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Mr. Speaker, now we know the Prime Minister's real agenda. He wants to distract from all the economic misery he has caused at home, and so he uses divisions here at home. These divisions are as a result of him. Under his leadership, we have seen a 251% increase in hate crimes, firebombings of synagogues, bullets shot at Jewish children's schools, a hundred churches burned and vandalized, and now w…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, Statistics Canada revealed today that Canada's economy grew by a paltry 1% in the third quarter. This is a third less than expected, and two thirds less than the United States. Our per capita GDP has fallen in eight of the last nine quarters. In fact, our GDP per capita has dropped faster than any other G7 nation. Is this not hard proof that doubling the debt and increa…
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Mr. Speaker, what scares people is that their paycheques are getting smaller every year. Their paycheques mean that they cannot afford to buy a house since this government has doubled the cost of housing. This minister went looking for affordable housing in his city. He could not find any, after nine years of his government doubling the cost. When I was minister, we built 194,000 affordable housin…
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Mr. Speaker, Statistics Canada reported terrible news for the Canadian economy today. It grew at a meagre 1%, a third lower than foreseen and less than our population grew. In fact, it was the eighth out of the last nine economic quarters in which our per capita GDP shrunk. It has fallen more than any other G7 country's since the year before COVID. This is the direct result of higher taxes on capi…
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Mr. Speaker, the American economy is roaring while the Canadian economy is snoring. In the most recently reported economic quarter, U.S. GDP grew three times faster than Canada's, despite our out-of-control population growth. In fact, per person income is lower than it was 10 years ago in Canada, while it has gone up by 18% in the U.S. The gap between U.S. and Canadian incomes is worse than at any…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's collapsing per-person economy means lower wages, which means Canadians can afford less food and less housing, and governments can afford less for schools and hospitals. This is the direct result. These are the first economic data points that have come out since the government jacked up the capital gains tax now driving billions of dollars south of the border. Why do the Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada made everyone a promise. It is very simple. If people work hard, they can earn a big paycheque so they can afford food and a home in a safe community, no matter where they come from. This Canadian promise, like so many other things, is broken after nine years of this Prime Minister, who has doubled the cost of housing. This week, I proposed eliminating the GST on new home purch…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that the Prime Minister is against eliminating the GST on housing, because he is the one who doubled the cost. He did that by breaking the immigration system, by printing 700 billion inflationary dollars, by funding the gatekeepers who block construction and by charging new taxes on home building. He did that to create more bureaucracy in Ottawa, a bureaucracy that d…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada makes everyone a promise. It is a very simple deal. If they work hard, they get decent food and a good home in a safe neighbourhood. It does not matter where someone comes from; if they work hard, that is what they get. However, that promise, like everything else, is broken after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister. He has doubled housing costs. That is why I came forw…
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Mr. Speaker, I propose to cut bureaucracy and taxes. Let us axe the sales tax on new homes, saving up to $50,000 on a new home. That is a savings of almost $2,700 per year in lower mortgage payments. By contrast, the Prime Minister offers a multi-billion dollar housing bureaucracy in Ottawa that his own housing minister admits does not build homes. Why will the Prime Minister not listen to his own…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that the Prime Minister has told his caucus that he is not sleeping. He is pulling his hair out with stress because of his caucus' revolting against him. Now he is spreading tin-hat conspiracy theories rather than answering the question. Eighty per cent of Canadians now believe that home ownership is only for the very rich after the Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housin…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois leader has literally made no gains for Quebeckers, no gains for seniors, and no gains for farmers. However, he voted nearly 200 times to keep this Prime Minister in power. He voted in favour of $500 billion in inflationary, bureaucratic, and deficit spending. All the while, Quebeckers are impacted by a doubling of housing costs. Will the Prime Minister agree to call…
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Mr. Speaker, we would have thought that after the Prime Minister doubled housing costs, doubled the debt, doubled gun crime and now doubled food bank use, the NDP would be pulling its support. After all, its leader said that the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people, yet there he is, still in power. He does not even have the confidence of hi…
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Mr. Speaker, it looks as if the Prime Minister is worried about his personal political security as his MPs are revolting and trying to push him out of the job, so he is desperately trying to change the channel on the questions I have asked. I think that is unfair though. Those MPs helped the Prime Minister double housing costs, double the debt, double gun crime and double food bank use. Why will t…
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Mr. Speaker, if he wants to release the names, he legally can do it now on the floor of the House of Commons. Will he do it?
