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Mr. Speaker, what the Liberals have amassed is a lot of debt. In fact, they have doubled the debt. This Prime Minister has added more debt than all prior prime ministers combined, which has caused the worst inflation in 40 years, and is now rising as the debt is rising. The finance minister said that she had a guardrail for the deficit; it would not go beyond $40 billion. If the Liberals go up to …
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Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of non-partisanship, we have put forward a motion inspired by the leader of the NDP. He has said that the Prime Minister is “weak”, greedy, “selfish and...beholden to corporate interests”. He has pointed out that the Prime Minister has violated the rights of workers. We took the NDP leader's words and put them in a motion that includes non-confidence. Will the Prime Mini…
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Mr. Speaker, you went out of your way before the vote to point out that members are not allowed to come and go during the vote. I did note that the NDP leader came in right in the middle of the vote, having missed the fact that the vote was on his own words. Would you please call the NDP leader to order for having had his team vote against his own words?
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Mr. Speaker, for him to dismiss the foreign affairs minister in that way is outrageous. The reality is that she is the one who chose to go to a photo shoot in a studio with the New York Times in an article about how she was the possible successor to her own boss. We would expect a foreign affairs minister, of all ministers, would be busy fighting tariffs with our biggest trading partner. Instead, …
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moved: That, (i) whereas the Leader of the New Democratic Party said he "ripped up" his supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government, (ii) whereas the NDP Leader said, "the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people", (iii) whereas the NDP Leader said, "the Liberal government will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in …
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Mr. Speaker, the member can distort my record instead of defending his own. He is a part of the government, this former corporate lobbyist and party staffer who spent his time making money off the political system, and he can explain why he and his government have presided over the largest number of strikes in the last 40 years of Canadian history. Never have there been more strikes than since 198…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, that electrician can heat schools and hospitals because he has exceptional powers thanks to science and knowledge, which I admire. That is why I spoke so poetically and eloquently of tradespeople. My colleague cited one of my extraordinary odes to them. Once again we see that the Conservative Party loves art. We are prepared to write more poetry to help the Bloc Québécois underst…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control. He has lost control of the borders, immigration and spending, and now he has lost control of his party. The Ontario Liberal leader is against his tax hikes. The Liberal Premier of Newfoundland is against his policies that attack natural resources. There are 20 Liberal MPs who want to fire him. How can the Prime Minister continue to clin…
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Mr. Speaker, he cannot stand up because he has lost control. I already said that he has lost control of our borders and immigration. He lost control of his inflationary deficits, which are increasing the cost of living. That is how he doubled the national debt, the cost of housing and the number of people who need to use food banks. He promised to cap the deficit at $40 billion in his budget. In h…
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Mr. Speaker, this weak Prime Minister has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending. Now he has lost control of his cabinet and party. In fact, his foreign minister is now announcing her leadership campaign in The New York Times. The Liberal leader of the Province of Ontario has announced she is against his quadrupling …
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Mr. Speaker, I guess “diversity of opinions” means the opinion that he should not be Prime Minister. That is the predominant opinion among Liberals across the country. On the front page of The New York Times, we would think the foreign minister would be fighting Trump's tariffs. Instead, she is fighting for her boss's job, where she is described in the headline as a “possible successor” after she …
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a Prime Minister who is helping Donald Trump take away our jobs. We can just imagine the President-elect in the Oval Office calling our businesses to say, “Hey, I saw that you have a quadrupling carbon tax north of the border. Why not come south of the border where there's no carbon tax and other taxes are falling?” How about the latest electricity tax the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims he is taking taxes off fresh-made produce. He really does think that food comes from the grocery store, not from the farmers who actually grow the produce. That is why he, I guess, thinks he can carbon tax those farmers without taxing the food. Then there is his friend, the Maserati Marxist. He wants to tax their gas. They are both out of touch. Canadians are…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he is going to leave the economy to bankers. He says that he does not think much about monetary policy, that budgets balance themselves and that he is not very good with numbers, but he did get one thing right: He said that deficits cause inflation, as did his finance minister right before she introduced his budget, saying that there would be no deficit above $…
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Mr. Speaker, inflation is on the rise as a result of this Prime Minister's inflationary spending. In fact, the four measures of inflation are higher than the Bank of Canada target, and this election-minded, inflationary spending is making it harder for the Bank of Canada to reduce interest rates for Canadians who are struggling to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. I will repeat my…
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Mr. Speaker, the results are in on the Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs. He teamed up with the BC NDP to decriminalize fentanyl, crack and heroin, he lowered jail sentences for mass producers of deadly fentanyl, and 80% of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using ingredients that are not even regulated and come right into our country where they are cooked into poison, whic…
