Parliamentary Speeches
611 speeches by Michelle Rempel Garner — Page 2 of 13
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Madam Speaker, my question would be why, as a member of the government caucus, the member supported a bill that protected the rights of LGBTQ Canadians, which I fully support, but also made their lives more difficult by catch-and-releasing criminals who terrorize them. The government often makes these false dichotomies, where we have to sacrifice common-sense civil liberties or protections that pr…
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Mr. Speaker, today, if a non-citizen enters Canada, there is nothing to stop them from committing a serious violent crime and then going on to make a bogus asylum claim. This is why Conservatives put forward an amendment to Bill C-12 to close this loophole. Could the Leader of the Opposition speculate as to why the Liberals are trying to pass off the one-year, get-out-of-jail-free card, bogus refu…
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Madam Speaker, I welcome the question because it is a good one, and they are not. It is not redundant. In practice, as well as in the law, we need to have an amendment to clarify, to ensure that people who have committed violent crimes cannot claim asylum and to not give lenient sentences. There are many instances now where the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act needs modernization. The defini…
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Madam Speaker, how does a minister of the Crown not even know the bill that is in front of the House of Commons? There are two things. Number one, it was Conservatives who went to Liberals to separate out the parts. The parts she talked about are in Bill C-12, not Bill C-2. That is wrong number one. Wrong number two is that Bill C-12 would not stop somebody from coming into Canada right now, commi…
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moved: That, given that, (i) extortion has risen by 330% in Canada since the Liberals were elected, (ii) Liberals voted against Conservative motions to end loopholes for false refugee claimants seeking asylum, (iii) Liberals voted against tougher sentencing for extortionists proposed by Conservative Bill C-381, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (extortion), (iv) Liberals have failed to repeal bill…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals voted against a Conservative amendment to Bill C-12 that would have barred non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from abusing our asylum system and making refugee claims. That is crazy. Will the Liberals agree with Premier David Eby that the amendment is a proposal that should be accepted, and that non-citizens accused of serious crimes should not be able to make refug…
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Madam Speaker, I also have concerns about the politicization of the Parliamentary Budget Officer appointment. I think Parliament should have more influence and oversight in that appointment process. However, at the same time, the member also gave the exact argument for why colleagues in this place should not be supporting this bill. A better option to have more oversight would be to have fenced, a…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague would know from hearing testimony from indigenous persons at his committee that the reality is that when there are critical issues on the ground or ongoing generational issues, what often happens is that they get raised and then they go into this black box ether of multidepartmental malaise and event horizon that results in nothing. It results in more reports and more o…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, the Leader of the Opposition sat in a government that successfully negotiated and finalized six modern-day treaties. My colleague opposite sits in a government that has negotiated zero treaties over 11 years. The proof is in the pudding. Second of all, the Prime Minister, the leader of the member's party, has claimed that he wants to build pipelines, yet he cannot poin…
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Madam Speaker, I rise today to address Bill C-10 and a fundamental issue in our nation's history: the relationship between the Crown and indigenous peoples, which must be grounded in honour, trust and, most importantly, the fulfilment of promises. This relationship demands more than words. It demands action, yet for too long under this government, we have witnessed a pattern of rhetoric outpacing …
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Madam Speaker, I rise today with deep honour and profound sadness to pay tribute to the life of our former colleague, Dr. Kirsty Duncan. Kirsty should be remembered as a true polymath, a remarkable Canadian scientist, advocate and dedicated public servant whose career blended groundbreaking research, passionate advocacy and impactful political leadership. She was also an accomplished athlete, danc…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals issued millions of temporary resident permits in the last five years. The results are that rents have skyrocketed, emergency rooms are overflowing and Canada's youth jobs crisis is the worst it has ever been. Some 1.5 million temporary residents had their permits expire last year. That is more than the entire population of Calgary. I have a simple question: Can the Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, I had a sneaking suspicion the minister would not answer that one, because she actually boasted in the Canadian press that they brought in millions of temporary residents with no way to track if they would leave. Worse, the minister has signed off on bringing in hundreds of thousands more temporary residents this year without knowing if they will leave. At the end of this year, three …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like members to visualise the math lady GIF for a moment, because last year the Liberals removed only 22,000 people who had no legal reason to be in Canada. Millions minus 22,000 is still what? It is still millions. I will ask this again: If the minister has no idea if millions of temporary residents have left and has no plan to remove them, why is she still issuing new permit…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's immigration system used to be the envy of the world, but like so much else the Liberals broke it. Public support for immigration has collapsed, as too many newcomers, too fast, made housing unaffordable, health care unavailable and youth jobs impossible to find. As a government-in-waiting, this fall, Conservatives not only opposed failed mass migration policies but also propo…
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Mr. Speaker, this fall, the Liberals voted against the most comprehensive immigration reforms in recent history, despite their promise to get immigration under control. Conservative proposals presented would have boosted wages and opportunities for Canadian youth by ending the temporary foreign worker program, ensuring non-citizens convicted of serious crimes like sexual assault are deported and p…
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Mr. Speaker, they are applauding him for doing that. It reminded me of the time a few years ago when another Liberal MP for Calgary told Albertans that he would bang on the table for pipelines. He then betrayed his constituents by supporting the Liberal tanker ban and the Liberal “no more pipelines” bill. It seems like history is repeating itself. However, that Liberal member went on to lose his s…
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moved: That Bill C-12, in Clause 72, be amended by replacing line 3 on page 32 with the following: “permanent resident status or to grant or extend study permits or work permits.”
