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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister loves to blame the rest of the world for the rampant food price inflation here at home, but the “food professor” proves that narrative false. He has calculated that food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than in the United States of America. What does Canada have that the Americans do not have? It is two words: carbon tax. Instead of forcing Canadians to line u…
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Mr. Speaker, I have more expert information for the Prime Minister from the “food professor”, Sylvain Charlebois, who finds that 13% of Americans live in food insecurity while in Canada it is 23%. In other words, Canadians are twice as likely to live in food insecurity, as food price inflation is one-third higher under the Prime Minister's carbon tax regime. Instead of blaming others or forcing Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's idea of a charter right is the right for a top government executive to take $400 million of other people's money, give it to their own company and then hide the criminal evidence from the police. Canadians have the charter right to know where their money went. Will the Prime Minister accept the Speaker's order and the vote of the House to turn over the documents t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a food program without food. It has not served a single ham sandwich or a single bowl of Kraft Dinner. Not even a piece of broccoli has been forced upon an unwilling kid. It is meant to feed bureaucracy, not feed kids. Meanwhile, there is a 42% increase in the food bank use in Mississauga, and two million Canadians are lined up at food banks. One quarter of children are going hu…
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Mr. Speaker, when one quadruples the tax on the farmers who grow the food and on the truckers who ship the food, one taxes all who buy the food. The Canadian Trucking Alliance has calculated that the carbon tax will cost $20,000 for every long-haul truck this year alone. Now the Prime Minister wants to quadruple the tax, which will grind those trucks to a halt, meaning empty shelves in grocery sto…
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Mr. Speaker, every time I mention a carbon tax election, the Prime Minister becomes so panicked and erratic that he loses control of himself and starts spitting out incomprehensible insults. Canadians deserve our focusing on them. The fact is that after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, there are two million people lined up at food banks, a record-smashing number. After nine years, one in …
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Mr. Speaker, The Economist magazine asked this question this week: “Why is Canada's economy falling behind America's?”. It goes on to note that national income per person in Canada was 80% of that in the U.S. in the decade before the pandemic. It is now just 70%, the worst gap in decades. The Prime Minister has not answered my questions. Maybe he will answer The Economist's questions: Why is our e…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's workers get 55¢ of investment for every dollar an American worker gets, and only 65¢ for every dollar an average OECD worker gets. For a net, 450 billion more Canadian investment dollars have poured into the U.S. than have come back, under the Prime Minister's nine years. The Economist points out that our GDP per capita is now lower than Alabama's. It says, “Catching up to Al…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada has the worst mortgage debt, the worst housing inflation and the highest consumer debt in the G7. Now The Economist is asking the following question: Why is Canada's economy falling behind America's? As is pointed out, Canada's per capita GDP is only 70% of the United States'. I will repeat The Economist's question: Why is Canada's economy falling behind America's?
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Mr. Speaker, Canada's per capita GDP, or per capita economic output, is lower today than it was 10 years ago. That is the worst growth per capita of any Prime Minister since the Great Depression. Canadians are also experiencing the biggest drop in per-person income of all the G7 countries. Now, The Economist has pointed out that our GDP per capita is lower than Alabama's. How is it that Americans …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and his government have not only taxed Canadians into poverty, but his former environment minister has also called single moms and small business owners arsonists because they oppose the carbon tax. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister ignored the warnings of his own parks department that the Jasper valley had turned into a tinderbox. These are warnings that go back to 201…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister pretends that we can put out forest fires with taxes. Clearly, that has not worked. Rather, the Prime Minister should have listened to his own officials, who had said that the mass buildup of fuel in the Jasper valley as a result of dead trees needed to be addressed through controlled burns and other clearing methods. This would be preparation so that we would have …
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Mr. Speaker, that kind of erratic screaming and hollering about flying pine cones is not going to tackle the problem of forest fires. It is true that the people of Jasper were fire smart. The problem is that the government in Ottawa was fire stupid. It was warned. The government was warned repeatedly over seven years that it needed to clear the dead wood to prevent the spread of a future fire. Why…
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Mr. Speaker, I will tell the House what is not leadership. It was not leadership when, in February of this year, email correspondence within the government confirmed that it had cancelled a controlled burn specifically for political optics. It did not want to do controlled burns. It did not want to do the same kind of forest management and maintenance that indigenous people had done for thousands …
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is voting to keep the most centralizing and costly government in history in power. This government is bad for Quebec and tramples all over Quebec's jurisdictions, notably with a radical Liberal order that will kill thousands of jobs in the forestry sector. Quebec's environment minister said the Bloc Québécois has not defended these jobs strongly enough in Quebec's r…
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Mr. Speaker, he is not protecting jobs or the environment. In Mauricie and the Outaouais, 280 workers are going to lose their jobs, in part because after nine years and three U.S. presidents, this Prime Minister has not managed to resolve the softwood lumber tariffs issue, when Mr. Harper managed to do it in 80 days. Will the Prime Minister call an election so that Quebeckers can elect a governmen…
