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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, who has a lifelong record of racist outbursts, is now coming unglued on the floor of the House of Commons. The question was about the 24 Liberal MPs in his caucus who are trying to speak out against his quadrupling of the carbon tax, not because they care about the cost of living for their constituents, but because they are worried they are going to lose the electi…
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Mr. Speaker, “brokenist” is not even a word. He is even breaking the English language. Oh my goodness. So, the Prime Minister broke the housing market by doubling the costs. He broke the cost of food by jacking up the carbon tax and increasing prices 36% faster than in the United States. He has broken our immigration system. He is breaking the bank with his doubling of the debt. Even his own caucu…
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Mr. Speaker, we want to cut taxes and housing costs. On that subject, the Prime Minister created a $4-billion so-called housing accelerator that gave hundreds of millions of dollars to big city politicians across the country. Toronto got the money and construction went down 20%. Winnipeg got the money and construction went down 15%. Vancouver got the money and construction went down 19%. Ottawa go…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just accidentally told the truth. He said he is “accelerating red tape”. He sure is doing that, but he is not accelerating his math lessons. He has always admitted that he is bad with numbers. I have documents from Stats Canada's website, which is part of his government, that show that in 2015, there were 194,461 housing completions and the average rent was only $97…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Liberal Prime Minister who said a year ago that the federal government has no responsibility for housing. Of course, he said that after he had completed the doubling of housing costs. Then, speaking of housing ministers, he went on to appoint the guy who had lost track of a million people coming into the country, who had allowed a 300% increase in population growth against t…
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing compassionate about inviting people without a place for them to live or health care for them to have or jobs that provide them with paycheques. The Prime Minister has destroyed our immigration system through his own personal incompetence and destroyed a 150-year common-sense consensus between Liberals and Conservatives on that subject. He cannot fix what he broke on i…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada makes every single one of us a promise: If we work hard, we get a good life. That promise, like everything else after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, is broken. Now, he has broken countless promises, but this one is different. This was not his promise to break; it belonged to all of us. Now that he has destroyed immigration, the housing market and the cost of livi…
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Mr. Speaker, I have already put forward my common-sense plan. It involves incentivizing municipalities to fast-track building permits, reduce red tape, free up land for construction and lower taxes for people who build housing in Canada, while at the same time controlling population growth to keep it from outpacing the growth of our housing supply. That is what a common-sense plan looks like. Will…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, the cost of housing in Quebec has exploded. In Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, house prices have risen by $130,000, an increase of 76%. In Trois-Rivières, prices have risen by $190,000, an increase of 122%. In Drummondville, prices have risen by $204,000, an increase of 124%. What is the Prime Minister doing? He has broken our immigration system and p…
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Mr. Speaker, the real experts are the people who build housing. The Quebec home builders' association, the APCHQ, has said that my plan is the best plan for building housing by encouraging construction and incentivizing municipalities to eliminate red tape. In contrast, we are seeing the results of nine years under this Prime Minister. The cost of housing has risen faster here than in any other G7…
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Mr. Speaker, today the Bank of Canada had to issue an emergency rate cut to salvage a collapsing economy, an economy that has fallen more in the last five years than that of any other G7 country. Our GDP per capita is smaller today than it was a decade ago, while the American has grown by 18%. The gap between the Canada per person GDP and the U.S. per person GDP is now at its worst in a century, l…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the human misery that Canadians are suffering. There are now 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario alone. The City of Toronto admits that it has run out of homeless shelter space and will have to turn people out into the snow throughout the forthcoming winter. There is a Facebook group called the “Dumpster Diving Network”, …
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Mr. Speaker, the problem with that blame game is that in fact the worst homeless encampments are in NDP-governed British Columbia. In fact what the Prime Minister has done is take the radical socialist policies that led to those encampments and those massive overdose crises nationwide. Take, for example, the drug dens. The Prime Minister continues to push taxpayer-funded opioids on the population,…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government is acting like “a drug lord.” Those are the words of Masha Krupp, a mother who lost her daughter to an overdose. That daughter, Larisa, was given taxpayer-funded opioids. Now her son is addicted to the same government-provided drugs. This radical policy, which the Prime Minister pioneered and expanded with the help of the NDP, has taken thousands of lives. W…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. We now know that his deficit this year will be $7 billion, 20% bigger than his finance minister claimed in the budget only six months ago. Where is the money going? We know that $400 million was directed by Liberal appointees to their own companies in what involved 186 conflicts of interest. N…
