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Mr. Speaker, maybe the member should listen to the housing minister who said that his $3 billion of housing accelerator money built zero homes. Zero is less than the 195,000 homes built under the Leader of the Opposition when he was housing minister. Now add this to the stellar record of a guy who broke our immigration system and lost track of all the people he let in. While the Prime Minister is …
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Mr. Speaker, just a few days after the Leader of the Opposition introduced a common-sense plan to axe the GST on new home sales, even the housing minister's own advisers were raving about the proposal. Economist Dr. Mike Moffatt said it is a “bold” plan and calls himself “a big fan” of the idea. He and other Canadians know that housing has become out of reach, and the government has doubled its co…
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Mr. Speaker, 195,000 was the number, and that is a number the minister would only dream of building, because some people fail upwards. Even Canada's current immigration minister said, “It's really a system that has gotten out of control.” He was talking about the same immigration system controlled by the new housing guy, who lost track of the people he let in and is now laughably in charge of fuel…
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Mr. Speaker, the former immigration minister and MP for Central Nova oversaw the population growth in this country of 200% over the past several years. He lost track of the people he let in. Worse, he saw international students living in homeless shelters or with 14 roommates in a basement, all while he ignored his department's advice that it was too much, too fast. Watching the impact of these fa…
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Mr. Speaker, if the member knows anything about the kind of advocacy I do, he would know that I believe every Canadian is welcome in every single institution in this country. Under a Conservative government, we will make sure that we are not dividing Canadians as the Liberals are doing to distract from the issues.
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Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Green Party has demonstrated that she wants everybody under the same secrecy as she is under, but she has been ineffective in this entire debate. The Prime Minister has demonstrated that he has the ability to publicly communicate classified information on this issue. He did so in the House. He did so when he kicked out a member of his own caucus, which is the only th…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish I could say it was a pleasure to speak today, but it is certainly not the case tonight in the House. The news and the allegations from the RCMP are extremely concerning, and they must be taken seriously as opposed to what has taken place tonight in the House. This debate is primarily about the Prime Minister, who has the power to take them seriously and has not done so. Any for…
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Mr. Speaker, if the NDP member wants so badly to release the names, then she should convince her leader to make the same call to the Prime Minister, rather than covering up whatever he is hiding.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know why the Liberals are not more furious with the Prime Minister for casting aspersions on every single one of them as he named them at the Hogue commission. He is the most divisive prime minister in the history of this country. Just look at the communities that he pits against each other. Look at how he has made this a playground for foreign interference. Look at how he ha…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member opposite. The Leader of the Opposition won his leadership race with such a huge margin that he did not need help from anybody. The fact is that he is going to be the prime minister of the country, actually with help from the members of Parliament who continue to drive this country further and further into the ground. With respect to the second question, the mem…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, it seems that no part of Canadian life is safe from the finance minister's radical tax rampage, not food, not home, not gas and not even music. In response to new streaming taxes from the government, Spotify just announced that it is raising subscription fees by 15%. Even the simple things like kicking back and listening to a playlist ar…
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Mr. Speaker, their hands are in the pockets of average Canadians. The finance minister told Canadians to cut Disney+, and she is probably going to tell them to cut their Spotify subscriptions, too. The Liberals say the taxes will fix climate change and the economy. They say that paying more taxes is going lead Canadians to be better off. All the while, the Liberals talk down to people. The carbon …
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Mr. Speaker, I know the member is still yelling his question out, but if he would allow me to answer. We are going to finally have a government in this country where everybody, no matter what colour they are, what language they speak or when they came to this country finally feels welcome instead of what the Prime Minister has created.
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Mr. Speaker, there must be something really bad in those documents if the Liberals are refusing to turn them over to the House, as per an order from the House. We have seen this story play out before. I mentioned it throughout my remarks. The stonewalling of this party's members to withhold information from Canadians only suggests there is wrongdoing. If they had nothing to hide, then they would h…
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Mr. Speaker, I disagree with my hon. colleague. I do not think corruption is a culture in Canada. I think corruption is a culture in the Liberal Party. Soon Canadians will have the opportunity to go to a carbon tax election and send each and every one packing, to axe the tax, to build the homes, to fix the budget and to stop the crime.