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Mr. Speaker, he agreed to give in. He signed an agreement without protection for the forestry sector. It is the same thing with spending. This is the most costly government in history. It has doubled the national debt. However, the Bloc Québécois is keeping this Prime Minister in power by voting confidence in him 180 times and by voting for $500 billion in inflationary and centralizing spending th…
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney, at the moment of his appointment as the head of the economic task force of the government, said he wanted to do something and not be something. What has he done? He is now sending out fundraising letters to raise cash for the Liberal Party. He has asked for $10 billion in corporate welfare to help his multinational corporation take over the pension funds of Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, you have said that the Prime Minister is violating the rules of the House by refusing to hand over SDTC documents on a corporate welfare scandal of $400 million that the Auditor General says involved 186 conflicts of interest, where bureaucrats, top officials in the Liberal government, were giving millions of dollars to their own companies. Will the Prime Minister hand over the inform…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the “Liberal Bloc”, which doubled the debt and increased taxes, seniors are having a hard time paying their bills. A record number of them are being forced to go to food banks to put food on the table. They are struggling to pay the rent after the cost of housing doubled. They are seeing that their children and grandchildren are unable to buy a home like before. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Bloc Québécois is still picking fights with the Government of Quebec. Instead of standing up for the Quebec nation, he says he is glad an order might be issued against the forestry sector. Quebec's environment minister says the opposite. I would like the Bloc Québécois to be more assertive than it is being right now. Will the Prime Minister listen to common sense and…
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Mr. Speaker, the famous carbon tax Carney became conflict of interest Carney when the Prime Minister named him to be effectively the phantom finance minister to advise on economic policy while he presides over a massive multi-billion dollar, multinational corporation that sought 10-billion Canadian tax dollars to take over our pension system. He got a $2-billion loan for a friend, and now we have …
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Mr. Speaker, today the very courageous and common-sense Premier of New Brunswick launched a renewed lawsuit against the quadrupling carbon tax. He is pointing out that the carbon tax would force the layoff of nurses, doctors and teachers because of the extra costs it would impose for operating schools and hospitals. Instead of requiring courts to decide on the quadrupling carbon tax, why will the …
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Mr. Speaker, almost a year ago today, Tehran-backed terrorists unleashed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Ever since, they have continued to push this genocidal aim. Today, hundreds of rockets came from Tehran towards Israel, forcing millions into shelter. Two terrorist attacks were carried out. The Prime Minister has talked out of both sides of his mouth, saying one thing to one grou…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize. I would have liked to debate the leader of the Bloc Québécois, but he does not speak in the House when I am here. However, he may have other opportunities to debate me during an election.
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Mr. Speaker, who could be against the following motion? That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
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Mr. Speaker, at least someone over there thinks about monetary policy. Who could be against the following motion? That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build t…
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Mr. Speaker, moments ago I asked the government who could be against a motion, pointing out that the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work and unleashed crime, to give Canadians the chance to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. She said that Canadians were against all those things. If that is the case, why will she not let them decide in a car…
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Mr. Speaker, no, in fact, the motion specifically demonstrates that the NDP-Liberal government has doubled housing costs. I find it interesting that the NDP has now discovered that they have doubled housing costs. A second ago, a Montreal MP stood up to point to a young woman, Pascale, who can no longer afford to rent, much less to own, after housing costs have tripled in that city. When I was hou…
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Mr. Speaker, let Canadians decide in a carbon tax election if that is true. Unfortunately, the Bloc Québécois is telling Quebeckers to wait. Those who cannot pay their bills will have to wait. Those who cannot buy a house after nine years of this Prime Minister will have to wait. Those who are afraid to go out on the streets because of the crime wave the “Liberal Bloc” has unleashed on our streets…
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Madam Speaker, that is not true. I invite him to participate in a debate. He is not here now. He could have asked me questions, but he is not here—
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Madam Speaker, I will simply read the motion and then go over each item to prove that no one can vote against it. That, given that, after nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime, and is the most centralizing government in Canadian history, the House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build t…
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Madam Speaker, we will not interfere in Quebec's business by forcing people to have a tramway. I know that the “Liberal Bloc” wants to force people to have a tramway that would cost at least $15,000 per family, even though the people do not want it. I respect the will of Quebeckers, who want a third link. I know that the Liberals are against the third link. The Bloc Québécois wants to interfere in…
