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Mr. Speaker, I have say to the member opposite that I am disappointed that, with all the significant changes on immigration, the immigration minister is not the one giving the speech. However, the parliamentary secretary is known for being here most of the day and for always giving a speech, so that is that. There are so many issues with immigration in the country. We have heard especially about t…
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Mr. Speaker, I asked a question earlier pointing out that with all the other problems in the immigration system, including 150,000 frauds, three million people who are supposed to exit the country but are here, and 33,000 criminals whom the government cannot find, the government should put its priorities somewhere else. I think the member may have something to contribute to that comment.
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Mr. Speaker, I agree that Bill C-12 is very important, but are there any amendments proposed by the Bloc Québécois that were not included in the current bill?
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Mr. Speaker, as a fellow engineer, I know the member knows a lot. She is very intelligent. Certainly this bill addresses a lot of the tools that are needed to combat cybersecurity, and we see that those threats exist. There have been a number of breaches in the government. There are some actual hardware solutions that will be needed as well. Could the member elaborate on what she thinks the gap is…
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Mr. Speaker, there has been some misinformation put out about this bill, and I think the member can help clear it up. People have said that this would give the minister overreach to be able to shut down an individual's Internet account. The bill is really not about that. It is about infrastructure. Can the member comment on that?
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Mr. Speaker, the Emergencies Act has been ruled unlawful by the courts twice. The Liberals violated the charter rights of Canadians by freezing their bank accounts when the threat of a national security threshold was never met. They have wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money, and now they are appealing this court decision for a third time. With an affordability crisis and a jobs crisis, wil…
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Mr. Speaker, I do know a bit about the automotive industry. I was part of the automotive industry when it North Americanized. I was in charge of Dow automotive's 58 plants across the globe. I have heard a lot of criticism from the Liberal benches today about our plan to create automotive job growth here in Canada, but it has been crickets about any plan on their side to create growth. Could they e…
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Mr. Speaker, I know the member opposite has been a devout defender of faith. Is she aware that there are current Liberal MPs sitting on the benches who think I should be in prison for quoting scriptures as a youth leader and that they have scheduled a vote during the national prayer dinner?
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the third report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women in relation to Bill C-225, an act to amend the Criminal Code. The committee has studied the bill and has decided to report the bill back to the House with amendments. A woman is killed by femicide every 48 hours in this country. The bill would go a long way to ma…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that there are refugees who were not legitimate and who have had their claims rejected. When they get a letter from the government saying they are going to be deported, they evaporate into the ether. There are maybe 500,000 of them, but the government is pretending there is not a problem. Why does the member think the Liberals are so naive about the disaster they created w…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the member has a fundamental misunderstanding about our motion. Everyone knows that we have a duty of care for legitimate refugees, but what we are talking about in the motion is people who have had it ruled that they are not eligible to be here in Canada and in fact should be deported, yet there is $1 billion being spent on their health care, and they are getting superior hea…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal government has cancelled the mandate to have 100% electric vehicles by 2035, but it has replaced it with a tailpipe emissions requirement that only EVs can meet. That is really the same thing. Is the member aware that the Liberal government has no plan to create the infrastructure across the country that would be needed to achieve that target? There is also no plan to pu…
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Madam Speaker, here is an interesting fact. In the last 20 years, 80% of the vehicles Canadians bought were manufactured in Canada. There is no reason we cannot return to that. I see that the Conservatives have planned to cut taxes on vehicles and invest here. Does the member agree we should also be making more vehicles here in Canada?
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Madam Speaker, does the member consider it advisable to give taxpayer money to the United States for cars manufactured there?
