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Mr. Speaker, extortion is out of control in this country. Small business owners are being threatened, firebombed and shot at. They are living in fear, and many are contemplating leaving this country, yet the Liberal government refuses to take this crisis seriously. Some of these criminals, who should be deported, are now exploiting the refugee system with false claims in order to stay in Canada. W…
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Mr. Speaker, there are so many stories from across the country, and I have met so many of these victims, from Brampton, Surrey, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and right across the country. I have heard from business owners, many of whom say they came to this country to build a better life for themselves and their families but now are actually thinking about leaving this country because they do not fe…
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Mr. Speaker, what we see from the Liberals over and over again is more photo ops and more press conferences. They have had summits, meetings and discussions across the country. What we do not see is what they have actually done. There has been no action. They said before the summer that they would hire 1,000 new RCMP officers. After the summer, we asked them in the fall how many of those have been…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberals like to, first of all, believe that crime is down, which is false. The other thing is that after 10 years of bringing forward soft-on-crime Liberal policies that created this mess, that made it easier to get bail and reduced sentencing for serious violent criminals, they are trying to blame us now for stalling legislation. The fact of the matter is that 19 times we tried to d…
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Mr. Speaker, for 10 years we have heard the Liberals make excuses and blame others while Canadians continue to live in fear as criminals threaten their families, businesses and communities. Serious non-citizen offenders are exploiting loopholes in the refugee system to stay in the country, leaving Canadians vulnerable. Will the Liberals finally work with us to pass this motion to ban these non-cit…
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Mr. Speaker, that is completely false. We have brought forward legislation to stop this extortion threat. A couple of years ago, I brought forward a private member's bill that would have brought in mandatory minimum sentences for extortion. The Liberals voted against it. My colleague from Oxford brought in the jail not bail act, which we tried to fast-forward, but the Liberals blocked it. We tried…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Battle River—Crowfoot. Canada is facing a crisis that begins at our borders and ends up in our communities. Criminals have been emboldened by weak Liberal policies, and non-citizen criminals have been able to exploit our asylum system. Some of these criminals are now exploiting the refugee system, and those …
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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, 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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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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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, a pipeline to the Pacific is absolutely necessary to unlock Canada's energy potential, moving a million barrels a day to Asia at world prices, creating good-paying Canadian jobs, boosting take-home pay and strengthening a truly self-reliant economy. That is why Conservatives introduced a motion that uses the same language as the Liberals' own MOU with Alberta. However, the Liberal cau…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's costly credit card budget piles today's reckless spending onto tomorrow's taxpayers. Credit card agency Fitch Ratings says that the Liberals repeatedly blow past their own fiscal anchors, putting our credit rating at risk. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer is sounding the alarm on this financial mess. How many more warnings will it take for the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, the fact is that Canadians are putting nearly 50% more of their expenses on credit cards than they did in 2015. Monthly food bank visits have smashed all-time records, with 2 million Canadians a month visiting the food bank. Families that once used to donate to the food bank are now standing in line waiting for help. The Liberal government has made everything more expensive. When will…
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Mr. Speaker, extortion is at crisis levels in Canada, up over 550% in Surrey alone, but the Liberals have done nothing to protect Canadians. Over six months ago, they promised 1,000 new RCMP officers to help the situation, but none have been hired. We brought forward legislation to crack down on extortion and keep Canadians safe; the Liberals blocked it. When will the Liberals take extortion serio…
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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, 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. 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, 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, 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. 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, why has the government not done anything to protect these families?
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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, 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, 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, can the minister tell us which cities those 1,000 RCMP officers will be delegated to?
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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, 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. 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, 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. Speaker, tonight, the Stanley Cup finals begin and our Edmonton Oilers have once again brought the heart and the pride of oil country back to the finals. From Connor McDavid's incredible skills to Stuart Skinner's resilience in net, this team has shown Canadians what determination, teamwork and dedication look like. Behind every goal and every save is a city united, cheering from living rooms …
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Mr. Speaker, families across Canada feel helpless because the Liberals have done nothing to stop violent crime rising across the country. They are sticking to their ideological soft-on-crime policies. That is why extortion gangs are targeting Canadian businesses and their families. In fact, just this month, we have seen more shootings, arson and even a murder potentially linked to extortion, yet C…
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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, 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, it is absolutely imperative that we, as a House of Commons and as parliamentarians, bring forward solutions to help the situation. The hon. member appreciates the fact that I brought forward a private member's bill to address the very serious issue of extortion in Canada, but she and her party voted against that solution. It is one thing for them to say that we all need to work togeth…
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Mr. Speaker, in her speech, my hon. colleague mentioned that the RCMP made very serious allegations. Some of them extend to Indian agents, through either money or possibly coercion, using Canadians or people on Canadian soil to conduct extortion. I know that is happening right across the country, but I have heard that a lot of extortion is happening in the Brampton area. There are very serious sit…
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Mr. Speaker, I will note that the hon. member listed a number of issues on which she felt very disappointed that the Liberal government has failed Canadians. I would actually agree with her on those points, yet she and her leader are the ones who continue to support and prop up the government. On that note, she mentioned that the NDP tried to strike a committee to deal with Canada-India relations …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's question, and he is absolutely correct. The Liberals would not answer that question, and there is a reason for that: They do not take this issue seriously. We, as a Conservative Party, have been asking for and presenting solutions, such as having a registry for foreign agents. That registry would have helped in this situation, but unfortunately, the Li…
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Mr. Speaker, as I have asked before, we are debating a very serious issue today, an issue of foreign interference, an issue of Indian government agents interfering in Canada, using organized crime, extortion, murder and assassinations. Does the hon. member not think that Canadians who have tuned in and who have been paying attention will be disappointed that most of the arguments made by the Liber…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with my colleague from Kildonan—St. Paul. The revelations that the RCMP presented to Canadians last Monday were absolutely shocking. I talked to a number of people across the country who were shocked at the idea that agents of the Government of India were not only involved in foreign interference but also going further than that, and that foreign interferen…
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Madam Speaker, I just want to ask my hon. colleague a question. We are dealing with the very serious issue here of the RCMP saying that agents of the Indian government have been involved in murders and organized crime in Canada, and serious violence towards Canadians. The Liberal government and its Prime Minister have been in government now for nine years. Foreign interference from a number of cou…
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Mr. Speaker, that absolutely does not make any sense because, when the RCMP discussed this issue with all Canadians on Monday, the Leader of the Opposition received a briefing from Nathalie Drouin, national security and intelligence adviser to the Prime Minister, the deputy minister of foreign affairs at Global Affairs Canada and the director of CSIS. All of them gave the Leader of the Opposition …
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