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Mr. Chair, in 2022, former justice minister Lametti said at committee that Canada's bail system was strong and sound despite calls for reform from premiers and police. The minister doubled down on that statement on April 15, stating that bail in Canada is “quite sound”. Does he still believe that?
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Mr. Chair, former justice minister Virani said at committee that he was proud of the fact that he and his government delivered bail reform through the passage of Bill C-48. Does the minister still hold that same belief?
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Mr. Chair, the minister called catch-and-release a myth. How does he explain repeat violent offenders' committing more crimes while on bail?
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Mr. Chair, in your previous role as the parliamentary secretary to former justice minister Lametti and your brief two-month appointment as justice minister this year, have you ever attended a courthouse to observe a bail hearing?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister observed a bail hearing since becoming Minister of Public Safety?
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Mr. Chair, prior to the minister's 2015 election, he practised business, real estate and human international rights law, but never criminal law. Is that correct?
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Mr. Chair, if the bail system is quite sound and working, why are police chiefs, premiers and victims' families saying the opposite?
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Mr. Speaker, where is the minister for addictions? We had one in the 44th Parliament, but it is clearly not a priority for the Prime Minister and his so-called new government. As I indicated in my speech, there is a national fentanyl crisis. People are dying every day. There is blood on the hands of all Liberal members for showing such disrespect to the people struggling with these addiction matte…
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Mr. Speaker, in my capacity as the shadow critic for justice and the Attorney General, which is a position that I have had for almost a year now, I have had the opportunity to travel right across this great country. I have spoken with local law enforcement. I have spoken with presidents of police associations. I have spoken with chiefs. I have spoken with provincial and territorial attorneys gener…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my response to the last question, law enforcement has long asked for a number of legislative reforms. What Bill C-2 would do is move the needle ever so slightly by expanding the search powers that police officers have when they are investigating sophisticated, transnational, organized crime entities like the fentanyl traffickers I talked about, but still at the expense of…
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Mr. Chair, those were the minister's exact words during an election debate. Will the minister admit it is putting violent offenders back on the street?
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Madam Chair, on a point of order, I am seeing a pattern here of the minister deliberately giving a response that is substantially longer than the length of time it took to ask the question.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost confidence of his cabinet, his caucus and all Canadians as he desperately clings to power. Yesterday the Liberals dropped their fall economic statement and literally ran out of the House: a $62-billion deficit, missing their target by a whopping 55%. What is the end result? Canadians are now paying more on debt interest charges than on health care. When wil…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister's economic vandalism and inflationary spending, he has added more to the debt than all previous prime ministers combined. Now Canadians are paying more. Our national debt now sits at $1.24 trillion, an astronomical number our future generations will have to deal with. Canada's promise of powerful paycheques, affordable housing and safe streets ha…
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Mr. Speaker, I am appalled the member opposite would spend about a minute and a half to talk about just dribble that actually has no application to what Canadians are talking about. We brought forward this particular motion and several subamendments to finally deliver a message to the government that it needs to be accountable for its actions, needs to demonstrate integrity and needs to stop playi…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot disagree with that. These are selfish economic interests, and it is putting personal interests above the needs of Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, that is fair enough. However, the article goes on to show, apart from the Prime Minister and various ministers talking about a team Canada approach, what they have actually accomplished. What measures have they stipulated to the House and to Canadians? What steps are they going to take to address the concerns raised by President-elect Trump about the dangers of our porous borders? Apa…
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Mr. Speaker, to say that I, my colleagues and opposition members in the House have been thrown a curveball would be an understatement. I had originally thought that I would be talking for the third time about the green slush fund and the various amendments to the motion brought before the House, trying to impress upon my Liberal colleagues, for one last time in this calendar year, why they should …
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Mr. Speaker, if I did not make this emphasis known in my intervention, I certainly want to emphasize it in my response to my colleague's question. This is the final nail in the proverbial coffin of the leadership of the Prime Minister and the government. They have lost all moral and legal authority to govern. My colleague is absolutely correct. This is what I hear day in and day out from constitue…
