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Mr. Speaker, when I was the housing minister, housing was half the cost. When I was the jobs minister, I actually cut down the number of temporary foreign workers to make sure that Canadians got the jobs. However, the bad actor he is referring to is the same head of government who allowed 211% more study permits for people who were not supposed to be working. He allowed 154% more temporary foreign…
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Mr. Speaker, now we know the difference. We want to axe the tax; he wants to axe the facts. After nine years, it is clear that the immigration system is completely broken, but the Prime Minister likes to blame bad actors for the problem. Will he look at who was the head of the government that increased population growth by 300%, that issued 211% more permits for international students, and that in…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was just off on another bonanza of high-flying, high-carbon, high-taxing hypocrisy, this time on a trip to Brazil. He dripped with condescension for Canadians who are struggling to pay their bills. He said, “It is really, really easy, when you are in a short-term survive, I gotta be able to pay the rent this month, I've gotta be able to buy groceries for my kids, to…
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A quarter of his caucus members want to fire him, Mr. Speaker, and we know why. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the U.S., a gap that opened up as the carbon tax came into force. The Prime Minister just goes on trying to tell Canadians that their mentality is off. He says, “There’s a sense that affordability is in direct contrast with our moral responsibility to protect the plan…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has gaslit Canadians so much that Environment Canada has to do a recalculation of the carbon emissions that have come from the lamp. He is the Prime Minister who tells Canadians they should not believe their eyes when the Parliamentary Budget Officer's data shows that 100% of middle-class people pay more in carbon tax than they get back in rebates, that they should …
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Mr. Speaker, his quadrupling carbon tax is all financial pain and no environmental gain. Today we learned that, after nine years under the Prime Minister, Canada now ranks 62nd out of 67 countries for the climate change performance index. The Prime Minister says that Canadians starving or lined up at food banks should congratulate themselves on the fact that his tax has made us 62nd. He says we ar…
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Mr. Speaker, inflation is again on the rise, with three of the Bank of Canada's four measures now above target. The finance minister admitted about a year ago that deficits cause inflation. She made this commitment in her budget, “the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1 billion”. Since then, the Parliamentary Budget Officer said that number has been blown away. Will the Prime Minister tell us, here …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister misheard. It was the Minister of Finance who said that deficits cause inflation. The Prime Minister also said that every dollar of deficit contributes to inflation. That is why they made the commitment, he and his finance minister, to “Maintaining the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1 billion”. Last year's books have been closed for six months now. He certainly has …
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister who admitted that deficit spending adds to inflation. Maybe that is why there has been a record increase in child poverty this year, with one in five kids now in poverty, and two million people lined up at food banks. This is not my world view; he has now admitted that deficits contribute to inflation. That is why he promised that the deficit would not go abov…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has brought nothing but costs for everybody else. He has a food program with no food. He has a pharma program with no pills. He has a gun buyback program that has not brought in a single gun, despite spending $67 million. He has a housing program that his minister admits does not build houses. However, none of those things were the question. It was about his inflati…
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Mr. Speaker, Quebec has reached a breaking point because of the decisions made by this bad actor, the Prime Minister of Canada. The last time Trump won the White House, the Prime Minister posted a “welcome to Canada” tweet. By opening the intake centre at Roxham Road, he invited in tens of thousands of people who had no housing, no jobs and no health care. Will he do the exact opposite this time, …
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Mr. Speaker, Roxham Road was not a problem when the Conservatives were in government. There were more law enforcement officers at the borders and less bureaucracy in the offices. He is doing the exact opposite. That is why we have a broken system after nine years. It is exactly the same thing with housing. He has doubled the cost of housing to the point where one-third of young Canadians are consi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister has doubled housing costs. In fact, 80% of people in Canada now believe, for the first time ever, that home ownership is just for the very rich. The cities that have received money from his so-called housing accelerator have had the worst results. In Vancouver, housing starts are down 18%. In Toronto, they are down 21%. In Ottawa, they are down 14%…
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Mr. Speaker, we want to put money directly into the pockets of home buyers. The Prime Minister doubled the cost of housing across Canada and tripled rent in Montreal, after nine years of paying tons of money to local bureaucracies to prevent construction. Nearly one-third of the cost of a home here in Canada is taxes. By eliminating the taxes, we can build more housing for less. Will the Prime Min…
