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Mr. Speaker, I am presenting a petition from Canadians and residents of eastern Ontario who are concerned about the LaSalle Causeway's Bascule Bridge. This bridge was damaged during work in the spring of 2024, and a modular bridge was installed to allow vehicles and pedestrians to cross. There is now a schedule in place for when the bridge is added and then is removed, at a great cost to taxpayers…
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Mr. Speaker, Habitat for Humanity is a real lifeline. It is a program that, frankly, provides dignity to folks. I think that the creation of conditions where we can allow people to continue to live with dignity or to find it for the first time is an area where we can collaborate. These not-for-profits are experts in being able to deliver these types of solutions, and partnering with them and worki…
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Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada provides all kinds of money to municipalities, to towns and cities. We can help to incentivize, in every province and territory, new home construction by increasing or bonusing municipalities when they make regulatory changes that accelerate the construction of homes. Whether it is building fourplexes or making sure that there is housing densification near tra…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is in a housing crisis. This does not come as a surprise to anyone in this place, and it certainly does not come as a surprise to Canadians who are looking for a home or a place to live, be it a first-time home purchase or simply shelter. We can agree that there is a crisis, but how do we solve it? The government has made some proposals and has some ideas on how best to address…
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is from the beautiful city of Edmonton, which I am proud to have called home when I served in the Canadian Forces. I want to draw him back to the PBO's estimates on this program: that it would add 26,000 homes, 5,000 homes per year. That is certainly a long way from what the government is promising. What we need is a reduction in taxes, a reduction in regulations and…
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Mr. Speaker, with all those words and all the billions they spend, the Liberals, still, are not getting homes built. The government's own housing agency, the CMHC, is blowing the whistle. Construction of new homes will drop by as much as 18% with all the “catalyzing” the Liberals are doing. Canadians know that another Liberal bureaucracy is not the answer. That is why, today, we approach the Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising to contribute to the point of order raised by the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands concerning the continued placement of Bill C-2, the so-called strong borders act, on the Order Paper. As you and the whole House well know, Bill C-2 was a significant overreach.
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Mr. Speaker, although the business of the House will continue in a mere moment's time, the whole House knows that Bill C-2 was a significant overreach. If passed in its current form, Bill C-2 would require law-abiding Canadians to lose important liberties to pay for the Liberals' failures on borders and immigration. The government, realizing the passage of Bill C-2 would be neither swift nor assur…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal government policy is crushing the dream of home ownership for Canadians, but it does not need to be that way. We have the land, the resources and the skilled workers to address this problem, but a staggering 87% of Canadians are concerned about housing in Canada, and nine in 10 of those people are young Canadians. The Liberals have an opportunity to work with Conservatives to …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said, “A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself, has few options.” He is right, and Canadians are looking for the Prime Minister's words to match his actions. Tomorrow, Conservatives are going to introduce a motion to pass the Canadian sovereignty act. It would cut taxes, and it would let investors invest and builders build. The question is ver…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister and his government are looking to stack the Major Projects Office with corporate insiders and then have corporations send money to the Major Projects Office, Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. The firms paying those so-called top-ups to government employees are the same ones that are going to benefit from fast-track decisions made by the M…
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen the depths of the corruption from the Liberals and these ministers, including those who sit in the front bench today, who have been found to have broken Canada's ethics laws. The Prime Minister is the one who has the market cornered on shadow lobbying, and now it looks very much as though he is inviting more of his Bay Street buddies to have the inside track and have Bay …
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Mr. Speaker, while Standing Order 18 is of interest with respect to the government House leader's calling me the Death Valley well digger, what I would say is that I will stop digging if they stop burying stuff.
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Mr. Speaker, I am interested in my hon. colleague's thoughts about the offering from the government. It is a failure to rein in deficit spending; it blew the doors off that. There is no plan to reduce that inflationary spending now, with expenses on debt outstripping what we are spending on health care in this country at a time when we are facing a health care human resource shortage across the co…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would like to know whether we have quorum to continue the debate. And the count having been taken:
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Madam Speaker, Conservatives support the main report from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, but want to highlight two concerns in our dissenting report. The first is that Mr. Flatt and Mr. Teskey refused to appear. They stayed outside Canada to avoid testifying, even though the House could still order them to appear when they return. The second is that we have de…
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Madam Speaker, will it satisfy the Chair for me to call the member for Winnipeg North “a little dictator”?
