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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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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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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 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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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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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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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, 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 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, 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, I am rising on a question of privilege I gave you notice of more than an hour ago—
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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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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, 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, 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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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, 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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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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Mr. Speaker, the member very well could have listened to the speech. We are going to have a Canada first approach that puts Canadians first and fixes everything that the Prime Minister has broken over the last nine years: the drugs flowing over the borders; the punishing taxes on Canadians, Canadian workers and Canadian investment; and the fact that our military is desperately underfunded when it …
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Mr. Speaker, the member is right that we voted against stocking up the CBSA with more bureaucracy. There were actually more frontline officers under the Harper government than the member has told the House. If he wants to traffic in falsehoods and misinformation, that is his prerogative, but it has no place here. It probably has a place with his friends in the Liberal Party.
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Mr. Speaker, everywhere we look, we find more evidence of economic carnage. Now we are up against the biggest economic and security superpower, and the government has no plan. We need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke. When he took office, our GDP per capita was 81% of the U.S.'s. Now it has fallen to 73%. It is a made-in-Canada problem, and it is not about vibes. It is driv…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals themselves backed down last time, and Canada has become poorer than Alabama since then. That is not a record anybody should be proud of. Our productivity gap with the U.S. costs every Canadian $32,000 a year. Average returns on investment are 35% higher in the U.S. than in Canada. Our government's plan is to quadruple the carbon tax. They doubled housing prices. They incr…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to split my time with the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. I will start by saying that the threats by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump come as a serious threat to Canada and to our prosperity. That is exactly why we are here tonight, but while this announcement is somewhat unprecedented and obviously worrying, it is not for a moment unexpected. Donald Trump did not appear out…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the member opposite has a revisionist version of history. It was actually they who capitulated. In fact, does he know why Canadians would have confidence in Conservatives? Canadians would have confidence in Conservatives because 80 days after former prime minister Harper was elected, he got a deal on softwood lumber. Does he know how much money is still sitting in Washington f…
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Mr. Speaker, the streets of a major Canadian city were set on fire this weekend, and the Prime Minister was nowhere to be found. A radical, anti-Semitic, anti-Canadian mob burned cars, smashed windows and assaulted police officers, and the Prime Minister was nowhere to be found. It took him until noon the next day, and he offered the most basic platitudes resembling some standard condemnation that…
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Mr. Speaker, we see chaos all over the country; one sees it no matter where one is, where one lives or in what city. There are two million people eating from a food bank; the price of a home has doubled; crime, chaos, drugs and disorder flow through our streets freely; and the government is nowhere to be found on any of these issues. In fact, the Liberals would rather hold up Parliament by refusin…
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Mr. Speaker, it is important that any Canadian and any taxpayer sees where their tax money is going, which is exactly what this Parliament and what an opposition is here to do. It is very important that the government complies with an order that the Speaker made to the House, which is to turn over those documents to police to see if there is any wrongdoing. Let us go back for a second. The Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, I have spoken about this many times in the House. The reason I have spoken about it so many times is that it is not only the people I represent in Thornhill but communities right across the country who are reaching out in hopes that somebody is listening to their plight. There have been firebombings into businesses, gunshots into schools and riots on a weekly basis in cities across th…
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Mr. Speaker, with the leave of the House, I am going to take a moment, as a parliamentarian and as a Canadian, to address what happened this weekend. We saw an out-of-control mob take over the streets of one of the country's biggest cities. We saw people openly and proudly spewing hatred, spreading violence and thumbing their noses at the values that every single parliamentarian in this place hold…
