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Mr. Speaker, when I sat in the basement of a Surrey home and met with the Sahsi family, I could see a combination of fear and anger in the sons who had lost their father, a law-abiding Canadian, a successful businessman, a pillar of the community, Darshan Sahsi, who was gunned down presumably by extortionists. Not long after that, I was at Radio Swift in Surrey, and as I looked up in the studio, s…
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Mr. Speaker, they have not brought that bill back for a vote, so they might actually want to decide what they are doing. Bill C-2 is about allowing the government to read personal emails and mail without a warrant. That is what the bill does. The problem is not that law-abiding Canadians need to be spied upon; it is that foreign criminals need to be kicked out of this country. The member then went…
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Mr. Speaker, I would be willing to consider an amendment. The member says that there should be a process to allow foreign criminals to appeal to remain in Canada. I do not agree. Once someone has been convicted of a serious crime, they should be removed from Canada. They should not be entitled to years and years of expensive legal appeals that are paid for by our taxpayers and that allow foreign c…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve affordable groceries. Last week, I asked the Prime Minister why Canada has the worst food inflation in the G7. I asked him why grocery prices here are rising faster than in any other G7 country. He said it is because of our weak dollar, but he is the one responsible for the dollar. How has he weakened the dollar? Was it by doubling the deficit, keeping all the anti-d…
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Mr. Speaker, I am hearing some good slogans, but I am not hearing an answer. Yes, I do appreciate a good slogan, but the fact is that the Prime Minister is the one who said that the dollar is weak. The Prime Minister is the one who cannot explain why, one year into his term, food inflation has doubled and grocery prices are rising faster in Canada than in any other G7 country. I will ask again. Ca…
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Mr. Speaker, now the Prime Minister is claiming it is the official opposition who lowered the dollar, another excuse from a man whose results do not live up to his rhetoric. The same is true on crime. After 10 years of Liberals, extortion is up 333% because of lax Liberal laws and immigration, and now Liberals are obstructing a solution. Today, we are proposing a motion to ensure that no one accus…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is blocking his own bills and failing to move ahead because Liberals do not want to repeal Liberal bail, Liberal house arrest and Liberal immigration. However, we have a motion before the House of Commons today. It would, one, bar non-citizens convicted of a serious offence from claiming refugee status; two, bar the same people who have been charged from claiming re…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has done none of those things. By the way, all those numbers are up compared to when the previous Conservative government was in office. On to jobs for Canadians, our auto workers are losing their jobs in Ingersoll, in Oshawa and elsewhere because of American tariffs. The Prime Minister is helping the U.S. take away these jobs by forcing Canadian taxpayers to spend …
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Mr. Speaker, the auto workers are waiting for it. They are waiting for their jobs, but the Prime Minister is subsidizing electric vehicles whose sales are in full collapse and that are made outside of Canada. Imagine being an auto worker looking at high taxes on his severance after he has lost his job and knowing that billions of those dollars will be going to subsidize vehicles made in the very c…
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Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, I had a heartbreaking conversation with Kru Alin Halmagean, a friend of mine who had just learned of the loss of his heroic son, Gunner Sebastian Halmagean. Since Confederation, countless Canadians have answered their nation's call to serve, sacrifice and, all too often, never come home. Prime Minister Borden, speaking in 1916, remarked: ...[on] the solemn truth that…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians need hope. They need the hope of affordable groceries. However, since this Prime Minister came to power and promised to be judged by grocery prices, costs have been rising twice as fast, the fastest among all the G7 countries. I asked the Prime Minister why. He said it was because of our weak dollar. He is the one who should be protecting it. Can the Prime Minister explain w…
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Mr. Speaker, since we are quoting people, he is the one who said in 2023 that he was going to stabilize grocery prices by Thanksgiving. It is now more than two years later, and the cost of groceries is rising twice as fast. We actually have the worst food inflation in the G7, and the finance minister who caused these problems is still here. Why does the Prime Minister continue with the inflationar…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, and under that particular minister, auto production has fallen by half. After the Prime Minister was elected promising that he would protect the auto industry and get a deal with the U.S. by July 21, he broke both of those promises. Since then, there have been job losses at CAMI Ingersoll, GM Oshawa, Stellantis Brampton and Paccar in Quebec. Today, he fin…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister was in charge of industrial policies as the minister of industry while automobile production fell in Canada by half. Now, under the Prime Minister, we have lost 5,000 more auto jobs. Here is the deal that he announced today: The American President will continue to tariff Canadian-made automobiles going into the U.S. while Canadian taxpayers will be forced to subsidize Ame…
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Mr. Speaker, he is literally yelling for us to stop yelling. This is an example of the Liberal illusion. The Prime Minister has put in charge of finance the former industry minister, who is responsible for auto production in Canada falling by half and the present collapse of auto production and jobs in our country. The Prime Minister broke his promise to negotiate a deal with the U.S., and now he …
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Mr. Speaker, Bloomberg just said that the economy in Canada is shrinking under that minister and the Prime Minister. Going from failed economic Liberal policy to failed immigration Liberal policy, Liberals have unleashed an extortion crisis by allowing Bishnoi gangsters into our country without screening. Now they are allowing them to stay here even after they are convicted if they make a phony re…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to be able to buy enough groceries and to have a full fridge and a full bank account. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case today. After 10 years of inflationary taxes and deficits, the cost of groceries has nearly doubled. The average family will have to spend $17,600 on food this year. That is a huge increase. Right now, 2.2 million Canadians are relying on foo…
