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Mr. Speaker, gas prices are 26¢ higher in Canada than in the U.S., and Liberal policies are forcing Canadians to skip meals, defer dreams and fall behind on bills. That is because we are the only country with a shrinking economy in the G7 as well as having the worst food inflation. While Canadians are being forced into hard choices, the Liberal government has a simple choice: It can scrap the taxe…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot afford the cost of living, and the Liberals think the best way to get Canadians back on their feet is to miss three car payments. That is the problem. Their decisions keep making life more expensive. As gas prices skyrocket, the government is making things worse with its industrial carbon tax and the fuel standard tax. The Liberals point to global instability, but it …
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Mr. Speaker, the number one thing I was hearing was uncertainty, and uncertainty is a job killer and an investment killer. Let us take the EV mandate, for example. The government spent years talking about the EV mandate, not to mention the 10 years they talked to Canadians selling the carbon tax, but we will just forget about all that. Back to the EV mandate, this presented uncertainty in the indu…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sorry, but I missed the first part of my colleague's question. The number one thing that I would like to talk about is uncertainty. What most Canadians asked me when I was in the riding last week was, what is the update on the CUSMA negotiations? What is the update on the deal with the United States? This is one of the most secretive deals. We get no updates from the government. …
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Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to our Conservative motion to protect and grow Canada's auto sector. I will be splitting my time with the member for Windsor West. As the member of Parliament for New Tecumseth—Gwillimbury, I have the honour of representing the workers at the four million square foot Honda Canada manufacturing facility in Alliston, Ontario, which is celebrati…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for Simcoe—Grey for representing the great people of New Tecumseth all those years. I want to follow up on uncertainty. This is the problem with the government, and we hear it from many parts manufacturers and feeder plants, including Honda, that I go to. Companies need certainty to invest. They need to know the rules of the game, and right now no one knows t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable. Only 269 new homes were sold in the GTA last month. It is the worst ever on record for new home sales, but it is not because Canadians do not want to buy; it is because they cannot afford the homes being built. The Liberals' failure to address out-of-control immigration, rising inflation and red tape has resulted in an entire generation being priced out of the mark…
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Mr. Speaker, young Canadians are flat broke and falling behind, with 57% reporting that they have no money left at the end of the month. Four in 10 fear they will never pay off their debt. They have one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel. Canadians are draining their savings while their dreams of owning a home, starting a family and building a secure life have been shattered. Instead of ma…
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Mr. Speaker, you are not delivering. Young Canadians are flat broke—
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Mr. Speaker, the government could talk a glass eye to sleep, but it is the Liberals who need to wake up. Do they need to see how many more Canadians are on the street, shaking a coffee cup for change? The government refuses to take the tax off food, refuses to boost competition and refuses to deliver a real plan for food affordability. Its rebate will not reduce the price of a single item at the g…
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Mr. Speaker, news reports this week confirmed what Canadians already know: Our economy is on life support. Because of Liberal mismanagement, we have had two consecutive quarters of zero economic growth. While our GDP is stagnant, grocery inflation keeps climbing. This year, it will cost $17,600 to feed a family of four, nearly $1,000 more than it did in 2025. Why is it that under the Liberals, the…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians would not need any rebates if the Liberals had not driven up grocery prices in the first place. So long as they keep imposing the industrial carbon tax and the 17¢-a-litre fuel tax on Canadian food production, prices will keep increasing. Conservatives are ready to fast-track bills that would reverse the highest food inflation in the G7. Will the government stand with us and…
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Mr. Speaker, just last week, the Prime Minister stood at a podium in Davos in a room full of billionaires and global elites and lectured the world about—
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Picking up from where I left off, Mr. Speaker, he lectured the world about honesty and naming reality. Well, here is a reality check for him. Canada now leads the G7 in food inflation. Families here at home are paying more for groceries because of Liberal policies that tax fuel, fertilizer and food production. If the Prime Minister thinks honesty matters, will he admit today his policies are drivi…
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Mr. Speaker, that answer was all bun, no patty. The member said nothing of substance to Canadians who cannot afford groceries. Because of Liberal policies, next year a family of four can expect to pay nearly $1,000 more for food. Food prices could rise 6% next year, with meat expected to see the biggest price hike. The Liberals are refusing to act to lower food costs. The beef is already gone, so …
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Mr. Speaker, where is the beef? That is what Canadians are asking as food prices keep rising. The Prime Minister told Canadians that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store, yet 86% of Canadians say they are cutting back on meat because they simply cannot afford it. The Liberals' industrial carbon tax and inflationary deficits are driving up the prices Canadians pay at the checkout l…
