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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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, to those who know what is at stake with the nuclear Iran and to the Iranian people, they should remember who they are; not the hunted, the lion; not the silenced, but the rising sun. The time has come, fierce in spirit and brilliant in purpose, to reclaim their homeland and fulfill the ancient promise of Cyrus and the legacy of civilization over barbarism. Let this be the hour when th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is at the G7 today surrounded by allies in the largest oil-producing province in the federation, but thanks to the Liberal government, the oil and gas products they are demanding are still in the ground instead of powering our economy and Canadian paycheques. We have laws blocking extraction, a cap that halts production, a shipping ban that stops it from leaving and…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the problem. As the G7 begins, the world may find out what Canadians have known for years: The Liberal laws still in place make it nearly impossible to get anything built. The Prime Minister's solution is not to fix the problem. Instead, he wants to give hall passes to the very few favoured VIPs to skip the line while everyone else waits. Bill C-69, the emissions cap, the ship…
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General's new report on housing shows just how badly the government has failed Canadians. Since 2018, the government has spent over $300 million to fund a new bureaucracy called the federal lands initiative. It built 309 units. That is fewer than 50 units a year. That is over a million bucks a unit. Now the Prime Minister says he is going to create another bureaucracy to d…
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Mr. Speaker, if we accept the findings and do the exact same thing, Canadians who need a place to live are the ones who end up paying the price. The federal lands initiative, the crown jewel of the government's agenda on building housing, has attained just 7% of its target. The people in charge of that initiative are now the justice minister and the finance minister. They actually got promoted. In…
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Mr. Chair, does the minister of immigration understand her job?
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Mr. Chair, can the minister tell me what colour my shirt is?
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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, 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. Chair, the government committed to letting hundreds of thousands of immigrants into Canada. How many of these people will be allowed to come here without comprehensive vetting and interviews?
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Mr. Chair, I am going to split my time three ways. Does the minister know what the average time is for vetting each person admitted to Canada for security risks?
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Mr. Chair, these are immigration questions. The minister decides who comes into Canada. Does she believe that non-permanent residents who have been convicted of a criminal offence should be deported, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, what is the average time spent vetting each immigrant who comes here for security risks?
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Mr. Chair, can the minister tell anybody in this House about any part of the process of vetting immigrants for security risks in Canada?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister think the amount of time spent on vetting Muhammad Khan, who was the student arrested last year for plotting an ISIS attack in New York whose social media had extremist content, was sufficient?
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Mr. Chair, maybe the minister is not familiar with how much time it takes to vet, but is she confident with the amount of vetting that takes place to keep Canadians safe? It is a yes-or-no question.
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Mr. Chair, does the minister believe that non-permanent residents should be deported if they are charged with and convicted of a criminal offence?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister capable of answering a simple question?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is responsible for vetting and letting in Canadians. Does she think that sufficient time was spent on vetting him?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister confident that the amount of time spent on vetting immigrants before they come to Canada, for security risk, is sufficient to keep Canadians safe, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, Ahmed Eldidi was the 2008 Syrian refugee who was charged in 2024 after appearing in an ISIS torture video, which was missed by initial screenings by this government. Did the Liberal government spend enough time vetting him? Just a simple yes or no.
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Mr. Chair, is the minister confident that the time spent on vetting immigrants is sufficient to keep Canadians safe?
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Mr. Speaker, “Canadians will hold account by their experience at the grocery store” are the words of the Prime Minister, so let us see what the new stats say about his performance. Since the start of 2025, the price of rice has gone up 14%, the price of potatoes is up 13%, the price of infant formula is up 9% and beef is up a whopping 33%. By that measure, he is failing miserably. The Prime Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, every Canadian family now pays $1,400 more for government consultants, but let us go back to groceries. The Prime Minister might not know this, but when Canadians go to the grocery store and leave with two bags, they are oftentimes more than $100, and it is getting worse. Again, on behalf of the millions of Canadians who are waiting for a plan to tackle food inflation, will the govern…
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Mr. Speaker, it now seems that the Liberal government failed to get a deal on tariffs. In fact, we learned that during the last campaign, the Liberals quietly reduced the retaliatory tariffs to near zero. We found out yesterday that Donald Trump has increased the unjustified tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50%. Of course, this is after the person who was elected in this country claimed that he wa…
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Mr. Speaker, leave it to the Liberals to tell Canadians that a half-a-trillion-dollar blank cheque and an 8% spending hike, after promising to cap it at 2%, mean good news for Canadians. A request for a half-a-trillion-dollar blank cheque is not a plan; it is the exact opposite. So far, the plan is that the government wants to spend $1,400 per Canadian family for government consultants. The Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, if the government had a plan, it would have tabled a budget yesterday and told Canadians exactly how their money is being spent. Of course, nothing says affordability like hiring the architect of the housing crisis to fix the problem here. The new housing minister let Vancouver home prices rise by 179% when he was in office. I have a very simple question. Can the minister tell us, wit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister spent weeks parading around the country and promising Canadians he would “spend less”. However, the guy who was supposed to give us fiscal restraint dropped an 8% spending hike after promising he would cap government spending at 2%, a big broken promise and a half-a-trillion-dollar spending bill without an actual budget. He called himself an Ottawa outsider, but he …
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Mr. Speaker, congratulations on taking that seat. I hope you bring back dignity and honour to that office, and I know you will. I would like to start off by saying that I am splitting my time with the member for Battle River—Crowfoot, somebody I have known to be a great colleague and friend. We are going to miss him around here. When he made the decision he is going to tell you about, I called him…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Prime Minister introduced a spending bill. It was the main estimates for 2025-26. To be fair, his spending is not as bad as Justin Trudeau's; it is actually worse. To start, the Prime Minister inherited an obese Liberal government. We know that. He promised to “spend less”. The first spending bill that he dropped in the House of Commons spends 8% more than Trudeau did i…
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Mr. Speaker, I actually did not think it would be worse than with the last foreign minister, but we have a new foreign minister who, whether she knows it or not, is parroting Hamas talking points. That very same terrorist organization that is listed as a terrorist organization in this country has thanked this country for its position, for a second time now. If they are thanked for a second time by…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not sure that was a question, and perhaps it was a comment, but it is more platitudes from this government. It talks about diversity, and its members talk a strong game about diversity, but when it comes to the actual protection of minorities for the lawlessness that is in the streets, and not just in the Jewish community, not just against Christian churches and not just against …
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Mr. Speaker, I would be the first one to say that I do not want to talk about anti-Semitism in the House or ever in this country, and I do not think anybody should ever have to. However, the fact that the Liberals do not leads me to use this seat to speak for my community. With regard to youth unemployment, I think the data is very clear. We are seeing the highest youth unemployment rate in Ontari…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the member is referring to the decelerator funding or whatever the last scheme of the Liberal government was in terms of giving municipalities more money in order to block more homebuilding. It is the exact opposite of what we have said. When I talked about home ownership in the speech, I talked about it as an aspiration that so many in this country have, and about the blockin…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister ought to know that the housing market is already in chaos. Sellers cannot sell and buyers cannot buy. It is proving out: Only 310 houses were sold across the entire GTA. That is a staggering 89% below the 10-year average. Lower supply and higher prices spell more trouble for Canadians. Instead of building homes and bringing the costs down, the minister is actually buildin…
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Mr. Speaker, we are seeing two very different narratives on housing: one from the campaign and a very different one from the minister. The new housing minister, the former mayor of Vancouver who let housing prices go up 179% in just eight years, is saying something very different. The minister answered a resounding “no” when he was asked if home prices should come down from their record highs. 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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