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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, 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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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. Chair, to reduce our dependency on the U.S., we have to export our oil. In order to do that, we have to increase production. We cannot do that because there is an emissions cap, which is really a production cap. Will the minister repeal the emissions cap?
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Mr. Chair, Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong is home to three refineries, multiple plastics facilities and major energy infrastructure, so my questions will pertain to that. Since the no more pipelines bill, Bill C-69, was put in place, Canada has cancelled 16 major energy projects, resulting in a $176-billion hit to our economy. Will the minister repeal Bill C-69?
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Mr. Chair, the one Canadian economy act allows the government to choose which projects will be exempted from Bill C-69 and the non-competitive industrial carbon tax. If the government is going to exempt some projects, why not exempt them all?
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Mr. Chair, how much money and how many people will be hired in the new major projects office?
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Mr. Chair, let us talk about plastics. My riding has multiple plastics factories. The former radical environment minister tried to have plastics classified as toxic and tried to eliminate single-use plastics in food packaging, which would drive the cost of groceries even higher. Will the minister stop the war on plastics?
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Mr. Chair, no proponent will come forward if they do not get an exemption to Bill C-69, the uncompetitive industrial carbon tax and the emissions cap. On the emissions cap, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said that it will reduce nominal GDP by almost $21 billion and kill almost 55,000 full-time jobs. Will the minister repeal the emissions cap?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree with the projections of the Canada Energy Regulator that the demand for electricity will double by 2050?
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Mr. Chair, the government got sued by plastics producers, and the courts agreed that plastics are not toxic. It is a natural resource, and there are multiple plants in my riding. Will the minister stop the war on plastics?
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Mr. Chair, Ontario Power has been given a mandate by the province to build electrical capacity in the former Lambton generating station in my riding to address the gap. Will the minister commit to federal support and to fast-track using the new one Canadian economy act to accelerate that project?
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Mr. Chair, single-use plastics are important for things like medical supplies and disaster response. Will the minister protect the use of plastics for single use?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister repeal Bill C-69, the emissions cap and the uncompetitive industrial carbon tax so that proponents will actually come forward to—
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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, 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 talk about an issue that arose during the last election. The Prime Minister tried to buy the votes of Canadians with the carbon tax rebate. He tried to influence the media. For example, he announced over $150 million for the CBC. I think that there has to be consequences for doing such a thing. What does the member think?
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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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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, yesterday, our motion to have the government table a budget this spring was passed in this House. The Liberals wanted us to approve $486 billion of spending with no plan, and $20 billion in revenue was supposed to come from the elbows-up countertariffs. However, secretly, during the election, the Prime Minister and cabinet signed an order to cancel them while telling Canadians they we…
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Mr. Speaker, first let me say how delightful it is to see you in the chair, and I would like to congratulate the member for her maiden speech. The throne speech had a lot of things in it that sound good. This has been the problem with the last decade of the Liberals, that they say one thing and do another, leading to some of the highest inflation we have ever seen, people in the longest lines at f…
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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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Madam Speaker, this is super disappointing. When the Liberal government got elected, it said the nation—
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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, 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 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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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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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, 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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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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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 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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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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Mr. Speaker, 'Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the House Nothing was moving, not even a mouse. The slush fund had given the money away To Liberal insiders who all got the pay. Four hundred million went right out the door, And the papers we need might even show more. But Liberals will not put those docs in the mail, Because someone is certainly going to jail. The ministers who owned…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for London-Fanshawe for standing up against the corruption of the Liberal government, but it seems to me that it is moving past corruption into criminality. Subsection 119(1) of the Criminal Code says that anyone who holds public office cannot take an action that benefits themselves, but we know the Prime Minister did so in the WE Charity scandal. The Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am not sure if we have quorum.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for all of his hard work. He discussed in his speech that there was an issue with CRA and a small business, and it withheld funds for a really long time. I have the same thing happening in my riding with a small business owed $90,000. For no reason, it has been withheld. The Liberals seem to have a lot of time to give their friends money and get into…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader spends most of the time in his speeches casting aspersions on this side of the aisle and pointing fingers. However, on his side of the aisle there is the cabinet Minister of Public Safety, who was involved in a $25-million clam scam; the Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, who has had tw…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has referred to sending this to committee. He knows quite well that if it goes to committee, the Liberals will filibuster to never turn over the documents. The member talked about the RCMP and his concerns about sending documents to the RCMP staff. I have listened to them swear their oath, where they have to keep everything that they come across in their investigations conf…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to correct some of the misinformation in the member's speech first, and then I will ask my question. He is maintaining that it is the Conservatives who are keeping government legislation from coming forward, when, in fact, it was the Speaker's ruling that, until the government produces the unredacted documents, no government business or private members' business will come…
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Madam Speaker, I have been hearing a lot of outrage in my riding about the green slush fund. Normally, a lot of people do not pay attention to politics. These scandals come and go, and people do not always know about them. However, I am hearing outrage, and the government, as this has gone on longer and longer, is not doing anything to produce the papers. What is the member hearing in his riding?
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