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Madam Speaker, let me be perfectly clear. The reason Parliament has not moved forward with its legislative agenda is because the Liberals continue to block the handing over of documents to the RCMP. That is like saying Richard Nixon filibustered Congress for not handing over his tapes. We have to comply with the law. The Liberal government has to comply with the law. If we see something, we need t…
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Madam Speaker, I take considerable exception to the hon. member's statement that I never stand up for or speak about Regina—Wascana. During the pandemic, Nav Canada was planning to shut down the air traffic control tower at Regina International Airport. I advocated to keep it open. During the RCMP mass casualty—
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present two petitions today, both signed by the Pakistani community in Regina, Saskatchewan, and both concerning the well-being of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, who is currently imprisoned in that country for reasons that the United Nations have found to be an arbitrary detention and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Hu…
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With regard to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada's Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program: (a) what has the government identified as the particular (i) engineering, (ii) geological, (iii) environmental, (iv) social, challenges of the Faro Mine remediation project; (b) what has the government identified as the (i) environmental, (ii) economic, (iii) social, costs and impac…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and the carbon tax is way up. Yesterday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer released an updated carbon tax report that shows that once the NDP-Liberals quadruple the carbon tax, Saskatchewan families will be paying $2,000 per year. When will the Prime Minister call a carbon tax election so Canadi…
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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. In order to get around the Conflict of Interest Act, the Liberal minister from Edmonton seems to have hired someone known as the other Randy to manage his fraud-ridden medical supply company. Well, just like the other Randy, there should be another prime minister to run the government. When w…
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Madam Speaker, what a sad state of affairs we have seen this week from the Liberals. Here we are engaging in what should be a serious conversation about a pressing issue, only to hear the members opposite say, “What about them? They did something worse.” It is that old political tactic of whataboutism, the ultimate escape hatch for avoiding accountability. It has become the go-to response by the L…
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Madam Speaker, I did not quite hear a question in there, so I will just say that the oldest trick in the book is to set up an arm's-length agency and appoint all of one's friends and insiders, who all have conflicts of interest, to the board. That then gives politicians the ability to say, “Well, it was not me. It was all my friends whom I appointed.” As for the second part of the hon. member's st…
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Madam Speaker, I can assure the hon. member that my hand gestures were not directed at him personally. I get a bit animated with my hands sometimes. Honest people cannot stand by and let criminal activity happen. When there are criminal activities, the police have to be called in.
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Madam Speaker, the problem is indeed serious. The people of this nation have lost confidence in the government and in our democratic institution. It is a serious problem that needs to be fixed. The first step is to change the government. That is why we need a new Conservative government after the next election.
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Madam Speaker, that is all the more reason to hand these documents over to the RCMP so it can do a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of this. Someone as experienced as this individual should have known better, should have known there was a conflict of interest and should have recused herself from the situation. If she did not want to, there should have been oversight in place to make sur…
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Madam Speaker, I do not understand how the environment minister could have possibly thought it was acceptable, given his connections in the past to these people and organizations, for there to be such a lack of oversight and high degree of complacency among the individuals involved. Again, that is all the more reason to hand over the documents to the RCMP and all the more reason for there to be a …
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Madam Speaker, the short answer is no. I have not looked into the past donations of these particular individuals. However, I do not feel I should have to. I feel that the House should hand the matter over to the RCMP and let it get to the bottom of it, as should have been done quite a few days ago.
