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Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that the minister takes himself seriously when he speaks. We know that this makes no sense, and the Minister of Finance resigned this morning for that very reason. She knows that it makes no sense. Furthermore, in her resignation letter, the Minister of Finance said that “how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perh…
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Mr. Speaker, as everyone knows, the Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of immigration, he has lost control of the cost of housing, he has lost control of his caucus, and now he has lost control of public finances and has lost the confidence of his Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. This Prime Minister has done major damage to Canada. We know it, and most Canadians kno…
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Mr. Speaker, according to The Globe and Mail, tensions are growing between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance over spending measures such as the election gimmick of cutting the GST for Christmas. Even their own officials say that this $6.28‑billion expense is fiscally unwise. We all know that the Prime Minister has lost control and that the Minister of Finance is going to break her pro…
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Mr. Speaker, the holiday season is the perfect time to take a moment to express our gratitude to those who make our community a better place to live. Today, I would like to sincerely thank all the organizations in Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles for their commitment, generosity and unwavering dedication. Their actions make a real difference in the lives of many families and individuals. Whether t…
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Mr. Speaker, we are ending the days of action to end violence against women on a very bad note. In May 2020, this government unilaterally banned the use of firearms legally obtained by law-abiding citizens. In November 2022, with the support of the Bloc Québécois, the government banned hunting rifles. While the government is attacking honest citizens, armed violence has increased by 116% in nine y…
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Mr. Speaker, there has been chaos at the border since 2017. Hundreds of thousands of people have crossed our border following the Prime Minister's reckless invitation. Canada now has 500,000 people who entered illegally. That is on top of the three million people on temporary permits who may decide to stay here. The Prime Minister has lost control of immigration and of the border. How does he plan…
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Mr. Speaker, the first thing we did, in 2017, was immediately criticize the Prime Minister's infamous tweets. Not only were they completely reckless, they made no sense whatsoever. We have been limited to criticizing for nine years, given that we are on this side of the House. When we are on the other side, we will deal with the problem. In the meantime, what we are seeing is a loss of control at …
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Mr. Speaker, for nine years, we have been asking this Prime Minister to wake up and regain control of our border, but he continues to do the opposite. For example, in 2015, the number of unprocessed asylum claims was under 10,000. Today, there are over 260,000 unprocessed claims. We called for more policing of our border and greater collaboration with provincial police forces to crack down on huma…
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Mr. Speaker, President-elect Trump just asked the Prime Minister to do something. We have been asking for the same thing over here for nine years. We are calling for additional measures to stop gun smuggling, drug trafficking and auto theft. He never listened. Gun smuggling and auto theft are a scourge in Quebec. We have suggested enhanced surveillance at the Port of Montreal and at the border, bu…
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Madam Speaker, we do have an order of Parliament here. We have been debating this issue for eight weeks now. Basically, we are waiting for documents to be produced. People are wondering why the government refuses to comply. They cannot understand why the Prime Minister's power is above Parliament. Parliament belongs to the people. We are here to represent 41 million Canadians. People are saying th…
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Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question. How much money is going to be found? We know that $400 million was misappropriated. That $400 million disappeared and we know that it went to friends. Now, we need to know precisely who received the money and how. We know that at least $400 million can be found. Often, when we have access to the documents, when we can see the information, we notice tha…
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to speak about our oh-so-beloved Liberal government and, more specifically, about the problem that we have been discussing for several weeks now, namely the infamous $400 million that was diverted to Liberal cronies. Those funds came from a program that worked flawlessly from 2001 to 2016 or 2017. What happened at that point? There was a change of governme…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague who is very engaged in helping protect women and works to ensure that we have stronger laws for protecting women from violence. To answer her question, I talk to people every weekend when I am in my riding. The first question they ask me is when will there be an election so that we can get a new prime minister. Then, the current corruption problems involving doc…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister destroyed our armed forces by making bad decisions and constantly wasting procurement resources. One thing that he could do today is announce that he is cancelling the $1 billion in cuts to the Department of National Defence's budget and present a real plan to reallocate that money to priorities that would help rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces and strengthen North …
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Madam Speaker, if the member opposite had listened carefully to what I said earlier, he would have heard that today's numbers are different from earlier figures because NATO rules changed in 2017. NATO allowed Canada to include the Coast Guard, veterans' pensions and the Department of National Defence's IT expenses in the defence budgets. Some $7 billion was allocated to this spending, which sudde…
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Madam Speaker, I will remain respectful because my colleague is new here. He is flexing his muscles and having a bit of fun, but he has no idea how the Canadian and U.S. forces work together. Maybe he should check his notes and look up what NORAD is. Canada and the United States work together as part of a larger, binational military organization. That is NORAD. Together with NATO, we are all inter…
