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Mr. Speaker, voters in the former Liberal strongholds of Toronto and Montreal have given their verdict. After nine years, this Prime Minister is not worth the cost. During the nine years of this Bloc-Liberal government's reign, we have seen the largest expansion of the federal government in history and the most expensive and centralizing government that is inflating the cost of housing and groceri…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure that people wait-listed for food banks or living in tents and homeless camps will be celebrating today. However, the government is trying to take credit for the fact that, after inflation reached a 40-year high, prices are still going up, not down. My question is this. Why is the Bloc Québécois supporting the most centralizing and costly government ever, which has no respect…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians in the former Liberal strongholds of Toronto and Montreal have now given their verdict. After nine years, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. Taxes are up, costs are up, crimes are up, and time is up. Is it not time for Canadians to have a chance to render their verdict right across the country and elect a common-sense Conservative government that will axe the tax, bui…
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Mr. Speaker, the incompetent finance minister would tell us that we should celebrate that, after prices have been rising faster than at any time in 40 years, they continue to rise, just not as quickly. I am sure the people living in tent encampments, the record-smashing two million people lined up at food banks or the one in four kids going to school hungry after nine years of the current governme…
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Mr. Speaker, the bad news is that there are now 1,800 homeless encampments in Ontario. There are 35 in Halifax alone. Two million Canadians are lined up at food banks after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government. We now learn that, on top of the $25-billion annual hit of the first carbon tax to our GDP, the second carbon tax will subtract another $9 billion a year, over $35 billion in lost GDP. …
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Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are seeing the biggest expansion of the federal government in the history of the country. This is a costly, centralizing government that has the full support of the Bloc Québécois, which has voted nearly 200 times for $500 billion in inflationary, centralizing, bureaucratic spending. Quebeckers deserve a common-sense government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix th…
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Mr. Speaker, for nine years, the “Liberal Bloc” has taxed food, inflated the price of food, doubled the cost of housing and doubled the national debt, all with the full support of the Bloc Québécois, which voted to keep this party and this government in power more than 200 times. Now, the government wants to raise taxes again. Is it not high time that Canadians had the opportunity to pick a new, c…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up. Costs are up. Crimes are up. Time is up. Now he wants a 300% carbon tax hike all the way up to 61¢ a litre. Why not let Canadians choose a common-sense Conservative government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime now?
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Mr. Speaker, children are hungrier than ever after nine years of the NDP-Liberals. In fact, 25% of them are not getting enough food, and we now know why. A carbon tax fraud has been perpetrated by the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, who kept secret Environment Canada documents that showed that the carbon tax was blowing a $25-billion hole in our economy. Our economy, per capita, is smaller today than …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just proved my point. His tax does not stop floods, fires or droughts. All it does is create more poverty. This is also from a high-flying, high-taxing, high-carbon hypocrite, who flew 92,000 kilometres in a fuel-guzzling, tax-funded private jet, while he taxes single moms and seniors for heating their homes. Now carbon tax Carney wants him to put the tax back on ho…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not using Parliamentary Budget Officer numbers. I am using numbers that the Liberal government has now published. The government has admitted that its carbon tax will hit Canadians with $30 billion in annual losses to wages and higher prices. That is the government's data. It published those numbers. Once again, I have a very specific question: When the Prime Minister claims that…
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Mr. Speaker, what this parliamentary session has taught us is that everything is broken in Canada. After nine years of this Prime Minister, with the help of the Bloc Québécois, the cost of housing has doubled, two million Canadians have to use food banks and a record-breaking number of Canadians, 25%, are living in poverty. Will the Prime Minister force Canadians to endure another year and a half …
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Mr. Speaker, we have nine years of experience with these policies that have caused the misery I was just talking about. Now, the Prime Minister wants to issue an order for Quebec to shut down the forestry sector. Today we learned from Quebec's ministry of natural resources that this is going to kill between 2,400 and 30,000 jobs, but the Bloc Québécois remains silent. Will the Prime Minister rever…
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Mr. Speaker, what this session of Parliament taught us is that, after nine years under the Prime Minister, everything is broken. There are 25% of Canadians now living in poverty, with two million lined up at food banks; 38% more people are homeless, and housing costs have doubled. It was not like this before, and it will not be like this after the Prime Minister is gone. Will he put us through ano…
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Mr. Speaker, these are the same promises that he has been making for nine years. Instead of the theoretical utopia that he has promised, what Canadians are living through is hell. There are tent cities popping up across the country in places they never existed before. There are two million people lined up at food banks, with one in 10 Torontonians included in that number. Toronto is a town where, …
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Mr. Speaker, the middle class does not exist after nine years of the Prime Minister. Here are the facts: Of young people, 76% believe they will never afford a home. There are 38% more homeless people, and, in Toronto alone, 256 homeless encampments. Two million people lined up at a food bank, and one in four Canadians is skipping meals because they cannot afford the price of food. Is this what he …
