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Mr. Speaker, our sympathies are with the families of the workers at Imperial Oil. Our actions are with the workers and the management of Kap Paper. They are having meetings with the Minister of Industry and a variety of other government officials today. Our support is four-square behind Algoma Steel, with $400 million between the federal government and the Province of Ontario to build Canada stron…
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Mr. Speaker, it is up to Canada Post and the union to come up with a solution together. However, in this context, Canada Post needs to show a little more flexibility and act in a manner consistent with the recommendations in the Kaplan report.
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Mr. Speaker, the postal service is absolutely an essential service. Canada Post must remain viable. Right now, the situation is difficult. Canada Post is losing $10 million a day. We need to act. Restructuring is needed.
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Mr. Speaker, it is simple. Canadians and Quebeckers have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and it is the Government of Canada's job to defend it.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not even know where to begin, because of all the misrepresentations in the intervention. The person who is putting lives at risk is the Leader of the Opposition, who has voted against every single piece of gun legislation. The Minister of Public Safety is doing it right. He is correcting an inefficient system to provide Canadians with—
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Mr. Speaker, what the government is doing with the gun registry is putting in place a much more efficient way for Canadians to voluntarily return prohibited firearms for fair compensation. The government is going to do it right.
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Mr. Speaker, once again, I have too little time to address all the issues, but let me go back to something the Leader of the Opposition said. He described farmers and duck hunters using AR-15s to hunt. I do not see that in my great province of Alberta. I also know that the Minister of Public Safety and the government are tightening the border with Bill C-2. Will the opposition stand up to support …
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Mr. Speaker, what this government is doing is providing fair compensation for Canadians to return illegal firearms and illegal assault rifles. What this government is doing is proposing the biggest tightening of our border in our nation's history. We want the support of the opposition to make sure that happens.
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Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition has his briefing notes. The RCMP has its experience. The RCMP vets this list and decides for this list what are real guns, what are assault rifles and what should be kept off the streets. That is the process.
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Mr. Speaker, the government is not backing down. We are defending the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With respect to use of the notwithstanding clause, that is a decision for the Supreme Court of Canada to make.
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Mr. Speaker, let me bring the Leader of the Opposition up to speed on taxes. This government cut taxes for 22 million Canadians. This government cut taxes on first-time homebuyers. This government cut the carbon tax.
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Mr. Speaker, what protects Canadians, Quebeckers, men and women, young and old, is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is the Government of Canada's responsibility to defend the charter.
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Mr. Speaker, I am looking forward, with the Minister of Finance, to releasing the budget on November 4. That budget will contain the biggest investment in this country's future in a generation: building homes, building new port infrastructure, new trade corridors and new energy infrastructure, and building the strongest economy in the G7.
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would like to welcome the new pages here to Parliament on behalf of all members. There will be a new government budget on November 4. It will be an investment budget, with the largest investment in Canada in a generation.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the compliment. Yes, I am a leading financial and budget expert. Yes, I am a leading expert, thank you. I know that in the current economic situation here in Canada, the great uncertainty comes from the tariff war. We need to control what we can control, which is investing in Canada's future.
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Mr. Speaker, I know many things. The member opposite, the Leader of the Opposition, just mentioned interest rates. One thing I know is that Canadian interest rates are much lower than American interest rates. They are lower because this country's fiscal situation is strong and because this government has a plan to grow this economy. We will keep doing it.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not recognize that characterization. I just appointed the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and this government does have fiscal anchors. We are going to spend less so the country can invest more. We are going to balance the operational budget in three years. We are going to have a declining level of debt. We are going to do all of that because we are building the strongest economy i…
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Mr. Speaker, with respect to consultations on making the Parliamentary Budget Officer's position permanent, I look forward to speaking to the Leader of the Opposition, the leader of the Bloc Québécois and the leaders of other parties in Parliament so we have a consensus on that appointment. I welcome that opportunity.
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Mr. Speaker, there is the legislative branch and the judicial branch. The decision will be made by the Supreme Court, not by the members of Parliament from Quebec or anywhere else in Canada.
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Mr. Speaker, that is simply not the case. The Supreme Court of Canada will rule on the appropriate use of the notwithstanding clause. It is that straightforward.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the most important responsibilities of the Government of Canada is to defend the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is up to the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether the repeated use of the notwithstanding clause is legal. We will see what the court decides.
