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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not stand up. He backed down. He has been backing down for nine years, during which time three presidents have imposed illegal tariffs, which Conservatives had originally got taken off, and recently, Biden doubled those tariffs, causing 500 mill workers in British Columbia to lose their jobs. They must have been watching that show, seeing the Prime Minister say …
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Mr. Speaker, falsehoods will not change the reality. The Prime Minister's record is this: Common-sense Conservatives got a softwood deal that reimbursed $4 billion in tariffs the Americans had collected within 80 days of taking office last time. Those tariffs were slapped back on under the Prime Minister, and he has capitulated ever since, not collecting one dollar of the tariffs back. In fact, Pr…
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Mr. Speaker, he capitulated. He signed an agreement that keeps softwood lumber tariffs in place, the very tariffs that the Conservatives had managed to get rid of. He capitulated in deference to Buy America, which discriminates against our construction companies. He capitulated on the Keystone XL pipeline, and Canada now has $400 billion more invested in the United States than the U.S. does in Can…
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Mr. Speaker, at the same time he was proposing to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre for seniors, small businesses and single moms, the Prime Minister spent his summer in a frenzy of high-carbon, high-taxing and high-flying hypocrisy. Newly released data shows that he went 92,000 kilometres. In flights, on average, every two days, he went through 300,000 litres of jet fuel. Why is it that the…
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Mr. Speaker, there we have it. The Prime Minister was charging Canadians for his 92,000 kilometres of flights so that he could go around repeating the promises that he has broken nationwide while taxing them. His plan is to hike that tax to 61¢ a litre. The Prime Minister emitted more carbon than 114 Canadians combined this summer. Why does the Prime Minister drive people into poverty and children…
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Mr. Speaker, we can resolve that question right now with a carbon tax election. However, we know that the Prime Minister does not want an election because his record on the environment is just as bad as his record on the economy. It is not just tax hikes. Canada now ranks 63rd out of 67 countries for effective environmental measures. Hypocrisy does nothing for the environment. Is he not ready to d…
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Mr. Speaker, we have already stated that we are not going to change the abortion law, and everything he said is completely false. In fact, we are going to protect women with laws against violence. Violence has increased by 53% after nine years under this Prime Minister because of policies that free the worst and most violent repeat offenders. The Bloc Québécois has supported those policies. Will t…
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Mr. Speaker, everything the Prime Minister just said there is completely false. I could use another word to describe stating a falsehood knowingly, but we will save that for when we are outside the House. The reality is that after nine years of the Prime Minister's policies, gun crime is up 120%, as he has put all the resources into targeting lawful, law-abiding, trained and tested duck hunters an…
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Mr. Speaker, beyond the normal fear and falsehoods, what we are seeing from the Prime Minister today is someone who is erratic and who has lost control of himself because he is so desperate to hold onto power. My question was about car theft. My next one is about Nanaimo drug dens, which are now funded and authorized by the government through a permit under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.…
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moved: That the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government. Mr. Speaker, Canada made us all a promise. That promise was that anyone from anywhere could do anything. My parents taught me that. They are teachers, after all. They taught me a lot of things. I was adopted by these two teachers because I was born to a 16-year-old single mom who could not raise me at that time. My p…
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Madam Speaker, I know that the Liberals are ashamed of our country and its past. That is why they changed the passport to take out Vimy Ridge, Terry Fox and other historical triumphs of Canadians. However, I am very proud of how we upheld that heritage. We helped defeat the Taliban and ISIS on the world stage, in partnership with Barack Obama I might add. Speaking of the Americans, we got a deal o…
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Madam Speaker, the question contained two errors. The Bloc Québécois has not made any progress. The Bloc Québécois has offered its support to this Prime Minister without getting anything in return. It has not achieved anything at all for Quebec. Progress will be made when a common-sense Conservative government respects Quebec's jurisdictions. The Bloc does not want a Conservative government becaus…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to start by correcting the falsehoods. I encourage the member to find one example where I have not voted to increase health care transfers. When I was in government, we increased health care transfers by 70% because of Stephen Harper's courageous leadership and strong books. The NDP voted against those increases. Now, they propose a pharmacare scheme that would ban union …
