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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, 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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Madam Speaker, the Minister of Employment is embroiled in allegations of conflict and fraud. Yesterday it was revealed that he falsely represented that his business is wholly indigenous-owned, in an effort to secure millions of dollars in federal contracts. This is disgusting cultural appropriation and outright fraud. In the face of that, why is he still in cabinet?
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Madam Speaker, the point is that the minister lied. Let us look at the facts. He tried to scam taxpayers by stealing millions of dollars in government contracts from legitimately owned indigenous businesses. The minister is a fraud. He is a disgrace. He needs to go and he needs to go now. Why will the Prime Minister not fire him?
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners are calling on the government to scrap its reckless expansion of MAID to those suffering solely from an underlying mental health condition. The petitioners note that it is impossible to determine whether a mental illness is irremediable, meaning that expanding MAID to those with a mental illness would lead to the deaths of people who could…
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Mr. Speaker, who is Randy? That is the central question before the House as a result of the Speaker's ruling that found a prima facie question of privilege after the Minister of Employment's business partner Stephen Anderson refused to disclose to the ethics committee who Randy is. The ethics committee's probe into Randy began when Global News reported that the Minister of Employment was involved …
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Mr. Speaker, there is one person responsible for propping up the costly and corrupt Prime Minister, and that is the leader of the NDP. I remember when he ripped up his coalition agreement with the Prime Minister. It turns out it was nothing more than a stunt to scam voters right before a by-election. This week, the leader of the NDP officially taped back together that agreement, but who can be sur…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners note that the government's planned expansion of MAID in cases of mental illness where that is the sole underlying condition would put vulnerable Canadians at risk because it is impossible to determine irremediability, as well as to distinguish between suicidality and a rational request for MAID. Accordingly, petitioners call on the House to st…
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Madam Speaker, what we have seen from the Liberal government is a total disregard and disrespect for the rights of persons with disabilities. A former justice minister failed to appeal a lower court ruling, ignoring every disability rights community that said removing the safeguard that death be reasonably foreseeable would result in persons with disabilities falling through the cracks. Now we hav…
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Madam Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby quite appropriately spoke about persons with disabilities. When the Carter decision was rendered by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court reasoned that vulnerable persons could be protected by what it characterized as a set of stringent and well-enforced safeguards. I would submit that the safeguards that have been adopted by Parliament have not…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners note that frequent parole hearings often revictimize and retraumatize the families of victims. They note that the Liberal government has failed to respond to the Bissonnette decision, disregarding the impact that this decision will have on families of victims of some of Canada's most heinous murderers. Accordingly, petitioners call on Pa…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Montcalm and I did indeed serve on the special joint committee together. He was not able to quite get to his question, but if I took what he said and the context in which I believe he put it with respect to advance requests, if that was what in fact he was alluding to, what I would say is that the committee was seized with a number of different issues, advance requ…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to express my condolences to the member on the one-year anniversary of the passing of his mother-in-law. I acknowledge that the member has made his position very clear, and I respect it. However, there have been concerns from medical professionals and other experts about clinical, ethical and legal issues associated with advance requests. These include, fo…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis. Under the Prime Minister's watch, Canada's MAID regime is broken, and the Prime Minister broke it. His government is the architect of a MAID regime that serves as a warning to governments around the world that are contemplating perhaps implementing a MAID regime of what not to do. The world is taking no…
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Madam Speaker, that was a fair question from the parliamentary secretary. I would submit that it is important that there be widespread consultation, not just in the province of Quebec but right across the country, because there are legal, ethical and clinical challenges that have been identified with rolling out advance requests in a safe manner. That was underscored by the expert report that the …
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Madam Speaker, I would remind the parliamentary secretary that I was not elected during the Harper government. Second of all, the Carter decision was rendered at the end of the Harper government. It was up to the Liberal government to pass legislation, and the government has been in office for nine years. The Supreme Court contemplated the need for stringent and robust safeguards to protect vulner…
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Madam Speaker, two weeks ago, the Ontario MAID Death Review Committee, out of the Ontario coroner's office, issued a damning report in which it identified multiple cases of abuse and non-compliance, persons who were administered MAID who likely did not qualify under the law, as well as evidence of elements of coercion leading to their deaths. In the face of that shocking report out of the Ontario …
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Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary refers to the standstill over the Afghan detainee documents, and there was ultimately a solution in the face of that impasse dealing with a matter that dealt with serious national security matters in an active war zone, by the way. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an election, and do members know what Canadians did? They re-elected Stephen Harper, del…
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Madam Speaker, while I would have plenty of criticism for the member's party on many matters in terms of supporting this government, I will concede that he has worked co-operatively on committee, along with the Bloc, on this particular matter.
