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Mr. Speaker, for the first time in nine weeks, the government House leader has taken control of the House agenda, and it has only cost taxpayers $2 billion, or $1 billion a day. I want to congratulate the leader. Can she tell the House if she has any more deals with costly gimmicks up her sleeve for the rest of this week or next? If so, what will the House be debating? Perhaps the leader actually …
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Mr. Speaker, I am offended. You just questioned my word. You cast doubt on the comments I just made about the gesture made by one of my colleagues. I find that unacceptable.
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Mr. Speaker, as you know, in the House, we are called on to respect the honour and words of members who rise. However, people have a duty to be honest with their constituents and their colleagues. I personally witnessed the gesture—
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know if the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell was one of the 24 members calling for the Prime Minister's head recently. I do not know if he has the courage to publicly say that he was part of that group of members calling for the Prime Minister to leave. I do not know if he has the courage to say which MPs do not share this Prime Minister's opinion. What I can say to the …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, we need a plan to put Canada first and to put an end to his economic vandalism. The Prime Minister has broken the immigration system. He is incapable of protecting the border. He has ruined our economy with a huge debt, and, on top of that, our young people have lost all hope of ever buying a home. What is the Prime Minister's plan to put Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to thank my colleague for his excellent speech, which set the stage about the extreme lack of sensitivity shown by CBC/Radio-Canada and its president, Catherine Tait. While Canadians are struggling to make ends meet, the cost of food has doubled, the cost of housing has doubled and young families have no hope of becoming homeowners in Canada, someone made a decision to give $…
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Mr. Speaker, what we know is that after nine years, this Prime Minister has failed spectacularly and often. What is his plan to put Canada first? He failed at the border. He failed on softwood lumber. He created chaos in the immigration system. He wanted to erase the identity of our passports. He is responsible for the higher grocery prices, which increased 37% faster than in the United States. Wh…
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Official Languages is not just a fake, he is a chameleon. He lets nothing get in the way of advancing his own interests. All of a sudden, he is a journalist and political commentator for Radio-Canada and Les Affaires, even though he has only ever written a single article, and then there are all the other Randys: the indigenous Randy, the Randy who is not him, the Randy…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a very simple way to get us to stop using the name Randy in the House of Commons and to use the name of the other Randy. The Prime Minister just has to fire the Minister of Official Languages. When will the Prime Minister put an end to this charade and fire all the Randys? He can actually get rid of them all in one fell swoop by firing just the Minister of Official Languages.…
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I am asking for a quorum count, Mr. Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, what time is it? It is time for the Prime Minister to fire the official languages minister. He claims to be indigenous, but he is not. His claims about his Cree great-grandmother are false. He says he is not the Randy from the text messages, the one who runs Global Health Imports, but we now know there is only one Randy in the company. What is worse, the company in which he is a share…
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Mr. Speaker, that is pretty ironic. However, we are not surprised to hear that from the member for Winnipeg North. He started his question by saying that he would like to remind the members that we are here to talk about a question of privilege concerning Stephen Anderson. Then he does not ask any questions about Stephen Anderson. Let us try to take this seriously. This question of privilege is ex…
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Mr. Speaker, once again the NDP has a unique opportunity to walk the talk. In a dramatic gesture, they tore up their agreement with the Liberals at the end of August, saying that the Liberals were no longer good for them and that they were not taking the country in the right direction. However, every time they get a chance to defend this bad Liberal government, they do whatever they can to create …
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Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely shameful that the Bloc Québécois supported this government for nearly $500 billion in inflationary spending, that they voted almost 200 times to keep the government in power and that they twice voted against our non-confidence motions. My colleague from the Bloc Québécois just told us that what we are doing now, that is, holding the fake that is this government minist…
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Mr. Speaker, I totally agree with my colleague that, for them, it is a question of opportunity and that they are trying to take advantage of the system as much as they can. I have here an article from the National Post stating that “[f]or years, Liberals said this MP was Indigenous. He is not”. What is in the article, what I cannot show, is a red Liberal Party of Canada poster showing the indigeno…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's question. There is a solution. It is very simple. It is readily available. It is within reach. This situation can be resolved very quickly. What is the solution? The Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages needs to step down because he is no longer worthy of his current office. We do not need to hear Mr. Anderson's testimony if …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's official languages minister is a fraud. He said he was not the Randy involved in his company, but we all know there is only one Randy at his company. He said he was not involved with his business while working as a minister, but text messages reveal that he is. He claimed to be indigenous in order to take advantage of government contracts and receive money intende…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, this is so obvious, we have come to expect it. Every time the Liberal government is attacked, a member of the NDP tries to cause a distraction to defend and protect it. It is almost a reflex. If we are where we are today—and all we have to do is think about the state of our public finances, about what is happening to Canadians standing in line at the food bank, about the e…
