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Mr. Speaker, the health committee talked about better screening in areas such as airports and mailrooms, and also about traceability for the safe supply that is being diverted. At every step of the way, the Liberals said no to it. It is a big issue, and it falls squarely at the feet of the Prime Minister.
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Mr. Speaker, our colleagues on the Liberal bench say it is a new government, it is a new day and let us just forget about the last 10 years. They will stand and say they have been elected with a strong mandate. Yes, but the mandate was built on a lie. The new Prime Minister was elected because he told Canadians he had a plan. What we have seen ever since his first day of being elected is that he d…
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Mr. Speaker, it is great to see you in the Speaker's seat. As I said to you off camera, it has been a long time coming. First and foremost, I want to send a huge thanks to the hard-working people of Cariboo—Prince George for once again placing their trust in me to represent them, now for the fourth time. My time is short today, so I rise not only to respond to the Speech from the Throne but also t…
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, how does our hon. colleague stand up? I just mentioned that there have been over 51,000 lives lost since 2016 to the opioid crisis. I spoke of the horrific crisis that our country is gripped with, and he recites speaking notes. That is unacceptable.
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Mr. Speaker, I congratulate our hon. colleague on her maiden speech. Twenty-five hundred words make up the entirety of the Speech from the Throne, yet it made no mention of the over 50,000 Canadians who have died by overdose since 2016. It made no mention of the fact that our country is gripped by an overdose and opioid crisis. It made no mention that in my province of British Columbia, the leadin…
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That is a great question, Mr. Speaker, but can you afford me another 10 minutes to answer it? The new Liberal member for Victoria stood and said that for the first time in however many years, the people there elected a Liberal candidate. That is shameful. A story just came out in The Globe and Mail that said that whole areas of Victoria have turned into absolute ghettos and war zones. First nation…
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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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, 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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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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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, 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, 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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Asking for a carbon tax election, Madam Speaker, is that not relevant to the administration of the House?
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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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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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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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Mr. Speaker, the stuff is really flying around the room today. It is an interesting debate. The current government has had more ethics violations and more scandals than any other government in the history of our country. It has spent more than all other governments combined and padded its pockets and Liberal friends' pockets with more taxpayer funds than all other governments combined. The Prime M…
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Madam Speaker, I have a point of order. We are told multiple times throughout the day to be cognizant of our microphones and the placement of our cellphones and papers. The member knows full well there is no need to raise his voice, if not for the sake of the members in here, then for the sake of the translators.
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Madam Speaker, actions speak louder than words. Just a few short weeks ago, the NDP leader said, “The fact is, the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.” Instead of listening to the will of the people he claims to represent, the sellout leader of the NDP continues to prop up the corrupt Prime Minister. As it turns out, when he claimed that …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost of housing. He has single-handedly destroyed the dreams of Canadians who now believe that they will never be able to afford a home, but hope is on the horizon. Our common-sense plan will axe the federal sales tax on new homes, saving Canadians up to $50,000. Will the Prime Minister axe the federal GST on housing s…
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Mr. Speaker, I have seen the hon. colleague's polls. He should be more interested in dusting off his résumé and updating his LinkedIn profile. Mr. Speaker, our common-sense Conservative plan will axe the GST on new homes, saving Canadians up to $50,000. Under the Prime Minister, the cost of housing has skyrocketed. His housing plan has only doubled the bureaucracy and red tape. It has not even bui…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask the same question that I have asked many of our colleagues throughout this debate. We are talking about the theft of over $400 million by Liberal insiders, who then funnelled the money to their own companies; the Auditor General found over 186 conflicts of interest with respect to that money. The Liberals would say that there is nothing to see here; let us just get i…
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I will remind the hon. colleague to direct his questions and his comments through the Chair. The hon. member for Bow River.
