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Mr. Speaker, not only do we acknowledge the obligation to consult with our first peoples, but we put it right in the motion. It is right there for the Prime Minister. We put it right there so the Prime Minister could vote for the words that he put in the agreement, but let us be honest: He never planned to honour the agreement. He whispered quietly to the “keep it in the ground” Liberal caucus, “D…
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Mr. Speaker, we put the interties proposal right in the motion, right out of the Prime Minister's deal. We put the carbon capture right in the motion, right out of his deal. We put the pipeline and the overriding of the oil shipping ban right in the motion. It came right out of the deal that he signed. Now it is clear that the only thing the Prime Minister really cares about is that it does not in…
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Mr. Speaker, eating the whole meal would be great if only Canadians could afford to buy the meal. He is talking about a carbon tax that still applies to farm equipment, to fertilizer and to those who deliver food. This has caused food inflation to the point that it now costs $17,000 a year to feed a family of four. Why will he not cut hefty taxes on groceries so Canadians can feed their families?
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Mr. Speaker, Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific to sell $30 billion of our energy overseas, outside of the U.S. market, making us more independent and self-reliant, and our dollar, and therefore Canadians' purchasing power, stronger. The Prime Minister always opposed the pipeline, which his party killed, but last week he flip-flopped and promised, in a deal while he was in Alberta, that he wou…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of trucks, they take steel, unlike what the Prime Minister said when he asked a reporter whether he or anybody uses steel anymore in Canada. Farm equipment takes steel as well, and farming takes fertilizer. All these things are taxed by the industrial carbon tax. I am sorry I have to give this elementary lesson in the supply chain to the Prime Minister, but it is a reality, a…
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Mr. Speaker, I took the wording for the motion right out of the Prime Minister's deal. If he votes against the motion, he is voting against a pipeline to the Pacific; he is voting against overriding the discriminatory and anti-Canadian ban on shipping our energy abroad; he is voting against consultation with first nations people and the British Columbian government, and he is even voting against h…
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the minister should tell that to the Liberal member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, the Liberal member for Vancouver Granville, the Liberal member for Beaches—East York and the Liberal members for Victoria, Vancouver Quadra, South Surrey—White Rock, Honoré-Mercier, Fleetwood—Port Kells, Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam and North Vancouver—Capi…
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Madam Speaker, we in the Conservative caucus are united. We believe that Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific and that we need to override the discriminatory anti-Canada ban on shipping Canadian energy overseas. We need this pipeline because it would make for stronger take-home pay, it would make for affordable living, and it would make for a sovereign, self-reliant economy. Let us talk for a mo…
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Mr. Speaker, nonetheless, the Prime Minister is afraid to stand up to debate grocery prices. He says he knows so much about inflation; well, he certainly caused a lot of it in his life. He should, then, be able to stand up to defend the very industrial carbon tax that he says is even more important than a pipeline from Alberta. It is an industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer and food …
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Madam Speaker, it would be very beneficial. It would also diversify our economy. The Prime Minister made grand promises that he would diversify our trade and double exports to non-U.S. markets. This is the single biggest export of Canadian goods to non-U.S. markets that we could ever imagine. There is literally not another project that would even come close to the $30-billion-a-year of overseas ex…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean so we can sell more of our products overseas, somewhere other than the U.S. It will make our economy more independent and strengthen the Canadian dollar and the purchasing power of all Canadians. The Prime Minister has always been against it, but he flip-flopped last week in Alberta. When he came back to Ottawa, there was a rebellion among …
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Mr. Speaker, there, he said it, he is happy with the cost of groceries. According to “Canada's Food Price Report”, when the Liberal government came to power, it cost an average family $8,300 a year for groceries. Now it costs $16,800. It has doubled because of taxes and inflationary deficits that are driving up the cost of everything. The Prime Minister promised to be judged on grocery prices. Acc…
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Mr. Speaker, according to “Canada's Food Price Report”, when the Liberals took office the cost of a basket of groceries was $8,300. Now it is $16,800, which is double. Liberal inflationary deficits, and taxes on farm equipment, fertilizer and food processors, have all exploded the cost of food. Tomorrow that same report will be released, projecting the cost for next year. Given the Prime Minister'…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot stand up for workers if he cannot even stand up in the House of Commons. The finance minister is the one who signed the sweetheart $15-billion subsidy—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot stand up for workers if he cannot even stand up and answer my questions. The finance minister has not stood up for workers either. He signed a $15-billion sweetheart subsidy deal with Stellantis, and now that same company, taking our tax dollars, the equivalent of $1,000 for every family in Canada, is shipping the jobs to the United States of America. The ind…
