Parliamentary Speeches

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is rewarding and encouraging incompetence by putting the single worst immigration minister in Canadian history in as the new Minister of Justice. That minister caused a 300% increase in population growth. Now we know that there were hundreds of thousands of potentially fraudulent cases that he refused to have investigated. Ninety-seven per cent of the cases of poten…

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Mr. Speaker, now the mystery is resolved. Only 3% of the 150,000 cases of suspected fraud were investigated at all. Half of those investigations were abandoned because the alleged fraudster did not respond to their email, but now we learn that the government has followed up with another email, and the threat is clear: If there is no response to that email, there will be yet another email. With thi…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, it is unfair for the Liberal Prime Minister to force that minister to respond for all of the mistakes of her two predecessors, whom he has promoted, but it really is the illusion of the Prime Minister. He refuses to stand and answer questions today, although he is in Ottawa, on the fact that we have the only shrinking economy in the G7, the worst food price inflation in the G7, the wo…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I am happy to be back home here in Canada. I just got back from touring some of the great U.S. states and metropolises where our American partners buy our goods and services and where we trade for the benefit of both our peoples. Before I left, I gave a speech in Toronto in which I laid out a detailed plan for restoring tariff-free free trade with our largest international market. My …

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I have breaking news hot off the presses. The member wants to talk about workers. We have here the president of Oshawa Unifor Local 222, saying, “Finally, a commonsense plan to protect the livelihood of thousands of Ontario Auto sector workers. A plan that restores past production levels and secures a long-term future”.

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Mr. Speaker, the hon. Bloc Québécois member says there is a fuel shortage. That is exactly what we are saying. That is why we want to remove the oil and gas production cap so we can provide the world with the most ethical and environmentally responsible oil and gas possible. We have to take advantage of this because it is our largest global export. Exporting Canadian oil and gas would strengthen o…

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Mr. Speaker, all of the automakers have made it clear that one of the great advantages of building in Canada is having access to the biggest and most lucrative market on planet earth. Some 90% of the automobiles we make go to the United States. In fact, more of the automobiles we make are bought by Americans than by Canadians. We sell 95 times more vehicles to the Americans than we sell to oversea…

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Mr. Speaker, we have seen the results of this Liberal government. Since it took office, we have lost half of our automobile production. Much of this loss occurred when the current Minister of Finance and National Revenue was the industry minister responsible for the sector. This is not a new government. Since the current Liberal Prime Minister took office, we have lost another 7.3% of our producti…

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Mr. Speaker, EVs will be available. Anyone who wants an electric car will be able to buy one. That is what the free market is all about. I trust Quebeckers. I want to give them a choice. The member and the Bloc Québécois want to force this down their throats. There are certain regions where EVs do not work, where people need their pick-up trucks. As a side note, Quebeckers usually choose the Ford …

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Mr. Speaker, what the parliamentary secretary says to workers who have lost their jobs is “wait it out.” What the Liberals say to the workers in Brampton who are locked out of their workplace is “wait it out.” What the Liberals say to the 8.3% of the market in Windsor that is unemployed is “wait it out.” One day, the Liberals say, this rupture will result in some sort of a repair with some other m…

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Mr. Speaker, it is customary when a member makes reference to a document in the House of Commons that the document be tabled. Do I have unanimous consent to table, “Finally, a commonsense plan to protect the livelihood of thousands of Ontario Auto sector workers. A plan that restores past production levels and secures a long-term future”? Do I have the unanimous consent of the House to table this …

Statements by Members

Mr. Speaker, last month residents across Ottawa learned of the loss of the legendary Lowell Green. Lowell was the voice of the common people in the Ottawa Valley on CFRA. Day after day, he would fill the airwaves with the truth that no one else had the courage to speak. He was the voice of the hard-working majority so often forgotten by those in power. However, it was not just his radio show that …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, there are only two types of people: those who are Irish and those who wish they were. The Prime Minister had four flip-flops on Iran, but the flip-flops at home have been even worse. The Liberal government is claiming that the Global News report that indicated that there are 700 Iranian agents here in Canada is false. However, yesterday, the Liberals admitted that 239 agents have had …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister had four flip-flops on Iran in just the same number of days. This is a pattern. He has also flip-flopped on oil and gas. He wrote a book called Values, in which he said he wanted to keep 50% of our energy in the ground. He said in that book that he wanted to raise carbon taxes, and then he claimed that he had flip-flopped on that, while he has since kept in place ev…

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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is driving in circles. He said that he wanted to keep 50% of our oil in the ground. He supported blocking the pipeline to the Pacific. He has not approved a single oil pipeline, and his Major Projects Office has not approved a project of any kind. He has just tried to take credit for a project approved by Prime Minister Harper. Next he will be trying to claim credit…

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Mr. Speaker, the world cannot put meaningless pieces of paper and meaningless MOUs in its gas tank. It needs real energy that comes out of our ground. The Prime Minister said he wants to keep it in the ground, and yet today we have the hilarious spectacle of the Liberal natural resources minister saying that Canada will do what it can to help with its stockpiles for the current energy shortage. Ou…

