Parliamentary Speeches

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, to be clear, the Prime Minister promised elbows up against U.S. tariffs. He promised dollar-for-dollar countertariffs. He promised it would generate $20 billion in revenue, but he broke those promises. He secretly dropped countertariffs to effectively zero. He stopped fighting back against President Trump pretty early on, and now Trump is threatening to double tariffs on Canadian stee…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I did not hear a dollar amount on revenue from those countertariffs, so we can assume it is effectively zero. If the steel tariffs were not bad enough, the Prime Minister is determined to keep the industrial carbon tax on our steel production, driving up the cost of steel production here at home, which perhaps is really no surprise, given the Prime Minister claimed that Canadians do n…

Routine Proceedings

Mr. Speaker, I want to put on the record that the Conservatives of the public safety committee have included a dissenting report on the public safety and national security committee's auto theft report. We heard a lot of testimony from police that the government's soft-on-crime measures have increased auto thefts in this country. We need tougher bail measures. We need tougher Criminal Code sentenc…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, the suggestion made by the member is certainly worth looking into. I have enjoyed working with her on the public safety committee, and of course, we had the Minister of Public Safety there and asked him a number of questions about the border and the fact that Canada is basically staring down the barrel of a 25% tariff from our biggest trading partner. We trade 80% with the United St…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, I appreciate where the member is coming from, but I talked about a few of the young women who were killed as a result of the taxpayer-funded drugs that were gateways to this horrific end for them. What the NDP fails to recognize over and over again is the community impact. It is not just on the individual drug addict. It is the community impact of these drug dens, of the needle dist…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, today we are talking about the deaths of 47,000 Canadians, many of them young people. Forty-seven thousand Canadians have died in the last number of years in drug-related deaths. Two of them, I am going to be talking about today. Young Brianna MacDonald was 13 years old when she overdosed. She was found in a homeless encampment after having a cardiac arrest. She was 13, still a chil…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, after 10 years of the Stephen Harper Conservative majority, there were almost 1,700 more CBSA workers than when he started and an additional half-billion dollars of investment. That is the Harper record. At the same time, we balanced the budget and decreased crime by 20%. Contrast that with the Liberals' record, with an increase of violent crime of 50% and the largest debt of all pr…

Routine Proceedings

With regard to firearms statistics held by the government, broken down by year since January 1, 2022: (a) how many firearms were seized by (i) the RCMP, (ii) the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), (iii) other police forces, broken down by source (domestic or foreign); (b) how many firearms were seized and traced by (i) the RCMP, (ii) the CBSA, (iii) other police forces; (c) how many firearms se…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I am not speaking quickly enough to the standard of the NDP member, but I will speak to this. I would say that I do believe the Speaker should consult with the director of the PPP program for those considerations because I do have grave concerns in this regard. It increases the threat, the access that individuals have and the idea that they can come to a sit-in right in our offices, o…

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I will just wait my turn.

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I will try to be very brief. I did want to put a few points on the record for your consideration of the privilege question, particularly from a public safety standpoint. As you know, I am the official shadow minister for public safety, and the RCMP falls under my portfolio. I am accountable to hold the government accountable. My concerns are regarding the protective policing program. …

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I have a few more facts that have not been discussed regarding the privilege debate, and I will be brief. I am the—

Government Orders

Mr. Speaker, I would like to put a few words and facts on the record concerning the privilege motion put forward by the member for Thornhill.

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, last week, the people of Toronto were shocked to see a man attempt a violent carjacking, shooting up cars all over the 401. It is not just Toronto. Gun violence is up 116% under the Liberal government. In fact, it is the ninth consecutive year that gun violence has increased in this country. What are the Liberals doing today? They are making another announcement, but not targeting the…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, at the status of women committee, we hear from abused woman after abused woman who have been hurt and their lives endangered because of Bill C-75. Their abusers are getting out on bail easier than ever before.

