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Mr. Speaker, according to Le Journal de Montréal, while this Liberal Prime Minister continues to pay the nation's bills with a credit card, half of Quebeckers aged 50 and older are worried they will not have enough money for retirement. What is more, twice as many Quebeckers now have to go back to work during retirement just to make ends meet. After 10 years of inflationary deficits and taxes, the…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a sovereign wealth fund with no wealth. There is no wealth to put into it. It is really more of a debt fund. It is a credit card budget: more debt, more costs, more inflation, more taxes, more of the same. This Prime Minister is just another Liberal. He inherited a jaw-dropping $31‑billion deficit from Justin Trudeau, but since then, he has added $90 billion in inflationary spen…
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Mr. Speaker, more debt, more costs, more taxes. The Prime Minister is just another Liberal. The Liberal government doubled the debt, doubled housing costs and doubled food bank lineups. The previous prime minister left behind an outrageous $31-billion deficit for this fiscal year. Since that time, the new Liberal Prime Minister has been spending at even higher rates and putting it on the national …
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Mr. Speaker, the question was for the Prime Minister, who is again in hiding and, instead, what we got is a man talking about a sovereign—
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Mr. Speaker, we need to actually have wealth for a sovereign wealth fund. What the Liberal Prime Minister is proposing to do is use the credit card in order to put $25 billion into a Liberal slush fund. This is after the Liberal government doubled the debt and gave us the worst inflation in 40 years. The Prime Minister is spending more: more taxes, more costs, more of the same. Will he put it all …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot answer questions in the House of Commons because he has been wrong on every single major economic issue of our time, and the results are what Canadians are paying for now: more costs, more debt, more taxes and more of the same. In fact, the Prime Minister has given Canada the worst food inflation in the G7, the worst household debt in the G7, the worst housin…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad he asked, because I have some direct answers. This is how to answer a question. What is inflationary spending? It is $90 billion for the wasteful Alto project; $1 billion for a gun grab that the public safety minister admits will not stop crime; $20 billion, which is double, for consultants; a 7% increase in the spending on the national bureaucracy; over $1 billion in handou…
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Mr. Speaker, the reason the Prime Minister hates answering real questions is that it breaks the illusion. Although he would have us believe otherwise, he doubled the deficit Justin Trudeau left us. It is unbelievable. Trudeau left behind a $40‑billion deficit. The deficit is now almost $80 billion. Will he cut back on the bureaucracy, the corporate welfare, the tax havens and other waste to bring …
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Mr. Speaker, with the Liberal Prime Minister, it is more cost, more crime and more corruption, more of the same. That is because, despite the illusions, he is just another Liberal. This is true with gas taxes.
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Mr. Speaker, yes, they are applauding. The Prime Minister is just another Liberal. He is keeping two-thirds of the gas tax in place while Canadians get ripped off at the pump with the carbon tax, which he calls the clean fuel standard, and the GST at 15¢ a litre. Will the Prime Minister stop gouging Canadians at the pump and get rid of all taxes for all the year, or is he just another Liberal?
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Mr. Speaker, with this Liberal Prime Minister, it is more cost, more crime, more corruption, more of the same. Despite the illusions, he is just another Liberal. For example, he is keeping two-thirds of the gas tax in place while Canadians are getting ripped off at the pump. There is the new carbon tax, which he now calls the clean fuel standard, and there is the GST. Both cost 15¢ a litre. Will t…
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Mr. Speaker, my question was for the Prime Minister, who is in Ottawa today but is hiding under the desk. He does not want to answer—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister hides under his desk instead of answering questions, because whether it is today when he was snarling at a female journalist for simply asking a question, or in the House of Commons where he hides from those same questions, he knows that as soon as he faces a tough question, it exposes the thinly veiled illusion and that the reality is that he is just another Libera…
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Mr. Speaker, we now understand why the Liberal Prime Minister is fleeing from questions today, refusing to face accountability. If doubling the deficit to the worst in Canadian history outside COVID means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. If giving Canadians the worst food price inflation in the G7 means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. If doubling hous…
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Mr. Speaker, from imaginary conversations with the minister to illusions from a Prime Minister who hides under his desk rather than being accountable in the House of Commons, one could cut through the Liberal arrogance with a knife. What we cannot cut is the Liberal deficit. Amazingly, Justin Trudeau left behind a $40-billion deficit. We thought it could not get worse, but along came the current L…
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Mr. Speaker, I goofed. I mixed up his title. That is all I am asking the Prime Minister to do. He looked Canadians in the eyes, Canadians who are downgrading their diets, who are skipping meals so that their kids do not have to, and said that they have never had it so good, that affordability is the best that it has been in a decade. Anybody who spent five minutes studying the economic facts would…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian families should be able to fill their grocery carts without emptying their wallets. However, it came out yesterday that in March, Canada had the worst food inflation for the fourth month in a row. All the other G7 countries are facing the same global factors, such as wars and tariffs, but here in Canada, under this Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians are seeing the fastest pric…
