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Mr. Speaker, Sainte‑Thérèse was once home to an auto manufacturing facility, and even though Quebec no longer manufactures cars, it remains a very important industry in that province. Parts and engines are still manufactured there, for example. Thousands of workers are employed in that industry. Can the Bloc Québécois comment on the impact that the Liberal's policy is having on Quebec and on this …
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Mr. Speaker, over the past 10 years of Liberal governance, the number of vehicles produced has declined from 2.3 million to 1.2 million. Exports have dropped significantly in the past year. Can the Bloc Québécois member comment on those numbers? Does he know how far the number of cars in Quebec has fallen over the past 10 years and what impact that has had? Can he comment on that?
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Mr. Speaker, I also present a petition on behalf of 211 constituents who are concerned about Canada Post's announcement of the elimination of door-to-door service and postal services, which would impact seniors and rural parts of my constituency.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition from a number of constituents who are very concerned about the escalating attacks, kidnappings and killings affecting Christians and other communities in parts of Nigeria. These incidents have had devastating humanitarian consequences, including mass displacement of life, destruction of property and places of worship, and an acute insecurity for vuln…
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. This demonstrates the importance of the economy and how the federal government manages the economy. It has been completely flat for the past ten years under the Liberals. We do not have the resources to do what we should be doing and to invest more, perhaps, in health, security, transportation and all that. What are they doing? They a…
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Mr. Speaker, like everything the Liberals do, this is about optics and about words. When we dig into it, we see that it is fake, like we are seeing with a lot of their projects. They have said that something is going to happen, but nothing is happening. The Conservatives are very concerned about this. It is not about the language being used, because we agree with many of the concerns being brought…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a good point from my colleague. We warned the Liberals during the debate on Bill C-5 that repealing mandatory minimums would increase crime and undermine trust, but we were mocked by them four years ago. Since then, crime is up and fear is up, and Bill C-16 would not correct the course; it would accelerate it. There are some changes, but the bill could be a lot better if the L…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill C-16. It is an important bill, and it is quite disturbing to hear the Liberal parliamentary secretary saying we are filibustering. We are putting up four speakers, a one-hour debate, and he is saying we are trying to push back. We are doing our job. We are here to say where things are good and where there needs to be improvement. That is our job. The Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are paying the price for Liberal economic failure one grocery bill at a time. A friend of mine showed me a flyer last week in which the same meat package was twice the price, with one-third less. Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7. Families are paying $1,000 more this year. Food banks are overwhelmed. Why do the Liberals refuse to admit that their industrial car…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition from 11,500 Canadians who are asking that the Liberal government no longer proceed with Bill C-9 but enforce existing laws to protect Canadians. Among other things, they say Bill C-9 lowers the legal standard for hatred with a vague definition, which is confusing and unmeasurable, threatening freedom of speech and expression; that it removes import…
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Mr. Speaker, there were a lot. The fact is that all these countries, like Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan, are very concerned and building up their forces in response to the militarization and threats from China. The member talked a bit about China, obviously, but we are concerned that the Liberals are continuing in step with what Trudeau said, that he admired the basic dictatorship of Chi…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives stand for free trade agreements. Under Harper we had a couple of dozen free trade agreements.
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Mr. Speaker, recently, in question period, I called out the Prime Minister for being a flip-flopper. He says one thing about pipelines to Premier Danielle Smith in an MOU and gives quite another story to Premier David Eby of British Columbia, which I represent as a member of Parliament. He says that even though he was against oil pipelines, he is now for them. He was for a tanker ban, but he is no…
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Mr. Speaker, all I am hearing from the parliamentary secretary is “nope”. It is a long time, and Canadians cannot wait this long. We have a lot of problems. Our businesses and factories are moving down south. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that the Prime Minister does not wear a MAGA hat, a “make America great again” hat. His company moved down to New York City, where investments are moving. …
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Madam Speaker, I want to know what my colleague thinks of the Prime Minister's record. During the election campaign, he said that he would be a great negotiator with the United States and that he would save Canada, including Quebec. However, what we are seeing is increased tariffs, plant closures and job losses.
