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Mr. Speaker, let me clarify that just because I am asking him how much money he is putting in does not mean that I am in favour of the project. We have been clear: Our position is still the same. However, during the last election campaign, the Liberals promised to fund 40% of the project. The project is starting now, but the funding has not been confirmed. There is legitimate concern in Quebec Cit…
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Mr. Speaker, for several weeks now, there has been a lot of conflicting information circulating about the Quebec City tramway project. Here we have the member for Beauport—Limoilou telling us about a $13-billion project, while project managers are telling us it will cost $7.6 billion. One of the things that we do not know but that we need to know is how much money the federal government is willing…
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Mr. Speaker, according to the Auditor General, tens of thousands of people entered the country and stayed here without proper screening, even though many cases had already been flagged. The government is unable to say which international students are following the rules, which ones have left the country and which ones remain here illegally. In other words, the Liberals opened the door, but they no…
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Mr. Speaker, this government has completely lost control of immigration over the last 10 years. The proof came yesterday in the Auditor General's report, which confirms that 150,000 of the people who applied for a student visa had been flagged as high-risk. The government is only able to verify 4,000 cases. The rest have been forgotten, lost in the system. Right now, the Liberals cannot even say w…
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Mr. Speaker, on March 12, in Montreal, 55-year-old Chong Woo Kim was stabbed to death in his own convenience store in broad daylight by Xavier Gellatly, an individual with a years-long record of violent behaviour and serious mental health issues. As far back as 2016, authorities began issuing warnings that he might kill someone if he were released. Despite that, he was released without adequate su…
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Mr. Speaker, at my request here in the House, the public safety committee established a special subcommittee in 2017 to study the case of Eustachio Gallese, who killed Marylène Levesque in Quebec City after being released without proper supervision. Now, years later, we have the same issue, specifically that an individual who should not be out on the street, someone who should not be walking aroun…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have known for years that senior members of the Iranian regime were living in Canada. This week, however, we learned that they expelled only one of them, even though 239 visas had been revoked. Liberal government officials also stated in committee that they could not expel members of the Iranian regime because they were eligible to claim asylum and their privacy had to be…
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Mr. Speaker, what the Minister of Public Safety shared today is very little compared to what needs to be done. Today, we submitted specific points to the government. Allow me to repeat what we are asking the government to do. We are asking it to urgently enforce deportation orders for Iranian regime officials, to evaluate Canada's terrorism threat level, which has remained unchanged since 2014, an…
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Mr. Speaker, the Iranian Canadian community is talking to us, in fact. Iranian Canadians are telling us that the presence of IRGC members on Canadian soil is a huge problem for their community. We are not talking about one, two or three people. We are talking about hundreds of people linked to this terrorist group. They have been banned for years now. Can the minister confirm that there are still …
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Mr. Speaker, in 2018, we moved a motion calling on the Liberal government to immediately designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, as a listed terrorist entity. It took the Liberals six long years to wake up and do it. Right now, an estimated 700 members of the IRGC are living the good life here in Canada. I am reluctant to ask the following question. If it took them six years to …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister said that the immigration system was under control. However, the Liberals have broken our immigration system. Here are the facts: 86,000 bogus refugee claimants are still in Canada. More than 33,000 are still wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency. Worse still, 25,000 asylum seekers were accepted without any security checks. In addition, the Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not personal. It is professional. Clearly, this minister does not understand her file. Ten of her colleagues told the French CBC that the minister was not familiar with her files and that she was incompetent. We need a minister who can grasp what is going on in Canada to manage immigration. Will the Prime Minister show some backbone and fire her?