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Mr. Speaker, by passing Bill C‑83, the Prime Minister allowed Paul Bernardo to leave a maximum-security prison for a medium-security one. Now we find out that the Liberal government has decided to bar the families of Paul Bernardo's victims from testifying in person at the parole hearings that could release this monster back onto our streets. Why is the Prime Minister and his government stopping t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister decided to pass hug-a-thug Bill C-83, which allowed Paul Bernardo to leave maximum security for more luxury and freedom in a medium-security penitentiary. Now we learn that the Liberal government is blocking the family members of Paul Bernardo's victims from testifying in person at his parole hearing, where his release will be considered. Under subsection 6(1) of th…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is still acting like a pyromaniac firefighter, this time on immigration. He blames “bad actors”, to use his own words, for decisions he made that destroyed our once great immigration system. He decided to open the door to 725% more asylum claims in nine years. He decided to approve a 211% increase in international students. He even allowed foreign …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is again a pyromaniac masquerading as a firefighter, this time on immigration. He blames bad actors for his decisions that destroyed our immigration system. He decided to open the door to 726% more asylum claims. He decided to approve 211% more international students. He decided to lift the ban on temporary foreign workers in communities with already high unemployme…
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Mr. Speaker, the employment minister first denied that he and his company were profiting off government business, and then text messages showed the contrary. They referred to a Randy. He claimed that it was another Randy. We now know there is no other Randy. We know he falsely claimed he was indigenous so that his company could steal resources that were meant for real indigenous people, and now, h…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the person he does not know is himself. He says that he is not the Randy in the text messages, but his own business associates say there is no other Randy. He says that he said that he was indigenous in order to get grants and contracts that were meant just for indigenous people. Now he admits he is not indigenous at all. Now, while his company has the same address as a pla…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister took his private jet, burned 105 tonnes of jet fuel and emitted 300 tonnes of greenhouse gases to go down to Brazil, he claimed that Canadians who are opposed to his carbon tax are just confused by disinformation. No, Canadians are not stupid. They know that the Parliamentary Budget Officer has calculated that 100% of middle-class Canadians pay more in the tax…
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Mr. Speaker, those MPs were just trying to solve a case of unsolved mysteries. Where are all these homes? Can someone point out any one of them? They wrote the minister 18 letters. He got 18 letters and he could not respond with even one home that his $8 billion bureaucracy has built. All of these 18 MPs tried to help the hopeless minister. Let me try again with a real plan to build the homes: axe…
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Mr. Speaker, while Prime Minister Harper managed to get the buy America policies lifted, the Prime Minister capitulated and allowed Donald Trump to reimpose them. While Mr. Harper managed to get rid of softwood lumber tariffs, the Prime Minister again capitulated to Donald Trump, who reimposed them. Will the Prime Minister call an election so that Canadians can elect a leader who will stand up for…
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Mr. Speaker, The New York Times reported a decade ago that Canada had the richest middle class in the world and that median incomes for Canadians were higher than in the United States. How things have changed. After nine years of Liberal taxes, red tape and attacks on our energy sector, Americans make $32,000 more than Canadians, and now a newly elected American President wants to take our jobs fo…
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Mr. Speaker, his approach was dumb. It was dumb to let the Americans reimpose buy America rules that Harper had gotten lifted. It was dumb to let Trump impose softwood lumber tariffs that Biden has now doubled. What is dumb, dumber and dumbest of all is imposing a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax that will force our trucking companies, our factories and our mines to head south of the border into the arms of…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the reason Conservatives were able to get rid of buy America and softwood lumber tariffs is that we helped the Americans crush the Taliban and ISIS, whereas the Prime Minister could not even shoot down a Chinese weather balloon over northern Canada. Now he wants to impose a tariff on his own companies, a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax, 300% higher than it is right now, where there is a …
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, The New York Times reported that Canada had the richest middle class in the world and that median income in Canada was higher than in the United States. Today, Canadian workers earn $34,000 less than their American counterparts after the Liberal tax hikes and economic barriers. Now an American president wants to take our jobs away and move them to the United States. Why …
