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Mr. Speaker, with hope and unity, and rhetoric over results, Conservatives are returning to Ottawa ready to fight for Canadians. This weekend's convention sent a clear message with nearly 90% from across our country supporting our leader, which is a landslide mandate for unity, hope and results. We can contrast that with 10 years of Liberal failure. Housing is out of reach. Food is unaffordable. C…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians want an affordable budget and an affordable life, not a prime minister who profits in secret while people line up at food banks in record numbers, since $6.5 billion is how much experts say the Prime Minister's former company, Brookfield, sheltered in offshore tax havens over the last five years. The Prime Minister helped set up three multi-billion dollar investment funds in…
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Mr. Speaker, I would perhaps suggest that the hon. member listen to my remarks because I complimented the Prime Minister on his past. I made certain that I not make this about his character, but rather, the need for his decisions to provide the public with transparency. The Prime Minister has not been embracing the concept of transparency or sunlight when it comes to his personal finances. Since t…
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Madam Speaker, as a long-time fan of yours, I know you are a deeply thinking person, and I always appreciate the opportunity to hear your thoughts on a range of issues. With that compliment, I am hoping for all of the graces afforded to parliamentarians in this great chamber. I am thankful for the opportunity to rise today. I will be splitting my time with my dear friend, the hon. member of Parlia…
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Mr. Speaker, I am a proud colleague of the hon. member for Calgary Crowfoot. He serves his constituents incredibly well, including two retired people in the northwest of Calgary, and I am grateful for his service and hard work. The list of Liberal transgressions and corruption is taller than I am. I am not particularly tall in stature, but it is longer than my leg, longer than height that I posses…
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Mr. Speaker, the government has had the support of opposition parties on a series of priorities. If the government wanted to provide energy corridors to unlock this country's enormous potential, it could decide to table the bills and do so immediately. If the government was serious about bail reform, as the member indicated, the government could have tabled a bill in the first week back in Parliam…
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Mr. Speaker, there are 300,000 asylum claimants in the system, as we know. The Liberals' interim health program is now $1 billion. Toronto has to increase rents. The Liberals broke the system. Many legal experts have suggested that the immigration provisions in the bill are unconstitutional. Some have even said they are undertaking research in preparation for legal challenges. Knowing this, is the…
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Mr. Speaker, the prism refracts the light. Two years ago, the world turned on itself, with an epidemic of anti-Semitism against the Jews and their state, the greatest test of our generation and our way of life, a fight for civilization over our medieval rivals. Across millennia, Jews have faced down Haman and Antiochus, and, in the last century, Hitler and Hamas. All through this, Canadian Jews ha…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his incredible work on restoring trust among our young people and trust between communities. The Nazi hooked cross was culturally appropriated from the ancient civilization of Hindus and Indians. People of Indian origin and Hindu faith have often seen that symbol, the swastika, as it is properly known, as a symbol of peace, love and prosperity. When the N…
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Madam Speaker, the hon. member should look in the mirror. This is a government that has spent the last decade dividing Hindus and Sikhs against one another. This is a government that has failed to utter a single word of strength against a majority of hate crimes being levelled against less than 1% of our population. More than 70% of all hate crimes across the country are focused on less than 1% of…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise in the House of Commons to speak to Bill C-9, an act to amend the Criminal Code with respect to hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places. I will be splitting my time with my dear friend, the member of Parliament for Bowmanville—Oshawa North. I will speak about Gardiner and Voltaire: one an English journalist and the other a Frenc…
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Madam Speaker, I am looking forward to discussing these issues with hon. members and with my colleagues in the Bloc. I know we will have an opportunity to do so at committee.
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Madam Speaker, let me offer this. It is true that at the time, I was not in the chamber. I did not represent the great people of Calgary Heritage. At the time, I was a writer, a thought leader, at a place called the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. I happened to be in Ottawa at the time of the convoy protest, and I decided to take a look for myself to see exactly what was involved. I walked from one e…
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Mr. Speaker, I have an administrative question for the Prime Minister. I went to check the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website to see what this new state he has announced might look like. There is no map. Can we expect the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to upload a map of the borders of this so-called state? Could they identify its capital?
