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Madam Speaker, my question is with respect to the motion from 2006 recognizing Quebec as a nation inside a unified Canada. Does the member support that motion?
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Mr. Speaker, we are in the middle of a pandemic where most of the government staff in Ottawa have been avoiding travel, staying put and working from home, so it is quite the coincidence that on the day after the election was called in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Minister of Natural Resources would send two of his staffers under dubious reasoning to that province. Wait a second, that does not so…
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Mr. Speaker, that simply does not hold water. Canadians cannot believe that these staff were there doing anything other than supporting the minister while he was campaigning. It is always the same with these Liberals. When it benefits them or their friends, they will throw any considerations about ethics or pandemic rules to the wayside. Now that he has been caught, will the minister commit to hav…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Natural Resources sent two Liberal staffers to Newfoundland in January at a cost of thousands of taxpayer dollars as the pandemic raged and just in time for the provincial election. Predictably, these same staff were campaigning for the provincial Liberals. During a pandemic while businesses were closed and staff were working from home, the minister had taxpayers pick …
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Mr. Speaker, these staffers were in Newfoundland on the taxpayer dollar during a pandemic and were campaigning for the provincial Liberals. It is crystal clear. While Canadians were locked down, losing their livelihoods and their lives, the minister was skirting the rules to help his friends. The Liberals operate under two sets of rules: one for their friends and one for the rest of us. Will the L…
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With regard to costs incurred by the government to scrap decommissioned warships, broken down by ship: (a) what was the total cost related to scrapping the (i) HMCS Fraser, (ii) HMCS Athabaskan, (iii) HMCS Protector, (iv) HMCS Preserver, (v) MV Sun Sea, (vi) HMCS Cormorant; (b) for each total in (a), what is the itemized breakdown of expenses; (c) what are the details of all towing costs associate…
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With regard to all monetary and non-monetary contracts, grants, agreements and arrangements entered into by the government with Huawei and its known affiliates, subsidiaries or parent companies since January 1, 2016: what are the details of such contracts, grants, agreements, or arrangements, broken down by (i) date, (ii) amount, (iii) department, (iv) start and end date, (v) summary of terms, (vi…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege. Today, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics tabled its second report. Following the notice I gave you earlier today once that report was tabled, I would like to present you, Madam Speaker, with this question of privilege. The second report represents the culmination of the ethics committee’s study of the Liberal …
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Madam Chair, on that point of order, I would encourage all members to stay and hear my response on points of order. The issue I am raising is of tremendous importance to the House. The timing of this item being referred to the House is directly dictated by the government. First, the government sets the agenda of the House. Second, this was the first available opportunity that I had to rise followi…
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Mr. Speaker, while I am pleased to have the opportunity to follow our committee chair, the member for Grande Prairie—Mackenzie, and present our supplementary opinion to the ethics committee report on conflicts of interest in the government's pandemic spending, what we saw through the study and the subsequent reports was that the Liberals' filibuster of 20 meetings of the committee after the govern…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to request a recorded division.
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Madam Speaker, the relevance of the point that the member has mentioned is that it dealt with individuals who were found in contempt of this place. Individuals failing to follow an order of the House may be found by the House to be in contempt. One of the issues at hand is that we had ministers of the crown interfere with an order of this House by instructing witnesses, who had been ordered by thi…
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Madam Speaker, in spite of the outburst from the member for Kingston and the Islands, I would note that as a courtesy to the House, I have combined multiple questions of privilege into this one. If the Chair would prefer, I can rise in succession on each point, but this will certainly be more brief than if I were to do that. However, I am not just raising one question of privilege. I note in your …
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Madam Speaker, as I noted to you following your ruling, I have multiple questions of privilege. I have moved onto a different question of privilege, as I noted for all members of this House, including the member for Kingston and the Islands, who I know is paying very close attention to what is happening in this place and is not worried about what videos he is going to make about the opposition hol…
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Madam Speaker, my notice to you, respectfully, indicated that I was raising seven questions of privilege. I would invite you, should you require it, to suspend, and I could furnish you with a copy of the letter that was provided to your office, as per the requirement of one hour's notice, or perhaps the table officers would have the opportunity to get that letter for you.
