Government Orders
Madam Chair, we are talking about the respect for taxpayers' dollars. I have a scenario, an example, for the minister. Will the minister hand me $486,000 today if I give him a list of the investments I am going to make but I cannot tell him how I am going to pay him until the fall?
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, it is said that inflation is cooling, but families are not feeling it. That is because the real cost of living is not measured on spreadsheets. It is measured at the grocery store, the gas station and the dinner table. Everywhere I go, I hear about it. The price of groceries has soared. Homes are out of reach. Mortgage renewals have doubled. Rents are breaking records. Families are li…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the government stole three platform points from Pierre Poilievre's plan, one of which was cutting income taxes by 1%. We are talking about the budget here. Let us talk about numbers. This tax cut would save Canadians $800, but the Liberals' inflationary spending is increasing the cost of food by $800 a year. The simple math is that $800 less $800 equals zero. How a…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, the responsible thing to do is what every family, every business and every government must do, which is to deliver a budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, not after authorizing $486 billion in spending.
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, the reality is that inflationary spending causes our dollar to weaken because the government floods the economy with excess borrowed money and it weakens our dollar, raising the cost of everything.
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, yes, I wonder if the Liberal government would take a lesson from private industry, a lesson from Brookfield Asset Management, because Brookfield does prepare a budget before it spends. It is a basic practice, but the Liberals are refusing to put forward a budget, and they are taking the time to ask for $486 billion in new spending. That is irresponsible.
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, when mothers go grocery shopping, it is about their kids. They would rather go hungry than see them go without. In Newmarket, I met a mother of three little boys who was in tears. She did not know what she was going to feed them the following week. Who can blame her? Two bags of groceries now cost $100 and barely last two days. The Liberals' inflation is the slow undoing of a family's…
Read full speech →Statements By Members
Mr. Speaker, this week, the Prime Minister introduced his first spending bill for the coming fiscal year, called the main estimates. He promised to spend less. Instead, he is spending more, a lot more. In fact, this bill proposes 8% more spending than in Justin Trudeau's final year in office. That means that overall government spending is set to grow nearly three times faster than inflation and po…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and his cabinet took the time to prepare a spending plan, but they did not make the time to prepare a plan to pay for it. Last week, I asked a simple question: “With the economic storm clouds moving in, how is it possible not to have a budget this spring?” Since then, the Liberal government presented the main estimates to Parliament to request nearly half a trillion…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is that there is no plan to pay for the $486 billion in spending that the Liberals have asked Parliament to authorize. It is not a plan to have no plan. If there were a plan, they would have presented it. Our GDP is struggling. Our productivity is down. Our purchasing power is crumbling. The unemployment rate is rising, and tariffs are hurting our industries. The purpo…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, I thank the people of Newmarket—Aurora for entrusting me to be their voice in Ottawa. I thank my campaign team, who gave this mission 18 months of relentless effort. We knocked on 100,000 doors to earn our neighbours' trust. I thank my family, especially my husband Matthijs, for standing beside me with his wise counsel, and my three beautiful children, Matthijs, Martina and Isabella, …
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claimed to be the man with a plan. That is very well, but where is it? After 14 years in finance, I have learned that, if someone does not know the numbers, that person is out. We know the Prime Minister is committed to spending more than Justin Trudeau, but he will not even tell Canadians how much. TD reported that Canada is nearing a two-quarter recession, with up…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, my team and I knocked on 100,000 doors, and the priorities at the doors were very clear: affordability, crime and unleashing our economy. When a young mother is choosing between rent and groceries, she does not need a promise to consider her needs in the fall; she needs action today. We have just returned and are about to adjourn. This is unacceptable.
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, as I was door knocking in Newmarket, Doug, a sweet senior in my riding, opened the door and invited me in to share some of his concerns. As we were talking, he said to me that when he was a little boy, his father taught him to work hard: that if he wanted something, he needed to work hard and give it his all and he would have it. Doug was sitting in his living room and said, “I gave i…
Read full speech →Speech from the Throne
Mr. Speaker, when I was running to be a member of Parliament, I was recalling my early days here in Canada and called my mom to ask her a question. I said, “Mom, did you rely on any government programs when we came to Canada? What did you need, because you came with three young children?” She said to me, “All we needed was opportunity. All we needed was a job so that we could work hard, work long …
Read full speech →