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Mr. Speaker, the Palestinian Authority runs a program perpetuating generational genocidal hate with penchants for terrorists who murder Jews. The PA, the PLO and Fatah all embed terrorism into their institutions. The PLO founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a listed terrorist entity responsible for the attacks on October 7. If recognition of statehood is to have any real meaning, will the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, ignoring the massacre of eight Canadians on October 7, siding with their killers and dehumanizing their families, the hostages still held and over 1,200 stolen souls is evil. Granting a state to those who practise state terror as statecraft and pay pensions for murdering Jews is evil. Not requiring the state to even recognize Israel's right to exist is evil. None of their conditions w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. Tell that to every out-of-work young couple living in the worst unemployment and immigration crisis Canada has known. He said that Canadians could judge him by grocery prices. Tell that to Robin in Calgary, who is watching food costs rise faster than when the Prime Minister took office six months ago. The Prime Ministe…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's four weeks in Parliament were filled with broken Liberal promises: broken promises on spending, broken promises on the tax cut, broken promises on defence and broken promises on elbows up with the United States. The Prime Minister promised $800 in savings, a savings bonanza. Instead, the average Canadian only gets $90 this year. Did the Prime Minister mislead Cana…
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Mr. Speaker, if their math is like their promises, we are in serious trouble. They promised to put more money in Canadians' pockets. It is not $800 a year; it is seven dollars a month: broken. They promised to rein in government spending. We have $26 billion in consultants and $1,400 in taxes for every Canadian household: broken. The Prime Minister has promised to rein in inflation. Beef is up 34%…
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Mr. Speaker, this is nearly a century in a minute. I rise today with a heavy yet grateful heart to honour my didu, Mrs. Sati Rani Kaur, who passed away peacefully at 94 on January 11 in Kolkata. Predeceased by my dadu, Mr. S. C. Kaur, she leaves behind three daughters; three sons-in-law; three grandchildren, including me; and three great-grandchildren. She was my last surviving grandparent, now wi…
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Mr. Speaker, these are completely divergent positions held by the minister of environment over the last decade and into today. The quotes I have been referring to are from the Prime Minister himself. The minister says that there is a consensus, but there is clearly no consensus at the cabinet table, so what exactly does consensus look like?
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Mr. Speaker, I care deeply about traditional and transitional energy resource needs. The mix needs to be diverse. I represent a part of the country that provides the world with massive oil and gas potential. Let me ask about another quote: “half of [proven] oil reserves...need to stay in the ground”. Does the minister agree with that perspective?
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Mr. Speaker, these are two very different positions. Let me ask another question. The minister's predecessor stated, “we can't help Europe with oil.” Does the minister still agree with that view today?
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Mr. Speaker, that was the Prime Minister in a CTV interview on May 14, 2025. To the contrary, the minister's predecessor stated in 2019 that, “The atmosphere and our climate certainly don't need [pipelines].” The minister is somebody who has served Parliament for a long time. Does the minister still support that view?
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Mr. Speaker, actually, that was the Prime Minister. Let me ask another question, based on another quote: “‘Will I support building a pipeline?’ Yes.” Does the minister agree with this position?
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Mr. Speaker, I have another quote: “the imperative of making Canada an energy superpower in all respects has never been greater.” Does the minister agree?
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Mr. Speaker, I have another quote: “We need to reduce our exposure to foreign energy”. Does the minister agree?
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Mr. Speaker, I have a simple question based on a quote. “Energy is power. Energy is Canada's superpower”. Does the minister agree?
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Mr. Speaker, how about this quote: “At the core of that investment is the complete overhaul of our energy system.”? Does the minister agree we need to completely overhaul our energy system?
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Mr. Speaker, as the parliamentary secretary well knows, the so-called promised tax cut of the NDP-Liberal government is falling apart at the seams. It is one of the major issues that the former finance minister resigned her post over. She understood that the gimmicks and the performance politics of the Prime Minister and his government were in no way a responsible decision to make. She cited in he…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Barrie—Innisfil is a source of great wisdom. We need an election today. If any of these NDP-Liberal colleagues go back to their ridings and actually listen to their people, they will hear exactly what we are hearing from not only our friends and neighbours in our ridings, but in their own ridings across the country. Every single member of Parliament here is hearing…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate our hon. colleague for her thoughtfulness. I agree 1,000% with her. It is a bungled sales tax. It is a bungled tax on everything. It is a bungled program. The whole government's program for nine long years has been an absolute mess, so I agree with my hon. colleague on the assumption of her question. With respect to a carbon tax election, the carbon tax is literally a tax…
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Mr. Speaker, as the parliamentary secretary may know, I spent nine long years leading a non-partisan think tank practice in the public debate, before arriving in this chamber. I have never had a problem debating the facts of things that hurt our country's economic potential, here in the chamber or anywhere in the country. I appreciate his challenge, but there is an opportunity for the parliamentar…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the ruling of the Speaker with regard to the production of documents ordered by the House on the scandal involving Sustainable Development Technology Canada, also known as the Liberal green slush fund. For those watching at home, here are the facts. The Auditor General found that the Prime Minister turned Sustainable Development Technology Canada into a slush f…
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about what could be more than $40 billion; a carbon-taxing, coal-loving Carney; a finance minister on the run; and a Prime Minister not into monetary policy. The Liberals hike taxes, fuel inflation and crash through the fiscal guardrails and off the cliff. The government is a chaotic clown show. Which one of them will call a carbon tax election?