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Madam Speaker, I do not think my colleague is ever going to know what it is like to run a government. However, his support for the Liberal government over the past nine years ensured that the country's national debt doubled. What will he say to Canadians who are now required to pay more for the goods and services they need because inflation has gone up, everything is more expensive and the price o…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from Jonquière must be following what is going on right now and why the new U.S. president-elect is threatening to impose 25% tariffs. These are the consequences related to border management and drug trafficking. Canada's national defence, which is a bit player as far as the Americans are concerned, only adds to the friction. That is why we are taking stock of Canada's …
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Mr. Speaker, in his speech, my colleague from Jonquière said that the Conservatives never talked about closing borders after the problems we had with illegal immigrants. My colleague was elected in 2019, if I am not mistaken. Since 2017, from day one, when the Prime Minister posted his infamous tweet inviting the whole world to come to Canada, I have been here and I have been asking questions. I e…
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Madam Speaker, the current trademark of the Liberal government is to set up structures and systems that are completely independent of Parliament or the government, while hiring 109,000 new public servants and creating a megastructure of employees to manage government business. There are two things happening. On the one hand, there are external structures and external companies that are paid $20 bi…
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Madam Speaker, obviously, we are still talking about $400 million because that is the known quantity. However, the Auditor General said that she found this amount of $400 million by checking 40% to 60% of the data, which means that we could actually be talking about an amount of up to $1 billion. That is even more scandalous. This $400 million is already a huge amount. Today, we are talking about …
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak to a truly vital issue this evening. Over the past nine years, a number of yellow flags have been raised by our NATO partners, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the defence industry. Now, our number-one defence partner, the United States of America, has raised a huge red flag. The U.S. government has had enough of potential threats to its citizens' safet…
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Madam Speaker, trust is the foundation. Trust should be the basis of everything in politics. We are here to represent the people. When we get elected, people put their trust in us and tell themselves that we are going to represent them in the House of Commons. When a government is elected, regardless of its political stripe, people say that we should trust the government that is in power. However,…
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Mr. Speaker, the whole world has seen the images of the riots in Montreal. It is shameful. We are reaping what the Prime Minister sowed with his woke, divisive policies. He is dividing people based on their race, gender, religion, region, age, wealth and so on. Because of these policies, we have lost control of our borders. The government has allowed criminals to come to Canada. The country is in …
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Mr. Speaker, for this Prime Minister, it is not enough that Hamas supporters are burning our city centres. He has opened the borders to terrorists and criminals. He called anyone who questioned them racist. Despite the Conservatives constantly urging him to put the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the list of terrorist entities, he let them operate here legally for years. Now he is letting Ham…
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Mr. Speaker, according to the media, a woman from Montreal's north shore had her car stolen twice. To add insult to injury, her car insurance increased to more than $7,000 a year, and she had to install a TAG tracking system on her vehicles or her insurance application would be rejected. Once again, victims are paying for this government's incompetence. The Prime Minister's inaction on Canadians' …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise here today to speak to the report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security entitled “A Path Forward: Reducing Gun and Gang Violence in Canada”. This report was completed and tabled in April 2022, two and a half years ago. Now we want to debate and vote on this report. However, the report is no longer valid, given that a lot of information about public sa…
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Mr. Speaker, for the past few weeks, the Liberals have been engaging in outright harassment on a matter of national security. It would be very easy for them to fix the problem by disclosing the names of those involved in foreign interference. We would know where we stand. However, the Liberals would rather use this issue to make baseless accusations against the Conservative leader, when they are t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am here today to talk about the report “A Path Forward: Reducing Gun and Gang Violence in Canada”, which was prepared by the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. This report was tabled in April 2022. It has been two and a half years, but it has yet to be adopted. We are here today to debate it. The Conservative Party tabled an amendment to allow this report to …
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the minister needs more information, so let me tell him that it was reported this morning that, for the second time in 24 hours, car thieves deliberately drove straight at police officers who were trying to intercept them in the Côte‑des‑Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal. One of the three criminals in this case, Abdorrahman Tayeb Ali, was already awaiting trial on three separate …
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Mr. Speaker, I mentioned that the minister was a fraud and that he was corrupt. I will instead say that there were allegations of fraud and corruption against this minister and I am calling on the Prime Minister to kick him out of cabinet.
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Mr. Speaker, I am not having a hard time expressing myself today; the minister is simply trying to create a huge diversion. What we do know is that the official languages minister pretended to be a successful businessman and journalist during the 2015 and 2019 elections. He even claimed to work for CBC/Radio-Canada and a newspaper called Les Affaires. We know this is not true. What is more, he mad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Official Languages said he was indigenous so he could get—
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Mr. Speaker, I can withdraw my comment about the minister being a fraud and a corrupt person. Instead I will say that he committed fraud and engaged in corruption. Does that work?