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Mr. Speaker, sometimes the Prime Minister makes it too easy. Today we have zero oil stockpiles. We have a strategic maple syrup stockpile, which he could use to put maple syrup on the pancakes that he flip-flops on, but we do not have any oil to supply to the world in the time of this crisis. Will he reverse the antidevelopment policies that he has supported, which have come from the previous Libe…

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Mr. Speaker, of the 400 million barrels of oil released from that strategic stockpile, how many are coming from Canada? There are exactly zero. The Prime Minister's excuse, the reason we have no stockpiles, he says, is that we are a producer of oil. This is exactly the opposite of logic. The United States is a producer of oil. They have stockpiles. We have reserves, which the Prime Minister is suc…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, there have always been wars in the Middle East. We cannot control that. However, the problems were never at our doorstep. People kept their problems at home. After 10 years of out-of-control Liberal border and law-and-order policies that have allowed criminals, terrorists and illegal guns to enter our country and criminals to be released onto our streets, we are now dealing with shoot…

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Meanwhile, the Liberal Prime Minister is letting those terrorists stay here in Canada, Mr. Speaker. He is not deporting them. We need to be safe here at home. The cost of living also needs to be affordable at home. Before this war, the Liberal Prime Minister created the worst food inflation in the G7, which is driving up grocery prices faster than in any other country. Global factors are not to bl…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, there have always been wars in the Middle East, but never before did those wars spill onto our streets here in Canada. After 10 years of Liberal immigration and Liberal open borders, they have allowed criminals, terrorists and illegal guns to enter our country. After 10 years of Liberal catch-and-release laws that the Prime Minister has not changed one word on, we have criminals relea…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, what I voted against was a Liberal approach that has doubled gun crime by wasting billions of dollars going after duck hunters, farmers and legal sport shooters. The Prime Minister is more worried about protecting turkeys from hunters than he is about protecting synagogues from terrorists. That is the real problem. We have 700 IRGC terrorists in this country. It does not matter if the…

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Mr. Speaker, his solution to synagogues being shot up is to ban sections of the Jewish Torah. That is not our solution on this side of the House. That is according to his own immigration minister and his own heritage minister. We need to be safe at home. We need to be affordable at home. Even before this war broke out and raised gas prices, the Prime Minister doubled food price inflation and gave …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the question was about food prices. The Prime Minister said he could be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Since he took office, food price inflation has doubled, and the Prime Minister has introduced new taxes that increase the fuel prices for the farmers who feed us. Now, 2.2 million people are lined up at food banks and faced with even worse fuel costs today. Will the Liber…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, when the world faces upheaval, when war breaks out, and when energy and food supplies are interrupted, we must zero in on what matters most at home and on what we control. We work for Canada and its people. Here is our home. We want this country to be affordable at home, safe at home, and strong at home, so that we can be unbreakable abroad. Put in more academic terms, we must put Can…

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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gave a good answer to that question a few days ago. The media asked him a question about foreign interference here in Canada. He said that he could not answer because he had received briefings that prevented him from talking about it openly and answering questions. I will not be muzzled. I will hang onto my freedom of expression. An opposition leader should be able …

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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for leading the charge to achieve justice for the families of the victims of this terrorist attack directed at Canadians. These were our people: 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents mercilessly killed by a missile targeting a passenger plane, and then their remains bulldozed by the regime, which has done nothing to bring justice to those who fired that mi…

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Mr. Speaker, no, that is not true. I support the Iranian people and their right to choose their own government. That is why I agreed with the Prime Minister when he spoke out in favour of this mission. Now, we do not know where the Prime Minister is physically or what his position is—

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Mr. Speaker, I was saying that this is why I agreed. However, I do not know whether the Liberal members agree with their own leader on that. The Bloc member says that he wants Iranians to be able to choose their president and their government, but how are they going to do that without removing the current regime? Does the member really think that dictatorships are just going to give in and volunta…

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Yes, Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question from the hon. member. In fact we are getting anecdotes all the time from the Persian community. There is a police chief from Tehran who was spotted in a Richmond Hill gym, working out, enjoying himself, enjoying all the plunder that he and his friends stole from the Iranian people. All over parts of the GTA and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia,…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, the member seems to suggest that we are misrepresenting the position of the Liberal Prime Minister on this conflict. My question is this: Which position is that?

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I would have done neither. Yes, we would have consulted with our allies, but we do not work on behalf of foreign governments, whether they are in Washington, the capitals of Europe or elsewhere. We work for Canadians. This regime has killed Canadians. It has launched missiles to kill 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents. It continues to harass our citizens and sponsors terr…

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Mr. Speaker, for a century and a half, Canada had the best immigration system in the world. Many hard-working, law-abiding people were invited to come here in an orderly fashion. Most of them quickly found jobs, paid taxes, followed the rules, raised families and integrated into our way of life here in Canada to become real, genuine Canadians. About four years ago, for reasons unknown, this Libera…

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Mr. Speaker, I will stand for a united Canada.