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Mr. Speaker, after Mr. Harper managed to lift the softwood lumber tariffs, the Prime Minister capitulated and let the Americans reimpose those tariffs. Then, Mr. Biden doubled them. President-elect Trump is threatening to go even further. Hundreds of workers in Saguenay have already lost their jobs because this Prime Minister capitulated. When will an election be called so that Canadians can choos…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister also capitulated on buy America, a policy that discriminates against our construction, steel and aluminum companies. They can no longer sell their materials to the U.S. for government construction projects. This provision was withdrawn during the Harper years but was reimposed by then President Trump, with the consent of this Prime Minister, who agreed to sign a so-…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, our economy per capita was equal to that of the United States. In fact, Canadian workers were earning more than their American counterparts. However, after nine years of taxes and economic roadblocks imposed by this radical Liberal government, we see that Americans are $34,000 richer per person and that the United States' economy has grown by 18% per capita, while Canada…
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Mr. Speaker, what President-elect Trump must not understand, and must actually find kind of humorous, is that while he wants to take jobs from other countries and give them to Americans, he sees, here in Canada, a Prime Minister who wants to help him do it. Let us review the track record. The Prime Minister brought in a massive tax on energy that he wants to quadruple, which will drive our truckin…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago, our per capita GDP, which is income per person, was equal to that in the United States. The New York Times said that Canadians were richer and that our workers were making more money. Since that time, the American economy has grown by 18% per person. In Canada, it is actually smaller. We have had the worst per capita GDP decline of any G7 country since the year before CO…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot think of anyone who would more favour quadrupling the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre in Canada than the Prime Minister. Maybe there is one person. Perhaps President-elect Trump would not mind, because of course it would mean that our trucking companies, our factories and our mines would all shut down and go south of the border, where they would pay zero carbon tax. We have enough …
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Mr. Speaker, with the Prime Minister having capitulated and allowed former president Trump to reimpose the softwood lumber tariffs that Stephen Harper took off, and now Biden having doubled those tariffs, our softwood industry is hemorrhaging jobs. One way to boost the industry is to build some homes. It turns out I have a common-sense plan to cut the wasteful bureaucracy that has built zero homes…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister has doubled housing costs and Canada has the fewest homes per capita of any country in the G7. Maybe it is because the housing minister said, of the $8 billion of bureaucracies, “the housing accelerator fund doesn't go toward the cost of building houses”. He also said, “It doesn't actually lead to the construction of specific homes.” The housing ac…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lots of politicians who love to receive other people's money, but he does not have any homes to show for it. He is too afraid to have a carbon tax election. Let us have a compromise here. Why do we not have a housing tax election? Here is how it would work. The NDP-Liberals will campaign on giving billions more to bureaucracies and we will campaign on a plan to …
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister capitulated and allowed Mr. Trump to reimpose softwood lumber tariffs, three sawmills in Saguenay shut down. One way to stimulate demand for Canadian lumber is to build houses. However, the Prime Minister is working hard to build bureaucracy instead, by creating programs that he admits do not even build housing. I have proposed eliminating the GST on new homes…
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Mr. Speaker, it would be bad enough for the Prime Minister to want to give our energy jobs to the Americans, who have doubled their production over the last couple of decades, but he wants to actually give our energy jobs over to the Venezuelan, Iranian and Russian dictatorships by cutting Canadian energy production by 35%. The Americans reduced their emissions, while ours went up, by increasing n…
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Mr. Speaker, common-sense Conservatives approved and saw the completion of four pipelines with no tax dollars to subsidize them because we believe businesses should make money rather than take money. By contrast, the Prime Minister has pushed $100 billion of energy investment out of Canada, most of it into the United States. I can imagine that the champagne will be popping over at the Trump Tower …
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Mr. Speaker, when we were in government, we did not have to offer $30-billion bailouts for pipelines, because they made money. That is how business works. The Prime Minister wants to create a bailout economy. Let us clarify how this worked. Of the $30 billion, $7 billion went to a Texas oil company that took our tax dollars down to Texas to build American pipelines. All our exes are in Texas. Why …
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Mr. Speaker, this morning the Journal de Montréal reported that Cycle Capital received $10 million from the green fund, which is at the centre of a major $400-million scandal. Who owns that company? Who has a stake in in that company? It is the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Is that why the Prime Minister is paralyzing Parliament, to withhold evidence of this scandal from the RCMP?
