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Mr. Speaker, let me wish everyone a merry Christmas, the time of hope. Of course, Conservatives are the party of hope, and we share that hope right across the House of Commons, as I do with the Prime Minister, inviting him to stand up. Unfortunately for many Canadians, it is the time of Liberal inflation. As they go down the grocery aisles, they see the costs of food rising before their eyes as th…
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Mr. Speaker, the member might be suggesting that her own government department is imagining things again. I am reading right here from the environment department's impacts of the CFR on gasoline and diesel prices. For 2026, that is 7¢ a litre, another tax increase on fuel. While the Prime Minister promised to flip-flop on carbon taxes and copy Conservative ideas, once again it is the costly counte…
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Mr. Speaker, it is very telling that the Prime Minister is not prepared to stand up and defend his own tax. Just to prove that it is another counterfeit, the Liberals say a tax on the diesel that farmers use is going to help farmers, just like releasing criminals, they say, will reduce crime. Conservatives have been fighting to end Liberal bail for a very long time. The Liberals pretended to agree…
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Mr. Speaker, on what should have been the proudest moment of her life, Maria Corina Machado was not even there. Unable to attend the ceremony after months of hiding and fighting the regime in Venezuela, her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Quoting her mother, she said, “our journey towards freedom has always lived inside us. We are returning to ourselves. We are returning hom…
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Mr. Speaker, who suggested that the Liberals open our borders to massive, uncontrolled immigration that has inflated housing prices, taken jobs away from Canadians and put pressure on the health care system while causing a decline in the French language? It was Mark Wiseman, the ultra-Liberal corporatist at the head of the Century Initiative, who suggested tripling Canada's population. Why is it t…
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Mr. Speaker, the person who suggested this radical, Liberal policy is Mark Wiseman. He advocates for tripling Canada's population to 100 million “even if it makes Quebec howl”. This is someone who has shown contempt for Quebec and who cannot negotiate on behalf of Quebec. This is someone who proposed a policy that inflates the cost of living, takes away jobs and puts pressure on our health care sy…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have wanted to know who came up with the idea of radical open doors, liberal immigration that overwhelmed our health care, housing and job market. It turns out it was Mark Wiseman, the Prime Minister's corporate crony, long-time Liberal elite and head of the Century Initiative, whose stated mission is to triple the population of Canada to 100 million people, a policy that is…
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Mr. Speaker, every time a Liberal insider does damage to Canadians, drives up their cost of living, they get a reward. It is not just with Mr. Wiseman; it is the Prime Minister himself. His policies are driving up grocery prices for the year to come, and what did he do as punishment for himself? He gave himself an $800,000 privately chartered flight to Egypt, where there were meetings happening in…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was conspicuously irrelevant at that meeting, where he played no role whatsoever in the agreement, yet he charged Canadians $800,000 for a privately chartered jet. Apparently, his own prime ministerial jet was not good enough for him. He does this while he imposes an industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, on fertilizer and on food processors that has driven 2.2 mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's refusal, even though he is in Ottawa, to answer my questions directly is not in keeping with the Christmas spirit. This is at a time when he has driven up the cost of living so much that 2.2 million Canadians are lined up at food banks and food prices are going to drive an extra $1,000 onto the grocery bills of Canadians next year, after he imposed higher taxes on…
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Madam Speaker, we in the Conservative caucus are united. We believe that Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific and that we need to override the discriminatory anti-Canada ban on shipping Canadian energy overseas. We need this pipeline because it would make for stronger take-home pay, it would make for affordable living, and it would make for a sovereign, self-reliant economy. Let us talk for a mo…
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Madam Speaker, I think we just heard the Liberal member for Calgary Confederation say that he opposes a pipeline to the Pacific unless it includes a massive, crippling carbon tax on his own province. I would encourage him to go around his province, talk to the energy workers in his riding and say the reason he voted against a pipeline is that he does not think Albertans are paying high enough taxe…