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Mr. Speaker, what an absolutely insulting remark from the member of the Liberal Party. It is insulting to Canadians. In 2021, Canadians gave the Liberals a minority government. They did not give them the plurality of the votes. We would be onto a different mandate by now if the Liberals did not have an unholy allegiance to the NDP. Are they on, or are they off? Are they dance partners, or are they…
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Mr. Speaker, as I articulated in my intervention, the government has demonstrated the complete opposite of what it promised Canadians. The Prime Minister wrote an open letter to Canadians shortly after his election in 2015. He promised to be a good economic steward of the taxpayer funds. He promised Canadians that the government would be open by default, as well as transparent and accountable. Let…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising further to the notice I provided to the Chair under Standing Order 48 concerning the third and final report of the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, which was tabled in the House of Commons earlier today. In brief, on May 31, 2022, the committee adopted an order for the production of several unredacted documents related to the government's declarat…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, crime and chaos have taken over our streets and communities. This past Sunday, Alisha Brooks was tragically gunned down by her boyfriend, a known serial abuser. As she was taking her final breath, this monster stood over her dead body and yelled at her. The accused, despite a history of gun possession, breaking and entering, weapon prohibition ord…
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Mr. Speaker, the sellout NDP leader has once again betrayed Canadians by siding with the Liberals to prop up the failing government, all to secure his $2.2-million pension. He is going to reject a motion of non-confidence in the government that was based entirely on his own words. He stated, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people,” yet i…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a different point of order. I am asking for an apology and retraction from the Minister of Labour in his use of unparliamentary language and ad hominem attack against the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. He referred to him as a slimeball. I clearly heard it. Colleagues beside me heard it. I asked him about it. He doubled down. It was unparliamentary and unprofessio…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has completely lost control of Canada's borders. Today, there are over 260,000 unprocessed refugee claims, a staggering 2500% increase since 2015, when there was just one shy of 10,000. Government documents also show that up to three million temporary resident visas will expire by the end of next year, yet the immigration minister's only solution is to hope people l…
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Mr. Speaker, when I was interrupted with not a point of order but one of debate, I was talking about our Prime Minister's experiencing things differently. We of course know the SNC-Lavalin scandal, the WE Charity scandal and the ArriveCAN scandal, which continues to be debated in committee and in the House. There is the green slush fund scandal that is approaching a billion dollars of wasted taxpa…
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Mr. Speaker, we know from evidence that Mr. Anderson and the Minister of Employment have both denied having any communication with each other since the minister's election in 2019. How does the member reconcile those points with the story that broke that confirmed the minister reached out to Mr. Anderson with respect to an outstanding Purolator bill?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has been slapped with five ethics violations, the most in Canadian history. Time after time, the Prime Minister has shown total contempt for our ethics laws. He himself has been the subject of three ethics investigations and was found guilty of breaking ethics laws twice. The Liberal government allows the culture of law-breaking to persist, as six Liberals have been…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the good people of Brantford—Brant, but here we are, another day and yet another Liberal scandal. This time it is the member for Edmonton Centre, a cabinet minister, who finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal that seems to be growing legs. What a legacy the Prime Minister and members of the government will take with them when they a…
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Mr. Speaker, for the last eight or nine minutes, I thought I was transported back to 2011—
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Police associations nationwide are demanding urgent bail legislation to keep our communities safe, yet just this morning, a stolen BMW crashed into a Toronto bus, injuring nine people, two critically. Two of the four accused were, surprise, surprise, out on bail, including one for a violent r…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, the Canadian dream of home ownership has become a pipe dream, unless, of course, someone is a friend of the Prime Minister. Today, it was revealed that he purchased a $9-million condo on Billionaires' Row in New York City for his good friend, Tom Clark, after Clark complained that his old residence was not up to his standards. It is difficult to do th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would like to once again offer my sincere apologies to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement and to all my colleagues. All members are free to speak in the official language of their choice, and my comments were inappropriate. I am sorry.
