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Mr. Speaker, I am here to support Bill C-243, Brian's bill, for my friend the Conservative MP for Edmonton Griesbach. He has been a tireless fighter, especially for how deeply this impacts Alberta families. In 2012, 35-year-old Brian Ilesic and three of his co-workers serviced an ATM machine at my alma mater, the U of A. They never made it home. Brian and two co-workers were killed, and the fourth…
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Mr. Speaker, four years after the Liberals' fake critical minerals strategy, not one inch of road exists to the Ring of Fire. There is nothing on the two first nations-led roads to get it done. Liberals let both foes and allies into Canada's backyard while they drag timelines the rest of the world rejects. The Ring of Fire would connect globally strategic minerals to first nations, manufacturers, …
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Mr. Speaker, the energy minister said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”. It takes 20 years to get a mine built in Canada, while the U.S. approves mines on federal lands in 28 days under emergency crisis rules. Canada sends rare earths to Beijing, which controls 90% of world refining and processing, while Bill C-69 blocks the Ring of Fire with endless regional assessments. It sounds like a w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals love to censor and control Canadians. Their Bill C-18 blocks Canadians from news on social media. Bill C-11 controls what Canadians see and say online. There is their extra “online harms bill,” yet the laws to combat these exist but are not enforced. Their energy censorship stops Canadian businesses from telling the truth about innovation and the environment. Who can forg…
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud and grateful to support and second Bill C-246, the ending sentence reductions for sexual predators act, brought forth by my very strong, principled Conservative colleague, mom of a sweet baby girl and a fellow Albertan, the MP for Lethbridge. I want to thank her for her advocacy on so many issues and for her leadership on this serious one. Sexual violence shatters lives. Th…
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Mr. Speaker, that is spin, spin, spin, because here is the deal. Last year, the Prime Minister promised a Pacific pipeline yet kept all the laws and regs that block building. The Liberals brought in Bill C-5 to work around their own red tape. Conservatives worked to improve and pass it, but there have been no results so far. The feds have not started their indigenous consultation. No private secto…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada cannot control global events or leaders, but Liberals control the policies that drive up costs here at home. The energy minister brags about pipelines to the U.S. but spins about Canadian pipelines. Here are the facts. Two export pipelines to Europe and Asia were killed by the Liberals. They bought the costly TMX, which mostly goes to the U.S., without a path for the company to…
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Mr. Speaker, a global surge in oil prices should be a good chance for Canada, home to the fourth-largest oil reserves on earth. However, despite the PM's rhetoric and photo ops, there is not one new cross-border export pipeline to anywhere. The costly Major Projects Office has not approved one yet, and the federal industrial carbon tax drives away Canada's producers like CNRL, which just paused an…
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Mr. Speaker, none of those are new pipelines for exports. Usually, high prices mean a high dollar, but Canadians are paying the price. The Liberals promised a Pacific pipeline, to remind them, but they keep their unlawful, “never build anything anywhere” Bill C-69, their drilling and tanker bans, and their federal industrial carbon tax that drives away investments. The more these Liberals say they…
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Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my comment telling the truth, which was that the answer was bovine excrement.