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Mr. Speaker, the results are in: The Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs has led to a 200% increase in overdose deaths; 47,000 people have died, and the worst deaths have been in NDP-controlled B.C., where the liberalization has been the most extreme. Worse, he is allowing 80% of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl come in unregulated and legally over our border, to be …
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Mr. Speaker, what is not responsible is allowing 80% of the chemicals used in fentanyl manufacturing to come in unregulated and legally. What is not responsible is decriminalizing crack, heroin and fentanyl, and then, after seeing that it leads to a massive increase in deaths, two weeks ago, he, the Bloc and the NDP all voted in favour of a committee report to decriminalize fentanyl right across t…
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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control of the cost of housing, which has doubled since he became Prime Minister. Just this week, the OECD published a report showing that Toronto and Vancouver are now the two most expensive housing markets in all of North America. Vancouver's housing is significantly more expensive than that of Seattle, even though Vancouverites make half as much mon…
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Mr. Speaker, we do not complain to the CBC; we complain about the CBC. However, I digress. The Prime Minister says that, if he gives more money to local bureaucracies, they will speed up homebuilding, so he gave a half billion dollars to Toronto City Hall. What happened after that? Homebuilding slowed down by 40%. He gave Vancouver City Hall $115 million, and housing construction slowed down by 15…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gives tax dollars to big-city politicians, and then he gives tax dollars to CBC to interview those big-city politicians to say that they liked getting the money. Well, if giving more money to big-city politicians were to solve the problem, we would have the most affordable housing in the world, after revenues for cities has grown twice as fast as inflation and popul…
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Mr. Speaker, taxes, debt and inflation to pay off politicians in exchange for press releases and photo ops will not solve the problem. What it has done is double housing costs and made Toronto and Vancouver the most expensive housing markets in North America, worse than New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and many other places with more people and money and much less land. Here is a choice. The Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost control, but he is clinging to power with the help of his NDP-Liberal leader coalition partner, who said, and I am quoting the NDP leader here, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” He bemoaned the fact that the Teamsters and the ILWU were forced back to work, violating their right to strike. H…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians want to fire that costly Prime Minister. His MPs want to fire that costly Prime Minister. The only one keeping him in power is the NDP leader, who, again, says, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” Now the Liberals are complaining that Canadians might choose me if there were an election. That is not the Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, we will fix everything he broke, as my great finance critic said. Let us start with the carbon tax. The Indian Resource Council announced today, they will be presenting a resolution at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly to take the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister's carbon tax to court. They say, “We will not stand by while our communities are pushed further into poverty …
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Mr. Speaker, he is talking down to first nations people again. They said they have done the research and they “want to dispel any notion that lower-income first nations are better off with the carbon tax rebate.” In rural and remote communities where first nations live, the tax drives up their food, their heat and their transportation bills so much that the Ontario Liberal leader, Bonnie Crombie, …
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Mr. Speaker, the Halifax longshoremen unionized workers have just put out a statement, “On Monday the NDP has the opportunity to reinforce that they will not bring in back to work legislation by supporting their own leader's words.” Below that are those words, in a copy of the common-sense Conservative motion quoting the NDP-Liberal leader as saying, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too…
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Mr. Speaker, his party does not agree. He is so weak that the NDP keeps him in power while the Liberal Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is attacking his energy cap. The Liberal premier says that this reduction of 35% in Newfoundland's energy production is already sending investment away. We understand that President-elect Trump wants to take our money and jobs, but why is the Prime Minister st…
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Mr. Speaker, that is factually false. The industry's emissions have been regulated for decades. He just wants to shut down their production and give more of the money and jobs to Donald Trump and the United States of America. Then there is the electricity tax. He calls it a regulation, but now we know that it is a tax because the independent Ontario energy operator says that this new regulation ta…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of our border. He has lost control of immigration. He admits it, in fact. He did an about-face on immigration. We want to know if he is going to regain control by answering a very simple question. How many people are staying here in Canada illegally?
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Mr. Speaker, he is the head of the government, which is responsible for monitoring who enters and leaves the country. I have a very simple question. How many people are here in Canada illegally?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is the head of the government, responsible for monitoring who comes in our borders and who leaves our borders. Surely he will be able to answer a very simple question. How many are in Canada illegally?
