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Mr. Chair, with $222 billion in new spending authorities requested by the President of the Treasury Board, it is absolutely unacceptable that the minister came this evening without any information. I have one final question. Was the minister ever briefed on the ArriveCAN scandal?
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time three ways. What percentage of pre-qualified IT contractors have no technical abilities, like the admitted fraudsters at the two-man, basement-headquartered GC Strategies?
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Mr. Chair, how many times was GC Strategies awarded contracts through Treasury Board-approved processes?
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Mr. Chair, were the rules followed in this case?
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Mr. Chair, that is an unacceptable answer. I am not asking the minister about criminal proceedings. I am asking the minister about his department's failures to enforce the rules that are specifically under his mandate. He refused to answer my first question, so my next question is this: On what basis was GC Strategies, which had no technical capabilities, pre-qualified as an IT contractor based on…
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Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to see the clock at 6:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to request a recorded division.
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Mr. Chair, what is not appropriate is for a minister to refuse to answer questions when the opposition is looking to determine if we can have confidence in his department and when the Liberals are looking for $222 billion in new spending authorities, which is the exercise that we have this evening in this committee of the whole. How did the Treasury Board, the minister's department, allow payments…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have consistently voted against all of the inflationary spending and the Liberals' half measures that would see those savings vaporized by their continued inflationary spending. We will keep voting against them unless we see a responsible budget from the government for once. Moms and dads, small businesses, single Canadians and seniors all have to table a budget; they ha…
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Mr. Speaker, today Conservatives have tabled a motion in the House that the Liberal government finally put forward a fiscally responsible budget. The Prime Minister says that he wants to be held to account based on what Canadians are paying for their groceries, but instead of putting forward a budget or bringing down grocery prices, he has introduced a half-trillion dollars in what we can only ass…
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Mr. Speaker, if anyone is travelling this summer and finds themselves on Highway 416 near the town of Kemptville, be sure to visit the Kemptville Brewing Company. I had the privilege of joining their grand opening on June 3, alongside outstanding entrepreneurs Nathan Devries, Kurtis Devries, Braden Dukelow and Jocelyn Major. Their passion and dedication have brought something truly special to our …
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Mr. Chair, how many containers entering Canada have been found to contain fentanyl, smuggled guns—
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Mr. Chair, are there scanners at the ports of entry at Johnstown and Lansdowne to scan containers or trucks at the border?
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Mr. Chair, how many net new frontline CBSA officers will be serving at the land borders between Canada and the U.S. as a result of the minister's bill?
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Mr. Chair, how many shipping containers are scanned on a monthly basis at the Canada-U.S. border?
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Mr. Chair, by what date will they be at their posts?
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Mr. Chair, how many additional containers would be scanned as a result of the bill?
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Madam Chair, my questions will be directed through you to the Minister of Public Safety. How many frontline CBSA officers are posted to the Canada-U.S. border?
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Mr. Chair, I would encourage the minister to get either numbers or some information, or we could both go to those ports of entry and take a look for ourselves, to see the lack of infrastructure to scan the cans that are coming across the border at those two locations. How many firearms have been seized at the land borders between Canada and the United States?
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Mr. Chair, I have asked the minister a number of questions seeking specifics on the bill prioritized as number two in the order, the first bill put forward in the Parliament. The minister has not been able to provide any of the details that would satisfy some of the most pressing issues facing our country right now. Where does it say in the legislation that we will repeal any of the laws passed by…
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Mr. Chair, the government is spending $342 million a year to collect legally registered firearms from licensed, trained and tested hunters, farmers and sport shooters. How much money is being dedicated specifically to interdicting firearms at the border?
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Mr. Chair, that seems like an incredible missed opportunity, I can tell members, at all ports of entry, including those in my district at Johnstown and Lansdowne. Minister, you said, “The actual crimes, the actual issues around bail are quite sound and they are embedded [and] codified in law right now.” I have two questions for you: Do you think that current bail laws in the regime are working? Do…
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time with three of my colleagues. How many CBSA officers, serving on the front line, are posted at the Lansdowne and Johnstown ports of entry?
