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Mr. Chair, the minister said earlier, and kept trying to claim, that he does not approve projects, but his own bill says he does. Is that not true?
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Mr. Chair, how do political, hand-picked projects give investors certainty?
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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, 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, 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, there are 28 energy and critical mineral projects in federal review, stuck, right now. Why not fast-track those?
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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, does the minister agree with the Prime Minister that we are in a crisis with the U.S.?
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Mr. Chair, will the Liberals repeal the industrial carbon tax?
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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, is the Troilus gold and copper mine?
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Mr. Chair, is the Crawford nickel-cobalt mine in the national interest?
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Mr. Chair, how many OPEC countries have a carbon tax?
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Mr. Chair, what specific projects will be of national interest?
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Mr. Chair, the U.S. does not have a federal industrial carbon tax. It is Canada's biggest customer and also biggest competitor because of the Liberals' antidevelopment laws. How can it be possible that it would want to continue to tax Canadians when the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, do not have federal industrial carbon taxes?
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Mr. Chair, do the top five countries competing with Canada in mining have an industrial carbon tax?
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Mr. Chair, it is none. Does the U.S. have a federal industrial carbon tax?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals' oil and gas cap will cut production by about 5% and $21 billion from Canada's economy. If the minister agrees we are in a national economic crisis, does the U.S. have a federal oil and gas cap?
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Mr. Chair, the minister can disagree with the premise all he wants, but it is his own government memo that says 2.7 million livelihoods in construction, energy, transportation, agriculture and manufacturing will be lost because of that bill, which is on the books. What we have really seen here tonight is no details, no transparency, no plan and an admission, with the Liberals' own Bill C-5, that a…
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Mr. Chair, does China have an industrial carbon tax?
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Mr. Chair, does Iraq? Does Saudi Arabia? Does Libya? Does Iran?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals can keep laughing. The point is that they are saying they want to build Canada, but their antidevelopment policies make Canada, our workers and our businesses unable to compete globally. Actually, they are not going to help build Canada at all. What will the minister say to the families of the more than 50,000 people who will lose their jobs because of the only-one-in-the-w…
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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, 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, 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, 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, what does “consensus” mean?
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Madam Speaker, that rhetoric and the Liberals' photo ops do not matter; actions do, and the truth is that no private sector pipelines will be built to coasts with shipping and drilling bans. Companies will not build pipelines while the government is the only one in the world to cap Canadian oil and gas and to carbon-tax Canadian industries; the U.S. and others do not. The Liberals will not kill th…
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Madam Speaker, after their last job-killing, anti-development decade, Liberals now claim they want Canada to be an energy superpower but will approve pipelines only if there is consensus, yet there is no consensus even in their own cabinet. Most of the ministers have stopped pipelines for years. The PM's top gun said, “It is essential not to...[increase] oil... production”, and the PM himself says…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister said that Canadians should not focus on pipelines. He should tell that straight to the hundreds of thousands of workers who lost their jobs when the Liberals killed pipelines, killed LNG exports to allies and capped Canadian oil and gas. Last year, 98% of Canadian crude went to the U.S., Canada's biggest customer and competitor, because of the Liberals. Ho…
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Mr. Speaker, the truth is that in five years, the Liberals killed 16 major energy projects and $176 billion in options to make Canada affordable, safe, self-reliant and united. Half the ministers are the same. The Liberals must kill Bill C-69, but they cannot get their story straight. Two weeks ago, the culture minister said that Canada does not need more pipelines. Last week, the energy minister …
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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, 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, 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 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 $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 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, 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, 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, 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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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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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, Parliament is still at a standstill after six weeks because the Liberals refused to turn over documents related to their Sustainable Development Technology Canada fund, SDTC, or better known by Canadians now, more accurately, as the Liberal green slush fund. Common-sense Conservatives want transparency and accountability for Canadians about the Liberals' repeated pattern of entitled…
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Madam Speaker, that very Speaker has, of course, said that the House has the undoubted right to order the production of all of the documents, so the Liberals should give them to us. Common-sense Conservatives are here to hold the government accountable for its failures, corruption and wrongdoing. MPs request the documents for scrutiny, not only by the RCMP but also by members of Parliament, as is …
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Madam Speaker, is that eloquent, articulate, powerful colleague not exactly right on? That is what is so disgusting: these high-flying, high-carbon hypocrites bringing in tax after tax and ban after ban and punishment after punishment to make it so Canadians cannot afford to heat, house, fuel, power or drive themselves, especially, as the member just said, as our big northern country heads right i…
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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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