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Mr. Speaker, that is not true: Inflation is not under control here in Canada. Just ask the single moms trying to feed their kids. I want my colleague to go visit a grocery store and tell a single mother that inflation is under control as she puts items back on the shelf because she cannot afford them. He will concede that food inflation in Canada is the worst in the G7, that Canadians pay more and…
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, the government did not scrap the carbon tax; it removed one tax to raise two others. First, on the clean fuel regulations, I have in front of me a document provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada that shows that, this year, it is a 7¢-a-litre tax. It is even worse than the original carbon tax, since it applies to farms and fishing boats. At least there was an e…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that we have the highest food inflation in the G7. We have heard Liberal members make all kinds of excuses today. They claim it has to do with some storms in other countries or tariffs that do not apply to Canadian food. If that were true, then all of the other countries would be experiencing the same level of food inflation. They are not. They all live on the same plan…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to have a full fridge and a full bank account. The Prime Minister told us he could be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Since then, costs have been rising faster than in all other G7 countries. My theory is that taxes on farming equipment, fertilizers and the entire supply chain are the reason we have the worst food inflation in the G7. That is my theory. Wh…
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Mr. Speaker, today, we unveil the portrait of the great Right Hon. Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He reminds us of better days. As prime minister, he led Canada's economy through the great global recession with the smallest deficit, the shortest recession, the fastest recovery and the best balance sheet. He would then go on to successfully lead us through two wars: one in Afghanistan against the T…
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Mr. Speaker, that does not add up, because every other G7 country is paying tariffs. Every other G7 country is experiencing the effects of climate change. However, they have less food inflation. Their consumers are not seeing the big increases that we are seeing here. We have the worst food inflation in the G7, and the Prime Minister is not explaining why. What I am saying is that his inflationary…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to have a full stomach, a full fridge and a full bank account all at once. The Prime Minister has said that he could be judged by the price at the grocery store. Since that time, food inflation has doubled and grocery prices are rising faster in Canada than in any other country in the G7. My theory is that his taxes, the carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer and f…
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Mr. Speaker, now we will have to find out whether the Prime Minister is telling the truth or his environment department is telling the truth. The Prime Minister says it does not apply to gasoline. According to his own environment department, it applies to both diesel and gasoline, seven cents a litre this year, and yes, it does apply to farmers, fishers and others. Regardless, we have the highest …
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Mr. Speaker, I realize that the Prime Minister is just visiting Canada. I welcome him. Let us go to my riding. Let us go to Drumheller. Let us go to Camrose. Let us go to Consort. Let us ask them if they believe that, when we charge a seven-cent-a-litre tax on the diesel and gasoline used to grow and ship food, or when we tax fertilizer and farm equipment, that gets passed on in the highest grocer…
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Mr. Speaker, the original question was, what is his theory on why Canada, after a year of his leadership, has the highest food inflation in the G7? Why is it that single moms, seniors and small businesses are seeing grocery prices rise faster here in Canada under his leadership, after the Prime Minister promised to stabilize them, than people in any other G7 country? I have offered my theory, whic…
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Mr. Speaker, the food crisis is the worst problem facing families in Canada. There are single moms who do not even know whether they will be able to pay their bills. I asked the Prime Minister for his theory, because if he cannot diagnose the cause of inflation and rising prices, he cannot find the solution. The Bank of Canada says that two-thirds of the increases reflect domestic factors. I am gi…
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Mr. Speaker, it is another illusion. It will be $10 a week, at most, for a family. Most Canadians will get nothing at all. It will be $10 a week for $300 of groceries weekly for a family. The question was, why is it that Canada has the worst inflation in food prices in the G7? The Prime Minister claimed it was our low dollar under his leadership. He had claimed that he was going to be so good with…
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Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister is going to dodge questions, he had better find someone better than that to get up in his place. It is unbelievable. We have said that we would work with the government to save the people the Prime Minister has priced out of groceries, and if that $10 a week might make the difference for a very small number of people, members can bet we will work hard to do it. W…
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Mr. Speaker, our country should be the most self-sufficient and most affordable country in the world, because we have the most resources per capita in the world. We have the fourth-largest oil reserve in the world. We rank fifth in natural gas. We have the longest and most accessible coastline. We have the largest reserves of uranium and other ingredients used in fertilizers. We have the largest r…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member seems to be astonished that we would say the same thing after the election that we said before the election. I can understand why he finds that counterintuitive, because the Liberals do exactly the opposite. The Liberal Prime Minister promised he would get a deal with the Americans by July 21. There is still no deal. He said there would be countertariffs. There are …
