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Yes, that is right; a Liberal promise is a prop.
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Mr. Speaker, it was just last week that the minister's own department revealed that the Liberals are breaking their promise on having 1,000 new border guards. Not only have they not hired the 1,000, but they have not even developed the plan to do so. That is the responsibility of the public safety minister. He has broken the promise. Will he be fired?
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal illusion is now on a collision course with reality. See, the Prime Minister ran an entire election campaign promising to be the opposite of who he was and to do the opposite of what he had been saying and writing and what the Liberal government had been doing for the prior 10 years. It was not just on the question of developing our resources; it was on questions of fiscal …
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is that we did. We approved and completed four pipelines. Then we actually approved the northern gateway pipeline, which would have shipped half a million barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to the Pacific, before the Liberal government came along and vetoed and shut down that project. I was curious about what the now Prime Minister thought of that decision, so I hauled …
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government is grossly mismanaging our forests. Take, for example, the massive wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, where government officials, Conservative MPs and real environmentalists and conservationists warned the government to manage the forest and remove the dead wood to avoid a major wildfire. For years, people wrote reports and letters, but the Liberal minister at the ti…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is asking a very tough but fair question. The member points out that the Prime Minister has changed his tune. He is plagiarizing Conservative words, but he is governing like Justin Trudeau or worse. In reality, he has not changed anything. That is the grand illusion. In reality, he has a “keep it in the ground” caucus that is rebelling against him. That is why the Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, by releasing criminals and wasting money on targeting law-abiding hunters and sport shooters, the Liberals have increased gun crime by 130%. We already knew that. However, the Minister of Public Safety accidentally told the truth and was recorded saying that that to confiscate firearms from law-abiding people was a waste of money. Does the Prime Minister agree with his minister?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister did have a real conversation about guns. Unfortunately for him, it was caught on tape. He was caught on tape admitting that the gun grab is a waste of money, caught on tape admitting it would go over budget and caught on tape admitting it would be better just to lock up the gun criminals who are doing the crime. Why is it that Liberals only tell the truth when they do not…
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Mr. Speaker, by freeing rampant gun criminals and wasting billions of dollars of police and border resources targeting law-abiding, licensed, trained and tested firearms owners, the government has overseen a 130% increase in violent gun crime. Over the weekend, the Minister of Public Safety accidentally told the truth, and he was recorded doing it. He said that the gun grab is not worth the money,…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister said that his gun grab will not work, that it will go over budget, that it would be better to lock up criminals, as Conservatives have been suggesting, but that the government is going ahead with the gun grab anyway because the Prime Minister wants to pursue electoral politics. When a mother is hit with a stray bullet, a police officer is murdered by a firearm or a bullet…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Liberal government blocks criminal justice reforms that would lock up gun criminals, it wants to go ahead and take nearly $1 billion away from border security and police officers to go after licensed, law-abiding, trained and tested hunters and sports shooters, a project that the OPP refuses to enforce and numerous provincial governments have said they will not go ahead with…
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Mr. Speaker, I and we have voted against policies that have given Canada a 130% increase in gun violence. Speaking of getting things through Parliament, the minister said “seek” to introduce. The government has been in place for 10 years. It has softened penalties for repeat offenders. The minister took the summer off and still has not introduced any criminal justice reforms to stop guns. We put f…
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Mr. Speaker, the standard the member talks about is actually a new carbon tax. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who relied on information supplied by the government itself, it will add 17¢ a litre to the cost of fuel at the pump. That 17¢ a litre is exactly the price that Canadians were paying on the previous Liberal carbon tax. Thankfully, the Conservatives forced the Liberals to re…
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Mr. Speaker, it is great to be back in the House of the common people. This will be my first speech in the current Parliament, so let me begin with thank yous. I thank my brilliant and beautiful wife, Anaida, a fierce fighter and a problem-solver. She is our very own MacGyver; she can solve any problem. She is an entrepreneur, the love of my life, the greatest adviser I have ever had, someone who …
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No, they have not done nothing; they have done worse than nothing. Mr. Speaker, they have obstructed action. There is obstructionism by the Liberal Party to keep in place the failed laws that are unleashing chaos on our streets. Conservatives said in the spring, right after the election, let us immediately reverse catch-and-release Liberal laws and lock up the criminals that the government was tur…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a very good question, and I share my colleague's concerns about the Jordan principle, which has even enabled some offenders to avoid trial and prison time. Why is it taking so long for cases to be heard by the courts? It is because there is a small group of criminals who keep coming back into the system again and again. Why do they keep coming back? It is because they are rele…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I thank that member for his incredible and distinguished service to the Canadian Armed Forces. He is a very distinguished member. The other heroes who also wear a uniform are police officers. They tell me they are exhausted from arresting the same offenders over and over again. They say that the criminals laugh at them. They say that, often, criminals now confess to thei…
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Mr. Speaker, allow me to begin by thanking the member for his kind words at the very beginning. He stated half a sentence that was right, which proves that even a broken clock is right twice a day. For the rest of the day, he gets it wrong. He asked me if I would be prepared to fast-track the passage of bail reform. Where is it? He wants me to fast-track the passage of a law his government has not…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is in Mexico today for a photo op and fake agreement, but it is a great opportunity to compare, because both countries are neighbours of the United States. In the last quarter, Canada's economy shrank by 1.6% while the Mexican economy grew by 2.4%. Canadian exports to the United States crashed by 18%, while Mexican exports to the U.S. are up 1.4%. The Canadian unemp…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the time in the life cycle of any Liberal government when it goes from making promises to making excuses. It is blaming its collapsing economy on global tensions. Interestingly, Mexico shares the same neighbour as we do. We are both right next door to America, so we can compare performance. However, in the most recent quarter, the Mexican economy has actually grown by 2.4% and…
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Mr. Speaker, we support workers, especially the 86,000 workers who lost their jobs because of Liberal policies that are causing our economy to collapse. Mexico boosted its economy by 1.4% in the last quarter. Canada saw a decline of 1.4%. Mexican exports to the United States increased while ours saw a drop of 18%. Our unemployment rate is three times higher than Mexico's. Why?
