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Madam Speaker, I am not sure that simple change would change the crux of the bill, because I think the bill fails spectacularly to do what the Liberals intend to do. I would be happy to speak with the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands, the leader of the Green Party, about how to move forward. I think she is on to something in that the business model has changed. What we have to do is provide certain…
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Mr. Speaker, if he claims he does not read emails, if he claims he does not get briefed by staff, if he claims he does not get briefed by his officials, if he claims he does not tell the Prime Minister anything, what does he actually do here? He told the families of Paul Bernardo's victims that he had no knowledge of the transfer. He pretended that he had no idea. He revictimized the families of t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety told Canadians that he relied on the advice of law enforcement to implement the Emergencies Act. That was false. He told Canadians that the Beijing-run police stations in our country were closed, and that was false. Then he told Canadians that he did not know about child rapist and murderer Paul Bernardo’s transfer out of a maximum-security prison. He sto…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to close off this debate with the couple of minutes we have left. It is surprising to see, after a government that has been here for eight years, that the price of a house has doubled and the price of an average mortgage payment has doubled. For those who cannot afford a house, the price of rent has also doubled. This is right across the board, not only in the GTA, which …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians learned yesterday that the Bank of Canada is raising interest rates for the ninth time since last year. This comes thanks to the Prime Minister's out-of-control spending, which is driving up the cost of the goods that we buy and the interest that we pay. Half of all mortgage holders were already struggling to make payments and that was before the bank's announcement. The Dep…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals say everything is fine. They either do not know the number or they will not tell us. It is $4,000 a month for an average mortgage payment. After eight years of the Liberal government, consumer debt is the highest it has ever been. Canadians carry more debt than our entire GDP. The Prime Minister told us that interest rates would stay low. He promised that he would take on…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear the Liberals do not want to talk about the economy. I understand why. We just learned that David Johnston fired the crisis communication firm he hired for strategic advice. It turns out that the same firm worked for the member for Don Valley North, who was asked to leave the caucus amid allegations of foreign interference. David Johnston exonerated that member without even…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The members opposite in the government do not know what it is like to sit in the front row, but their voices really carry from there, and I cannot hear the member—
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister can continue to lecture Canadians, but that will not pay their bills. She can continue to pretend like everything is fine, but that does not change the fact that people are hurting, and they are hurting because of her inflationary deficits, the tax increases and the broken promises of her boss's failed economic track record. She said that she would balance the bud…
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal government, the finance minister has never found a tax that she did not like, a pocket that she did not want to pick or a deficit that she did not want to run. Thanks to her endless spending, we have a crisis. Canadians are paying more for groceries, more to fill up on gas and more to heat the home, if they can afford one. Will she finally stop the rec…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal budget is the work of a finance minister who says one thing and does another. She does not answer a single question asked of her in this House, and she lectures Canadians who do not agree with her. The $60 billion in new spending pours gas on the inflationary fire. She admitted that to be true. She said she would not do it, and she did it anyway. She told Canadians that th…
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Mr. Chair, the amount that I was looking for from the finance minister was about $45 billion. It will cost $43.9 billion to service our debt, which has doubled since last year, and it cost $45 billion in the Canada health transfer to keep Canadians safe, a number the minister does not think matters. It costs almost as much to service the debt as we pay for health care in this country, and that is …
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Mr. Chair, the minister does not believe that the amount she pays to service the debt is important, and every Canadian should hear that today. It is $43.9 billion. That number has doubled. I will ask her one last question, and I want just a number. How much is the payment for the Canada health transfer that this federal government makes? I want an approximation, not even a full number.
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Mr. Chair, I am going to split my time three ways. I thank the minister for coming. The minister agrees that deficits fuel inflation. She said so. How much will the $60 billion that she just spent increase inflation over five years?
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Mr. Chair, the minister knows that inflation went up last month after she tabled her budget. She has been briefed on this number. There are officials sitting in front of her. I will give her a moment to ask her officials what the number is. How much will inflation go up as a result of the $60 billion that she spent in the last budget?
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Mr. Chair, I will ask the minister about numbers that maybe she does know. Could she tell us what the debt-to-GDP ratio was in 2021-22?
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Mr. Chair, it was 42.4% and this year it is 43.5%. Does the minister agree that 43.5% is bigger than 42.4%?
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Mr. Chair, she will have plenty of time to sit on this side of the House and ask questions, but during that recession, we were the last ones in and the first ones out. She will remember that. Can the minister tell us how much it cost to service the debt in 2021-22? I want just a number. She is the finance minister.
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Mr. Chair, this is a simple question. Of the $60 billion that the minister just spent in her budget, how much will inflation increase over five years? I want just a number.
