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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is too weakened to protect our economy against Donald Trump's threats. Trump was elected president three weeks ago and has made this threat repeatedly for the past few days and what is the Prime Minister's plan? He is planning a Zoom call with the provincial premiers, who are saying that the Prime Minister is too weak. Quebec is sending the Sûreté du Québec to prote…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians face an unprecedented threat from President-elect Trump's potential tariffs. What is the state of things here in Canada? Our economy is weakened. Our borders are weakened. Our military is weakened, and most of all, our Prime Minister is weakened. Why can we not have a carbon tax election so that Canadians can choose a leader with the brains and the backbone to protect our ec…
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Mr. Speaker, he has lost control of our borders. He has lost control of immigration. He has lost control of spending, and with that erratic performance, we now see that he has lost control of himself. No wonder foreign leaders believe they can walk all over him. They see him as a weak, incompetent leader who does not even have the support of his own party. Why will he not put the country first for…
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Mr. Speaker, it just proves how weak and out of control the Prime Minister has become that he just engaged in a mass hallucination, listing off a bunch of programs that actually do not even exist outside his own head. If he is not prepared to stand up for the country when it comes to trade, then why do we not have a real election about taxes? He can run on his tiny two-month tax trick, and I will …
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Mr. Speaker, it makes no sense; I could not agree more. Here we have the New Democrats claiming to have torn up their deal, their carbon tax coalition, with the Prime Minister, but then they taped it back together when he promised a two-month tax trick. Then, after taking credit for it, the NDP says it did not know what was in it and that it is now opposed to it. The two leaders cannot even figure…
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Mr. Speaker, I think Canadians are ready to stand up and speak for themselves. If the Prime Minister wants to lecture us about democracy, then why not have a referendum, a referendum election where the choice will be the following: a tiny, two-month tax trick with the NDP-Liberals or a permanent axing of the carbon tax and axing the sales tax on new homes? Why not let Canadians decide now?
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Mr. Speaker, “electorally interesting” is the Prime Minister's condescending way of saying Canadians actually like my plan. Canadians have figured out that after nine years of the weak Prime Minister's spending $80 billion on housing, with the result being the doubling of housing costs, spending billions more will not make any difference. We are going to slash the bureaucracy and use the savings t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has run a groundbreaking experiment. He has put billions of dollars in a sack and offered it to politicians, and the finding is that they are willing to accept the money. It is incredible. It is a groundbreaking sociological study. He wants to give more money to local politicians who block home building. We want to use the same money to cut taxes for the people who …
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Mr. Speaker, it just shows how out of control the Prime Minister has become; he cannot stay on a subject. He brings up housing, so I agree. I just threw away my script and said, “Let us debate housing.” Now the Prime Minister changes the subject back to his two-month tax reform trick. Here is the trick, everyone: After the tax break runs out in February, the Liberals are going to hike the carbon t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister needs to breathe. He said he was going to talk about one thing, and then he rambled on about 10 or 15 things. They are all things he hallucinates that one day he might do if only he were given another nine years in office, instead of talking about his real record, which is that he doubled housing costs, doubled food bank use, doubled the debt and now wants to quadru…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan to protect our economy from President-elect Trump's threats. The Americans and the provincial premiers have warned of chaos at the border and in the immigration system. There are 4.9 million permits and visas that are set to expire within the next 13 months, or about a year from now. If those people do not leave or if they enter the United States illegally, that threate…
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Mr. Speaker, his minister said that it was impossible to know whether or not these people were leaving the country. His own immigration department just released a document saying that it does not know exactly how many people who should not be in this country are still here, but “[e]stimates from academic sources range between 20,000 and 500,000 persons, although there may be more”. There could be …
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Mr. Speaker, we have to protect our borders if we are going to protect our economy from President-elect Trump's tariff threats. The Americans and the premiers are all concerned the Prime Minister is too weak to do that. The data from his own immigration department confirms that fact. According to documents produced by his ministry, there are between 20,000 and 500,000 people in Canada who are not …
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Mr. Speaker, that is another weak answer from a weak leader. The reality is the Prime Minister says that people just voluntarily leave when their permits and visas are up. However, his minister admitted this week that is impossible to prove because they do not keep track. The closest thing they could get to an answer was their department saying, “Estimates from academic sources range between 20,00…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks like the member for Kingston and the Islands is not getting into cabinet after all. Some people bring happiness wherever they go; others bring happiness whenever they go. This is a two-month tax trick that will print cash, add to inflation and make Canadians worse off. If the Prime Minister disagrees, why will he not stop being so weak? Why will he not have the courage to cal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs has been lethal for Canadians, 47,000 of whom have died of overdoses since the Prime Minister took office, more than those who died in the Second World War fighting for Canada. Overdose deaths are up 200%. Now our American friends say they may hit us with tariffs because of the Prime Minister's Liberal policies on fentanyl. How…