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Madam Speaker, the message I heard was that, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, everything is broken. Life costs more, and work does not pay; housing costs have literally doubled. Crime, chaos, drugs and disorder are common in our streets. However, what most disappointed them, especially the ones who voted NDP, is the way that party abandoned them under their radical new leader. The N…
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Madam Speaker, no, and what I also do not plan to do is cut health care the way the Liberals did in the preceding years, prior to Conservatives coming in and rebuilding the public health care system. They slashed health care by $20 billion. We increased it by 70% to heal the pain and damage. Furthermore, I will bring in a blue seal standard so that our brilliant 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the Bloc Québécois will have to vote on a motion and decide whether it will enable the most centralizing, costly government in the history of Canada, a government that is bad for Quebec, to stay in power. This government doubled the cost of housing and doubled the national debt. The Premier of Quebec has said that the Quebec nation does not want the House to show confidence …
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Mr. Speaker, this government has doubled the cost of housing for people in the Quebec City area, tripled the cost of housing in Montreal and inflated the price of food, forcing two million Canadians to turn to food banks every month. It has pushed Quebec to the breaking point, with an immigration system that even the Liberal minister says is broken. The Quebec nation does not want a centralizing, …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, costs are up, taxes are up, crime is up and time is up. The government has doubled the cost of housing, doubled the debt, forced two million people to the food bank and raised taxes, and now it wants a 61¢-a-litre carbon tax that will grind our economy to a halt. The good news is that in a carbon tax election, Canadians can axe the tax, build the …
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Mr. Speaker, I understand that when the member thinks of the prospect of a carbon tax election, he becomes unglued. He becomes very rattled and loses control of himself, waving his hands around because he is desperate to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre. He is desperate to push a government takeover that will shut down people's private drug plans and ban them from having access to their med…
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Mr. Speaker, what his plan does is quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre and impose a single payer that bans women from using their existing private plans to get contraceptives or any other form of medication. That is what a “single payer” means, and that is not what freedom looks like. What he actually wants to do is quadruple the carbon tax, which will grind our economy to a halt. It will be a…
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Mr. Speaker, the Premier of the Quebec nation said today that the Liberal government's decision to double the number of temporary immigrants to 600,000 individuals poses a threat to social services for Quebeckers. Will the leader of the Bloc Québécois do what the Premier of the Quebec nation is asking, and reconsider supporting this Liberal government next week? Will he defend the interests of Que…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not just the Premier of the Quebec nation. The Bloc Québécois's political cousin, Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is also condemning this costly, centralizing government. He said, quote, “Quebec was deliberately destabilized. This is an abuse of federal power.” According to the PQ, the governing party is hurting Quebec, and the Bloc Québécois is keeping that par…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the Prime Minister has lost his Quebec lieutenant, who has now become a provincial candidate. Fortunately for him, he found another Quebec lieutenant, and it is the leader of the Bloc Québécois. The Bloc voted to increase inflationary bureaucratic spending by $500 billion. It voted to hire an extra 100,000 public servants. It voted to keep a government that broke the im…
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Mr. Speaker, we all knew that the NDP leader had sold out the people and signed on to a costly coalition with the carbon tax Prime Minister to tax people's food, punish their work, double their housing costs and unleash crime in their communities. However, he claimed that he had torn up the carbon tax coalition so that Winnipeggers would not fire him in a by-election, but as soon as the votes were…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader was terrified he was going to lose a by-election in Winnipeg, an NDP stronghold, so he put out a Hollywood production where he claimed he had torn up the carbon tax coalition to which he had signed up, and that he was going to stop fighting for his pension and start fighting for the people. However, once the votes were counted, he betrayed them again. He is a fake, a ph…
