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Mr. Speaker, I have already outlined the fact that Canadians have lost trust in the Liberal government. This is just another fact. Obviously we need bail, not jail. For six months, the justice minister has had an opportunity to introduce the things that would reverse what is in Bill C-75, which gives people bail. It talks about the least restrictive punishment at the earliest possible opportunity.…
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Mr. Speaker, one of the concerns I have heard from members of the CAF is that, currently, regarding cases going before military justice courts, their legal fees are covered. They are worried about frivolous litigation and that, if they are in criminal courts, they will have to pay for their own lawyers. Has the government given any thought to what it would do as a remedy for that?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for an excellent speech. Obviously, I agree with the Deschamps recommendations and the Arbour report about moving sexual misconduct allegations out of the military justice system and into the criminal justice system. However, the record of the Liberals and the criminal justice system, as we have seen, is this: Sexual assault is up 76%, and these repe…
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Mr. Speaker, I was very interested in the point my colleague was making about what would happen when these incidents happen internationally. I was chair of the status of women committee when we studied sexual assault in the military, and it was clear that the existing military system is subject to the old boys' club. If someone is in a foreign location, they are forced to work with the perpetrator…
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Mr. Speaker, rape is up 76% in this country. We do not have enough judges. Rapists are walking on bail. Repeat offenders are walking on bail. As I have said, the conviction rate is slim to none. We cannot move things from the military justice system to the criminal justice system unless the criminal justice system is fixed so that women and men who are sexually assaulted in Canada get justice.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not have a lot of confidence that the amendments I have just gone over, which are all reasonable amendments, would be accepted at committee, based on the history that I have seen, where the Liberals continually turn down the common-sense amendments of the Conservatives. This is our only opportunity to air those concerns and get them in the public, but certainly we will support th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise and speak to Bill C-11, the military justice system modernization act. I want to let you know that I will be splitting my time, should any remain, with the member for Louis-Saint-Laurent—Akiawenhrahk. First of all, I want to tell people what this bill does, if they are not aware. It is similar to Bill C-66 from the last Parliament with some language changes in…
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Madam Speaker, when this bill came forward in the last Parliament as Bill C-26, it went to the Senate. Senator Denise Batters was the critic for the file, and the Privacy Commissioner said that there was an amendment needed to address privacy. The senator has reviewed Bill C-8 and said that the amendment was not incorporated. Why did the minister not take the advice of the Privacy Commissioner?
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Mr. Speaker, the member spoke of a few problems with the bill. She mentioned amendments that the Bloc Québécois would like to move in committee. Can she explain the amendments and the reasons for them?
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite mentioned farmers, so I wanted to remind her of the record of the Liberal government. She was not here to see it impose two levels of carbon tax, hundreds of thousands of dollars on farms, and the clean fuel standards still remaining without giving them any credit for the emissions reduction of the CO2 absorbed by their crops; the tariff on fertilizer; the restrict…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians should judge him by prices at the grocery store. Since he was elected, Canada's food prices have surged 50% faster than those in the U.S. After 10 years of Liberal rule, we have record lineups at food banks. Families cannot afford to put food on their table; they are struggling. The Prime Minister promised he would be different, but it is just another…
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Mr. Speaker, I wondered if the member opposite is concerned that, after all this talk about how they are going to “build, build, build”, the current emissions cap, which is really a production cap, is actually contrary to the plan to build.
