Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal Prime Minister, Canadians are suffering due to this affordability crisis, and the cost of everything is going up. It used to be the case in this country that if the price of oil went up, our dollar went up, but thanks to radical Liberal policies, that is no longer the case. Canadians have suffered long enough under the Liberal government. Will the Liberals reverse th…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear today that the Liberals want to talk about everything but the affordability crisis Canadians are suffering. The Prime Minister has not reversed the affordability crisis in Canada as he promised, because he refuses to acknowledge that his radical environmental agenda is driving up costs and driving investment out of our country. Canadians need permanent relief from Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the excellent work of Don and Geraldine Bettle, third-generation farmers in Passekeag, New Brunswick. Their farm has been in operation along the Kennebecasis River since the 1800s. The river is a major factor on the farm, and the Bettles are committed to protecting water quality and biodiversity on their land. The systems that the Bettles have put in place …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to wish all members a good constituency week as they travel back to their riding. I would like to ask the government deputy House leader what the plan is when we return to Ottawa from our constituency break.
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to speak here today to this important subject matter. To understand where we are today, it is important to understand where we have come from, particularly over the last decade. Over this past decade, we have seen lax Liberal laws deliberately reshape the balance of our justice system. They are deliberately going much easier on criminals and much harder on law-abiding …
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Mr. Speaker, as my friend said, there are some positive aspects to the bill, which I mentioned. The work of my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill on the issue of deepfakes is included in this legislation. Some of the work by my hard-working colleague from Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola around intimate partner violence is included in this legislation. However, also included in this legislation is a weakeni…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his hard work on behalf of victims. He has introduced many pieces of legislation to run counter to this Liberal agenda, which has been soft on thugs but hard on victims. To answer the question, absolutely, Bill C-5 eliminated mandatory jail time for serious offences like drive-by shootings. In the brilliance of that legislation, what has been the result? It ha…
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Mr. Speaker, thank goodness for our leader. Thank goodness for the Conservative Party, because we were the only ones for years standing up for the rights of law-abiding citizens and victims in this country. If the hon. member feels there is something inaccurate in anything I said, I would encourage him to be specific. I am citing the government's own material from when Bill C-5 was introduced, whe…
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Mr. Speaker, this just shows how out of touch the government is. Families in my riding of Fundy Royal and throughout Canada are feeling the pinch at the grocery store. Every month under the government, over two million Canadians are now visiting food banks. Food inflation in Canada has doubled just since the Prime Minister took office, making us the worst off in the G7. Conservatives will fast-tra…
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Mr. Speaker, as it is Thursday, I would like to ask the government House leader if he can inform the House on the agenda we can expect in this place next week.
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Mr. Speaker, failed Liberal policies got us into this mess, and more failed Liberal policies will not get us out of it. The cost to feed a family of four has increased by $1,000 just in the last year. Liberal taxes are hiking the cost of fuel at every point in the supply chain. To make food more affordable, we need to get rid of the Liberals' fuel standard tax and the industrial carbon tax. When w…
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Madam Speaker, I first want to acknowledge the passing of Ernie Fage. Ernie was an MLA and cabinet minister who served ably in Nova Scotia. Our condolences go to his family at this time. I listened intently to the hon. member's speech. He mentioned putting the rights of criminals over the rights of everyday Canadians, and that is a theme I hear over and over in my own riding of Fundy Royal. I woul…
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Madam Speaker, as we approach Christmastime, it is an honour to be able to stand here in this place and speak to the budget. When I think about the needs of Canadians and what we are all hearing from constituents, I look to the budget to see what is in there for the families struggling to make ends meet, the families we talk to at the grocery store or at the hockey rink who are talking about the s…
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Madam Speaker, it is unbelievable that the Liberals, after a decade during which crime has skyrocketed, the cost of housing for families has skyrocketed and the cost of food has skyrocketed, can get up and ask us questions about affordability. The cost to families for groceries has doubled since the member's party took government. We are not going to take any lessons from them on affordability. Ca…
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Madam Speaker, indeed, I hear from my rural communities that in rural parts of the country, in rural New Brunswick, people have to travel farther. That is a cost. The government has increased the cost of fuel. The government has increased the cost of food. The government has increased crime, and we hear about that a lot in rural communities. I am hearing about the affordability issue for families …
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Madam Speaker, in the last 10 years under the Liberal government, the cost of food for families and seniors has doubled. In the last four years, the cost has gone up by 25%. A senior's income and a family's income have not kept pace with that. It is going to require a complete change in direction from the government to end its inflationary policies and make life more affordable. Whether it is hous…