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the statistics on women speak for themselves. There is a 75% increase in sexual assaults. That is a 75% increase since the Liberals have been in power. Sexual violations against children are up 120%. Why is this? We have heard, at the status of women committee, over and over from abused women that it is Bill C-75. These monsters are getting out on bail and killing women. That is on th…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has no credibility when it comes to protecting women. In the nine years the Liberals have been in power, sexual assaults have increased 75%. Ninety-four municipalities and the Province of Nova Scotia have declared intimate partner violence an epidemic. In Canada, one woman in Peel region is strangled to death every single day and violent abusers of women are get…

Routine Proceedings

With regard to applications for warrants made under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act between November 20, 2019, and October 26, 2021: (a) how many warrant applications were provided to the office of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness between November 20, 2019, and December 31, 2020; (b) how many warrant applications were provided to the office of the Minister of…

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, it has never been more critical that we get a Conservative government that cares about economics and tax relief for Canadians. For years, our party's leader has repeatedly talked about the disparity between doing business in the United States and doing business now, the regulatory and tax burden Canadian businesses have to deal with, the carbon tax being one of the number one contri…

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, let us talk about last night's GST tax trick. Again, one in four Canadian parents is eating less, just to afford food for their kids. One in five Canadian children is living in poverty. There have been two million people at food banks every single month in Canada in 2024. There has been nine years of Liberal government, and literal breadlines have returned. I will remind the member …

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, certainly we are very blessed in this country to have the natural resource sector. The hydrocarbon sector ensures that transfers to various provinces are possible. It ensures that health care in this country is possible. In fact, given the new Trump administration coming in, thank God we have the energy sector, because the Americans depend on that energy; in fact it makes their gas …

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, what I have heard from the Jewish community is that they want those hostages released and to be able to bury their dead with dignity, which they have been denied for 13 months. Many of the hostages are still alive, from what we understand. They need to be released and they need to be released now. That is what needs to happen. The NDP supported that GST tax cut yesterday, which amou…

Orders of the Day

Madam Speaker, yes, I do. The last 13 months have been horrific in the Middle East. We support Israel's right to defend itself and we hold Hamas responsible for all this destruction and for the terrorist attacks of October 7. This is on Hamas. What we are not hearing is a clear denunciation of that from the Liberal government. We feel that when a terrorist organization is happy with the position o…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, we are two months into the longest privilege debate in House of Commons history and Canadian history. It has been two months of Liberals running from accountability after the Speaker's ruling, in agreement with the opposition parties, that the government must produce the documents. Of course, it is a constitutional power that we have in the House: The House can compel the order of doc…

Government Orders

Madam Speaker, we are facing a very scary situation in Canada, with Canadians really struggling. As we know, one in five children is living in poverty, two million people are at food banks and homeless encampments are popping up all over our cities all over the country. What is really interesting about this measure is that it almost seems like the Liberals are finally admitting that Canadians are …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government often blames the provincial courts, for example, for the crime wave we are seeing across this country. Of course, the provincial courts are governed by the law, and the Liberals changed the law with Bill C-75, which made bail the default for repeat violent offenders. The results are clear: There has been a 116% increase of gun crime in Canada and a 50% increase …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, the Winnipeg law enforcement community is reeling from a violent incident last night in which an officer was stabbed in the neck. Thankfully, he is in stable condition, but this is the reality faced by our brave police officers every single day. In fact, in Toronto, 637 police officers have been injured on the job just this year alone. It is no wonder when there has been a 50% rise in…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, it is difficult to apologize for something that is true. The member has voted in favour—

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I would like to end my remarks commemorating Karolina Huebner-Makurat, who was shot by a man out on bail in Leslieville, Toronto. There are many women who have been killed by people out on bail. That member voted for softer bail legislation. That is on him. If he is not comfortable with it, then maybe he should do something about it and stop supporting the Liberal government.

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her hard work on FEWO. Certainly, she brings up a lot of good points about Bill S-205. I was proud to sponsor that on behalf of Senator Boisvenu, who has since retired but certainly made it his life's mission to protect women from violent offenders and abusers. The member has pointed out a number of things that happened at status of women last year by Liberal …

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, it is really interesting to hear the arrogant tone from that member when every step of the way he has voted in favour of soft-on-crime legislation that has cost the lives of women, children and innocent people across this country because of his efforts to support the Liberals.

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I move that the third report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, presented on Monday, April 25, 2022, be concurred in. I will be splitting my time with the member for Sturgeon River—Parkland. Today, we are discussing a report from the public safety and national security committee about guns and gangs, and frankly, we have been on this for quite some tim…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, unfortunately, the member for Winnipeg North was not listening to my remarks. I was talking about Bill C-75, which was passed by the Liberals with support from the NDP in 2019. That is what caused all of the mayhem that police are now having to deal with. The member is talking about Bill C-48. Bill C-48 was a seven-page bill in contrast to Bill C-75 that was 200 pages. It was a meas…

Routine Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I have a question about this concerning subamendment moved to our amendment on this issue of debate today. Our amendment is calling on the public safety and national security committee, which the member and I are both part of, to review in detail the situation of crime and bail going on in this country, given what we are seeing day in and day out in the headlines about violent crime…