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Mr. Speaker, is the Prime Minister facing open rebellion? A Liberal MP told CBC News that their caucus is “seething” and “angry” over a pipeline. No wonder the Prime Minister keeps flip-flopping. One day he is for a pipeline. The next day he claims it is up to B.C. NDP David Eby. The Constitution is absolutely clear that the sole authority over pipelines is the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, Maple Ridge is home to the largest Royal Canadian Legion in Canada, Branch 88, with over 2,000 members. As a 20-year member and a veteran myself, I am honoured to rise for those who have served. I also recognize Mission's Branch 57 and ANAVETS Branch 379, whose volunteers work to support veterans and honour those who have sacrificed for the country. Too many veterans are now strugglin…
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Madam Speaker, this would be a joke if it were not so sad. We would think the Conservatives have been the ones in power for the past 10 years, when this has been on the Liberals' shoulders. It is their laws that have brought this chaos we are in. Now the parliamentary secretary says to look at what they are saying and what they are doing. They talk and talk. That is what we are hearing, a bit of t…
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Madam Speaker, does “Peace, Order, and good Government” have a familiar ring? It is in the Constitution Act, 1867, and that was just part of what Canada was: A place where there was order, good government and peace. Compared to the big, bad U.S.A. and its wild frontier, we had stability in Canada. What have we become after 10 years of the Liberal government? The motto should now be “crime, chaos a…
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Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, the Prime Minister was asked if he had any contact with President Trump, and he said that he did not care and that he had no burning issues to discuss with him. I think that is crazy. Hundreds of thousands of workers have jobs that rely on exports to the United States. I am referring to the forestry, steel and auto industries in particular. How does my colleague not …
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Madam Speaker, I wonder if the member is as perplexed as I am right now about the comment the Prime Minister made when asked if he had been in communication with Donald Trump. He said, “Who cares?” He said that there is no “burning issue”, but 75% to 80% of our trade is with the States, mills are closing down and the automobile sector in British Columbia is losing jobs. I wonder if the member coul…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are looking for paycheques that last to the end of the month. They are struggling. Home ownership is increasingly out of reach. Making their rent is a challenge for millions of Canadians. Purchasing groceries is a weekly burden. Why are the Liberals so oblivious to the fact that their irresponsible deficit and debt accumulation is fuelling inflation?
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Mr. Speaker, it is very troubling what we hear from the Liberals when we bring up plants closing in British Columbia, mills closing and thousands of people losing jobs; they say there are supports. When there are automobile lines closing down and moving down to the States, they say there are supports. Does the member agree with me that workers do not want supports; they want their jobs?
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians, including Quebeckers, want paycheques that will allow them to make ends meet. Right now, that is a struggle and a big challenge. Rent and groceries are a burden every month and every week, respectively. Does my colleague agree that the Liberal deficit is fuelling the inflation that is affecting the cost of living of ordinary people?
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague. He and I have both been members of the Standing Committee on Official Languages for quite some time. In British Columbia, where I live, the cost of living is very high. I want to ask him if he can talk about the impact of inflation in his riding and how the deficit is affecting inflation.
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Mr. Speaker, CTV just reported an extortion-related shooting in Abbotsford. In B.C., entire communities are living in fear as extortion has exploded nearly 500%. This is unacceptable and an indictment of the soft-on-crime, hug-a-thug Liberal government. Conservatives are providing solutions, and the Liberals are silent. Just this morning our Conservative leader requested an emergency debate on ext…
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Mr. Speaker, the red lights go off when I hear about all the investments the Liberals are going to make into tech companies and other businesses, especially when there were so many conflicts of interest with all the tech companies like those in the green slush fund that Liberal insiders and friends were getting their money into. This included COVID contracts' being given to former Liberal minister…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal rule, Canadians can no longer afford life in their own country. Under the Prime Minister, we are seeing empty bank accounts, fridges and stomachs. Food bank use in Toronto has doubled since 2023, and the situation is just as dire in B.C. Instead of the fastest-growing economy in the G7, we have the slowest. The Liberals have given us skyrocketing deficits and…
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Mr. Speaker, all I am seeing from the Liberals is pointing here and pointing there. They are not pointing to themselves. That is where they need to be pointing. They blame it on COVID. That was worldwide. They blame it on the Ukraine war. Those impacts are felt worldwide. Why is it that Canada's standard of living is declining compared to the rest of the developed nations'? It is because of the Li…
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Mr. Speaker, last week I asked whether the Liberal government would rein in reckless spending so that many Canadians could live, eat and own their own homes again. Instead of addressing this, the member deflected to a permanent national food program. I did not mention it; they did. Days later, the Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre tweeted, “OMG [the Conservatives] just defended their voting against …
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Mr. Speaker, I am no judge, but I certainly know that there is an unbelievable number of car thefts. We see it at the ports. Cars leave from the port of Montreal and other ports and go straight to Africa. What is happening? Not much is happening. The situation remains unchanged As Conservatives, we believe that legal principles and control measures are needed to put an end to all this. That is not…
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Mr. Speaker, they would like to see changes in our communities. Despite all of these measures, I am not convinced of how much change there is going to be. Yes, there is going to be some. We need a lot more teeth because we have had 10 years of chaos and crime on our streets under the Liberal government. The government has had somewhat of a deathbed conversion, but I have to question its sincerity.
