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Madam Speaker, I hope the member opposite does not get too teary-eyed by what I have to say, but I am going to recommend him for a cabinet post: the minister of obfuscation. In lay terms, I would call that the minister of smoke and mirrors, because this is not relevant. The member is off on a tangent. The truth of the matter is that the Speaker of the House, who is an elected Liberal member of Par…
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Madam Speaker, I gave a number of reasons I thought the Liberals might be delaying this, letting the time just pass away. The fifth reason is that I think they really have something to hide. The Auditor General put forward an audit that showed, I believe, that 186 out of 230 contracts she looked into had conflicts of interest. If we extrapolate that to all the contracts, it would equal about $800 …
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Madam Speaker, the fact of the matter is that it does not just rest upon the shoulders of the Liberals, as far as all these scandals we are facing are concerned, including the one here on Sustainable Development Technology Canada. It rests upon the NDP because it is an NDP-Liberal government. The NDP has actually supported the government; it has kept the Liberals in power through all the scandals …
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Mr. Speaker, we are now in the third week of debating this privilege motion. It is the third week since the House came to a standstill, and it does not have to be this way. The blame lies four-square on the shoulders of the Liberal government. It is essentially snubbing its nose at Parliament; at you, Mr. Speaker; and ultimately at the Canadian public. Parliament has a right to request documents, …
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Madam Speaker, that question really needs to go to the Liberals because they are the ones who are not producing the documents ordered by the Speaker. Why are they allowing the House to continue this debate? We do not support most of their legislation as it is; at the same time, this is ridiculous. It is just going on and on. It seems as though it is an excuse for them to prorogue government or jus…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things that struck me was the word “self-serving”. There are many examples, but one that comes to mind is one of the board members receiving a quarter of a million dollars for her companies. The Minister for Environment and Climate Change was a lobbyist for them, has shares in a company and met with the PM's office a dozen times before getting elected. I wonder if the membe…
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder whether the member for Kingston and the Islands would recognize he is just totally off the mark. He is huffing and puffing and trying to blame the Conservatives, when really it is the Speaker's ruling that is saying that the documents need to be produced. My question is this: Are the Liberals planning to take the Speaker to court, as they did previously to the other Speaker w…
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Madam Speaker, on the anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, I rise to present petition e-4985, in which 2,250 Canadians are calling on the government to stand against the rise of anti-Semitism. Bomb threats, death threats, violence, vandalism against Jewish homes, schools and synagogues and the boycotting of Jewish-owned businesses are causing many Jewish Canadian…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to an Ethiopian couple who tragically lost their lives in an arson attack at the House of Covenant International Church in Winnipeg last month. Geda and Zenabu recently came to Canada with hope but instead were met with horror. They were living above their church, which provides affordable housing for newcomers. In the middle of the night, a heinous act of arso…
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Madam Speaker, speaking about board members, one board member's company, Cycle Capital, received a quarter of a billion dollars in contracts. The Liberal Minister of Environment and Climate Change was a lobbyist for it and met with the government 25 times the year before he was elected in 2019. This is of concern to us. I wonder if the member could make a few comments on that.
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Madam Speaker, the member talked about fires. We have heard a controlled burn was recommended in Jasper. There was political push-back within the Liberals saying maybe they do not want to do that. Why? It is because it goes against a narrative of climate change. In fact, wildfires cause about one-third of carbon emissions in the world. When we tax the trucker who brings in the food, when we tax th…
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Madam Speaker, I asked a question last Friday that echoed the sentiment of Canadians from coast to coast, which is simply this: When will we have a carbon tax election? It is not a platitude, quip or slogan that should be brushed away, which the Liberals are doing. The carbon tax represents a societal and political flashpoint, and they really should be aware of this just by looking at the polls, f…
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Mr. Speaker, rather than six minutes, I suppose I could be here for six hours. I think of the Winnipeg lab scandal, where, again, the House committee ordered papers to be released to show what was happening there because there was a scandal. The Liberals said no. They were not going to release the documents, so what did the Speaker do? He actually ordered them to produce the documents. What did th…
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Mr. Speaker, today, we are debating the Liberal government again snubbing its nose at Parliament and at members of Parliament. A parliamentary committee rightfully requested documents on Sustainable Development Technology Canada, otherwise known as the $1-billion green slush fund. What we know already smells terrible, and I will get more into this. The Liberals produced documents, but what they pr…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the program had good objectives when it was established. The Auditor General conducted an investigation in 2017, when the person in charge of SDTC had been appointed by Mr. Harper. The Auditor General concluded that it was working very well at the time. Then the Liberals started meddling in this to see how they could personally benefit from taxpayers' money.
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Mr. Speaker, I would say that the truth is that the Liberals are having the most discomfort with producing the documents. Let me give an example. There is carbon tax Carney, who was appointed as a special adviser to the finance minister and who wants to be the next Liberal leader. However, he directs an investment firm called Brookfield Asset Management and is trying to get into talks to access bi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a parliamentary privilege, a right of the committees, to be able to examine the documents, and we are being stymied as far as Parliament. We are very concerned with what we have seen, and there is much more beyond that. We want to see the documents produced as soon as possible.
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Mr. Speaker, what the House is debating today is astounding, mind-numbing corruption under a Liberal government kept in power by the NDP. This government is also supported by the Bloc Québécois. We are talking about the billion dollar green slush fund, known as Sustainable Development Technology Canada. It was set up in 2001 to provide financial assistance to green technology companies that were l…
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with the Bloc Québécois member's comments. According to the Auditor General of Canada, at least $300 million was paid out in more than 180 instances where there was a conflict of interest. She said the Liberals were entirely responsible. On top of that, $58 million was allocated to projects for which no environmental benefits were demonstrated. Why does the Bloc Qué…
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Mr. Speaker, in 2017, the Auditor General did an audit of SDTC and gave it a clean bill of health, saying that it was being run effectively. That was under a chair appointed by the Conservatives. This has totally changed since the Liberals have interfered, putting in friends and contacts despite warnings not to do this. We have a total mess, with hundreds of millions of dollars wasted. There was c…
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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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, 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, 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, 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, the motion from the Conservative Party is about making life easier for Canadians, because they are struggling. That member should certainly know that, being a representative for Victoria. As someone who is also a British Columbia MP, I can say first-hand that all I am hearing from young people and others is that they are finding it a challenge just to make ends meet, whether it is h…
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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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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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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, 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, 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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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and speak to Bill S-224, an act to amend the Criminal Code with regard to trafficking in persons. The adoption of this legislation would remove the unfair burden placed on exploited individuals to prove that there was an element of fear in their abuse. That is very significant, “fear in their abuse”. Right now, they have to prove that they were afraid. It is incom…
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Mr. Speaker, I am having a real challenge with the member talking about what a utopia the Liberals and NDP have brought to our country. It seems as though they are totally disconnected from what is happening on the streets. They do not see the millions more people going to food banks and the doubling of housing costs. He talks about program after program. It is not the Liberals' money; it is taxpa…
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