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Madam Speaker, this pipeline will get built if a Conservative government is elected, because we are going to get out of the way. Only one authority can approve or block the pipeline, and that authority is the federal government. Section 92A(1) of our Constitution clearly specifies that any project crossing an interprovincial border comes under exclusive federal jurisdiction. Under Bill C-5, the de…
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Madam Speaker, it would be very beneficial. It would also diversify our economy. The Prime Minister made grand promises that he would diversify our trade and double exports to non-U.S. markets. This is the single biggest export of Canadian goods to non-U.S. markets that we could ever imagine. There is literally not another project that would even come close to the $30-billion-a-year of overseas ex…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean so we can sell more of our products overseas, somewhere other than the U.S. It will make our economy more independent and strengthen the Canadian dollar and the purchasing power of all Canadians. The Prime Minister has always been against it, but he flip-flopped last week in Alberta. When he came back to Ottawa, there was a rebellion among …
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Mr. Speaker, eating the whole meal would be great if only Canadians could afford to buy the meal. He is talking about a carbon tax that still applies to farm equipment, to fertilizer and to those who deliver food. This has caused food inflation to the point that it now costs $17,000 a year to feed a family of four. Why will he not cut hefty taxes on groceries so Canadians can feed their families?
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Mr. Speaker, Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific to sell $30 billion of our energy overseas, outside of the U.S. market, making us more independent and self-reliant, and our dollar, and therefore Canadians' purchasing power, stronger. The Prime Minister always opposed the pipeline, which his party killed, but last week he flip-flopped and promised, in a deal while he was in Alberta, that he wou…
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Mr. Speaker, I took the wording for the motion right out of the Prime Minister's deal. If he votes against the motion, he is voting against a pipeline to the Pacific; he is voting against overriding the discriminatory and anti-Canadian ban on shipping our energy abroad; he is voting against consultation with first nations people and the British Columbian government, and he is even voting against h…
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Mr. Speaker, not only do we acknowledge the obligation to consult with our first peoples, but we put it right in the motion. It is right there for the Prime Minister. We put it right there so the Prime Minister could vote for the words that he put in the agreement, but let us be honest: He never planned to honour the agreement. He whispered quietly to the “keep it in the ground” Liberal caucus, “D…
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Mr. Speaker, we put the interties proposal right in the motion, right out of the Prime Minister's deal. We put the carbon capture right in the motion, right out of his deal. We put the pipeline and the overriding of the oil shipping ban right in the motion. It came right out of the deal that he signed. Now it is clear that the only thing the Prime Minister really cares about is that it does not in…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of trucks, they take steel, unlike what the Prime Minister said when he asked a reporter whether he or anybody uses steel anymore in Canada. Farm equipment takes steel as well, and farming takes fertilizer. All these things are taxed by the industrial carbon tax. I am sorry I have to give this elementary lesson in the supply chain to the Prime Minister, but it is a reality, a…
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Mr. Speaker, nonetheless, the Prime Minister is afraid to stand up to debate grocery prices. He says he knows so much about inflation; well, he certainly caused a lot of it in his life. He should, then, be able to stand up to defend the very industrial carbon tax that he says is even more important than a pipeline from Alberta. It is an industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer and food …
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Mr. Speaker, no matter how high the Liberals raise the taxes, they are not going to change the weather. The Prime Minister should be willing to stand up before Christmas and look in the eye the seniors who cannot afford to feed themselves, and the single mothers who cannot afford to feed their children and to buy Christmas gifts this winter, while he puts not only an industrial carbon tax on farme…
