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Mr. Speaker, I share my colleague's concern and disbelief, frankly, because what we have seen over and over again with the Liberals is they say one thing and do nothing. As we know, so far no new border agents have been hired, and we certainly support the hiring of more border service agents to ensure we have widespread security across our border.
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Mr. Speaker, it comes down to a lack of attention to the problem, in my view. We have been sounding the alarm for a while now that having drug consumption sites next to schools and day cares is completely unacceptable. It is an infringement on the morals we hold deep in this country to keep drugs and crime away from children. We know these areas are riddled with drugs and criminal activity. We hop…
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Mr. Speaker, frankly, what I find irresponsible is that the other day when we heard the Prime Minister's announcement on crime, there was no attention paid to removing the principle of restraint, which was endemic to Bill C-75, the very principle that is allowing for catch and release to continue. I would ask the members opposite to put some forethought into this to make sure this principle is rem…
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Mr. Speaker, weak Liberal bail laws like Bill C-75 require courts to release repeat violent offenders at the earliest possible opportunity and under the least onerous conditions. Just days ago, a man in York was violently injured during a home invasion, and one of the accused was already out on bail for crimes as serious as attempted murder. The Prime Minister promised Liberals would flip-flop on …
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Mr. Speaker, we will take no lessons from the Liberals on bail reform, when because of their laws, in places like Vancouver, the same 40 criminals were arrested 6,000 times in one year. The Liberals claim they are consulting on bail reform, but Canadians are not waiting for meetings; they need action now. Since weak Liberal laws have been put on the books, violent crime is up 50%. Innocent people …
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Mr. Speaker, there seems to be a theme emerging. We have capital flight at an alarming rate in the country. We have a productivity crisis. From the Liberals on the other side of the aisle, all we hear is that it is not their fault. I am wondering if the Leader of the Opposition could highlight all of the negative consequences of Liberal policy and the one simple thing they could do to fix them.
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Mr. Speaker, I was on the member's website, and it reminded me of a simpler time in this country, one that made sense, when criminals were kept behind bars and repeat offenders were kept in prison. We hear from the member nothing but excuses for the delays. Crime is not a new problem in this country. The rise in crime has been going on for years at this point, and we have heard, as I said in my ea…
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Mr. Speaker, I recently had the opportunity to rise in this chamber and ask the Secretary of State for Combatting Crime about the rampant crime on the streets in my community and across this country. At the time, Vaughan had seen seven shootings in just three weeks. Since I asked my question, there have been three more shootings, one of them as recently as yesterday in the early morning hours in t…
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Mr. Speaker, there seems to be a theme emerging with the government, and that theme is the expansion and creation of more and more government bureaucracy. I wonder if my colleague could highlight one more time for the House why, at a time when the Parliamentary Budget Officer has raised the alarm about the government's spending, we do not need any more government bureaucracy when the checks and ba…
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Mr. Speaker, the Privacy Commissioner highlighted several amendments that did not make it into the bill. We all know that cybersecurity threats are a very serious issue that we need to work diligently on, but privacy is paramount. Would the member agree that improvements should be made to the bill in the committee process?
