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Madam Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister's economic vandalism is the biggest threat to the economy for Canadian families. Statistics Canada revealed today that Canada's GDP per capita has fallen for the sixth consecutive quarter. This is a made-in-Canada, GDP-per-capita recession, caused by inflationary spending and tax increases imposed by this Prime Minister, supported by the Bloc Qu…
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Madam Speaker, yesterday the Conservatives voted against a partial and temporary political gimmick to save 10¢ on chips. This is an election gimmick. That is what we voted against. Today, we learned that, according to Statistics Canada, our country's GDP per capita fell for the sixth consecutive quarter. That is a sad and tough reality. When will the Prime Minister put an end to his economic vanda…
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Mr. Speaker, what happened yesterday in the House is unacceptable on many levels. It is especially unacceptable for a member, from any party, to intimidate a staff member from another party in the lobby. This is the part of the story that the deputy leader of the NDP left out, but yesterday, the member for Vancouver East literally used her position, her authority, to belittle and intimidate a Cons…
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Mr. Speaker, I can understand that the NDP member would be terribly embarrassed by the actions of his colleague from Vancouver East, but I would remind him that it was his colleague, the deputy House leader of his party, who mentioned what had happened in the lobby during her speech on the question of privilege. I therefore have every right to set the record straight and lay out the real version o…
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Mr. Speaker, you can see how nervous I am. After nine years of incompetent and ideology-driven decisions on immigration, the Prime Minister still has no plan to protect our borders or our jobs. Just two days before President-elect Trump threatened to impose tariffs, 16 people were arrested while trying to enter the United States from Quebec. Another 21,000 migrants have illegally crossed into the …
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Mr. Chair, we are here because the Liberals have caused chaos and disorder in our immigration system and at the border. Nine years later, it is clear that the Prime Minister is much too weak to deal with Donald Trump. Let me remind the House that in 2016, the Prime Minister flung Canada's doors wide open to the entire world. After promising the Canadian dream to all these people, he is now saying …
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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, 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 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, 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, 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, I request a recorded division.
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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, 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, only the Liberal Prime Minister, with the support of the Bloc Québécois, could manage to further break what he broke while claiming to repair it. I am talking here about Canada's entire immigration system, which was one of the best in the world. The Prime Minister destroyed it. He sacrificed it to satisfy his giant ego. Let us remember the Prime Minister's 2017 tweet that told the ent…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are not naive. After nine years with this Prime Minister in power, supported by the Bloc Québécois, food prices have risen by 35%. Gas prices are up 50%. Rents have increased by 33%. Mortgage interest rates are up 73%. The Prime Minister knows full well that this tiny, temporary GST holiday will do nothing to address the affordability crisis. Quebeckers want permanent relie…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister, who is supported by the Bloc Québécois and kept alive by the NDP, is an expert schemer. In May, the Prime Minister asked if we could send people more benefits, an additional $1,000 a month. As soon as we do that, inflation rises by exactly the same amount. What is going to happen after two months is that the Prime Minister's discounts are going to disappear, and i…
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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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, the cost of housing has skyrocketed. He broke the Canadian promise that if a young person worked hard, they would earn a good paycheque, be able to put food on the table and buy a home in which to raise their family. We have learned from Mouvement Desjardins that, today, young people have to wait 10 to 15 years longer than their parents before …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the result of what the “Liberal Bloc” has done is clear to see. It doubled rent, doubled mortgage payments and doubled the amount needed for a down payment. The Prime Minister is proposing to add even more red tape, even more costs. What the Conservative leader is proposing is to eliminate the GST on any affordable housing that costs from zero to one million dollars.…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” is not worth the cost of housing. The “Liberal Bloc” has doubled the cost of rent, mortgage payments and down payments. The federal GST adds $50,000 to homes that cost $1 million. The common-sense Conservatives will eliminate the GST on new homes sold. That means buyers will save $40,000 on an $800,000 home. They will save $2,200 a year in mortgage…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning, the Liberal housing adviser said that the fund for Liberal photo ops, the so-called housing accelerator fund, is useless and ineffective. Quebec has always assumed that the dream of home ownership would be within young people's reach. Unfortunately, after nine years of the “Liberal Bloc”, the CEO of Desjardins has confirmed that young people have to wait 10 to 15 years l…
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Mr. Speaker, I am reading the Prime Minister's immigration plan at the moment, the plan he submitted to the House yesterday. What is in this plan? Nothing, it is a blank page. After nine years, the Prime Minister has not only broken the immigration system, he has forgotten his plan. The Prime Minister's regrets lack credibility, just like his hastily photocopied, off-the-cuff plan. Will the Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, what do you call someone who sets the house on fire and then calls the firefighters after they have watched it burn to the ground? Are they a hero or a pyromaniac? That is exactly what the Prime Minister did, with the support of the Bloc Québécois, when it comes to immigration. He invited the whole world to come to Canada. He watched as the cost of housing and food doubled and then he…
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Mr. Speaker, we know why the Prime Minister was all smiles yesterday as he was leaving his chaotic caucus meeting, where 24 members called on him to step down. It is simple. It is because the Prime Minister knows he can count on the support of the 33 Bloc Québécois members to keep him in office. The Bloc has been supporting this Prime Minister even though he has doubled the cost of housing, inflat…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister should take a look around. Twenty-four Liberal members called on the Prime Minister to step down this week. This Prime Minister doubled the national debt, the cost of housing and mortgage payments, and he has allowed crime to spiral out of control. The incompetence of the Prime Minister, who is supported by the Bloc Québécois, is ringing alarm bells for Liberal supporters…
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Mr. Speaker, for several days now, the government has been stubbornly refusing to disclose the documents that were requested in the House. As a result, our work is paralyzed. Unfortunately, the government's legislative agenda is short on substance. We all know there is an easy way to do this. There is one way to get back to the normal business of the House immediately, and that is for the governme…
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Madam Speaker, after hearing the comments of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, I can say that there are two very simple things that can be done so that we can move forward quickly. First, the government needs to produce the documents. Second, the Prime Minister needs to release the names.
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Mr. Speaker, two million Canadians are lining up at food banks every month, while Liberal cronies are lining up to pad their pockets. Let us remember that GC Strategies, a two-person company, was given $20 million to develop the ArriveCAN app, when it had no IT expertise. According to the latest news, the Auditor General has announced that she is going to investigate the $100 million in contracts …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, this Liberal government, supported by the Bloc Québécois, is not worth the cost or the corruption. The Liberals have lost control. Corruption is now the norm. The latest news is that the RCMP has opened a new investigation into the Liberal green fund. Nearly $400 million from the Liberals' green slush fund was given to Liberal cronies. The Auditor General alone ide…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, the culture of secrecy and corruption instilled by the Liberal Prime Minister is so deeply ingrained in the Liberals and their cronies that we have reached the point where the House can no longer even do its work. This government is hiding documents from Parliament and Canadians. It is once again disobeying an order of the House. It is disrespecting a majority of p…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, supported by the Bloc Québécois, Liberal corruption has taken over the House of Commons. Once again, the Prime Minister will do anything to protect his cronies who follow his lead and violate ethics and conflicts of interest rules. There were 186 conflicts of interest in the Liberal green fund, involving $330 million of public money. That is se…
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