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Mr. Speaker, we voted against the Prime Minister's doubling Justin Trudeau's deficit, which will drive up groceries even more. What is he spending the money on? It is on corporate bailouts for companies that ship jobs out of Canada. The Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win and have a deal by July 21. However, with still no win, still no deal and still no elbows, 1,000 workers at Algoma…
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to go and report the Prime Minister to the witness protection program, because he refuses to stand in this House and answer about his government's expenditure of $15 billion, $1,000 for every Canadian family, to one company, supposedly to create jobs. That same company now ships those jobs south of the border, and the government is covering up the contract. Yesterday, we …
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Mr. Speaker, well, as long as the CEO is happy with the $400-million gift he got from the Prime Minister, that is all matters to the Liberals. He did not give the workers a bridge to the future. He gave them a bridge to the unemployment lines, 1,000 of them. One-third of the workers at Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie have now lost their jobs after the Prime Minister paid to have those jobs shipped abro…
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I have three points, Mr. Speaker, about this $15-billion bailout and handout. The minister did not read the contract, she did not read the contract and she did not read the contract. How can she possibly claim she is going to get the money back, when she does not know what legal powers are in the contract because she admits she did not read the contract? My question for her is this. As families ar…
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Mr. Speaker, it was a metaphor, just like all those Liberal promises. Unfortunately, today we learned even more terrible news. The Domtar workers in British Columbia have lost their jobs, as a 30th mill has closed under the Liberal government. The Prime Minister promised that he would get a deal to end the tariffs, and those tariffs have tripled, all while he removes the legal challenge against th…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gets angry and runs out the door rather than answering questions about the cost of $15 billion out the door, or $1,000 for every tax-paying family, to a company that is shipping jobs out of the country. Why is he sending our dollars away and our jobs away while he runs away?
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Mr. Speaker, I had the honour to stand with the Unifor workers in Brampton, who were out in the rain and the cold. There was not a Liberal around and not a word from the Prime Minister. All of them wanted to know what was happening with their jobs. The Liberals had given money to Stellantis for that plant and $15 billion to Stellantis for another plant, and those workers out in the cold, unable to…
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Mr. Speaker, as Canadians walk down the grocery aisle watching the prices rise before their eyes, they should know that the Prime Minister, who stashes his cash in a tax haven, says that they have never had it so good, the Canadian people, who have seen their grocery bills literally double under the Liberal government, from $8,300 to $16,800, in a decade. Tomorrow we will find out in the “Canada F…
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Well, Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister asked an interesting question: “Who cares?” “Who cares?”, he asked. He is not there, so he does not care.
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals love to give corporate bailouts and handouts to companies that ship jobs out of our country. Now, we learn that the Liberal government has pledged $15 billion or $1,000 for every tax-paying family in Canada, people who cannot afford food, to Stellantis. Investment is fleeing this country almost as fast as the Prime Minister is running out the back door of Parliament right now…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Heritage is fed up, but so are Canadians. They are fed up with paying $16,800 a year for groceries. They are fed up with paying 51% more for groceries. They are fed up with paying 30% more for a rib-eye steak. They are fed up with paying 23% more for a whole chicken. How many people will be forced to go to the food bank before the Prime Minister gets fed up too?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister could be debating. He has plenty of time—
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Mr. Speaker, it is very sad the Prime Minister does not want to debate how we get homes for our youth. Our young people deserve homes, jobs and hope. He was feeling very cocky a few minutes ago until he worried I might present him with the facts. The Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed today that his new housing bureaucracy will build only 5,000 homes per year, which is barely 1% of the 500,000 …
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Mr. Speaker, steelworkers are the backbone of our nation, and the products they make are the bones of our economy. We cannot have a modern economy without steel, and Canada's steel sector has been under attack from American tariffs and the Canadian government's taxes. Steelworkers go to work every day, work in difficult conditions and bring home a paycheque for their families to raise their kids i…
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Mr. Speaker, it is impossible for us to vote against affordable housing because there is no affordable housing after 10 years of a Liberal government. One idea, one positive idea, that we could all agree on is to reduce the cost of the steel, the concrete, the cement and the glass that goes into building homes. Unfortunately, the Liberal government has an industrial carbon tax whose stated purpose…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing that member built when he was the governor of the Bank of England was the housing crisis in that country. Then he built a tax haven in the Caribbean so he would not have to pay the same taxes he imposes on the Canadian people. Our youth need homes, jobs and hope. The Prime Minister offers them only broken promises and more sacrifices. He even held a photo op in front of…
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Mr. Speaker, they cannot build homes if they run out of the House. This what the Prime Minister is doing right now.