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Mr. Speaker, he will not release the names, because he knows that he and his party are compromised, and he will not answer my question, because right now 24 of his MPs are rebelling against him. They are asking for a secret ballot to fire him. However, as I say, that is not fair. Every one of those MPs helped the Prime Minister create 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario. Every one of them voted …
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Mr. Speaker, with housing comes security. In Quebec, the cost of housing has doubled. In Montreal, the cost of rent has tripled after nine years of this Prime Minister, who builds bureaucracy, who prints money, who broke the immigration system and who collected taxes from corrupt companies. That is why I proposed a common-sense solution: eliminate the GST on housing. The Prime Minister says he pre…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years after this Prime Minister promised to end chronic homelessness, it has increased by 38%. Fortunately, the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness says that my Conservative plan to scrap the GST on the purchase of housing is, and I quote, smart. If the Prime Minister really wants to fix the housing crisis that he created, will he listen to the people who work to end homelessne…
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Mr. Speaker, the West End Home Builders Association stated that my common-sense Conservative plan to axe the sales tax on new homes under a million dollars is “the most significant housing policy commitment made in the past two decades. Removing the GST shows leadership to cut crippling levels of taxation on new housing, puts money directly back into the pockets of Canadians while combatting the h…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the Prime Minister do any of his job after nine years, such as reversing the housing price increase he caused. Let me quote British Columbia's Victoria Residential Builders Association, which said: Reducing government costs, including GST, would have a significant impact on housing affordability. [The Conservative leader]'s suggestion is welcome news, and long over…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years after promising he would get rid of chronic homelessness, it has actually risen by 38%. Now there are 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario. It is almost as bad as it is in NDP-governed British Columbia. However, there is good news. The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness heard about my common-sense plan to axe the GST on housing, and its founder said, “This is smart.” Th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that he opposes taking the GST off of new homes. He wants to keep the taxes high and housing prices rising. His solution is to fund more bureaucracy. What has that done? Well, that has doubled housing costs and it has caused a 39% increase in homelessness rates. I have an idea. Why do we not let Canadians decide? If he will not have a carbon tax election, why n…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories and misinformation will not distract. We stand up for women's rights every day on this side. It has been our 20-year-long policy in the Conservative Party that there will be no restrictions on women's reproductive choices or on abortion. He knows that, but he does not want to discuss the issue that we disagree on. Housing costs have…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of women's rights, just yesterday, the Prime Minister's former parliamentary secretary, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, came out publicly and said that she was abused, intimidated and mistreated by this Prime Minister, and that he used her for his fake feminist agenda, and that he treated her like garbage. It is terrible the way he exercises hypocrisy: housing hypocrisy by doubling …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is coming unglued. He is flailing around, spreading conspiracy theories and demonstrable disinformation in order to distract from the fact that not only did he double housing costs, double gun crime and double food bank use, but now 24 of his own MPs want to fire him. We cannot go on like this with a Prime Minister who admits he cannot even sleep at night because he…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of releasing violent gun criminals and leaving our borders open to smugglers, the Prime Minister has presided over a 116% increase in gun violence, yet he was out boasting about it on Twitter. The Toronto Police Union, the largest police union in Canada, said his words were “out of touch”. They were offensive to victims and brave officers. Given that his approach has …
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Mr. Speaker, it has never been easier for a criminal to get a handgun, in addition to which he has allowed it to be legal today to own a handgun. He has brought in an amnesty on his own gun ban, re-legalizing all the guns he said he was going to ban. Four years after he held that big press conference with a scary-looking black gun on the front of his podium, a made-in-Hollywood-style cartoon, gun …
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Mr. Speaker, there has been an 800% increase in crime near Maison Benoît Labre since the Prime Minister allowed that centre to host a hard drug consumption site. The families who live in the community are frightened by the chaos this Prime Minister has caused. Section 56.1 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act gives him the power to shut down this consumption site. Will he do it?
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, nine million Canadians live in food insecurity according to Food Banks Canada. That is 23% of our population. That is twice as high as the rate in the United States. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the United States, and that gap has happened at the same time as the implementation of the carbon tax and all the government greed. Now the Prime Minis…
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Mr. Speaker, if the carbon tax made people better off, we would not see a doubling of food bank use under the Prime Minister. He cannot blame the rest of the world. Food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the United States of America in the same time period, and that gap grew as the carbon tax came in year after year over the last half-decade. If we tax the farmers who make the food, t…
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Mr. Speaker, that was more division to distract. Here we have two million people lining up at food banks. One-quarter of Canadians live in food insecurity, a level twice as high as in the United States. Food prices are rising 36% faster in Canada than in the U.S., coinciding with the carbon tax coming into force. Now the Prime Minister wants to quadruple it. Fifty-six per cent of food banks say th…