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Mr. Speaker, I want to start by correcting a mis-characterization by the member, who suggested that somehow Conservatives are opposed to EVs. Many Conservative members actually own EVs, and that is fine. What Conservatives believe in is the freedom to choose what kind of vehicle they want to buy and not have the Liberal government force them to buy an EV through their tailpipe emissions standard t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition today from residents of Canada about Bill C-9, a bill that would remove the good-faith religious defence clause from the Criminal Code of Canada. Bill C-9 would allow the government to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts and to prosecute those who express deeply held religious beliefs with a punishment of …
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Mr. Speaker, the disastrous policies of the Liberals have driven the cost of food up over $6,000 in the last five years. Yes, the Liberals removed the consumer carbon tax, but then they introduced the industrial carbon tax, which is being charged back to consumers, and then they added on the fuel standard tax, which is increasing the price of gas and the price of food. Why does the government not …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals promised stable food prices, but Canadians got the opposite. Lettuce is up 40%. Coffee is up 33%. Beef is up 27%. Canada now leads the G7 in food inflation, which has doubled under the current government and is twice the U.S. rate. The Liberals' grocery summit did not work. Their rebates will not cut prices. Their taxes drive costs up. There are 2.2 million Canadians rely…
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Mr. Speaker, food inflation is up 6.2%, the highest in the G7. A family now pays more than $17,000 a year for food, and 2.2 million people are lined up at food banks every month, thanks to the Liberals' industrial carbon tax and fuel standard tax, adding up to about 17¢ a litre, which is hitting farmers, truckers and food prices. Conservatives are ready to fast-track legislation to reverse these d…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise in the House today to speak to Bill C-223, the keeping children safe act. I want to extend my thanks to the member for Hamilton Mountain for her work on this very important issue. As the chair of the status of women committee, I heard extensive testimony on coercive control, parental alienation and family violence in Canada. In 2025, our committee released a r…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals take thousands of dollars from Canadians; they return a pittance. Canadians are not fooled. Food prices in Canada are rising twice as fast as in the U.S. and twice as fast since the Prime Minister took office. Grocery prices are up 5%, and his response to the cost of living crisis is to tell Canadians to sacrifice more. Canadians have sacrificed enough. With the ever-incr…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very interested in the amendments dealing with human rights, environmental issues and everything else. Can my colleague talk a little more about that?
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Madam Speaker, I am presenting a petition today from constituents who are concerned about the Liberal-Bloc amendment to Bill C-9 passed at the justice committee. The amendment would remove the good-faith religious defence clause from the Criminal Code of Canada, allowing the government to criminalize passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts, and resulting in punishment …
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Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that the member opposite cannot see the action plan that is the Canada sovereignty plan. He said slogans were not enough. Does he believe that empty words without action are enough? That is all we have seen from the Liberal government.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the second report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, entitled “Gender-Based Violence and Femicides in Canada”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report. Femicides are up; a woman in Canada dies every other day. We do need to address t…
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Madam Speaker, I love the passion of my colleague. He is from B.C. He is representing people in B.C., most of whom want to see this pipeline get done. Definitely, I think we need these jobs in Canada at this point. The Liberals will tell us that the jobs were created, but they are part-time jobs. They are, basically, Christmas retail jobs. We need the kinds of jobs we would get from the pipeline a…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to rise and to speak to our opposition day motion. I will be sharing my time with the great member for North Island—Powell River. It is particularly significant that I am speaking today because, for those who do not know, oil was first discovered in North America in my riding. That is right. In Oil Springs, in 1861, the Fairbanks bought the property, there was a huge gush…
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Madam Speaker, I agree that we should not be sending our money to the United States. However, we obviously need a pipeline in western Canada and another one in eastern Canada. Furthermore, 60% of Quebeckers support the idea of a pipeline project. Will the Bloc Québécois support the construction of an eastern pipeline, particularly in Quebec?
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Madam Speaker, all of the environmental assessments and the consultations with indigenous peoples have been completed for the Northern Gateway pipeline. We could start that project today and have the pipeline built in about three years. I think the Liberals lack political will. The Liberals are saying one thing to Alberta and another to British Columbia. I think that Canadians want to know whether…
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Madam Speaker, this is a very simple debate. In the past, the Liberals have cancelled pipelines. Now the Prime Minister is saying that he signed this memorandum of understanding to build a pipeline to the west. Canadians sense the hypocrisy. Do the Liberals support building a pipeline to the west, yes or no?
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Madam Speaker, there can be no doubt that the Conservatives want to build a pipeline. We want to build a pipeline to the west. However, one interesting thing in this MOU is that the Liberals are willing to lift the exemption on the tanker ban. Let us think about the tanker ban. Right now, the only people who cannot have oil tankers are Canadians. The U.S. has three refineries right in that area th…
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Madam Speaker, the northern gateway pipeline had all of the environmental assessments and had all of the indigenous consultation, and it was cancelled under Justin Trudeau. The government asked Conservatives to support Bill C-5 so that it could exempt projects in the national interest from all the terrible laws that it passed in the last 10 years, and we did support that. Now, the minister has a p…
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Mr. Speaker, we talk about these hidden taxes on food and, constantly from the Liberal bench, we hear they are imaginary. I know that in my riding, I see the cost of food going up and I see the real impact. Does the member think these taxes are imaginary?
