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With regard to fires at each place of worship that were caused by arson between 2016-24: (a) for each instance, was the arsonist (i) apprehended, (ii) not apprehended; and (b) for each instance in (a)(i), what were the sentences received?
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With regard to wildfires caused by arson, between 2016-24: (a) what charges and sentences were laid for arsonists; and (b) what are the details of each account of which wildfires were determined to be caused by arsonists, including whether or not the perpetrator was apprehended?
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal member is talking about the government's record. Well, in Vancouver last year, the same 40 criminals were arrested a total of 5,000 times and set free again. Police are asking me, “What is the use of even arresting them?” Even outside behind my office, I see people constantly shooting up. There are deaths all over the place. This falls upon the Liberals and the New Democ…
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Madam Speaker, listening to the Liberal parliamentary secretary, I have to scratch my head and wonder what country he is living in or, maybe, what planet. He talks about a housing accelerator program when it actually should be called a housing decelerator program. The Liberals have put a break on housing starts. In Vancouver and Toronto, housing starts are down to levels that they were at in the s…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are experts at making big announcements, but seeing results is another story. My riding of Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge had an announcement of a $1-billion battery plant. The Liberal-NDPs announced it, and now they are pulling back. It is the same story with the cricket bug plant, where it was announced that millions of dollars would be added to it, which has also been pulled…
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With regard to the Canadian National Security Council, since its creation was announced in 2023: how many times has the council met, broken down by year and by quarter?
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Madam Speaker, I find the member's comments to be quite ignorant when using expressions like “goose-stepping”. I was not a member in this House at the time, but was in the provincial government in British Columbia. Developing relationships and trade with China are important. We have a lot of trade. Even in the provincial legislature, I remember warning my colleagues that we should not get too join…
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Madam Speaker, in the last Parliament, we found ourselves in a similar situation. Documents were to be presented to Parliament, but the Liberals said, “No, we cannot have transparency”. The Speaker made a judgment, and he ordered documents to be produced unredacted. It sounds like it is a repeat. The Prime Minister and all those who were surrounding him decided to take that Speaker to court to sue…
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Madam Speaker, today is December 3, and here we are again, discussing the privilege motion regarding the submission of documents to Parliament. We should not be debating the motion; we should not be debating it today, and we should not have been debating it this week, last week—
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Madam Speaker, we should not be debating the motion, and we should not have been debating it for the past six or seven weeks, since September 26, because the Liberals should have released the information regarding the green slush fund weeks ago, as requested. They should have given it to the RCMP and to Parliament. However, the Liberals, as is typical of them, are just snubbing their nose at Parli…
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Madam Speaker, I find the NDP member's comments quite interesting. He talks about natural resources and his is a party that, along with the Liberals, stymies all development of natural resources. Whether it be oil and gas, agriculture or fishing, everywhere we look, we see the tentacles of the leftist and socialist parties trying to choke the working Canadian. I hear it all over the place. People …
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Madam Speaker, thank you. I retract the comment. If you do not mind my saying, the Speaker, whoever the Speaker is, will normally be a member from the party that is in government, whether Conservative or Liberal. It is not a matter of being partisan; it is just the case. I am just mentioning where my thoughts were.
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Madam Speaker, we have been very clear that we want all the names to be released. We are not trying to hide anything. We are not afraid of anything being released. We are asking the Liberals to release all the names. Conservatives believe in transparency. We want to see who the members of Parliament and senators are. That is important. Going back to the motion, Conservatives want the truth. The tr…
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Madam Speaker, I had about 20 pages of notes and got to page six. I certainly wanted to discuss money being siphoned off and corruption. That is not a word I use lightly. Time after time with the green slush fund, we have seen the vast majority of the $800-million fund, 82%, going to insiders and companies the money should never have gone to. We have seen the ArriveCAN scam that should have cost a…
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Madam Speaker, I will repeat myself: All the information should be released. This is important. Going back to the topic right here, in terms of corruption, we have another former Liberal minister who received $120 million in contracts under a so-called indigenous company. He was claiming to be indigenous, which he is not. It is just a scam. The more we kick the tires, the more rot there is. Canada…
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Madam Speaker, I am Métis. I am a citizen of British Columbia and I have roots in Alberta. Many of my relatives are Métis living in the Edmonton area. This hits close to home for me, but it is also a slap in the face that someone like the former Liberal minister would try to commit fraud. That does not in any way advance indigenous rights. I completely disagree with what the NDP member said, that …
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Mr. Speaker, as a Métis citizen of Métis Nation British Columbia and Golden Ears Métis Society, I must admit that what the former Liberal minister has done has really undermined indigenous people throughout Canada. It is a shame because, as was mentioned by a previous speaker, 1,100 companies that identified as indigenous were delisted, so we see the amount of fraud for economic, social and politi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I take this as an attack upon me personally. My family attended residential schools and, as a Conservative—