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Mr. Speaker, we have had a free trade agreement with Mexico for almost three decades. The Prime Minister is going for nothing more than a photo op, another fake engagement. The minister talked about interest rates; the Bank of Canada said the reason it is cutting rates while inflation is rising is because our economy is collapsing. The Liberals promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. They …
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Mr. Speaker, we have had free trade agreements with all of those countries and regions for over a decade, yet the Prime Minister is busy looking busy, flying around, grip and grin, pretending to do a lot while doing very little. He could make use of all that expensive travel by asking all of those other places why their economies are so much stronger than the one that he now leads. We have, under …
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Mr. Speaker, these are not new markets. The member might have been asleep. Actually, he seems like a very young man. Maybe he was not born when Brian Mulroney negotiated NAFTA with the Mexicans. Maybe the Prime Minister was sleeping the day the Conservatives negotiated a free trade agreement with the Europeans. He is going around taking credit for things that he never did while his economy collaps…
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Mr. Speaker, how big is the deficit that the Prime Minister is running?
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Mr. Speaker, the government is supposed to present the deficit at the beginning of the fiscal year. That was six months ago, and we still do not know the size of the deficit. The uncertainty has driven out $50 billion in investment and killed 86,000 jobs. This is the first time in the history of the country that a prime minister cannot tell us what the deficit is six months into the fiscal year. H…
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Mr. Speaker, surely, if he is such an expert, he would know the size of his own deficit. It is now halfway through the fiscal year. Six months have gone by, and he has announced $40 billion of additional spending. Deficits drive up inflation, grocery prices, housing costs and interest rates. They drive investment out of our country and create uncertainty that destabilizes our economy. That is why …
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Mr. Speaker, the collapsing economy is bringing down interest rates, but the financial expert does not even know what his own deficit is. Another financial expert spoke yesterday. The Parliamentary Budget Officer said, “the deficit will absolutely be higher” because of “additional spending”. He said that he does not know what the government's fiscal anchors are because they do not exist. He says, …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister made the appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Officer temporary so that he could hold a sword over his head and threaten him if he speaks the truth about the financial mess the Prime Minister has made. To a government that does not know how to count, there is nothing more terrifying than a man armed with a calculator. The Prime Minister wants to silence the Parli…
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Mr. Speaker, on August 21, many of us were saddened to learn of the passing of our former colleague and long-time friend Gail Shea. At four foot five, she was a little lady who packed a big punch, and she put her fight to work on behalf of farmers, fish harvesters, workers and veterans. She was proud of her roots and her commitment to the island that gave her her upbringing, her career and of cour…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he would spend less, yet his deficit spending is 100% more, more than even Justin Trudeau. What is the real human consequence of that? Food price inflation is rising 70% faster than the Bank of Canada's target. Today, the CEO of the major food bank network in Toronto says that there has been a 400% increase in food bank use there. Does the Prime Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, we are halfway through the fiscal year and the Prime Minister has yet to table a budget, despite managing to double the deficit. The deficit is twice as big as it was under Justin Trudeau. What an accomplishment. This is causing inflation. Today, we found out from Statistics Canada that the inflation rate is 50 times higher than the target. For food, it is 70% higher. More people are …
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Mr. Speaker, many Canadians cannot even afford to eat. The Prime Minister promised to spend less, but his deficit spending is twice as high. He promised that food prices would come down, but food prices are rising 70% faster than the Bank of Canada's target. He said there would be less poverty, but there is more. Does the Prime Minister realize that his empty promises are leading to empty stomachs…
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Mr. Speaker, he wants us to celebrate his failures, including failures that are leading to real human suffering. Let me quote the CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank, Neil Hetherington: “Giving you some context, previously, before the pandemic, we were at...600,000 for the year.” Those are visits to the food bank. “And so it took 38 years to get to 1 million visits per year, and then only one year to get…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was not about re-announcing a previously approved project; it was about the cost of food, and frankly, it is insulting. We have asked 10 questions about the cost of food in the last two days, and not a single Liberal minister will get up and answer. Maybe that is because the inflation rate on food is 70% above the target. Maybe it is because there are now four times as ma…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was about food prices, and the member stood up to announce that he is going to be feeding some of his friends who are going to populate the latest $13-billion bureaucracy, a bureaucracy that will build no homes and that will only reward Liberal insiders, who, like him, have a record of actually doubling housing costs. However, back to food, the stuff that needs to go on p…
