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Mr. Speaker, I think the Prime Minister meant to say, “Are you with us for the bankers and bondholders, who have been collecting record interest payments on the newly doubled national debt?” The Prime Minister has literally doubled the deficits that he inherited from the Liberal government, deficits that were already exorbitant and out of control, and inflation immediately started to rise. Two of …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has tried to deny the existence of continued hidden Liberal taxes on groceries, but Canada's leading food price expert, the food professor, Sylvain Charlebois, has said the exact opposite. He said, of the industrial carbon tax, that the worst part is that it is still there. He was referring to the fact that farmers pay the tax on the steel that goes into their farm …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister expects us to believe government-funded, so-called experts paid to push his agenda instead of believing in the obvious fact that, when we tax the things that go into making food, we tax all who buy food. This is a Prime Minister who says he is a great expert, but he told CTV Nova Scotia that Canadians do not use steel anymore. Does he not know that there is steel in…
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Mr. Speaker, first, we are all disappointed to learn that Liberals think that Canadians who see grocery prices rising at record rates are just imagining things. I am further disappointed to see that the Prime Minister cannot stand in his place and address real questions about the cost of groceries for Canadians. It is not just the industrial carbon tax. It is also the government's fuel standard, w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really disappointing the Prime Minister refuses to stand up to debate the real cost of his taxes on Canadian food consumers. It is the same thing with the auto sector. He promised that he would negotiate a win. He promised to get a rapid deal. There is still no win and still no deal. Elbows have gone missing, and so are the jobs. Today, 300 workers lost their jobs at Paccar in Q…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was about jobs and the Prime Minister responded with a spelling bee. This is the guy who is supposed to negotiate a win for us, a guy who said he would have a deal by July 21. He is the guy who said he has had his elbows up. Since that time, his elbows have gone missing. The Canadian people need those jobs. He promised he would protect those jobs. Will he stand up today, …
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Mr. Speaker, that was not what the Prime Minister promised. He promised that he would negotiate a win. He promised that he would have a deal by July 21. Neither of those things happened. He went to the auto sector and told the workers that not only would he protect their jobs, but also there would be an all-in-Canada supply chain that is being dismantled right before our eyes. It is not just his t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's failures and capitulations are not just vis-à-vis the United States. He promised he would stand up for western Canadian farmers, but canola tariffs have now more than doubled. The Prime Minister, in response to this, has given the Communist regime in China a $1-billion taxpayer-funded loan so that we can buy Chinese-made ships, and now he has announced that he has…
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Mr. Speaker, it is another day with more costly slogans from that member of Parliament. Now Canadians are learning it was a bait and switch, with another terrible tragedy.
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As they laugh, Mr. Speaker, 1,200 workers at the Ingersoll CAMI plant learned they would lose their jobs after the Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win and that he would keep their jobs here in Canada. They join with 2,000 workers in Brampton and many more in Oshawa. How does the Prime Minister look in the eyes the very workers he sold out and betrayed?
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar that this Prime Minister spends is costing Canadians a lot. Since he doubled the deficits left behind by Justin Trudeau, inflation has picked up speed. Statistics Canada announced today that the inflation rate is rising. In fact, four of the indicators are above the targets, and grocery costs are rising at two times the target rate. Will the Prime Minister use his budget …
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Mr. Speaker, we do not work for Washington bankers; we work for single mothers who cannot afford groceries. Today, we are seeing runaway inflation at a time when the government is forcing Canadians to spend 70% more on the CRA. Today, the Auditor General revealed that only 15% of calls are being answered on time. Even when a call does get answered, the information is wrong 83% of the time. Why sho…
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Mr. Speaker, he admits they have to do better. It is not possible for them to do any worse. The reality is that today we learned that inflation is again on the march. All four measures of inflation are above the Bank of Canada's targets; two are outside of and above the acceptable range. Food price inflation is rising at two times the rate the Bank of Canada targets. It is no wonder we have two mi…
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Mr. Speaker, his banker friends in Washington may think they have fiscal space, but the single mothers who cannot afford groceries have no space left at all to pay for Liberal inflation. The government is forcing them to spend 70% more on the Canada Revenue Agency. Today, the Auditor General revealed that only 15% of calls get responses on time, and even if someone does pick up the phone, there is…
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Mr. Speaker, she announced, just now, that she talked to this person, and she talked to that person, and she talked to this other person, and she talked, and she talked, and they talked, and they talked, and nothing gets done. Canadians are tired of talk; they want their jobs. The Prime Minister looked these workers in the eye and said he would negotiate a win, that he would protect auto jobs, tha…
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Mr. Speaker, in 10 budgets, the Liberals have doubled the national debt, doubled food bank line-ups and doubled housing costs. Every dollar the government spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians, whose fridges are empty. Has the government learned the costly lesson that its deficits and taxes increase the cost of living? Will it get rid of its inflationary policies in its next budget?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to distract from their inflation by talking about their corruption. They now have four inflationary taxes that apply to groceries: the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment, the tax on grocery packaging, the tax on diesel fuel and, finally, the inflation tax. Canadians can no longer afford to pay their food bills. Will the government finally ge…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to distract from their inflation and rising cost of living by talking about their corruption. This will be the 10th Liberal budget. Already, the Liberals have doubled the debt, food bank line-ups and housing costs. Every dollar the government spends comes directly out of the pockets of Canadians who can no longer afford to eat and heat and house themselves. The…