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Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on the subamendment arising from the Speaker's ruling in finding a prima facie question of privilege following the failure of the Liberal government to abide by a clear and unambiguous order of the House that was passed on June 10 by a majority of members. In fact, all members representing all of the opposition parties collectively voted in support of the motion that…
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Madam Speaker, using the language used by the member for Hamilton Centre, what I do find highly suspicious is that a committee ordered that the government turn over all documents and emails between former minister Bains, the PMO, the Department of Industry and the PCO with respect to the appointment of the conflict-ridden chair, Annette Verschuren, and surprise, not a single communication, not a s…
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Madam Speaker, this is a bit rich given that the Prime Minister was repeatedly briefed about Beijing's interference and turned a blind eye to it. He was briefed that one of his candidates was compromised by interference in one of the nomination campaigns, and as Madam Justice Hogue concluded, he ignored it out of electoral concern for himself. There we have it from Madam Justice Hogue: The Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, I agree with the member that it is very good news, despite the NDP and the Greens.
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Madam Speaker, all I can say is that the sooner we have a carbon tax election to get rid of the corrupt government, propped up by the NDP, the better off this country will be.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost or the corruption. Under the government, GC Strategies, a two-person firm working out of a basement, received a sole-sourced contract for arrive scam. They did no work, the app did not work and they ran off with 20 million taxpayer dollars. It was a total scam. In the face of that, what specific steps is the government…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the government has taken no concrete measures to make taxpayers whole. The RCMP has opened an investigation into GC Strategies and this week the Auditor General announced that she is investigating the $100 million in contracts awarded to GC Strategies by the Liberals. If the Liberals will not even try to get taxpayers their money back, then will they get out of the wa…
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Mr. Speaker, with yesterday being Brain Cancer Awareness Day, I am pleased to present a petition on that subject. The petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day. Fewer than three in 10 Canadians diagnosed with a tumour survive five years after their diagnosis. Brain cancer research is critically underfunded in Canada. Canada is years behind the U.S. …
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Mr. Speaker, former Liberal minister Navdeep Bains appointed Annette Verschuren as chair of SDTC, notwithstanding the fact that he knew she was in a blatant conflict of interest. The public accounts committee ordered that the Prime Minister's department, the PCO, submit all communications between the PMO, former minister Bains's office and the department of industry. Surprise, surprise, not one em…
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Mr. Speaker, for months the corrupt Liberal government has obstructed a clear and unambiguous order of the House to turn over the documents, and bizarrely, it has wrapped itself around the charter as a basis for withholding the documents. In other words, it is trying to make a virtue out of its corruption. Could the member speak to that?
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. There have been discussions among the parties, and I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to revert back to the Routine Proceedings rubric of presenting reports from committees.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to table the 71st report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. There has been consultation among the parties, and I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent to concur in the 71st report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. The petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day. Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, and there continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada. Therefore, petitioners call on the Government of Canada to increase funding for brain cancer research; to work …
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Defence, who was then the minister of public safety, slow-walked the issuance of a CSIS warrant to investigate a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister. The minister stalled the issuance of a warrant for 54 days, a warrant that national security officials say should have been issued within four to 10 days. What is the minister's explanation for this highly su…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition. Petitioners note that an estimated 27 Canadians a day are diagnosed with a brain tumour. Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, which could have an impact on thousands of brain cancer patients. There continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada. With that in mind, the petitioners call on the Governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, talk about a non-answer from the minister. It was 54 days of delay to issue a CSIS warrant to investigate a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister, and this is at the time when the minister was issuing other warrants within a matter of days. Is it just a coincidence? Come on. Again, what is the explanation for this highly suspicious delay?