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Mr. Chair, it was $24.5 billion. Can she tell us, in numbers, how much it is today to service the debt?
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Mr. Speaker, the judges of the Canadian economy are the families who cannot pay their bills. The finance minister's budget of broken promises speaks to her own credibility. She told Canadians that we would see a declining debt-to-GDP ratio, a line that she would not cross. She crossed it. She projected an eventual surplus, and she spent $60 billion instead. She told Canadians that she would balanc…
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Mr. Speaker, I have bad news. Canadians are seeing even higher inflation today. Now we know for sure that Liberal deficits drive Liberal inflation, and the finance minister's last budget is driving every Canadian household 4,200 bucks more into debt. Where is the accountability? Where are her answers? Why does she talk to Canadians like they are in kindergarten? The effect of her own failures is p…
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Mr. Chair, it is $207,000 a year. How much money does the minister think the median household in Toronto, the city in which he lives, makes?
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time with two of my colleagues. Could the minister tell us what the average rent of a one-bedroom apartment was in Toronto in 2015?
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Mr. Chair, I just want the number, please. How much was it?
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Mr. Chair, it was $1,103. Can the minister tell us what the average rent is now?
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Mr. Chair, the hon. minister can ask all the questions he wants when he is in opposition, but this is not how it works. Is he aware that $2,526 for an average rental apartment in Toronto is double what it was eight years ago?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister have a single number from his own estimates tonight?
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Mr. Chair, I just want a single number.
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Mr. Chair, I just want the number. Will the minister have a single number tonight for this committee of the whole on estimates?
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Mr. Chair, it is just over $68,000 after taxes. Is the minister aware that the median family needs to pay three times its annual income just to buy an average home in the city he represents?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister have a single number tonight for estimates?
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Mr. Chair, the minister is not answering the questions. Does he have a single answer for any one of the questions that I asked?
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Mr. Chair, if he does not want to speak about housing, could the minister confirm that there is no money in these estimates for racists like Laith Marouf?
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Mr. Chair, it is more than $2,500. Is he aware that this number is more than double what it was eight years ago?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister aware that the number is double? I want just a “yes” or “no”.
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Mr. Chair, has the minister come to this committee prepared with a single answer that includes a number?
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Mr. Chair, to afford an average home, which has doubled in price, can the minister tell us how much money a family needs to make each year?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister have a single number from his own estimates?
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Mr. Chair, it was just over $600,000. How much is the average cost today? I just want the number.
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Mr. Chair, it is $1.2 million. He does not have the numbers. I am going to answer the questions. What is 600,000 times two?
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Mr. Chair, it is 1.2 million. Housing prices in Toronto have doubled in eight years. Is that right?
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Mr. Chair, if the minister does not have a single number on the prices of rent, let us try housing. Can the minister tell us how much an average home in Toronto cost in 2015?
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Mr. Speaker, $3,000 is the price that Canadians could soon be paying to rent a one-bedroom unit in Toronto. That is according to a piece from BNN Bloomberg this week. The report says that limited supply, which of course gives us higher prices, is the reason for this. Under the Prime Minister, new units are not being built fast enough, housing prices have doubled and the dream of home ownership is …
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Mr. Speaker, that is because none of it is working. The housing minister is spending $89 billion to double the price of a home, double rent and double mortgage payments. He is about to build 50,000 fewer houses this year than he did last year. In eight years, we have also lost 20,000 affordable housing units. The Liberals are spending more money to get higher prices and worse results. It is a fail…
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Madam Speaker, a public inquiry would be one of the ways. A foreign registry would be another way. Canada does not have a legal definition for political interference. What we have to do is find other things that happen, where diplomats are potentially breaking other laws, in order for us to investigate them. A foreign registry would allow us a legal definition, perhaps, of what interference is. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been eight days since we found out that a member of the House and his family were intimidated for a vote that he cast and two years since the government has known. The government finally expelled the guy who did it, and that is the very least it could have done. We know more MPs have been threatened. We can ensure the government does not let it happen again by bringing in a for…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is being disingenuous when he tells Canadians that he is taking this seriously. We need a foreign agent registry, like the ones that exist in Australia and the U.S. We need a national public inquiry into foreign interference. We need to shut down the illegal police stations operating in Canada that harass innocent civilians, which the Minister of Public Safety told …
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Madam Speaker, we will depoliticize it when the government acts. This motion of privilege is not about that member. It is not about the member in question. That member has gaslit Canadians into believing the member got a briefing two years ago. We can look into the parliamentary record to see it. He has disparaged the character of a member of the House. He has said himself that an attack on any me…
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