produced. That is it. I could sit down right now and everything would be done if the government just gave the documents. There are all kinds of convoluted arguments, like the Conservati…
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Mr. Speaker, again, I go back to my speech where I said, whenever they come up with this sort of thing over here, we know that the answer is they could just produce the documents. That is the simple answer. The smoke and mirrors coming from the government is that it is a violation of this, this person is concerned, or this, that and the other thing. It is like when people are trying to solve a lit…
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I am trying to understand this, Mr. Speaker. The NDP's contribution to this is whether the Conservatives think about sex. This is how serious the NDP is. That is the member's question. The New Democrats are talking about an invoice from a province and a provincial party. When we are talking about how the government is engaged in corruption and a cover-up and will not produce documents, we get that…
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Madam Speaker, last week, I had the opportunity to question the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry about the effect of the carbon tax on steel. It was incredible to hear the answer the minister tried to pawn off on us, saying that the government has stood up for steelworkers. I have met with steelworkers and the steel industry, and I am sure the minister has as well. What the steel indus…
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Madam Speaker, it is almost impossible to respond coherently to that answer. The steel industry has made it very clear that if the carbon tax continues to go up, steel producers will be out of business. I know the investments they have made. They have produced the greenest steel in the world and should be rewarded for that. Instead what the government is doing is punishing them for that by promisi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Last night, the Prime Minister appeared on The Late Show to pathetically explain why he keeps backing down to American presidents regarding softwood lumber. He called his failure regarding softwood lumber a small issue. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of forestry workers have lost their job. It is a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is pathetic. That comes from the government that allowed Canadian detonators to end up in Russian land mines that blew up Ukrainian troops. The Liberals are a disgrace. They backed down to Trump regarding softwood. They backed down from Obama regarding softwood. They backed down to Biden regarding softwood. After nine years of complete and total failure, tens of thousands of forest…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, everyone knows that taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and, pretty soon, time is going to be up for the corrupt Liberals. We all remember a couple of weeks ago when a brave steelworker confronted the Prime Minister to say that taxes are killing him and that he does not believe a single word the Prime Minister has to say. Nevertheless, the NDP…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister has some nerve talking about steel. I have met with steelworkers and those in the steel industry. They have said that, if the Liberals quadruple the carbon tax like they plan to, there will not be a single steel plant left in the country. That is the minister's economic record. That is what he is doing to Canadians. The carbon tax is not an environmental plan. It is a tax…
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Mr. Speaker, now I am being heckled by a Liberal member of Parliament because I am standing up for the rights of workers. One cannot make this stuff up, and 10 minutes from now the member will be saying that the Liberals are so friendly to labour and are the ones who stand up for labour, when in fact they do not. I just want to say once again that I congratulate my colleague for putting forward a …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis for introducing Bill C‑378. Well done. The bill is an exceptional piece of legislation by another Conservative MP trying to enhance the rights of workers across the country. There has actually been a long history in the current Parliament, where the NDP-Liberal government has not acted to protect workers; in fact it h…
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With regard to individual expense receipts submitted by a board of director, chair, or Chief Executive Officer, at lnvest in Canada, since 2018: what are the details of all items expensed, including the (i) dollar value of each expense, (ii) product or service expensed, (iii) name of the venue for the product or service expensed, (iv) name of the city in which it was expensed, (v) reason for the e…
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With regard to the M-KOPA project that received financing through the Development Finance Institute Canada (FinDev Canada), a Canadian Crown corporation that is a subsidiary of Export Development Canada (EDC): (a) what assessments has EDC made to ensure that M-KOPA is properly accounting for all expenditures of taxpayer funds provided by the Government of Canada; (b) has the government reviewed an…
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With regard to the recently announced emissions cap on Canada's oil and gas sector: (a) what assessments has the Government of Canada made regarding the economic impact on Gross Domestic Product and Export amounts, by dollar, for Canada; (b) has the government analyzed and reviewed the potential impact to Canadian firms that export energy products, and, if so, what are the details; (c) has the gov…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals knew that the carbon tax was costing Canadians billions of dollars. They knew and they covered it up. The cost is $25 billion a year. That works out to a cost of $1,800, each and every year, for every single Canadian family. If Canadians wonder why it is hard to pay for things, this is why. If the average Canadian went to work, lied and covered something up, they would be fir…
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Mr. Speaker, if we want to talk about misleading Canadians, the Liberals pretend they have an environmental plan when greenhouse gas emissions actually went up year over year. Canada is now ranked 62nd out of 67 for emissions reduction performance. We are now ranked with the low-performing countries. All the while, the government is bankrupting Canadians while the limousine Liberals drive around a…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about Sam Young. He was passionate about golf, passionate about his family and passionate about his community. Sam had a lifelong passion for golf as a player, a coach and a builder. When he was done playing, Sam purchased a small nine-hole golf course in the town of Shelburne, which expanded to 18 holes. It is a beauty. Sam started a spectacular golf academy to teach y…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians know that the Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the homelessness, is not worth the hunger and is not worth the tent cities that are popping up everywhere. However, there is a plan to give some relief. A Conservative motion would take the carbon tax and all federal taxes off gas from now until Labour Day. It would save 35¢ a l…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable. This would save 35¢ a litre on gasoline. That does not mean much to ministers, who get driven around by chauffeurs in their limos and probably have not pumped gas nor known the cost of gas in about 10 years. However, for the average Canadian family, it would mean everything, and the Liberals could do something about it. I know they do not take road trips, but Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition organized by Survivors Safety Matters, which is co-founded by Alexa Barkley and Tanya Couch. What they are petitioning is with respect to section 278 of the Criminal Code, which allows for the disclosure of the private records of the victim, including therapeutic and counselling records and personal journals, during legal proceedings. In fact, this also gi…
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With regard to applications received by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, since January 1, 2016, and broken down by type of application: (a) how many applicants were deemed inadmissible pursuant to (i) paragraph 34(1)(b), (ii) paragraph 34(1)(c), (iii) paragraph 34(1)(f), of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (S.C. 2001, c. 27); and (b) broken down by each paragraph of the act …
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