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday at the public inquiry, the chief of staff to the then public safety minister was unwilling to explain why a CSIS warrant sat on the minister's desk for 54 days when, according to national security officials, such a warrant is typically signed off in between four and 10 days. It has been reported that the subject of the warrant is a former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister. Do…
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Mr. Speaker, there is no other plausible explanation for the delay. It was about Liberals protecting Liberals. The Attorney General is responsible for seeing that cabinet upholds the independent and non-partisan principles of our justice system. His cabinet colleague put the partisan interests of the Liberal Party ahead of the administration of justice. What does the Attorney General have to say a…
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Madam Speaker, there is mounting evidence that the environment minister was grossly negligent in his handling of the catastrophic Jasper wildfire, a fire that cost $1 billion, destroyed a third of Jasper and left 40% of town residents homeless. The minister was repeatedly warned that Jasper was a tinderbox, yet, in the face of that, his officials cancelled prescribed burns out of concern for polit…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which the petitioners call on the government to permanently scrap its expansion of MAID for when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. The petitioners characterize this as reckless. They note that it is impossible to determine whether someone with a mental illness will get better. It is impossible for clinicians to distinguish a rational MA…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conflict of Interest Act is clear that a minister shall not be involved in the operations of a business while in cabinet. Text messages indicate that someone named Randy at the minister from Edmonton's shady company was involved in its business operations, including an alleged half-a-million dollar fraud. No one from the company named Randy can be identified except the minister, a…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister seems to be in hiding. The fact is that it is no coincidence that after months of inquiry there is no other Randy who can be identified but the minister. The minister's own business partner even admitted that the only Randy ever connected to the shady company is the minister. Again, will the minister stand in his place, fess up, admit he broke the law and, better yet, res…
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Madam Speaker, the minister from Edmonton misled committee when he testified that he had no communications with his shady business partner at or around the time of an alleged half-million dollar fraud implicating a “Randy”. When phone records demonstrated that that was not true, he changed his story and admitted to phoning and texting the shady business partner at that very time. If the minister i…
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Madam Speaker, let us get this straight: text messages implicating Randy, the minister's shady business partner cannot identify another Randy, we know that the minister contacted his shady business partner at the time of the alleged fraud, and text messages place the Randy in Vancouver at the same time as the minister. How much evidence is it going to take for the Prime Minister to fire this corru…
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Madam Speaker, I rise to present a petition in which petitioners are calling on Parliament to pass Bill S-281, known as Brian's bill, in honour of Brian Ilesic, who was murdered in a triple murder at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The petitioners are calling for this bill to be passed to prevent criminals convicted of multiple murders, or murder for that matter, from being eligible for par…
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Nepean said he was concerned with conflicts of interest and is disappointed. I would say that is putting it mildly because we are talking here about 186 conflicts of interest involving board members, in which $330 million improperly went out the door, much of it funnelled into board members' companies. The Minister of Industry knew about it or had to have known about it…
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Mr. Speaker, well, where is Randy? Speaking of not being forthcoming at committee, the minister testified that he had absolutely no communications with his shady business partner at or around the time of the half-million-dollar shakedown. However, now that phone records have proven otherwise, the minister has been forced to admit that he phoned and texted his shady business partner at the very sam…
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Mr. Speaker, the shady business partner of the Minister of Employment testified that the Randy in the text messages implicated in a half-million-dollar shakedown is someone other than the minister. However, surprise, surprise, when he was ordered by the ethics committee to identify this so-called other Randy, he refused to do so. Everyone knows why. Will the Minister just stand in his place and ad…
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Mr. Speaker, what it demonstrates is the total and utter contempt that the government has for Parliament and for the supremacy of Parliament. We have Liberal members challenging the validity of a Speaker's ruling. They are trying to defend what is tantamount to the blatant obstruction of a clear and unequivocal order of the House. I would note that it is not an isolated incident. This, again, is p…
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Mr. Speaker, talk about pathetic. The member has exposed herself for propping up the Liberal government and proving how phony of a display it was when her leader ripped up the agreement and then turned around the next day and said maybe he would prop up the government. Then, sure enough, when he and the NDP had an opportunity to vote non-confidence, they propped up the government. Here we have mas…
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Mr. Speaker, to break it down, the member correctly noted that $330 million went out the door and involved conflicts of interest of board members. Not only were those cases of conflicts of interest, but in many instances, they were straight-up violations of the SDTC act, which provides that no board member shall in any way profit from the foundation. In addition to that, somewhere in the neighbour…
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