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I have three points, Mr. Speaker, about this $15-billion bailout and handout. The minister did not read the contract, she did not read the contract and she did not read the contract. How can she possibly claim she is going to get the money back, when she does not know what legal powers are in the contract because she admits she did not read the contract? My question for her is this. As families ar…
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Mr. Speaker, I had the honour to stand with the Unifor workers in Brampton, who were out in the rain and the cold. There was not a Liberal around and not a word from the Prime Minister. All of them wanted to know what was happening with their jobs. The Liberals had given money to Stellantis for that plant and $15 billion to Stellantis for another plant, and those workers out in the cold, unable to…
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Well, Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister asked an interesting question: “Who cares?” “Who cares?”, he asked. He is not there, so he does not care.
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Mr. Speaker, it was a metaphor, just like all those Liberal promises. Unfortunately, today we learned even more terrible news. The Domtar workers in British Columbia have lost their jobs, as a 30th mill has closed under the Liberal government. The Prime Minister promised that he would get a deal to end the tariffs, and those tariffs have tripled, all while he removes the legal challenge against th…
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Mr. Speaker, steelworkers are the backbone of our nation, and the products they make are the bones of our economy. We cannot have a modern economy without steel, and Canada's steel sector has been under attack from American tariffs and the Canadian government's taxes. Steelworkers go to work every day, work in difficult conditions and bring home a paycheque for their families to raise their kids i…
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Mr. Speaker, they cannot build homes if they run out of the House. This what the Prime Minister is doing right now.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just appointed another Trudeau-era minister who destroyed our immigration system and helped drive up the cost of living. This same minister, who is responsible for heritage, just said this morning that he is fed up with the debate on the decline of the French language. The Conservatives are not fed up. We will defend the French language. Of all the Liberal members t…
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Mr. Speaker, my question was about the statement made by his new minister, who said he was fed up with the debate on the decline of the French language. The Prime Minister's response shows that we should all be concerned about the decline of the French language. Of all the Liberal members, why did he choose to appoint someone who is fed up with defending the French language and Quebec culture?
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Mr. Speaker, we learned today that eight months after the Prime Minister was elected, promising to build nation-building projects at speeds not seen in generations, he has not even begun consulting with first nations people about his promised pipeline to the Pacific. Now the Assembly of First Nations has condemned his plan because he has not done any consulting with them. Today, he will address th…
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Mr. Speaker, transcripts are great things. The Prime Minister just renamed Justin Trudeau's immigration minister to cabinet: the guy who destroyed our immigration system and helped double the housing costs in this country. The minister has now had something to say about the Prime Minister's failure to consult on pipelines. He said that the consultation should have started yesterday, and it cannot …
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Mr. Speaker, he has broken his promise to get big projects built, and now we learn that he has broken his promise to get houses built. He promised, during the election, that he would double home building to 500,000 units per year. Today, the Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed that his brand new bureaucracy will build only 5,000 homes per year, 99% fewer than he promised. After Conservatives bui…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing that member built when he was the governor of the Bank of England was the housing crisis in that country. Then he built a tax haven in the Caribbean so he would not have to pay the same taxes he imposes on the Canadian people. Our youth need homes, jobs and hope. The Prime Minister offers them only broken promises and more sacrifices. He even held a photo op in front of…
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Mr. Speaker, it is very sad the Prime Minister does not want to debate how we get homes for our youth. Our young people deserve homes, jobs and hope. He was feeling very cocky a few minutes ago until he worried I might present him with the facts. The Parliamentary Budget Officer revealed today that his new housing bureaucracy will build only 5,000 homes per year, which is barely 1% of the 500,000 …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister could be debating. He has plenty of time—
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Mr. Speaker, let us speak about indicators then. I am going to quote the Parliamentary Budget Officer: Build Canada Homes [the Prime Minister's program] is presented as part of the Government’s efforts to double the pace of housing construction over the next decade. That said, the Government has not yet laid out an overall plan to achieve this goal. We anticipate that the contribution of Build Can…
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Mr. Speaker, that minister was literally the mayor of the city that became the most expensive housing market in all of North America, more expensive than New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. He now brags that not only will they build only about 2% of the homes that they promised during the election, but they are spending $13 billion to do it. Failing is bad. Failing expensively is even worse. Rather…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for pointing out that we have voted against every single program that doubled housing costs in Canada. The Prime Minister created the biggest housing crisis in the G7 when he was the Bank of England governor. He has now come here to adopt the same Trudeau-era policies of building bureaucracies rather than building homes. He promised that this was all going t…
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Mr. Speaker, it was 200,000 homes and the average cost of buying one was $450,000. The average rent for a one-bedroom was $900. The government came along and built bureaucracy to block homes and printed money to inflate their costs. They allowed mass immigration that was out of control, which ballooned demand and left us with the worst and most expensive housing anywhere in the G7. Today, the Parl…
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Mr. Speaker, it is impossible for us to vote against affordable housing because there is no affordable housing after 10 years of a Liberal government. One idea, one positive idea, that we could all agree on is to reduce the cost of the steel, the concrete, the cement and the glass that goes into building homes. Unfortunately, the Liberal government has an industrial carbon tax whose stated purpose…