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Official Languages said he was indigenous so he could get money from programs for indigenous businesses, even though it is clear that he is not indigenous. He also says that he is not the notorious Randy who runs his own business, but we know that only one Randy works there. This minister is a fraud and a fake. He is corrupt. Beyond all the smiles at the G20, is—
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's GDP has shrunk over the last nine quarters. This means that Canadians are getting poorer and that their quality of life is declining dramatically. The story is exactly the opposite in the United States, which is enjoying a GDP growth rate of 2.8%. Canadians are facing financial pressure caused by the Prime Minister's carbon tax and capital gains tax increases. I know it is ha…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not see what Canadians have won at this point. The fact that the carbon tax is four times higher directly impacts people and the business community, which has spoken out against it. Also, the capital gains tax means that businesses will not be able to invest more. How does that get anyone ahead? According to Statistics Canada, Canadian household debt is at 180%, while our America…
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Mr. Speaker, in a column in the Journal de Montréal, Philippe Léger says that police concerns over Montreal's crime gangs are unsettling. Fady Dagher, chief of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, or SPVM, believes that Montreal is turning into an “incubator for crime”, like Marseille in France, where authorities have lost all control. Mr. Léger states that “if the crime world has change…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague would like me to say that the interest rate is dropping and so things are improving. Over the past year or two, the Bank of Canada and everyone made a tremendous effort to tighten their belts and pay more interest because this government doubled the debt and completely abandoned the economic sector.
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Mr. Speaker, with its soft-on-crime policies, the Liberal government is proving once again that it puts the comfort of criminals before the safety of children. Journalist Paul Arcand is reporting that André Faivre, a pedophile who ran a “social club” of child abusers to teach them the best ways to lure and groom young people, has been released by the Parole Board yet again. The minister appears to…
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Mr. Speaker, before going into more detail about the subject of today's debate, I would like to remind the House about what the Prime Minister said when he came to power in 2015. He made all kinds of promises about doing things differently. People tend to forget. When the Prime Minister came to power in 2015, people said it was really a new era of hope, promises and dreams for Canadians. We all re…
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Mr. Speaker, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada indicated in various reports that there were only 113 privacy breaches within the Canada Revenue Agency between 2020 and 2024. However, now Radio-Canada is reporting that there were more than 31,000 security breaches that directly affected 62,000 Canadian taxpayers. CRA is now saying that it issued payments totalling $190 million in con…
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Mr. Speaker, for three weeks the Minister of Justice has been saying that it is the Quebec premier's fault that criminals are always back on the street without facing consequences for their crimes. The Canadian Police Association and both Montreal's and Quebec City's Fraternité des policiers et policières supported my Bill C-325, which sought to correct the colossal mistake that was Bill C-5. The …
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Mr. Speaker, it is bizarre that Canada's justice minister continues to blame the Quebec government for a crisis he created. It was the Liberal government that tabled Bills C-5 and C-75. What is happening in federal prisons right now is because of Bill C-83. Everyone is complaining. Last year, even victims' groups like the Fédération des maisons d'hébergement pour femmes, the Maison des guerrières …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is making a mockery of your authority and that of the House. More than $400 million of taxpayers' money was given to Liberal cronies, and the Prime Minister still refuses to hand over documentary evidence to the RCMP, obstructing justice. Canadians know full well that a person with nothing to hide willingly co-operates with law enforcement. Who has the courage to st…
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Mr. Speaker, if I understood correctly, the government House leader just said that both you and my party are abusing our authority. Right now, however, I think your ruling is quite clear, and that is what is currently blocking the work of Parliament. The Prime Minister and his government are refusing to provide documents that would shed light on a scandal involving $400 million of taxpayers' money…
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Mr. Speaker, La Presse reminded readers this morning that 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui was killed by a stray bullet, that 16-year-old Thomas Trudel also died from a gunshot wound, that a 14-year-old teenager perished while attempting to commit arson in Beauce and that a French tourist and her seven-year-old daughter died in an arson attack while visiting Montreal. Yesterday, the Minister of Justic…
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Mr. Speaker, during an interview this morning, the Montreal police chief clearly said that to solve Montreal's problems, he would need the laws and regulations to make it possible. For the past nine years, all the government has done is pass bills like Bill C‑5, Bill C‑75, and Bill C‑83. These laws have left criminals free to roam the streets of Montreal and all the other communities in Canada. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, in La Presse this morning, Sergeant Vincent Moore of the Montreal police Éclipse squad was condemning the fact that gang members use firearms without fear of consequences. He said, “Everything's gone completely crazy. I've never seen anything like it in my 18-year career....These days, it's not uncommon for someone to be arrested and then say, ‘No big deal, you're going to give me a p…
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Mr. Speaker, that is twice now that the Minister of Justice of Canada has blamed the Legault government for the administration of justice, which this government changed. The Criminal Code is a federal responsibility. That is why Bill C-5 and Bill C-75 have caused so many problems on the streets of Montreal and now everywhere else in Quebec. Sergeant Giguère of the Éclipse squad in Montreal even re…
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