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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. According to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, the carbon tax will cost the province's education system $204 million and the health care system $175 million. That is because schools and hospitals need heat and electricity during the cold Saskatchewan winter. When will the NDP-Liberals break up …
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Mr. Speaker, Saskatchewan hospitals, schools and municipalities are struggling to provide services to people because the NDP-Liberal government keeps raising the carbon tax. In fact, the Government of Saskatchewan estimates the carbon tax will take $6 billion out of the province's economy by the end of the decade. That is money that could be used to hire doctors, nurses and teachers. Why does the …
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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. Nearly every day, Canadians are waking up to the news of a new conflict of interest scandal involving carbon tax Carney. Just days after he became the special adviser to the Prime Minister, his first piece of advice was for the Prime Minister to give him $10 billion in taxpayers' money to be …
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Despite the NDP leader's video claiming to tear up his support for the Liberals, the two parties continue to make life less affordable for Canadians. They have promised to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ per litre. Why does the Prime Minister not call a carbon tax election so that Canadia…
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With regard to the Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program: (a) how much money has been spent on the program to date, in total, and broken down by year and by site; (b) what specific work has been done at each site; (c) what is the detailed timeline for what work will take place each year between now and the completion of each reclamation project; (d) what are the details of each contract over…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost or the cover-ups. The environment minister has been saying all along that the carbon tax would not cost us any money or that it would even make money, but now we know that the economy will lose $30.5 billion per year, or $1,800 per family, because of the carbon tax. When will the environment min…
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Madam Speaker, when the Parliamentary Budget Officer asked the minister's department to provide its internal economic analysis of the carbon tax, the response included the following sentence: “I request you to ensure that this information is used for your office's internal purposes only and is not published or further distributed.” This is the gag order that the extremist environment minister plac…
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Madam Speaker, I will start by saying that I will be sharing my time today with the hon. member for Portage—Lisgar. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in favour today of a very reasonable motion that I believe members of Parliament from all parties should support, moved today by the leader of the official opposition. When making any major decision, it is important to weigh the costs and…
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Madam Speaker, I enjoy working with my hon. colleague on the environment committee. I think it is important for people to understand that today's debate is about just one small piece of the puzzle we are trying to put together. We have requested some particular documents, and the government grudgingly provided them this morning, but this is a regular occurrence at the environment committee. We are…
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Madam Speaker, I never said that I believed that the carbon tax would solve this problem in a matter of years. It seems that this argument has been very strongly implied by the Liberals on the other side of the House. What Conservatives have been saying for years is that man-made CO2 emissions have been happening for a couple of centuries now. This is a very long-term problem that should be solved…
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Madam Speaker, let me reiterate the quote from the department's report. It reads, “Every day, we see the increasing impacts of climate change”. Right off the bat, one has to infer that the carbon tax must not be working very well if the department's own report is telling us that every day, we we are seeing increasing impacts of climate change. The report continues, “A price on pollution is widely …
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Madam Speaker, I cannot recall the particulars of that particular motion, but I think it is safe to say that Conservatives are in favour of making life more affordable for Canadians. That includes reducing and eliminating the carbon tax and not jacking up the capital gains tax, as the government announced earlier this week.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister, more Canadians than ever are hungry and homeless. The government recently promised to end chronic homelessness in Canada by 2030, but according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, chronic homelessness is up 38% under the Liberals' watch, and fully 80% of homeless individuals in this country are homeless purely because of affordabili…
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With regard to reports of "March madness expenditures" where the government makes purchases before the end of the fiscal year so that departmental funds do not go unspent, broken down by department, agency or other government entity: (a) what were the total expenditures during February and March of 2022 on (i) materials and supplies (standard object 07), (ii) acquisition of machinery and equipment…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity tonight to speak to the budget. A big part of what politicians do is decide which problems in society need to be solved by governments and which problems are best left to individuals and to families and to the private sector. The Liberal government, with its NDP coalition partners, spends a great deal of time, effort, energy and taxpayers' money …
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Madam Speaker, I have said literally hundreds of times on the campaign trail that yes, Conservatives are opposed to Bill C-48, the west coast oil tanker ban. That is because Canada's oil and gas do not do anyone any good when they just sit there in the ground doing nothing. Other countries around the world buy their oil and gas from Saudi Arabia and Russia. That is so counterproductive to building…
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Madam Speaker, good heavens. Where do I begin? Yes, the Liberal government has caused a lot of problems in this country. Most notably is the increased use of food banks, especially among children, over the last nine years of the government. I would also really encourage the member to read this country's Constitution. I do not know what it is like in his home province of Ontario, but in Saskatchewa…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for all of her advocacy for Canada's oil and gas sector. In my riding of Regina—Wascana, it is not just the oil and gas workers who benefit from the natural resource sector. It is not just the steelworkers at EVRAZ north of Regina who make the pipelines who benefit from the oil and gas sector. In any given year, between 10% and 15% of the provincia…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity today to speak against Motion No. 110, a national strategy to reduce food waste and to combat food insecurity. This is another example of the Liberals rushing in to save the day, to solve a problem that they themselves created and have been creating over the last nine years they have been in office. According to a recent report by Food Banks Cana…
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Madam Speaker, this app went live four years ago in the early days of the pandemic, and it has been the subject of questioning and scrutiny ever since. While Canadians were losing their businesses and being told by the Prime Minister that we were all in this together, insiders at GC Strategies were milking taxpayers for millions of dollars. When will the Prime Minister get taxpayers their money ba…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, the Prime Minister is just not worth the cost or the corruption. The ArriveCAN app was originally supposed to cost $80,000, only to skyrocket to $60 million, triggering an RCMP investigation. The contractor admitted to the House that he does not feel ashamed, and the Liberals have not even asked him to repay the money. When will the Pr…
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With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's (IRCC) cap on international student visas: (a) why was Saskatchewan given an allocation of international student visa attestations that was disproportionately smaller than Saskatchewan's percentage of the national population; (b) was the University of Regina's surplus of on-campus housing considered as part of Saskatchewan's allocation,…
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With regard to Parks Canada and the eradication of deer on Sidney Island: (a) were other lower-cost options to hunt and kill the invasive deer studied or considered prior to the implementation of phase one, including, but not limited to, allowing local hunters to hunt the deer for free; (b) for each option in (a), what is the reason that it was rejected; (c) what options did Parks Canada study or …
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to present a petition this morning, signed by over 600 Canadians from across Canada. The petitioners call on the Government of Canada to list Russia as a state supporter of terrorism. This measure would allow Canadians to take the Russian Federation to court to sue for damages. It would also send a message that Russia needs to be considered a paria…
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With regard to the Sidney Island deer cull: (a) what are the details of all discussions and meetings regarding the legality of hunting (i) by helicopter, (ii) at night, (iii) using silencers, (iv) using .223 caliber bullets, (v) using high capacity magazines; (b) what departments, agencies, entities, offices and individuals, including those from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments,…
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal-NDP government, this Prime Minister is just not worth the cost. On April 1, he will once again be raising his carbon tax by 23% on gas, groceries and home heating. Also on April 1, he will be raising his excise tax on beer, wine and spirits by another 4.7%. When will this Prime Minister stop his cruel April Fool's Day jokes and give Canadians a break?
