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Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question, but police agencies right across the country have been asking the government for bail reform, when the government has destroyed the justice system. The minister was in the last government, which did exactly that. The Liberals have heard from police associations and from mayors across the country, and they did nothing. They say that it is coming tomorrow, b…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague comes from the community where Mr. Farooqi was from. He stood with Conservatives during a press conference, calling for the very things that the Liberals have broken. This has gone on far too long for far too many families. They do not have to directly be a victim of violent crime. It changes the way that people live. It changes their behaviour. It changes the fact that…
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Madam Speaker, the member well knows, and I am sure it would not be news to the members on the other side, that provincial judges interpret federal laws right out of the Criminal Code. That is how it works. However, today we are talking about the very fact that the Liberals have let crime, chaos, drugs, disorder, a crisis in our immigration system, a crisis in our housing system and a crisis in th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians that they should judge him by the prices they pay at the grocery store, but food inflation is 70% above target. The grocery prices are up 40% in less than a decade, and all of those years, the Liberals were in power. The cost of food has risen overall more than inflation every single month that the Prime Minister has been here. Canadians should judge …
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary admitted one thing that I agree with, which is that Canada is facing a housing crisis, which her colleagues and the Minister she is here for actually juiced with 141% more taxes. They talk and talk, and there is no action, which is exactly what happened before. I am not sure what it is about a technocratic central banker that always has them building a new …
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Mr. Speaker, we are back in the House after what seems to be a long summer vacation for the Liberal government. We still have a youth unemployment crisis, which got worse. We have chaos in our immigration system, which got worse. We have crime and lawlessness in our streets, which got worse. The Prime Minister promised Canadians a new direction, a change in leadership, whatever it was. Instead, th…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister cannot ignore the problem of millions of Canadians using a food bank every single month. That has not changed. It happened under the Liberal government's watch. Now the Liberals are making excuses or changing the subject entirely. Canadians are getting fleeced at the grocery store, and it is only going to get worse, because next year their bill will be $700 higher per fam…
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Mr. Speaker, the Iranian regime is collapsing and its thugs are already eyeing Canada. After 10 years of weak Liberal national security laws, this country has become a safe haven for IRGC terrorists. Hundreds live here. They operate here, they fundraise here, they intimidate Canadians here and they do it all without consequence. I will ask the minister this: How many more terrorists have to come t…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member knows that the answer is no, of course. The question has, frankly, nothing to do with what we are talking about here. The very idea that we could have a targeted approach for those who claim to be Canadian citizens, who have no connection or substantial connection to this place, and who are adults who want to enjoy the responsibility of Canadian citizenship, is what we…
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Mr. Speaker, I thought that we were going to have a serious conversation about the bill. Maybe the member has not read it. I assure members that Pierre Poilievre will seek the support and trust of the people of Battle River—Crowfoot, a place where he grew up, a place where he was born and a place where he was raised . I look forward to his bashing down that member when he is back in September.
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Mr. Speaker, I think that my hon. colleague from this side has spent exponentially more time looking at the immigration minister's website than the actual Minister of Immigration, who does not know the numbers and does not know the issues. The very fact that the Liberals have had seven ministers in 10 years should tell us everything we need to know about how seriously the government takes the issu…
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Mr. Speaker, first and foremost, it would be giving Canadians the confidence of an immigration minister who can answer a single question in the House, who knows a single thing about her portfolio or who has even read the bill that she has presented in the House. That would be the first thing to engender confidence in an immigration system that the government has broken over the last 10 years. We u…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to split my time. This might be a new Parliament and a new Prime Minister, but we are tackling the same old problems with the exact same fraught solutions, and we have heard a lot about that today. What is worse is that the Liberal government cannot even admit the failures that every single Canadian now, no matter whom they voted for, can see exist. I am going to cut right …
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Mr. Speaker, nobody is denying that there are times when there is a choice to drive an electric car or denying the people making that choice. There is nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is the government mandating that everybody drive an electric car instead of a gas-powered car rather than giving them the choice. The decision has to make economic sense. It has to make sense for the driver and…
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moved: That, given that the Liberal government is banning the sale of gaspowered vehicles that will force Canadians to buy electric vehicles, and this mandate will drive up the cost of vehicles by $20,000, in order to allow Canadians the choice to purchase any vehicle that meets their needs at a price they can afford, the House calls on the Liberal government to immediately end their ban on gas-po…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to split my time. I rise today in support of the Conservative motion in opposition to the government's authoritarian, misguided and altogether nonsensical ban on gas-powered vehicles. A ban on gas-powered vehicles sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory or something straight out of a science fiction novel, but it is real stuff. It is happening right now, and the Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, Doug Ford has had no influence on the member in the insane decision of mandating electric vehicles for people to drive. There is a $31-billion government investment that is going to vanish in this country. Jobs will vanish in this country. Members should tell that to the 38,000 auto workers who will be out of a job and the 56,000 auto workers whose jobs are at risk today. If he wants …
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Mr. Speaker, from the beginning, it has made absolutely no sense for the government to want to tie itself to the EV mandate for the next nine years until it does some weird mental gymnastics and backs out of the very central piece of its policy. It is the very fact that Canadians cannot choose. It does not make economic sense, particularly in that member's riding, for anybody to drive an EV. It ta…
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Mr. Speaker, I am certainly not going to take lessons from that member and his party, which supported the previous government all the way through only to sit with seven people in opposition. Here is the point: We cannot force people to do something against their economic interests. That is what we will stand for every day in the House.