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Madam Speaker, as a former prosecutor back home in our province of British Columbia, in a community that I know very well, and as a parole officer, the member has served his community well. I want to remind the packed gallery and those tuning in what we are talking about. We are talking about the theft, essentially, of over $400 million. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest where Li…
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Mr. Speaker, it is always interesting to hear the arguments from the other side during the debate. It is a packed house for a late Friday afternoon. I want to thank everyone who is in the gallery. Those in TV land cannot see but the gallery is packed today. I want to thank those who are tuning in from TV land for watching this. I want to remind everybody who is watching and those who are in the ga…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government's safe supply experiment has destroyed the very communities it claims to help. This week we heard heartbreaking testimony from Masha Krupp, an Ottawa mother who lost her daughter to overdose and whose son is now addicted to government-funded hydromorphone. She revealed that she has personally witnessed so-called safe supply pills being resold right outside t…
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Madam Speaker, I want to bring us back to the topic of the day: the fact that over $400 million of taxpayer funds was essentially stolen. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest where Liberal appointees, the Liberal chair and other members of the board of directors, funnelled $400 million of taxpayer money to their own companies. I am going to ask this colleague the same thing as what …
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague has done an incredible job over the last nine years, since I have been a member of Parliament, of exposing the government's corruption and scandal. For those in the gallery who perhaps missed what we were talking about, and those in TV land who are watching, we are talking about over $400 million in taxpayer funds. The Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest in wh…
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind our colleagues from the NDP, with the finger pointing back and forth, not to forget who has propped up the government through the corruption and scandals for the last four and a half years. They are just as guilty as those across the way. Our hon. colleague gave a great speech summarizing the corruption over the last nine years and what we are dealing with here today. W…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the first part of my colleague's speech the week before last and then his finishing up today. He did a great job summing up the corruption we have seen from across the way. I would like to give the member a little more time to talk about what his constituents are saying when he is out door knocking and about what he has seen in his nine years of being a member o…
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Mr. Speaker, it is funny when NDP members stand up to talk about all the things they say they have done. They fail to mention that for four and a half to five years, as long as their agreement was in place, they propped up the government. They were complicit in all of the corruption and scandal that we are seeing.
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Mr. Speaker, that is beside that point, as the heckles come from NDP members. They are obviously very worried about their own positions. What we are talking about is essentially the theft or misappropriation of about $400 million of Canadian taxpayer funds, which went to a green slush fund that was loaded with Liberal cronies, like the Liberal chair, who got rich. The Auditor General found 186 con…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to give our hon. colleague just one more brief opportunity to talk about the scandalous nature of the government.
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Mr. Speaker, the hypocrisy coming from the other side is mind-blowing. The member started off by talking about breaking news with the RCMP. The Liberals have asserted throughout the whole debate that the RCMP wants nothing to do with this. The member across the way then said, “Well, listen, if only the Conservatives weren't doing what they're doing, the RCMP could do their job.” Is he kidding me? …
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Mr. Speaker, if something is stolen from him, does the hon. member call the police or does he call a committee? We are talking about over $480 million and 186 conflicts of interest that the Auditor General has identified, and with that, $400 million of taxpayers' funding is gone, given to Liberal cronies, Liberal colleagues and people within that organization. All we are saying is to allow the RCM…
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Mr. Speaker, Brianna McDonald, a vibrant, intelligent 13-year-old girl, was abandoned by a system that should have provided mental health care and addiction care, the care she so desperately needed to help her overcome her demons. The system failed Brianna. On August 23, Brianna was found unresponsive. She died by overdose, alone in a tent in a homeless encampment in Abbotsford, B.C. Instead of be…
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Mr. Speaker, there were 186 conflicts of interest. The member wants to stand up and point fingers, but just as the Liberals do all the time, they say it was not them or that the Conservatives are worse. They are not going to take any blame. That is all they say: Do not look here; there is nothing to see here. There were 186 conflicts of interest, with over $390 million in taxpayer funds.
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Mr. Speaker, I will draw my hon. colleague to the original order of the House from back on June 10, which would have provided enough time, 30 days, for documents to be produced. However, we still have not seen them.
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Mr. Speaker, time and time again we have seen scandal after scandal and more and more corruption, probably the most corrupt government in the history of our country. I would like to ask our hon. colleague whether he has more examples than just what his six minutes afforded him to provide. I wonder whether he has seen more scandals that he would like to bring forward.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues for the rousing round of support. What brought us here today is another day with yet another scandal by the government. It was nine years ago, and it seems like a long time ago, when the member for Papineau was campaigning to be the next Prime Minister of our country. He told Canadians that, under his governance, Canadians would see the most open and transparent …
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Mr. Speaker, I would remind my hon. colleague from the NDP that this is not only the current government's record. The NDP has supported and propped up the government for the last five and a half to six years, so this is also its record of scandal and corruption.
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