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Yes, because this is the new spirit of collaboration that has been put forward by the member opposite.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honour a national hero and a personal idol. Earlier this month, we lost the Hon. Ken Dryden. Ken's story is profoundly Canadian. He was born in Hamilton, grew up in Islington and was the son of a builder and kindergarten teacher. He joined the Islington Hornets in Toronto as a goaltender at the age of seven. He entered the NHL as a player for the Montreal Canadiens 16 …
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Leader of the Opposition was busy. He missed the largest tax cut for 22 million Canadians. He missed the cut on the GST for new homes. He missed our eliminating all federal barriers to trade. I hope I will have another opportunity to finish a very long list of what the Leader of the Opposition missed.
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Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States is a modern man: He has a cell phone. I speak to him on a regular basis and we exchange texts. The most important thing right now for Canada is to diversify our trade relations abroad, with Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
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Mr. Speaker, the current situation is as follows. We have the best agreement in the world with the U.S. Right now, more than 85% of exports to the United States are tariff-free. That is huge. We have the lowest tariffs in the world right now. I call that a success.
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Mr. Speaker, I think if we are going to build the strongest economy in the G7, and we will, we need to be clear about the scale of the crisis we are in. We need to be clear about the scale of investment that we need. There was $60 billion in new projects announced last week, $200 billion in investment announced last week and $100 billion in housing investment announced just yesterday. That is the …
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Mr. Speaker, the government is undertaking the biggest investment in protecting Canadians in the Canadian military, doubling our investment in the Canadian military from last year, when the member last sat in the House, by the end of this decade. There is more.
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Mr. Speaker, the government has been absolutely focused on improving affordability for Canadians. That is why there was the largest tax cut for 22 million Canadians, every taxpayer in this country. That is why we made the cut to the GST. That is why we launched "build Canada homes", which will reduce the cost of homebuilding in this country. That is why we backed the CRTC to get broadband costs do…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada-U.S. relations are good. Yes, we have difficulties, we have challenges, and we have differences of opinion. I am proud of this government. The government stands up for Canada. That is true. I speak with the President on a regular basis, including last weekend, about the current situation in Ukraine, Russia, and China.
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Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with the Leader of the Opposition's feelings and objectives for our great country.
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure I speak for all parliamentarians in welcoming the member for Battle River—Crowfoot back to the House of Commons. He may notice a few things have changed since he was here last: the largest women's caucus in Canadian history and a spirit of collaboration that was shown in the opening session, including in the passage of the Building Canada Act. The House also passed the Bloc …
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to Canada‑U.S. trade, over 90% of our exports to the U.S. are duty‑free. That is a success. We are the only country in the world to have achieved such success. However, we are not satisfied. We need to find markets, and we need to come up with fair arrangements with the Americans for the steel, aluminum and auto industries.
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Mr. Speaker, that is one of the reasons this process needs to be tightened up. The processes take too long for major projects. With confidence, we are going to produce steel and aluminum and create jobs here in Canada, starting this summer.
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Mr. Speaker, the future of both young and older Canadians is one where we are going to build this great country with one Canadian economy.
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Mr. Speaker, there is a difference between average and maximum. The maximum is indeed $840 per year. This is a tax cut for 22 million Canadians. I thank members for supporting this measure.
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud, as Prime Minister, to have made the biggest investment in our military in decades. I am proud to be reversing the decades of cuts from members opposite.
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Mr. Speaker, once again, a tax cut is a cut for those who pay taxes. Twenty-two million Canadians pay taxes in this country. Eighty-six per cent of that tax cut goes to those in the first two tax brackets. For a two-earner family, the maximum tax cut is $840 a year. The members opposite think it is irrelevant, but it is relevant for Canadians; it is building the economy. We are glad they voted for…
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Mr. Speaker, I recognize that the job of prime minister comes with many responsibilities; I did not know addition and division were one of them. The Parliamentary Budget Officer refers to the reductions for all Canadians. The vote on which the members opposite supported the government delivers a tax cut for the 22 million Canadians who pay taxes and drive this country forward.
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Mr. Speaker, there is a direct link to the steel and aluminum industry. There are surpluses because of the U.S. tariff war. Bill C-5 will create demand for Canadian steel and aluminum to build major infrastructure in Quebec and across Canada for good jobs.
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Mr. Speaker, unlike the member opposite, I am proud of having experience in the private sector. I am proud of having experience helping to build this country. I am proud of having filed all my requirements in advance, before required, including a screen for conflict of interest.
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