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing the Liberals seem to do with any speed around here is to manufacture excuses for their inaction. Meanwhile, in the last eight weeks, York Region has seen 914 assaults, 296 vehicle thefts and 174 break and enters. We know what to do. Mayors, police chiefs and Canadians all across this country have been calling on the Liberal government to scrap its failed bail laws, Bill…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal bail has unleashed crime and chaos in our streets. Their weak law, Bill C-75, requires courts to release repeat violent offenders at the earliest opportunity. Recently, three suspects were arrested for a series of home invasions in Vaughan. Guess what. Surprise, surprise, two of them were out on bail. The Prime Minister promised Liberals would flip-flop on bail, but six months…
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Mr. Speaker, our party, as we put forward in our jail not bail act, would like to remove the principle of restraint being introduced for repeat violent offenders. We would like to keep repeat violent offenders in prison. We would like to have mandatory minimums on serious offences like human trafficking, sexual violence and extortion. We believe that violent criminals need to be kept in prison, no…
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Mr. Speaker, bail reform is upon us right now. We introduced the jail not bail act. We have brought an opposition day motion forward to ask the House to expedite this bill so it can be studied at committee. As I said before, this should be a non-partisan issue. We hear over and over again that everyone is in favour of bail reform. Will the Liberals get out of the way and pass our bill so we can ke…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe I was not clear in my remarks during my speech. People in this country are legitimately afraid. They are losing trust in the very notion of justice in this country. They have faced repeated hurdles and delays from the government. For the last six years, it has failed to act to address the very serious concerns of citizens, police associations, police departments and mayors all a…
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Mr. Speaker, for years now, police associations, mayors and individuals across this country have been demanding bail reform. Violent crime is surging. Over and over again we see the same story: Repeat violent offenders are out on bail committing crimes and terrorizing our citizens. If the Liberals wanted to act and had a sense of urgency, they would have introduced bail reform at the beginning of …
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Mr. Speaker, imagine for a moment a father sleeping peacefully at home with his wife and kids, when violent thugs kick in their door and break into their home. He does what any husband would do: He tries to protect his family. Then he is fatally shot and murdered. This is not a scene from a Hollywood production; this was the reality for Aleem Farooqi and his family in Vaughan when Aleem was gunned…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister's promises are like George Orwell's doublespeak: say one thing and mean another. Let us take a look at some examples. The Prime Minister promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7; he delivered the fastest-shrinking economy. He promised grocery prices would judge him; he delivered skyrocketing food costs. He promised “build, baby, build”; he has delivered “blo…
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Madam Speaker, it seems the only thing new about the government is the way it avoids responsibility. Yesterday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said, “as anyone who has managed a household budget knows...at the end of the month [when] you don't have enough money to pay your bills...something's going to break.” Let me tell members what is breaking. It is is the morale of families that are going hu…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know what the minister is rejoicing about because prices are skyrocketing, food banks are overwhelmed and families are skipping meals. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Budget Officer called the government's finances “shocking” and “unsustainable” and warned that “something's going to break”. Every dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians. W…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today on behalf of my constituents in Vaughan—Woodbridge to present a petition brought forward by @notonjoeswatch and other members of our community with regard to crime. Like many places in this country, Vaughan has experienced heightened levels of crime. In the York Region, violent crime is up 58%, home invasions are up 82% and carjackings are up 300%. The …
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Mr. Speaker, leaked audio from the Minister of Public Safety revealed the truth: Not even he believes the Liberal gun confiscation program will work. He begged a law-abiding citizen, “Don't ask me to explain the logic to you”. He knows it is wrong, and he admits the Prime Minister is forcing him to ram this failed policy through, even though he knows it will not fix their soft-on-crime record. Why…
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Mr. Speaker, in just three weeks, Vaughan has seen seven shootings, seven incidents of violent crime. Since the Liberal government changed bail laws, violent crime is up by 50%. Our Conservative motion calls for a “three strikes and you're out” law to keep repeat violent offenders in jail. Why is the Liberal government waiting until next month to introduce bail legislation, putting more Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister once said that Canadians would judge him by the cost of groceries. Well, beef is up 33%, coffee is up 22% and sugar is up by 20%. Food inflation has risen by 40%. Canadians in Vaughan—Woodbridge and across the country feel the pinch every single time they walk into the grocery store. A new report shows that over 25% of households are struggling to afford food, which…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague's speech was excellent. She mentioned something about the rising crime in Vaughan—Woodbridge. People are legitimately afraid in their own home in our community, and I was wondering whether my colleague could elaborate on the lack of attention that has been paid since the election, frankly, and long before that, to this very serious issue.
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Mr. Speaker, the member's children, who were born abroad but are now here, should in fact already be Canadian citizens, so I am not sure the question applies.
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, when it comes to Canadian citizenship, it should really reflect what it means to be a Canadian, to be committed to a country, to live within a country, to contribute to a country and to share the values of a country. It would be unfortunate to see Canada go the way of postnational identity, where citizenship is no longer connected to our country and is, in fact…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to be back in this historic chamber to represent the residents of Vaughan—Woodbridge. I rise today to speak to Bill C-3, an act to amend the Citizenship Act, a bill that reopens some of the most important questions for any country in any society: Who gets to be a citizen, and what does it mean to be a citizen? There are a few schools of thought. One school of thought w…
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Mr. Speaker, as the bill addresses, there are cases where people are abroad serving the Crown, and there should be allowances made in those instances, but they should not be broad. We should not be opening the floodgates in all cases. We are specifically talking about people who are serving the Crown abroad, and that should be applied to them.