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Mr. Speaker, there are so many Randys that he did not even understand the question I asked him. The Minister for Official Languages campaigned twice under the guise of a successful entrepreneur and journalist. He falsely claimed to have worked for Radio-Canada and a newspaper called Les Affaires. Even the president of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec has stated, “It seems …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by thanking my colleague from Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes for his outstanding work on the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. I thank him for helping Canadians learn more about this and, above all, for shining a light, day after day, on all those revelations in the newspapers about Canada's Minister of Official L…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the minister should read the report. The commissioner of the environment and sustainable development has been clear: the recent drop in emissions is not a result of governments' climate measures. The Liberal environmental policy, supported by the Bloc Québécois, is not a plan to fight climate change. It is a plan to tax Canadians that has doubled the cost of housing and grocer…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, supported by the Bloc Québécois, we find out today in the report from the commissioner of the environment that the Liberals' greenhouse gas reduction numbers are not reliable. In fact, this Prime Minister's environmental policy has contributed more to doubling the cost of food and housing than to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that after nine years of this Prime Minister and three different U.S. presidents, this Liberal government has been unable to create wealth in Canada. The gap between the United States and Canada is widening. Look at the softwood lumber deal and the Buy America Act. This Prime Minister failed miserably at defending Canadian factories and workers. No one has created more …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, supported by the Bloc Québécois, half a billion dollars has left Canada for the United States. The Conservatives will bring home investments, money and jobs. Because of this Prime Minister's high taxes and astronomical deficits, American workers are thriving, while Canadian workers are losing hope because they can no longer afford to put a roof…
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Okay, Mr. Speaker, let us talk about that. Seniors, Canadians and Quebeckers are no longer able to put food on the table. Why? The cost of food has gone up, the cost of rent has gone up, and everything has gone up because of this government's inflationary policies, which the Bloc Québécois supports. Seniors built Canada. In their Canada, hard work was rewarded. Why would the “Liberal Bloc” want to…
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Mr. Speaker, it is high time that the economic vandalism committed by this Liberal government, with the backing of the Bloc Québécois, stopped. Under this Prime Minister, Canada has experienced the worst growth in income per capita, or GDP, of any prime minister since 1930. In fact, Canada's growth in real income per capita has been the worst in the G7 since 2015: minus 2% in Canada, plus 8% in th…
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Mr. Speaker, I witnessed the exchanges. The Chair accepted my colleague's withdrawal of his words and recognized him. I therefore ask the Chair to continue with this evening's debate.
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Mr. Speaker, I was just saying how knowledgeable my colleague from South Shore—St. Margarets was on this issue and how ably he pointed out something that we should all know. He put his finger on a major problem. The sponsorship scandal is small potatoes by comparison. Today, the House has rightly requested access to documents so that we can unravel this entire matter, not just a small part of it. …
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Mr. Speaker, it is important because if we want to get to the bottom of things, we need to hear from people. We have to agree on the people we want to appear before us. As a long-time member of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, I know that people can argue at length about a list of witnesses and how long each witness will be required to appear. What we want is to get to the bo…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to know how the government House leader can square the circle of the countless scandals that have been uncovered involving the Liberal green fund. I would like to know how the government House leader can square the circle of the chair of the Green Climate Fund being cited in 24 cases of conflict of interest. I would like to know how the government House leader can accept …
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Mr. Speaker, we are here this evening because the Liberal government has once again refused, through its many tentacles, to comply with a direct order of this Parliament to obtain very important information. Let us talk about the Liberal green fund, the Liberal government's slush fund. A lot of public money, Canadians' money, went into this $1‑billion green fund. Remember the sponsorship scandal? …
