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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised Canadians he would negotiate a victory. He promised to have a deal by July 21, 2025. There is still no deal and still no victory, and American tariffs have actually doubled. Today, the Prime Minister made his biggest concession of all. He promised to push $1 trillion of investment out of Canada into the United States of America, which will drive down Canadi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister casually said, “Half a trillion dollars in the last five years alone” of Canadian investment has left for the U.S. Then he said, “probably one trillion in the next five years if we get the agreement that we expect to get.” In other words, he made a massive trillion-dollar concession before the deal was even signed and without getting anything in return. This $1 tril…
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Mr. Speaker, the government has already admitted that we have a problem with Canadian pension money leaving Canada to create jobs in other countries. It even created a Brookfield-run program to bring it back. However, today the Prime Minister promised the President that Canadian government policies would drive a trillion dollars out of our economy and into the American economy over the next five y…
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Mr. Speaker, all the hyperventilating in the world will not change the fact that the Prime Minister casually bragged in the Oval Office today that a half-trillion Canadian investment dollars had left for the States in the last five years and then promised that a trillion more will leave in the next five years. That will mean mines closing in Quebec and opening in Pennsylvania. It will mean mills c…
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Mr. Speaker, criminals have been released onto our streets and chaos has been unleashed under Liberal laws. In Saint-Jérôme, a woman was killed by her partner, a man who had been arrested 30 times before and had violated his release conditions 16 times. However, because of Liberal laws, he was released. Today, we are voting on a Conservative motion to repeal these Liberal laws, put criminals in pr…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday I met with the head of the Peel Regional Police union, along with a group of crime victims. Among them was the Farooqi family. Aleem Farooqi rose at night to protect his kids from a home invader and was shot in the throat. He is dead. His brother came out and said the Liberal government should be ashamed of itself for keeping in place Liberal bail that has allowed for 1,600 …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised to negotiate a major victory with the Americans and have an agreement in place before July 21. Tomorrow, he will announce the agreement that has been reached with the U.S. President. The Prime Minister's Office has told the media that all tariffs on aluminum and steel will be dropped. Can the Prime Minister also confirm that the major victory he will announ…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he was going to negotiate a win with the president, that he would have a deal by July 21. Here we are in October, and tomorrow the Prime Minister is going to the White House to announce this deal. Surely he is not just going for a photo op and to make more excuses. The Prime Minister's Office is already telling the media that there will be the full eli…
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Mr. Speaker, surely after promising to negotiate a win, to have a deal by July 21, the Prime Minister is not flying all the way to Washington, D.C., just to have lunch. By the sounds of it, that is all the Liberals are going to accomplish. Since he promised this win, American tariffs on Canada have doubled. The Prime Minister has caved on countertariffs, on the digital services tax and on everythi…
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Mr. Speaker, no. We are suggesting that the Prime Minister actually keep his promise and negotiate a win. The Liberals' excuses are tripping over each other. Last week, the Prime Minister said that the American tariffs on Canada are so bad that they are why we have the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, the second-highest unemployment, $52 billion of net investment that has fled and 86,000 jobs …
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Mr. Speaker, 1,600 is the number of crimes that happen in this country every single day. That is almost one crime per minute. These are not statistics. They are innocent people being hit over the head with baseball bats. They are jewellery stores being smashed in and opened up by an incoming automobile, which is then used to steal the proceeds families have spent their entire lives earning. They a…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals brought in comprehensive reform over the last 10 years. Let us talk about their reforms. Their reforms require judges to release offenders at the earliest opportunity under the least onerous conditions. That was the reform, and that is why we have chaos in our streets. They brought in another reform: house arrest for sex offenders, extortionists, gun criminals and other s…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Windsor West not only for his service here in the House but for his courageous service as a police officer, protecting Windsorites and all Canadians. He put his life on the line every single day, like so many police officers who leave in the morning and kiss their kids goodbye, knowing it might be the last time they see them. For Greg Pierzchala, it was …
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No, Mr. Speaker, we support “three strikes and you're out”. Criminals who commit three violent offences should go to jail. We should lock them up and throw away the key. The member for Winnipeg North just revealed how radical and extreme he and his party have become. Here he says it is extreme to lock up criminals who have committed seven or eight offences. I will tell members what is extreme. It …
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Mr. Speaker, the body of a woman who was killed by her partner has been found in Saint-Jérôme. This woman was killed by a man who had been arrested 30 times before and released under Liberal laws. That is not all. A six-year-old child was found with a crack pipe in his mouth near Maison Benoît Labre, one of the federal government's so-called safe consumption sites. Does the Prime Minister acknowle…
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Mr. Speaker, crime victims do not want the Prime Minister's sympathy. They want to know why he has broken his promise. They want to know why Liberal bail remains in place, allowing for the same repeat offenders to offend again and again. The body of a woman was found in the last few days in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec. She was killed by her partner, who had been arrested 30 times before but released on L…
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Mr. Speaker, we see the Prime Minister rant and rave and point his finger at police, after they have been crying out for the government to scrap Liberal bail for years. We have Constable Greg Pierzchala, who was killed by a man released, yet again, on bail. We have a woman killed by her husband after he was arrested and released 30 times because of Liberal laws. We have 1,600 crimes every single d…