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Mr. Chair, we have seen this time and again from the Prime Minister. He promised a deal by June 21. We have no deal. With every country he goes to visit, the tariffs actually go up. He went to India. The next thing we know, our peas are tariffed. Nothing comes from the government. There is absolutely no certainty for the industry now. There is a mandate, but does the industry know it is coming? Bi…
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Mr. Chair, I guess we are having a disconnect here as Conservatives. The member stood in this House and defended the carbon tax to Canadians for 10 years, and it was good until it was not. Now Conservatives are here holding the government to account on an EV mandate that is going to crush the auto sector. Honda, in my riding, has specifically told me that with the uncertainty it has paused the man…
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Mr. Chair, if there is one member in this House who always talks Canada up, it is me. I can tell members right now that this is what we are talking about here. For the elbows-up crowd who voted Liberal, just so they know, they voted for an EV mandate that pays Elon Musk and Tesla money, billions of dollars, because he owns 75% of the EV business. As long as they know that—
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Mr. Chair, I will be splitting my time with the member for the beautiful riding of Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake. The Prime Minister told Canadians he would fight for a stronger Canada. He urged voters to look past a decade of Liberal failures, insisting he would negotiate a win and fight for Canadian jobs, but since the election, “elbows up” has turned into “who cares?” No trade deals have ma…
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Mr. Chair, the Liberal EV mandate punishes Canadian manufacturers, it puts Canadian auto jobs at risk and it hands an even larger share of the market to Elon Musk and Tesla in the United States that have absolutely no footprint in Canada. Can the member opposite explain why the policy of this Liberal government is to weaken Canada's auto sector while strengthening an American company and American …
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Mr. Chair, it was the Liberal government and the Prime Minister who said they would have a deal by June 21. That has passed. It was the Prime Minister who said that he could handle Donald Trump. What I am trying to make the government understand is that it is putting self-imposed mandates that the auto industry cannot seek any clarity on. It paused this mandate for 60 days. That passed. Now it has…
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Look out, Mr. Speaker; there he goes again. It seems like the Prime Minister just cannot wait to jump on a plane and leave the country any opportunity he gets. He has been everywhere. He has been to the U.S. twice, then to Italy, Mexico, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and so many other countries right across the globe, and now he is back to the U.A.E. However, Canadians are worse off than ever a…
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Mr. Speaker, it sounds like any progress on reducing tariffs for Canadians is still up in the air, just like the Prime Minister. There are zero results, and zero tariffs have been removed. That is not good enough, not when investment in Canada is down $47.6 billion, when our country has the worst per capita growth in the G7 and when Canadian families are struggling to eat and heat and house themse…
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Mr. Speaker, if the House gives its consent, I move that the first report of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, presented to the House earlier today, be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, that is why I said that this budget should have been about affordability for Canadians. Regarding the environment, the planting of two billion trees is now gone. It is another reversal, another broken promise. This budget should have been entitled “Broken Promises”.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour of presenting, in both official languages, the first report of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, entitled “Review of Statutory Instruments”. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the report later today.
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Mr. Speaker, whatever it says on the front cover, this budget does not build a stronger Canada. It weakens it, piling up record debt, driving up costs and leaving working Canadians to carry the weight of the Prime Minister's spending and years of Liberal failures. Canadians were told to expect something “generational”. They were promised a serious plan to restore discipline after a decade of Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are concerned about affordability for Canadians. This is what this budget is all about. We were told by the government in the last campaign that it was going to move at speeds Canadians had never seen before. This budget was going to be generational. We have the new Major Projects Office. The other day, I stood in the House and asked for the address, phone number and…
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Mr. Speaker, one Conservative measure I can appreciate is the elimination of the carbon tax. We fought in the House for 10 years for the elimination of the carbon tax, and the other side, the government side, was fighting us every day on that. This is one Conservative measure I see in the budget that I am happy is gone thanks to Conservatives.
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Mr. Speaker, this is why we are standing here today. We are talking about $80 billion. So that Canadians understand, just servicing that debt costs more than we spend on health care and unemployment insurance. We would need GST at 15% just to cover the interest on the debt. It is completely out of control.
