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Mr. Speaker, the voice of freedom is rising as the brave warriors roar like lions and shine like the sun, determined to reclaim their country and topple the murderous regime in Iran. Sometimes that voice is loud, as it was when 150,000 people filled the streets of Toronto demanding justice, accountability and human rights in the birthplace of modern civilization. Sometimes it is quieter, whispered…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think the minister grasps the irony of today. In 2023, that same finance minister promised that he would bring price stability to Canadians. He summoned the grocery CEOs to Ottawa, promised competition and affordability, and then delivered two more years of whatever that was. Now in Canada, we have the highest food inflation in the G7 and over two million people are lined up …
Read full speech →Mr. Speaker, if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: That, notwithstanding any standing order or usual practice of the House, at the conclusion of the time provided for Government Orders later this day, Bill C-19, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, be deemed read a second time on division and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance, the committee shall meet…
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Mr. Speaker, today is Groundhog Day and, right on cue, the government is back with the same recycled ideas on grocery prices. The Liberals promised a grocery rebate years ago, and food bank lines got longer. They spent years talking about affordability, and prices kept climbing. The Liberals promised action, but after all of that bluster, groceries will cost a family of four more than $1,000 extra…
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Madam Speaker, it is good to be back in this place after some time away, at home in the community, time made longer by the government that took an extended break from doing what Canadians expected, which is what we are here to talk about. I do wish you a happy new year, Madam Speaker, but I cannot say the same for all Canadians, who over the past number of weeks have watched what is becoming known…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is right; we do see the announcements. We just do not see the action. The minister is very good at running up the word count but terrible at filling in the details. The Prime Minister says he wants to build, and that is good. We agree, so we have done the heavy lifting for him. We put a plan right here in the House of Commons: Repeal the laws that block development, reward …
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Madam Speaker, I will extend wishes to my friend across the aisle for a happy new year and wish a happy new year to her constituents. When it comes to Canada's voice on the world stage, there is no question that over the last decade, we have lost the moral authority. We have let terror cells create a home, laundering money in our own country and intimidating our own citizens. We have lost our prin…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to remind all those watching at home that it is this member who sat in that seat for 10 years and completely reversed himself after the election, instilling the policies that, yes, we ran on in the last campaign. We are asking him to go a little further and, instead of talking about them at a podium, to actually get them done for Canadians. Canadians are waiting, and th…
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Madam Speaker, I want to remind the member that this country has what everybody wants. Beneath the ground, we have critical minerals and oil and gas. We also have the smartest people in the world to get that out, but we have a government standing in the way of all of that. Yes, I would like Canada to be more resilient and sovereign. The best way to do that is to give the world what God gave us.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister now has sweeping powers to approve major projects, powers made possible with the help of Conservatives on this side of the House, and yet with all that authority and all those promises, there is nothing done. There is no progress on resources, no pipelines and no action on internal trade barriers. The formula is not complicated; when Canada builds more and exports m…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell the member that the agreement was signed despite the Prime Minister, not because of him. I would also like to remind the Prime Minister that Toronto food banks got over four million visits last year. They are going to get even more when the price of groceries rises $1,000 per family next year. Will the government kill the industrial carbon tax, the packaging tax and the ne…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday we found out the Prime Minister spent almost $800,000 on a one-day taxpayer escape to Egypt to take a photo and not sign an agreement. Struggling Canadians are lining up at food banks and skipping meals, while the Prime Minister takes their money and skips town. We know it is second nature for the Prime Minister to live large on other people's dime, but can he at least stand…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of petitioners who want this place to know that Hindus in Bangladesh have faced escalating violence, including arson, mob attacks, sexual assault, temple demolitions and forced displacement. There have been over 2,000 incidents in 2024 alone. I want the petitioners to know their voices have certainly been heard here, that the voices of the oppressed are amplified, and…
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Mr. Speaker, after a decade in power, by saying “let Ottawa feed people's kids”, the Liberals have already admitted their failure. Let me put it in context for the minister. The number of people using a food bank in Toronto alone could fill the Rogers Centre eight times every single month. With the average grocery bill set to rise by $1,000 next year, the government's $11-a-year tax cut to those w…
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Mr. Speaker, I think it is safe to say, after all of that, that the Prime Minister regrets telling Canadians that he is going to be judged by the prices at the grocery store because these prices are skyrocketing, and it is only getting worse. Now one in 10 people in Toronto are using a food bank and even full-time job holders have to use one. Instead of getting full carts at the grocery store, Can…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister needs to get her stories straight. There was $400 million given to executives at Algoma Steel, but there was zero for the people who actually make the steel. That means that a thousand people are out in the cold at Christmas. Nobody over there has a reasonable explanation for this deal, and this is not the first time that this megadollar mess has been caused. The Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government handed Algoma Steel $400 million and got zero Canadian jobs in return. Now 1,000 workers in Sault Ste. Marie are getting pink slips just weeks before Christmas. Worst, the Liberals knew about these layoffs, and they wrote them the cheque anyway. They looked steelworkers in the eye and promised to fight for them. The promise turned out to be a $400-million lie, a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that we would never support any of the policies that doubled home prices over the last decade. However, families are not just leaving Toronto because it is expensive. They are leaving because it is dangerous. We have needles in parks and crack pipes on the subway, and everybody is just supposed to pretend that all of this is normal. Does the government understand that publ…