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Mr. Speaker, a vote in Parliament in favour of banning the IRGC was not enough to convince the Prime Minister to list it as a terrorist organization six years ago. The organization killing 55 Canadians in an unprovoked attack on a passenger aircraft was not enough to make him do it. Even its role in the October 7 attack and its subsequent role in inciting hatred on our streets was not enough. It t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was also forced to release data from his own government showing that there would be a $30-billion-a-year hit to our economy as a result of his job-killing carbon tax, data that he had, up until then, been hiding. He has been going around claiming that Canadians are better off because they pay this tax. Did the calculations that went into his “eight out of 10 Canadia…
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Mr. Speaker, does that include the $30-billion-a-year economic cost when distributed among those eight out of 10 families?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot say yes because he knows that, when we take the $30 billion a year and divide it by the 17 million Canadian families, we come up with almost $2,000 per Canadian family based on numbers published by his own government. It is like he is saying someone can afford a house as long as they do not take into consideration the down payment and the monthly mortgage pay…
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Mr. Speaker, all we have to accept is the fact that the Prime Minister's carbon tax will not reduce, by one penny, the cost of climate change to Canadians. It will not eliminate one flood, one drought, one storm or one anything. The carbon tax literally does nothing to change the weather or the climate. What it does is make Canadians poorer. Will the Prime Minister finally admit that all along he …
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Last week, the Bloc Québécois voted in favour of a tax hike for Quebec farmers during a food-pricing crisis, a tax hike for home builders during a housing crisis, a tax on doctors during a doctor shortage and a tax on small businesses in Quebec during an economic crisis. Why is the Liberal Bloc always trying to take Quebec's money to feed the massive, centralist Liberal government?
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois always aligns itself with the Liberals to keep them in power. It is the Liberal Bloc. Today the Angus Reid Institute reported that one in five Canadians earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a year believes they will be impacted by the Liberal Bloc tax hike. If the Prime Minister wants to deny that, there is a very clear way for him to do it. He can support an amendm…
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Mr. Speaker, people who make between $50,000 and $100,000 a year are too rich for the Prime Minister? I guess he wants to make them poor. He is succeeding at that. One in five Canadians told Angus Reid that they will be affected, including one in five people making between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. It is another tax targeting the middle class by the promise-breaking Prime Minister. If those Can…
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Mr. Speaker, “socialist bafflegab” are not my words but the words of Scott Brison, the former Liberal president of the Treasury Board, the very person to whom the Prime Minister entrusted all of his spending. Add to that Bill Morneau and John Manley, two former finance ministers who have now said they are against the tax increase, and David Dodge, a Liberal former governor of the Bank of Canada. N…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Premier of Newfoundland says the Prime Minister's carbon tax will harm working-class people just trying to heat their home or drive to work. The former Liberal finance minister, whom he appointed, says that the latest job-killing tax that he has brought in will drive investment out of the country, and the Liberal Treasury Board president, whom he appointed, accuses the Pri…
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Mr. Speaker, he is countering the housing crisis? He doubled housing costs. He is helping young people? Seventy-six per cent of them say they cannot afford a home after nine years of the Prime Minister, but it is getting worse. The Prime Minister gave half a billion dollars to the Liberal-NDP mayor and council at Toronto city hall, supposedly to accelerate homebuilding. What is the consequence? Si…
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Mr. Speaker, well, I think we can all agree that the Prime Minister needs better math. However, here is the math. The Altus Group says that Canada's development charges are significantly higher and our wait times for getting building permits are the second-slowest in the entire OECD. What is the Prime Minister doing? He is giving half a billion dollars to the City of Toronto, which has just increa…
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Mr. Speaker, permits take three times longer to get in Canada than in the U.S. and in the U.K. In the last two years, in Toronto, the wait time has gone from 21 months to 32 months, all while the Prime Minister has given that bureaucracy $500 million to subsidize its building-blocking bureaucracy. Why will he not follow my common-sense plan to require municipalities to permit 15% more housing comp…
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Mr. Speaker, it is rather ironic to see the Bloc Québécois looking for the federal government to play a role in an area of provincial jurisdiction. The Bloc MP from Matane said that the federal government has the right to get involved and to sacrifice forestry jobs. What is more, if the Bloc Québécois had not voted confidence in the government and kept this Prime Minister in power, this decree wou…
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Mr. Speaker, the Quebec nation is capable of protecting nature and jobs without interference from this incompetent Liberal Bloc government here in Ottawa. We believe that we can do both, but it is up to the Government of Quebec to decide how to protect nature. There are now 30,000 jobs at stake. Will the Prime Minister rescind his Liberal minister's radical decree?
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Mr. Speaker, Brian Mulroney knew that protecting the environment had nothing to do with raising taxes and eliminating jobs. Moving on to the Liberal scandals, the RCMP commissioner just confirmed that there are now six active criminal investigations into contracts awarded by the NDP-Liberal government. That is on top of the $60-million arrive scam app, which saw $20 million go to two contractors w…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of taking care of their friends, the Prime Minister has literally doubled the amount spent on outside consultants, all the way up to $21 billion a year. That works out to $1,400 per family in taxes, just to fund federal government consultants. One of them is $200 million to the Prime Minister's famous consulting firm, McKinsey. It is no wonder that Canadians are forced to pay…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a bit rich, coming from him as he raises taxes on single moms for the crime of driving to the grocery store, while he treats himself to a jet-setting experience where the food on the plane of a six-day trip was $220,000: beef brisket, parsley potatoes with truffle oil, beef tenderloin with port wine sauce, braised lamb shanks and even cheesecake with pistachio brittle. With Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing cheap about the $220,000 that the Prime Minister spent on one trip, for food alone.