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Mr. Speaker, the industrial carbon tax is not just a tax on homes; it is a tax on food. When we tax the steel that goes into farm equipment and the fertilizer that is necessary to grow food, when we tax the food processor, we tax the food. It is no wonder that since the Prime Minister took office, food prices have increased roughly 40% faster in Canada than they have in the United States. Canadian…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians should not have to go hungry, but today's report from the Observatoire québécois des inégalités says that food insecurity has increased by 82% in Quebec and that food bank visits have increased by 116%. The percentage of workers living with food insecurity has doubled to 20%. That means that 1.7 million Quebeckers are going hungry. Why is this Liberal government forcing Queb…
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Mr. Speaker, we vote against measures that feed bureaucracy rather than children and families. Since the school food program was created, the number of young children who need to use food banks has doubled, and 90% of children receive nothing from this program, even if we believe the government's own figures. Every time the government spends more, it costs people more in food inflation, on top of …
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Mr. Speaker, today Algoma announced it is laying off 1,000 steelworkers, nearly a third of its workforce, in the Soo. Our thoughts are with them. The Prime Minister looked them in the eye and promised he would protect their jobs, negotiate a win and have a deal by July 21, but it was a bait and switch that is costing people their livelihoods. On top of that, the Liberals are hammering the steel mi…
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Mr. Speaker, more promises and more Liberal thoughts will not put food on the tables of those out-of-work steelworkers. They are not alone. The Liberal food cost crisis is growing, according to today's Feed Ontario report, which reveals that food bank use is up 13% in one year and 165% since the current Prime Minister became the economic adviser to the Liberal government. There have been 8.7 milli…
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Mr. Speaker, the support those Canadians want and need is a paycheque. They want to be able to afford food, and they should be able to. In a country with this much farmland and this much wealth, our people should be able to eat. However, according to the latest report by Feed Ontario, there has been a 165% increase in food bank use in Ontario alone since the Prime Minister joined the government, y…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not just break his promises on food. He also did on housing. He said he would double homebuilding, but, today, a report out from the Missing Middle Initiative shows that housing starts are down 34% across 34 Ontario municipalities, and condo starts are down 51%. However, the Prime Minister is going ahead with a Liberal industrial carbon tax on the steel, aluminu…
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Mr. Speaker, they do not know the year that construction will begin, and they do not know the decade that construction will begin. The environment minister could not even bring herself to utter the word “pipeline” in her answer to the question. Today's deal allows a proposal for a pipeline to go to an office in seven months. It will then be studied for two years, after which the Prime Minister wil…
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Mr. Speaker, they will not tell us when a pipeline will be under construction. Let us just unpack the Prime Minister's illusion. He is telling the “keep it in the ground” caucus members of the Liberal Party that they just need to be quiet because there will not be a pipeline anyway. What he will do is delay it for several years until after a prospective election, during which he can dangle a possi…
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Mr. Speaker, in what year will construction begin on a new pipeline to the Pacific?
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All right, Mr. Speaker, the minister cannot tell us the year in which construction will begin. Can he tell us in what decade construction will begin on a new pipeline to the Pacific?
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Mr. Speaker, what they will do is stand in the way. We know that the only thing stopping a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific is the Prime Minister. Let us unpack the legality of it. The Constitution, paragraph 92(10)(a), gives the federal government exclusive approval power for a pipeline. Bill C-5, a bill the Prime Minister pushed through the House of Commons, and we even supported him, gives …
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Mr. Speaker, the member accidentally told the truth. She did not say that it moves forward on a pipeline. She said it moves forward on an industrial carbon tax, which will increase the cost of everything it takes to build a home, so it is a tax on homes, and of everything it takes to grow food, so it is a tax on food. It is a tax that drives production out, paycheques down and the cost of living u…
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Mr. Speaker, “Who cares?” The Prime Minister promised to negotiate a victory before July 21. Since then, there has been no deal, no victory. The Americans have doubled tariffs, yet the Prime Minister made concessions by eliminating countertariffs, scrapping the digital services tax and backing down on softwood lumber litigation. He got only one thing in return: an $80-billion contract for Brookfie…
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Mr. Speaker, do we want the good news, or the bad news? Well, in these times I guess we will have to start with the good news; it is all we have. The good news is that David Eby, the Premier of B.C., has absolutely no constitutional authority to block a pipeline. The bad news is that the Prime Minister does. Under paragraph 92(10)(a) of the British North America Act, works between provinces are ex…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the Prime Minister will wave around in the air a worthless piece of paper that he says the Premier of B.C. can veto anytime he wants. Here is the political problem he has: Canadians want a pipeline. They know it is the best way to get our resources to market, going around the United States of America, but his “keep it in the ground” caucus is standing in the way. Why does the…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister claimed he did not have the power to approve a pipeline. Well, too bad for him; the Constitution is public. Paragraph 92(10)(a) says it is exclusively a federal responsibility. He happens to be the Prime Minister, and he asked us to pass emergency legal powers in Bill C-5 to give him the personal authority to overturn any regulation in order to get the pro…
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Mr. Speaker, what am I doing? I am standing in the House of Commons. Where is Waldo? He is hiding. We know he is in Ottawa today. We know he is in the—
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Mr. Speaker, I think we are finding out that if one is not there, one does not care. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said “who cares” that Canadian workers are losing their jobs, because he broke his promise to get a deal. We care. Why does he not show up and prove he does too?