Mr. Speaker, I would like to add my comments to the question of privilege raised by the member for Cowichan—Malahat—Langford on November 7 concerning the 14th report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, of which I am vice-chair. I echo many of the comments made by the member of Bloc Québécois, who is also a vice-chair of the committee. Conservatives are very concerned …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, crime is up and churches are being targeted. A Winnipeg neighbourhood saw a 61% increase in crime. Churches are having to pay thousands of dollars for repairs and security. One church had to put up an eight-foot barbed wire fence to keep criminals out. A woman was victim to an armed carjacking while leaving church, and two people died last month a…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of Liberals, crime is up and small businesses are fed up. The Liberal Prime Minister changed the laws to make it easier for violent repeat offenders to get bail, and now break-and-enters, thefts and vandalism have become everyday realities for small businesses in Canada. Nearly 60% of small businesses in B.C., for example, are being directly impacted by crime; eight i…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I am going to let the police associations speak for themselves to the Liberal minister and to the Liberal Prime Minister. This is from Surrey, B.C.: “The federal handgun freeze fails to address the real issue: the surge of illegal firearms coming across our borders and ending up in the hands of violent criminals.” This is from Vancouver, B.C.: “Stopping legal sales won't stop criminal…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, violent crime is up and police have had enough. Frontline officers in Toronto, York, Vancouver and Surrey are all slamming the Prime Minister for his self-congratulatory social media campaign where he promoted his failed handgun policy that has done nothing to stop violent gun crime, which is up, in fact, by 116% since the Liberals took power nine…

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Toronto police are on the front lines of gun violence in Canada. One of their officers was recently shot by a repeat violent offender, yet shockingly, yesterday, the Liberal Prime Minister took a deranged victory lap on social media for his attack on licensed, trained and police-vetted sport …

Oral Questions

Mr. Speaker, I will read the words of the Toronto Police Association to the Liberal Prime Minister. It said, “Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the United State…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I think what I am expecting is what all Canadians are expecting, which is a leader who is going to make our country strong, a leader who is not going to have our country, after nine years, turn into a country that is being bullied by multiple foreign adversaries, and now friends, in fact. That is the status quo under the Liberal government, which that member is a part of, a government…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, I have shared this with the NDP member. I find it interesting that the former leader of the NDP would agree with the leader of the Conservative Party that in essence it would be a gag order. Again, there is a very political reason that the Liberals are doing this right now. What was interesting in that foreign interference inquiry is that the Liberal leader, as we already knew, later …

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House among my colleagues and talk about this critical issue facing Canadians. I know many Canadians have been hearing about this over the past week; certainly, for this kind of news to break on a Thanksgiving Monday was quite unprecedented, so I am honoured to put some words on the record. Certainly, we are hearing about very serious allegations from th…

Emergency Debate

Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, we have been very clear on this. We feel, as do others, that this security clearance would, in essence, be a gag order. It is very transparent, in fact, why the Prime Minister dropped this so-called bombshell and made a circus out of what was otherwise a very professional undertaking, the foreign interference inquiry. It is because his own caucus is looking to revolt.…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, what we have to look at is all the members who were appointed to this board, and Annette Verschuren is one of them. She got very wealthy off of her own appointment, which cannot be ignored. If the Prime Minister approved her appointment, to me, that is someone who is in great favour. Being the chair of this was not nothing, and when she was there, that is when we saw a great decline o…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to see and work with the member on the public safety committee. I do find him to be a respectable individual and highly intelligent. It seems that NDP members are starting to drop little markers that they will be helping the Liberals bring this to an end. I do find that quite regrettable. Considering the powers of this place, and the Speaker's ruling, the Liberals hav…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I read that article as well, and I worry that Mr. Coyne is correct in that we are seeing what really amounts to a lack of respect for Parliament, for what we have been in power to do and for the privileges and power that we have as an opposition to hold the executive branch accountable. Our House leader, the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle, did an excellent speech on the ancient parliame…

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I seem to have touched a nerve with that member of Parliament, and I am sorry that she has to be part of a government that is so corrupt. I can understand why that is so upsetting. Faced with the facts, it would be hard to have any association with the Liberal government. I understand her angst.

Orders of the Day

Mr. Speaker, I think the hon. member is right. Our job in the House of Commons, as opposition parties, is to ensure that the government is held accountable. The government should spend the money that hard-working taxpayers provide to government while ensuring that it is ethically used. As the member said, we have a role to hold the government accountable. As I mentioned in my speech, this is what …