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Mr. Speaker, just like the nine years of failures from the NDP-Liberal government, Canadians have lost confidence in the Prime Minister, and they showed it last night with the overwhelming majority election of Tamara Jansen in Cloverdale—Langley City. The phantom finance minister posted a $62-billion devastating deficit that Canadians are going to be paying for, for generations. The Liberals have …
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Mr. Speaker, this week, the Liberal Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, his Liberal MPs and Canadians, but he still clings to power. Yesterday, the economic statement from his phantom finance minister, carbon tax Carney, posted a $62-billion deficit, which is absolutely devastating for Canadians. They tried to pin it on the former finance minister and she quit in protest. Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, everything is out of control: Home prices have doubled, and food banks are seeing two million users in a single month. Meanwhile, the real fiscal adviser to the Prime Minister wrote the financial update for this afternoon. He included a temporary two-month tax trick and is set to smash through the massive $40-billion deficit promise that…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, we talk about having confidence. However, that just came from a minister who said today that he is not going to continue to serve in the cabinet of that Prime Minister. This is just like the former finance minister who said she does not have confidence, the seven other ministers over there or the one in five Liberal MPs who said they do not have confidence in the NDP-Liberal Prim…
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Mr. Speaker, the words of the leader of the official opposition bring great hope to Canadians at a time when they need it most. The Liberal Prime Minister committed to a massive $40-billion deficit as the guardrail. Now, of course, that is an irresponsible number, $40 billion, but that is what the promise was, and they smashed through it. Who are the “they”? It is the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister an…
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Mr. Speaker, a tiny two-month tax trick is not going to help the more than two million Canadians lined up at food banks every month, nor will pennies off Pepsi help Canadians who are going to pay $800 more for groceries in 2025. This Prime Minister is forcing his outgoing finance minister to take the fall for the effects of his inflationary spending that is pushing right past his $40-billion defic…
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Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary is talking about good news like Canadians have never had it so good. We have the highest household debt, because Canadians cannot afford to pay their mortgages. They cannot afford to feed themselves. They cannot afford to heat their homes or put gas in their cars after nine years of this NDP-Liberal Prime Minister who said that the budget would balance itse…
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With regard to meetings attended by the Prime Minister: what are the dates and locations of any meetings attended by the Prime Minister with the 24 Liberal members of Parliament, or representatives of their group, who signed the letter requesting the Prime Minister to step down?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister has lost control of spending and he has lost control of his own cabinet. The outgoing finance minister promised that a massive $40-billion deficit would be her fiscal guardrail, but it looks like the Prime Minister and the incoming finance minister, carbon tax Carney, are pushing her through the guardrail and over the fiscal cliff with the rest of Canadians.…
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Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, the Archbishop for Toronto was inducted into the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica. I was honoured to attend the ceremony with the Canadian delegation on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition. Witnessing this historic ritual was a deeply spiritual experience and a moment of profound inspiration, hope and promise. Born in Montreal to immigrant p…
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Mr. Speaker, today, the NDP leader has a chance to prove he did not sell out Canadian workers for his own pension. He famously promised Canadians that he ripped up his coalition with the Liberals, saying they were “too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. Conservatives agree and Canadians want a carbon tax election. Will the Prime Minister allow the NDP l…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks like the Prime Minister has lost control of everything, except his control over the NDP. According to the NDP leader's own words, “You're never going to count on us if you're going to take away the rights of the workers. Never.” We have seen that the Prime Minister has done just that, ordering binding arbitration. What has the Prime Minister promised to the NDP in exchange fo…
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Madam Speaker, while the U.S. economy roars, real GDP per capita in Canada falls. It is a made-in-Canada recession, and these NDP-Liberals have presided over the worst standard of living decline in this country in 40 years. Food bank use is at records never seen before. The United States is going to hit us with a 25% tariff. What is their plan? It is to raise taxes. The NDP-Liberal government is g…
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Mr. Speaker, there is a significant amount of evidence that can be offered by members of the official opposition in the form of video. It is not offered with any form of partisan context; it would simply provide an unbiased accounting for what occurred. I will close with this: It is important that when there is an accusation of harassment in this place, it be taken seriously, but it is also import…
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Madam Speaker, let us talk about a record of the failed government that does not have a plan to address the 25% tariffs that are going to be imposed by the U.S. government, that is except for the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister to introduce his carbon tax being raised again on April 1, along with a host of other taxes. Poverty is up. Food bank use is up. Mortgage costs have doubled. Rent has doubled. I…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a brief intervention on the question, to follow on the points from the member for Kelowna—Lake Country and the member for Calgary Nose Hill, who spoke well to the facts of what occurred last night. Some of your consideration, Mr. Speaker, of the evidence can be found on the ParlVU feed, with the member for London—Fanshawe's storming the Speaker's chair. The Speake…
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Madam Speaker, while he interrupts me, I will note that he repeated his name more than one time. He needs to withdraw it.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, do we have quorum?
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Madam Speaker, no apologies to the parliamentary secretary are necessary. I think you will find, if you review his comments, that the member is intentionally and inappropriately using the proper names of elected members of the House, which, as you know, is a violation of the Standing Orders.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to hide from Canadians that the company owned by the disgraced Liberal from Edmonton Centre is still eligible to get government contracts. The Prime Minister may believe that his former and failed employment minister is the victim, but the real victims, of course, are indigenous people and the people who were defrauded by his company. To this point, the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, let me get this straight. The disgraced former minister, the member for Edmonton Centre, a Liberal, started a pandemic-profiteering business, and that business lied about being indigenous to get government contracts. They are under investigation by the Edmonton Police Service for fraud, and this Liberal government is still allowing them to bid on government contracts. Now they are say…
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Mr. Speaker, in the past, the Chair has found that words used in this place that can be seen to incite violence are deemed to be unparliamentary. I want to provide context to the Chair. There was a protest that took place at the home of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General. When that occurred, I said, “Protest government buildings and MP offices - absolutely. But the intended target of thi…
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Madam Speaker, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the member for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke. Quite simply, we are going to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. We are going to get rid of the carbon tax and, of course, take the GST off new home construction.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a great question from my hon. colleague. We have said that common-sense Conservatives, when in government, will restore accountability, just like we have said on matters of national security. Any elected parliamentarian who has been knowingly participating with a foreign state in surreptitious activity will be named. We will name them. We will not engage in the games like the Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard from the Liberals before about what they think about objective reporting. The Liberal Prime Minister famously said of the scandal involving himself when he interfered in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin that the story in the Globe was false. Now we know what the Prime Minister said in that case was dishonest. However, the question from my hon. colleague from Welli…
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Mr. Speaker, for a guy whose government presided over more than $400 million being pilfered from Canadian taxpayers, he seems pretty incensed about things unrelated to the subject matter that we have talked about. I will say a couple of things. First of all, he did not quote any member of Parliament so I am not sure what kind of fantasy fiction he is spinning. I scrummed with the media today. As a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a real pleasure to have the opportunity to rise in the House and to be recognized by the Chair. The circumstances, though, are unfortunate. We are talking about a $400-million scandal, over 186 conflicts of interest and a lawful order from the majority of democratically elected members of Parliament, passed in the House, ordering the NDP-Liberals to hand over to the RCMP the doc…
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