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Mr. Speaker, it is because the Prime Minister will not gag me the way he is gagging his 24 Liberal MPs. He has turned our country into a playground for foreign interference. He has unleashed crime and chaos on our streets and corruption inside our government. My question, which he is erratically trying to avoid, is this: Why does he keep covering up the criminal evidence in a $400-million green sl…
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Mr. Speaker, there are now about 40 Liberal MPs who agree with what Canadians already know: This Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. Those MPs are telling us that they need the Prime Minister's permission to speak at tomorrow's caucus meeting. He will be able to prevent them from talking about how housing costs have doubled and how the debt, inflation and corruption have dou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is the one who is distracted by political games because 40 or so of his own members see that he is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. In fact, they have lost confidence in this Prime Minister. It is odd that the Bloc Québécois still has confidence in this Prime Minister when even the Liberal members do not. Again, members have to be able to express themselves …
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Mr. Speaker, we have now learned that about 40 Liberal MPs believe the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime and corruption. However, there is a strange rule in the Liberal caucus that they need to have permission from the Prime Minister to speak at the microphone. If a Liberal MP wanted to get up and say that quadrupling the carbon tax is a bad idea or that doubling housing cost…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sorry to have to bring up this terrible rule. It is just that Liberal backbench MPs are coming and talking to all of us to say that they are not allowed to speak to him. They are wondering if I could perhaps pose some questions on their behalf. I guess they cannot get anywhere with the current Prime Minister, so they would rather talk to the future common-sense Conservative prime…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that he cannot administer the government because he is too busy fighting for his job after nine years. Even his MPs know it. He broke immigration. He doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, doubled crime and doubled the cost of living in a home. He wants to quadruple the carbon tax that has already forced two million people to a food bank, one in four kids to hunger an…
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Mr. Speaker, ten years ago, we witnessed an attack on our democracy. The attack began on October 20, 2014, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, with the murder of a courageous soldier, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. Mr. Vincent served his country. He wore the Canadian uniform. He had a family and friends who loved him but lost him. Two days later, there was another attack here on Parliament Hill, and, p…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister has doubled the debt and the cost of housing to the point where a monthly mortgage payment in Quebec is $1,055 higher than it was five years ago. That is a 74% increase. On top of that, two million Canadians are relying on food banks while the government wastes our money. Now Parliament is paralyzed by an attempt to cover up a $400‑million scandal…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are going through hell because rent has doubled and the cost of living is out of control, what is the Prime Minister doing? He is trying to save himself from his own caucus, which is now revolting against him. He is not working for Canadians. He is working to save his own skin. The funny thing is that the Liberals may not have confidence in this Prime Minister anymore,…
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Mr. Speaker, this weekend in Cloverdale, 15,000 people lined up in the pouring rain with the hope that they might get a few rejected potatoes. It was Ugly Potato Day in that city, and 15,000 British Columbians are so hungry and desperate that they needed to collect rejected foodstuffs. Two million Canadians are lined up at food banks. There are 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario today. What is …
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Mr. Speaker, that program, though it has cost millions, has not fed a single hungry child. It has fed bureaucracy, which is all it ever was intended to do. Meanwhile, two million people are lined up at food banks. We watched 15,000 people line up for an ugly potato because they cannot afford to eat. Diseases like scurvy are back, and one in four kids goes to school hungry after nine years of the P…
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Mr. Speaker, is she kidding me? She says that Canadians should be happy. While one in four kids go to school hungry, while two million people line up at food banks, while scurvy is making a comeback after nine years of this government, Canadians should be grateful that she showed up with a few snacks and a photo op at one school. This is the same finance minister who has just blown $7 billion past…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives would have liked to be working in Parliament today to counter real estate inflation, which has doubled the cost of housing over the past nine years under this Liberal government, or to counter food inflation, which is 36% higher than in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are instead focusing on the fact that Parliament has been paralyzed by the Prime Minister. He has paralyzed P…
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about a $400-million scandal, eight times the magnitude of the sponsorship scandal in monetary terms, which led the Auditor General to identify 186 conflicts of interest. The green fund chair has already been found guilty of breaking the law. When someone steals money, do we call the police or do we call a committee?