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Mr. Speaker, we just found out that the Bloc Québécois is going to vote to keep the most costly and centralizing Prime Minister in power. This government has doubled the cost of housing and the national debt. It taxed food, punished workers and broke our immigration system, pushing Quebec to the breaking point. How can the Bloc Québécois abandon Quebeckers to support the most costly and centralizi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is in Canadians' best interests to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime, so that Quebeckers can get bigger paycheques and pensions to buy food and have access to affordable housing in safe communities. That is what we need after nine years of the “Liberal Bloc”, which doubled the cost of housing, doubled the debt and broke our immigration system. Why is t…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader sold out Canadians to sign on to a costly coalition that doubled the debt, doubled the housing costs and sent two million people to food banks and 1,800 to tent encampments. He voted 24 times for the carbon tax. Since he did his dramatic video, he has refused to answer 40 times whether he would vote non-confidence. Now that he knows that the Bloc is going to keep the Li…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this costly NDP carbon tax coalition, what has happened? What is up? Taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. What Canadians need is hope. They can choose a common-sense government that axes taxes, builds homes, fixes the budget and stops the crime, so they can earn powerful paycheques and pensions that buy affordable food, gas and homes in safe neig…
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Mr. Speaker, the “justinflation” tag line works now better than ever. He can try to call himself Rocky Balboa and play fight songs to aggrandize himself as the star, but the people lined up at food banks, two million of them every month, know better. The people who are living in the 1,800 Ontario tent encampments know better. In the 35 homeless encampments in Halifax, the people there know better.…
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Mr. Speaker, on April 30, 2014, The New York Times put out “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. Today, almost a decade after the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister has been in what he calls the “big chair”, Canada's GDP per capita is actually down, while the American one is up 19%. His carbon taxes are strangling growth. How could the solution possibly be to quadruple the tax …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not have a plan for either, as evidenced by the fact that he came completely unglued on a radio station the other day. He started spitting out personal insults and crying “liar, liar, liar” when he learned I had pointed to the government's report. It showed that the carbon tax will blow a $25-billion to $30-billion hole in our GDP. This was from a report the go…
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Mr. Speaker, someone cannot sit in the big chair if they cannot read their own government documents. Environment and Climate Change Canada's carbon pollution pricing data, tabled in the House by the government, said that it will cost between $25 billion and $30 billion in lost GDP when the tax is implemented. A further document tabled by the environment minister on carbon tax 2 says there will be …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's carbon tax has not stopped a single flood or single fire in this country. He has not stopped any natural disasters. What he has done is driven Canadians into poverty. Quadrupling the tax to 61¢ a litre will cause a nuclear winter for our economy, something that his carbon tax coalition partners in the NDP have voted to bring about. If he really is so confident in …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not fighting climate change. He is driving production out of Canada to more polluting foreign jurisdictions rather than using our common-sense plan to green-light green projects that produce more energy around the world and displace emissions. That is a common-sense approach. The Prime Minister will still not answer the question on the full cost of his two carbon…
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Mr. Speaker, the deputy governor of the Bank of Canada said of Canada's investment problems, “In emergency, break glass”. Canadian workers get 55¢ of investment for every dollar American workers get and only 65¢ for every dollar that an OECD worker gets. The gap between the Canadian and U.S. economy is now at a 100-year high after nine years of the NDP-Liberals. I will ask this one last time. The …
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Mr. Speaker, from 2000 to 2014, Canadians attracted $30 billion to $100 billion more in American investment than the reverse. In the last nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, 450 billion more Canadian dollars were invested in the U.S. than were returned. That is Canadian money building U.S. pipelines and U.S. mines, and U.S. businesses paying American workers with Canadian money. That is the …
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Mr. Speaker, our per capita GDP is smaller than it was 10 years ago. It is perhaps the first time since the Great Depression that that has happened. The Prime Minister has had the worst economic growth since the Depression. The OECD says that Canada will have the worst economic growth this year and for the next three decades. Our economy has dropped more per capita since before COVID than any othe…