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Mr. Speaker, let us speak about indicators then. I am going to quote the Parliamentary Budget Officer: Build Canada Homes [the Prime Minister's program] is presented as part of the Government’s efforts to double the pace of housing construction over the next decade. That said, the Government has not yet laid out an overall plan to achieve this goal. We anticipate that the contribution of Build Can…
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Mr. Speaker, that minister was literally the mayor of the city that became the most expensive housing market in all of North America, more expensive than New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. He now brags that not only will they build only about 2% of the homes that they promised during the election, but they are spending $13 billion to do it. Failing is bad. Failing expensively is even worse. Rather…
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Mr. Speaker, transcripts are great things. The Prime Minister just renamed Justin Trudeau's immigration minister to cabinet: the guy who destroyed our immigration system and helped double the housing costs in this country. The minister has now had something to say about the Prime Minister's failure to consult on pipelines. He said that the consultation should have started yesterday, and it cannot …
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for pointing out that we have voted against every single program that doubled housing costs in Canada. The Prime Minister created the biggest housing crisis in the G7 when he was the Bank of England governor. He has now come here to adopt the same Trudeau-era policies of building bureaucracies rather than building homes. He promised that this was all going t…
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Mr. Speaker, my question was about the statement made by his new minister, who said he was fed up with the debate on the decline of the French language. The Prime Minister's response shows that we should all be concerned about the decline of the French language. Of all the Liberal members, why did he choose to appoint someone who is fed up with defending the French language and Quebec culture?
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Mr. Speaker, we learned today that eight months after the Prime Minister was elected, promising to build nation-building projects at speeds not seen in generations, he has not even begun consulting with first nations people about his promised pipeline to the Pacific. Now the Assembly of First Nations has condemned his plan because he has not done any consulting with them. Today, he will address th…
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Mr. Speaker, it was 200,000 homes and the average cost of buying one was $450,000. The average rent for a one-bedroom was $900. The government came along and built bureaucracy to block homes and printed money to inflate their costs. They allowed mass immigration that was out of control, which ballooned demand and left us with the worst and most expensive housing anywhere in the G7. Today, the Parl…
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Mr. Speaker, he has broken his promise to get big projects built, and now we learn that he has broken his promise to get houses built. He promised, during the election, that he would double home building to 500,000 units per year. Today, the Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed that his brand new bureaucracy will build only 5,000 homes per year, 99% fewer than he promised. After Conservatives bui…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just appointed another Trudeau-era minister who destroyed our immigration system and helped drive up the cost of living. This same minister, who is responsible for heritage, just said this morning that he is fed up with the debate on the decline of the French language. The Conservatives are not fed up. We will defend the French language. Of all the Liberal members t…
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Mr. Speaker, the industrial carbon tax is not just a tax on homes; it is a tax on food. When we tax the steel that goes into farm equipment and the fertilizer that is necessary to grow food, when we tax the food processor, we tax the food. It is no wonder that since the Prime Minister took office, food prices have increased roughly 40% faster in Canada than they have in the United States. Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not just break his promises on food. He also did on housing. He said he would double homebuilding, but, today, a report out from the Missing Middle Initiative shows that housing starts are down 34% across 34 Ontario municipalities, and condo starts are down 51%. However, the Prime Minister is going ahead with a Liberal industrial carbon tax on the steel, aluminu…
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Mr. Speaker, we vote against measures that feed bureaucracy rather than children and families. Since the school food program was created, the number of young children who need to use food banks has doubled, and 90% of children receive nothing from this program, even if we believe the government's own figures. Every time the government spends more, it costs people more in food inflation, on top of …
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Mr. Speaker, today Algoma announced it is laying off 1,000 steelworkers, nearly a third of its workforce, in the Soo. Our thoughts are with them. The Prime Minister looked them in the eye and promised he would protect their jobs, negotiate a win and have a deal by July 21, but it was a bait and switch that is costing people their livelihoods. On top of that, the Liberals are hammering the steel mi…
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Mr. Speaker, more promises and more Liberal thoughts will not put food on the tables of those out-of-work steelworkers. They are not alone. The Liberal food cost crisis is growing, according to today's Feed Ontario report, which reveals that food bank use is up 13% in one year and 165% since the current Prime Minister became the economic adviser to the Liberal government. There have been 8.7 milli…
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Mr. Speaker, the support those Canadians want and need is a paycheque. They want to be able to afford food, and they should be able to. In a country with this much farmland and this much wealth, our people should be able to eat. However, according to the latest report by Feed Ontario, there has been a 165% increase in food bank use in Ontario alone since the Prime Minister joined the government, y…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians should not have to go hungry, but today's report from the Observatoire québécois des inégalités says that food insecurity has increased by 82% in Quebec and that food bank visits have increased by 116%. The percentage of workers living with food insecurity has doubled to 20%. That means that 1.7 million Quebeckers are going hungry. Why is this Liberal government forcing Queb…
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Mr. Speaker, the member accidentally told the truth. She did not say that it moves forward on a pipeline. She said it moves forward on an industrial carbon tax, which will increase the cost of everything it takes to build a home, so it is a tax on homes, and of everything it takes to grow food, so it is a tax on food. It is a tax that drives production out, paycheques down and the cost of living u…
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Mr. Speaker, in what year will construction begin on a new pipeline to the Pacific?
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