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Mr. Speaker, once upon a time in Canada, one could work hard, earn a decent living and build a better life. In the decade of Liberal policy, that bargain has been blown to pieces. A CTV report this weekend showed that even families earning $200,000 are being driven out of Toronto because they cannot afford a basement rental, a home or anything else. Last year, 35,000 households fled the GTA, not b…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, Canadians are finding out that the Prime Minister is all sizzle and no steak. It turns out that his big pipeline announcement will not actually build a pipeline. He is going to have a meeting to set up a plan and then sign a piece of paper that talks about maybe one day putting shovels in the ground. Now he is handing veto power to the NDP in British Columbia, allowing it …
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Mr. Speaker, that was not the Liberals' answer yesterday. In fact, that is not what the government said at all when it gave B.C. the veto in this House. Maybe the Liberals need to brush up on the Constitution, because section 92 explicitly gives them the power to build pipelines, whether David Eby likes it or not. He also got the legal authority from this House when the Liberals asked us to pass B…
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Mr. Speaker, it is another day and another grim headline confirming what Canadians already know: Ten years of Liberal economics have driven this country to the brink. In the GTA, 85% say that, now, it is too expensive to live and work in their own communities, and they are right. The Liberals doubled the debt, maxed out the national credit card and handed Canadians a bill through inflation and cru…
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Mr. Speaker, the member talks as if the government's money belongs to him. Every dollar the Liberals spend comes right out of the pockets of Canadians. To the 85% in the GTA who cannot afford life, the Liberals call these taxes imaginary. They are not imaginary when people are staring at their own credit card bill. The government's job is to listen to Canadians, not lecture them, gaslight them or …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is in complete denial. He sent $8 million to Vietnam to create gender-just rice. What even is that? The endless cycle of deficits, of taxes and of inflation has crushed families, crushed young people and crushed workers, and the Liberals' arrogance blinds them to the damage that they themselves have done. If the Liberals want to pass a budget, it is simple: stop the reckl…
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With regard to expenditures incurred by the government related to relocation or moving expenses for staff members of the Office of the Prime Minister, since March 14, 2025: (a) how many staff members had relocation or moving expenses which were covered by the government; and (b) what is the total value of such expenditures to date?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has blown billions on consultants, on foreign aid vanity projects and on a $1-billion legal gun grab that the Liberals themselves have admitted will not work. The result has been higher taxes, higher prices, a higher cost of living and an entire generation of young people who do not believe they will ever do better than their parents. Canadians are cutting back,…
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Mr. Speaker, if any of those programs worked, there would not be over 700,000 kids in line at food banks. Make food cheaper. Instead, the Liberals doubled the deficit and sent food bank usage up 360% in five years in Toronto. Students make up a quarter of those visits to food banks. Just last week, the Prime Minister lectured them all about making sacrifices. Well, they have already sacrificed hom…
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Mr. Speaker, the Daily Bread Food Bank and the North York Harvest Food Bank in Toronto just released their annual report. It is called “Who's Hungry”, and it seems like the answer to that question is “nearly everyone”. There have been 2.2 million visits in a single month. It took decades to hit one million and only half a decade under the Liberals to double it to more than two million. It found th…
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Mr. Speaker, we all know the Prime Minister does not shop for his own groceries, so maybe someone over there should tell him what is going on with food prices. Food inflation has now reached the highest level since 2023. With fruits, vegetables, meat and even Halloween candy, everything is getting more expensive, and it is rising faster, not slower. The cost of living is soaring because the cost o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal minister sat here for 10 years while people lined up at food banks. Is that what she has to say? Runaway Liberal deficits doubled grocery prices. Now the same people who caused the crisis think the solution is just to spend more of other people's money. It is not just Liberal deficits driving up food costs. They voted against removing every hidden food tax that they themse…
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Madam Speaker, let me first just say that it is an honour and a privilege to formally second this bill, which has been presented by my friend, the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola. We all come to this place to leave our mark and make a difference. I think this piece of legislation is one of the ways there could be a measurable outcome. This bill would certainly do all of that. I strongly suppor…
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moved: That, given that, (i) in 2015 the Liberals promised that deficit spending would fuel investment, yet investment per worker fell by 10.8%, (ii) Liberal deficits fueled inflation and drove up interest rates, while Canada had the worst economic growth per capita in the G7, (iii) the current Liberal Prime Minister is following the same plan and is already yielding the same results, with 86,000 …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are right that Canadian pride unites us. They can tell that to the Prime Minister, who moved his company out to New York because he realized his own policies would hurt the investors who invested in that company. They can tell the Prime Minister, who does not pay his taxes in Canada, about national pride. They can tell all they want to the worker in Oshawa who just lost h…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that my hon. colleague is finally seeing the light on what the government is putting forward. The Conservatives have said time and again that we have to build the Canadian economy with Canadian workers and Canadian investment here, with things like getting rid of the oil and gas cap so the pipeline that was potentially approved 10 years ago, which is back on the table, ca…