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Mr. Speaker, my mother taught me never to be late, so please forgive me for my late arrival to the session. I had some meetings with extremely important people in east central Alberta, after which I was honoured to be elected by the great people of Battle River—Crowfoot. I thank the great Damien Kurek, who made it possible, and I thank the Prime Minister for calling a prompt by-election. I wonder …
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Mr. Speaker, some things never change. I would like to thank my constituents in Battle River—Crowfoot, Mr. Kurek and the Prime Minister for holding a by-election so quickly. I wonder whether he will regret that decision sometimes, but I think we can all agree with the goal of once again making Canada a place where hard work is rewarded, where food and homes are affordable, where streets are safe, …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister mentioned how much had changed, and it is true. I look around this place, and when I left, there was a Liberal prime minister who was making excuses about breaking promises and was running massive deficits, and costs, crime and chaos were all out of control, whereas today we have a Liberal Prime Minister breaking promises, making excuses and running massive deficits…
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Mr. Speaker, in a non-partisan spirit, we will simply insist the Prime Minister keep his promises. He promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7, but now, ours is the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. He promised food would cost less, but it costs more and food inflation is getting worse even faster. He promised a budget in October, more than halfway through the fiscal year. Now, it will be…
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Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of non-partisanship, we are simply going to hold the Prime Minister to his own promises. He promised that he would spend less. He is already spending 8% more. He promised the budget would be in October. Now he says it will be in November, more than halfway through the fiscal year. He promised that his government would have a smaller deficit than Justin Trudeau's. Instead…
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Mr. Speaker, a lot more debt is what there is. There is a lot more debt than we ever imagined would be possible. The Prime Minister said we would have the fastest-growing economy in the G7; we have the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7. He said grocery prices would go down; they are going up faster than ever before. He promised to create jobs; he has the second-highest unemployment in the G7. He…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control, yet he clings to power. We knew that he had lost control of the borders, immigration, spending, inflation and housing costs, but now he has lost control of his cabinet. The former deputy prime minister and minister of finance resigned just a few hours before presenting Canada's economic update with an enormous deficit. When will there be an electio…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control, yet he clings to power. He has lost control of immigration; lost control of the borders; lost control of spending, deficits, inflation and housing costs. In fact, his apparently former finance minister was trying to get spending under control by capping the deficit at an already crazy $40 billion, but he took carbon tax Carney's advice and pushed h…
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Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the finance minister. “Who are you”?
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Mr. Speaker, that was a serious question. Who is the finance minister? After the former finance minister resigned this morning, the Minister of Industry automatically became the minister of finance. I congratulate him for that. However, he immediately resigned. According to the established hierarchy, the position then reverted to the two Randys. They do not want the job either. Now, we have no min…
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Mr. Speaker, just to underline the chaos we are faced with here, the former finance minister resigned the day she was to present the fall budget, which was going to contain a massive deficit overrun. The job then went automatically to the industry minister, who immediately resigned, like, on the spot. It then went down the line to the next person in order, the famous two Randys, and they are not a…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader is absolutely right: This cannot continue; the Prime Minister cannot go on like this. Housing costs have doubled. Food bank use has doubled. The debt has doubled. Gun crime has doubled, and now we face troubling tariff threats from a President-elect who can see weakness coming from a mile away. The Prime Minister must leave this job, but there is only one person who can…
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Mr. Speaker, the member wants me to tell the truth about the permanent tax change. There is a permanent tax change he has supported, which is to jack up the carbon tax on absolutely everything. He has voted to quadruple that tax to an eyewatering 61¢ a litre that would literally grind our economy to a halt. It would take food off grocery shelves, take parts out of factories and shut down the farm …
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