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Mr. Speaker, Canada now has the worst record for food inflation in the entire G7, with grocery prices up 6%. That is an extra $1,000 for an average family in Canada to buy groceries. Costs have doubled since the Prime Minister has taken office. That is twice the rate of food inflation than in the United States. Over two million Canadians a month are having to go to food banks. The Liberals continu…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have heard this all before, band-aid solutions that most Canadians will not even qualify for. Families need real action that actually lowers the cost of food at the grocery store. Conservatives are ready to fast-track any legislation that will help deliver real results for Canadians. When will the Liberals get serious about tackling food inflation and introduce legislation t…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are living in fear in their own neighbourhoods as extortion runs rampant right across the country. In British Columbia alone, extortion has increased by nearly 500%, yet the Liberals continue to ignore this crisis, so much so that just yesterday Surrey city council desperately passed a unanimous motion to ask the government to take some action. Canadians do not need more emp…
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Mr. Speaker, the real question is, will they support this motion? The wording from this motion is directly from their MOU with Alberta. The fact of the matter is that they have left a veto in the hands of the Premier of British Columbia. Only the federal government has the full authority, under the Constitution, to build this pipeline and take oil to the Pacific Coast. We need to have that pipelin…
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moved: That the House: (a) take note of the Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and Alberta of November 27, 2025; and (b) support the construction of one or more pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic deepwater port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets, including through an appropriate adjustment …
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Mr. Speaker, the reason it was not profitable was that it was under the Liberal government. The Liberal government created so many regulations, continually moved the goalposts and made it impractical for any private business to make that project profitable, so the government had to step in. What it needed to do was what we are asking it to do: Move out of the way. Private industry is ready to buil…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the great member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley. Today, the House of Commons will debate and vote on a Conservative motion calling for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast, overriding the tanker ban on shipping bitumen to Asia. Just eight months ago, the Prime Minister told Canadians that his government would build things previously thought impossible at…
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Mr. Speaker, I send congratulations to my hon. colleague and friend for a great speech. I agree with him that the Liberals are always creating confusion. In fact, the Liberals, especially the Prime Minister, always speak out of both sides of their mouths. To the “leave it in the ground” caucus, they say no pipelines, but to Alberta, they say that they will build a pipeline. The Prime Minister supp…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear that the member supports the MOU, so, of course, he will support our motion. The wording is from the MOU directly, so I look forward to his support moving forward today. Of course, we want indigenous communities to be consulted, be a part of this and be a part of the prosperity that this—
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Mr. Speaker, that is a great question from my colleague, because, at the end of the day, that is the problem. It is why so much investment is leaving the country. Billions of dollars of investment have left the country because businesses do not trust the Prime Minister or the Liberal government. They say one thing and do another. They say one thing in Alberta and a completely different thing in Br…
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Mr. Speaker, keeping Canadians safe is the public safety minister's number one job, but the rising number of extortion cases in this country is out of control. Surrey police say the number of cases they have investigated since June has tripled. Canadians continue to live in fear of their house being shot at, business being burnt down or much worse. Meanwhile, the minister continues to make empty p…
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Mr. Speaker, I am very sorry to hear about those incidents, and the fact is that we are hearing about more and more cases like that right across the country. Serious crime is at a point that we have never seen before in this country. If we look at why this is happening, it is because people do not have respect for the law anymore. We hear from police officers, who tell us they have gone through th…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Oxford. One aspect of the Liberal crime disaster is out-of-control extortion in this country. Many towns and suburbs, once safe, are now being terrorized by gangs who threaten neighbours with violence and arson, as well as criminals who shoot into homes and even burn down homes and businesses. We have even heard of reported murders as we…
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Mr. Speaker, Edmonton's Food Bank is at a breaking point. Each month, more than 47,000 people, a 42% increase, rely on food hampers. Behind those numbers are families and children who cannot afford groceries because Liberal deficits have led to Liberal inflation, which makes everything cost more. Across the country, parents are forced to choose between rent, clothing or food for their children. Mo…
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Mr. Speaker, an important part of that question is “when”. This is not something that has happened just recently. The problem is that the crime rate has been going up for quite some time, for years now. When the Liberals took over, they brought in legislation that made it easier to get bail, that reduced sentences and that got rid of mandatory minimums. Since then, we have been asking the governme…
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Mr. Speaker, that sounded as though the member wants me to answer how keeping criminals behind bars longer would stop them from committing crimes. They would be behind bars. That is what we want, to keep them behind bars so that they are not released into the community to reoffend in those same communities. That is what has been happening under the Liberals. Our plan would keep them behind bars an…
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Mr. Speaker, time and again, I hear from constituents in Edmonton Gateway and from people right across the country about how deeply frustrated they are with the Liberal government's reckless bail laws. They do not know what to do anymore. After this lost Liberal decade, the results are clear. Our justice system now puts the comfort of violent criminals above the safety of everyday Canadians. The n…
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals said that this was a priority for them. Can we see the registry before the summer vacation?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals are not committing to restoring that aspect, which they repealed. Will they make arson an aggravating factor in extortion? Arson is used as a weapon in many of these cases. Will the Liberals make arson an aggravating factor?
