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Madam Speaker, like all Canadians, I wish that every time we looked for a scandal, it was not just surface deep, like the public safety minister being found guilty of breaking the law. The Prime Minister broke the law. The trade minister broke the law. These guys cannot help themselves. Now the member wants to tell us that Canadians have never had it so good. That is why they have carbon tax Carne…
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Mr. Speaker, to the main question that we have here, the House, by majority vote, not just by the Conservative vote, made a decision and ordered that these documents be produced. On what basis can the government refuse a legal order of the majority of democratically elected members?
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney took on a role as the de facto finance minister for the NDP-Liberals and almost immediately got $2 million for his buddy who owns Telesat. Then he landed discussions for his trillion-dollar company Brookfield to get its hands on $10 billion of Canadians' pension money, and then he started sending fundraising letters for the Liberals. After nine years of the NDP-Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, I know we have been hearing about unhinged responses today, and there is one. We can check Hansard. There was nothing about Alabama in there, but we could see it from noted Liberal strategist and commentator Trevor Tombe, who did make the comparison. However, when we are making comparisons, we can make many between banana republics and the corruption under the NDP-Liberal government, …
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Mr. Speaker, this week Parliament has ground to a halt with Liberal corruption. No government bills are being debated. The Liberal Prime Minister who said his government would be open by default is now causing the House to deal with his own Liberal government withholding documents from the RCMP that it has been legally ordered to produce. Why would the Liberals do that? It is a case of hundreds of…
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Mr. Speaker, I move: That the House, having considered the unanimous views of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, expressed in its 12th Report, find Stephen Anderson to be in contempt for his failure to provide the information which the Committee had ordered him to produce and, accordingly, order him to attend at the Bar of this House, at the expiry of the time pro…
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Mr. Speaker, I heard people say that it makes them want to cry. It certainly does. A minister from the NDP-Liberal government came to committee, a minister of the Crown who should be able to put their personal interests aside. They legally have to, but we see that has not been the case for the minister. To save his own skin, he came to committee and said something that we now have proven to be not…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians elect their representatives. They have sent the 338 to this place, and we have seen now that the Liberal government, on more than one occasion, has flatly refused the majority will of this Parliament. That should concern Canadians. We see in matters dealing with government corruption that the Liberals try to protect people affiliated with them, in this case with the minister…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Red Deer—Lacombe has been here a long time, and he has seen a lot of Liberal scandals, just like the green slush fund case, which even government officials have described as a sponsorship-level scandal. That is the last one that took down a Liberal government. It is no wonder the Liberals do not want to release the documents in the billion-dollar green slush fund a…
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Mr. Speaker, accountability really gets in the way of a good Liberal grift. Am I right? Liberals want anything but taking a minute to talk about how they are lining the pockets of their well-connected buddies while Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. Food banks in my community and in communities right across this country have seen their use double. They are having to expand the…
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Doth thou protest too much, Colleague? Indeed, Mr. Speaker, in time we will find out, because sunlight is the best disinfectant. My goodness, we need a lot of disinfectant on the opposite side. We are going to tirelessly pursue every scandal. We are going to tirelessly pursue every dollar they have misspent, misappropriated or overseen the theft of. Can the members imagine that I have been talking…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal minister from Edmonton Centre is in business dealings with someone who has a very shady and questionable reputation, to be gentlemanly. That is my assessment of it. This requires a much deeper look. While the Liberals are already trying to shut down the discussion about this very thing, through the committee process we have exposed the Liberal minister's ties to this unsav…
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Mr. Speaker, in the latest conflict of interest from a government of serial ethical lawbreakers, the Prime Minister wants his buddy Mark “carbon tax” Carney's company to be in charge of $10 billion of Canadians' pension dollars. He does not want him to be subjected to any of the conflict of interest rules: all the power, all the money, but none of the accountability. After nine years of the NDP-Li…
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Mr. Speaker, it is no surprise that the member wants to deflect from the Prime Minister, who was twice found guilty of breaking ethics laws himself, and that is why he is trying to protect his buddy, carbon tax Carney, from the ethical rules that would, of course, call into question this $10 billion of Canadians' pensions that they want to let him get his hands on, in exchange for what? It is for …