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Mr. Speaker, the science and evidence are now proven. After nine years of the radical liberalization of drugs, overdose deaths are up 200%. The worst overdose numbers come from British Columbia, where the policies have been most radically and enthusiastically implemented. The NDP-Liberals have claimed that they are backtracking on decriminalization because it has become so unpopular. Just this wee…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's radical drug agenda is not the only thing that is broken. Our economy is broken as well. We now have two million people being forced to go to food banks every single month, a 38% increase in chronic homelessness and 1,400 homeless encampments. Just today, Equifax reported that consumer debt is $2.5 trillion. We have the worst household debt of all the G7 countries…
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Mr. Speaker, we are facing Donald Trump's threats with a weak Prime Minister and from a weak economic position. Now we find out that the Prime Minister does not even know how big the deficit is. Spending is out of control and getting worse by the day, as the Prime Minister tries to buy support from the Bloc Québécois and the New Democrats to stay in power. I will ask the question again very slowly…
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Mr. Speaker, he is showing once again that he is a weak Prime Minister who has lost control. He lost control of the borders, he lost control of immigration, and he lost control of government spending. He says he cannot say how big the deficit is, even though he already tabled a budget for this year. That is odd. It is the first time I have heard that from a Prime Minister. I will ask him an easier…
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Mr. Speaker, we have a weak Prime Minister who has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending. Recently, it came to light that the deficit is much bigger than his finance minister reported in the recent budget. The Prime Minister claims that he cannot tell us what the deficit is for this year, so we will make it easier f…
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Mr. Speaker, just to show how weak the Prime Minister is, he actually had to read a script just to talk about his tiny two-month tax break. My question a moment ago, though, was about the deficit. He admits that deficits contribute to inflation. We now have a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who the Prime Minister appointed, showing that the deficit is far bigger than he advertised in…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he will leave the economy to bankers. Well, the bankers sure are rolling in cash. They are collecting interest on the national debt, which he has already doubled, while Canadians line up at food banks. The question, though, was about the size of the deficit. Somebody cannot run a half-trillion dollar G7 government if they do not know anything about the fin…
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Mr. Speaker, we are facing this economic threat at a time when Canada is very weak. Our economy is in free fall. Our GDP has shrunk faster than any other G7 country since the year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-five per cent of Canadians are living in poverty. The cost of housing has doubled. It has increased faster than in any other G7 country. Canadian families have more debt than in any o…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan for security and the economy that puts Canada first. The Prime Minister has known for months that Trump was threatening tariffs. The only plan he has at the moment is a Zoom call. There is no plan to reverse the drug liberalization policy that is of such concern to the Americans. There is no plan to fix the chaos the Prime Minister has caused at our borders. There is no…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the call did not work, because just a few minutes later, President-elect Trump threatened Canada with tariffs. It is the same thing with softwood lumber and the Buy America program. After three presidents, in nine years, this Prime Minister has not made any gains for Canada. Now, he has admitted that he broke the immigration system. We know that there are 700 international …
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Mr. Speaker, we need a plan for the economy and for security that puts Canada first, but, despite the fact the Prime Minister has known for years that Trump was threatening these tariffs, and for three weeks that Donald Trump had won the election, the only plan he has is a Zoom call. There is no plan to reverse his disastrous liberalization of the drugs that have killed people and now threaten our…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister spoke with the incoming president and, moments later, Mr. Trump put out a tweet slapping a 25% tariff on Canada. That worked about as well as the Prime Minister's efforts on buy America and softwood lumber, which continue to be penalized even though the previous Conservative government got both of those things lifted. Let us move over to drugs. The Prime Minister's …
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Mr. Speaker, that is even worse. The statement went out promising tariffs before they even had a chance to speak. It is kind of like the Prime Minister backing down on buy America and backing down on softwood lumber. Now let us move to the tariffs the Prime Minister wants to impose on our economy. Quadrupling the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre would cripple our economy. New tax increases on work and en…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising in the House today to speak out against President-elect Trump's threat of imposing tariffs on Canada, to propose a real action plan to respond to that threat and to put Canada first. We have a president south of the border who has made it clear he wants to put American workers and American security first. That is his right, but he and everyone else should know that when I …
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, I note that the Prime Minister was not courageous enough to debate me here directly on this today. He should be here in the House debating the future of protecting our trade. Secondly—
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Mr. Speaker, in the last round of negotiations, we remember what happened: The Prime Minister capitulated. He did not get us an exemption to buy America, as the earlier prime minister Stephen Harper had successfully done. Not only is buy America still in place, but it now applies to all levels of U.S. government procurement, which it never did before. The Prime Minister did not get us out of the s…
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Mr. Speaker, at least the Bloc member is speaking up for once. The Liberal government has been threatening his region with an order against the forestry sector for months now, but we have not heard a word from that member. The two Bloc members who live in that region are doing nothing. Some Bloc members have even supported the federal government's power to impose a radical order that will kill job…
