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Mr. Speaker, business owners in my province feel like they are under siege. There are break-ins, theft, arson, smashed windows, extortion and open drug use. Prolific offenders are wreaking havoc on our streets. In Kelowna, a recent report reveals that just 15 criminals were responsible for over 1,300 police reports in 2024. The Liberals' catch-and-release Bill C-75 forces courts to release violent…
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Madam Speaker, I guess I ruined my own video. We will just edit that out. We are here today to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart in our communities. The hon. member for Winnipeg North mentioned me in his speech a little earlier. He said could not believe the member for Cariboo—Prince George used these words and exaggerated the state of the crime rate. I promise I did not exagg…
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Madam Speaker, he is heckling me right now, and he is laughing. He is laughing at the suffering of those in my riding. It is gross, yet he continues to do this time and time again. I can just say, shame on him. Madam Speaker, 53,000 Canadians have lost their lives in the overdose crisis since 2016. I will mention Brianna MacDonald, a 13-year-old who, last year, lost her life in a homeless encampme…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Souris—Moose Mountain for his kind words. I immediately felt the weight of the world on my shoulders when he said that he was looking forward to my speech. I am going to be very plain and blunt for a change—
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Madam Speaker, as a matter of fact, when the town of Williams Lake, the mayor and council, wanted to declare a state of emergency it was actually over one prolific offender. When four to five or five to six prolific offenders are in jail, the crime rate goes down. When they are out of jail, the crime rate goes up. That is the reality. The member does not want to believe it. He does not want to agr…
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Madam Speaker, total violent crime in our country is up 54% to 55%. Homicides are up 30%. Sexual assaults are up 75% to 76%. Total firearms crime is up 130%. Extortion overall for our country is up 330%. In my home province of British Columbia, it is up 481%. Overdose in my province is the leading cause of death for youth and young adults aged 10 to 18. That is under the Liberal government. That i…
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Madam Speaker, I have a tremendous amount of respect for my hon. colleague. I will finish the way I started, with a simple question: Do our communities and our country look the same as it did in 2015 when the government took power? The answer is no.
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Mr. Speaker, I guess I have hurt his feelings. All I was going to say is that the member espouses, every day, the Liberal talking points. He does a great job for his team. I am just saying that there are a lot of other MPs on the other side who are probably waiting to give their maiden speech. Food insecurity has gone up 128% since the Liberals took power. One in four Canadians cannot afford basic…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague, who has done an incredible job on this file. He was doing his intervention and rattling off numbers on Canadians who are desperate and cannot afford to put food on their table; all the while, the Liberals were heckling and laughing at the situation. As a matter of fact, as he mentioned, food insecurity is up 128%. The Retail Council of Canada reported that r…
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Mr. Speaker, the Retail Council of Canada says that record levels of theft from stores took place in 2024: $9.1 billion. The number one item being shoplifted was meat because Canadians cannot afford to put food on their tables. They are resorting to theft to try to feed their families, yet the Liberals say Canadians have never had it so good. Is that wilful ignorance, honest ignorance or just plai…
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Mr. Speaker, our hon. colleague never misses an opportunity to stand and debate. Every day, he stands up. There are a lot of newbies on the other side of the bench who are probably waiting to get their—
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Mr. Speaker, in six months, the Prime Minister has proven he is good at only one thing: breaking promises. He promised the fastest-growing economy in the G7. Instead, he delivered the fastest-shrinking economy. He said Canadians should judge him by the prices at the grocery store. Food prices are now higher than ever before, since he has been Prime Minister. “Build, baby, build”, the Prime Ministe…
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Madam Speaker, I listened intently to our hon. colleague from Brampton, which is a hotbed for violent offenders, repeat offenders and a lot of crime, a lot of headlines in recent weeks and days. Her speech focused on a number of different areas. She said the province was not doing its job, that the municipalities were not doing their job and that everybody else needs to be doing their job. In my m…
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Madam Speaker, we know that in the communities in my riding, 98% of the crime is created by five or six prolific offenders. When they are in jail, the crime rate goes down. When they are out of jail, the crime rate goes up. Municipalities are crying for reform, police associations are crying for it and the provinces are crying for it, yet the government continues to refuse to act. It is being obst…
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Madam Speaker, we cannot open up social media, turn on the TV or radio or open a newspaper without seeing another violent repeat offender being released and wreaking havoc in our communities. In my riding of Cariboo—Prince George, I think of Mr. Bob Hubbard, a senior who returned home last fall to find his house being robbed. When he tried to stop the robbers, they ran him over with his own vehicl…
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Madam Speaker, to my hon. colleague from Winnipeg North, Conservatives are listening to Canadians. Canadians have concerns. We are already facing hospital closures in our province of British Columbia. There are not enough doctors. There are not enough nurses to be able to fulfill the duties and the services that we need right now. The Liberals cannot tell us how many people they are going to bring…