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago, the Prime Minister copied and pasted my idea to get rid of the GST on rental housing construction. That is the only thing he did because his other policies have inflated the costs. Yesterday, I suggested eliminating the GST on homes selling for under $1 million, and the Prime Minister's housing adviser, Mike Moffatt, said it was “the boldest middle-class housing proposal r…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to eliminate the GST on homes valued at less than $1 million. It will save the buyer $25,000 on the purchase of an average home in Quebec. That means $1,300 a year less in mortgage payments. In contrast, the Prime Minister wants to funnel that money into bureaucratic programs that, as his own Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities admitted, will not even build any …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister took my idea last year to remove the GST from rental housing construction. It is the only thing he has done right, because of course after nine years, he has doubled housing costs. Yesterday I came up with another common-sense idea. Let me quote the Prime Minister's housing adviser, Mike Moffatt: “[The Conservative leader's plan] to eliminate the GST for newly const…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister named the two bureaucracies I would get rid of. One is ironically named the housing infrastructure fund, which is $5 billion. How many houses has it built? Zero. How many pieces of infrastructure has it built? Zero. Can one even apply for money from it? No; it is just for bureaucrats. Then there is the housing accelerator fund, which the Prime Minister's own Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, these are cuts to taxes Canadians pay. We will axe the tax, the sales tax on new homes of under a million dollars. This will save up to $50,000 on a new home or $2,700 in lower mortgage payments every single year. By contrast, in the last three years, the number of young people who have ownership of a home today has fallen by half under the Prime Minister and his incompetent housing m…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is finally flip-flopping after voting to keep the most centralizing and expansionist Liberal government in history in power 188 times. After two more votes on confidence motions this fall, the Bloc achieved nothing—nothing for seniors and nothing for farmers. I hope that it will finally vote with us to put an end to this government, which is bad for Quebec. Will the…
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Mr. Speaker, the very angry housing minister has been up all night trying to dream up some snarky comment in response to the very popular announcement that common-sense Conservatives made yesterday to axe the federal sales tax on homes under a million dollars. This is something that his own adviser, Dr. Mike Moffatt, has said is the boldest announcement of any federal party for middle-class home o…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the only rent he has not doubled. Nobody else has to tell the member he is wrong, because he told himself. This is what he said about his own housing accelerator fund: “[T]he housing accelerator fund doesn't [actually] go toward the cost of building houses.... It doesn't actually lead to the construction of specific homes.” He also said, “The housing accelerator fund doesn't dir…
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Mr. Speaker, he has done precisely the opposite. Since he gave Toronto half a billion dollars, that city hall has jacked up development taxes by 40%. No wonder construction is down 20%. That is probably why Dr. Mike Moffatt, the minister's housing adviser, said it is hard to deny the view that “[t]he housing accelerator fund is turning out to be nothing more than a heist of tax dollars flowing fro…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of leadership contestants, the member must be so uptight and angry because the polling shows that, though Canadians want to fire the Prime Minister, the housing minister ranks dead last in the polls to replace him. Why would he not? This is the guy who lost track of a million people when he was immigration minister. He ignored warnings from his own department that letting in …
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Mr. Speaker, the sum total of the chaos in our immigration system that happened under the government happened while he was the minister. His own subsequent Liberal successor has now denounced him and blamed him and his policies for the housing shortfall we have today. Now, as housing minister, since he took office, the number of young people who own a home has gone from 47% down to 26% as he build…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, costs are up, crime is up, corruption is up and now chaos reigns, because 24 Liberal MPs want the Prime Minister to resign, even though the Bloc Québécois wants to keep this Prime Minister in power. Considering that even Liberal MPs have no confidence in this Prime Minister, will he call an election so that we can fix what he broke?
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to note that I asked my question in French. Twenty-four Liberal MPs acknowledge that this Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption and now the chaos. Today, in fact, the Prime Minister had to silence half his caucus, forcing some MPs to go to the bathroom so that they could text reporters to let them know what was going on in the caucus meeting. Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, costs are up. The cost of housing has doubled. The national debt has doubled. The cost of housing is out of control. Parliament is paralyzed by the corruption that the Prime Minister is trying to hide from Canadians. Now, there are at least 24 Liberal members who are saying that the Prime Minister must resign. Immigration is also out of control…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, costs are up, taxes are up, crime is up, and, according to 24 Liberal MPs, time is up. The Prime Minister has doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt and given us the worst economy in the G7. He has paralyzed Parliament with a cover-up of corruption, and two million people are lined up at food banks. However, he cannot fix w…
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Mr. Speaker, 24 Liberal MPs went to his caucus meeting today to tell him that he is not worth the crime, cost or corruption. They wanted to tell him that he has doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt and sent two million people to food banks, but he would not let them; he silenced half of the dissidents. In fact, some were intimidated so much that even Rosemary Barton, the Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is admitting that his immigration policies have been totally incompetent. In fact, the ratio of new people to new homes reached its highest level in recorded history last year after his then immigration minister, now housing minister, ignored the warnings of his own department. According to a new Concordia University report, rent is expected to rise to $7,500 in Van…
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to know that you and the Prime Minister like to go grocery shopping together. Since you do, you would know that, of course, food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than they did in the United States in the last four years, and that this gap grew in line with the carbon tax. The leader of the NDP apparently likes to shop at Metro, for which his brother's company is the c…
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Mr. Speaker, even Liberal MPs now know, because their constituents keep telling them, that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of food. The Liberals wanted to go to caucus today and tell the Prime Minister that Canadians are literally starving, some eating out of dumpsters, because of the carbon tax. However, the Prime Minister sent out the immigration minister to attack them, saying that they a…
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