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Mr. Speaker, given that we have just seen an American election, I can quote another American president, who could aptly describe the Prime Minister's economic policy: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Instead of doing none of the above, which would allow our entrepreneurs to actually build things on their own without sticking taxpayers wi…
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Mr. Speaker, I have already explained how half a trillion of our dollars have left the country since the Prime Minister took office. Canadian investment dollars are paying American workers while our people cannot afford food and homes. Do not take my word for how uninvestable the country has become. Take the word of carbon tax Carney. The Prime Minister's lead economic adviser has just moved his $…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister likes to spread crackpot conspiracy theories instead of defending his economic record, but why would he not? When someone doubles housing costs, they distract. When they double food bank use, they divide. When they double gun crime, they use fear to turn people's attention away. When they double the national debt to a point that even their top economic adviser is fl…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. We know that Parliament has been paralyzed for weeks now because he refuses to hand over evidence to the police in the $400-million Liberal slush fund scandal. We have now found out what he might be hiding. It turns out that his radical environment minister has a stake in one of the companies that got 10 million of those d…
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Mr. Speaker, after the Prime Minister was caught paying nine million tax dollars to buy a luxury, super exclusive condo on Billionaires' Row for his media pal and diplomat in New York Tom Clark, the diplomat in question denied he had any involvement in it. Well, now we have documents showing that he said his housing “requires immediate replacement”. It was not suitable for hosting or living. Wait …
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Mr. Speaker, a mere 80 days after Stephen Harper became prime minister, he reached a deal to end softwood lumber tariffs, but this Liberal Prime Minister capitulated. He allowed Donald Trump to reimpose those tariffs and Biden to double them. Stephen Harper reached an agreement with Obama to exempt Canada from the discriminatory buy America policies, but this Liberal Prime Minister capitulated and…
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal Prime Minister not only capitulated to Obama, Trump, and Biden, but he also gave away half a billion dollars in investments that left our country and impoverished our citizens. Ten years ago, the New York Times published an article entitled “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. The article said that Canadians' average income seemed to have surp…
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Mr. Speaker, it took then-Prime Minister Harper only 80 days to get a softwood lumber deal that put an end to the tariffs and we were reimbursed what was already collected. Then the Liberal Prime Minister capitulated, allowed Trump to reimpose the tariffs and Biden to double them. Harper got us an exemption to buy America. The Prime Minister then capitulated and allowed Trump and Biden to reimpose…
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Mr. Speaker, in the New York times 10 years ago, “Life in Canada, Home of the World’s Most Affluent Middle Class....median income in Canada appears to have surpassed median income in the United States.” What a decade can do. Now, American workers make almost $20,000 more than their Canadian counterparts. They get twice as much investment every single year. The gap between our per capita GDP and th…
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