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Mr. Speaker, every day in Canada, a woman dies from a violent crime. Sexual assault is up 75% in this country, and 60% of the violence against women is intimate partner violence. I am so proud of the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola for bringing forward a private member's bill to address that crime. The government has had six months. A woman dies every day. Where is the sense of urgency on the …
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Mr. Speaker, all the municipalities in my riding have affordable housing as their top priority, and the housing minister is tasked with addressing the housing crisis that has been caused by 10 years of failed Liberal policies. The former minister of housing indicated that 550,000 units would need to be built every year for four years to catch up with the massive increase in immigration he caused. …
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Mr. Speaker, I did not really hear the answers I was looking for. The Liberals are saying the $13-billion bureaucracy is going to start with 4,000 homes, but the fact remains that nothing has been built and housing starts are down 13% in the country. Young people are losing hope of ever being able to afford a home. We need to see the detailed plan. The minister has had six months. What is going to…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the out-of-control spending of these Liberals has driven up inflation 50%. The Prime Minister's deficit is projected to be double that of Justin Trudeau's. Canadians are paying the price, especially at the grocery store. Soup is up 20%. Coffee is up 22%. Groceries overall are up 70%. The Prime Minister said he should be judged on the price of groceries. He has broken his …
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With regard to the distribution of fuel charge proceeds to small and medium-sized businesses, through the Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses, as authorized under section 165 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and section 127.421 of the Income Tax Act: (a) what is the total amount distributed to small and medium-sized businesses under the Canada Carbon Rebate since the program’s inc…
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With regard to government information about crime for the year 2023: how many suspects who were charged or deemed chargeable with homicide (i) were on bail or another type of remand, (ii) were on house arrest, (iii) were on parole, (iv) were subject to another type of community service broken down by type, (v) had an arrest warrant for a different crime at the time they were charged or deemed char…
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Madam Speaker, the member opposite's speech gave a lot of details about the progress that is being made on electric vehicles. I am not opposed if somebody chooses to have one, but I can clearly see that people are not choosing them. We are at 7.5% uptake on them, even with government incentives in place. It is also worrisome to me that after investing $55 billion to get some of the battery plants …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the people of Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong for putting their trust in me for a fourth term as their member of Parliament. I want to thank my campaign manager, Anne Denman, and the many dedicated volunteers who worked to ensure a victory. Special shout-outs go to Mackenna, the best volunteer coordinator and door knocker ever; Brandon, the brains behind getting out th…
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Madam Speaker, I live in a rural part of Ontario where we have difficulty getting money to fix the roads all the time. The gas tax has been a good mechanism to make that happen. What is the government's solution as we transition to electric vehicles and those gas tax transfers decline, eventually going to zero, to keep the roads in repair?
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Mr. Speaker, the whole point of this EV mandate is to try to reduce our carbon footprint, but we are going to reduce our carbon footprint by only 0.08%. China and India are 60% of the footprint. We could do more by shipping our LNG to displace coal and heavy gas there. At the same time, it is going to be very destructive for Canadians, killing 38,000 jobs and costing $138.7 billion from the econom…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals have continued to spend taxpayers' money without a plan or a budget. They are not following the rules of Parliament. This is unacceptable. What does the member think about that?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals announced $77 billion during the election and an extra $486 billion of spending in the ways and means motion. That is like pouring gas on the inflationary fire. It is going to raise the cost of everything, and they have no plan and no budget to indicate they are going to address it. What does the member think about that?
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Madam Speaker, we are here tonight to talk about the EV mandate the Liberal government has put forward, which states that 20% of Canadians will have to be driving electric vehicles by 2026, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. These are not targets. It is going to be a mandate that will force Canadians to drive electric vehicles whether they want to or not. There is a cost associated with this, because w…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member opposite for outlining the spending. I believe he said that $2.1 billion would be spent for the men and women in uniform, on items such as equipment and recruiting. I was happy to hear this. I know the Prime Minister announced $4.3 billion for Ukraine, additionally, today, on top of the $25 billion that we already spent. I have heard concerns that people in the Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to the speeches all day. The Liberals keep saying that Quebec did not participate in the federal carbon pricing program. According to them, that is why Quebec will not receive the $800 million. What does the member think of that logic?
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the member for his speech entirely in French. It was very good. He said that the Liberals had a plan. If there really is a plan, will the government table a budget?
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite talked about how we are going to work together to build all these projects that are in the national interest, and he mentioned getting to tidewater. I wonder if that means he does not need consensus, because David Eby has already said that he does not want to build a pipeline.
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Mr. Speaker, the housing accelerator cost $4 billion and zero homes were built. Meanwhile, housing prices have doubled, rent has doubled, down payments have doubled and people are now defaulting on their mortgages at record rates due to the disastrous inflationary spending of the Liberal government. A federal memo confirms that housing will consume 52% of the household budget this year, up from 38…
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Mr. Speaker, I hope everybody in the House listens carefully to what my colleague has to say because she has a lot of experience with a lot of legislation and everything that she said is right on the money. I want to follow up on some of the civil liberties issues she was pointing out and ask her about not only some of the things that are in the bill that impact people's privacy rights but also so…
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Mr. Speaker, obviously this bill is intended to address some of the crime and fentanyl issues that are happening in the country, but my question really relates to the fact that right now we are not even enforcing our existing laws. We have repeat offenders out on the street, committing gun crimes and committing car thefts, and we are not addressing those. Adding additional laws, if they are not go…
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Madam Speaker, I was one of the people to whom the member was alluding who asked a question about what the criteria for Canada Post would be for it to be able to open something. The member said that I was intentionally misleading Canadians, and that is not a fact. You could consult the Hansard, Madam Speaker, and you would be convinced of that yourself, I am sure.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition to the House regarding medical assistance in dying. It expresses concern about people who are vulnerable, those who have a disability, do not foresee imminent death, or have mental health issues, etc. The petitioners are looking for the Government of Canada to protect Canadians whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, by prohibiting medical assis…
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Mr. Speaker, clearly we all want to cut down on crime and resolve the issues at the border. As the shadow minister for civil liberties, I have one question for the member. There is a measure in the bill that talks about Canada Post and the employees having the ability to open mail and potentially seize it. In light of our charter right to ensure no unwarranted search and seizure, I wonder what cri…
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Madam Speaker, this is super disappointing. When the Liberal government got elected, it said the nation—
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her outstanding work on OGGO. I notice that every time the Liberals get up, they are trying to distract from the actual topic at hand, which is to produce the documents for this green slush fund. It seems they must have something to hide. I wonder if the member could comment on that.
