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Mr. Speaker, it does not end there. On tape, the minister admitted that the buyback rips off law-abiding firearms owners when he promised his frustrated tenant to personally pay the difference in value for his confiscated firearm. He went from counselling his tenant to break the law to promising to bail him out and then trying to appease him by cutting a cheque. How many ethical lapses is it going…
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Mr. Speaker, after six months, the Prime Minister's record can be summed up as “promises made, promises broken”. The Prime Minister promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7; instead, he has delivered the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. The Prime Minister promised jobs and investment; he has killed 86,000 jobs and presided over a massive outflow of investment. The Prime Minister promised…
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Mr. Speaker, as the 42nd ICAO Assembly sets to convene in Montreal, Canada's democratic ally Taiwan continues to be excluded from ICAO. Taiwan's exclusion is about one thing and one thing only, bending to Beijing's bullying, and it has to stop. Taiwan is the 11th largest aviation market in the world and serves as a vital global hub. Excluding one of the world's largest and most responsible airspac…
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With regard to preliminary audits of registered third parties undertaken by Elections Canada during the 45th general election, prior to April 28, 2025: what were the details of each preliminary audit undertaken, including the (i) name of the third party, (ii) website name and uniform resource locator of the organization, (iii) cause or concern for issuing the preliminary audit, (iv) results of the…
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With regard to special ballots issued for the 45th general election: (a) how many special ballots were sent to electors residing outside Canada, broken down by country of current residence and further broken down by Canadian electoral district; and (b) how many special ballots were returned from electors residing outside Canada, broken down by country of current residence and further broken down b…
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With regard to special ballots issued for the 43rd, 44th and 45th general elections, nationally and broken down by riding for each election: (a) how many mobile voting requests were made for home visits pursuant to section 243.1 of the Elections Act, broken down by (i) total number of home visits at residential addresses, further broken down by type of home (house, assisted-living facility, etc.),…
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen no meaningful action taken on the part of the Liberals to get the money back. All we have seen, in fact, is the government's thumbing its nose at the will of the House of Commons, which ordered the government to recover all of the millions of dollars. As far as any proceedings go, no member on the other side of the aisle can cite the lawsuit, the amount sought and the par…
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Mr. Speaker, when someone submits a receipt and gets paid for work that they did not do, which is exactly what GC Strategies did, it is called fraud. That is what happened under the government's watch: $20 million for the arrive scam and millions more on non-arrive scam contracts. It is scandalous. It is criminal.
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Mr. Speaker, we have heard government members say again and again today that they are not responsible. It is true the Liberal government is not a responsible government, but the buck ultimately stops with ministers in the government. It is called ministerial responsibility. Instead, the Liberals, even though they have been in office for 10 years and millions went out the door to GC Strategies unde…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak to our Conservative motion calling on the Liberal government to get taxpayers their money back in the face of the latest chapter in the ArriveCAN, better known as arrive scam, saga. Arrive scam is emblematic of widespread corruption, mismanagement, abuse and incompetence that defines 10 years of the Liberals. Arrive scam involves an app that did not work. It was suppos…
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Mr. Speaker, to say that this was “a problematic procurement” is the understatement of the year. We are talking about 76% of contractors who got paid but did no work. The House, 16 months ago, ordered the government to recover all of the stolen money, not just from GC Strategies but also from the other contractors. It is now 16 months later, and I would challenge the member to prove me otherwise, …
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Mr. Speaker, the short answer is no. I do not believe that we see evidence of accountability for those who engaged in wrongdoing. While it is important to see that those responsible for shovelling money out the door without seeing proof of work are fired, there also has to be responsibility on the part of ministers under whose watch tens of millions of dollars went out the door to GC Strategies an…
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Madam Speaker, it demonstrates that the Prime Minister represents a continuation of the same, with the current government, because that has been one of the defining features of the Liberals: to pad the pockets of their friends and of Liberal insiders. We saw that with McKinsey. We saw it with the $400-million green slush fund that seized Parliament last fall, and we see the same with this budget.
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Madam Speaker, I take the hon. member's point that it would have been more appropriate to have provided those amendments in the form of a separate piece of legislation. With regard to the substance of part 4, the amendments to the Canada Elections Act, I do support those amendments: to have a uniform system in place with respect to privacy laws falling exclusively under federal jurisdiction, as th…
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Madam Speaker, what Conservatives support is real tax relief for Canadians, which would be to abolish, axe completely, the entire carbon tax. That would mean a real middle-class tax cut, not a tax cut that results in savings that work out to roughly a coffee per week, and it would include a real cut in terms of GST on new homes, not the watered-down version copied and pasted from our Conservative …
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Madam Speaker, the bottom line is that the Prime Minister's commitment to increase the industrial carbon tax not only would undermine Canada's competitiveness, but the costs borne would be passed on to consumers. Canadians would in fact be paying more, not less, as a result of the Prime Minister's industrial carbon tax hike.