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Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I am a bit skeptical of the housing minister, who increased the price of housing by 179% in just eight years in Vancouver. The Liberals broke housing. They fuelled inflation, which drove up rates. They rewarded those who blocked housing construction. They supercharged immigration numbers, which outpaced the availability of housing. The housing minister says we need affor…
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Mr. Speaker, the housing minister, who increased building taxes by 141% the last time he had a chance, should be aware that the Oxford Economics global cities index found that residents of Toronto spend more of their income on housing than any other city in the world. However, the man in charge of housing does not think that is a problem. He says that housing prices should not go down, period. If …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the fall economic statement confirmed what the former finance minister, the Parliamentary Budget Officer and The Globe and Mail already told us, that the weak and now wounded Prime Minister hijacked the statement to drive Canada through the fiscal guardrail and over a cliff. There is $62 billion in overspending. This is 50% higher than their own target set just months ago. …
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Mr. Speaker, of the Liberal ministers who still remain, not a single one would stick around yesterday to even defend the statement. They dropped it here and then ran out the door. This is $62 billion of new debt and new inflationary spending for Canadians to pay on their grocery bills, on their home heating and on everything else. This is equivalent to spending a dollar every second for nearly 2,0…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control. The Prime Minister's own deputy quit just hours before her economic statement, all of a sudden saying Canadians “know when we are focused on ourselves” and describing a new-found disdain for “costly political gimmicks”. Those are her quotes. This is after her own political rival, Mark Carney, wrote the fall economic statement full of things she did…
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Mr. Speaker, they cannot even stand by each other. Hours before delivering the fiscal update, the former finance minister resigned. She lost confidence in the Prime Minister. Last night, the failed housing minister and the worst former immigration minister in the history of this country also resigned. There were a couple of Randys, and now they are up to nine ministers who need to be replaced. The…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the finance minister who said over and over again that she would not go over her self-imposed guardrail of a $40-billion deficit. Now the Parliamentary Budget Officer says that is yet another broken Liberal promise. We have no idea who is in the driver's seat anymore, driving Canadians through that $40-billion guardrail and off a cliff as they pay more in inflationary spending o…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that the Prime Minister has lost control of spending, and now we see that he has lost control of his own minister. We have a finance minister who will not tell us what the deficit is and a prime minister who does not think about monetary policy. That seems like a match made in heaven, but then again, maybe not. The Globe and Mail reports that “tensions have risen” between the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is so awkward. I do not know why the finance minister takes all of this abuse from the Prime Minister. She told Canadians that the deficit would not go past $40 billion. That was her own self-imposed guardrail. Now she says everything is fine, as her political career collapses and so does her credibility, all because of the Prime Minister. Five senior Liberal veterans and three pol…
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Madam Speaker, nobody is confused about any of the hypocrisy here. What they are confused about is the hypocrisy from the NDP, which continues to vote with the Liberal government to raise taxes for all Canadians on everything. Our solution is pretty simple. We are going to take the tax off of everything, for good, for everyone. The member from the NDP can go back to her people and have a carbon ta…
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Madam Speaker, I am glad that the member opposite is concerned about my career trajectory, but I am not going to take lessons from him. What I will say is that, for $89 billion in an accelerator fund on housing, the government has doubled the price of a home in 10 years, doubled the price of rent and doubled the price of a mortgage everywhere right across the country. That is awesome.