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Mr. Speaker, I was not in the House at the time, but I was in the lobby at the very time when the NDP used to be an opposition party in this country. I remember that really clearly. It was before they married the Liberals and joined their culture of corruption. If they are not going to stand up against corruption, then we are finally going to elect a government in this country that gets accountabi…
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Madam Speaker, the member must be new here. I was saying we cannot keep track of all of the scandals. We are here again, day after day, asking for accountability. “It is hard not to feel disappointed in one's government when every day there is a new scandal”. Do members know who said that? Those were the words of the Prime Minister more than 10 years ago, back when he was somebody who at least pre…
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Mr. Speaker, the only person who is stonewalling Parliament is the Prime Minister in his refusal to hand over these documents. Let me correct some of the misinformation we continue to hear from this member over the course of this debate. First of all, SDTC received a clean bill of health in 2017, and it was only after hand-picked Liberal board members ended up on the board that we are even having …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do have rights, and they have the right to get accountability for the money the government spent, their money. This place reigns supreme. On the documents that the government should give to the police, if it had nothing to hide then it would not be afraid of doing that. To say that this is a violation of charter rights is insane. It is not there to protect the government, it…
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Madam Speaker, it is difficult to keep track of all the scandals, the cover-ups and the government's defiance in the House. The narratives, the consistent and flagrant—
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Mr. Speaker, the House leader missed the part where the Speaker told them that they were holding the House in contempt. If there is nothing to hide in those documents, then they should be able to hand them over. There was $400 million given to Liberal friends and 186 conflicts of interest, from a government that knows really well what a conflict of interest is, all while a record number of Canadia…
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Mr. Speaker, a $400-million Liberal scandal has paralyzed Parliament for a week. The Speaker himself ruled that the NDP-Liberals have violated a House order to turn over evidence to the police for a criminal investigation into their corruption. They are defying his ruling and they have ground this place to a halt. The auditor said that there are 400 million tax dollars and 186 conflicts of interes…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad that they finally found the courage to condemn something in the House, but, getting back to the matter at hand that I asked about, whatever is in those documents must be really bad if they are willing to hide the corruption. Months ago, the Auditor General found that the Liberal appointees gave nearly 400 million tax dollars to their own companies and that there were 186 con…
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Mr. Speaker, if the government had taken action, it would have listed them already. If burning a Canadian flag, calling for the death of Canadians, fomenting hate in this country and, most of all, being a front for an already-listed terrorist organization are not enough to put Samidoun on the list, then what the hell is it going to take for the government to ban it?
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Mr. Speaker, today marks the first extremely dark anniversary of October 7, 2023, when terrorists carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. After consultation with parties, if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move: That the House: Unequivocally reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself from terrorists who attack it, Expresses support for the …
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege arising from some very disturbing events that occurred just outside this place over the weekend. On Saturday, the Parliamentary Protective Service, which you are responsible for and provide policy direction to, imposed an ideological test for entry onto the grounds of Parliament Hill. According to a video posted online, a visitor is seen being de…
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Mr. Speaker, one year ago, the Jewish people were savagely attacked in the deadliest act of sadistic barbarism since the Holocaust. Over 1,200 souls were raped, murdered and taken hostage by a radical death cult backed by the clerical regime in Tehran, seven Canadians among them. Today, 101 remain in the grips of terrorists hidden in the tunnels of hell. One year ago, the glory of living a peacefu…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Liberal-NDP costly coalition, grocery prices are up 27%, gas prices are up 40% and now new data from Equifax shows that credit card debt is up too. The average Canadian now has $4,300 on their credit card, the highest on record since the last recession. Why are these Liberals using their carbon tax to inflate the price of everything, punishing families and for…
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister might be the only person left in the world who thinks paying more tax makes a person richer and somehow stops climate change. The carbon tax is not about the environment, and it is certainly not about affordability. It is about getting more money for her spending addiction. Even Catherine McKenna admits that the Liberals' plan was always to spend Canadians' money.…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I want to say to the member for Calgary Nose Hill that I appreciate her advocacy, and I know the entire Jewish community right across the country appreciates her advocacy and her steadfast support when times are good and when times are bad. I have one simple question for her that I hope she can answer for the House: Why does she do it?
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Madam Speaker, the government has taken contradictory positions since the beginning of this, starting on October 9 when the Prime Minister stood with the Jewish community, saying all the right things. He sent one group of MPs into synagogues and community centres to say all the right things about how the Liberals support one side of this conflict. Then he sent another group of MPs into mosques and…
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Mr. Speaker, the people of the region, the people of Lebanon, the people of Syria and those who have taken to the streets in Iran not only for the last two years since the death of Mahsa Amini but for the last 45 years as the fundamentalists have ruined that country and taken them back to the Stone Age, are the ones who want change. To listen to members of the government apologize for the tyrants,…
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Mr. Speaker, come on, he had his turn. Does Israel get to defend itself in using the Iron Dome, and it stops there? The foreign minister cannot answer that question. No one on the other side can answer that question, and as soon as they do, I am sure Canadians can know the truth.