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Mr. Speaker, while hard-working Canadians jump through hoops to do things by the book and pay more than their fair share in taxes, Brookfield has been exposed as one of Canada's biggest tax-dodgers. It was recently revealed that the Prime Minister's company has avoided paying more than $6.5 billion in Canadian taxes over the last five years by funnelling profits through offshore tax havens in Berm…
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Mr. Speaker, these workers are not asking for new programs. They want their jobs back. These forestry workers are being left out in the cold by the Prime Minister. He is touring the world while tariffs on softwood lumber have tripled under his watch. The Liberals are not helping workers. The only thing they are helping is themselves, while Canadians lose jobs and families struggle to make ends mee…
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Mr. Speaker, the lumber industry is part of the backbone of my province of New Brunswick, and 80% of our lumber exports go to the United States. However, a pulp and paper mill in Maine is no longer accepting softwood lumber from New Brunswick due to tariffs. When the Prime Minister took office, softwood tariffs were at 14%. They then rose to 35%. Now they are at 45%. The Prime Minister promised he…
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Mr. Speaker, the member knows that his constituents and mine are struggling to make ends meet, and it is the government's reckless spending that is making matters worse. Not only is Fitch Ratings warning that Canada's economic position is at risk of getting worse, but thanks to the Liberals' disregard for sticking to their own fiscal anchors, the Parliamentary Budget Officer is also warning that t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's costly credit card budget puts today's reckless spending onto tomorrow's taxpayers. After 10 years of the Liberals, Canadians are having to put nearly 50% more of their expenses on their credit cards. Fitch Ratings says, “federal finances run a high risk of further deterioration” since the government frequently blows through its fiscal anchors. How many more fisca…
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Mr. Speaker, the disgusting criminals who prey on innocent children must face consequences that reflect the evil nature of their crimes and the suffering of their victims. However, on Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada decided to strike down mandatory jail time for child sexual abuse material offences. One of the offenders from the case had hundreds of images of young girls, some as young as thre…
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Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister is going to spend millions, if not billions, of taxpayers' dollars to confiscate the property of the good guys, law-abiding firearms owners, instead of going after the bad guys. Liberal laws have actually led to more gun crime. Incredibly, gun crime is up 130% under the government. Licensed firearms owners follow the rules, unlike the violent criminals shooting up …
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Mr. Speaker, if anyone has an interest in taking dangerous guns off the streets, it is the police. In a stunning indictment of the Liberals' gun confiscation scheme, the Ontario Provincial Police has just told the government it will not participate in the Liberals' ridiculous gun grab. The OPP knows what we have been saying all along: that spending hundreds of millions of dollars to confiscate the…
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With regard to audited contributions by department, agency, and Crown corporation, since January 1, 2024: (a) what is the total number of contributions audited; (b) for each department, agency, and Crown corporation, what is the (i) total number of contributions, (ii) number of contributions that were audited; (c) of those audited contributions, what number and percentage were found to be abiding …
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With regard to findings of inadmissibility for misrepresentation under section 40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, since 2014 to 2025 to date: (a) how many findings of misrepresentation under section 40(1) have been made by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada each year, broken down by type of application (e.g., study permits, work permits, visitor visas, sponsorship applica…
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Mr. Speaker, my apologies for the interruption, but the hon. member has referred to a “new government”. The government has been in power for the last decade. I am wondering if he might correct that.
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Mr. Speaker, what the minister failed to mention is that thanks to 10 years of Liberal inaction on crime, half of those 18 individuals were out on bail when they were arrested. Thanks to the good work of the Peel Regional Police, half of them were charged with violent crimes like arson and extortion. Incredibly, half of those individuals are already out on the street today. It used to be that in C…
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Madam Speaker, with this, the Liberals have turned themselves completely inside out. Every Canadian knows when they fill up at the pump that if they are not paying the carbon tax today, it is thanks to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative team that rallied against it. I do not often visit it, but I am on the Liberal Party website, and it says, “When Conservative politicians [like Pierre Poilievre…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the same old government with the same old failed solutions. The housing crisis did not just happen; it is the direct result of 10 years of Liberal government mismanagement. After only a decade, rent in Canada has doubled, the amount required for a down payment to buy a home has doubled and mortgages have doubled. The dream of owning a home in Canada is slipping away for many Can…
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Mr. Speaker, Atlantic Canadians are suffering under a Liberal government that has allowed housing costs to double and housing inflation to rise faster in Canada than in any other G7 country. In Halifax, homelessness has doubled in just the last two years. Over 1,100 people in the city are homeless, and 123 of those, at least, are children. These children do not want more government bureaucracy; th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. In accordance with Standing Order 43(2)(a), I would like to split all remaining Conservative Party of Canada slots.