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Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for the member, but does he understand that it is already illegal to make statements that incite violence? It is already illegal. The amendment is therefore unnecessary and will violate the rights and freedoms of 27 million Canadians. Does my colleague understand that?
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for the bill. Honestly, it could not have come at a better time, when sexual assault is up 76% in Canada. I am the chair of the status of women committee, and we heard disturbing testimony that half the people who are sexually assaulted do not even get a police report. Of the ones who do get a police report, 5% go to court, and only 1% actually get a convi…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and to speak to the budget implementation act. As always, I have themes. Today I am going to pick up on these themes: things I am glad were not in the budget, things I am glad were in the budget, things I wish were not in the budget, and things I wish were in the budget. I will start with the things I am glad were not in the budget. The first is the capital …
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Madam Speaker, I certainly recall the member opposite mocking this side of the House for 10 years on the carbon tax. Then we noticed, during the election, the price of gasoline start to fall. What did the Liberals do afterwards? They returned and put an industrial carbon tax in place, the supposed new fuel standard that increased the cost of gasoline 17% and continues to increase the amount needed…
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Madam Speaker, the government's promise was that it was going to sell off land so it could build the affordable housing we are missing because of massive immigration that did not match the supply of housing. Here we go. We see, again, that the government is giving money. Who is getting rich? That is always the question with the Liberals. It is corruption. It is Brookfield. The Prime Minister is ge…
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Madam Speaker, that is a good question. I do not support the Pathways Alliance project, because I think that all of the companies involved are simply looking to become very wealthy, and Brookfield is one of them. I do not believe that this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. We need to build a pipeline, and we need to sell our oil around the world. That is the right response.
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Mr. Speaker, all Canadians know that if they have a bad credit rating, it will cost them more to borrow money. Lately, Fitch talked about the Liberal government and raised the alarm that it is going to drop its credit rating to AA+ instead of where we are now, which will cost us more than the already billions of dollars that we are transferring to pay the interest on the debt. Is the member concer…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing I have been hearing from my riding that I have not heard yet in this debate concerns the Canada pension plan and the fact that the government, in the budget, has listed it as a government asset. That is the money of Canadians. Canadians and their employers have paid into it. It is not a government asset. I am very concerned, as they are, that the government will feel it is i…
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Mr. Speaker, I heard my colleague, a fellow engineer, talk about all the money that should have been spent in Newfoundland and Labrador, and I agree. I would like him to comment on the amount of money the Prime Minister is giving to other countries instead of putting Canadians first.
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Mr. Speaker, my riding is home to many seniors, and I did not see many measures in the budget to help seniors cope with the cost of living. Could the member comment on that?
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Mr. Speaker, I was delighted to hear the member opposite recognize that the luxury tax on planes and boats was a disaster for his government, because Conservatives had said that. It appears the government also understands that the consumer carbon tax was a disaster, and it reversed position on that. It was a disaster not to build LNG and pipelines, and it looks as though the government is reversin…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked a little bit about how to incentivize things like business and research. I wonder if she could elaborate more on how the government is going to keep Canada's leadership position in science and create a competitive climate for investors.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the first report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, entitled “Coercive Control in Canada”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive response to this report. We know that coercive control is often the precursor to violence against women in Canada. The recomme…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know that is not true. The fact is, the current Liberal government is the most expensive government in Canadian history. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends drives the cost of everything up, especially food. The Liberals had an opportunity to scrap the industrial carbon tax to reduce the price of food, but instead they are increasing it, driving up the cost of fertilizer,…
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Mr. Speaker, the budget does not include very many measures for seniors or young people. Does my colleague know that Canadians are struggling because of the affordability crisis? What is the government going to do about that?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for another intelligent speech. We are studying violence against women and girls at the status of women committee, and we heard testimony yesterday that the reverse onus provision in Bill C-14 would not work. As long as people come with a plan, the judges tend to send them back out on bail. Could the member comment on a stronger measure that she woul…
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Mr. Speaker, that was an excellent speech. The real problem with Bill C-14 is that it does not remove the principle of the least restrictive punishment at the earliest possible opportunity. That is the problem, and it is the reason this bill is not going to fix crime. Would the member agree?
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