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Mr. Speaker, this costly budget of broken promises is a disastrous attempt to put out the fire they started. Not only is the Prime Minister fuelling inflation with the largest regular budget deficit in Canadian history, but he is also hiking up the industrial carbon tax and driving up food prices. Families are already struggling to afford food, housing and everything else, so why does the Prime Mi…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is in this mess because of 10 years of Liberal deficits and taxes. Now this costly budget will make things worse by adding $10 million to our debt every hour. It is like cranking up the furnace and leaving the windows open. Canada is the only G7 country where food inflation has gone up four months in a row, and by increasing the industrial carbon tax and driving up inflation, t…
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Madam Speaker, right when the Prime Minister was telling young Canadians they would have to make sacrifices, he was signing off on bonuses for Liberal elites. These taxpayer-funded payouts included $11 million for the fat cats at Via Rail, $30 million for the bureaucrats at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and $60 million for the bankers at the Business Development Bank, all while every…
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Madam Speaker, it is impressive that the Liberals are actually recognizing Christmas. Canadians are being asked to pull the wagon through the mud while Liberal cronies ride comfortably on top. The government is not worried about families lining up at food banks; it is too busy lining the pockets of insiders. The Liberals are not bothered with cutting home prices; they are too focused on cutting ch…
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Madam Speaker, strap in. Tonight, Canadians from coast to coast to coast will be on the edge of their seats as the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Dodgers in the pivotal game six of the World Series. Across five games and 54 innings, the Jays have excited us, inspired us and shown us the kind of grit and determination that unite us all. Their impressive display against the Dodgers has the entire cou…
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberals spend comes right out of the pockets of Canadians. Under Trudeau, the Liberals' consumer carbon tax made everything more expensive while their record spending led to higher prices and lower paycheques, with the debt burden falling on younger Canadians most of all. Now the Prime Minister is doubling down in his budget with an industrial carbon tax, more costs …
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Mr. Speaker, I ask the party opposite this: Have Canadians not sacrificed enough? For 10 years, they have paid the price for a Liberal carbon tax that the government falsely claimed would put more money back in their pockets than it took out. Now the Prime Minister is pulling the same stunt with his industrial carbon tax. He claims there is no impact, even if it increases costs on farm equipment, …
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Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable: This year marks 100 years since the Holland Marsh was established. A century ago, Professor W.H. Day and a group of hard-working farmers looked over a vast swamp and saw possibility. With vision and grit, they transformed the black muck into one of the most fertile farming regions in Canada. For 100 years, that vision has fed communities, nourished generations and …
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Mr. Speaker, greeters at Walmart grocery stores are no longer saying hello. They are apologizing, but it is the Liberals who should be apologizing for the inflationary deficits that have driven up food prices. Inflation data out today confirms that food prices have once again skyrocketed. They are up 4% as everyday groceries become even more unaffordable for families. We just need the number. How …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are so focused on listening to their own spin that they have tuned out the grumbling sounds of millions of hungry Canadian stomachs. The Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices people pay at the grocery store. With food prices up another 4%, thanks to his Liberal government's inflationary deficits, Canadians have made up their minds. The Prime Minister is an …
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Mr. Speaker, auto workers at Honda Canada in Alliston are outraged. The Prime Minister sold them out again. He folded like a cheap suit in front of Donald Trump. Canada already has the fastest-shrinking economy in the G7 and the second-highest unemployment rate. Now the Liberals have failed to secure a deal with the Americans. They are stripping the auto industry for parts and shipping those jobs …
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Mr. Speaker, the Blue Jays continue to annihilate the New York Yankees, but it is a swing and a miss every time the Prime Minister goes up against the Americans. U.S. tariffs on Canada have doubled since the Prime Minister took office, and Canada now faces the highest unemployment rate in the G7. While the Blue Jays are hitting home runs, the Prime Minister keeps coming home with nothing. He has a…
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Mr. Speaker, from what we see, the Liberal government cares more about international headlines than about bread lines that Canadians are stuck in. They are asking, “What about us?” as food insecurity reaches a crisis point across the country. In my area, Simcoe county, a third of households cannot afford to properly feed their family. Millions of Canadians are chasing their next meal, so why is th…
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister jets around the world shaking hands with dictators and diplomats, Canadians are lining up at food banks in record numbers. He says he wants to be judged by the price of food in grocery stores, but he is too busy seeking approval at the UN to notice how much worse food insecurity is now for Canadians. Food prices have risen 50% faster in Canada than in the Unit…
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Madam Speaker, I was in trouble at school all the time. I was sent to the office so many times, and I knew where the office was. It was unbelievable. I listened to the member for Carleton earlier, and he said “the Major Projects Office” 14 times. The Major Projects Office that the supposed new government has under way, that the Liberals are going to move at lightning speed on, is unprecedented. Ho…
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Mr. Speaker, I have never heard so much fluff, and I really do not even know where to start. To the member, first of all, if he could comment, my riding did not receive the rural top-up under the carbon tax that the government defended for 10 years. He talks about the retrofit program: “Federal government pulls plug on home retrofit loan program”. Thirdly, he talks about the transition. The northe…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' talk is as empty as Canadians' cupboards. It took 40 years before Toronto's largest food bank saw one million annual visits. However, under the Liberal government, demand has exploded. It had two million, then three million and now four million visits from hungry Canadians. The Prime Minister says to judge him on food prices, and Canadians are judging him as they stand i…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister should go to a food bank and tell Canadians lining up there just how good they have it. While he pats himself on the back, food bank workers on the front lines are calling the situation horrific. One in four households is struggling to afford food. Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. While families go hungry, Liberal spending keeps driving grocery prices eve…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said Canadians should judge him by the cost at the grocery store. Well, they have, and his record has aged like an expired yogourt on a hot day in July. Food prices are up another 3.5% because his out-of-control spending keeps driving up inflation. This spending does not just show up on the government books. It shows up on the grocery bill of every Canadian family. …
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