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague as well for her collaborative efforts in amending Bill C-12. The member for Jonquière raised the issue that the government took several of the amendments we had worked collaboratively to pass and then, on its own initiative, exercised House procedure to strip out those amendments. I wonder if my colleague could expand on the fact that, in regard to a lot…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is exactly right. What we have seen from the Liberals over the last 10 years, including that incomprehensible tirade from a backbench Liberal member whom I just dunked on, is that the Liberals have lost the fact that calling things racist and not addressing the real problems Canadians have, that whole process, is what has undermined Canadian pluralism. One of the things…
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Madam Speaker, I do not agree with the member. Somebody who has made an asylum claim that is bogus should not receive federal benefits. Somebody who does not have the right to be in the country should not have better access to care than a Canadian senior who has paid their way here. It is that shift in thinking that needs to happen to restore order and sanity. My colleague is wrong. Most Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, after a decade of Liberal obfuscation and obstruction, Albertans have had enough. We need a pipeline to the Pacific, but yesterday, the Liberal member for Calgary Confederation voted against a motion that would have reassured his constituents that hope was possible—
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Madam Speaker, after a decade of Liberal mismanagement, describing Canada's immigration system as a tire fire sorely in need of competent management and dramatic reform would not be an exaggeration. Therefore, Conservatives, to show we are a government in waiting, proposed multiple constructive amendments to the immigration components of Bill C-12 in an attempt to improve the legislation and fix C…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to report to my colleague that he will be voting in favour of many of our amendments. I am sure he will enjoy that, and I will enjoy watching him while he does it.
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Mr. Speaker, it is so exciting to see a Conservative elected in Windsor. It is awesome. My colleague is standing up for jobs in his community. While the Liberals are spending tens of billions of dollars on companies that are taking investments to other countries, with no job guarantees, he is standing up and saying he is going to protect the auto sector in his riding. I say kudos to him, and no, o…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the time that my colleague and I spent at the public safety committee last week trying to improve Bill C-12, which was so lacking with regard to border security. I will note that, every time the Liberals say they are going to hire more border security, they do not do it. It is about the announcement. Colour me skeptical if I do not believe anything they say they are going…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the member rose in this place and said that, if somebody was being sexually assaulted in this country, a non-citizen, judges would not give them special treatment. He said that. Then he stood in the House and gave many examples of that, including a 13-year-old girl who had been raped. I thought he was going to apologize for saying that, but I guess hope springs eternal.
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Mr. Speaker, it would be a productivity superdeduction if the government scrapped the temporary foreign worker program and stopped allowing businesses that have no reason to bring in temporary labour to continue to suppress our wages and suppress productivity in this country. I think about how badly the government has distorted productivity measures by allowing literally millions of temporary fore…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister completely did not answer the question. She did not listen to it. My colleague asked why she was allowing one-click citizenship, which, to repeat a famous line in the House, we found on the government's website. People get their citizenship by doing a virtual ceremony and clicking a box. That is what we are talking about here. I cannot believe she is still the minister. W…
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Mr. Speaker, they spent $15 billion, and Stellantis just left the country. Yesterday, guess where Stellantis was. Its representatives were at the White House. Do members know what they were saying? They are investing $13 billion in the United States, a direct transfer from Canadian taxpayers to the United States of America, while rich Campbell's lobbyists, who I am sure are probably friends with s…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The deputy House leader, or whatever his title is, just told you to shut up. He should apologize.
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Mr. Speaker, lost in all of the media stories last week was a CBC story that talked about a Campbell's soup executive getting caught in a meeting making fun of the “poor people” who ate their soup. This executive apparently said that Campbell's soup was for “poor people” and was a “highly processed food” that poor people had to eat. When I saw that story, it seemed to be the perfect analogy for th…
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Mr. Speaker, last year, well after the pandemic, where were more than half of Canadian citizenships conducted? It was online, by clicking a box. How does that unify Canadians? How does that imply and impart the responsibilities of being Canadian? She is standing up here and defending a postnational strategy. Will she end one-click, virtual citizenships?