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Madam Speaker, it is not news to anybody, and it certainly will not be to this member, that the Prime Minister really loves to self-identify as a European. It seems that he came back for European countries, but not necessarily for ours. To that end, I think every farmer and expert would say that over the last 10 years, the same government that he advised has been implementing, when it comes to agr…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has been such a passionate advocate for nation-building projects that would tie Alberta to New Brunswick and everybody in between, economically, materially and through national unity. I know he knows the inextricable links between food security, energy security, economic security and therefore national security, which is imperative for Canada. I wonder if the member might w…
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Mr. Speaker, the last lost Liberal decade killed hundreds of thousands of Canadian energy jobs. More are coming. In just six months of the Prime Minister, Canadians lost over 18,000 jobs, year over year, in forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying and oil and gas. So many young Canadians, especially young men, and indigenous and visible minorities, who work in natural resources at higher rates than an…
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Mr. Speaker, as a first-generation Albertan with a mother from St. John's, Newfoundland, I want to say how happy I am to have the member joining us from that great province of Newfoundland and Labrador as an advocate for energy workers and resource development right across the country. Speaking of that, we both know that generations of young Atlantic Canadians have had to find work in other places…
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Mr. Speaker, I certainly could not begin to tell the member how Canadians are supposed to decipher the last decade of uncertainty and the current uncertainty that the Liberals are causing. He raises a great point for voters in every single part of the country who voted for the Liberals based on their concerns and their support of anti-energy and anti-development policies that the government has im…
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Mr. Speaker, it sure is an indictment of his own government and of his sitting here, at least in the last decade since I was elected, that he just admitted the federal government has not been working with provincial governments co-operatively over the last 10 years. Instead, today a consequence of the Liberal government is more division in provinces and people pitted against each other than ever b…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for being such a great representative and advocate for the people in her riding, which makes an outsized economic contribution to the entire country and directly helps contribute to programs and services that are delivered in every province across Canada. I could not begin to explain the thinking of the Liberals or the damage they have done to their own credibility,…
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Mr. Speaker, I will split my time with the new, great member for Terra Nova—The Peninsulas. In 2023, the Liberals imposed yet another step in their anti-Canadian energy agenda, an oil and gas emissions cap they touted as the first and only kind in the world, designed to limit Canadian oil and gas production, which will really cap and kill Canadian jobs, businesses, private sector clean tech, and r…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians still pay the price for the lost, anti-development Liberal decade. Six months ago, to get elected, the Prime Minister promised to put shovels in the ground on big projects at unimaginable speeds, but what Canadians got was the same old Liberal bait and switch, photo ops and more bureaucracy, because the PM is just another Liberal. The Liberals say five projects have made the…
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moved: That Bill C-5, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing, in the French version, line 12 on page 11 with the following: “b) que tout titulaire de charge publique principal, au sens de”
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Mr. Speaker, this is part of the concern we have with the government bringing forward a bill where it is trying to fix the mess that it made itself. Maybe I will just take this opportunity to acknowledge my colleague for all of his passionate, dedicated, steadfast advocacy for health, mental health and wellness for men and all Canadians and congratulate him on the successful passage of the 988 lin…
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Mr. Speaker, Bill C-5 proves one thing for certain: The Liberals broke the system, and Canadians pay the price. An unprecedented $5 trillion of Canadian capital went south and into other countries, and they killed $670 billion in major natural resource projects that could have been built by Canadians with Canadian aluminum and steel for Canada's economic strength, self-reliance, security and unity…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for our work together in trying to improve Bill C-5 as best we could. I am glad we won the fight to ensure there would be some limits on the cabinet in Bill C-5 to prevent it from exempting laws such as the Access to Information Act, the Lobbying Act, the Canada Elections Act, the Criminal Code, the Investment Canada Act, the Foreign Influence Transpar…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives will not stand in the way of the Liberals' sudden and often diametrically opposed to the tenures of their own words and actions efforts to get Canada working and building, as Conservatives have called on them to do the entire time. We are hopeful, but we do remain skeptical that Bill C-5 can fully solve the problem of the current broken federal regulatory mess that the L…
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Mr. Speaker, I think it betrays the lie the Liberals have been peddling for 10 years, which is that the most important relationship to them is with indigenous people. They have a track record of killing major research projects and pipelines that indigenous people worked years and years to negotiate in a good way with big companies to secure their own source revenue for self-sufficiency and self-re…
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Mr. Speaker, after the last lost Liberal anti-development decade, Canadians pay the price. Today the G7 starts. Canada used to be powerful, but the Liberals are lucky we still have a seat at the table. Canada's economic growth is now last in the G7. Allies like Germany and Japan begged for Canadian energy, but the Liberals rejected them, and $670 billion in natural resource projects died by delay …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for all of her advocacy for energy and resource workers, rural people and those who live in remote and rural areas in Saskatchewan and all across the country. What she has pointed out is exactly the inherent uncertainty in this bill and exactly the questions that Canadians have and the Liberals must answer. The Liberals said it in the throne speech, and they are s…