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Madam Speaker, we are hearing the Liberal member wax eloquently about how compassionate the Liberals are toward the people of Canada. However, I would like to compare that to what the Conservatives are offering: the permanent elimination of the carbon tax, which makes everything more expensive, and cutting the GST for new home purchases, which will add 30,000 jobs and make life much less expensive…
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Madam Speaker, one of the many comments that the Liberal spokesperson, the member for Winnipeg North, made today was referring to the Conservatives as the “far right”. I do not know if he and the Liberals have been looking at the polls over the past year, but it seems like the “far right” is approaching half the Canadian population, and they just seem to be totally disconnected. The member for Kel…
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Mr. Speaker, on the weekend, I talked to an individual who told me that all his life he has voted for the NDP but that has changed. He is so frustrated with the NDP's support of the Liberals in government, all the scandals and mismanagement, and the impact that is having on his life. I am wondering if the member could address the NDP supporting the Liberals, even with the green slush fund, and not…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the Bloc Québécois member for his speech. However, there is one thing I did not hear mentioned even once, and that is the importance of nuclear energy. The focus seems to be on waste, which I can understand, but no one is talking about the importance of nuclear energy. In Canada, 15% of our electricity comes from nuclear power. In France, it is 63%. Nuclear power is a source o…
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Mr. Speaker, homelessness is up markedly under the Liberal-NDP coalition. I would also include the Bloc Québécois in that. However, it is only the tip of the iceberg. I was talking to a realtor friend who has been in the business for many years and he said he has never seen the number of people, whether new immigrants, temporary foreign workers, students or young people, who are cramming into one-…
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Madam Speaker, after nine long years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Two weeks ago, the NDP leader made a big spectacle of tearing up the costly coalition agreement with the Liberals, but he now says that the NDP will vote to keep them in power. What is the truth? It is all a stunt to trick voters. British Columbians are struggling and want a change and…
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With regard to statistics concerning attacks on places of worship: what is the total number of hate crimes in the form of arson, or attempted arson, suffered by (i) churches, (ii) mosques, (iii) synagogues, (iv) temples, broken down by year since 2010 and by province or territory?
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With regard to statistics concerning arson sentences: what are the statistics related to the completion of sentencing for people convicted of committing arson that resulted in (i) wildfires and destruction of green spaces, (ii) damage to places of worship, (iii) property damage exceeding $10,000, including the total amount of incidents and convictions for people responsible for causing wildfires o…
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With regard to costs incurred in combating wildfires across Canada, from 2010 to present: what is the detailed breakdown of the total accumulated costs incurred in combating each wildfire season, including (i) personnel and equipment expenditures, (ii) property damage assessments, (iii) healthcare costs for affected individuals, (iv) expenses related to environmental remediation and reconstruction…
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moved for leave to introduce C-411, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (arson—wildfires and places of worship). Mr. Speaker, today I am tabling legislation to protect Canada's forests and places of worship from arson. My bill, the anti-arson act, will create two new offences in the Criminal Code. The first offence increases the maximum sentence for causing a wildfire to 18 years, and for subsequent…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to extend my condolences to the family of Gilles Perron. Our country relies on exports. Energy, especially oil, represents 10% of our exports. I know that Germany, Japan and Greece told the Prime Minister that they would like to have access to these products. The Prime Minister responded by saying that he would think about it, that he did not know whether there was a framework …
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Mr. Speaker, this is a headline. It says, “'Impossibly unaffordable': Vancouver 3rd-worst city for housing”. Please comment.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for his work on the defence file. On defence, could he comment on the fact that the Liberals are saying they are going to increase the amount of expenditure over the next five years, but they are actually cutting back this year? It is as though they are putting everything down the road and saying they are really increasing, but they are actually decreasing. …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister, Canada is going through the worst decline in living standards in 40 years. I recently spoke to a local mortgage broker. He told me that, since the budget was announced, a dozen doctors have contacted him about closing their practices and moving to the United States. This is terrible for Canadians as millions are without a family doctor. Does t…
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Madam Speaker, Conservatives will be supporting this motion. I am a member of Parliament from the west coast, and obviously seafood, the fisheries and fishing have been part of British Columbia's history from the time it began with the first nations and for the past couple of hundred years with fishers. It is fine to have a motion, which Conservatives support, on a national seafood day, but it rea…
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Madam Speaker, the OECD, which is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has projected that Canada will be among the worst of 40 advanced nations for the next three decades, that we are just going in a totally wrong direction. There has been a war on Canadian industry, on the resource sector, which we hear time and again from the previous speaker. The NDP members are just supp…
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Mr. Speaker, we are seeing the worst growth of income than under any Prime Minister since the Great Depression in the 1930s under the Liberal-NDP coalition. Of the 40 advanced countries in the OECD, Canada is projected to have the worst growth for the next three decades. Does the member not recognize that their policies, their tax policies and their governance are destroying our nation?