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Mr. Speaker, no, because in fact we increased the number of frontline CBSA officers, and we actually armed them. Furthermore, what we spent less money on was back-office bureaucracy and consultants. This member is busy bragging that he voted for a more expensive CBSA. Yes; it went to consultants. The money did not go to boots on the ground. Tens of millions of dollars went to back-office bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, we need a bring-it-home tax cut. The reality is that rising taxes and increasing delays to approve massive projects have driven half a trillion dollars of investment south of the border. In 10 years, we have gone from The New York Times printing a headline that says, “[Welcome to] Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”, an article in which it stated that Canada's medi…
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Mr. Speaker, the violent protests in Montreal are the result of a Prime Minister who has spent nine years promoting woke, toxic identity politics, diving people by race, gender, vaccination status and on and on. On top of dividing people, he is erasing our history and allowing terrorists and criminals into our country. The result? A 251% increase in hate crimes. When will he call an election so we…
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a minister who, after finding out that the economy is entering its sixth consecutive quarter of shrinking per capita GDP, is income per person, is down while the American income per person is up, and after learning that there are two million people lined up at food banks, 38% more chronic homelessness and 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario after nine years of the gover…
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Mr. Speaker, the lawless hate riot that we saw on the streets of Montreal is what happens after nine years of a woke Prime Minister pushing radical, woke identity politics, dividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion and more. On top of dividing, the Prime Minister erases our heroes and history, saying Canada has no core identity. He opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers. …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housing and inflated the price of food 37% faster here in Canada than in the United States. Now he is using a gimmick so people can save 10¢ on a bag of chips or save money on Halloween costumes, when Halloween is already over. What did the Bloc Québécois get for keeping the Prime Minister in power? There is nothing for sen…
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Mr. Speaker, after doubling housing costs and inflating food prices 37% faster in Canada than in the United States, with inflationary carbon taxes and deficit spending, the Prime Minister now has a tiny two-month tax trick that will save Canadians 10¢ on a pack of chips, a few pennies on a Christmas tree, but only after their Christmas tree is already up and decorated. They will even save on Hallo…
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Mr. Speaker, well, the NDP leader is giving Canadians whiplash with his latest flip-flop and the flop on the flip. First he said he tore up his deal with the Liberal government. Then he said that he had taped it back together because it had signed on to his two-month tax trick. Now he rises on his feet to say that the trick is a rip off of seniors and persons with disabilities. Why will the NDP le…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use and, up until a few moments ago, had a minister with a double identity. The Prime Minister knew that the minister in question was directing his business from inside cabinet and that he had falsely claimed to be indigenous, yet the Prime Minister stood by him and kept him in cabinet…
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Mr. Speaker, the former Liberal attorney general, who was appointed by this Prime Minister and was the first indigenous person to hold the position, said it was shameful for a Liberal minister to claim to be indigenous when he is not. Let us look how differently these two individuals were treated. Why did the Prime Minister fire a real indigenous woman for telling the truth, but support a fake ind…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, in nine years, has doubled housing costs, doubled the debt, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use and, up until a minute ago, had a minister with a double identity. The Prime Minister knew the former minister was directing his business illegally from inside cabinet. He knew the former minister had claimed there was another Randy when there was no other Randy. He…
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Mr. Speaker, on muzzling caucus members, this is the guy who fired the first indigenous attorney general because she refused to defend his corruption. She said, “A Prime Minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy (and the other Randy) from Cabinet long ago. Instead we get to watch white people play ancestry wheel of fortune. So shameful and extremely destructive!” Why is it…
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Mr. Speaker, this is from a Prime Minister who has 20 caucus members who have signed a letter saying they are ready to fire him. Why would they not? This is a guy who has doubled housing costs, doubled gun crime, doubled food bank use, doubled the national debt and kept in place a minister with a double identity. Even his own caucus members know he is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. If he…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has now admitted that the immigration system is broken after nine years of his government. He blames “bad actors”, so let us put our detective hat on and find out who those bad actors were. Who was the head of the federal government that increased permits for temporary foreign workers by 154%? Who was the head of the federal government that issued 211% more permits …
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Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, we had one home built for every 1.5 people added to the population, which meant we were adding houses faster than we needed to and we were providing affordable homes at half the cost of today. Last year, the Liberals added one home for every five new people, the biggest housing deficit in history. So, once again, who was the bad actor running the governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think we have found the bad actor yet. The Prime Minister blames it on labour market needs, but the biggest growth happened in non-labour market immigration. For example, he boosted permits for international students by 211% and refugees by 726%, which has nothing to do with filling job vacancies. When it comes to temporary foreign workers, he allowed more to go to places wit…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not helping us find the bad actor. It is like there has been someone else running the country for the last nine years while the system has come crumbling down. He claims that he cares about housing, but on that subject, maybe we will ask him this question: Who was the head of the government that was warned by its public service three years ago that increasing pop…
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