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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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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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Madam Speaker, the 11-year-old government is really desperate when it keeps talking about a dude who has not been prime minister for 15 years or something. To be clear, in case the Liberals have not googled it or listened to us over the last 10 years, four pipelines were constructed under Stephen Harper's government, including a Line 9B reversal, which fuels Ontario and Quebec with oil and gas. Th…
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moved: That, in the interest of restoring Canadian economic sovereignty, the House call on the government to immediately introduce a Canada Sovereignty Act that: (a) re-establishes Canada as a competitive resource-producing nation by repealing federal measures that block or penalize development, including, (i) the Impact Assessment Act (formerly Bill C-69), (ii) the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (form…
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Madam Speaker, the member is a near and dear friend to Alberta and Albertans. The Liberals know exactly what to do to fix the problems they have created, because they listed the laws and regulations that block building in the back of Bill C-5. That is why Conservatives are saying to fix the fundamentals, fix the law for everybody, set the rules of the game, and make sure that we can compete with a…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her kind words and her warm wishes. We have a bit of an unusual personal relationship. Her words mean more to me than people can probably imagine. I hope the people of Lakeland will continue to have confidence in me, despite the fact that I just said those words. I agree with her that we have to set the facts straight about Bill C-48. Actually, this is a lesso…
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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 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, that is for the hundreds or thousands of workers who lost their jobs after all the Liberals' anti-development policies. The Liberals say new pipelines only if there is a national consensus. What is a national consensus?
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Mr. Chair, is the Crawford nickel-cobalt mine in the national interest?
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Mr. Chair, when will the government repeal Bill C-69?
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Mr. Chair, when will they repeal the “never build anything, no new pipelines” bill, Bill C-69?
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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, why does Bill C-5 allow for exemptions from the Conflict of Interest Act?
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Mr. Chair, uranium and energy projects in the U.S. are approved as quickly as between 16 and 28 days. How does Canada compete?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister release the national interest project list?
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Mr. Chair, how do political, hand-picked projects give investors certainty?
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Mr. Chair, the minister seems to be confused. What I am talking about are current, real projects being proposed by real proponents stuck in the regulatory mess right now. Is the Denison Mines project in the national interest?
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Mr. Chair, is the Troilus gold and copper mine?
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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, is the Rook I uranium mine?
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Mr. Chair, what specific projects will be of national interest?
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Mr. Chair, there are 28 energy and critical mineral projects in federal review, stuck, right now. Why not fast-track those?
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Mr. Speaker, we all know the Prime Minister says that women experience him differently, but it is his pattern to elbow them to the side. It is sad to see a woman spinning for him. He is incompetent and unaccountable; he bullies subordinate women, blames and shames them, then replaces them with his buddies. He has aggressively recruited carbon tax Carney, yet calls himself a proud feminist. Canadia…
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister actually admits that deficits cause inflation. She promised a cap of an already wacko $40 billion, but the Prime Minister bullied to crash her through that so-called guardrail with billions more. He sets her up to take the fall, and Canadians will pay the price. Now, like he did with a long line of women, the Prime Minister kicks her to the curb, for his conflict …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canadians are paying the price for the NDP-Liberals' economic vandalism. The carbon tax and job-killing oil and gas cap hurt rural people and non-profits the most. The Dewberry Agricultural Society paid over $5,000 in carbon taxes in just six months and cannot afford to heat its hockey rink much longer. The NDP-Liberals said small business owners are tax cheats. The …
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With regard to the $32.9 million non-competitive contract awarded in October 2022 to McKinsey, issued by the Trans Mountain Corporation: (a) what were the reasons behind awarding this non-competitive contract without justification; (b) what were the scope and results of McKinsey's work; (c) on what day did work by McKinsey begin; (d) on what day did work by McKinsey end; and (e) how were the contr…
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With regard to the government's commitment to plant 2 billion trees by 2031: (a) what are the total expenditures to date in relation to the commitment; (b) how many trees have been planted to date; and (c) what is the projected number of trees to be planted under the commitment in (i) 2024, (ii) 2025, (iii) 2026, (iv) 2027, (v) 2028, (vi) 2029, (vii) 2030, (viii) 2031?
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With regard to the Sustainable Development Technology Canada fund from 2015 to present: (a) which companies were allotted funding; (b) how much funding was each company allotted; (c) what was the reasoning for allotting funding to each individual company; and (d) what are the results to date of each company's work?
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With regard to the government's approach to the long-term drinking water advisories on public systems in First Nations communities, since December 11, 2017, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation or other government entity: (a) does Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (KZA) have safe-to-consume drinking water; (b) how many individuals remain affected by a lack of access to clean drinking water …
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Madam Speaker, the new thing, though, is my very close and direct perspective on everything, which is a unique perspective. The new thing I am really asking for is what the consequences will be.
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Madam Speaker, I thought I was saying a different last name. However, just like the member for Peterborough—Kawartha, I too have had many professional jobs before I was elected to this place almost a decade ago. This is somewhat like the incident where we all pretended that the Prime Minister did not do what he did in our first or second year of being elected here, when he stormed down to that end…
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Madam Speaker, if I am allowed to speak and continue, I will do that. The unique thing would be my perspective, given that I was standing right here, eight seats away from where the incident happened. It is categorically false that there were hundreds of Conservative MPs here at that time. That is just not true. Second of all, I was standing right here when the member stormed all the way down here…
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Madam Speaker, what I dearly hope is that we do not run into a situation where he experienced it differently and that we all pretend that what we cannot see with our functional brains and our seeing eyeballs is the opposite of what happened. The members for Peterborough—Kawartha and Kelowna—Lake Country are tough women. None of us are shrinking violets. Many of us have gone through challenging thi…
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Madam Speaker, on the same question of privilege, I will add my voice as a person who was standing right here, which as you can see, is just eight seats away from where—
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Mr. Speaker, nine years of economic vandalism proves that the NDP-Liberals are not worth the cost. The radical environment minister's own department now admits the carbon tax will cut $25 billion from Canada's economy in the next six years, but he does not care. He said that the Liberals will quadruple it anyway. Canadians already cannot afford to eat, heat, house or drive themselves, so with the …
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Madam Speaker, the member of Parliament seems like a very kind gentleman, and I appreciate his demeanour in the House of Commons, which is certainly one that I cannot claim to have, and the way in which he made his comments. However, I would just say that it is exactly that kind of answer that Canadians watch and that makes them think elected people, particularly government members, literally have…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member is an incredible advocate for fiscal sanity, common sense and actions actually matching words. He is an advocate for the energy sector and the oil and gas workers, not just in Alberta but in every single part of this country. They help fuel and power our country, and we need them more than ever. The member is exactly right. Nine years of coercive chaos and corruption…
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