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With regard to the Minister of Public Safety's announcement on May 8, 2023, about the government investing $390 million "in programs to help stop gun crime and gang violence before it starts": (a) how much of the $390 million has been spent to date in total, broken down by province or territory; (b) which organizations received the funding and how much did each receive; (c) what were the guideline…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot wait five years. This raises serious concerns about transparency, efficiency and the potential impact on free speech. Even worse, the $200 million does not cover the additional workload for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which would have to manage a surge of complaints about social media posts in today's cancel culture. The government has no estimate of how man…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and now time is up. Since 2015, violent crime has surged by 50%. Shockingly, sex assaults have surged by 75%. Today, the Parole Board inexcusably granted day parole to a serial rapist who still poses a risk to drug, manipulate and coerce victims. Let that sink in. This is not keeping Canadians safe. Who on t…
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Mr. Speaker, I proudly rise today in opposition to Bill C-63. Canadians take pride in living in a nation where justice prevails. Freedoms are upheld and our most vulnerable, especially our children, are protected. However, after nine years of this failed government, crime is rising, leaving families across the country concerned for the safety of their loved ones, both on the streets and online. On…
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Mr. Speaker, there are a couple of things I want to say. I agree with my colleague in principle that the bill is not strictly to do with online harms. We do have the hate speech component. The problem is that we already have laws that clearly govern hate speech in this country, which have been the laws for several decades. Against the backdrop of what is happening on our streets from coast to coas…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my hon. colleague. There is not much more I can add. It is a sad statement that my colleague had to make, but it is so apropos and is really reflective of this government's approach to protecting children and to ensuring that communities are safe. For nine years, the government has yet to strike the appropriate balance with bills such as Bill C-5 and Bill C-48, which it p…
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Mr. Speaker, I am hearing a collaborative approach between Bill C-63 and Bill C-412. The only difficulty I have with that is this. I am not opposed to that in principle, but I think there are very few measures in Bill C-63 that Conservatives could actually support, that we could actually parse out of the bill and perhaps pass with unanimous consent here in the House. Clearly, Bill C-63 will be stu…
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Mr. Speaker, there was much to that particular question. The minister asked very forcefully why the Conservatives would be opposed to removing that material. Of course, we are not. However, Bill C-63 talks about that being taken down not immediately, but after a complaint, after it is reviewed and within 24 hours. That is insufficient. The minister also talked about all the various groups that hav…
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Madam Speaker, when the leader of the Conservative Party forms government, and he will, and becomes Canada's next prime minister, we will ensure that all of these scandals are fully explored and will, indeed, ensure that resources are available to the Auditor General so she can complete her job and provide a more fulsome picture as to how much more the government has fleeced the taxpayer. We know …
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Madam Speaker, if the member looks in the mirror, he will see inappropriate behaviour, not only by him but by the entire government. The government has done nothing other than try to hide, obfuscate and distance itself from this scandal. Every single member of the Liberal Party voted down the Auditor General investigating the ArriveCAN scam. That was on November 2, 2022. Over the course of numerou…
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I do not need to hear chirping, Madam Speaker. Perhaps you want to address those individuals, who should know better. They are certainly not new to Parliament, but I sure am used to their interruptions. I will continue. Kristian Firth was part of a two-person firm operating with no bricks and mortar and largely working out of a basement. He was essentially performing services that could have and s…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to start by saying what an honour and privilege it is to rise for the first time in our fall session and speak to a topic that I have had the privilege of participating in largely throughout the summer, as well as for the past year or so in numerous committees. This is a topic that has dominated the landscape of Canadian politics. I want to pick up where my colleague ju…
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Mr. Speaker, the simple fact is that criminals have nothing to fear under the NDP-Liberal legislation. Bill C-48 has done nothing to stop the crime in our communities. Instead of listening to premiers and law enforcement, who have called for bail reform, the justice minister pretends that C-48 is a success. It is an abject failure. When will the minister stop protecting criminals and start standin…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up. Costs are up. Crime is up, and now time is up. Canadians are feeling more unsafe than ever. Violent crime is up 50%. Sex assaults are up 75%. Car thefts are up 46%, and shockingly, violent gun crime is up over 100%. Will the Liberals finally join Conservatives in protecting Canadians and demanding jail, not bail, for repeat violent o…
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Mr. Speaker, the current government is not worth the cost or the corruption. Yesterday, the RCMP confirmed that there it has not just one but numerous ongoing investigations into the Prime Minister's arrive scam. It was also disclosed that there are more than six ongoing investigations related to the arrive scam fraud and shady government contracting. The app, which could have been built over a we…
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