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Mr. Speaker, I am always happy to give credit when something goes poorly and take credit when something goes well. In this case, as all hon. members are, I will be transparently honest. In terms of the good ideas I have brought forward today, these propositions, I am incredibly proud to say that the member for Battle River—Crowfoot, the leader of Canada's Conservative Party, platformed them, put t…
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Mr. Speaker, the preliminary figures show that the Liberal government is saddling every Canadian family with $20,000 in debt. With thousands of dollars per year in reduced spending power for Canadians, with rising inflation and increased taxes, this creates negative pressure at a time when we are seeing food prices rise 40% faster in Canada than in the United States. That is why it is so important…
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Mr. Speaker, the forestry sector is incredibly important to this country and to my family. My dad worked in the business for his career and provided for our family. That should be an opportunity for generations to come. The government needs to continue to make sure it is challenging any illegal trade actions or illegal tariffs against our softwood lumber sector.
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Mr. Speaker, it is critical that we take the time to discuss, to analyze and to review what the government's spending priorities are and that we put it in the context of what Canadians' priorities are. What does Canada need? There is an old saying, wishing someone a blessing that they might live in interesting times. Some say that it is perhaps a curse and not a blessing, but we certainly do live …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has backed down on countertariffs, he has backed down on the legal challenge against the softwood lumber tariffs and he is saying, “Who cares?” Canadians thought that he got nothing in his negotiations. It turns out that he just got nothing for Canadians. After his last trip to the White House, he got an $80-billion nuclear deal for his company Brookfield, which wil…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not standing up; he is backing down, like he did on countertariffs and like he did on the legal challenge for illegal softwood lumber tariffs. It gets worse when it comes to the Prime Minister's record on Brookfield. We learned that the Liberals gave $500 million to the European Space Agency last week. Guess who owns 50% of the agency's site where the funds are g…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians need to know that every decision the Prime Minister makes is in the national interest and not in his own financial interest. Yesterday at committee, Brookfield confirmed that, every time Brookfield makes money, the Prime Minister makes money, and that the 1,900 companies that Brookfield owns are not covered by the Prime Minister's ethics screen. Every time the Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, it must be concerning for the minister that the Clerk of the Privy Council believed in the same conspiracy so much that he sold his shares in Brookfield knowing that he could not manage the conflict of interest in the role that he had, which is the same conflict that the Prime Minister has, and he is supposed to be managing the Prime Minister's conflicts. Every time Brookfield makes m…
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Mr. Speaker, what the Liberals are doing is making excuses for a Liberal appointee who raised his travel budget by 85% while Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. Under the Liberals' watch, food prices have risen 40% faster than in the United States. Why is it that every time the Liberals stand up, life gets harder for Canadians? Canadians cannot afford the Liberals. They cannot …
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Mr. Speaker, the current Liberal government is the most expensive government in Canadian history, and everything the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians. Let us take a look at the Liberal-appointed president of the Nuclear Safety Commission, who is racking up massive expenses for international junkets like $14,000 to Paris. Meanwhile, the Liberals are raising t…
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Mr. Speaker, this year the Silver Cross mother is Nancy Payne from Lansdowne, Ontario. On Remembrance Day, Nancy will lay a wreath at the National War Memorial in our nation's capital, representing the mothers and families who have lost a daughter or son in military service to Canada. Nancy's son, Corporal Randy Payne, served proudly with the Canadian Army as a military police officer. He was kill…
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard this same tune from the Liberals before, and the result is that 2.2 million Canadians are visiting food banks. Their industrial carbon tax is another example of driving up costs for everyday Canadians. They are paying more, and they are getting less. We want to know why the Liberals continue with these taxes, like their food packaging tax. We know they love consultants. …
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberal government spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians through higher taxes and higher inflation. Today, at four o'clock, we are going to find out just how much more the Liberals are going to take out of the pockets of Canadians. Canadians could be paying $300 to $400 more in grocery costs because of the food packaging tax. Canadians are looking for an afford…
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Madam Speaker, of course the parliamentary secretary is ignoring his own actions and his government's own actions. Let us follow his argument all the way through. The NDP asked to be given official party status to make sure they get the same rights. However, that is not how it works. It is a question of numbers and how many members they sent to the House. The Liberal government has said that. We a…
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Madam Speaker, as we reflect on the value of Canadian citizenship, I am curious to know my colleague's thoughts on the message the government is sending to Canadians. One of the wonderful things about Canada is that we are a democracy where people get to vote for a representative to send them to Ottawa. When a majority of members vote and make a decision on a piece of legislation, what does it mea…
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Madam Speaker, this is an important debate to have as we approach Remembrance Week and Remembrance Day. The discussion about Bill C-3 is a discussion about the value of Canadian citizenship: what that means, why it is valued, why it has lasting value, and the freedoms that Canadians enjoy and that Canadian citizenship affords. Whether it is freedom of speech, of religion, of mobility or of voting …