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Mr. Speaker, where is Canada after this last, lost, anti-development Liberal decade? Only 11 years ago, Canada became internationally recognized as home to the richest and biggest middle class in the world, with more children lifted out of poverty than ever before. Heading into 2015, the budget was under control, with a billion-dollar surplus, and Canada's economy was the strongest in the G7, the …
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Mr. Speaker, first, I will finish my answer to the other question. The dedicated export pipeline to Asia was approved by the previous Conservative government. The court said there were insufficiencies in indigenous consultation, just as it said about the Liberals on TMX, and the then prime minister should have redone the indigenous consultation with the 31 first nations communities that wanted nor…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of misleading, I rise with respect to the notice that I provided to you under Standing Order 48, concerning the statements that the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources made in a committee of the whole on Wednesday evening. In brief, the minister repeatedly denied, when questioned, that politicians would be empowered to pick projects of national interest under the Liberal…
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Well, Mr. Speaker, I sure do enjoy my time with my colleague on natural resources. Even though we come to almost every single issue from opposite world views, I do appreciate our respectful and collaborative working relationship, including when we can work together to take on the Liberals as effective opposition parties. Conservatives have always been the party that has advocated for natural resou…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said before question period, Bill C-5 is the opposite of inherent clarity and certainty. The Prime Minister and the minister both claim the projects that provincial and territorial premiers submit to federal politicians, who will then themselves determine whether they are in the national interest, will be approved within two years, except that there is not a single concrete timel…
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Mr. Speaker, it probably would surprise people that the hon. member for Saanich—Gulf Islands and I have had a good working relationship from time to time, even though we, too, disagree on many different issues or the approach to them, based on our different perspectives and also on the differences between the people we represent. That is the wonderful democracy and diversity of Canada, is it not? …
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Mr. Speaker, what is the member laughing about? That is literally the timeline. He should learn the facts. Proponents at that time had confidence that Canada was a place where they could get projects built. Therefore, I thank the member for his—
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Mr. Speaker, what I agree with is that we should fast-track natural resources projects and major infrastructure projects and ensure the private sector can get them built in Canada, unlike in the lost antidevelopment Liberal decade. I must mention to my colleague that I do enjoy our exchanges and his personal encouragement, even though we often argue and heckle each other back and forth and show ea…
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If I can, I will just finish, Mr. Speaker. What happened? Then the court ruled, just as it did on the Liberals' consultation, that indigenous consultation—
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Mr. Speaker, I welcome the Liberal member for Calgary Confederation. I would like to say it is funny that he started off by taking a jab at me about facts. Just so he knows, my speech was minutes, not hours, but I thank him for that mansplain. The member is simply wrong. Under the former Conservative government, four pipelines were built, Keystone phase 1, the Alberta clipper, the anchor loop, and…
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Yeah, I am still going. Mr. Speaker, of course we Conservatives hope the government can show Canadians that big, audacious, nation-building projects can get approved and built in competitive timelines by the private sector, not by taxpayers. We take seriously our constitutionally bound duty and role to oppose, but we also take seriously our job to propose solutions in the best interests of all Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague what he hears from the people he represents about how they perceive a government that has for a decade imposed inflationary tax and spending policies and that has hiked the costs of all essentials and made life more expensive for all Canadians, while TD also predicts Canada's heading into a recession and 100,000 job losses to come. What do the member's…
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Mr. Chair, I have asked the minister a number of questions about all the sectors in natural resources, so he does not need to patronize me. Does he know which sectors have lost the most jobs since May?
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Mr. Chair, I will give the minister one more chance. Does he know which sectors have lost the most jobs since May?
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Mr. Chair, what specific projects will be of national interest?
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Mr. Chair, as the minister was told before, jobs will be risked in all these sectors by Bill C-50. Since 2.7 million of those jobs are at risk, will the minister just tell us how many Canadians have to lose their jobs for him to consider the just transition, phasing out oil and gas in Canada, a success?
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Mr. Chair, why does Bill C-5 allow for exemptions from the Conflict of Interest Act?
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Mr. Chair, why is the government's claim of the two-year target for project approvals not in Bill C-5?
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Mr. Chair, the point is, as was exactly in that minister's answer, that he would pick the projects. It would be a select list from select leaders, and they would pick the projects of national interest. How would that give certainty and confidence to all project proponents and investors, including all of the projects stuck in their federal queue right now that they should fast-track?
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Mr. Chair, it is relevant because it was forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas workers in Canada who lost the most jobs of any sectors in the entire Canadian economy since May last year and over the past last lost anti-development Liberal decade.
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Mr. Chair, that is an admission that Bill C-69 blocks projects. The government would not need Bill C-5 if it worked. What specific projects will be of national interest?
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Mr. Chair, how do political, hand-picked projects give investors certainty?
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Mr. Chair, when will the government repeal Bill C-69?
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