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Mr. Speaker, in 1955, a 22-year-old Italian man from Treviso, Italy, got on a boat and took that courageous trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. He ended up settling in Woodbridge, Ontario. When he arrived, he worked at a mushroom farm, then a steel factory, and then he started a business. He lived the Canadian dream. That man was my grandfather Nico Guglielmin, who passed away last year at t…
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Mr. Speaker, does my hon. colleague have any examples from his riding where constituents may have a problem with being banned from using $10,000 in cash?
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's very factual and evidence-based speech. We have been hearing a lot of comments with respect to how the Liberals are trying to identify as a new government when, in fact, they are the same government that they have been for the last 10 years. I was wondering if the member could share his thoughts with the House regarding how the current Liberal government is…
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Mr. Speaker, extortion is up 357% across Canada. In the GTA, 18 suspects were arrested in a major extortion bust. Firearms, ammunition and $4.2 million in assets were seized. Get this: half of the suspects were already released on bail. Just last week, the York Regional Police chief called for urgent bail reform. The Liberals voted against a Conservative bill to crack down on extortion and reintro…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always an honour and a privilege to rise in the House of Commons to speak on behalf of the residents of Vaughan—Woodbridge. However, today I rise to speak on behalf of Canadians across the country who are watching their choices being stripped away by a government that feels it should exercise more and more control over their lives, who are watching the cost of living rise and wh…
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Mr. Speaker, these are the same old Liberals, just another day. No one is talking about not investing in technology or developing industry. What we are opposing here is a mandate to remove the sale of gas-powered vehicles, a mandate opposed by industry leaders and industry experts and a mandate that would be opposed by Canadians as they see their costs rise at a time when they are already struggli…
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Mr. Speaker, obviously, the issue with China flooding our marketplace with electric vehicle technology is that it puts our auto industry at a competitive disadvantage. From my perspective, and I think the perspective of most people connected to the auto industry, steel, oil and gas, we want to support Canadian markets and the Canadian-made technologies in those industries. However, to go back to w…
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Mr. Speaker, in the Conservative Party, we have the best interests of Quebeckers in mind when considering this policy choice. We are worried about the increased cost to their pocketbook. We are worried about the increased costs to their families and the jobs lost in their industry. This is why we will continue to oppose these mandates and stand up for Canadian workers.
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Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing about subsidies for EVs when what we are talking about here is mandating the ban of gas-powered vehicles, which would drive up costs and create more stress on the already stressed citizenry of our country. Of course, we are going to oppose the ban of oil and gas vehicle production because we stand behind Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her excellent synopsis of the bill that we are debating today. Any discussion around affordability and improving one's standard of living has to come with energy and resource development. Does my hon. colleague not think that the Liberals should join us in passing a real sovereignty law that gets rid of Bill C-69, the industrial carbon tax, …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Auditor General revealed that Canadians are paying more and getting less. The Liberals have poured $300 million into a housing program and missed their targets by 97%. With respect to the F-35 jets, it is nearly $30 billion and 50% over budget, with no jets flying, no pilots ready and no facilities built. To top it off, the fraudulent arrive scam contractor, GC Strategi…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of my constituents. It is a petition that asks for recommendations 430 and 429 to be removed and scrapped; they aim to revoke charitable status from religious organizations. These organizations in our community provide benefit for seniors, including food banks. They support newcomers, youth programs and mental health outreach. The petition …
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Mr. Speaker, the member's speech was touching. I congratulate him on his election to the House of Commons. Could the member share some thoughts on his late mother and how she would think of his operating in the chamber and serving his country?
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Madam Speaker, it seems the only thing new about the government is the new and creative ways the members avoid answering questions and accountability. My question for my hon, colleague is, given the tariff threats and the threats to our economy, if the Liberal government is going to steal half of the Conservative policy in removing the consumer portion of the carbon tax, should they not go the who…
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Madam Chair, will the minister apologize to Canadian workers who have lost their job due to the Liberals' inability to resolve these issues?
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Madam Chair, how much will a prolonged trade war with the United States drive up federal expenditures?
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Madam Chair, does the minister think it is important to know the fiscal impact of the trade war when budgeting, yes or no?
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Madam Chair, will the minister guarantee that industrial carbon pricing will not hurt Canadian steel and aluminum producers, yes or no?
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I would like a yes or no, please, Madam Chair.
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Madam Chair, will the minister commit to removing the industrial carbon tax on Canadian steel and aluminum producers?
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The minister did not answer my question, Madam Chair. On what date will the trade dispute be resolved?
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