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Mr. Chair, as members are aware, for the last couple of years, we have had some very high-profile cases of extortion in Canada. Families would spend their whole life building up a business, and along would come sometimes international gangsters, or local ones, who would shoot at their house, commit arson at their home and at their business and extort these families for millions of dollars, yet the…
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Mr. Chair, we just had another election, and again foreign interference was a factor in that election. In fact, a Liberal candidate had to be dropped just before the election because of it. It has been exposed that Beijing was helping the Prime Minister, and the RCMP has linked foreign interference to organized crime in Canada. Actually, the House passed a foreign agent registry last year. Where i…
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals say that it is an issue, but they have not brought any solutions forward to help these families. In fact, when the police come to these families and say that their life is in danger and that they should leave and hide out, the police have also been telling the families that they do not have the resources to protect them. Why do police in our country not have the resources n…
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Mr. Chair, can the minister tell us which cities those 1,000 RCMP officers will be delegated to?
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Mr. Chair, why has the government not done anything to protect these families?
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Mr. Chair, why did the minister's government repeal the mandatory minimum penalty for extortion with a restricted firearm in Bill C-5?
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Mr. Chair, I introduced a bill in the last Parliament that would bring in stronger sentences for extortion, with a mandatory minimum penalty of three years, four years with a firearm, and five years if somebody is committing the offence with organized crime. Will the Liberals adopt those measures into the laws that they are bringing in, since they have taken so many other ideas from the Conservati…
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Mr. Chair, will the Liberals restore the penalty for extortion with a restricted firearm, which the Liberals repealed?
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Mr. Chair, what about the city police forces? Many of the instances of extortion are happening in Canada's largest cities. What about those police forces? Why do they not have the resources necessary?
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Mr. Speaker, violent gun crime has gone up over 100% since the Liberals have been in power. In one year, 256 Canadians were murdered by somebody who was out on bail or out on some type of condition. Harshandeep Singh's murder and many others cannot be accepted as just unfortunate unavoidable incidents. It is a serious systemic failure when the government allows violent criminals with long criminal…
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Mr. Speaker, Harshandeep Singh was just 20 years old when he came to Canada to build a better life. He got a job, like many other students, as a security guard in Edmonton. Just three days after starting his job, he was murdered on the job. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends at this very difficult time. However, his killer was a violent criminal with past police interaction…
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Mr. Speaker, what we are committed to is ensuring that in this place there is accountability and transparency from the government. It now has a whole range of scandals; it is hard to keep track of how many there are and of all the conflict of interest breaches, of which there are over 186 in just the one case. That is in addition to what the Prime Minister and other ministers have gone through. We…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years under the Prime Minister, Canadians face a buffet of corruption scandals, with each new revelation showing just how entrenched corruption has become under the Liberal government. The latest is the green slush fund, a $400-million scandal that the Liberals are scrambling to keep hidden from Canadians. Unfortunately, that is why we are here today. The Auditor General un…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing I will agree with the member on is that this is a very expensive scandal. Canadians know that over $400 million of hard-earned Canadian taxpayer money was funnelled through a Liberal-appointed chair to Liberal-connected companies that they lined their own pockets with. Canadians deserve answers. Canadians deserve justice in this case. This Parliament and the Speaker decided …
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives will not back down from protecting Canadians and Canadians' best interests. Some $400 million was funnelled to Liberal insiders. They stole that money. Canadians deserve to get it back and know what happened and the RCMP should get all of those documents so it can bring criminal charges on all the people involved in this case.