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Mr. Speaker, is the member talking about standing up for Canadians? The Prime Minister will not even stand up in the House of Commons to answer a question about groceries. A moment ago he was bragging about his industrial carbon tax, and now his minister says it is imaginary, so apparently the Prime Minister is imagining things again. How can Canadians keep straight the Prime Minister's story on g…
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Mr. Speaker, as Canadians walk down grocery aisles week after week, looking at prices rising to the point where they can no longer afford even to buy beef or put meat and potatoes on their dinner table, they see the Prime Minister, who promised he would be judged by the price at the grocery store, unwilling to even stand up to defend his appalling record of increasing grocery bills by $1,000 for t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad the member got that off his chest, but the reality is that the question was for the Prime Minister. He is the one who promised to spend less, yet he doubled the deficit that Justin Trudeau left behind. His deficit is $16 billion bigger than he promised, and he has added about $90 billion of net new spending, most of it on governmental operations. All this will contribute to …
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the minister should tell that to the Liberal member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, the Liberal member for Vancouver Granville, the Liberal member for Beaches—East York and the Liberal members for Victoria, Vancouver Quadra, South Surrey—White Rock, Honoré-Mercier, Fleetwood—Port Kells, Laurier—Sainte-Marie, Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam and North Vancouver—Capi…
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Mr. Speaker, Christmastime is here and the Liberals are already acting like grinches, but Canadians are the ones who should be unhappy given grocery prices. Canadians deserve delicious, affordable meals, and yet Dalhousie University estimates that they will have to pay an extra $1,000 for groceries next year, for a total of $17,600. This is all because of the Liberals' inflationary taxes and defic…
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Mr. Speaker, this Christmas, the Prime Minister is the Grinch of the grocery store. According to Dalhousie University, the cost of groceries will be up $1,000 in 2026, for a total of $17,600 just to feed a family of four. It is the Liberal Grinch, who brings in an industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer and food processors; the Liberal Grinch with a food packaging tax; and the Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, if they want to combat their own cost of living crisis, the Liberals would focus on approving pipelines that would sell more oil and boost our Canadian dollar so Canadians could buy affordable food and homes. In fact, there was such a pipeline, the northern gateway. The Liberals killed it in a 2016 cabinet decision, a decision the Prime Minister supported. They further blocked it with…
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what we are trying to do. In the spirit of Christmas, I decided to take a great act of generosity and lift the words right out of the Prime Minister's MOU in order to support a pipeline to the Pacific and a repeal or an overriding of the Liberal tanker ban. Now, of course, it would mean Liberals would have to admit they were wrong, admit they were wrong to block that p…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the only division here is that the Prime Minister is divided against himself. The Prime Minister opposed the pipeline to the Pacific. Now he claims he supports it. He supported the tanker ban. Now he claims he opposed it. This is the Prime Minister who said he wanted to keep half of our oil in the ground, and now he pretends to have changed his mind. He signed an MOU. He says …
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Mr. Speaker, I think the minister is suggesting there are parts of his own MOU he does not support. The MOU says there would be a pipeline to the Pacific. I took the wording right out of the agreement. There would be an overriding of the tanker ban. I took the wording for that right out of the MOU. Now the Prime Minister is hiding under his desk. Liberal members on one side of the country are sayi…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve to have nutritious, affordable, excellent food. Unfortunately, that is not what they are getting after 10 years of Liberal government. Let us look at the current facts. The annual food price report predicts that a family of four will spend up to $17,600 in 2026, an increase of $995. That is double what it was the year the Liberals took power. Will the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, let us look at weekly grocery bills. According to data from the report released today, in 2015, the year the Liberals took office, the average Canadian family was spending $163 a week on groceries. Next year, it will be double that: $340. The cost of government has driven up the cost of groceries. When will the government axe these taxes?
