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Mr. Chair, what is the current projection for unemployment?
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Mr. Chair, is that up or down from the government's previous projection, and what would the projection be for the budget?
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Mr. Chair, this exchange will age if the rate should happen to exceed 7%. Ordinarily, these projections would be in a budget that would be tabled in March or maybe April at the latest, so this is ordinarily something the government would project. Is the minister giving an assurance to this House that the unemployment rate will not exceed 7%?
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Mr. Chair, so will the number remain at seven or lower? Will it exceed 7%, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, the projection is 7% and will not exceed 7%: Is it a yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, does the minister support new Canadian pipelines?
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance is part of a consensus within his cabinet to build oil and gas pipelines. The Prime Minister told Canadians that he supported the government's decision not to cancel the approval of northern gateway. Has the Prime Minister changed his mind, and is the Minister of Finance part of a consensus to build oil and gas pipelines?
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Mr. Speaker, once again, the minister did not answer the question. The Prime Minister has said pipelines will be built only if there is a national consensus. The Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the Minister of Environment and the Prime Minister himself have all opposed new pipelines. Is there now consensus in cabinet to build new Canadian oil and gas pipelines?
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Mr. Chair, on what date will the budget be balanced?
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Mr. Speaker, the member did not answer my question. What was the cost to the Canadian taxpayer for the construction of TMX, which would have been built with private money had the Liberals not chased the private builder out of Canada?
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Mr. Chair, in 2015 the government was elected and promised a balanced budget by 2019. It is 2025. The fall economic statement had no date for a balanced budget in sight. On what date will the minister project having a balanced budget?
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Mr. Speaker, it is a really simple question: Does the Minister of Finance support new Canadian pipelines in principle, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, I had to ask the question three times before I got an answer. I will take that as a yes. The minister has now said that he supports the construction of new Canadian pipelines, so he says. How about the trade minister?
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of blocking pipelines, is the minister saying in the House of Commons that he now supports the construction of new oil and gas pipelines, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the government chased private capital out of Canada. This pipeline would have been built privately; instead it was built by the taxpayer. How much did it cost to build?
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join the debate on the opposition motion, which calls for the government to table “a fiscally responsible budget before the House adjourns for the summer, that reverses [the] inflationary policies” of the past nine and a half years under the Liberal government. Let us be clear about a few things. The government most assuredly is not a new government. There has not been…
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Mr. Speaker, this is so typical of what we saw throughout the entire last Parliament. A government that prorogued the House, dissolved Parliament and forced Parliament to sit idle for six months now demands to know whether we can we drop everything and just rubber-stamp its legislation. The member seems to suggest that the Liberals can ignore Parliament for months at a time, and that then somehow …
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Mr. Speaker, the member raises a great point. It was a disturbing and chilling bit of political theatre when we watched the Prime Minister sit down as if we were in a presidential system, and sign some paper. I do not even know what was on that piece of paper, but he felt that he had the power to usurp what is normally the prerogative of the House. Maybe it was just his ignorance of parliamentary …
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Mr. Speaker, the government has certainly signalled that it would like to do that, which is using accounting trickery to deceive Canadians about the true nature of the deficit. This has been tried at the provincial level. It does not work. It is a mistake if the government wants to go that route.
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Madam Speaker, I welcome the member for Calgary Signal Hill to this House. He is another Calgary MP. It is great to see him here. I share his thanks to his predecessor, Ron Liepert, who is a good friend and known to all of us in this House. We wish him the best in retirement. The member spoke in response to the last question. I would like to give him more time to fully explain some of the points t…
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Mr. Speaker, while I share many of the member's ideals of democratic government and elected parliaments, I would like to discuss the actual matter at hand, the Speech from the Throne. This is a Speech from the Throne that contains no plan or map forward for the government, through these admittedly very difficult times that we face, and there will be no budget tabled in the spring session. Parliame…
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Mr. Speaker, it certainly would have been better to have not had a carbon tax at all, industrial or consumer. We would not have had this series of bureaucratic difficulties that the member mentions. From roughly 2017 to 2019, I was the shadow minister for the CRA. I would hear, every day, staggering examples of the challenges Canadians face in dealing with that agency, often made more complicated …
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Mr. Speaker, although this is not my first intervention in this Parliament, this is the first opportunity I have had to take a moment to thank the voters of Calgary Crowfoot. I am getting used to the riding name change. Many riding names have changed, but I thank the voters of Calgary Crowfoot for sending me to this place for the fourth time in nine and a half years. I want to thank my opponents i…
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Mr. Speaker, I did not comment on this in my remarks. I was hoping for questions and comments that were related to the speech I made. We will see what is proposed, and we will examine legislation as it is proposed.
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Mr. Speaker, it is true, thankfully, that over nine and a half years was not long enough for the government to actually completely kill the industry. We are thankful for that. There are a number of points that the member brought up. He brought up TMX, and it still astounds me, the credit that the Liberals want to seek for driviPng private capital out of the oil and gas business. They had to take o…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad I was able to catch your eye. I would like to express my congratulations to you. I wonder if the member for Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke could comment further on the extent to which the Liberal Party campaigned on its purported plan, yet it has tabled a Speech from the Throne that contains no concrete plan whatsoever and no budget.
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Mr. Speaker, when the Liberal government was first elected in 2015, it killed 16 major resource projects and chased $176 billion out of the Canadian economy. This resulted in thousands of lost jobs in my city alone, and Bill C-69 continues to make it impossible to build the pipelines needed to unleash our resources and to restore our economic independence. Will the Prime Minister commit today to c…
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The subamendment is in order. Questions and comments, the hon. member for Beauce.