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal-NDP government, the Prime Minister and his carbon tax are not worth the cost. That is because, when we tax the farmer who grows the food, the trucker who trucks the food and the grocer who refrigerates the food, all those carbon taxes get passed on to consumers. Now the Prime Minister wants to increase the carbon tax another 23% on April 1. When will t…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity today to speak to Bill C-57, an act to implement the 2023 free trade agreement between Canada and Ukraine. I have to admit that, when I first glanced at the title of this bill when it was tabled in the House of Commons last fall, I was glad to see it for a few reasons. The first reason was that Conservatives support Ukraine. Ever since Russia's i…
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Madam Speaker, I enjoy working with that hon. colleague on the environment committee as well. The last time I checked, Ukraine's carbon tax was about one dollar per tonne. Canada's carbon tax is $65 per tonne, and is scheduled to increase to a $130 per tonne by the end of the decade, so I think it is plain to see that expecting the Ukrainians to increase their carbon tax by 130-fold would have a v…
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Madam Speaker, I remember when I was here last September for President Zelenskyy's speech. He talked about the need to help Ukraine to win the war and to push the Russians back across the border. He talked about the need to stop Vladimir Putin from weaponizing his oil and gas exports and his energy exports. He talked about the need to prosecute Russian war criminals, and he had a shout-out for the…
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Madam Speaker, I think we have to start by asking what the carbon tax is doing in the text of this free trade agreement. The hon. member says that we are the ones who are obsessed with the carbon tax, but we are not the ones who put it in there. What is the carbon tax doing in the text of this free trade agreement, if it has no benefit whatsoever to helping Ukrainians win the war? I wish I knew.
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Madam Speaker, I remember when President Zelenskyy was addressing Parliament last September. I paid very close attention to his speech. When I checked Twitter that evening, it seemed that the member for Kingston and the Islands was not paying attention to the speech; rather, he was recording a video of the leader of the official opposition and making fun of him for the way he was clapping. Could t…
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal-NDP government, everything in Canada feels broken. The costly coalition continues to raise the carbon tax every year, making it more difficult for Canadians to fill their cars up with gas or pay their home heating bills. Many Canadians cannot find a place to live, and those who can are struggling with rent and mortgage payments. The debt goes up every …
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With regard to the Regulatory Framework for an Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap: (a) has any department, agency, Crown corporation or entity conducted a cost-benefit analysis, costing or study, including, but not limited to, job loss, investment in the oil and gas industry in Canada, oil and natural gas production in Canada, or devaluing retirement funds; and (b) what supporting doc…
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With regard to the selection of locations for regional offices at the Canada Water Agency: (a) what are the details of all discussions and meetings regarding the (i) review, (ii) selection, (iii) rejection, of each proposed location of a regional office; (b) what departments, agencies, entities, offices and individuals, including those from First Nations, provincial and territorial governments, en…
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Mr. Speaker, that is just plain false. I did not imply that in the slightest. What I implied and what I said was that the photo was taken on public street. That is very different, and it is certainly different than recording a video and posting it for the whole world to see at the Liberal Party convention.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for this trip down memory lane. I was wondering if he would perhaps like to move, again, for unanimous consent to table the Facebook post that he referred to. I wonder if he would like to elaborate or comment on the fact that this particular photo was taken of the three of us standing on a public street. He is not in the Speaker's wardrobe or spea…
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