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Madam Speaker, we saw half a trillion dollars of new spending without a budget. The Prime Minister speaks about new fiscal discipline, except that over the next four years, the plan is to borrow more and run even bigger deficits than Justin Trudeau's government planned to do. It seems to me that we have a continuation of the same costly policies of spending and borrowing that so greatly contribute…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Langley Township—Fraser Heights. I rise to speak to Bill C-4, the Liberals' so-called making life more affordable for Canadians act. After 10 years of the Liberals, Canadians are facing an unprecedented cost of living crisis. In the 10 years that the Liberals have been in power, housing costs have doubled, rent has doubled, mortgage co…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost all control. Not only has the Prime Minister long ago lost the moral authority to govern, but also the Prime Minister has lost his ability to carry out the basic functions of governing, with the shambolic spectacle of his former finance minister resigning hours before she was scheduled to deliver the government's fall economic statement. This is a governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of Canadians, lost the confidence of many of his MPs, and yesterday, he lost the confidence of the former finance minister. It is no wonder because, after nine years, the Prime Minister has broken everything. He has broken our borders, broken immigration, broken housing and broken the budget. When will the Prime Minister just stop breaking th…
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Mr. Speaker, I would observe that we live in the greatest country. However, we have the worst Prime Minister and the worst government in Canadian history. The Prime Minister long ago lost the moral authority to govern, but today, if there was any doubt, we have seen that the government has lost its ability to carry on the very functions of government, because in four hours, the government has to p…
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Mr. Speaker, could the member comment on the fact that Canadians are being held hostage by an erratic Prime Minister and the leader of the NDP, who is putting his $2.3-million pension ahead of the country?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which the petitioners are calling on the Liberals to permanently scrap their reckless planned expansion of MAID, where mental illness is the sole underlying disorder. The petitioners note that vulnerable persons would be put at unique risk because it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine irremediability, meaning persons who could get better coul…
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Mr. Speaker, we are in uncharted territory. I do not believe there has ever been a time when a finance minister has resigned on the day of a budget or a fall economic statement. The current government and the Prime Minister have totally lost control. The Prime Minister has lost the moral authority to govern, yet the NDP leader, after purportedly ripping up his agreement, has taped it back together…
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Madam Speaker, for 54 days the then minister of public safety and current Minister of National Defence slow-walked a CSIS warrant. The subject of the warrant was none other than a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister and top organizer and fundraiser for the Prime Minister in the GTA. This same former Liberal cabinet minister has also been someone long suspected of being involved in Beijing's in…
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary acts as if the Liberals are bystanders and yet we are talking about a specific warrant that sat on the minister's desk for 54 days, despite repeated attempts by CSIS to have the minister sign off on the warrant. I simply asked for an explanation. Why did it happen? Is it not because it was about protecting a Liberal kingpin? It was about protecting someon…
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Mr. Speaker, yet again, the leader of the NDP has sold out Canadians, who are being pummelled by the economic vandalism of the Prime Minister. The leader of the NDP said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests”. It turns out his words mean absolutely nothing, because this week the NDP had an opportunity to support a Conservative motion of non-confidence tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners are calling on the Liberals to scrap their unfair capital gains tax hike. Petitioners note that it would make Canada less competitive and have adverse impacts, including limiting access to affordable housing options, straining health care resources, exacerbating financial challenges for farmers and compromising the retirement savings of Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I wish to very briefly add to the submissions made by my colleague, the member for Thornhill, on the question of privilege she raised last Friday. I wish to add that the member for Edmonton Griesbach was among the NDP MPs who participated in the anti-Israel demonstration. My staff observed the member among the protesters as they blocked the driveway in fron…
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Mr. Speaker, it is highly pertinent, insofar as that there were NDP MPs who were actively involved in facilitating this illegal anti-Israel protest, and contrary to the—
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Mr. Speaker, I wish to very briefly add some additional information in respect to the question of privilege raised by my colleague, the member for Thornhill. Specifically, the member for Thornhill cited that three NDP MPs were actively involved in this illegal anti-Israel protest, and I would add that there was a fourth member of the NDP who was involved—
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Madam Speaker, the member for Battle River—Crowfoot is entirely right. This is unprecedented. It is unprecedented because of the degree to which and the lengths this government will go to obstruct a clear and unambiguous order of the House for the government to turn over the documents. However, this is part of a pattern, as the member alluded to, because there have been other bad precedents set by…
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Madam Speaker, I would observe that the Liberals are the ones holding up the work of Parliament. They are defying a clear and unambiguous order of the House to turn over all documents related to the Liberal billion-dollar green slush fund to the parliamentary law clerk. The law clerk can then turn them over to the RCMP. The Liberals are hiding and obstructing that order in the face of one of the l…
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Madam Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition has been very clear. He has called on the Prime Minister to release the names of all MPs who have wittingly collaborated with hostile foreign states. The Prime Minister refuses. With respect to a security clearance, the Leader of the Opposition has also been clear. He will take the same briefings that the government provided The Washington Post and that …
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners call on the government and the Minister of Finance to scrap plans to increase the capital gains inclusion rate to 66.6%. They note that increasing the capital gains inclusion rate will put Canada and Canadian business at a disadvantage. It is estimated that this change will have an impact on one in five Canadian businesses over the next …
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Edmonton Centre has a lot to answer for, notwithstanding the fact that he recently resigned from cabinet in disgrace. Among the serious matters that the member must answer for and be held accountable for is the fact that his shady, pandemic-profiteering PPE company falsely held itself out to be a wholly owned indigenous company when it applied for two federal government…
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 104 and Standing Order 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 72nd report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, entitled “Pilot Project to Include Inuit Languages on Federal Election Ballots in Nunavut”.