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Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to draw the House's attention to an initiative that I undertook in my riding to help people learn more about fraud and cybercrime, a reality that directly affects many families. According to data from the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, between 2020 and 2024, more than 2,100 incidents of fraud were reported in Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles. The most common forms of …
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is a generous country. We are proud of our universal health care system, and we are proud of our tradition of welcoming newcomers. However, generosity must never come at the expense of fairness. Today, Canadians can see that their health care system is under pressure like never before. Six million Canadians do not have access to a family doctor, and waiting lists are growing. E…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, we have been very clear. If people need emergency care, then of course we are committed to providing such care. However, the report that was tabled and that was discussed at the Standing Committee on Health clearly indicates that the system is being abused. As we speak, there are people in Canada whose asylum claims have been denied and who are receiving extend…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, it is important to understand that Bill C‑12 was introduced because objections were raised with regard to the problems with Bill C‑2. A solution was found with Bill C‑12. Now, is discrediting the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who conducts assessments, a normal way of doing things for the Liberals? The Liberals have disagreed with the Parliamentary Budget Officer's number…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that very good question. If there are asylum seekers whose claims have been denied, who are criminals and who must serve a sentence, I think that they should serve it in Canada, unless there are explicit agreements with countries that can confirm that the person will serve their prison sentence in the country in question. However, if there is any doubt at all,…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of this Liberal government, our once exemplary immigration system is now in shambles. At the Standing Committee on Health, we found out that health care providers are charging taxpayers up to five times the provincial rates for illegal asylum seekers. Meanwhile, six million Canadians do not have a family doctor. It is an insult to Canadians who have paid taxes their who…
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report is scathing. The soaring costs of the interim federal health program prove that the Liberals have lost control. The system is broken. We will have no choice but to cut federal benefits for ineligible asylum seekers, except in cases of emergency. Furthermore, we must ensure that Canada has the housing and health care capacity to welcome newcome…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister said that the global market is doing well, but the Canadian market is completely collapsing. It is no secret that Quebec City has always been a close-knit community, a place where it is possible to buy a home and safely raise a family. Now, however, the Liberals have increased immigration levels to the point where it has become impossible for young people to buy their fir…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think she understood the question. I urge her to read the piece by Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard, a young Quebec intellectual who warned that the war on cars, radical environmentalism and excessively high immigration levels are changing the unique nature of Quebec City. Our young people can no longer afford to buy a home. Liberal elected officials from Quebec City, like the ma…
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Mr. Speaker, the number of cars manufactured in Canada dropped by half compared to 2016, and over 5,000 jobs have been lost. To add insult to injury, the Prime Minister implemented an auto strategy that subsidizes electric vehicles manufactured abroad. On this side of the House, we have a better idea. Why not ease the burden on Canadian workers and citizens by eliminating these subsidies for forei…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the member for Beauport—Limoilou told us in the House that the cost of the Quebec City tramway had reached $13 billion. That is $5 billion more than what is set out in the agreement between Quebec City and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Can the Minister of Finance confirm whether the cost of the Quebec City tramway is $7.6 billion or $13 billion, as the member …
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Mr. Speaker, $1.4 billion was promised nine years ago. That is the first part. Now we have gone far beyond that, and the member for Beauport—Limoilou says that the project cost now sits at $13 billion. The federal government promised to pay 40%. At $13 billion, will the Liberals be able to follow through? Nothing in the current budget is provided for Quebec as a whole. There is no budget for publi…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague across the way has not read the news because this morning, Le Journal de Montréal reported that a single mother is the victim of a heartless landlord, who is trying to evict her from her home, and his wife, who refuses to communicate with her in French. Is the member for Pierrefonds—Dollard aware of his lack of empathy and moral compass?
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Mr. Speaker, I was pleased to hear my colleague from Beauport-Limoilou talk about the Quebec City tramway. During the last election, the member was elected on the promise that his government would support the Quebec City tramway, while we, on our side, said that we would not invest a penny in a project that was unpopular in the region. Now my colleague is saying that the cost has risen to $13 bill…
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Mr. Speaker, as we know, since the Liberals came to power, the cost of living has gone up, grocery prices have gone up and rents have gone up. For single mothers and ordinary people, things are tough, and it is getting harder and harder to pay the rent at the end of the month. Can the Prime Minister confirm that all members of his cabinet and his MPs agree with the idea of personally helping vulne…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is now leading the G7 in food inflation. Back in 2023, however, the then industry minister declared that the Liberal government had obtained a commitment from Canada's major grocery store chains to stabilize and lower prices. Then, in September 2023, the same minister threatened to use every means at the government's disposal to force these chains to drop grocery prices. In Oct…
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Mr. Speaker, we have already said that we will not oppose giving Canadians $10 a week in discount coupons. However, the same minister who was responsible for industry two and a half years ago said that the office of consumer affairs would monitor grocery prices. What we are seeing right now is that grocery prices have doubled. What does the minister have to say about that?
