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Mr. Speaker, during my colleague's speech, which started yesterday, the Minister of Environment rose today to table the details of an announcement that the government made. When we look at the details, we see that nearly $6 billion is being added to Canada's national debt. The surplus that the government promised in 2015 is nowhere to be seen. We know that there will be a bit of tax relief for Can…
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about this SDTC scandal and nearly $400 million of taxpayer funds corruptly directed to companies and the board members, all appointed by the Liberal minister at the time, profited directly. These were companies they controlled or were actively participating in. We are talking about $290 million. It is an incredible amount of money. We could have axed the carbon tax for…
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Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.
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Madam Speaker, we are talking about close to $400 million that was corruptly spent by at least nine directors that the Auditor General identified as having participated in at least 186 corrupt decisions out of a sample size of about 400 that were looked at. I am wondering if my colleague could perhaps describe what we could have done with the close to $400 million that was corruptly spent. Could w…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal government has destroyed Canada's immigration system. I want to draw the parliamentary secretary's attention to the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, which just completed a survey of 20,000 newcomers and immigrants. It found that one in four newcomers are planning to leave Canada. The likeliest of those newcomers to leave are the economic class immigrants. The top reas…
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Madam Speaker, I am rising to follow up on an immigration question I had asked the minister just a few weeks ago. I want to quote directly from the immigration levels plan that was tabled. It states on page 8, “Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis – highlighted by the insufficient supply of rental units and family homes. In this context, any population growth, which generally necessitates a …
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Madam Speaker, I am glad I caught your eye so I could rise again to speak on this amendment. We are in a situation now where Parliament has been paralyzed for multiple weeks because of the Liberal government's unwillingness to release all of the unredacted documents to the public. I spoke to the original main motion and the subamendment on this matter. I then told my constituents about the depth o…
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Madam Speaker, the member is correct. My dad was a member of the Solidarity movement. His father, being one of those who was arrested, probably ranks quite a bit higher in the esteem of many in the Polish-Canadian community because, especially if they were not a shipyard worker, but one of the mine workers, they were especially oppressed by the communist regime, the People's Republic of Poland. Ho…
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Madam Speaker, I do not entirely agree with what my colleague says about the time when Mr. Harper was in government as prime minister. It has been over nine years that another government has been in power. I would like to talk to her about the health of this particular fund. The Auditor General of Canada, year after year, has given the fund an excellent report card because all the processes that h…
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Madam Speaker, “particularly reasonable” might just be a slogan I run on in my riding. I will credit him if it does happen in the next election. We want the documents. We are talking about close to $400 million in corruptly allocated funds from SDTC, the green slush fund. The public has a right to know how their money was misspent and corruptly spent. What we are asking the government to do is pre…
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Madam Speaker, the member for Bow River is exactly right. In the sample size that the Auditor General used to verify the process of spending and how decisions were made, she identified 186 particular situations where there was a conflict of interest or an apparent conflict of interest. These are situations where board members of the green slush fund should have recused themselves from the decision…
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Madam Speaker, I invite the member to review the Hansard blues for my intervention. I am almost certain I did not use any abbreviations or the so-called slogans she is referring to. I have a worry, like my constituents do, about how government spends money. I think all opposition parties agree, because we all voted together for the production of the documents, that Liberal government corruption is…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to start by recognizing that the member for Winnipeg South Centre used a Yiddish term. I am really pleased that we are using more Yiddish in the chamber. Will the member join me in kvetching a little and complaining about the government? Almost $400 million was corruptly spent, which is what the documents are related to. What the Auditor General reported was that the figure was…
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With regard to Immigration and Refugee Board hearings on refugee claims, in 2021 and 2022: (a) for accepted written hearings, (i) what is the total number of persons on all applications, (ii) what is the amount of applications that had one person's name attached, (iii) what is the amount of applications that had more than one person's name attached, (iv) what is the amount of applications that had…
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Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from folks in my riding, made at the time of the Stampede. I am tabling it a little late on their behalf. The petitioners are asking for the House to hold another non-confidence vote and, should that vote be successful, to hold an election within 45 days.