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Madam Speaker, as I noted in the letter, there are seven separate questions of privilege, but it did say I would rise once. My indication to the Chair was that I would not rise seven separate times but one time for the efficiency of the House and so as to not waste the Speaker's time. I would again appeal to that in your consideration of the amount of time afforded me to raise these multiple quest…
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Madam Speaker, a former general legal counsel for this House, Diane Davidson, wrote in a 1994 paper provided to the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations: As to the status of public servants and Ministers as a question of law only, I would subscribe to the conclusion of the Ontario Law Reform Commission in its 1981 Report on Witnesses Before Legislative Committees...that these w…
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Madam Speaker, if you find it acceptable, I would like a future opportunity to perhaps furnish your office with some of my arguments in a written form. After having heard from other colleagues, I would also note that while the Chair has decided that the points were similar to this point, I would also offer respectfully that there is an issue dissimilar to those points in the matter of a minister o…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary gave a lot of statistics there. How about this one: 25% of the judges the Liberals have appointed are Liberal donors. They keep parroting the same tired talking points, but we know the higher one's donations the better one's chances of finding oneself on the bench with the Liberal government. Now Liberals are saying they will use only public databases to ve…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary must be talking about how rigorously the Liberals checked their Liberal donation database, because that is what reports are telling us today. They have to stop using Liberalist, because that is how they have been making their selections. The justice minister said, “There is no partisanship in my decision-making process.” Well, an internal Liberal donation d…
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Mr. Speaker, 100% of them were put through the Liberals' partisan database and checked for how much they donated. Today we see that, after months of filibustering, blocking of witness and sealing of documents, the ethics committee was finally able to table its report on the WE scandal. The report clearly outlines the depth of corruption and cronyism within the Liberal government. Liberal insiders …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to number all of the hours the minister's Liberals have filibustered at committee, including dozens of hours at the ethics committee. This report shows widespread Liberal insider access and corruption. It is undeniable. The Liberals used the pandemic to line the pockets of Liberals and their well-connected friends. They tried to cover it up. They tried to block investigat…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a question of privilege. With at least one hour's notice, I did file with your office information noting that I would be raising this question of privilege at this time. First, I would like to turn to the misleading or prevaricating evidence given by the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth to committees, evidence that she gave to the Standing Committee on Finance…
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Madam Speaker, I do hope to furnish the Chair with sufficient information that they do find a prima facie case of privilege in this case, and of course will await your ruling on once we have reached the threshold of exceeding concise. I would like to reference an email from Craig Kielburger on the date that I was previously mentioning. It goes to the youth minister herself and it is found at page …
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Madam Speaker, to continue, these are the committee's words from the report: It was, rather, her and Mr. Craig Kielburger’s 19 April 2020 call with Ms. Wernick that prompted her team to build a proposal based on Ms. Wernick’s directives. [The minister] did not recall any instances of the term “volunteer” being used during the 17 April 2020 call, but the term “service opportunities” was used. [The …
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Madam Speaker, I rise on that point of order. With respect to relevance, I am presenting a question of privilege with respect to a minister of the Crown potentially having misled a committee of this House. The exchanges which speak to the veracity or not of the minister's statements are important. With respect to the member opposite's assertion that I am reading the blues into the record, that is …
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that very much. With respect to the passage you cited in Bosc and Gagnon, I would just ask, if possible, if you could ask one of the table officers if there has been precedent set on what the definition of “concise” is. I think Speaker Milliken did that, for context, with respect to how concise or what the definition of concise is—
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With regard to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and the additional $4 million announced in the 2021 budget to the project: (a) what was the original total budget for the project, broken down by line item; (b) what is the current budget for the project, broken down by line item; (c) what specific delays caused the monument not to be completed in 2018, as the government stated was the schedu…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals have one thing among them of which we can be sure: that they will always help their friends to jump the queue, to secure that sole-source contract, to get that insider access and to make sure they are always appointing Liberals to the bench. Time and time again, the names that are found atop the list of judicial appointments are also found atop the Liberal donor list. T…
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Madam Speaker, what the parliamentary secretary is saying is disingenuous. I would draw his attention to articles from last year in the CBC, The Globe and Mail and a former Liberal staffer even saying, “I denounced practices that raised serious ethical issues. I would have much to say on the topic and feel it would be in the public interest.” We have cabinet ministers, Liberal MPs, plugged-in lawy…
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Mr. Speaker, today the Canada-China committee received more illegally redacted documents from this government. It also got a letter from the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada that included the government talking points. Canadians do not want talking points. They deserve answers. Why are they getting more black ink and more whiteout from this government?