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on the massive scandal at Sustainable Development Technology Canada, more appropriately known as the billion-dollar Liberal green slush fund. This is a scandal involving $400 million in taxpayer dollars that improperly went out the door, according to the Auditor General. Of that, $330 million involved conflicts of interest involving board members; that was186 conflic…
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Madam Speaker, the company of the disgraced member for Edmonton Centre applied fraudulently for two government contracts, representing itself as a wholly indigenous-owned company when that was not true, in a disgraceful effort to steal contracts from legitimate indigenous businesses. The Prime Minister was aware that the minister did that, yet for days he defended him. It was only when the Edmonto…
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Madam Speaker, yes, on the same point of order. I would remind the member for Edmonton Strathcona of one Dave Stupich, the former finance minister of British Columbia and member of Parliament, who stole from charities to puddle it into—
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Mr. Speaker, one must ask why the Prime Minister has not seen fit to fire the minister. Could it be that the Prime Minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act not once but twice? Could it be that the Prime Minister is a cultural appropriator, having worn blackface more times than he can remember? Is it not the case that if the Prime Minister were to fire the minister, he would have to fire hims…
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Madam Speaker, yesterday the government House leader of the Liberal government went on a CBC program and purported that the government had handed over all of the documents to the parliamentary law clerk and that, therefore, this matter could be simply referred to the procedure and House affairs committee. The member, my colleague on PROC, will recall that the parliamentary law clerk appeared befor…
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With regard to the government’s announcement on September 27, 2023, that it would provide $14 million to help Afghan refugees and host communities impacted by flooding in Pakistan: (a) what is the breakdown of the $14 million, including how much went to (i) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), (ii) the World Health Organization (WHO), (iii) other recipients, including how muc…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Employment is embroiled in allegations of fraud. He almost certainly violated the Conflict of Interest Act. He got caught pretending to be indigenous in an effort to steal government contracts from legitimately indigenous-owned businesses. We have now learned that the minister has a business connection to a cocaine trafficker. In the face of all that, why is he still i…
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Mr. Speaker, the short answer is no, no other Randy has been identified. His business partner, Anderson, said the only Randy at the company was the Minister of Employment but then, implausibly, claimed the Randy in the text messages was not the minister because of nine autocorrects, which simply is not credible. The minister himself can identify no other Randy. When Global News embarked upon findi…
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Mr. Speaker, we learned about that because the minister got caught as a result of additional text messages. The minister represented, as the member pointed out, that he had had no communication with Mr. Anderson. Then text messages revealed that the Randy in question was in Vancouver while the minister was in Vancouver. He was asked to explain that. He tried to explain he had communicated with Mr.…
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Mr. Speaker, it is simply not accurate to say the Ethics Commissioner has cleared the minister. In fact, the minister has not been forthcoming with the Ethics Commissioner, just as he has not been forthcoming with the committee. He was supposed to turn over his phone devices to the Ethics Commissioner. He did not do that. He only turned over one phone, and then when he got caught, he turned over a…
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Mr. Speaker, there is something of significance in obtaining official party status. Official party status should mean something. The Green Party does not have official party status. It has two members of Parliament who are the equivalent of independent members of Parliament. If the Green Party wishes to participate in debate and committee, then what it should go about doing is to convince Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, I would submit that perhaps the reason the Prime Minister has been reluctant to deal with the minister is that he has engaged in similar conduct as the minister. The minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act; the Prime Minister violated the Conflict of Interest Act not once, but twice. In fact, he has the dubious distinction of being the first Prime Minister to be found guilty of…
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Mr. Speaker, the answer to that question, as to who is Randy, is obvious. It is the minister. The member is quite right in his characterization. What has happened before the ethics committee has been a charade, not just on the part of Mr. Anderson but on the part of the minister. The minister first came to committee and said that he could not be the Randy in the text messages because he was in Van…
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