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Madam Speaker, at their busiest time of year, the Prime Minister has just buried small businesses under a mountain of complicated bureaucracy. Only Liberals could dream up a policy where Pokémon cards are GST-exempt but hockey cards are not, where train and Lego sets for kids are GST-exempt but train and Lego sets for adults are not and where physical video games are GST-exempt but downloadable ga…
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Madam Speaker, Canadians were shocked to see footage of a violent carjacker shooting at commuters. Of course, this individual was out on bail. The rate of violent crime in Canada has gone up 50% since the Prime Minister took office, and gun crime has gone up every year. According to a report just released by the Fraser Institute, Canada's rate of crime is 14% higher than it is in the United States…
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Madam Speaker, this is ridiculous. These guys have been in government for nine years. What happened yesterday is a direct result of their policies. Auto theft is up 45% since 2015. In Toronto, it is up 328%. This is a direct result of the government's failure on bail and failure on crime. Gun crime is up 116% and homicides are up 28%. When will the government step aside so Conservatives can crack …
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Madam Speaker, where do I begin? This is a government that has increased the cost on Canadians exceptionally, beyond anything we have ever seen before, doubling the cost of a mortgage, doubling the cost of rent and increasing the cost of home heat. It is all due to its carbon tax, its inflationary measures. How is it possible the Liberal government has been able to do that? It is with the support …
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Madam Speaker, that is what is so perplexing about this. The essentials Canadians are really struggling to pay for right now, based on what I hear from my constituents, are fuel for their vehicle to get themselves to work and get their kids to school, food to put on their table, heating their home and paying their mortgage or rent. Canadians are suffering as they try to pay for these essentials. T…
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Madam Speaker, this is the House of Commons. As members of Parliament, we represent our constituents, so I am going to allow one of my constituents to answer that question. They wrote, “Ridiculous. No break on groceries, fuels or utilities. I was just reading the PM's plan to take a tax break, and I am not impressed. First off, we all know the government will want to recover this lost revenue late…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to join in this debate tonight. A desperate government makes a transparent attempt to distract Canadians, Canadians who have been suffering. I listen to constituents in my riding of Fundy Royal, where individuals and families are struggling to make ends meet. They are struggling to put food on the table, to pay their mortgages and to pay their heating bills. Why is t…
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Madam Speaker, this is a desperate attempt by a desperate government to try to talk about anything but what we are talking about today and to try to muzzle the leader of the official opposition. That is not going to happen. The leader of the official opposition is going to continue to speak out on issues that are important to Canadians, important to our national security and important to all of us…
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Madam Speaker, that is why, at the outset of my remarks, I mentioned the farmers and nurses in my riding, as well as the construction workers I saw going off to work this morning when I was on my way here. It is easy for us in the House to talk about hundreds of thousands of dollars misappropriated to an individual's company or $390 million over a number of cases where the money should not have be…
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Madam Speaker, I gather that my colleague knows the answer to this question as well. Of course, had the Liberals done the right thing at any stage of this debacle, this would not be necessary. However, doing the right thing and the Liberal government do not go hand in hand. Taxpayers' money has been wasted. All of this could have been avoided if the Liberals had done the right thing. However, that…
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Madam Speaker, I think the remarks I gave were fact-filled remarks. I pointed to the fact that SDTC had existed since 2001, but these conflicts began under the current government. There is an old expression I remember from when I was just a child: Sometimes the truth hurts. The truth of the matter is that these appointed individuals had conflicts. The individuals on the board's awarding of million…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to speak today to this important motion. Sometimes it gets lost in this place when we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars or a billion-dollar green slush fund. What does it all mean? I was thinking about that as I was driving to the airport this morning. I passed a Tim Hortons that had trucks lined …
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Madam Speaker, that is an effort, on full display, to talk about anything but the millions of dollars wasted, misappropriated and sent to insiders under the green slush fund. These were not general insiders but Liberal insiders from the Liberal government, and it is the last thing they want to talk about. This is not from me. It is the Auditor General of Canada who said that 20% of the projects we…
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Mr. Speaker, we know the Liberals would rather talk about anything else than the fact that their 61¢ per litre carbon tax would mean Canadians would have among the highest fuel prices in the world. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that the Liberals' carbon tax costs Canadians more than they get back. Canadians have no confidence in the Prime Minister or in his costly carbon tax.…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The government is forcing families to pay more for gas, groceries and home heating at a time when they can least afford it. Now the Province of New Brunswick is taking the Liberals to court to hold them accountable for the money their carbon tax is making off the backs of everyday C…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member is missing the point of the debate today. The Conservative Party is calling for non-confidence. The House does not have confidence in the Prime Minister or the government. Everything about the government is wrong because it is not putting the people of Canada first. It is selfishly, with much greed, taking more than it should, taking too much from taxes, making it to…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member cannot be real. Conservative members of Parliament come here every day to fight for a better Canada and their constituents. What our constituents are telling us is they cannot afford more years of the government. They cannot afford skyrocketing crime. They cannot afford groceries, heat, their mortgage, their rent or to put food on the table. We have the worst inflati…
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Madam Speaker, the motion that we are debating today is pretty simple, but the effect it is having in Canadians from coast to coast is profound. The motion says that the House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the government. That is not just what we are saying here as a Conservative caucus, but that is what I am hearing in my riding of Fundy Royal, where people now are hurting in ways t…
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