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Mr. Speaker, I find it funny that the Bloc Québécois thinks that Canadian sovereignty is radical. The Bloc Québécois thinks that using our own resources rather than depending on other countries is a radical idea. The Bloc would rather import American oil than use oil that is produced here in Canada and that helps to fund health care, education and roads in Quebec. The Bloc Québécois thinks it is r…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his important role in the Harper government and in creating, of course, the richest middle class in the world, as declared by the ultra-liberal, internationally famous New York Times in 2015. Can we imagine if somebody said that today? They would be laughed off the stage. Here we are, a decade later, and housing costs are the most expensive in the G7. Food …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister held a photo op yesterday at a grocery store, but something was missing. There were no price tags. He ordered his PMO staff to remove the price tags so he could hide from Canadians how much it costs to buy groceries after a year, since he has doubled food inflation, which is the highest in the G7. His inflationary taxes and deficits are a hidden cost in food prices.…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a clear example of this Prime Minister's delusion. He holds meetings instead of delivering results. Results are what we need. He promised that food would be more affordable, but a year later, food inflation has doubled. It is twice as high as in the United States. It is the worst food inflation in the G7. Yesterday, he tried to hide that by taking away the price tags. If price…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister held a photo op at a grocery store in front of food, but there was just one thing missing: the price tags. He ordered his PMO staff to literally show up early at the grocery store and remove the price tags. They are back up today. We went and checked, and they are really high. In fact, grocery prices are rising faster in Canada than in any other G7 countr…
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Mr. Speaker, if Canadians could eat the Prime Minister's photo op, there would not be an empty stomach in the country. He has had lots of meetings. He has had signing ceremonies. He has had grand announcements and new bureaucracies, but what he has not delivered are real results. His biggest promise was that he was going to make food prices affordable. Since that time, food inflation has doubled. …
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have never had it so good that 2.2 million of them are lined up at food banks. One of the reasons is that we cannot get our resources to market. We worked in collaboration to give the Prime Minister exceptional powers to get things done. Instead, he spent the time on photo ops, signing ceremonies and reannouncing projects that were long ago approved. The Prime Minister's new…
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Mr. Speaker, of course we love the Premier of Nunavut, but all the Prime Minister has are meetings, announcements and signing ceremonies, never shovels in the ground and never results that matter to people. Not a single pipeline has been approved. His projects office has not approved a single new project. In fact, he has not removed a single pre-existing Liberal bureaucracy or a single pre-existin…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve affordable groceries, yet today we learned that Canada's food inflation is by far the highest in the G7. It is rising twice as fast as it is in the United States. Food inflation has doubled since the Prime Minister took office. If it were really due to external factors, we would not be the worst country in the G7. When will the Prime Minister scrap his inflationary d…
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Mr. Speaker, food inflation has doubled since the Prime Minister took office, and it is the worst in the G7. The cheques announced by the Liberals today will not even pay for one trip to the grocery store. The reality is that the average family will have to spend $17,000 a year on groceries. When will the Prime Minister cancel his inflationary taxes and deficits so that Canadians can eat?
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve affordable groceries, but under the Prime Minister's watch, food price inflation is the highest in the G7. It is twice as high as in the States and twice as high as when he took office. He cannot blame global factors when it is rising faster than it is in any other G7 country. The real cause is his rising taxes on farmers—
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian people deserve affordable groceries. The Liberals might laugh that off, but they have given Canada the worst food price inflation in the G7. It is rising twice as fast in Canada than it is in the United States of America. There are 2.2 million people lined up at food banks. Since the Prime Minister said that he would make groceries affordable, the inflation rate has actua…
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Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of solidarity, why will the Liberals not agree with the Canadian people that we should get rid of all the hidden taxes the Liberals have imposed on groceries? There is the Liberal fuel standard tax, which is 7¢ a litre for farmers, truckers and those who bring us our food. There is the industrial carbon tax on farm equipment and fertilizer. All of this has given Canada t…
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Mr. Speaker, only the Liberals would look at the $17,600 that the average family has to spend on groceries and say that it is a time to rejoice. The Liberals say that Canadians should be grateful to be lined up in record numbers at the food bank. They think Canadians should thank them for having the highest food inflation in the G7, which is twice as bad as that in the United States of America. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that Enide and his family are paying a record-high price. If Enide is part of a family of four, that family would spend over $17,000 on groceries this year. That is $1,000 more than it spent last year. That is the fastest increase in the G7. Now, the Prime Minister has revived a Trudeau-era rebate, which we will let pass, that would barely cover a few trips to the groce…
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Mr. Speaker, I wish everyone a merry Christmas. It is the holiday season; it is a time of hope. Of course, the Conservative Party is the party of hope. We share that hope with everyone today. However, for too many people, life has become too expensive. Single mothers and seniors cannot afford food, and the Prime Minister is threatening Canadians with another gas tax hike that will increase the cos…
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Mr. Speaker, I was hoping the Prime Minister would be here, for once, to defend—
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Mr. Speaker, I just wanted him to defend, for once, the rising cost of living caused by the taxes the Liberals are imposing on grocery prices. However, that is not all. There is also crime. The Liberals are blocking their own bail legislation. Conservatives have moved 17 motions in the last two days to push the bail legislation ahead. The Liberals are the ones who caused this problem by releasing …
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