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Mr. Speaker, I will say this: The Prime Minister stood in front of Canadians at a time of crisis and asked them for their support. He promised them that he was going to be the guy in the crisis to negotiate a deal. Since he became Prime Minister, as I will remind the House over and over again, $54 billion of net investment has fled south. He is promising to make that $1 trillion without the promis…
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Mr. Speaker, with that kind of answer, if someone who measures their wealth by a stock index, that is their guy, but if it comes from a paycheque, they are his sacrifice. Canadians trusted the Prime Minister to fight for their jobs and to fight for their paycheques. Months after he vowed to get a deal, there is still none. There are 86,000 fewer Canadians working. He doubled the deficit at home; $…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister assured Canadians that he would secure a victory, but there is none. The tariffs he said he would get rid of have actually doubled. He is now promising to ship a trillion dollars of investment to the U.S. with nothing in return. That is not a strategy. It is a clearance sale on Canadian jobs, paper mills in B.C. closing while Washington state cuts the ribbon, factor…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the news coming out of the White House today for many Canadians. Canadians put their faith in the Prime Minister because they believed that he would fight for them, for their jobs, for their paycheques and for their families. However, these were false promises. Months after he promised a deal, we still have no deal. Instead, we have the fastest-shrinking G7 economy, we have 86…
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Mr. Speaker, none of that is working, because 86,000 Canadians are out of a job today. The Liberals must know that this is not about politics; it is about people, people who believed the Prime Minister when he said he would stand up for them. He danced around with his elbows in the sky, and he promised every Canadian that he would fight. This is about workers who have seen their shifts cut, their …
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar that the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians in Liberal taxes and inflation. The Prime Minister should know this. He calls himself a great economist, but he is going to spend over 60% more than even Justin Trudeau did. Parliament's independent fiscal watchdog says it is “alarming”, it is “stupefying”, it is “shocking” and it is “unsustainable”. He …
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Liberal member who in 2015 promised that massive deficits were investments, but it was all a bait and switch, because investment collapsed while debt went through the roof. However, instead of sobering up from the debt binge that they have been on, the Liberals are just going to keep spending more money in a forever hangover. That means higher taxes and higher inflation for …
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Mr. Speaker, for once in this place, we can all agree on something. Congratulations to the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays for clinching the division. They stand tall as champions of the American league. Clinching the division is not just baseball. It is also a public service. Now the rest of Canada can stop doing playoff math like deranged accountants in the most stressful reality show there is. The Jays …
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Mr. Speaker, what do we call a person who says one thing in public but admits the exact opposite in private? Most Canadians have their own word for it, but around here in this place, we just call them a Liberal. The public safety minister admits that his government's gun buyback is a politically motivated scam that will not work. Those are his words. He is letting convicted criminals roam the stre…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a lot of bravado, and we are hearing the exact opposite when he thinks nobody is listening. The minister got caught in a scandal of his own making, and it is so painful for everyone here to watch him pretend like everything is fine. He is going to go ahead and spend $750 million on a confiscation program that he admitted no one will participate in and will not work. That is fe…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal soft-on-crime policy, violent crime is up 50%, sexual assault is up 75%, and gun crime is up 116%. Just about everybody in this country is demanding bail reform, yet the Liberals block it at every turn. Every single day that they delay, more rapists, gangsters and repeat offenders are dumped back on our streets to victimize innocent Canadians. Why are the Lib…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister voted for all the things to break our system. The now public safety minister actually said during the election that bail was not a problem, and the justice minister who just answered my question ridiculed Canadians with his Twitter hot takes. After years of headlines about violent offenders released again and again in our streets, the Liberals are obstructing a real solut…
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Mr. Speaker, only in Liberal land do we solve the housing crisis by blowing $13 billion on a fourth bureaucracy after the first three already failed. Those numbers are right. Who is leading the master plan? It is the former mayor of Vancouver. He doubled rents and jacked up home prices by 150%. Just to make the circus more complete, he handed a key role to his buddy from Toronto, the same person w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised Canadians that he would build 500,000 homes a year, doubling housing starts. Instead, housing starts are down 16%, and his $13-billion brand new bureaucracy might someday, maybe, build a grand total of 4,000 homes. That is 1.6% of what we already build. It is a rounding error. Is this really the government's housing strategy: to hope that Canadians do not k…
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Madam Speaker, I welcome the member back for his second term. He should know that the federal Criminal Code is administered out of this place, and that is what we are talking about. We are talking about things like Bill C-5 and Bill C-75, which take the onerous provision out and allow weak bail. We are talking about this in light of Bill C-2, because they have allowed chaos in our streets. We will…
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Mr. Speaker, we are back today, again, to do something we do a lot of in this place, which is cleaning up yet another mess that the Liberal government, the government for the last 10 years, has created. This time we are tackling a broken border security regime that lets guns, drugs and criminals flow across the border with absolutely no consequences. When we tie that together with an equally broke…
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