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Mr. Speaker, there is a lot to unpack there. First of all, the parliamentary secretary does his best impersonation of a good defence, but he talks about conspiracy. There is no conspiracy. The Liberal Prime Minister was the first in Canadian history to have been found guilty, not once but twice, of breaking the law, and he cannot handle it, so let us talk about the other ministers who broke the la…
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Mr. Speaker, let us take a look at some of what the Auditor General found. We can draw some conclusions, of course, about whose pockets that money went into. The Auditor General found that for 10 ineligible projects, it was $58,748,613, and in 90 cases where conflict of interest policies were not followed, it was $75,974. For projects without ensuring that contribution agreement terms were met, it…
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Mr. Speaker, they would have to have character for it to be assassinated. We hear from the parliamentary secretary always the full-court press to try to deflect from the failures of the government to exercise its fiduciary responsibility to Canadians. It is an absolute failure in that responsibility. What is the connection between the Liberals' billion-dollar green slush fund, with which they allo…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not hear any sections of the charter cited for the parliamentary secretary's attempt to obstruct a parliamentary investigation into corruption in his own government. However, the documents exist and they belong to the Government of Canada. Therefore, if the parliamentary secretary is saying that what is required is a warrant by the police to kick in the office doors of cabinet m…
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Mr. Speaker, here we go again. The NDP-Liberal government, after nine years, is finding itself in another situation. I do not know if I hear the sound of a pager beeping, but maybe the member can quiet it—
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Mr. Speaker, we have the hon. member for South Shore—St. Margarets, who has worked tirelessly to get answers and accountability for Canadians. We owe him a debt of gratitude for that. He is absolutely right. The numbers that I talk about are just a small sample of cases that they looked at with respect to the corrupted $1-billion green slush fund. It is interesting that the member brings up media.…
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Mr. Speaker, CTV News aired a segment that deliberately misrepresented comments made by the leader of the official opposition. On the eve of a confidence vote, CTV edited together out-of-sequence phrases to create a lie to protect its massive government subsidies and to protect a failing Prime Minister. CTV manufactured a false narrative about the common-sense Conservative confidence vote. It desp…
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Mr. Speaker, if ministers of the government are so ashamed of the praise and accolades their government gets, then they should not be members of that government. They should resign. It is shameful that the government's record is one that it was thanked by Hamas at a time when innocent civilians were attacked in the largest terrorist attack in modern history. That is a part of the legacy of the gov…
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There have been three points of order on it since I have been speaking—
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Mr. Speaker, since I have been on my feet, you have recognized three separate points of order on something you have already undertaken a point of order on. I am wondering if the Chair can let me know how many more points of order we are going to hear during my time. The minister asked a question and I gave an answer. I will also note that throughout my speech, the same members persisted in audible…
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Mr. Speaker, what we have seen from the Auditor General time and time again is that, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals cannot seem to manage the government. We do not think they could manage the finances of a lemonade stand appropriately, that is, of course, unless it was a Liberal insider running the till and jamming their pockets with the nickels of the neighbourhood children who tried to buy a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is withdrawn. The NDP is desperate to cover up for the Liberals, whom it has been propping up. All the while, their friends have been lining their pockets. NDP members, like the member from Edmonton who cannot manage to keep her voice down, have done nothing to raise their voice for Canadians who are suffering after nine years of their support for the government, which has seen cor…
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Madam Speaker, I think that Canadians will find that response to be wholesale inadequate. I will take a minute to say that I want to wish my mom a very happy birthday. It is her 71st birthday today. I had the delight to have breakfast with her this morning. It is because of my mom that I have such a strong interest in our wonderful country, standing up for what is so important, and accountability …
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Madam Speaker, we would like a recorded vote of non-confidence in the government.
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Madam Speaker, at a time when our country is facing historic challenges, Canadians are facing the doubling costs of everything. Food price inflation is at record highs. The cost of rent has doubled. The cost of mortgages has doubled. Even the needed down payment has doubled. Today, common-sense Conservatives put forward a motion calling for a carbon tax election, declaring that we have lost confid…
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Which 35 of you are going to be here after the next election?
