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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 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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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, I thank my powerful, compassionate, joyful, loving colleague from King—Vaughan. I was moved and appalled by the experience that she talked about last night. The worst part is that it is becoming common; violent crimes, crimes by gangsters, drive-by shootings, kidnappings, violent thefts and robberies have all skyrocketed, by more than 100%, since the Liberals took office. That is wh…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for such a powerful speech about his role and duty as a member of Parliament since 2015 and for all of the advocacy he has done for his constituents, including the most vulnerable among them. I wonder if he has more to say about the advocacy he has done for the essential needs of indigenous people and indigenous communities. What does he think…
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Madam Speaker, I completely, 100% agree with the member's comment that the government made a promise with regard to tree planting that it is completely failing to meet. It might be an interesting point of fact that of all the private sectors in the Canadian economy, the sector that plants the most trees without government funding or initiatives is the oil and gas sector, right across Canada. Peopl…
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Madam Speaker, once again, these progressives are just so regressive and stuck in their angry past, are they not? If the member actually wants to be an opposition party member, and do more than just wax on and on about how he is concerned about all these issues or corruptions or scandals or the things they advocate on every single day, why on earth do the New Democrats keep voting with the Liberal…
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Madam Speaker, today I am happy, on behalf of the people of Lakeland, to join the debate started by common-sense Conservatives because of the Liberals' repeated pattern of entitled and immoral abuse of Canadian tax dollars under the guise of programs ostensibly about issues that all Canadians care about. After nine years, the Liberals' corruption is just not worth the cost. The entire House of Com…
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Madam Speaker, the Conservatives want to see the documents, and they want the $400 million that the Liberals wasted in their insider circle-jerk slush fund scheme. What the member is actually saying is that he is perfectly fine with this corruption. He is perfectly fine with this scandal and wants to raise all these other issues instead of focusing on the topic at hand. In his answer, the member i…
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I have no idea when these Liberals are actually going to get into 2024. We will all keep waiting, because they keep talking about 15 years ago. The majority of Conservatives on this side have been elected since 2015, so I guess the member can keep yelling about whatever he is talking about over there. In terms of the names he mentioned, of the MPs involved in foreign i…
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Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister and the Liberals have complete control over this. They can release the names.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for all of his work and all of the other Conservatives who have done yeoman's work on this issue to fight for transparency for Canadians. That is the scary question. It is shown in the lengths that the Liberals are willing to go to hide, exactly as he said, 10,000 pages of covered-up, blacked-out information. It is apparently the most important information for f…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up, but this fake feminist Prime Minister is still up to his old tricks. Like so many women before, he shoved aside his female finance minister for his rich, conflict of interest, carbon tax crony, I mean Carney, to take over. Carbon tax Carney will slap the carbon tax right back on home heating …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The NDP leader claimed he would be an opposition voice, but promptly hooked up to help the Liberal Prime Minister hike taxes and food costs, double housing costs, and unleash crime and chaos in once-safe Canadian streets. That is the definition of selling out workers, voters and communitie…
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Mr. Speaker, today I am proud to present a petition on behalf of thousands of Canadians who call on the government to stop its divisive anti-energy, anti-private sector, top-down Bill C-50 just-transition agenda, which would cause fuel and power shortages, and even more energy poverty, while hurting Canada's standard of living. The NDP-Liberal's so-called just transition would hike the cost of liv…
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Mr. Speaker, common-sense Conservatives got proof that the Liberals kicked and screamed to hide, but most Canadians already know that after nine years, the NDP-Liberals' carbon tax is not worth the cost. It will gouge Canada's economy for about $30 billion. That is almost $2,000 for every household each year. In Lakeland, a family farm paid nearly $500 in carbon taxes in one month. An agricultural…
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With regard to firearms which were prohibited as a result of the May 1, 2020, Order in Council SOR/2020-96: (a) how many have been (i) turned in, (ii) seized, (iii) confiscated, (iv) otherwise obtained by the government broken down by how it was obtained; (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by those firearms which were previously in the possession of individuals versus businesses; and (c) what is the…
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Mr. Speaker, he should actually listen to what Canadians are pleading with him about, because emissions are up and so is the price of everything. It is all a sham. The truth is that not once did the 1,200-page analysis show that Canadians were better off with the carbon tax and rebate. The worst thing is the Prime Minister fought to hide the real costs of his agenda, even though he has never had t…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, poverty and food insecurity are emergencies in Canada. Last year, a record two million Canadians had to visit food banks in a single month. Food Banks Canada says nearly half of Canadians feel financially worse off since last year, and 25% cannot afford to feed themselves. An Alberta food bank reported that four times more working people have to access help than in 2…
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Mr. Speaker, two years after Putin's illegal attack on Ukraine, many Lakeland towns, groups and people have opened their hearts to displaced Ukrainians who now call Canada their home. These are families like the Krawecs from Athabasca, who started by filling out immigration forms and then found furnishings for multiple homes. There are volunteer settlement committees, like Vegreville and Area Stan…
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Mr. Speaker, today Conservatives will vote for our motion that calls on the government to axe the carbon tax, the fuel tax and the GST at the pumps this summer. After nine years of the “do as I say, not as I do”, high-carbon, hypocritical Prime Minister, fuel prices have surged by more than 50% in Canada. However, despite the historic cost of living crisis his tax-and-spend inflationary agenda cau…