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Mr. Speaker, hard-working Canadians deserve affordable, nutritious and delicious food: meat and potatoes on the dinner table every single night. However, after a decade of the Liberal government, the cost of groceries has literally doubled. Today the food price report shows that Canadians will spend $17,600 to feed a family of four next year, double what it was when the Liberals took office, and $…
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Mr. Speaker, this is the point in any Liberal term when the Liberals go from making promises to making excuses. The Prime Minister promised that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Let us look at those prices on a weekly basis. Today's report gives out data that shows that when the Liberals took office in 2015, it was $163 a week to afford groceries for a family of four. Now it …
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Mr. Speaker, children cannot eat agreements or photo ops or promises. If any of these costly promises the Liberals were making were actually real, then we would not have seen the number of kids relying on food banks double to 700,000 kids in the last five years. Today, a report from Dalhousie proves that the weekly grocery bill of a family of four has doubled to $340 a week. That is the result. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, the industrial carbon tax is not only real; it was in the Prime Minister's own budget that he wants to increase it. It is a tax on the steel that goes into farm equipment, the fertilizer that goes into farm fields, the equipment that goes into food processors. Then there is the tax on food packaging. By banning plastics, they are making food go bad earlier and costing an extra $1 bill…
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Heritage is fed up, but so are Canadians. They are fed up with paying $16,800 a year for groceries. They are fed up with paying 51% more for groceries. They are fed up with paying 30% more for a rib-eye steak. They are fed up with paying 23% more for a whole chicken. How many people will be forced to go to the food bank before the Prime Minister gets fed up too?
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Mr. Speaker, there, he said it, he is happy with the cost of groceries. According to “Canada's Food Price Report”, when the Liberal government came to power, it cost an average family $8,300 a year for groceries. Now it costs $16,800. It has doubled because of taxes and inflationary deficits that are driving up the cost of everything. The Prime Minister promised to be judged on grocery prices. Acc…
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Mr. Speaker, according to “Canada's Food Price Report”, when the Liberals took office the cost of a basket of groceries was $8,300. Now it is $16,800, which is double. Liberal inflationary deficits, and taxes on farm equipment, fertilizer and food processors, have all exploded the cost of food. Tomorrow that same report will be released, projecting the cost for next year. Given the Prime Minister'…
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Mr. Speaker, as Canadians walk down the grocery aisle watching the prices rise before their eyes, they should know that the Prime Minister, who stashes his cash in a tax haven, says that they have never had it so good, the Canadian people, who have seen their grocery bills literally double under the Liberal government, from $8,300 to $16,800, in a decade. Tomorrow we will find out in the “Canada F…
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Mr. Speaker, we voted against the Prime Minister's doubling Justin Trudeau's deficit, which will drive up groceries even more. What is he spending the money on? It is on corporate bailouts for companies that ship jobs out of Canada. The Prime Minister promised he would negotiate a win and have a deal by July 21. However, with still no win, still no deal and still no elbows, 1,000 workers at Algoma…
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Mr. Speaker, well, as long as the CEO is happy with the $400-million gift he got from the Prime Minister, that is all matters to the Liberals. He did not give the workers a bridge to the future. He gave them a bridge to the unemployment lines, 1,000 of them. One-third of the workers at Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie have now lost their jobs after the Prime Minister paid to have those jobs shipped abro…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals love to give corporate bailouts and handouts to companies that ship jobs out of our country. Now, we learn that the Liberal government has pledged $15 billion or $1,000 for every tax-paying family in Canada, people who cannot afford food, to Stellantis. Investment is fleeing this country almost as fast as the Prime Minister is running out the back door of Parliament right now…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister gets angry and runs out the door rather than answering questions about the cost of $15 billion out the door, or $1,000 for every tax-paying family, to a company that is shipping jobs out of the country. Why is he sending our dollars away and our jobs away while he runs away?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot stand up for workers if he cannot even stand up in the House of Commons. The finance minister is the one who signed the sweetheart $15-billion subsidy—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot stand up for workers if he cannot even stand up and answer my questions. The finance minister has not stood up for workers either. He signed a $15-billion sweetheart subsidy deal with Stellantis, and now that same company, taking our tax dollars, the equivalent of $1,000 for every family in Canada, is shipping the jobs to the United States of America. The ind…
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to go and report the Prime Minister to the witness protection program, because he refuses to stand in this House and answer about his government's expenditure of $15 billion, $1,000 for every Canadian family, to one company, supposedly to create jobs. That same company now ships those jobs south of the border, and the government is covering up the contract. Yesterday, we …
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