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Madam Speaker, I find my Bloc Québécois colleague's comments a bit sad. He said that this carbon tax does not affect Quebec because it does not apply there, but the fact is, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says it is costing Canada more than $30 billion per year, and that does have an impact on Quebec. We are also seeing a significant decline in quality of life, and people's earnings are going do…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals talk a lot about climate change, day in and day out. They use it to justify imposing a carbon tax that does nothing to change the climate but essentially impoverishes Canadians and shuts down industry. Sustainable Development Technology Canada was doing a good job under the appointees by Harper. As a matter of fact, it was examined by the Auditor General and got a AAA r…
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Madam Speaker, I think the member is having a memory lapse. I went through the process about how the Liberals let it all flounder. This is nine years down the road. I know right now the Liberals are doing lots of other promises, nine years down the road, saying that they are going to do this, they are going to do that. Well, it is nine years right now. When we go to an election, it is not going to…
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Madam Speaker, I do not need a line; I need a word. It is called “misery”. What Canadians are feeling right now is misery. The standard of living is going down, nothing is getting done, nothing is getting built and it is just time for a change.
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Madam Speaker, right out of the starting blocks, I will say that I will be supporting the bill, as my Conservative colleagues will be. There may be those who think it is our duty as an official opposition to oppose all legislation put forward by the costly Liberal-NDP coalition, that it is our duty to vote against it. We do that with the majority of their bills. After nine years of the Prime Minis…
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Madam Speaker, let us talk about that. I know that members on the other side of the House are eager to jump into this right now, but the fact of the matter is that the Liberals promised it. They promised to introduce a more effective oversight of federal law enforcement agencies in, drum roll, 2015. That is right. Nine years ago, they were hot to trot and decided to introduce Bill C-98, an act to …
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Madam Speaker, that is an amazing question because I do have the answers. Let us give a few little examples. Let me see. The Liberals did it as well. For example, in the notice paper on November 26, 2018, a notice of a motion deleting the short title for Bill C-87 happened. That was interesting. Again, on March 6 of the year before, the parliamentary secretary put a motion to delete the short titl…
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Madam Speaker, certainly the residents in my community, and across British Columbia and Canada, are saying they have had enough of this carbon tax, and they want to axe the tax. I cannot say how many people are phoning my office or meeting me and saying that they were voting for the NDP, or were voting for the Liberals, and they are not doing it again because of their poor management. The carbon t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to be here this time of the night, and I do want to congratulate Lin Paddock, who won the Baie Verte—Green Bay by-election in Newfoundland. Kudos to him, a progressive Conservative, as he won with an almost 80% victory. Actually, two years ago, in a by-election, he had 48%. The Liberals went from 52% to 24%. So that is Newfoundland, the Maritimes, but there has been a pleth…
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Mr. Speaker, I have actually addressed this to the member a number of times. Members can see the light and have a change when they understand that this has been going on for a number of years, this carbon tax, and it does not work. Even former premier Christy Clark has come out against it. I am an example of something that can happen on that side if they would come to the truth and would just acce…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his correction as far as Kitimat, but Prince Rupert will benefit also. That entire riding will benefit, and it will also benefit from a new government, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Madam Speaker, what the Liberals are about is increases, such as increases to the food banks, where in one month we saw two million visits, and now we have more than one million people going to the food banks. Why is that? It is because they are not only incompetent in their fiscal management, but also destroying our economy with their anti-resource drive. There has been a loss of jobs and a loss …
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Mr. Speaker, the budget impacts people, as do the decisions being made here by the Liberals and the NDP. They impact everyone in this nation, and it is not for the great, at all. The Governor of the Bank of Canada, who was appointed by the Liberals, said that this is “the worst budget since...1982”. Why would he say that? I can tell members that the people I am talking to on the streets, in their …
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Madam Speaker, the measures in the Liberals' many announcements constitute interference in provincial jurisdictions. They are adding way more bureaucracy. We can expect a $40-billion deficit this year. This is costing Canadian taxpayers a lot of money. Does the Liberal member not understand that the Liberal government's actions are having a serious impact on Canada and on Canadians and their basic…
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