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Thank you, Madam Speaker. As I was saying, it is super disappointing to see that the Liberal government, which said the nation-to-nation relationship was the most important priority, has not solved the boil water advisories. We see very little progress on the truth and reconciliation recommendations the Stephen Harper government recommended. We see hardly any action on murdered and missing aborigi…
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Mr. Speaker, honestly, I cannot believe what the member has said. There are still boil water advisories, even though the government said that the nation-to-nation relationship was the most important one. There has been very little action on truth and reconciliation, and no action to speak of on murdered and missing indigenous women. Is the member not embarrassed that a minister of the Crown had to…
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Madam Speaker, this question allows me to say, once again, we are diverting back to the past. Let us look at what our Leader of the Opposition has said he will do when he becomes prime minister. He will increase the resources at the border to protect our border security, to detect illegal weapons and drugs coming in, and to scan the containers that are taking stolen vehicles overseas. He has been …
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Madam Speaker, in my riding, the food bank is running out of food regularly, and I know that is happening across the country because people can simply not afford to eat. Twenty-five per cent of children are going hungry. One in five family members are eating less because they cannot afford to eat. Scurvy has returned. That $400 million would do a lot to feed the hungry here in Canada. We are spend…
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Madam Speaker, normally when I rise in the House to speak, I say I am pleased to rise today. However, I must say I am super sad to rise today in the House. I am super sad about the state of our nation. I cannot believe what happened in Montreal on Friday night and the state of events. For those who are watching the debate today, we are still here, two months down the road, talking about the Sustai…
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Madam Speaker, members will notice exactly what is happening here. I am bringing up direct issues that are related to what is happening today, and the Liberals are diverting by talking about what happened in 2014, and what happened way before. My mother used to say that we cannot change the past, we can only change the future. That is why we are calling on the government to produce the papers, to …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague works so hard and gets to the bottom of a lot of these issues. We have heard today, throughout this debate, that the Liberals are saying they have all read the conflict of interest guidelines and that employees have all read the conflict of interest guidelines. However, they simply do not follow them, so it seems to me as though there is a root issue in the culture of t…
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Mr. Speaker, in this debate about the slush fund corruption, the Liberals are always trying to distract with something else. The latest distraction is the two-month temporary tax trick, which everybody knows will not address the root issues facing Canadians. Could the member comment on that, please?
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Madam Speaker, I am surprised the member is not able to find them, because I certainly ranted quite a bit, especially about the Prime Minister's comments on the protesters. He called them a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views” that should not be tolerated. I think that is what he said. I certainly spoke up about that at the time. Once again, we see what the Liberals are doing. They are dist…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank our Conservative deputy leader, the member for Thornhill, for an excellent summary of the corruption, the lack of accountability, the violation of people's charter rights, etc. I know that when common-sense Conservatives become government, we have a plan that is going to stop the crime on our streets and address some of the lack of accountability. Could the member elab…
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Madam Speaker, it certainly appears to me that under the Liberal government, not only has the public sector bloomed by 40%, but the outsourcing and contracting have increased hugely as well. However, I do not know where the people are actually working, because the backlog in immigration is just as long as ever, and there are the same issues in my riding with CBSA's missing resources. I definitely …
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that the member listened to my speech, or at least part of it. That is a good thing. Maybe he missed the many public statements I made during the “freedom convoy” when I said protesters were illegally blocking the roads and it was not acceptable. The rest of it was peaceful, but that was not acceptable. When they blocked the bridges in Sarnia—Lambton, members will find …
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is right. I apologize to sailors and military people, who have to buy their own boots and supplies while the government fills its Liberal insider friends' pockets with millions and millions of dollars, from Frank Baylis and the $172 million for ventilators we never used, to the Minister of International Trade. I could go on and on. I apologize—
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