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First of all, Madam Speaker, that is false; that is not true. Second of all, the member and her party have continually acted against first nations people. They have attacked first nations people's rights to have resource projects that they support. When 20 out of 20 first nations communities supported the Teck Frontier mine in Alberta, she and her party took the paternalistic “government knows bes…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is voting in favour of keeping the most centralizing and costly government in the history of Canada in power. This government is bad for Quebec. It has hired an additional 100,000 public servants. It has doubled its exorbitant spending on consultants. It has doubled the debt and the cost of housing. Is it not time to let Quebeckers vote to axe the tax, build the hom…
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Mr. Speaker, the lowest-income Canadians are already making cuts and living under austerity. This is what a single mother wrote in Le Devoir: “I still do not have enough money to buy a home and I feel like that dream is getting further and further away from me, because the crisis keeps getting worse, home prices keep going up and everything is becoming very expensive.” When I was the minister resp…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Today, we will vote to trigger a carbon tax election between the costly carbon tax coalition of NDP-Liberals, who tax our food, punish our work, double our housing costs and unleash crime and chaos, and common-sense Conservatives who will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop …
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Mr. Speaker, well, the Prime Minister just said that he wants a carbon tax election on his plan to quadruple the tax to 61¢ a litre. If so, will he call it today?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is concerned about our clapping for him. He agreed to a carbon tax election on his quadrupling of the tax to 61¢ a litre, where Canadians will choose between an NDP-Liberal government that has taxed their food, punished their work, doubled their housing costs, and unleashed crime and chaos in their communities, or a common-sense Conservative government to axe the ta…
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Mr. Speaker, screaming and hollering will not distract from the very serious question I asked. Can the Prime Minister tell us how many nurses and how many teachers will lose their job because his greedy carbon tax quadrupling will drive up costs to heat schools and hospitals?
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Mr. Speaker, actually it is the Prime Minister who is cutting health care. His carbon tax will cost hospitals across this country in heat, in laundry services and in delivering medical equipment. Calculations by the Saskatchewan government show that the carbon tax will cost $175 million, equal to the loss of 1,900 nurses, all to pay the Prime Minister's greedy, quadrupling carbon tax. Why will the…
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Mr. Speaker, hospitals do not get the Canada carbon rebate. A measly little cheque would not replace the $175 million that Saskatchewan hospitals are going to lose to heat their buildings, to power their machinery and to deliver their goods, and yet that is what the Prime Minister imposes. There are 1,900 nurses who could lose their jobs in one province alone because of his greedy carbon tax quadr…
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Mr. Speaker, that is more disinformation from a flailing and desperate Prime Minister clinging to power. I voted in this Parliament to increase health funding, and in the previous government voted to increase it by 70%, more than the Prime Minister's government has. More than that, Conservatives did not impose a carbon tax on hospitals. He claims that people are going to get cheques, but 1,900 nur…
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Mr. Speaker, my common-sense plan is to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. Let us talk about education. The carbon tax will cost Saskatchewan schools $204 million. That is the equivalent of approximately 2,000 teachers losing their job, all to pay tax to heat schools in cold Saskatchewan winters. Why is the Prime Minister forcing provinces to cut teachers and educatio…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister goes from screaming and waving his arms erratically when I mention the carbon tax to bragging about a program that does not even exist. His multi-million dollar school food program has not served a single ham sandwich or a single little bowl of Kraft Dinner, not one meal to one child. It exists to feed bureaucracy in Ottawa, not kids in schools. Once again, he shoul…
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Mr. Speaker, an April 30, 2014, New York Times headline reads, “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. My, how things have changed after nine years of NDP-Liberals. The economy today per capita is actually smaller than it was 10 years ago. Per capita income in Canada has dropped more than in any other G7 country since the year before COVID. The gap between U.S. GDP per ca…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, Canada has the worst mortgage debt, the worst housing inflation in the G7, and now the worst GDP per capita change since the Great Depression and the worst by far in the G7. Those devastating statistics result in very real human costs. That is the reason we have 1,400 homeless encampments in one province alone and two million people …
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Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, rent and mortgage payments were half of what they are now, and there were almost 200,000 of those affordable homes built right across Canada. Now, the Prime Minister wants to bring in a massive tax on home builders with hikes to capital gains. The most pre-eminent economist in Canada, Jack Mintz, reveals that would cost our economy 400,000 jobs and $90 bil…
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Mr. Speaker, I will comment on one spectacular social housing project of his and that is the brand-new, lavish apartment he bought his friend the new consul general to New York. It cost $9 million for his friend Tom Clark to have a “stunning powder room...finished in jewel onyx”, “Cristallo Gold quartzite countertops”, a handcrafted “copper soaking tub”, “custom bronze [bathroom] fixtures” and a $…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says that the way he stands up for Canada is by buying a $9-million mansion in the sky for his crony Tom Clark. He goes on a Broadway late-night show and says that it is a small issue that the Americans have illegally taken $9 billion of our softwood money and cost tens of thousands of jobs. The Conservatives got a deal on this 80 days after taking office. He has ha…
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