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With regard to expenditures made by the government under object code 0207 (Employee relocation in Canada) in each of the last three fiscal years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23): (a) what was the total amount spent each year, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity; and (b) what was the total amount spent each year for the relocation of ministerial exempt staff …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years it is clear that everyone but the out-of-touch, elite NDP-Liberals knows the carbon tax is not worth the cost. Page 4 of last year's parliamentary budget office report says, “Taking into consideration...fiscal and economic impacts...most households will see a net loss”. The NDP-Liberals' inflationary tax-and-spend agenda makes everything more expensive and hurts vulne…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canadians cannot afford the costly coalition's carbon tax, but the Prime Minister does not care. He will quadruple it, even though 70% of Canadians and seven out of 10 premiers told him to spike the hike. The Conservatives' common-sense plan is to axe all federal taxes on gas until Labour Day to save Canadians 35¢ a litre. That is more than $955 of needed savings for…
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Mr. Speaker, for that exact member to be characterizing the actions of my duly elected colleagues, who are Conservative members on the natural resources committee, in the way that he has actually lines up perfectly given that he told me to “eff off” in the committee meeting—
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moved: Motion No. 19 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 39 and 40 on page 3 with the following: “reduction, are committed to working in their respective areas of responsibility to ad-” Motion No. 20 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 40 on page 3 with the following: “roles in their respective areas of responsibility, given an anticipated 170,0…
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moved: Motion No. 3 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 13 on page 2 with the following: “fostering the creation of sustainable jobs and, given an anticipated 170,000 immediate job losses plus a further 2,700,000 disrupted jobs, imple-” Motion No. 4 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 14 and 15 on page 2 with the following: “menting measures to …
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing lines 29 and 30 on page 10 with the following: “relating to skills development and measures that support workers on an”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 28 on page 11 with the following: “territories, Indigenous peoples, trade unions, non-unionized workers, munici-”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 4 on page 3 with the following: “communities, recognizing that 93% of the oil and gas sector is composed of small businesses each employing fewer than 100 individuals, as well as the achievement of”
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Madam Speaker, in December, while the NDP-Liberals’ self-proclaimed socialist environment minister hung out with 70,000 sanctimonious politicians and wealthy elites at a sprawling air-conditioned steel complex in a major petro-state, without a hint of shame or irony, I might add, who all flew from around the world on publicly funded, commercial and private airplanes and jets, even though virtual a…
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Madam Speaker, on what planet have I ever advocated and would ever support the concept of requiring taxpayer subsidies and governments to nationalize and socialize the energy sector in Canada? The Conservatives, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, eliminated the vast majority of direct subsidies to oil and gas companies, yet the Liberals, who I have been happy to defend for the last nine y…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 20, be amended by replacing line 27 on page 13 with the following: “services for workers with respect to”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 20, be amended by replacing lines 22 to 24 on page 13 with the following: “al-territorial initiatives related to the Plans;”
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Mr. Speaker, since the minister was not on the committee, I appreciate his commendation of his cohorts for colluding in the costly coalition cover-up. The Liberal members of his party rejected a Bloc Québécois motion that would have ensured that Bill C-50 supported “the decarbonization of workplaces while preserving existing jobs, minimizing job losses, and encouraging the involvement of workers a…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge the Greens for being honest about this bill. I would invite the member to expand, if he wants, on his thoughts. There was a previous just transition study, and the Liberals and the NDP changed the name of it at the last minute. However, as the member pointed out, the bill would not deliver any jobs or skills training programs, particularly. The member brought up …
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 18, be amended by replacing lines 10 and 11 on page 12 with the following: “labour market analyses;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 18, be amended by replacing line 11 on page 12 with the following: “isting and planned emissions reduction measures, together with their implications for workers who are Indigenous peoples or Black and other racialized individuals;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing lines 3 to 10 on page 5 with the following: “net-zero economy means an economy in which any anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are balanced by anthropogenic removals of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere over a specified period. (économie carboneutre)”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 18, be amended by replacing line 18 on page 12 with the following: “perts, partners and stakeholders, including those representing Black and other racialized individuals or from non-”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 25 on page 3 with the following: “communities, non-unionized workers, non-governmental organizations and”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 20, be amended by replacing lines 13 and 14 on page 13 with the following: “those measures across federal entities, working within their respective areas of jurisdiction and responsi-”
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moved: Motion No. 129 That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 25 on page 10 with the following: “ing the guiding principles set out in the preamble while respecting the constitutional jurisdiction of the provinces and territories;”.” Motion No. 130 That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 25 on page 10 with the following: “ing the guiding principles set out in …
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing lines 1 to 6 on page 11 with the following: “growth and the labour market in a net-zero economy;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 16, be amended by replacing line 23 on page 10 with the following: “to sustainable jobs for workers, particularly those who are lndigenous peoples or Black or other racialized individuals;”
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by deleting lines 19 to 28 on page 7
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 3 on page 8 with the following: “(i) the key sectors impacted by the shift to a net-zero”
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moved: Motion No. 64 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 22 on page 7 with the following: “(b) three members who, among them, represent unionized and non-unionized workers;” Motion No. 69 That Bill C-50, in Clause 8, be amended by replacing line 23 on page 7 with the following: “(c) three members who represent lndigenous peoples, of whom at least two also represent workers or…
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