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing cheap about the Prime Minister's spending $220,000 for food alone on a six-day jet-setting tour for himself. All the while, homelessness is up 38%. Toronto has 256 homeless encampments, where one in 10 people in that city is now eating at food banks. They join two million Canadians. The good news is that life was not like this before this Prime Minister, and it will n…
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Mr. Speaker, the radical Liberal Minister of Environment's decree is jeopardizing thousands of forestry jobs in Quebec. I will reverse this radical decree and protect those jobs, but, until then, the cost of wood for building housing is going to go up, and that is on top of the jobs that will be lost. How many Quebeckers are going to lose their jobs because of this radical Liberal decree?
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Mr. Speaker, the Quebec nation is capable of doing both. This falls under provincial jurisdiction. It is because the Bloc Québécois has kept this radical Liberal government in power that this minister is now adopting this job-killing decree. What is more, the Bloc MP for Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia said that the Bloc Québécois recognizes that Ottawa might interfere in this file. Why did the …
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Mr. Speaker, it is not just common-sense Conservatives who are saying that the Prime Minister's latest tax hike on small businesses, farmers, home builders and health care is not worth the cost. Now, former Liberal Treasury Board president Scott Brison says the Prime Minister's support for the tax hike is a combination of moral sanctimony and economic complacency for ministers who simply do what P…
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Mr. Speaker, it is not partisanship from me; it is his own former Liberal Treasury Board president who calls it socialist bafflegab. In fact, the tax begins applying on the very first dollar that a small business earns. He has been promising that raising taxes would make life fairer. We found out today from Food Banks Canada that a record-smashing 25% of Canadians now live in poverty after nine ye…
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Mr. Speaker, it has been nine years that the Prime Minister has been promising trickle-down economics, where if he takes money away from small businesses and workers it will go from one level of government to another level of government to another level of government. It will trickle down. Right now, 25% of Canadians are living in poverty, which is something the Prime Minister tried to cover up, j…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister divides to distract. He turns groups against each other. He fans the flames. He gave funds to an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier. Even before October 7, hate crimes were up 162%. Since, we have seen the rise of Hamas-inspired hate camps at university campuses that intimidate Jewish students and promote genocide. Will the Prime Minister finally summon the courage to jo…
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about a so-called sovereignist party in Quebec that wants to take money from Quebec entrepreneurs, Quebec farmers, Quebec home builders and Quebec doctors and funnel it to the massive, centralist Liberal government. How is that common sense?
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Mr. Speaker, I am hoping someone can explain something to me. The leader of the Bloc Québécois voted for a Liberal motion to raise taxes. The same day, he posted on X that the tax also significantly affects people who have been saving their entire lives, many of them pensioners, whose property is their retirement fund. Now he opposes the tax hike. He wants to amend it in committee, but the motion …
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Mr. Speaker, we always knew the Prime Minister was not worth the cost after nine years, but now his carbon tax cover-up has been exposed. We forced him to release data showing that, in addition to the higher bills at the pumps and on home heating that Canadians pay directly in the tax, there is also going to be a $30-billion-a-year hit to our economy. That is $1,800 in lost wages and higher prices…
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Mr. Speaker, the fanatical rhetoric of the extremist minister will not change anything, nor will his carbon tax change the weather. His carbon tax is not going to eliminate a single forest fire, a single drought or a single heat wave. All it will do is turn up the heat on Canadian taxpayers. Now we know that the Liberals' talking point about eight out of 10 Canadians does not include a $25-billion…
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Mr. Speaker, now that we have caught them covering up the real cost of their carbon tax and who will pay it, it raises the question about their job-killing tax on home builders, health care, small business and farmers. The president of real estate company RE/MAX said that “it's just not true” that just the rich will pay; it will “penalize...average Canadians”. The Canadian food professor says farm…
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moved: That an order of the House do issue to the government for a copy of the government's economic analysis on the impact of the federal fuel charge and the output-based pricing system referenced in the response to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's information request IR0776, provided that it shall be laid upon the table, in both official languages and without redaction, no later than Monday, J…
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, the common-sense Conservative. We just learned, moments ago, that the government has been keeping a $20-billion secret. Common-sense Conservatives have been demanding that the government release the real cost of the carbon tax, after the Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed that there was a…
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Madam Speaker, it is hard to figure out what part of that meandering, rambling rant to focus on. Let us start with the two months. The two months that went by was the time during which the minister refused to introduce any bill to actually apply her job-killing tax increase on home building, on houses, on health care, on small businesses and on Canadians. She went two months, and it was not becaus…
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