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Mr. Speaker, the very basic thing that any government can do about this is to signal that it is wrong, but we cannot expect even that from the current government. The Prime Minister danced the night away and waited until noon the next day to say anything about the lawless behaviour in his own city. The very start of this should be at least a condemnation and should be to make sure that these riote…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is not going to like what I say about this, but we have been entirely consistent that the solution to bad speech is not necessarily to stop speech. That is what we have seen from the Liberals with Bill C-11, Bill C-63 and, to some extent, Bill C-18. The solution is both more speech and having the consequences in place to actually arrest people who break the law. There are p…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems that either the employment minister or the other Randy may be moonlighting as a magician. We know he says he is indigenous, even though he is not. We know he stole from indigenous Canadians. We know he said he was not involved in his company when he was in cabinet, but he was. Today, perhaps as a magician, he has made his business partners disappear. Shawna Parker and Felix P…
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Mr. Speaker, if the minister does not know where to find these individuals, perhaps he can ask the other Randy, who is still very much in contact with those partners. Even the Liberals are taking note of this humiliating and fraudulent affair, Liberals like Jody Wilson-Raybould, who called it, “So shameful and extremely destructive!” The Prime Minister fired the first indigenous attorney general, …
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Mr. Speaker, it seems like every time the employment minister finds rock bottom, it keeps getting worse. First, he said he was not the Randy involved in his company, but we know there was only one Randy at his company. He said he was not involved with his company while in cabinet, and text messages reveal that he is. He said he was indigenous to profit from government contracts, stealing from firs…
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Mr. Speaker, ever since the first Canadian travelled to space in 1984, our Canadian astronauts have held a special place in our hearts. Names such as Chris Hadfield and Roberta Bondar are synonymous with the values of courage, curiosity and hard work. Just 14 Canadian men and women have travelled to space, but that number will soon be 15 thanks to Henry Wolfond. On Friday, he will venture beyond t…
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Mr. Speaker, here are the facts. He flaunts the ethics rules. He claims a false identity. He gets caught in a web of lies. That is what the Prime Minister rewards after nine years. With each passing day, we find out more about the employment minister's scams and schemes. We learn that he is just a phony and a fraud. Canadians want to know, indigenous communities he stole from want to know, and Lib…
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With regard to government funding allocated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA): (a) what are the details of all funding allocated by the government to the UNRWA since November 4, 2015, broken down by each appropriations act or estimate, including each Main or Supplementary Estimate which contained funding for the UNRWA and the associated amounts; and (b) f…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish my hon. colleague happy Diwali; and a happy holiday season to all colleagues in this House. To answer the member's question, light will trample darkness and good will win over evil when Canadians get their chance and their say in a carbon tax election and when these guys finally hit the road and stop ruining the lives of Canadians. Until then, no matter who they are, no matter …
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Mr. Speaker, I invite the hon. member to Diwali by the Conservatives tomorrow, and I hope to see her there. I am not sure whether she is going to come, but she is welcome, as everyone else is.
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Mr. Speaker, that answer is offensive to every single police officer who puts their life on the line and offensive to every single Canadian who has been a victim of violent crime. Last year, eight police officers were killed in just seven months, and violent crime has gone up 30%. Scenes like the one in downtown Toronto are no longer extraordinary; they are becoming the norm under the minister's w…
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Madam Speaker, what a tough act to follow, my colleague with those brilliant words about accountability for the government. It has been a month that the House of Commons remains at a standstill. The Prime Minister and these NDP-Liberals will stop at nothing to throw sand in the gears of Parliament in a blatant attempt to cover up their costly corruption. These documents are still missing. The taxp…
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Mr. Speaker, two hardened criminals, a stolen car and a police chase are not from the plot of a blockbuster movie; it is daily life in Canada after nine years of the Prime Minister. This weekend, Toronto police officers tried to arrest two car thieves, but not before the crooks injured a horse, rammed a bunch of vehicles, destroyed a business and put innocent shoppers in danger. We know that both …
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Mr. Speaker, it has been a month that the House has been at a complete standstill, paralyzed in the business of looking out for Canadians and of actually solving the problems that the House should be seized with. It may not be the worst news in the world. Certainly, many want to see the government take a walk after nine years; I hope Canadians can finally decide to send the government packing in a…
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