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Mr. Speaker, that is not what he said. He said that affordability was the best it had been in a decade. Even if he was talking about rent, that is not true either. In 2015, rent for a one-bedroom unit was $970. Now it is $1,850, so that is not even true. The Prime Minister cannot fix a problem if he does not understand it. Every Canadian paying more for rent, food and other things knows he was wro…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians should be able to fill their grocery carts without emptying their bank accounts, but yesterday we learned that, for the fourth month in a row, Canada had the highest food price inflation in the G7 under the Liberal Prime Minister. All the other G7 countries have the same tariffs, wars and other global factors as we do, but it is under the Prime Minister that Canadians are pa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister goofed. He stood on the floor of the House of Commons and claimed that it is now more affordable than at any time in a decade. The seniors who have to line up at food banks after those food bank lineups have doubled know he is wrong. The young people who are paying twice the rent they would have paid a decade ago know he is wrong. The single mother who is paying 40%…
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Mr. Speaker, he said “Affordability is the best it has been in over a decade.” A decade ago, the average one-bedroom rent was $970. Today, it is $1,850. It has doubled. Incomes have not doubled. The young people who cannot afford that rent know that he is wrong. The seniors choosing between eating and heating know that he is wrong. The Canadians paying 70% more for beef know that he is wrong. Will…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are hoping they do stop because they cannot afford to pay one more penny. This Prime Minister is completely out of touch, and Canadians are completely out of money. He thinks it is more affordable because his company puts its money in tax havens. It is very affordable when someone does not have to pay any tax. Meanwhile, the single mothers who are having to put their grocery…
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Mr. Speaker, I gave the Prime Minister the chance to correct the record, and he refused to do so. On March 25, he made an inaccurate comment. He claimed that affordability was the best that it had been in over a decade. Rent has doubled in that decade. The cost of food is up 40%. The cost of beef is up 70%. The cost of mortgages is up well over 60%. Every Canadian knows that he got it wrong. He ca…
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Mr. Speaker, now the Prime Minister has gone in the witness protection program. He does not even show up to answer questions 70% of the time, and then he refuses to stand up for affordability. He made the comment that affordability was the best it has been in over a decade, this after the number of people lined up at food banks has doubled. The rent has doubled. The cost of food is up 40%. We have…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister goofed up. He goofed up. He stood up and claimed that Canadians have never had it so good, claiming that affordability is the best that it has been in over a decade, during which time housing costs have doubled and food bank lineups have doubled. Canadians cannot afford to eat. Will he have the courage to stand up, admit that he goofed up and apologize to Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, what a sad sight it is when the Prime Minister cannot even stand to defend his own comments when he claimed that life is more affordable than it has been in over a decade. He has been wrong on every major economic issue of our time. He was wrong to support the carbon tax, wrong to say that we should leave 50% of our oil and gas in the ground, wrong to oppose the pipeline to the Pacifi…
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Mr. Speaker, just last week he was telling us that he wanted to lecture us all like students. Now he will not even get out of his chair and answer for his own words. He was the one who said that affordability is better than it has been in a decade, during which time the number of people lined up at food banks, hard-working people, has doubled. Rent has doubled. Beef prices are up 70%, and the Prim…
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Mr. Speaker, the question was not for the artificially intelligent minister. It was for the Prime Minister.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister owes Canadians an explanation. They are living with the worst housing costs and the worst food costs in Canadian history. They are living with the worst food price inflation in the G7, the worst household debt in the G7, the worst housing costs in the G7 and the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7, breaking every single promise that the Prime Minister made. Why will…
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Mr. Speaker, there are three Liberal taxes on gasoline. There is the excise tax and the new Liberal carbon tax that they call the fuel standard, and then they charge the GST on those other taxes. Because of Conservative pressure, the Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, there are three federal and Liberal taxes on gasoline: the excise tax, the Liberal Prime Minister's new carbon tax that they call the clean fuel standard and the GST, which is charged on both of those. Despite skyrocketing prices and the rising cost of living, the Prime Minister only wants to suspend one of these taxes, and that is the result of pressure from the Conservatives. Why no…
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Mr. Speaker, a year into this Liberal Prime Minister's mandate, the poor and the middle class are suffering. That is according to Statistics Canada, which published a report indicating that the gap between the rich and everyone else is greater than ever. This Prime Minister prints money, which causes inflation, and inflation makes billionaires richer and drives up the cost of living for everyone e…
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Mr. Speaker, there are three Liberal taxes on gasoline. There is the excise tax and there is the new Liberal carbon tax they call the fuel standard, and then they charge the GST on those other two taxes. With Canada having the highest grocery price inflation in the G7 and paying 20% more at the pumps, we put pressure on the Prime Minister, and he has partially backed down, removing only one of tho…