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Mr. Speaker, if I were to encapsulate the bill, I would say that it is far too little and far too late. It is not an act of leadership; it is an act of desperation. It is a half-hearted political band-aid from a government caught red-handed presiding over a public safety crisis of its own making. For nearly a decade, the Liberals have gambled with the safety of Canadians. They have told us that th…
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Mr. Speaker, we support measures within the bill and will want to bring in other motions and amendments when it goes to committee. That is essential because, as it is, it is very watered down. Conservatives believe that public safety is paramount. We believe the principle of restraint must be repealed and replaced by a public safety primacy clause and that mandatory minimums must be restored for f…
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Mr. Speaker, I must admit that I am having tremendous difficulty listening to the Liberals pat themselves on the back like they have done something amazing for Canada. Under their watch, we have seen chaos and crime. The member talked about extortion in B.C., which has seen a 400% to 500% increase. Will the member not recognize that the Liberal Party, which he has been a member of for many years, …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister lectured a room full of students that they will have to make sacrifices, but they already have. They have sacrificed their dream of owning a home, watched food prices soar and are struggling to find work. Statistics Canada says one in four barely make ends meet. After 10 years of Liberal failures, Canadians are working harder but falling further behind. Will the Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill C-223, which was brought forward by the member for Hamilton Mountain. I think everyone recognizes that the safety of our children and our grandchildren is paramount. My wife and I have four beautiful granddaughters, and I can attest that their parents would do anything within their means to protect them from danger, and my wife and I would stand there wit…
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Mr. Speaker, I am speaking to Bill C-223, which is on criminal justice, but I think we need to talk about what is happening on our streets. That is important. I expect there will be more points of order. Why? It is because this is very uncomfortable. It is not a personal thing. I know different members over there, and I have respect for them as individuals, but I am talking about policies. I am ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I just finished reading, over the past couple of hours, emails from people in my constituency, and elsewhere, who are concerned about their rights and freedoms being eroded. They are concerned that the bills the Liberals are bringing forward are being used to suppress their rights and also increase the power of the state. This was brought forward during the debate on Bill C‑2; Conserv…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stand with the brave military personnel who have suffered from sexual misconduct within our Canadian Armed Forces. Their courage in coming forward has exposed systemic failures that have persisted for far too long, and these failures demand our unwavering attention and action. Let me be clear from the very onset that Conservatives unequivocally support victims of sexua…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. We served together on the committee. I truly believe that we do not need this position. It is a new position created to produce reports like the ones already being produced by the Auditor General and the courts. We do not need yet another thing that will make everything more complicated and slow the processes down even more.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are not at all in opposition to accountability. We are for accountability, oversight and respecting treaty rights. We just have not seen this. We are concerned about another level of bureaucracy slowing things down. As I mentioned earlier in my speech, the one thing the Liberals are great at is gumming things up with red tape. We are feeling it with projects. On the …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today as the member of Parliament for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge and as a proud Métis Canadian, one who wants to see first nations, Métis and all Canadians thrive and prosper. The opposite has in fact happened under 10 years of Liberal government. Crime is up, the cost of living is up, food bank usage is up, and hopelessness is up. The economy is down, opportunities are down, and…
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Mr. Speaker, I think indigenous leaders are responding to the lack of action and respect regarding them and treaties. That is what they are responding to. They are grasping at straws, asking, “Let us do something.” Why? It is because the Liberals are not doing their job. What is the Liberals' solution here again? It is to build another bureaucracy to do something and to report not to Parliament bu…
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Mr. Speaker, that was a very passionate and factual speech. The fact of the matter is that in the 10 years that the Liberals have been in power, they have asked for report after report. Then when it was politically expedient and they needed a cover-up, they came up with this bill. It is a fact that we have so many problems on the civilian justice side of things. As far as the Liberals releasing pe…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a petition from citizens and residents of Canada who are calling on the Government of Canada to reject recommendation 430 of the FINA pre-budget report, reaffirm Canada's commitment to an open culture and support each citizen's freedom to promote the common good through advancement of religion without punitive financial measures.
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Madam Speaker, does the Bloc Québécois member agree that the Liberal Prime Minister is trying to manufacture a crisis to avoid talking about the real crisis that is happening here in Canada with respect to crime, the economy and immigration, a crisis that Quebeckers are also facing?
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome the new member for Carleton to the House. He talked a lot about our allies looking to us, but the Liberal government has basically given our allies and partners the bum's rush. Germany and Japan came to us wanting us to export LNG, and the former prime minister wanted to see if there was a business case. Basically, he was saying there is no business case. The whole cap and t…
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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the need for oil and gas is increasing worldwide, and if we do not meet that need, if we do not step up, it will be taken up by other countries and other producers. I wonder if the member could comment more on how reducing and holding back production negatively impacts services for Canadians, such as health care, transportation and infrastructure. How ar…
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Madam Speaker, the situation at the border is getting much worse. Roxham Road is not far from Montreal. We, the Conservatives, support the idea of hiring thousands more officers in order to end drug trafficking and human smuggling. We would also like to see officers stationed not only at official border crossings, but also along the entire length of the border. People can cross illegally by other …
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