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Madam Speaker, we have talked about anti-Semitism. We have talked about the attacks on churches, mosques and gurdwaras. We say in the House that no matter when people came to this country, what language they speak or what colour their skin is, there is no room for this. There is no room for the hatred, and we want to ensure that Jews are part of the story and the denunciation of hate. So far we ha…
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Madam Speaker, the impacts were clearly laid out in my speech. As we approach the anniversary of October 7, we will hear from a chorus of voices, Jewish and non-Jewish, that cannot believe what has happened in their country, voices of Canadians who love this country but do not recognize it anymore. It is because of the divisive rhetoric and tens of positions the government has taken, saying one th…
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Madam Speaker, as I said, Canadian citizens should leave Lebanon now. I can offer solutions to what the government could and should have done since October 7. It should have listed, six years ago, the IRGC as the terrorist group that it is. It should ensure that every single one of those terrorists is sent out of this country. We know there are 700 here who still roam around in our communities. Af…
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Mr. Speaker, there is not one person on that side of the House who can explain to me what they mean by Israel's self-defence. What does it mean when they say that Israel can defend itself? This is the same party that has cut off military aid to Israel and military aid to the Iron Dome.
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Madam Speaker, as the government indicated, Canadian citizens who are in Lebanon should seek an immediate way out. I am not sure we heard any solutions from the government beyond that. However, I suspect the member could ask the government, when the Liberals have their next round of speeches.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to know the member's thoughts on the very idea that the government just reaffirmed its commitment to funding UNRWA. The leader of Hamas in Lebanon, who was an UNRWA schoolteacher, was buried in Hamas regalia today. What does the member think of that?
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Mr. Speaker, news broke today of another terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. More than 200 missiles were launched into Israel from Iran, with sirens sounding in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and in every major city across the country, as nearly an entire population sheltered in place. There is no better time than tonight to talk about the brutality of the Iranian regime, the most destabilizing force of evil in…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to know if the hon. member is clear on what she is actually being told to read in the House. What did she mean when she uttered talking points about Israel having a right to defend itself? Is it that Israel can intercept hundreds of ballistic missiles in a single day, and that is where it ends?
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Madam Speaker, what are we talking about? This is about confidence in the Prime Minister. We are arguing that the House has lost confidence in the Prime Minister. I know that I have lost confidence in the Prime Minister. I have just laid out why. I just do not understand why the member does not agree.
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Madam Speaker, I thank God that member was not in charge of drug policy when I myself had to get help. I thank God my family was around me with support. I thank God that there was no safe supply because, like so many others, the 47,000 people in this country who have died because of these failed drug policies, I would be dead too.
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Madam Speaker, it sounds like that member has a problem with the Liberal government and yet his leader is going to force the entire party to vote to keep the Prime Minister in power, to keep the highest-spending Prime Minister in power against the wishes of Quebeckers, against the wishes of the Quebec premier and certainly against the wishes of his own constituents.
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Madam Speaker, the member opposite should just take a look outside. There are 258 tent encampments in Toronto alone, 50 that are new this summer, and that is a direct result of the punishing costs of the carbon tax and a housing plan that has doubled the cost of housing right across the country. We have been very clear that we are going to force municipalities to approve more housing and, if they …
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Madam Speaker, I am going to split my time with my friend and colleague from Fundy Royal. We live in the best country in the world, and I do not even recognize it anymore. That is why we are here today. We talk about a country that is deeply broken at this juncture in the House as we speak about confidence in the Prime Minister, because of what is happening outside the House and because of what is…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister is at the UN General Assembly representing the country. He is probably checking out the $9-billion condo. There is so much that the government owes to Canadians, so many explanations, such as why it spent $67 million on a program to collect guns from people and has not collected a gun; why it cannot stop car thefts by putting scanners in at the ports; why it turns…
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Mr. Speaker, I thought the carbon tax was supposed to fix all that. The Liberals will not call a carbon tax election because they know exactly what Canadians will say. The year 2023 was the eighth consecutive year that food bank usage rose. By some great coincidence, it was also the eighth consecutive year of the Liberal government. How many more people need to visit or need to be forced to a food…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, we know that it is just not worth the cost, and the evidence is everywhere we look. In Ontario, for the first time ever, over a million people visited a food bank in just one year. That is thanks to the radical Liberal-NDP carbon tax. Ontario families say that they just cannot keep up with the mountain of debt and the taxes that the Prim…
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