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Mr. Speaker, no matter what we think of Mr. Trump's tariff threats, whether it is a negotiating tactic or a real plan, we should focus on what we can control. The Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of the borders. He has lost control of immigration. He has lost control of spending. Canadians are suffering in these difficult times. Will the Prime Minister reverse his decisions to …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has given President-elect Trump some big gifts. Tax hikes, the doubling of our debt, and the bureaucracy that is holding up our natural resources projects have sent $500 billion in net Canadian investments to the United States to create jobs for Americans. In the meantime, Canadians' personal income, which used to be on par with Americans', is now $20,000 lower. Wil…
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Mr. Speaker, whether one thinks that President-elect Trump's tariff threats are a negotiating tactic or a real plan, what we do know is what we can control, and the Prime Minister has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration, lost control of spending and the deficit, lost control of inflation and housing costs, and lost control of his own caucus. …
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Mr. Speaker, breaking things is not responsible, and that is what the Prime Minister has been doing for nine years. My job is not to cover that up for him. In fact, he has broken our economy. He has doubled the cost of housing, doubled the national debt and doubled trouble across our economy with higher taxes on working Canadians. He is in the process of raising taxes on investment and energy righ…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister created all of those problems. A food program that has not served a single meal or a temporary, tiny 10¢ tax cut on a bag of potato chips will not fix what he broke, especially considering that his next plan is to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. We can just picture President-elect Trump calling our businesses, encouraging them to leave Canada and set up sou…
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Mr. Speaker, today, we have even more proof that the Prime Minister has lost control over spending. The Auditor General has confirmed that this Liberal government gave $3.5 billion in CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify. Fully 10%, or 77,000, of those businesses were not eligible. The whole thing was handled by the Accenture consulting firm, which cost $200 million more. Is that not proof…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians know now that I was right. Rather than helping businesses in need that qualified for the money, the government wasted $3.5 billion. What is more, it grew the bureaucracy by 40% to administer programs. To top it all off, the government spent $200 million to hire the Accenture consulting firm, which provided most of its work from Brazil. Why is it always consultants, bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, there is more proof today that the weak Prime Minister has lost control of spending. The Auditor General reports that the Prime Minister's government gave out $3.5 billion of so-called CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify, a total of 77,000 of them. That is 10% of all recipients. On top of that, the Liberal government then gave a massive implementation contract to high-priced …
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Mr. Speaker, our members champion their constituents who are eligible for assistance, not 77,000 companies that should not have received the $3.5 billion in misspent dollars, all while Canadians are starving. Today, the hunger report is out from Feed Ontario, and there have been one million Ontarians who lined up seven million times at the food bank after the Prime Minister brought in a carbon tax…
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Mr. Speaker, over the last five years, food prices in Canada have increased 37% faster than in the United States. That gap opened after the introduction of the carbon tax, which this government now, with the NDP's help, wants to quadruple. The consequence is that in the last four years, food bank use in Ontario is up 86%, and one in four children go to school hungry, according to this government's…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control of our borders. He is the one who opened Roxham Road and kept it open for a year after the Americans offered to close it. He is the one who invited at least 700 international students here, implicitly promising that they could stay here permanently, and now they have to leave the country. He is the one who lost 500,000 people. What is hi…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister likes to encroach on provincial jurisdictions, he has lost control of his own responsibilities. In fact, he is being irresponsible about the borders, which fall under the most important federal jurisdiction. The premiers have now lost confidence in the Prime Minister. The Quebec premier is sending the provincial police to protect the border. The Alberta premie…
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Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of immigration and he has lost control of our borders. Now we are facing massive threats to our economy. Right now, there are as many as 500,000 people here illegally. There are 700,000 students who came here with the implicit promise they would be able to stay forever. Now they are being told they have to leave, with the t…
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Mr. Speaker, the member hallucinates almost as badly as his weak leader, who refuses to stand and answer for his own border failures. Let us look at his record. He opened Roxham Road. He kept it open for a year longer than the Americans required. He put out a tweet saying, “Welcome to Canada”, inviting people to come here illegally. According to that minister's department, there are half a million…
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Mr. Speaker, once again, this shows the erratic, out-of-control government we have over there. The Prime Minister is hiding from questions. His minister is losing control of his words and his mind. The government is falling to pieces. The Prime Minister has lost control of the border, lost control of immigration and lost control of our finances, and he has now lost control of his caucus, whose mem…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not know. I was tempted to accuse him of hiding it, but as Napoleon Bonaparte said, we should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Who is actually running the government?
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are facing a threat of tariffs from the United States. What is the state of affairs after nine years under this Prime Minister? Our economy is weakened, our armed forces are weakened and our borders are weakened. Most of all, the Prime Minister is weakened. When will there be an election so Canadians can choose a strong leader to protect our economy and put Canada first?
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