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Mr. Speaker, what he is not doing is increasing the deficit? It is only up by 100% since he took office. Does he even read his own budget, or does he want Canadians not to know what is inside? In fact, there is all the money printing that he does, because he is famous for causing inflation and has made a career out of it. Statistics Canada has made it clear that the gap between rich and poor is no…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the Prime Minister has learned all the wrong lessons. Not only did he cause the housing crisis in London and not only did he cause the worst inflation in the G7 when he was the bank governor over there, he advised Justin Trudeau to print money here, causing inflation. Since arriving in Canada, he has given us the worst food price inflation in the G7, the worst investm…
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Mr. Speaker, oh, the Liberal arrogance. We could cut through it with a knife. This is someone—
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Mr. Speaker, what we have over there is inflation of Liberal arrogance. Right now, the Prime Minister wants to tell Canadians that they have never had it so good, when food prices are rising faster in Canada than in any other country in the G7, when Canadian households are the most indebted in the G7, when Canadian housing costs are the most elevated in the G7 and when, just today, RBC reported th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to fight to eliminate the gas tax for the rest of the year so that every Canadian who drives will save 25¢ a litre, $20 per fill-up and $1,200 every year. This is part of our efforts as Conservatives to make life more affordable and put more money back in the pockets of hard-working people. We want to literally power our economy with more affordable gas and reverse the in…
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Mr. Speaker, a unilateral decision is called for because the federal government imposed these taxes unilaterally. The federal government can choose to keep these taxes or get rid of them. The member is wondering how the government will make up for the lost revenue. The answer is that the government is bringing in more revenue because oil companies' profits are going up in step with rising prices g…
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Mr. Speaker, the estimate of seven cents a litre does not just come from the Parliamentary Budget Officer; it also comes from the government itself. According to a report released by Environment and Climate Change Canada, the government regulations that are increasing the price of gas by seven cents a litre this year will increase it by 17¢ a litre by 2030. This is a tax. When the government impos…
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Mr. Speaker, it is true that the Prime Minister and the Liberals would not have done anything were it not for the leadership of the Conservatives in fighting for affordability. It is true that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Our only concern is that the Prime Minister only goes halfway for only half the time and ultimately goes back to his old ways. The Prime Minister favours a high-tax…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Auditor General condemned the current Liberal Minister of Justice, the current Liberal Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and the current Liberal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship for causing chaos on the international student file. The fact is that they allowed 150,000 suspected cases of fraud to go uninvestigated. The Prime Minister gave them pr…
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Mr. Speaker, the new Liberals are the same as the old Liberals. The numbers the Prime Minister just gave can be compared to the even more miserable numbers of his justice minister. In fact, compared to the Harper government, which had the last sane policy on immigration, asylum claims are now up 2880%, temporary foreign workers are up 178% and international students are up 39%. Yesterday, the Audi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is all illusion. It is the same old Liberals, the same old failures. Look at the economy. The Prime Minister likes to blame world affairs for his failing economy. The G7 countries have the same world economy, yet he has delivered the second-highest unemployment in the G7, the worst household debt in the G7, the worst housing costs in the G7 and the only shrinking economy in the G7.…
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Mr. Speaker, I guess those people who stash their cash in tax havens have never had it so good and so affordable. Tell that to the single mother who is walking down the grocery aisle. Let us talk about jobs. The Prime Minister compares us to the United States. When we do an apples-to-apples comparison of unemployment, it is 1.3% higher in Canada than it is in the U.S. In fact, Canada has the secon…
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Mr. Speaker, strategies and imaginary promises will not pay the bills or fill the tank. We all know that global oil prices have gone up, but that does not explain why in Canadian dollars and in litres, Americans pay $1.46 a litre at the pump while Canadians are paying $1.70. That is 26¢ higher per litre at the pump because of the Prime Minister's anti-energy policies and his newly renamed carbon t…
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It is all an illusion, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister not only supported the carbon tax that he advised Justin Trudeau to put in, but thought it should be higher and broader. When he got into power, he did not get rid of it; he renamed it. He called it the Clean Fuel Standard, 7¢ a litre this year rising to 17¢ on top of an industrial carbon tax that is driving up the costs of all the industrial …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Auditor General exposed three Liberal ministers' complete mismanagement of immigration. Liberal ministers in this government ignored evidence of widespread fraud involving 150,000 fake international students. They investigated 3% of cases and abandoned half of those because the suspected fraudsters did not respond to their emails. Will the Prime Minister stand up in the…
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Mr. Speaker, my question was for the Prime Minister, who is here in Ottawa today. He needs to take responsibility for his three incompetent ministers, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, and the Minister of Immigration. All three have shown astounding incompetence. We are talking about 149,000 potential cases of fr…
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Mr. Speaker, with that kind of incompetent, incoherent answer, it is not hard to understand how that minister failed to investigate 97% of the 150,000 suspected cases of fraud in the international student program. Not only that but of the 3% that he did have investigated, the department abandoned half of those because the suspected fraudster did not respond to investigators' emails. This is the cu…
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