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Mr. Speaker, in 2022 a Jamaican national was convicted in the United States of an aggravated felony of sexual abuse of a minor, but in 2023 the Liberals welcomed him to Canada. Worse, they allowed him to claim asylum, and today that child sexual abuser is still in Canada. The Liberals voted against Conservative measures to prevent non-citizen child sexual abusers from entering Canada, abusing our …
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Mr. Speaker, it is quite the indictment when the Liberals do not even let the immigration minister answer a question about immigration. In a CBC interview when he was the immigration minister—
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Mr. Speaker, in a CBC interview when he was the immigration minister, the new minister of culture dismissed premiers' pleas for support for a flood of Liberal-enabled fraudulent asylum claims by saying, “I think what they're [the premiers are] advancing...is a complete crock of [bleep].” In reality, he oversaw billions of dollars going to house bogus asylum claimants while emergency rooms overflow…
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Madam Speaker, millions of Canadians do not have a family doctor, and Canada's emergency rooms are overflowing, but non-citizens who have had their asylum claims rejected are eligible for all sorts of federal health benefits that Canadians are not entitled to, such as mental health support and vision care. It is unfair to offer people with no legal reason to be in Canada better federal health bene…
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Madam Speaker, people with no legal right to be in Canada should not have access to federal health benefits. The Liberals have given yet another chance to stay in Canada to a Dutch Somali national who gave multiple false names and birth dates to immigration officers and who also lied about being in a polygamous marriage. Lying to immigration officers should immediately invalidate somebody's abilit…
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Madam Speaker, in that case, the government found out that the person was a polygamist and lied about it, and it still let them stay here. We also this week heard the Liberals argue against my bill that would remove the ability of activists, judges and lawyers to give leniency to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes like sexual assault. For a non-citizen, being able to stay in Canada should be…
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Mr. Speaker, a senior Liberal debating my bill to stop leniency for non-citizens convicted of serious crimes said this: “If someone is going out there and raping another individual, do we really believe that they are going to get special treatment from a judge...?” Well, the very next day, there was a report of a non-citizen in Barrie being convicted of raping a 13-year-old little girl and impregn…
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Mr. Speaker, this is why the bill is so important. In order to preserve the value of Canadian citizenship, we need to understand there are responsibilities associated with being in Canada, not just privileges and benefits. In order to have those privileges and benefits, there are responsibilities. The bare minimum, as outlined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act already, is not to get co…
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moved that Bill C-220, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (immigration status in sentencing), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, should judges be allowed to use a non-citizen's immigration status to issue a more lenient sentence to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes like sexual assault, just so that they can avoid deportation? The answer is no. Tonight, I am ple…
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Mr. Speaker, I outlined in my speech why my bill upholds the principle of judicial independence. It also outlines how the Pham decision intended for the courts not to do exactly what they are doing right now, which is to subvert the will of Parliament. It has already been exerted in IRPA, which clearly states that a non-citizen convicted of a serious crime should be deported. My colleague is intro…
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Mr. Speaker, I will speak to two provisions briefly. The Criminal Code already states that sentencing needs to consider the impact on a victim. My colleague is absolutely right. However, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act also clearly states that a non-citizen who has been convicted of a serious crime should be deported. This is for any serious crime, because there is a victim in any crime…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday a shocking exposé by Global News outlined how in 2016 the Liberals allowed a Syrian national named Omar Alkassab, who is a financier of Hamas, to claim refugee status in Canada. On Tuesday officials revealed that the Liberals have launched a one-touch program that allows refugee claimants, when entering Canada, to self-declare whether or not they are terrorists. How many Ham…
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Mr. Speaker, for those listening at home, that translates to “They do not know.” Global News also reported that an astonishing 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas now have ties to Canada. Last week, in response to an official request, the minister was unable to say how many non-citizen criminals and terrorists the Liberals have granted status to, and now Global News is revealing that the terro…
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Mr. Speaker, that excepts a Pakistani national who was convicted of raping his niece. He came into Canada while being on the U.K. sex offender list. It also excepts Simba's abuser. The government does not take the issue seriously. In fact it is so bad that this week the Liberals admitted that they did not even know how many convicted criminals they gave citizenship to. Seriously, they put that in …
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Mr. Speaker, non-citizen Abraham Daniel Abraham was convicted of criminally abusing his dog, Simba. Abraham repeatedly punched and kicked Simba and tied him to a pole so high that his front legs dangled off the ground. Simba could not lie down or sit and was left crying and yelping, yet Abraham remains in Canada with no deportation guarantee. That is disgusting. Why has the immigration minister no…
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that we have an immigration minister who is so weak that she will not even stand up to answer questions like this. I asked about the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, but she will not stand up, so I will ask again. The case I referred to is so disgusting. There have been so many cases like it: serious criminals and non-citizens who need to be deported. Will the im…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians that they need to sacrifice more to pay for the Liberals' inflationary deficit, but the Liberals sure are not sacrificing much. Yesterday, an Ottawa gossip rag feted the Liberals for attending a lavish deficit cocktail party hosted by rich Ottawa insiders, lobbyists and media firms, who were thrilled with the billions of tax dollars for their wealthy …
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