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Madam Speaker, this was why they went to fight: for a future they could not have imagined. There were literal children who were lying about their age so they could go fight for an idea that they had only just come to understand as they were coming of age as adults. They believed in what we have had the blessing and the benefit to enjoy since then: parliamentary democracy. I will note that committe…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister and the Liberals are asking Canadians to make sacrifices, and Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers, the Liberals' use of well-connected friends and high-priced consultants is driving costs up, as in the benefits delivery modernization programme, which the Auditor General says has ballooned by an additional $1.3 billion and could hit as high a…
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Mr. Speaker, I can say that a lot of Canadians feel sick after the Liberals continue to inflict on them their out-of-control spending on consultants. Last year alone, over $20 billion was spent on well-connected Liberal insiders getting contracts. This year, I think the number is going to go as high as $25 billion. Instead of asking young people to make sacrifices, why will the Liberals not cut ou…
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Mr. Speaker, revelations at the ethics committee have exposed the Prime Minister's company, Brookfield, as one of Canada's largest tax dodgers. Leading tax transparency experts show that Brookfield avoided an incredible $6.5 billion in Canadian taxes over just five years through the use of offshore tax havens. While chair of Brookfield, the Prime Minister set up three multi-billion dollar investme…
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Madam Speaker, I too share the member's lack of confidence in his ability to use Google, but I do not have that information in front of me. What I would say, though, is that the Conflict of Interest Act needs to be updated to make sure that the Prime Minister and party leaders in the House of Commons be required to divest their assets and to place them—
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Madam Speaker, this is a very important question that strikes to the heart of the matter: Canadians are the ones left blind while the Prime Minister continues to be aware of how he can benefit from the decisions he takes, how they will improve his financial standing and how he can make more money based on the decisions that he or his government takes while he is in office. That is why this review …
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his question. I will send him a French version shortly. This is very important. Let us talk about the actions of the Prime Minister. He has taken decisions, and he is able to take decisions. He holds the pen on laws. He is writing the budget. As he said during the election, he wrote the Liberals' platform, which formed the basis for the governm…
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Mr. Speaker, the motion that has been brought forward by my hon. colleague for Barrie South—Innisfil, who serves as the chair on the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, is important. Having served on this committee over the past few Parliaments, I have had the opportunity to work with the member for Barrie South—Innisfil and to see him bring the serious approach that i…
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Madam Speaker, I am not sure if I was not projecting. I said that the Prime Minister and leaders of all parties in the House of Commons should be required to divest their assets, because Canadians want transparency. They need to renew their confidence in public institutions after 10 years of it having been broken by the Liberals.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister broke his promise to negotiate a trade deal with the Americans, but what do Canadians have for all the Prime Minister's talk? Canadians have higher tariffs than before he was elected, thousands of job losses and concession after concession with nothing in return for Canadians. Now the U.S. president has terminated negotiations with Canada, but the Prime Minister sai…
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Mr. Speaker, I gave the Speaker notice this morning about a question of privilege that I take no pleasure in raising today. It has come to my attention that an officer of Parliament, the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, appears to have exceeded the authority vested in him by the House. Yesterday afternoon, I had occasion to browse the website for the commissioner’s office, something t…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not have time for the Liberals to play catch-up. What do we have since the Prime Minister's last trip to the White House? We have 5,000 auto jobs lost. What other jobs do we have to sacrifice? A hundred jobs in Maitland have gone to the United States, as well as hundreds of forestry workers. Nine hundred jobs at Imperial Oil are not coming back. All the while, Canadians a…
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Mr. Speaker, the member's speech very clearly outlines what our concerns are and what our interest is in having the bill properly studied at committee. I have to ask the member how we got to this place. The Liberals have been in government for 10 years, and they have failed to prioritize and to take the proper action needed to redress the very deep issues within the culture of the Canadian Armed F…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the minister that Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. I would like to inform the minister that the Prime Minister has been all about concessions. The Liberals have backed down on the DST, backed down on softwood lumber, backed down on auto, backed down on investments and backed down when our workers needed them to stand up to Donald Trump, like t…
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Mr. Speaker, since the Prime Minister took office, nearly $54 billion in investments has fled our country, yet the Prime Minister said that Canada will send the U.S., “$1 trillion in the next five years—if we get the agreement we expect to get”. It is Thanksgiving, and I will tell members what Canadians expect. They expect a Prime Minister who will stand up for investment in this country and who w…
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the 86,000 Canadians who lost their jobs, how is that going for them? I want to know. As Canada has the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, with $52 billion of net investment fleeing Canada, we want to know this: What is their plan? Canadians cannot feed their families with these empty promises. The Prime Minister promised that deal. Instead, he is down in Washington, gu…
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