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Mr. Speaker, we have gone from elbows up to “Who cares?” under the Prime Minister. Do members remember when he said he would negotiate a win and would get a deal by July 21? There is still no win and still no deal. He has made concession after concession. He backed down on countertariffs, on the digital services tax and on the legal action against softwood lumber, and he got nothing in return. He …
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Mr. Speaker, in his 28 trips, the Prime Minister has failed to reduce a single foreign tariff imposed on Canadians, but he has made gains for Brookfield. A few days after the Prime Minister's meeting with President Trump, the President signed an agreement to buy 80 billion dollars' worth of nuclear products from Brookfield. The Prime Minister is now spending $500 million on Europe's space program,…
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Mr. Speaker, since the Prime Minister was elected, promising to negotiate a win with the U.S., American tariffs on autos, aluminum and steel have doubled, and on Canadian lumber, they have tripled. Not a single American tariff has been reduced since he promised he would reduce them. Now he says, “Who cares?” I care about the 3,000 auto workers that I met on the picket line in Brampton who are out …
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Mr. Speaker, before the election, the Prime Minister promised elbows up. After, it was, “Who cares?” Before the election, the Prime Minister said the tariffs were an existential crisis. Now he says they are not a burning issue. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised to negotiate a win. After, he backed down to American tariffs. Those tariffs have now doubled on Canadian aluminum, autos a…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did make a mistake. He has made many mistakes. In fact, it has been nothing but mistakes when it comes to trade. Let us look at it. The Prime Minister promised that he would negotiate a win on softwood lumber. Now he says, “Who cares?” Well, Conservatives care. Within 80 days of former prime minister Stephen Harper taking office, he managed to eliminate American tar…
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Mr. Speaker, while Chinese, American, Indian and other tariffs have only gone up since the Prime Minister began his 28-trip journey around the world, he has not had a single, solitary win. In fact, the only wins he has had are for Brookfield. Just days after he met with the President, Trump signed on to $80 billion of nuclear purchases from Brookfield, and then he gave $500 million of our tax mone…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister arrived just a few days after Brookfield's CEO, lining up with the same interests that are not Canadian interests. Speaking of Canadian interests, the Prime Minister opposed the pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, just as his Liberal predecessor blocked that same pipeline. On Thursday, he will make one of his grand announcements, waving around a meaningless so-cal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has apparently not read our Constitution, which indicates that the federal government alone has jurisdiction over pipelines that cross borders. Let me quote subsection 92(10), which says that federal jurisdiction applies to “Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other...or extending beyond the Limits of the Province”. In other words, it is exclusiv…
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Mr. Speaker, it really is embarrassing that a Prime Minister who claimed that he was the man with the plan cannot even stand up and debate me about pipelines on the floor of the House of Commons. He is afraid. The previous Conservative government approved a pipeline to tidewater, the Northern Gateway pipeline, which the Liberals then defeated and destroyed, giving massive power to the Americans to…
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Mr. Speaker, it really is pathetic that the Prime Minister cannot stand in his place and defend his position. He is afraid to defend the fact that on Thursday, he will not sign on to a new pipeline. He will sign on to a public relations stunt while planning to hide behind the Premier of B.C. and abdicate his unique constitutional responsibilities. If he wanted a pipeline, if he no longer believed …
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Mr. Speaker, the question was for the Prime Minister. He is here in Ottawa today. He has the ability to stand up and state his position. He claimed that he was going to act with unimaginable speed. Here we are, eight months later, and he refuses to state whether he even supports a new oil pipeline and whether he would like to continue to pump oil at a discount to the United States of America while…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not respect the idea of standing in the way of Canadian energy workers and giving our oil to the Americans at a discount. What we would do is get the government out of the way and get the project built. The Prime Minister has the unique constitutional opportunity to do that. Subsection 92.10 of the BNA Act makes it exclusively a federal decision. This Prime Minister is hiding und…
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