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Mr. Speaker, $40 billion was a guardrail set by the Liberal finance minister. Listen to this: “not an unlimited pot”, “need to show fiscal restraint”, and “if...we have a $40-billion guardrail...stay [there]”. That is not Stephen Harper; it is Liberal members of Parliament. If the deficit is over the $40-billion guardrail, will the Prime Minister allow a free vote for his NDP-Liberals?
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Mr. Speaker, one in four Canadians is skipping meals, and two million are going to food banks. A new report confirms that families will have to spend an extra $800 on food thanks to the NDP-Liberal carbon tax. What does the NDP leader do? He sells out Canadians to secure his $2.2-million pension. He is refusing to vote non-confidence on a motion that is based on his own words. He stated, “The Libe…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I have a question of relevance. We are here to talk about the appearance of the member for—
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal job-killing oil and gas cap is a war on energy workers and powerful paycheques. The radical Prime Minister has failed to reach every climate target. He wants to shut down Canadian resources, trillions of resources that would fuel, feed and secure the world and bring home paycheques for our people. The EU, Germany and Japan all want more Canada. Our allies are forced to…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The sell-out NDP leader has sold out workers, families and seniors. He skyrocketed food costs. He put his pension ahead of the people, ahead of two million lined up at food banks, ahead of one in four about to lose primary care. He told Manitobans that he is done with his costly coalition. …
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Madam Speaker, my understanding is that this was a debate that was unanimously agreed to in this chamber. Our issue is with the performative announcements that the NDP-Liberals make when it comes to our immigration plans. Without ever having a plan to deal with an overburdened immigration system, they once again present performative ideas as to how they are going to meet their targets.
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Madam Speaker, I am grateful for the commercial break. Almost daily here at home, mobs are on the march, threatening individuals' dignity and freedom. How are Canadians supposed to trust the NDP-Liberals with our safety and national security? How are newcomers, who want to work hard and raise a family here, supposed to have faith in the incompetent government's immigration policy? The Canadian dre…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today on Bill C-71, an act to amend the Citizenship Act. I will be splitting my time with the most hon. member for Durham. “Broken immigration policy, dangerous loopholes”: Somewhere between abject incompetence or willful malice, these five words summarize this reckless bill. It would tragically add to an already reckless NDP-Liberal immigration policy that d…
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Madam Speaker, in her previous interventions, the member had described a situation where her family, her grandparents had come from abroad. My family also came from abroad in the late 1960s. The glorious thing about Canada is the diversity of our ideas. For many people across the way, for the NDP-Liberals, they think of diversity as multicoloured perspectives of the same ideological disposition. I…
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Madam Speaker, the inheritance that these NDP-Liberals had when they arrived in office was an envy of the world. Across the left and the right, our immigration policy was the envy of the world. Around the world, people looked at how Canada had managed its immigration levels, its housing, its health and its economy. This is an issue in which the NDP-Liberals, over nine years, have sown wanton divis…
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Mr. Speaker, every day I hear NDP-Liberals make the disturbing claim that Canadians get more than they pay into the carbon tax. It is as if they are completely tone-deaf to the voices of real Canadians, so I am bringing the stories of everyday Calgarians right into this chamber. Here is the real impact of the carbon tax: For the Royal Canadian Legion 285, it was $12,144 this year; for Bitter Siste…
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Madam Speaker, while the clerical regime brutalizes women in Iran, it exports terror abroad: Russia and Ukraine, Houthis in Yemen, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iraqi militia. This week, victims of Hamas atrocities shared their stories. Like the families of PS752 victims, they are calling on the government to list the IRGC as a terror organization. It has been five years. On what day will the NDP-Libe…
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Mr. Chair, I stand by every syllable of my leader's requirement to ensure that not a single Canadian dollar goes to terrorists, to useless multinational organizations or to dictators, all projects that the hon. member across the way seems to be obsessed with funding in Gaza. In terms of reversing bad schemes that do not work for the development of the most impoverished, I stand 100%, four-square, …
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Mr. Chair, at present, the government is still slow to sanction all aspects of Russian energy production and supply chains around the world. We are seeing Russian oil refineries being attacked, appropriately so, as a means to starve its capacity to fund its war machine. We see Russia today searching for specialized parts to rebuild these energy resources for itself, and it is suffering under the y…
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Mr. Chair, these beautiful Palestinian children and babies who have been murdered in these last months deserve better than to be a political project for domestic pandering by the hon. member. Those children are being offered up by Hamas as human shields rather than being sheltered in the tunnel networks that Hamas has built to support its terrorism, which are multiple times the size of the New Yor…
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