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Mr. Speaker, if the government wants any proof that it has been in place for 10 years, the justice minister whom the Prime Minister named is the guy who ruined our immigration system, and then he went on to ruin our housing system. Now, six months after the Prime Minister looked Canadians in the eye and promised to scrap Liberal bail, that bail is still in place, and every day, violent repeat offe…
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Mr. Speaker, the government's bail laws violate the charter rights of 1,600 people every single day. Their names are “victims”. They are the people who get hit over the head with a baseball bat, get robbed or have their children violated in what should be the safety of their own house. A three-year-old was raped by a repeat offender out on Liberal release, a constable was shot to death by someone …
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals already brought in bail reform. That is the bail reform that allows the same offenders to be released 150 times a year. The justice minister voted to allow repeat offenders, violent sex offenders, to do their sentences in their living rooms. That is their policy. We have a bill before the House today that we could pass at all stages right now if the Prime Minister did not car…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to live in peace and security. That security was shattered like bullets through broken glass at a radio station in Surrey once again. Swift radio was hit with a third extortion-related gunfire attack just yesterday. I spoke with owner Kulwant Dhesi, who had invited me to his station earlier. He said his family cannot sleep. This joins countless other examples in Bram…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister broke his promise to negotiate a win with the Americans by July 21, lumber tariffs have more than doubled and job losses are piling up. Kap Paper is potentially laying off 300 workers in northern Ontario. That is on top of 800 workers losing their jobs at Imperial Oil. TransCanada and Enbridge are building more in the United States as their headquarters move s…
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Mr. Speaker, since the Prime Minister took office, 86,000 more Canadians became unemployed. We have the second-highest unemployment in the G7. This is all the result of out-of-control government spending and taxes. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians, and now the Parliamentary Budget Officer rates his deficits as “very alarming”, “stupefying”, “shocking”, “…
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Mr. Speaker, he says, “spend less”. Deficit spending is up almost 100% since the Prime Minister took office. As for investment, it has fallen. In fact, $50 billion of net investment has left since he took office, yet he repeats the same promises the Liberals have been making for a decade. They said their deficit would lead to more investment. Since they took office, investment is down by 10%, the …
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Mr. Speaker, I know that it sometimes gets heated in this place. Recently, I said that the Prime Minister is just as irresponsible with money as Justin Trudeau. I now realize that was unfair to Justin Trudeau. In reality, he has increased the deficit by almost 70% above what Justin Trudeau left behind. Now, the Parliamentary Budget Officer describes the Prime Minister's deficit as “alarming”, “stu…
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Mr. Speaker, that came from a true expert in economics, the Parliamentary Budget Officer. He said, and I quote, that the this Prime Minister's deficits are very alarming, stupefying, shocking and unsustainable. He also said that if things do not change, then this is done, that something is going to break and that Canada has not gone over the edge, but it is looking out over the cliff. Every dollar…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that Canadians would be able to judge him by their experience at the grocery store. Well, that experience is what is now being called struggle meals, with Canadians now sharing tips on how they can scrounge together meals that are often of lower nutritional value because that is all they can afford. Food price inflation has accelerated to almost double the …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk about our objectives as the official opposition and as the future government. Our goals are very clear: stronger take-home pay with affordable food and homes, safer streets by locking up the criminals Liberals turned loose, secure borders by fixing the broken Liberal immigration system, and a self-reliant Canada by unlocking the power of our resources, industry an…
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Mr. Speaker, the member across the way, who is the whip, is saying he did not know the Bank of Canada had a website. That is another example of a Liberal who should do a little more research before opening his mouth. There are a lot of things they do not know over there or that they do not want Canadians to know. We know that inflation is very good for Brookfield, because the CEO of that company s…
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Mr. Speaker, of course she does not. The answer to the question really is that we have the ultimate corporate lobbyist as the Prime Minister of Canada. He is lobbying for tax evasion. His investments are stashed away in offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean, where they do not pay the taxes that Canadians pay. He wants to force Canadians to subsidize the electric car production system that profit…
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Mr. Speaker, we are proposing that we export our clean energy, namely nuclear, hydroelectricity and natural gas, to replace much dirtier and more polluting modes of production. That is the Conservative approach. I forgot to mention another tax: the plastic tax that the Liberals want to impose. It is a tax on food. If plastic is banned, food will spoil more quickly. This will rapidly increase the c…
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Mr. Speaker, that is more money for bankers and less money for nurses. I know the Prime Minister likes to help make profits for bankers and people who work for banks instead of taxpayers. That is why he has no problem doubling the deficit that Justin Trudeau left us for the next five years. It is unbelievable that we now have a Prime Minister who costs more than Justin Trudeau did. I would never h…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is off on another pointless and costly trip to escape the scandals, inflation, crime and problems related to the Minister of Public Safety here at home. This minister lost track of 600 foreign criminals who are here in Canada. He broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 border guards and he admitted that his program to harass farmers and hunters will not protect Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is on yet another costly and useless photo op tour to escape inflation, criminality, the housing price crisis and, of course, the scandal around his public safety minister. That is the minister who lost track of 600 foreign criminals on our streets, broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 new border guards and was caught on tape admitting that the Liberal plan to ha…
