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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, 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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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, 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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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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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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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, 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, 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, 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, I am proud to present a petition on behalf of the good people of Hairy Hill in Lakeland. It calls on the government to increase the tax credits for volunteer firefighting and search and rescue services. Volunteer firefighters make up about 71% of Canada's total firefighting essential first responders, and approximately 8,000 essential search and rescue volunteers respond to thousands …
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Madam Speaker, it sure is telling that every time the NDP-Liberals get up to talk about the bill, they talk about almost anything other than Bill C-50. I think that is because Bill C-50, the just transition, is actually the culmination of nine years of the NDP-Liberals' anti-energy, anti-capitalist and, frankly, anti-Canadian policies, which they know will hurt Canadians. The bill's proponents say…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years, I hope that Canadians can judge me by my words and actions in the same way as the actions and words of all my common-sense Conservative colleagues. To the exclusion of almost all else from time to time, it feels that for nine years I have championed supporting workers in the oil and gas industry, in clean tech and in all facets of energy development and technology …
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Madam Speaker, globalism is, of course, a political theory that believes in policies being designed by global organizations and then being imposed on sovereign countries through global agreements. That is what globalism is. It is where the concept of the just transition comes from. It has been developed at exactly those kinds of meetings over the course of decades, and instead of putting Canadian …
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Madam Speaker, I believe that governments and politicians have to be honest about their policies and about what they stand for. Just as was the case under the former Conservative government, just as our leader says, just as all of my common-sense Conservative colleagues say, I believe that emissions reductions should be achieved through technology and not taxes, and through Canadians workers, Cana…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Ontario, who has also been a reliable, steadfast and passionate supporter of energy workers. He knows, for the sector and for individuals, it benefits the entire country. Ontario has a lot at stake with Bill C-50, given the negative impacts on manufacturing, construction and transportation that would come from it. He is exactly right; it has been a travesty…
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Madam Speaker, last summer, Sweden paused all efforts of its official government policy toward net-zero and is ramping up the production of fossil fuels. Last year, Germany brought more coal online than ever before in history. We can quote the International Energy Agency. We can look at the examples of individual countries that have gone way further down the road in this policy agenda and see what…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am not sure what the member is talking about specifically, but in good faith, he may want to clarify that no Conservative MP threw an axe through—
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member and I disagree on nearly everything when it comes to energy policy, but I enjoy very much working with him on committee. I want to acknowledge both the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party for actually being honest about what Bill C-50, the just transition, is, which is a plan to end oil and gas, kill Canadian oil and gas jobs and, as the member pointed out, create a g…
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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 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 2, be amended by replacing lines 24 to 32 on page 5 with the following: “sustainable job means any job which provides a powerful pay cheque for a Canadian worker. (emploi durable)”
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moved: That Bill C-50 be amended by deleting the preamble.
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Mr. Speaker, the member just likened duly elected members of Parliament on the Standing Committee on Natural Resources to Brownshirts.
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moved: Motion No. 8 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing lines 3 to 7 on page 3 with the following: “(v) advance the well-being of workers;” Motion No. 9 That Bill C-50, in the preamble, be amended by replacing line 3 on page 3 with the following: “(v) recognize the anticipated 170,000 immediate job losses and 2,700,000 other jobs which will be disrupted and, therefore, advance…
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moved: That Bill C-50, in Clause 7, be amended by replacing lines 4 to 6 on page 7 with the following: “ters on potential areas of cooperation in relation to the Sustainable”
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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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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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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 lines 22 to 24 on page 13 with the following: “al-territorial initiatives related to the Plans;”
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Madam Speaker, it just happens to be the case that I have an academic background in political philosophy and globalism is a legitimate and actual theory of policy development. The just transition has been developed over time at global gatherings of countries that are imposing global policies or are aiming to impose global policies on countries around the world. The Conservatives want to bring home…
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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 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 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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