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Mr. Speaker, listen to this question carefully. Here in the House, all members are subject to the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons. Well, the Conflict of Interest Act states that “no public office holder shall personally solicit funds” if it places them “in a conflict of interest”. However, Quebec's anti-corruption squad is currently conducting a criminal investigation…
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Mr. Speaker, I will ask a question again. Right now, Quebec's anti-corruption squad is investigating the Liberal flim-flammery in Ottawa—
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Mr. Speaker, I will ask another question. The fact remains that the whole affair is currently being covered by the media. It is being discussed everywhere. We saw the member for Laval—Les Îles make a statement on TVA saying that he would be issuing a statement to explain his involvement in this scandal, which is currently under investigation by Quebec's anti-corruption squad. My question now is on…
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Mr. Speaker, here in the House, all members are subject to the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons. The Conflict of Interest Act states that “no public office holder shall personally solicit funds” if it places them “in a conflict of interest”. However, Quebec's anti-corruption squad is currently conducting a criminal investigation into the Liberal flim-flammery in Ottawa…
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Mr. Speaker, the new Minister responsible for Official Languages was only in his position one day—not 10 days, five days or even two days—before he said that he was fed up with hearing about the decline of French in Quebec. As Mathieu Bock-Côté so aptly put it, “it's the federal Liberals' usual denial, disdain and contempt toward the future of French in Quebec.” Does the Prime Minister realize tha…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing is certain: The Leader of the Opposition would never have appointed a unilingual anglophone Governor General. We are fed up on this side of the House. We are fed up with Justin Trudeau's former ministers. We are fed up with ministers who broke Canada's immigration system, fed up with a minister who refuses to acknowledge the decline of French and fed up with a minister who d…
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the rules pertaining to a public office holder, the Government of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act clearly states that “No public office holder shall...give preferential treatment to any person or organization based on the identity of the person or organization that represents the first-mentioned person or organization”. The federal Liberal member for Laval—Les Îles …
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Mr. Speaker, let me get back to the functions of the Government of Canada. My question is about conflicts of interest. We know that the federal Liberal member for Laval—Les Îles is currently under investigation by Quebec's chief electoral officer. That is a fact. Now, the question is a simple one. Can the Prime Minister confirm that no members of his cabinet or of the federal Liberal caucus are in…
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Mr. Speaker, this morning, we learned from La Presse that the Liberal member for Laval—Les Îles denies being involved in the Quebec Liberal Party leadership campaign even though he was in possession of a certificate authorizing him to solicit—
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Mr. Speaker, I think it is pretty clear that this question pertains to a member of Parliament who is sitting across from me. I think it is relevant. Now, the question is clear: Can the Prime Minister guarantee that no member of the Liberal caucus broke federal or provincial laws?
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Mr. Speaker, we are here to talk about compliance with federal laws and, on that point, it is important to recall the facts. The former parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Marwah Rizqy, told Pablo Rodriguez that there was some Liberal “funny business” going on in Ottawa.
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. With all due respect, you prevented me from asking questions about government operations. With your permission, I will ask my question.
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Mr. Speaker, after all this “funny business”, we see that the Liberals want to cover it up. That being said—
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals want to arbitrarily grant citizenship to whoever they want, just like they did 30 years ago. That is right. In Bill C‑12 the Liberals want to give themselves the power to change temporary residents' visas to give them permanent residency. The Liberals will be able to “cancel or vary documents, including permanent resident visas, permanent resident cards, temporary residen…
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Mr. Speaker, I hope that the minister will read her own bill so that she understands what she is doing. That said, at the G20 summit last weekend, when the Prime Minister was asked whether he intended to speak with the U.S. President, he replied, “Who cares?” We also learned from Brookfield's chief operating officer, who testified before a parliamentary committee, that 95% of the companies owned b…
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Mr. Speaker, they were elected under false pretenses. They were supposed to find a solution to the problems with Donald Trump, but they have failed miserably. Meanwhile, the country has other major problems, including problems at the Canada Revenue Agency. The cost of government bureaucracy has risen by 80% since the Liberals took office, and now, nearly one million people cannot even access the C…
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Mr. Speaker, former minister Diane Lebouthillier spent a decade making cuts. She cut CRA services. Cuts are still happening. People come to our constituency offices every day to complain about problems. Women cry in our staffers' arms. I myself have had a hard time using the services. It took me four attempts to resolve a tax issue I had. There is a problem. Nothing has been fixed. Can the governm…
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Mr. Speaker, since taking office, the Prime Minister has made more than 20 trips abroad under the pretext of wanting to create a richer Canada. However, the results have been the complete opposite. During the Prime Minister's travels around the world, Donald Trump's tariffs have doubled. Tariffs on aluminum are now sitting at 50%, lumber tariffs have tripled and thousands of Canadian jobs have bee…
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Mr. Speaker, we will always support what works, but what is not working is this government. For 10 years, we have been seeing that this government is not working. The Parliamentary Budget Officer, who conducted a transparent analysis, said that the chance of meeting the deficit targets is less than 10%. We know that this government is not working. Furthermore, this government just posted an ad for…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to quote experts, but only when it suits them. The Fitch rating agency, which assigns the government's credit rating, recently said that the federal finances are a disaster, but the Liberals are refusing to listen to what the agency has to say. Meanwhile, in his report last week, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said that government spending is unsustainable and alar…
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