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Mr. Speaker, my mother and people like her actually built this nation, and today is my mom's birthday. It reminded me that even when my schoolteacher parents were struggling, we always had delicious, nutritious meals. We had meat and potatoes on our plate, and we had to eat all the broccoli. When I called her today for her birthday wishes, she said grocery prices are terrible. I did not have the h…
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Mr. Speaker, my mother, as a substitute teacher, sometimes taught math. She would not be happy with the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report today, which reveals that the Prime Minister is more expensive than even Justin Trudeau. The PBO reports that the deficit is now two-thirds higher than the one Trudeau left behind. Over the next five years, the Prime Minister will add an amazing $300 billion…
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Mr. Speaker, I can confirm that he definitely does not know my mother. My mother knew how to budget better than anyone. She could stretch a dollar further. In fact, I think she should come in here as the finance minister. We would have a balanced budget right away. We would surely not have a PBO report showing the government adding a third of a trillion dollars of extra deficits. We know that ever…
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Mr. Speaker, another thing my mother always taught me is to keep my promises. The Prime Minister promised to spend less, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer showed today that this Prime Minister is going to make his inflationary deficit two-thirds higher. He is going to add another $300 billion, or a third of a trillion dollars in deficit. That is double what it was under Justin Trudeau. That cau…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, gun crime went up by 136% in five years. Their policy has been to waste money going after hunters and farmers and take money away from border services and law enforcement, and that is what led to this crime wave. The Minister of Public Safety admitted that this policy does not work. What they did was strictly for electoral reasons. The public safety minister has ad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's own Minister of Public Safety says the government is doing it wrong. He was caught on tape saying the program will not work, and yet the Liberals are going to rip $750 million away from our border services and police services to harass duck hunters and farmers by banning the firearms they use. This approach has led to a 130% increase in gun crime under the Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, I voted against the Liberal policy of reducing criminal sentences for those who use guns to commit extortion, commit robbery and commit other serious offences, while voting in favour of locking up criminals who use guns in the commission of crime. The police say that 90% of gun crime is done with guns that come illegally over the broken Liberal border. The Liberal public safety minist…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just admitted that he does not even know what his gun ban applies to. For example, this gun ban applies to 10-gauge and 12-gauge shotguns, which are used by the great people of Alberta and all Canadians for duck hunting. It applies to 70 .22-calibre firearms that are used by almost every farmer to go after gophers. Will the Prime Minister stop wasting money banning …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has absolutely no idea what guns he is banning. He is banning twenty-twos. These are known as farmers' guns for going after gophers and other pests. One of them is even called the Plinkster because that is the sound it makes when it bounces off a pop can. The Prime Minister is wasting precious border and police resources, harassing farmers and banning duck hunters w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's knowledge bank on this subject is now depleted, so we will move on to something else: the subject of food prices. The Prime Minister said that he would be judged on prices at the grocery store. Well, the verdict is in: Food prices are rising 50% faster in Canada than in the U.S. and are almost double the Bank of Canada's target. The Daily Bread Food Bank says that…
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Mr. Speaker, I must admit that I have never seen anything like this. On Monday, in a recording, a minister said that his program will not work. On Tuesday, he announced that he is going ahead with the program. He was right in the recording: It is a waste of $700 million. This money is being taken from our border and police services to go after hunters and sport shooters, which will endanger the li…
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Mr. Speaker, he said exactly the opposite in the recording. He admitted that seizing $750-million worth of weapons will not work. He even offered to bail his tenant out of jail. He broke the Liberal promise to hire 1,000 border agents, even though 80% of the firearms used to commit crimes cross the border illegally. He lost track of 600 dangerous foreign criminals on our streets and does not even …
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Mr. Speaker, I have to admit, in all my years here, I have not seen this before. On Monday, a minister says that his program will not work. On Tuesday, he says he is going ahead with the program, a program that will take $750 million away from frontline border and police services to go after Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle. It is a waste of money that police say they will not implement and that the mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister did have a real conversation about guns. He was caught on tape admitting that his program will not work because it will go after legitimate hunters and sport shooters rather than after the 80% of guns used in crime that come illegally across the border. He admits that his $750-million program will not work. He offered to bail his tenant out of jail if he breaks the rules.…
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Mr. Speaker, it seems the Liberal strategy is to say that the public safety minister is not incompetent enough to be fired because the Liberals have, by comparison, an even more incompetent Minister of Justice. I guess everything is relative. To prove his incompetence, I am glad the minister brought up the issue of border security. We asked the government in an Order Paper question last week wheth…
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Mr. Speaker, it is incredible. Only this minister, who ruined the immigration system and the housing market, could simultaneously repeat a promise while breaking it. It was last week that the Liberal promise of another—
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