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Mr. Speaker, what is embarrassing is the Liberals' record. What have they done? Let us look at their record. The macroeconomic results are devastating. We have the highest household debt in the G7, the most unaffordable housing in the G7, the lowest investment per worker in the G7, the second-lowest productivity in the G7, the second-highest unemployment in the G7 and the worst food inflation in t…
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Mr. Speaker, I think it is just the Liberals living in their own fantasy and illusions, rather than speaking to Canadians about real life. The $90-billion Alto rail boondoggle and the $742-million gun confiscation scheme are just a couple of examples of the Liberals' wasteful spending and a testament to the fact that they are completely detached from reality. Canadians live in real life and they a…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives are not tearing down Canadians. It is Liberals who are keeping down Canadians. Those Liberal talking points will not help the full-time workers living in RVs and trailers because they cannot afford homes, or the families spending 120% of their income on food and rent alone, or the 22% of Canadians who have personally experienced poverty, or the one in five households tha…
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Mr. Speaker, history is full of governments that believed deficits did not matter, until they suddenly did. History is full of administrations that were convinced they could borrow indefinitely because markets were patient, until they were not. Canada is not exempt from arithmetic. Debt must be serviced, confidence must be earned and budgets must eventually reconcile aspirations with reality. We n…
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Mr. Speaker, when I speak to my constituents, a lot of the concerns they talk about have to do with the affordability crisis and the housing hell the Liberal government has created after 11 years in power. Some Liberals will say that is a conspiracy theory, but the United Way released a recent survey that says 60% of Canadians feel anxiety about their personal finances; 38% face food insecurity, w…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister is the only G7 leader and the only G20 leader who has delivered a recession in his own country. A United Way survey found that 60% of Canadians are anxious about their finances, 38% face food insecurity and 40% are losing sleep over how to stretch their paycheque. Meanwhile, this Liberal Prime Minister's luxury inflight catering bill has reached nearly $1 mi…
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Mr. Speaker, when historians study the fiscal decline of nations, they often note that collapse rarely begins with a dramatic event. It begins with habits: habits of indiscipline, habits of euphemism, habits of pretending that borrowing is prosperity, that inflationary spending is strategy and that accounting definitions can be stretched indefinitely without consequence. This Liberal so-called spr…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government's open borders policy has let 700 IRGC regime-linked terrorists into Canada. On May 28, the failed Liberal immigration minister told the House that 17,800 applications have been reviewed for potential inadmissibility, but after all these reviews, what Canadians got was a handful of visas cancelled, some CBSA investigations under way and only one person deported.…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Richmond Hill South, where petitioners are concerned that the Liberals have committed $200 million to a private spaceport project that has yet to conduct a single orbital launch; that the Liberals have agreed to rent a launch facility that is not yet ready, while failing to provide clear milestones, timelines or accountability for del…
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Mr. Speaker, this is another example of a Liberal Party mouthpiece laundering their disinformation here in Canada. The Liberals like to accuse Conservatives of cherry-picking information, but that is exactly what they are doing. They are cherry-picking statistics here. The truth is that $109 billion of investment has left Canada, while only $88 billion was attracted. That is a net loss of $20 bill…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister's latest report card is out. Canada is the only G7 country with a leader who took its economy into a recession. Canada's economy declined in the last two quarters and contracted in three of the last four quarters. There were 112,000 jobs lost in just three months and 46,000 more Canadians are jobless than when the Prime Minister took office. Business investm…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Calgary Centre. I rise today because Canadians deserve a government that lives in the real economy, not in Liberal talking points. The facts are now impossible to deny: Canada has entered a recession. Canada's economy has contracted in two consecutive quarters. It has shrunk in three of the last four quarters. Business investment has fal…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Richmond Hill South and the almost 10,000 people across Canada who have signed this petition. The petitioners are concerned about when a member of Parliament crossing the floor to join a different political party significantly alters the representation chosen by the electorate without providing voters the opportunity to reconsider tha…
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Mr. Speaker, the member and I have both visited the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank, and have seen the conditions that everyday Canadians in Richmond Hill are facing. The facts prove what we are seeing on the ground. Canadian households now carry the highest debt in the G7. We have the least affordable housing in the G7, the highest food inflation in the G7, the lowest investment per worker in t…
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Mr. Speaker, one way we could bring immediate relief on food price inflation is by stopping the crazy Liberal inflationary spending and by scrapping the food taxes like the industrial carbon tax, the package tax and the fuel standards tax that the Liberals keep piling on Canadians, day in and day out. Conservatives proposed a motion to scrap those taxes. The Liberals called them imaginary and vote…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is now the only G7 country in a homegrown made-by-Liberal recession. This must be the new world order the Liberal Prime Minister keeps bragging about. There have been two back-to-back quarters of negative growth and three contractions in the last four quarters. Food bank use has exploded nationwide and has doubled in just seven years. One in 10 in the GTA now relies on food ban…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Richmond Hill South. Petitioners are concerned that, given that traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture are regulated health professions providing essential care and pain management in chronic disease, their exclusion from the 2025 federal primary care compendium undermines national health strategies and workforce modernization. …
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Mr. Speaker, after a decade of costly Liberal credit card budgeting, young Canadians are facing more costs, more taxes, more debt, more on the national credit card, and more of the same. The Prime Minister is just another costly Liberal who has surged youth unemployment beyond recessionary levels. Since 2022, youth unemployment has surged from 12.3% to 18.9%, and young Canadians are remaining unem…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member has a lengthy history of supporting Bernie Sanders. A quick Google search revealed that he has many photos of press releases from events where she is seen sitting next to Bernie Sanders or supporting and applauding him down in the United States. What U.S.-style politics and policy from Bernie Sanders is she going to import into Canada?