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No, Mr. Speaker, and this is the old Liberal trick. When they mess up the system, destroy people's lives and turn the country upside down, Liberals immediately go on the attack. They start calling patriotic, honourable Canadians horrible names, anybody who disagrees with them or who is upset that they destroyed the immigration system, by their own admission, by the way. Instead of holding themselv…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, they should serve their time in prison. After that, they should be deported if they are not a citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. These criminals are doing neither. They are not being sentenced and they are not being deported either. The Liberal system is allowing these foreign criminals to stay in Canada and harass communities. Quite frankly, it is immigrant communities themse…

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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals really should be ashamed, of course, of their really disgusting tactics over here today, pretending that they care about the immigrant communities they have put in such danger. Is it compassionate that in the city of Brampton, the municipality found there were 26 international students living in one basement? Is it compassionate that the same extortionists who have commit…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, no, what is irresponsible is the radical open borders experiment that the Liberals have brought to this country, which has overwhelmed housing, health care and job markets. What is irresponsible is leaving six million Canadians without a family doctor and allowing thousands of people to die on waiting lists because the system is overwhelmed. That is irresponsible. We want to restore t…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are fed up with Liberal waste. After this Liberal Prime Minister doubled the deficit and drove up inflation, we are now seeing unconscionable waste: ArriveCAN, WE Charity and now Cúram. According to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, the fact that 85,000 seniors are not getting their cheques is good news. A $5-billion cost overrun is good news. Does the P…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government has wasted $5 billion in cost overruns. Today, under the watch of this Liberal Prime Minister, 85,000 seniors are not getting their cheques and cannot buy food. The Prime Minister doubled the deficit, saying that he did not have enough money, but apparently he had enough to squander $5 billion. What will the Prime Minister do to fix this Liberal scandal, protec…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve good quality health care, but after a decade of the Liberal government, six million Canadians do not have a family doctor. Part of the reason is that mass, out-of-control, Liberal immigration has overwhelmed the system, and many of those resources are going to people who are here illegally and have been rejected. There has been a 1,000% increase in the cost of provid…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the government is not taking care of health care for the Canadian people. Six million people do not have a family doctor and 100,000 have died while on waiting lists since the Liberals unleashed out-of-control immigration. There are currently literally thousands of people who are waiting for procedures as we speak. The Prime Minister claims he is getting it under c…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says he has the system under control. Obviously, he is just another Liberal. He thinks it is under control when the cost of deluxe supplementary benefits is up 1,000%, and the number of refugee claims is up 3,000%. Meanwhile, under his leadership, and after 11 years of Liberal government, we have six million Canadians who cannot find a family doctor. Will the Prime …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister may pretend he just got here, like he is a temporary foreign worker or something, but in reality, we have the same Liberal House leader, the same Liberal finance minister, and the same Liberal justice minister who was the immigration minister who broke the entire system, and they are running it into the ground today. It is not just health care where there are two ti…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I understand we are leading 4-0 in the big game today. We are truly team Canada, as we can see from the beautiful jersey right behind me. Imagine if we could be team Canada when it comes to automotive purchases and production. Imagine the satisfaction someone would have if they drove their new car off the lot knowing that not only did they get a great price for a great automobile so t…

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Mr. Speaker, we are in favour of Canada, and that means low-cost energy. I do not want high-priced European or Californian taxes on consumers and industry. That is how jobs get killed. That is how people are made poor. Europe is rapidly running away from the radical net-zero agenda that the member just talked about. The Germans tried it and are having to reverse themselves completely because they …

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question, but not for his research, because he made a mistake. We did not say that workers who lost their jobs would not have to pay the usual taxes. What we said was that the taxes should not be taken off at the beginning of the year, because then those workers will be forced to wait a year before getting a refund. The problem with a one-time payment w…

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Mr. Speaker, first of all, nobody has done more to champion turning Canada into an industrial superpower than the member for Windsor West. Every day, in every way, he fights for our auto workers, and we owe him a debt of gratitude. I am informed that since my speech began, team Canada has gone to 5-0. Apparently there is some momentum here, and I hope that the government will get out of the way an…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the Prime Minister for his eloquent words, which I am sure are words he never wanted to deliver on the floor of this chamber. As fathers, we both know the feeling of sending our kids to school, hoping they will play and perform, laugh and learn, but most of all, come home to us and our loving arms at night. Sure, there is the odd skinned knee or sore belly when they get back, …

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Mr. Speaker, the member is quite right. I heard the Liberal members across the way say that a convicted criminal would not be able to get their refugee status recognized. Even if that were true, and it is not, the problem right now is that they get to spend seven or eight years in appeals before they actually leave, during which time we have to pay their bills. I have asked the Liberal members to …