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Mr. Speaker, tragically, 3,000 auto workers in Brampton learned that the Prime Minister had sold them out and failed them in negotiations with the United States of America. To make matters worse, the Liberal government and the Liberal finance minister forked over $15 billion in tax dollars to the company that is moving their jobs south. Surely the government would have negotiated a jobs guarantee …
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Mr. Speaker, surely Stellantis would not be announcing that it is moving a 3,000-worker plant to the United States of America if the government had negotiated job guarantees in that contract of $15 billion. To put this into perspective, $15 billion is $1,000 for every single family in Canada. That was supposed to create jobs. I have a simple yes-or-no question: Is there an iron-clad guarantee of e…
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Mr. Speaker, that is still no answer. It was the present-day finance minister, who is in charge of a half-trillion-dollar forthcoming Liberal budget, who was the one who signed the deal, and amazingly, barely two years after he signed it and forked over 15 billion Canadian tax dollars, the company receiving it is moving the jobs to the United States of America. The Minister of Industry claims she …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, the leader of the NDP, for raising this issue as well. I rise today to discuss the emergency in the lives of 3,000 Brampton area families who received the news, one day after the Prime Minister's meeting with the President of the United States, that their factory would be moving to the U.S. For these families, it is not just an emergency. It is a tragedy. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, for centuries, alchemists promised to transform lead into gold, and they failed. What is surprising is that after each failure, they still managed to convince one group of people after another with their promise. Today, the chief alchemist, the Liberal Prime Minister, is promising to transform deficits into investments. He presents this as a new promise, but in reality, it is the same…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, the Liberals' argument that they are not as bankrupt as the other countries is not actually true, even if it were a good argument. To start with, Canada's debt is much higher than we see in most G7 countries when we include all debt levels, both public and private, because the Liberals have indebted our households with high taxes and high inflation. I will give a lesson …
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Mr. Speaker, we will cut bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid, corporate welfare, funding for bogus refugees and the list goes on. We will reduce the size of government to bring down the cost of living, inflation and taxes. We know that the government is causing inflation by printing money. The member mentioned interest rates. The Governor of the Bank of Canada is not saying that inflation is low…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems to be the current Liberal Prime Minister's approach, just like the prior Liberal prime minister, that they cannot do anything about the fact that we have lost half a trillion dollars of investment, cannot do anything about the fact that we are the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7 with the second-highest unemployment and cannot do anything about the fact that we have the lo…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Americans are increasing their tariffs on our softwood lumber and automobiles, the Prime Minister has made a huge promise to the United States. He said that Canada had already invested half a billion dollars over the past five years and that $1 trillion would likely be invested over the next five years if we get the agreement we expect. The Prime Minister said this would be …
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Mr. Speaker, it is true that President Trump should be congratulated for his Middle East peace agreement. However, I asked the Prime Minister a question in French about Canadian jobs. The Prime Minister should show a bit of respect for Quebec and for francophones who are losing their jobs right now and he should answer the question. He promised that the agreement he will sign with the Americans wi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister came home empty-handed, with more tariffs on softwood and automobiles, but he made a massive promise of $1 trillion of investment that would leave Canada to go to the United States. He said that this would be part of the agreement that he expects to get. Right in the agreement, he is going to commit to moving $1 trillion out of Canada. Yesterday, he confirmed it wou…
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Mr. Speaker, what we have is the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, with the second-highest unemployment. He was there, so he has a duty to tell Canadians, who are the owners of this $1 trillion he wants to push out of our country, what is in this deal. He said it would actually be in the agreement that he is going to move $1 trillion of private money south. There are two ways to do that. Is he …
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Mr. Speaker, he must be on to something here, because Canada has invested a half-trillion dollars in the U.S. over the last five years alone and probably a trillion dollars in the next five years if we get the agreement we expect to get. This is what the Prime Minister said. This is after he has failed to get tariffs lifted on our auto workers and our lumber workers, after thousands have lost thei…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he is going to put it right in the agreement, so presumably he is going to enforce it somehow. It is another Liberal contradiction, another failure and broken promise by the Prime Minister. Let us go to energy. Just days ago, the Prime Minister voted in favour of an energy cap that would make it impossible to fill another pipeline; then he woke up and discovere…
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Mr. Speaker, we now know why President Trump wanted this Prime Minister in power so badly. He wanted a weak leader whose pro-tax and anti-development policies are sending billions of dollars and jobs to the United States. Yesterday, the Prime Minister promised President Trump $1 trillion over the next five years if we get the agreement that we think we are going to get. He is going to drive invest…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister would know all about driving investment out of Canada and into the United States, given that he has already managed to drive $54 billion in investments to the United States, killing 86,000 jobs in the process. These jobs represent families, who are now sitting around the table, wondering how they will pay their bills. When he came to power, he promised to get rid of…