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With regard to expenditures by government departments or agencies on cloud services, broken down by fiscal year since 2021-22: (a) what was the total amount spent on cloud services from (i) Amazon, (ii) Amazon Web Services, (iii) Microsoft, (iv) Google; and (b) broken down by vendor in (a)(i) to (a)(iv), what is the nature and criticality of the government functions and data that rely on their clo…
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Madam Speaker, our hon. colleague from Winnipeg North stands up once again, points fingers and says that all the Conservatives say is, “It is broken.” Well, this file is broken, and the truth is that the Liberals broke it. Our country was built on the backs of immigrants. Immigration is so important to our country, yet the Liberals broke it. They lost track of over a million immigrants coming into…
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Madam Speaker, it is great to see you in the chair. It is great to be back. It is always interesting: The Liberals break something, and they blame everyone else for the accident and for breaking it. I want to thank our hon. colleague for her thoughtful presentation and intervention today. I have two questions: Does the government have any idea how many people would be granted citizenship automatic…
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Madam Speaker, I love the comment from our colleague across the way, saying we should not worry, it will all get sorted out and Liberals will work with everybody to make things better. I have been here for 10 years and have yet to really see any of that take place. In the office of my riding of Cariboo—Prince George, the immigration cases far outweigh any of the other cases we do. They are absolut…
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Mr. Speaker, I have one question. Last fall, our hon. colleague resigned from the former government's cabinet because she felt she had lost confidence in former Prime Minister Trudeau's fiscal negligence. How does the minister rationalize this new Prime Minister's fiscal negligence, which is even worse than Justin Trudeau's?
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Mr. Speaker, a nurse was strangled unconscious, Vancouver police officers were set on fire as they arrested a repeat offender, a Victoria paramedic was violently assaulted while attending an overdose call, a firefighter was attacked with a machete while resuscitating an overdose victim, and a Manitoba nurse was stabbed with a needle. Our first responders and health care workers are targeted, attac…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals failed first responders and health care workers, for 10 years, who are calling for bail reform. For 10 years, the Liberals have put criminals' rights before victims. Violent crime has surged 50% since 2015. The Liberals' reckless drug policies have turned our hospitals and our communities into war zones. Nurses and other health care workers face horrific abuse every singl…
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Mr. Speaker, this is a little bit out of the scope of my colleague's file, but the Liberals really missed a key opportunity with this piece of legislation. Over seven million Canadians are without a primary care physician. We are in a mental health crisis within our country, and they could have very easily included provisions for a blue seal program within this bill. I would like to hear our hon. …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' catch-and-release policies are so bad that mayors and city councillors are pre-emptively writing letters to Crown counsel begging them to keep the bad guys in jail. Mayor Rathor of Williams Lake recently wrote, “We vehemently oppose Jacob Daniel FUNK’s release.... The actions of this individual have put our residents and property at significant risk.” He said that when J…
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Mr. Speaker, it is alway somebody else's fault. Jacob Funk has been arrested 37 times, and 37 times he has been released, over nine times in the past month. On April 27, it was assault with a weapon and uttering threats. On May 27, it was break and enter and disguising face. On June 8, it was assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest and breach of release. On June 12, it was assault and utterin…
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague across the way on his maiden speech. There is a lot to unpack in it. There are a lot of questions with regard to this legislation. Notwithstanding the government's plans for the 26 million or 27 million vehicles on the roads as we speak, here is the question I have for my colleague across the way. When he was running to represent his constituents, did he te…
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Madam Speaker, our hon. colleague spoke of her community and her riding being the heart of vehicle manufacturing for our country. When Bev Goodman, CEO of Ford Canada, called for the EV mandate to be repealed; Kristian Aquilina, president of General Motors Canada, urged the Liberals to scrap the EV mandate; and Brian Kingston, president and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, a…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. colleague got up once again to speak. I would be frustrated if I were one of the new members on that side of the House; they do not get up to speak, but the member gets up all the time. Our hon. colleague and the one before him, the member for Kingston and the Islands, spoke of the light bulb industry and how Canada moved to LED bulbs. The EV mandate facts are that by 2026, 2…
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to remind our colleagues, since we have a lot of new colleagues on both sides of the House, particularly in the back row of the government, that no photos are allowed to be taken during debate within the House. I just want to make sure that I have the ruling right, Mr. Speaker, and I put the question to you whether that is correct or not.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to ask if the member remembers whether the Liberals actually campaigned on net zero or campaigned on mandating to Canadians what type of vehicle they should own or purchase.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal members like to stand up and say it is a new government, it is a new day and it is a new Prime Minister, and that we should be looking forward, not backwards. If it is a new day, and a new man with a plan who has no ties to GC Strategies, why does he not just ask for the money back?