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians send us here to get accountability from the government, and the Prime Minister is very careful in his words. That is a committee of parliamentarians, not a committee of Parliament. A committee of Parliament has legally ordered those documents. This government even saw fit to redact the lines for the media that were included in the package today. That is how far the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, it does not sound like openness by default, as this government promised us. It sounds like the Prime Minister should be charging Stephen Harper rent for living inside his head for the last six years. The documents show that this government refuses to answer very simple questions. We know that Dr. Feihu Yan was a Chinese national associated with the Chinese military. We know that the s…
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to educate the Prime Minister. The U.K. uses a committee of Parliament, not a committee made of parliamentarians that reports only to the Prime Minister. Let me offer a quote from the Chief of Special Pathogens at the lab in Winnipeg: “Historically, it has also been easier to obtain material from us, as opposed to U.S. labs.” Do not worry, he is only talking about why China w…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to follow my able colleague from Lakeland in this important debate on the House of Commons issuing an order for the production of unredacted versions of documents that have been ordered by the Canada-China committee. We have a situation where the Liberal government is refusing to provide information that has been lawfully ordered by a parliamentary committee. We see…
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Madam Speaker, it is tremendously important that we highlight the attention to national security that this motion pays. It lays out very clearly that it is the parliamentary law clerk, not a partisan politician, not the official opposition, not me, not even you, Madam Speaker, who would decide which information is sensitive and which is of national security interest. The parliamentary law clerk wo…
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is talking about the documents that have been given to the committee. They were heavily redacted. Those are illegal redactions. The committee has the authority to receive the documents in their original form. It is not up to anyone to black them out unless the committee has specifically instructed that it be done. It was not the parliamentary law clerk wh…
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Madam Speaker, the redactions were illegal. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who serves in caucus with the member, said as much himself. They do not have the authority to make those redactions. The Liberals do not get to make up the rules and then say they got the public service to do it and they love the public service. That is great. Public servants work very hard …
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Mr. Speaker, the justice minister let it slip that he was making yet another judicial appointment to a top campaign donor: another day, another Liberal minister helping an insider jump the queue to get the inside track. Canadians expect their judicial appointments to be based solely on merit, not on candidates' connections to Liberal ministers. Will the justice minister tell Canadians the minimum …
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Mr. Speaker, if Liberals appointed judges in a transparent way solely on their merit using a non-partisan process, then why did the justice minister delete the tweet naming his campaign donor and then throw the public service under the bus for it? It is clear that being a Liberal donor is a prerequisite for a lawyer to be appointed to the bench under the justice minister. It is Liberals helping Li…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning Mark Carney appeared before the industry committee and told the committee members that he has been advising ministers on climate policy. According to the blues, he said, “I have talked to some ministers about climate finance.” We have seen that it is standard practice for the Liberal elite in this country to have unfettered access to ministers and even the Prime Minister.…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks like the Liberals are taking their marching orders from Mark Carney before he is even crowned, but based on his access to cabinet and top Liberals, that seems like a foregone conclusion here. The problem with the minister's answer is that Mr. Carney represents one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world, and, surprise, surprise, he is not registered to lobby. H…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today and pay tribute to the late and lamented Justice John Gomery. Known for his patience, Justice Gomery had served as a lawyer and judge for 50 years when his name rose to national prominence after his appointment as commissioner for the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal. The months-long inquiry looked into allegations of fraud related to Liberal-friendly…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that he takes these threats seriously, but he is not giving serious answers. He should be able to say that scientists who are sponsored by the Chinese military and the Chinese government will not be allowed in these facilities. Will the Prime Minister ditch the script and the woke talking points and answer yes or no? Will he bar scientists who are sent here fro…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he is working with our security agencies, but it was CSIS that called for the security clearances of these scientists to be revoked. This is not anything other than the government's failure to do its due diligence to protect Canadians from the real threat of viruses that could wipe out an entire population. Will the Prime Minister tell Canadians why these scien…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told us the Liberals were partnering with the universities. These are the same universities that are partnering with Huawei. The same Huawei all the other Five Eyes nations have banned, unlike the Prime Minister. What is with the Prime Minister's admiration for the Chinese Communist Party, for its basic dictatorship, and for its interest in our intellectual property…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems as though, in raising the point, which has been raised before by the member opposite and by the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, that it is in effect itself an attempt at a commentary or debate or to name and shame particular members, in this case the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. However, while that member was responding to that point, th…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve good governance, an ethical and transparent government that works on building public confidence in government institutions instead of undermining them through scandals and constant ethical violations. Scandals have been erupting in Ottawa since the day the Liberals formed government. The Liberals have spent all of their efforts on covering up their corruption instead…
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Mr. Speaker, we will stop talking about Liberals who break elections laws and break ethics laws when the Liberals stop breaking the law. We do not need to turn over any rocks. We just need to read the reports: the “Morneau II Report”, reports from the Commissioner of Canada Elections, the “Trudeau II Report” or “The Trudeau Report”. Let us hearken back to “clamscam” or any of a number of issues th…
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