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Mr. Speaker, there the Prime Minister goes again, telling Canadians they have never had it so good. It has never been so good for those two million people lined up at food banks and for the one million people every month who go to food banks in Ontario. There are record-smashing increases in homelessness. By his own admission, after he promised a food program that has not delivered a single meal d…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians who cannot eat or heat and house themselves are living in austerity now, and as to the Prime Minister's false PMO talking point about eight out of 10 Canadians being better off, it conveniently excludes the $25 billion per year in economic costs that his own government admits the carbon tax imposes on Canadians. That is why six in 10 Canadian families and 100% of the middle …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, housing costs have doubled. He said he was going to create a $4-billion fund to give to cities to speed up home building. He gave Toronto city hall a half a billion. What did it do? It hiked building taxes by 42%. He gave Ottawa city hall $200 million so that it could hike taxes by 11%. He gave Mississauga city hall $113 million so i…
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Mr. Speaker, they are not being built. In fact, housing construction is down, way down. The Prime Minister should take lessons from everyone because, after nine years in power, he has the worst housing inflation in Canadian history and by far the worst housing inflation in the G7, and now he is bloating up the same bureaucracies that have given us the slowest building permits in the G7. Why will t…
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Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, the average home price was $450,000. The rent was $950 for a one-bedroom unit and $1,100 for a two-bedroom unit. It has now doubled to over $2,000. As well, we built almost 200,000 homes at rock-bottom, low prices. Now, fast-forward a decade, and 28% of Canadians told a RE/MAX survey that they are considering leaving the country because of housing inflatio…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, a woman was stabbed near the La Maison Benoît Labre hard drug injection site, next to an elementary school. This tragedy could have been avoided if the Prime Minister had agreed to my request about three months ago to close the hard drug injection site and invest in treatment for drug addiction. Will the Prime Minister finally close this hard drug injection site next to a s…
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Mr. Speaker, children “are not able to buy alcohol, they are not able to buy marijuana [or] cigarettes, but they can have access to crack pipes and kits to be able to do safe injection? It’s just wrong.” These are the words of the stepfather of Brianna MacDonald, the 13-year-old girl who lost her life to a drug overdose in Abbotsford after she was denied treatment but offered drug paraphernalia by…
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Mr. Speaker, this young girl's family begged the hospital for treatment for their vulnerable teenager. Instead, she was given drug paraphernalia. This is all part of the radical experiment that the Prime Minister and the NDP have imposed that has contributed to 47,000 drug overdose deaths, with the biggest increases in the places where this approach has been tried. Alberta has reduced overdoses by…
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Mr. Speaker, it is federal because the federal Prime Minister is offering a Criminal Code and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act exemption to allow the drug dens to go ahead, and he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on tax-funded, unsafe supply, which is killing our people and addicting our kids. It is just like on car theft, where he has brought in catch and release and house arrest for …
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Mr. Speaker, in 2015, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi appeared in an ISIS torture video dismembering a human body on a crucifix. In 2018, the NDP-Liberal government let him in, later giving him citizenship, only to find, from French authorities, that he was plotting a massive terrorist attack on people living in the Toronto area. Also, in the last several weeks, we learned that another potential terror…
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney is already getting his way. Only days after he took on the unofficial and unelected role as finance minister, we learned that the company he chairs is now seeking 10 billion federal Canadian tax dollars, money to control Canadians' pensions. He has gone from carbon tax Carney to conflict of interest Carney and, now, coincidence Carney. Will the Prime Minister cut loo…
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Mr. Speaker, if carbon tax Carney has nothing to hide, then he would simply sign up and have an ethics clearance and an ethics committee review. We have tried to bring him to the ethics committee. However, the Bloc Québécois worked with the Liberals to prevent that from happening. We tried to get him to follow the conflict of interest law, but the Prime Minister refuses to swear him in as a public…
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