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Mr. Speaker, today is All Saints' Day, a tradition shared by many European cultures and various churches, especially the Catholic, Orthodox and Apostolic traditions. Central to this holy day is remembering all the saints and any believer who has accepted the Christian faith through Jesus Christ. Tradition calls us to visit cemeteries at sundown, to light candles and lay flowers, and to pray and sh…
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Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions to table today. The first petition is on medical assistance in dying or euthanasia and is from constituents in my riding. The petitioners are asking for the Government of Canada to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying or euthanasia to those whose only underlying condition is mental illness.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are struggling with skyrocketing costs on everything from groceries to gas, and now we see the toll it has taken on our economy. Statistics Canada confirms what families already know: The NDP-Liberal coalition is not worth the cost. GDP per person has dropped in eight out of the last nine quarters. Meanwhile, in the U.S., GDP grew by nearly 3% last quarter. Why is this? It i…
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Mr. Speaker, the third petition draws the attention of the House to the continued practice by the CCP to persecute Falun Gong practitioners with transnational repression, including in Canada. The petitioners are drawing the attention of the House to the fact that the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning organ harvesting abuses in the PRC and has called on the Government of China to i…
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With regard to Canada Border Services Agency tracking of travellers exiting Canada, broken down by year and by quarter: (a) what is the total number of people who have exited Canada by commercial air travel since June 25, 2020, broken down by (i) country of citizenship, (ii) country travelling to, (iii) age, broken down as follows (I) 0-18, (II) 18-65, (III) 65+; and (b) what is the total number o…
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With regard to family reunification measures for Yazidis who have been resettled to Canada, broken down by year: (a) what is the total number of applications that (i) have been received, (ii) have been accepted, (iii) have been rejected, (iv) have been withdrawn, (v) are still in process; (b) how many dependents are associated with these applications in each of the categories in (a); (c) what is t…
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Madam Speaker, I have two petitions to table today. My first petition is one I have presented before. It is about the green Calgary Co-op compostable bags that the federal government has ruled are not a compostable product. In fact, they are. The City of Calgary in this petition is again drawing the attention of the House of Commons to the fact that the bags are fully recyclable and compostable wi…
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Madam Speaker, my second petition today is about the Falun Gong Canadians who are in Canada, who continue to be persecuted by the CCP. The petitioners are drawing the attention of the House to the work of the late Canadian lawyer David Matas and a former Canadian secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, the late and great David Kilgour, who conducted an investigation in 2006. They concluded that the C…
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Madam Speaker, I have a two-part question for the member for Perth—Wellington. In the Auditor General's report, she noted that one in six projects that were approved by the board for the slush fund monies were completely ineligible for any of the funding. Projects had nothing to do with green technology but only enriching Liberal cronies. For the first part, would he comment on that issue? I think…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the same question as the member before me. He mentioned that close to $400 million was taken out of taxpayers' pockets and given to Liberal cronies. What could taxpayers have seen the Conservatives do with nearly $400 million, their money, today?
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Mr. Speaker, during the last few weeks of this debate, the government has paralyzed the House of Commons, which is unable to continue with the work of reviewing private members' bills, motions and legislation here on the floor. In the past, all opposition parties were always united in opposing government corruption, especially Liberal government corruption, which we have seen over the past many de…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and now even excuses are up. The Prime Minister now admits that he destroyed Canada's immigration system and the 150-year immigration consensus. He cannot fix what he broke. He cannot fix immigration. He cannot fix housing or anything else right now because he is fighting his own caucus…
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Mr. Speaker, that is rich coming from the minister, who called 24 Liberal MPs “garbage” because they are looking after their own careers and are worried they are not going to be here after the next election because their constituents are going to send them to the unemployment line. The Prime Minister is reckless, and he even said himself that he did not get it right. He said it during his own pres…
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Madam Speaker, I am different from the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge, although we are the ones who are usually making a quip to the Speaker. I wanted to ask the member about a common argument being made by Liberal members of Parliament that it is unwise to hand over the documents to the law clerk. Multiple departments continue to refuse to do so, or are redacting the documents they give to the la…
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Mr. Speaker, I remember a time in the country when there was something called the sponsorship scandal, which really rocked the political world. That was the event that made me a Conservative. It was a seminal event for a lot of young Conservatives. At the time, all opposition parties were united to ensure that we could fend off this massive corruption scandal coming from the Liberal Party of Canad…
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Madam Speaker, it is a delight to see you in the chair. I was hoping you would be the chair occupant during my intervention on this issue because you and I share something in common. In my formative years, I went to school on the south shore of Montreal and grew up in Brossard. You are the member for that region and you will know my elementary school, Harold Napper. Many people went there, includi…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to remind the member that he says that these organizations are so independent, but it was the current government that invoked the Emergencies Act and that ordered police forces across Canada what to do and how to do it, removing the role of justices in issuing search warrants and warrants of any type. That is what the Emergencies Act did. The Liberals did that. With res…