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Mr. Speaker, I love our hon. colleague. Her intervention, as always, was fantastic and to the point. She speaks from the heart and she speaks for the constituents in her riding. The hon. parliamentary secretary stood up and said, “Oh, everything's great”, but seven million Canadians are without a doctor; two million Canadians are going to food banks every month, and 47,000 Canadians have died from…
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about $440 million and 186 points of conflict of interest. For the parliamentary secretary to stand up and say what he said earlier is like the pot calling the kettle black. With the sudden departure of the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, what is going to happen with the fall economic statement that was supposed to be delivered this morning?
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Mr. Speaker, as the year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to wish all my friends, family and neighbours in Cariboo—Prince George, and colleagues in the House a very merry Christmas. Christmas is a time for sharing joy and love, for appreciating the people who make our lives truly special and for rejoicing at the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time for family and friends, both near and far…
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Mr. Speaker, bravo: They launched dental care just about the same time that they take the GST off chips, cookies and candies. Liberal backbenchers have supported the Prime Minister through every scandal and every failed policy. Their deficit must be pretty bad if they are finally willing to remove the gag and start speaking out. Will the Prime Minister at least listen to his own MPs and allow a fr…
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Mr. Speaker, talk about unhinged and erratic behaviour. Perhaps he is feeling the heat because he is complicit in all the Liberal scandals that have taken place over the last four years. His Twitter-tough leader puffs up his chest, stands before Canadians and says he is going to rip up the contract. We will take no lessons from the NDP, which has absolutely decimated my province and has no clue wh…
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Mr. Speaker, it is as serious as a heart attack. I stand corrected. I thank our hon. colleague from the Bloc for standing with us in that last confidence vote. Aside from that, I will cede the floor to the next question.
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. colleague said I exposed myself. I have been a member for nine years, and my recollection is that only a Liberal MP exposed himself, three times, and actually was punted out for that.
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Mr. Speaker, I will not go down the path of whimsy and folly of this guy over here. He stands up all the time and is hopeful that he is going to get called to the front bench, and he is only going backward. With that, I am just not going to go down the path with him.
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Mr. Speaker, only a Conservative elected government, under our leader, is going to arm our frontline officers and make sure our borders are less porous, make sure that they have the tools they need to do their job. There is only one party in the House that takes this seriously and it is the Conservatives, and we will do it when we elect a Conservative government.
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On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, back in 2021, I suffered a horrendous leg injury that has hampered me, and so it has been commonplace, through the Speaker, this Speaker and others, that in between questions and answers, I am allowed to stand because of the injury to my leg. If the member wants to take this further, she can come and talk to me in private—
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Mr. Speaker, that is the million-dollar question right there, or the $440-million question. How bad is it and where did the money go? We know $440 million of taxpayer funds was siphoned away from the fund and it went to the Liberal chair. It went to her business. It went to other members of that committee's businesses. What did it fund? I believe it funded a Chinese company, an electric car compan…
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Mr. Speaker, that was probably the longest petitions segment we have had in a long time, but I am glad everybody had a chance to deliver petitions signed by their constituents, or signed by their EDAs. Some of our friends across the way probably put them together, but nonetheless, who am I to judge? Why are we here? We are here once again talking about SDTC, the Liberal green slush fund. I think t…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. colleague is misleading Canadians. I am reading right from the public accounts, and it says that for 2014-15, expenditures under a Conservative government were over $2 billion. When the Liberals took government, in 2015-16 and 2016-17, over $400 million was cut from the CBSA, including 1,000 jobs. It is in the public accounts for 2012-17, CBSA spending by program. That parlia…
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Madam Speaker, Liberals are weak, they are desperate and the only reason they are in power is because the NDP leader is too selfish and too beholden to the Prime Minister to support his own motion made up of entirely his own words. NDP members voted 24 times to quadruple the carbon tax. The costly coalition has doubled housing costs, doubled rent and doubled mortgage payments, but on Monday they a…
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Madam Speaker, on Monday, we have an opportunity. Will the NDP vote for a motion to call a carbon tax election—
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Asking for a carbon tax election, Madam Speaker, is that not relevant to the administration of the House?
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Madam Speaker, they are weak, they are desperate and the only reason they are in power today is because of the Maserati Marxist NDP leader, who is too selfish, too beholden to the Prime Minister to support a motion made up entirely of his own words—
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Madam Speaker, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. Who said that? It was the Twitter-tough, Maserati Marxist, sellout NDP leader. He puffed up his chest and stomped his feet, yet he chooses the Prime Minister over Canadians each and every time. He is the only one propping up the government. He is complicit in every Liberal scandal a…
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