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up for this jet-setting, high-flying Prime Minister, who is off to New York City to dine with elites while doubling costs for Canadians. While he is there, maybe he can check out the $9-million condo that he got for his media buddy Tom Clark. They can share a coffee from his $5,000 coffee machine…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up, with jaw-dropping news about carbon tax Carney. His investment firm owns the second-largest mortgage insurer in Canada, and the Liberals changed the rules to allow for larger and longer mortgages, meaning higher interest payments and more money in carbon tax Carney's pocket. His c…
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Madam Speaker, there is a new conflict of interest every single day with carbon tax Carney. His buddy, the CEO of Telesat, got $2.14 billion in a cheque from the government for what other companies said they could do for half the cost. His investment firm is in discussions with the Liberal government for 10 billion taxpayer dollars, and as I just said, his investment firm is going to be cashing in…
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary claims that the Liberals are good stewards who ensure the responsible and wise use of tax dollars. He talked about taking this seriously and wanting to get to the bottom of it. My question is very simple. In this $60-million arrive scam scandal that lies at the feet of the Liberal Prime Minister, himself twice found guilty of breaking ethics laws, the mem…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up. Costs are up. Crime is up, and time is up. The Prime Minister's new de facto finance minister, “carbon tax” Carney, has massive conflicts of interest, including multiple foreign investment firms. Canadians do not know how much he personally stands to profit from the advice that he is giving to the Prime Minister. It is more…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals have had many chances to do the right thing for Canadians: remove corruption from their spending. It is shocking that they actually put it in their budgets, and we have called on them to cut the corruption and save Canadians some money. One in four Canadians is going to be using a food bank this fall. That is a heartbreaking number for me to hear, knowing that in my com…
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Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely absurd to hear the finance minister give anyone lessons about who they are taking advice from. Archliberal elitist, Mark Carney, has more conflicts than the twice-guilty and convicted Prime Minister of their party, and they are letting carbon tax Carney keep all the money and all the power by covering up his massive conflicts of interest while giving away that finance…
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Madam Speaker, I move that the 13th report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, presented on Friday, February 16, be concurred in. I will be sharing my time with my good friend, the hon. member for Mégantic—L'Érable. I want to quickly jog the House's memory about the 13th report from the Standing Committee on Government Operations and what I believe is so important tha…
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Madam Speaker, the vision that I paint about what happens in Canada is evidenced on the streets in communities across this country, in every province including Quebec, where people are lined up at food banks and there are tent cities, devastating destruction, despair and even death. This was not something that happened before the destructive policies of the NDP-Liberal government, and Conservative…
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Madam Speaker, there have been nine years of an NDP-Liberal government with multiple cabinet ministers. The Liberal member heckling, the one who just asked the question, voted against the Auditor General investigations into the scandals perpetrated under the Prime Minister. It is a shocking failure of the Liberals' responsibility to Canadians, their fiduciary and moral responsibility to uphold the…
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Madam Speaker, it is a real pleasure having the member for Kildonan—St. Paul back in the House. It is really great to see her here. We talk about what Conservatives are going to cut. We are going to cut the Liberals' $60-million arrive scam. We are going to cut their billion-dollar slush fund. We are going to cut all of the waste that we keep exposing. This weekend, they committed $2.14 billion to…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege concerning the 12th report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics following the notice that I gave you earlier today after the report was tabled. Here we go again. Because the time of the House is valuable, I have prepared concise remarks. We find ourselves dealing again, though, with another witness showing blat…
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With regard to government support for Eastern Canada ferry services and the Wood Islands-Caribou route: (a) what is the total cost to date for the design and construction of the new ferry; (b) what are the details of all contracts over $1,000 entered into by the government related to the new ferry since November 4, 2015, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) amount, (iv) descriptio…
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moved for leave to introduce Bill C-405, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Parliament of Canada Act. Madam Speaker, the penalties for perjury act is a mechanism to restore Canadians' confidence in our democratic institutions. It would do two critical things. One, it would impose a mandatory minimum penalty under the Criminal Code for perjury before a House of Parliament; and second, it wou…
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Madam Speaker, in a cabinet of serial lawbreakers, the minister from Edmonton is showing that after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, the Prime Minister is not worth the corruption. This is the minister who has been cashing cheques from a lobbying firm that is lobbying his own government. Global News revealed text messages that show a “Randy” is involved in a $500,000 fraud case at the min…
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With regard to the 140 conflict of interest declarations filed in the 2022-23 fiscal year, and the 162 conflict of interest declarations filed in the 2023-24 fiscal year concerning public servants employed in the core public administration who were involved in contractual relationships with the Government of Canada, broken down by fiscal year: (a) what is the breakdown of the declarations by depar…
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Madam Speaker, just like the hour we spent not getting answers from the Liberals, we did not get any answers from the minister when he was at committee, just like when Conservatives ordered the minister to produce his phone records and he did not do that. Now the committee has sent for those same records again. Liberals blocked the summons of the other Randy to come to committee. Conservatives hav…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are on the hook for a shady real estate deal between the Prime Minister and his best buddy, Tom Pitfield. We know that the labour minister, Pitfield and the PM went together to billionaire island when the Prime Minister was found to have broken the law. We know that the labour minister and Pitfield were groomsmen in the Prime Minister's wedding, and the labour minister is on…
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Madam Speaker, if the Liberals are tired of me talking about their corruption, they should stop being corrupt. The parliamentary secretary, the Liberals and the Prime Minister did not ask for the Auditor General to investigate. I want to refresh the member's memory. Conservatives had to call for an emergency meeting to have this issue raised to the Auditor General. Conservatives had to do that. Th…
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