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Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to the new member's speech, and I congratulate her on her election to the House of Commons and welcome her to this chamber. She represents a suburban riding that I imagine has much in common with my own. I wonder if she could talk a bit about some of the things she heard at the door during the campaign. She knocked on 100,000 doors during her campaign, I understan…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, of his Liberal MPs and of Canadians, while desperately clinging to power. Yesterday, they found a random Liberal minister to table the disastrous fall economic statement after he fired his former finance minister, who would not sign off on smashing through her $40-billion fiscal guardrail. That was all in order to make room fo…
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Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I drew a straight line from the substance of the debate, which dealt with international trade, and the election results. I am quite interested to hear more about the connection between international trade and the election results last night.
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister's failure to table a timely fall economic statement goes to the core incompetency of the government. Canadians need a government to axe the carbon tax, build more homes by exempting the GST from new home construction and fix the budget by getting spending under control. Canadians are tired of waiting. Can the finance minister confirm whether she will keep her prom…
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Mr. Speaker, it is nearly Christmas and we are still waiting for the fall economic statement and the public accounts, both of which should have been tabled in October. That is just basic management. Canadians need to know how much debt the government is piling on. If the government cannot even manage the basics, like giving Canadians the straight facts about the public's finances, will it call an …
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Madam Speaker, I answered his question. It contains a ridiculous premise that I reject, and so there is no answer for that question. It is a non-question.
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Mr. Speaker, over the last nine years, and in particular over the last three, we have watched the NDP enable all of the corruption and incompetence of the Liberal government. It has really been on display with how this bill came into being. The NDP and the Liberals seemed to be somewhere writing on the back of a cocktail napkin, trying to cobble together some kind of a bill that could distract Can…
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Madam Speaker, the member is absolutely right. It was an excellent but leading question. She suggested that this whole system is arbitrary and strange and will benefit wealthier Canadians. People who perhaps buy large quantities of things in January, such as a year's supply of beer or wine, and warehouse it, can do so, but these are the better capitalized Canadians who have more money, not the peo…
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Madam Speaker, the previous government did no such thing. I reject the premise of the member's question.
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Madam Speaker, what we have before us tonight, as I mentioned before, is part of a broader, desperate gimmick that the Liberals cobbled together on a napkin somewhere with the hope that the NDP, the Bloc and their backbench would sustain the government a little longer. They cannot, so we are down to this GST bill. I will vote against it. I oppose the government's agenda. We need a serious governme…
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Madam Speaker, I am sharing my time with the member for Simcoe North and look forward to his remarks. What we are debating is the outcome of a desperate gimmick announced by the government a few days ago, for which, somewhere on the back of a cocktail napkin, it cobbled together some kind of desperate ploy to buy Canadians' votes. The plan originally had more components than what is going to be vo…
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Madam Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Madam Speaker, it was a heck of a lot easier to administer an across-the-board cut on all products for one month than this bizarre, cobbled-together laundry list the Liberals have created, but that is beside the point. The point is that I have no confidence in the government. I will not vote in favour of a budgetary tax measure, a money bill. I am not going to vote for it and I am proud to oppose …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister said she wanted to “help Canadians get past that vibecession”. I am not exactly sure what that means, but I do know that the Deputy Prime Minister has unleashed nine years of economic vandalism on Canadians. Canadians are poorer now than they were nine years ago. She might think that this is just bad vibes, but it is a fact from Statistics Canada. …
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to my colleague from Kelowna Lake—Country for interrupting her speech, but the Standing Orders of the House of Commons insist that more than one party House leader sign an order to extend a House sitting. I am certain that the Conservative House leader has signed no such order, and I just wanted to confirm that the request for an extension is in order.
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Mr. Speaker, while the member for Chilliwack—Hope was giving an answer about the supremacy of Parliament in a democratic society, where the sanctity of votes in this chamber have to count for something as an expression of the democratic will of people, the parliamentary secretary was heckling the member and disagreeing that votes in Parliament were the final say in this matter, that Parliament was…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to say that I was astonished by what I saw in question period today. I have seen a lot of personal attacks and a lot of vitriolic debate, but that was quite exceptional. To get to the point, I think that this member needs to be given a further opportunity to really address that and to call it for what it is. Those were the actions of a deeply insecure bully that we saw this aft…
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With regard to the proposal to increase the capital gains inclusion rate to two-thirds for certain taxpayers: (a) how many taxpayers realized capital gains of $250,000 or more in each tax year from 2003 to 2023 inclusively; (b) how many of the taxpayers in (a) realized capital gains of $250,000 (i) once, (ii) twice, (iii) more than twice, (iv) every year; and (c) how many of the taxpayers in (b) w…
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With regard to the difference between the membership of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) (all branches) as of October 1, 2024, and the CAF’s total authorized strength: (a) how many new members does the CAF need to recruit to reach authorized strength; (b) how many recruitment applications can the CAF process each month; (c) how many Canadians applied to join the CAF each month between October 1, 20…
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Mr. Speaker, it would seem to me that, with the declining per capita GDP, Canadians are getting poorer, and with $400 million going out the door to Liberal insiders, Liberal insiders are getting richer. This happened because of the deliberate choices the government made. It was Navdeep Bains who made the choice to clear out the existing board and appoint his own hand-picked chair, and then, under …
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