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Madam Speaker, I would say it is the latter. The government simply refuses to listen to the House, even though a majority of members voted to have these documents handed over to the House and then forwarded to the RCMP. It is simple. Even the Speaker ruled that the government was in the wrong when it failed to provide all the documents. We have seen this all before. It is nothing new for this gove…
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Madam Speaker, I do not know Annette Verschuren. She has definitely never donated to me. I know every single one of my donors. I would hope that the New Democrats stay on course with us. I think that this is the one part where the opposition parties agree: that we are not here to defend Liberal corruption. That is the one thing on which, through the decades, all opposition parties have agreed, tha…
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Madam Speaker, I hope it never comes to having to do a filibuster at any committee, particularly at the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. As I jokingly say with colleagues, “filibuster” is my favourite F-word in this place. I have been at PROC as a regular member and as a substitute member. I have testified before PROC as well. I hope it does not come to that, because in this part…
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Madam Speaker, I am glad the member is here. We share an alma mater, Concordia University, though I think there was quite some time between our graduation years. It took me a long time to finish my bachelor's degree, I will jokingly say. In this particular case, there is an easy way for it to end and get to committee. As I mentioned twice during my intervention, the member can go to any member of …
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Madam Speaker, it is simple: I do not care who someone donates to. If they steal from Canadian taxpayers, they deserve to be in front of a court, and the judges can decide.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is now up. The Liberal minister from Edmonton claimed he had no contact with his business partner during an alleged half-a-million-dollar fraud linked to the other Randy, but phone records and text messages now show the complete opposite. It seems the minister made a habit of bending the r…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Two years ago, the NDP leader sold out workers and signed a costly coalition deal with the Liberal Prime Minister. That deal hiked taxes, ballooned food costs, doubled housing prices and unleashed crime and chaos on our once-safe streets. Will the Prime Minister finally call a carbon tax …
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Madam Speaker, it is just too bad that, for this Prime Minister, the only buddy he cares about is the one he has in the NDP and its leader, who voted 24 times to hike the carbon tax. Over the summer, while door-knocking from Calgary to British Columbia to Ontario, everywhere I went, I clearly heard the same thing: Canadians are fed up with the skyrocketing cost of food, gas and housing. From food …
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Madam Speaker, I have four petitions to table today. My first petition relates to one of my favourite issues. The Calgary Co-op is unable to use plastic compostable bags. The petitioners want to draw the attention of the Government of Canada to the following points. The Calgary Co-op has successfully kept over 100 million plastic bags out of landfills with the use of its compostable shopping bags.…
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Madam Speaker, the next petition, e-4937, has over 15,000 petitioners, who note the following for the government. The permanent residence pathway for Hong Kong residents took effect on June 1, 2021, and expires on August 31, 2026. The petition draws the attention of the House to the fact that more than 8,000 Hong Kong citizens are in Canada and are awaiting PR processing as of April 2024. The targ…
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Madam Speaker, my third petition is on medical assistance in dying. There is now a delay on this but not a complete ban. The petitioners are asking for Parliament to reconsider it as a priority issue and to ensure that there are supports for people with mental health illnesses for everyone in Canada. They are calling on the Government of Canada to definitively stop the expansion of medical assista…
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Madam Speaker, this final petition is signed by petitioners I met at their doors. The petitioners are calling on the House of Commons to have a vote of non-confidence and a federal election within 45 days of that successful vote.
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Madam Speaker, it is always a great privilege to rise in the House to speak on behalf of the residents of Calgary Shepard. Over the past two years, constituents have written to me on multiple occasions, both for and against a universal basic income, and specifically on the legislation before us as well as what I will call its partner legislation, which is in the Senate. It is very confusing when t…
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Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to table today. The first petition is from constituents of mine; they signed it during the Auburn Bay Stampede breakfast. It is about the Auburn Bay Calgary Co-op. It is specifically about the single-use plastics ban introduced by the government in December 2023. In Calgary, we have a compostable green bag that is only used by the Calgary Co-op. These are the fact…
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Mr. Speaker, my next petition is from constituents of mine. While I was door knocking, this was being filled out, and they asked for the following: They would like the House of Commons to call for a vote of non-confidence and for a federal election 45 days after that successful vote.
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Madam Speaker, I have two petitions to table quickly today. The first petition is from constituents whom I heard from over the summer. They are very concerned with the fact that the medical assistance in dying regime has not been banned entirely for those with mental health conditions. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying to t…
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Madam Speaker, the second petition is from my constituents who, over the summer, made this very clear to me. The petitioners are asking for the House of Commons to call for non-confidence in the government and call for an election within the next 45 days.
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Madam Speaker, I want to remind the member that when the original first-generation limit was introduced in Canada in Bill C-37, all parties, including the Liberal Party of Canada, the NDP, the Bloc and the Conservatives, unanimously voted twice on it, on February 7, 2008, and February 15, 2008. Australia, the United Kingdom and America all have similar types of legislation that offer a first-gener…
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