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Mr. Speaker, this is the debate today: What are the Liberals hiding? That really is the question, because they will go to any lengths to talk about anything except what we are debating today, which is 400 million hard-earned taxpayer dollars being funnelled to Liberal insiders. The RCMP needs to look into the situation. The RCMP needs those documents. This House of Commons voted for those document…
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Mr. Speaker, I think it is part of the Liberals' strategy, that they continue to have so many scandals and so many conflict of interest violations that they are just hoping Canadians forget about them, but we will not forget. We are on the side of Canadians. We are going to make sure that the Liberals are held accountable for their actions and held accountable for every single scandal that they ha…
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Mr. Speaker, right on cue, there is a New Democrat standing up to protect his Liberal buddies, and this is what we have seen all along right here. In Parliament they will continue to stand up for this Prime Minister. The NDP-Liberal government is doing nothing but protecting itself. We are here for accountability and for transparency. The House of Commons has voted for these documents to be turned…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, when the Edmonton Oilers were down by three games, just one game away from elimination, many people wrote them off. However, Oilers fans across the country knew it was not over yet. There was a hard-fought win in game four, and, last night, the Oilers pulled off another victory and dragged the Panthers all the way back to Alberta. This team is firing on all cylinders. Edmon…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the Liberals are trying to hide what Canadians already know: The carbon tax is a costly scheme that is making everything more expensive. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has already proven that the vast majority of Canadians are worse off economically because of the failed scheme. What we did not know is that the government actually went out and did its own economic a…
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Mr. Speaker, all the Conservatives are asking is for the report to be released so Canadians can see the results, because Canadians are the ones who are paying for this expensive, failed Liberal scheme. When the government goes to the trouble of putting together a report and doing an analysis, but keeps the report a secret and does not even allow the Parliamentary Budget Officer to talk about it, w…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the hunger or the homelessness. The Calgary Herald reports of a single mother struggling to feed her family. Edith said, “I pay all of the important things first, mortgage, utilities, insurance, condo fees. Then feeding the kids. If I have anything left over, they can do activities”. She has resorted to feeding her family a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the government's failed policies that have doubled the cost of housing. We would cut the carbon tax and allow families like Edith's to afford to pay for groceries. After nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the hunger or the homelessness. According to the Salvation Army, 26% of Canadians are skipping or reducing their meals because they cannot afford to buy gr…
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Madam Speaker, after listening to the debate today and the first session of it as well, I am quite disappointed in hearing that the NDP and the Liberals will not be supporting tougher penalties for such serious crimes as extortion. The fact is that after nine years, backward, soft-on-crime Liberal policies have resulted in a full-blown crisis across Canada. Canadians are suffering the consequences…
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Mr. Speaker, I know we have all heard the horror stories about how bad auto theft has gotten in this country after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government's soft-on-crime policies. Now, we have reports coming out of Toronto that a good Samaritan had pulled over to help somebody in medical distress and, while he was helping them, his car was stolen. That is how broken this country has become. A ca…
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moved that Bill C-381, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (extortion), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, crime is wreaking havoc in our neighbourhoods and communities right across this country. We see extraordinary crime statistics in almost every single category. We continue hearing about incidents that are committed by the same repeat offenders. They get arrested, …
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Mr. Speaker, it is nice to say that we all need to come together to find a solution, but the fact is that the member is part of the government that brought in Bill C-75 and Bill C-5, which make it easier for violent criminals to get back out onto the streets and terrorize the same communities they come from. If we talked to police officers right across the country, they would tell us they are arre…
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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that, since the government has been in power, over the last nine years, and the NDP member and the NDP-Liberal government have brought in these soft-on-crime policies, crime has gone up. Every statistic across the country on violent crime has gone up. We have made a commitment to Canadians that we would put these criminals behind bars. A repeat, violent offen…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague is right, we have to take the side of victims right across the country. I continue to meet with so many victims who are just lost for words. What can they do to protect their families? Many of them are new Canadians who came to this country expecting a better future, and they feel that they cannot do anything. Many are having their vehicles stolen, and there is nothing th…
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government's soft-on-crime policies, more and more Canadians are becoming victims of violent crime right across the country. The Toronto Star reports that carjackings have more than doubled so far in 2024, and break and enters for the purpose of car theft have already exceeded the total number for all of last year. Canadians are not only concerned …
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Mr. Speaker, what the Liberals did was bring in Bill C-5 and Bill C-75, which allow these same criminals to quickly get bail and be out on the streets, sometimes on the same day. As a result, small businesses across the country are not only dealing with higher taxes, like the carbon tax that the Liberals brought forward, but are now having to pay for extra security to protect their businesses and …
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