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Mr. Speaker, we now know why the U.S. President wanted the Prime Minister in power so badly. He wanted a weak leader whose high taxes and anti-development laws are sending billions of dollars and thousands of jobs out of this country. There have been 86,000 jobs lost. Yesterday, the Prime Minister promised the President that he would increase Canadian investment in the U.S. by $1 trillion if he ge…
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Mr. Speaker, he just confirmed that he is selling out our auto workers. Let me tell him what it means when investment leaves this country. He has forced a record amount out in his seven months in power. The 700 workers at the GM plant who lost their jobs in Oshawa can tell him about investment that has left. They are sitting around the dinner table wondering how they are going to pay their bills, …
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Mr. Speaker, we will go soft on him today, because I know he is recovering from surgery to have his elbows removed. Do we remember that promise? He was dancing around with his elbows in the air. We have not seen those elbows since the election, after which $54 billion of investment went to the United States; 86,000 jobs are gone, and American tariffs on Canada have doubled. As to the best deal in …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do remember the last election, when the Prime Minister promised to put elbows up. It was not a promise; it was the promise he ran on. Now those elbows have come down. The American tariffs have doubled. We have by far the weakest economy in the G7, 86,000 people have lost their jobs, and, pathetically, the Prime Minister went to the White House to offer a $1-trillion gift, bo…
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Mr. Speaker, give me a trillion dollars, and even I will say something nice about the Prime Minister. How much is it going to cost to pay Canadian investment dollars to flatter the Prime Minister's ego? It would make us laugh if it did not make us cry, but how will the workers in Ingersoll, in Windsor and in Oshawa who have lost their jobs after the Prime Minister promised to protect them ever tru…
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Mr. Speaker, one day after the Prime Minister's visit to the White House, the U.S. commerce secretary has announced that there will be no relief on tariffs for finished automobiles in Canada. This is after 700 Oshawa GM workers lost their jobs and GM sent $4 billion to the U.S.—
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Mr. Speaker, one day after the Prime Minister went to the White House, promising that he would fight for Canadian workers, we learn from the U.S. commerce secretary that there will be no relief for Canadian finished automobiles. This is after 700 Oshawa GM workers lost their jobs, with $4 billion of GM money going to the U.S.; 900 CAMI workers in Ingersoll lost their jobs, with those jobs going to…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister refused to stand up for our auto workers, and today he refuses to stand up for our auto workers. How can he sit right there while the U.S. commerce secretary just came out and said the 25% tariffs will stay in place? Despite the Prime Minister's concession after concession, like how he backed down on countertariffs, backed down on the DST and yesterday off…
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Mr. Speaker, it is really pathetic that the Prime Minister will not stand up for auto workers in the House of Commons, just like he refused to stand up for them yesterday. We have thousands of auto workers who have lost their jobs since the Prime Minister promised to protect them. These families are sitting around their tables, wondering what is going to happen to them. They are among the 86,000 C…
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Mr. Speaker, I think we are beginning to see how it is that the president has been able to bulldoze the Prime Minister. He will not even stand up when he is confronted by the Americans. Just over an hour ago, a report came out that the U.S. commerce secretary said that there will be no relief for Canadian-made automobiles going into the United States. The Prime Minister has backed down on countert…
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Mr. Speaker, at least the Prime Minister finally got up, but he did not address the question about auto workers. There are auto workers who are sitting at home right now who do not know how they are going to pay their mortgages. The Prime Minister looked them in the eye and said he was going to protect their jobs. Then he said he would put his elbows up. Then he said he would get a win by July 21.…
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Mr. Speaker, the president has been warned: If he puts in another tariff, the Prime Minister is going to give him yet another $1 trillion. This is the tough negotiator we hired, the guy who broke his promise to have a deal on July 21, the guy who broke his promise to negotiate a win and who simultaneously removed the countertariffs while he was giving speeches promising to have them in place. Yest…
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Mr. Speaker, he is already signing a deal that makes us worse off because he makes concession after concession while getting nothing in return. Yesterday, he announced that his policies will drive $1 trillion of private sector money out of our country as part of the agreement that he is going to sign with the United States. That means factories and plants closing in Canada, most of all in our auto…
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Mr. Speaker, zero is the paycheque that those workers who have lost their jobs are getting right now. Seventh is last place in the G7 when it comes to growth or, in this case, negative growth. The Prime Minister has to get his excuses straight. He blames the tariffs for the fact that we have the second-highest unemployment in the G7 and the fastest-shrinking economy, and then he claims at the same…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised us that he would negotiate a victory with the United States and that there would be a deal by July 21 of this year. There is still no deal and no victory, and American tariffs have doubled. Today, the Prime Minister made his biggest concession of all by promising to push $1 trillion in investment out of Canada and into the United States. That means lower wa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised a victory, but there is no victory. He promised a deal, but there is no deal. Now he is promising to push $1 trillion in investment out of Canada and into the United States, with nothing in return. When we talk about $1 trillion in investment, we are talking about mines closing in Quebec and reopening in Pennsylvania; we are talking about paper mills closin…
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