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With regard to the government's listing of certain organizations as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code: (a) why hasn't the government listed the Houthis as a terrorist entity; (b) what specific criteria are not met or what other reason is the government using to justify their decision to not list the Houthis as a terrorist entity; and (c) does the government plan on listing the Houthis as …
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Madam Speaker, first of all, the member should remember that the accelerator builds exactly zero homes, and that is an admission by the Liberals' own housing minister. The second thing I would ask him is this: What kind of city takes $470 million from the federal government only to see housing starts fall by 40% and development costs go up by 42%? We believe that money belongs in the pockets of Ca…
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moved: That, given that, after nine years of this Liberal Prime Minister, (i) monthly rent and mortgages payments have doubled, (ii) the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) finds that Canada has the most unaffordable housing market in the G7, and the second most unaffordable in the entire OECD, (iii) Habitat for Humanity finds that almost one-third of Canadian millennials…
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Madam Speaker, what we are talking about here is taking the tax off of homes under $1 million for individuals right across the country. Not only will that spur a tremendous amount of housing construction around the country, which this government has failed to do. It has seen housing starts right across the country go down in municipalities in which it has pumped millions and millions of dollars, a…
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With regard to the government's listing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code effective on June 19, 2024: what specific action has the government taken since the listing to shut down IRGC operations in Canada, including details and values of any assets seized to date from the IRGC, and details of any charges laid or other legal action taken t…
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With regard to the government's listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code: what specific action, if any, has the government taken since the listing to shut down Samidoun operations in Canada, including details and values of any assets seized to date from Samidoun, and details of any charges laid or other legal action taken to date against those who are aiding Samidoun in Ca…
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Madam Speaker, I am talking about a serious issue where the security of members and the breach of privilege of members of the House would have occurred. I have given multiple examples of different rulings from multiple different reports within the procedure and House affairs committee. I am stating them in order to provide you with the maximum context for you to rule on this question of privilege,…
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Madam Speaker, there is snow on the ground. It is pretty cold in the capital and Canadians from coast to coast are putting up Christmas trees, but the finance minister is stuck in fantasyland. Somehow, she still thinks it is fall. She is weeks behind on delivering the fall economic statement to the House and to Canadians. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says that the minister blew past her defici…
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Madam Speaker, I have spoken for just a couple of moments to give members context, and I will not be silenced by that member about the personal safety of members of the House and his toxic masculinity in here, the thing he accuses others of doing. I am going to continue on this context because it is important. It is not only my privilege that is breached, but it is everybody who has an office in t…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on the question of privilege that I rose on earlier. It is about the occupation that took place in the Confederation Building this week. You may have heard by now, Madam Speaker, that a group of 100 protesters, in an orchestrated and coordinated fashion, entered the Confederation Building and undertook an occupation of it. While the events occurred on Tuesday, it is in t…
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Madam Speaker, Conservatives on this side of the House stand in solidarity with all of the victims' families on this tragic day. My question, however, was about the finance minister and the fact that she is hiding today. She has not hidden the fact that she has doubled Canada's debt. She gave us the highest inflation in 40 years, and she delivered the lowest projected growth of any advanced econom…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege I gave you notice of more than an hour ago—
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Mr. Speaker, I left off talking about two reports of the committee, the 34th reports, one presented in 2015 and the other one in 2017. In response to the 2015 question of privilege in which concerns were raised about whether a 74-second delay of a shuttle bus rose to the level of a prima facie breach of privilege, one of your predecessors ruled, on May 12, 2015, at page 1379 of the Debates: In thi…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to, but I understand why the NDP does not want to hear about a breach of privilege that its members were involved in. I am going to continue. This breach of privilege certainly does not include indefinitely occupying a building where MPs were blocked, as tough it were business as usual. I will close by saying that, the protest in itself, I would submit, is a contempt of the…
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Madam Speaker, I have a continuing point of order. The Standing Orders state that you should hear a question of privilege if I have given you the appropriate notice. I gave you that appropriate notice this morning, more than an hour ago, and the House should hear a question of privilege, particularly to do with—
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Madam Speaker, if the member wants to put his money where his mouth is, he should call a carbon tax election and let Canadians decide. The finance minister is going to have to find another job after the next election. Maybe she will find out that we cannot turn in overdue work. It is something we learn in grade school, but she must have skipped that day. The government has lost control of our bord…
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Mr. Speaker, they have been in government for nine years. They have known for years that immigration was out of control. They knew for years that asylum claims were out of control. They knew for years that our border was broken. None of what President-elect Trump has been campaigning on was a secret. The Prime Minister even threw that minister under the bus for his incompetence in immigration. If …
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Mr. Speaker, in a few short years, the Prime Minister has lost control of the deficit, of immigration and of our border. He gave us a 2,500% increase in the number of unprocessed refugee claims and he still thinks three million temporary residents are going to leave this country voluntarily. Canada is staring down the barrel at 25% tariffs thanks to his open border policies, his free drugs for eve…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housing, added an inflationary carbon tax to everything Canadians buy and given us the highest levels of debt in the G7, his plan is a temporary, tiny, two-month tax trick. However, not even small businesses are fooled. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says that only 4% of small businesses expect a sales boost because of …
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Mr. Speaker, it is not a tax cut; it is a distraction before a much bigger, permanent tax hike. Even the Prime Minister's own Liberal MPs are now opposing this. The member for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek says that he was threatened with “consequences” if he voted against it. Rather than threatening his own MPs, muzzling them like he has accused others of doing, we have a weakened Prime Minister, te…
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