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Mr. Speaker, young Quebeckers cannot afford to wait any longer. After nine years of this Prime Minister, they have been betrayed by the “Liberal Bloc”, which wants to continue with the Liberal government. A total of 72% of young people between the ages of 18 and 40 think that they have a lower standard of living than the previous generation. Half of them are living paycheque to paycheque. The “Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes, inflation and grocery prices are what we are going to cut. The leader of the “Liberal Bloc” struck a very different tone today compared to what he said after the finance minister's most recent bad Liberal budget. Here is what the leader of the Bloc Québécois said about the Prime Minister: “I believe he has his hand in Quebeckers' pockets. ...He is blatantly abusing his spending…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my colleague from Cariboo—Prince George. “That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.” It is a simple motion, a few words that, in a few hours, will reveal the true nature of the members of this 44th Parliament. Everyone in the House, be they Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP, Green Party or even independent, will have to r…
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Mr. Speaker, the motion states, and I quote, “That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.” It is a simple motion that, in a few words, will reveal the true nature of this 44th Parliament. Everyone in the House, whether Conservative, Bloc Québécois, NDP, Green, Liberal or even independent, will have to reveal whether they have confidence in this Prime Minister, after …
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Mr. Speaker, this is all a game. Did you hear what my Bloc Québécois colleague just said? This is a game. While rent prices have doubled, while we are facing inflation the likes of which we have not seen in 40 years, while young families no longer have access to housing, while young families can no longer even dream of becoming homeowners, while, by the admission of the Bloc Québécois leader himse…
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Mr. Speaker, at a minimum, I would have expected my Liberal colleague to acknowledge that it is unacceptable for a television journalist to take snippets of sentences and string them together to put words in the mouth of the Leader of the Opposition that he never uttered. Manipulating information the way CTV did is despicable and disgusting. I cannot understand why Quebec's media has not spoken ou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is a bad government for Quebec. After nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” has doubled the cost of housing, caused the worst inflation in 40 years, forced students to live in their parents' basements, pushed Quebec to the breaking point on immigration, voted 188 times to save the Prime Minister and voted for $500 billion in inflationary spending. Tomorrow, will the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, I would ask my NDP colleague the same question. What is he trying to hide? We are here to talk about a non-confidence motion against this government and to say that the House does not have confidence in this bad Liberal government. What I am hearing from my NDP colleague is a whole different story. I understand where he is coming from. Earlier, I was talking about the little orange fr…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal Prime Minister, who has been put on life support this week thanks to the Bloc Québécois, more and more Quebec students are going hungry. According to the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, students are broke and struggling to feed themselves. According to statistics, more than 80,000 students have used food banks, which is four times more than …
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite the Liberals to face the facts. This Liberal government's track record should be making the Bloc members run the other way. Over the past nine years, the cost of housing and food have doubled. We are paying $1 billion in interest on the debt every week because of the $500 billion in inflationary spending that the Bloc Québécois supported. Everyone is paying and the Bloc…
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Madam Speaker, we have just heard the proof that a bad Liberal government for Quebec is a bad Liberal government for Quebeckers. No matter how hard the “Liberal Bloc” tries to justify itself, it has no reason to support this minority Liberal government other than feeding its leader's ego. When will the “Liberal Bloc” Prime Minister allow Quebeckers to vote for a common-sense government that will w…
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Madam Speaker, the “Liberal Bloc” is the most centralizing, spend-happy, divisive Liberal government, one that has increased the cost of living and the price of food and doubled the cost of housing. Even the Quebec premier is imploring the “Liberal Bloc” to do its job of representing Quebec and to vote against keeping this bad government in power. Will the Liberal ministers and members from Quebec…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, it has been a tough first week back in Parliament for the Prime Minister: His party suffered a second defeat in a Liberal stronghold, he lost his Quebec lieutenant and another MP from his caucus as a result, and then he saw the NDP leader tear up their agreement one day only to glue it back together after the byelections. I think the best of the bad news for him is…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is having another big day. The Liberal Prime Minister is so bad for Quebec that his Quebec lieutenant has decided to jump ship in order to better stand up for Quebec. However, the position did not stay vacant for long. The leader of the Bloc Québécois was quick to put his name forward to become the new Quebec lieutenant. Negotiations did not take long. The posit…
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to cut taxes and cut cost increases for Quebeckers. That is where we are going to make cuts. The “Liberal Bloc” has made no gains for Quebec. Now, it is going to blindly support a centralizing Liberal government that is taking money out of Quebeckers' pockets to feed a big federal machine that imposes programs in areas under Quebec's jurisdiction; a government that is cre…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member clearly insinuated that my colleague showed a lack of respect for the interpreters, which is completely false. I would ask her to withdraw her comment.
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