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives would have liked to be working today to counter the doubling of housing costs the Prime Minister has caused or the record food price inflation, which has been 36% higher in Canada than in the U.S. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister has paralyzed Parliament by refusing the Speaker's ruling. It directed his government to turn over evidence in the $400-million green slush fu…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a $400-million scandal involving Liberal appointees giving millions of dollars to their own companies, and the minister's story is now changing. Last week, she claimed that the government had given documents to the RCMP. This week, they are claiming that, if they gave documents to the RCMP, it would cause the Charter of Rights to come crashing down. It sounds as though there i…
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Mr. Speaker, the member says it is a “witch hunt”. The Ethics Commissioner, who was appointed by the government, has found the chair of the fund to be in violation of the law. The Auditor General, who was also appointed by the government, says there were 186 conflicts of interest involving Liberal appointees, who gave millions of dollars to their own companies. It was $400 million. There is potent…
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Mr. Speaker, we have further proof that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime or the corruption. The Liberals have paralyzed Parliament by refusing to respect your ruling that the government must hand over documents to the RCMP regarding a $400-million scandal. Liberal-appointed executives funnelled money to their own companies, which implicated them in 186 conflicts of interest, acc…
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Mr. Speaker, this is proof that after nine years, the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost, the crime or the corruption. The Prime Minister has ground the work of Parliament to a halt by refusing to respect your ruling. The government must hand over evidence to the police, concerning the $400-million spending scandal that saw Liberal appointees give millions of dollars to their own companies. The A…
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliament can get back to work this minute if the government will just hand over the evidence to the police about this $400-million Liberal spending scandal. I found it interesting that the Liberals said everybody is going to lose their charter rights if the police get evidence into this $400-million Liberal spending scandal. No, what will happen is that the Liberal nominees and …
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago today, a sadistic and genocidal death cult, Hamas, carried out the biggest attack on Jews since the Holocaust and has 100 more hostages. Bring them home. Here at home, though, our Jewish friends and neighbours have been doubly victimized as anti-Semitic mobs take to the streets shouting, “From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone” and “There is only one solution: …
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Mr. Speaker, the minister does relent, every single day, just like her leader. I asked a very simple question. Mobs have taken to the streets in front of Jewish homes, hospitals and businesses to shout anti-Semitic hate slogans. I quoted a number of them and invited the minister to rise to her feet and specifically condemn them, to stand with Jews against the anti-Semitism that has been allowed to…
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Mr. Speaker, I gave the foreign affairs minister two opportunities to condemn the increasingly common and terrifying anti-Semitic chants we hear in the streets, such as “Israel will soon be gone” and “There is only one solution: intifada, revolution.” Twice she refused to condemn those remarks. She continues to pander to Hamas supporters and the Liberal Party as part of her leadership campaign rat…
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Mr. Speaker, if there was ever a day when we needed a government to stand up for what was right, this would be that day. The government has sought to divide Canadians by saying one thing to one group and precisely the opposite to another group, and here in this House, it remains radio-silent on condemning anti-Semitic chants and on supporting Israel's right to truly defend itself by retaliating ag…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the most centralizing and costly government in our history. This government is bad for Quebec. It has broken the immigration system, doubled the cost of housing and doubled the debt. That is why it is so bizarre that the Bloc Québécois leader has become the worst negotiator in Canadian history. Twice he has decided to vote confidence in the government to keep it in power, with…
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Mr. Speaker, Parliament's work has ground to a halt because the Prime Minister is violating your ruling ordering him to hand over evidence to the RCMP concerning another Liberal scandal. The scandal involves Liberal-appointed executives who gave their own companies $400 million in at least 184 cases of conflict of interest, according to the Auditor General. Why is the Prime Minister violating your…
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Mr. Speaker, Parliament is paralyzed, unable to work on the problem of doubling housing costs or two million people at the food bank, because the government is refusing to respect the Speaker's ruling to turn over evidence in the criminal investigation of the latest Liberal scandal. At issue is that Liberal appointees directed $400 million to companies they own, involving 184 conflicts of interest…
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Mr. Speaker, it should be no surprise that Liberals believe that white-collar criminals can hand over $400 million to their own companies, because we see the case of the dirtbag Tibor Organa who shot a police officer in the stomach yesterday while he was out on bail, after having been arrested for two dozen offences he committed while he was out on probation. Let us get this straight. He was out o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals think people have a charter right to get released after two dozen offences while they are already on probation and shoot a police officer in the stomach. I am more worried about the charter rights of the police officer who is recovering from the gunshot wound. This is what the police officer said, “Almost everyone we arrest is out on bail. No one stays in jail where they …
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Mr. Speaker, in nine years, this Liberal government, supported by the Bloc Québécois, has managed to triple the cost of housing in Montreal. A report published by Point2 shows that it now takes 14 years for a young Montrealer to save enough money to buy a home with a small down payment. When will the government call an election so that the people can elect a government that will build the homes by…
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Mr. Speaker, we saw the solutions when I was the minister responsible for housing. We built 200,000 housing units, and rents in Montreal cost a third of what they do now. By engaging in inflationary spending supported by the Bloc Québécois, by breaking our immigration system and by adding more red tape that blocks construction, the Prime Minister has managed to triple the cost of housing in Montre…
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Mr. Speaker, he is hiking taxes on housing construction by increasing the capital gains tax, all with the support of the Bloc Québécois. The margin created by removing the GST from construction has been swallowed up by municipalities that have increased their taxes with this government's consent. Clearly, it costs more to build. It costs more to finance our social services because the Prime Minist…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is hiking taxes on home builders, on doctors, on job creators and on farmers. He is also raising taxes on hospitals and schools. The New Brunswick premier is taking the Prime Minister to court because of the unconstitutional quadrupling carbon tax and the costs it will impose on snowplows, ambulances and the heating of hospitals and schools, meaning the loss of coun…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister concealed, from both the courts and Canadians, his plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. Now Premier Scott Moe of Saskatchewan says this will hit schools with $204 million in carbon taxes and hospitals with $175 million in carbon taxes, meaning we will lose doctors, teachers and other necessary workers serving Canadians. Instead of forcing premiers to fig…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the cost of food. The “food professor” estimates that between 2022 and 2025, the cost of food will be up 34%. That is a time that coincides exactly with the NDP-Liberal coalition. Coincidentally, the NDP leader's chief spokesman and brother has a company that lobbies for Metro, but the “food professor” blames the increase on the carbon taxes pla…
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