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Mr. Speaker, we have been hearing Liberal rhetoric all day long about building major projects, but the Liberal Prime Minister likes to talk about Canada as an “energy superpower.” The reality is that the Liberals' own anti-development laws have been blocking our ability to build a pipeline to move our own resources to market. Meanwhile, the United States is approving energy infrastructure at recor…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister calls himself a master negotiator, but he has only managed to flip-flop his position on the U.S. like a magician, distracting with illusions while nothing actually happens. Last year he said “elbows up” to Washington. Then, months later, he put his elbows down and said “who cares?” about talks with the U.S. We can fast-forward to this year. The Liberal Prime…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister calls himself the master negotiator, yet he changes his tone on the U.S. faster than the weather changes in April. One day he is talking about a rupture, the next day about a mutual success, then a weakness, and now, being stronger together. Steel tariffs have doubled, lumber tariffs have tripled, and manufacturing tariffs are hitting our workers here at hom…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister touts himself as the master negotiator, yet he flip-flops on his position on U.S. trade like a magician distracting with illusions while nothing actually happens. Last year, the Prime Minister said “elbows up” to Washington. Months later, he put his elbows down and said, “Who cares?” about the talks. Fast-forward to this year, and the Liberal Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, while Mexico is already at the negotiating table with the United States, Canada has not held serious negotiations for months now. The Liberal Prime Minister likes to tout himself as a serious person, but Canadians are starting to see that there is nothing serious about his approach on trade with the U.S. First, he says our relationship with the U.S. is ruptured and then it is a mutual…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal immigration minister says she is “accountable” but not responsible for dropping the ball when letting terrorists into Canada. Letting in a known terrorist should have set off every alarm bell in the Liberal government, yet just last week, the visitor permit of an Iranian regime-linked individual was specifically exempted and his entry into Canada rubber-stamped under the L…
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Mr. Speaker, the premise of the member's question is that the Liberal slush fund has nothing similar to any of the sovereign wealth funds that have been successfully created in the past by other countries. First of all, other sovereign wealth funds are allowed to invest globally in an investment opportunity set that would maximize risk-adjusted returns. This Liberal slush fund would be restricted …
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly where the Liberal government gets it wrong. It would start a new bureaucracy and a new fund to be staffed and overseen by Liberal insiders. The Liberal government, in the past year alone, has already formed 13 new bureaucracies, all of which are overseen or managed by Liberal insiders. The government says it would be professionally managed, but it would actually be pro…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, Canadians got a fiscal update on the state of the Liberal-managed decline wrapped up in a Liberal rebranding exercise. The Liberal Prime Minister stood and announced what he calls a Canada Strong fund. It is a so-called sovereign wealth fund. Let us be precise, because words actually matter in the chamber. A sovereign wealth fund requires one thing above all else: wealth. A…
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Mr. Speaker, this week's costly Liberal budget update confirms what Canadians already feel at the checkout. This costly credit card budget means more debt, more costs, more spending, more taxes and more of the same. Nothing has changed, because the Liberal Prime Minister is just another costly Liberal, and he has doubled Trudeau's deficit. According to the latest “Canadian Food Sentiment Index” re…
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Mr. Speaker, other countries do not leave their resource wealth in the ground. They do not block their local domestic talent from being able to succeed. Other countries, like Norway, do not have the highest household debt in the G7, the most unaffordable housing in the G7, the lowest investment per worker in the G7, the worst food price inflation in the G7, the second-lowest productivity in the G7…
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Mr. Speaker, that was a Google search of a list of things the Liberals have put on the national credit card. This costly credit card budget means more debt, more cost, more spending and more taxes. It is all more of the same. Nothing has changed. The Liberal Prime Minister is just another costly Liberal, except that he has managed to double Trudeau's debt deficit. Food bank visits have doubled. On…
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Mr. Speaker, the two-tier justice system exists not in spite of the Liberals. It exists because of the Liberals. In one case, a non-citizen criminal who was twice found guilty of groping a young woman's genitals avoided real prison time and instead received house arrest in order to help him avoid deportation. This loophole tells victims that the Liberal system cares more about protecting convicted…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, when confronted with cases of non-citizens convicted of serious crimes getting sentence discounts to dodge deportation, the former Liberal immigration minister claimed there was no rule requiring judges to do this. However, now a Quebec judge has exposed the truth, warning that judges and prosecutors across Canada are doing exactly that. If a person does the crime, they sho…
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Mr. Speaker, I have spoken with members in my community and in my riding since the Liberals announced this cut. I have talked to schools. I have talked to patients. I have talked to teachers. I have talked to practitioners of all communities and backgrounds. They have told me that these cuts hurt because they will reduce enrolment. They will reduce the number of graduates who would be trained for …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for identifying the problem. What we have seen in the February jobs report is that unemployment is at 6.7%. There are 1.5 million unemployed Canadians, 23% of whom have been searching for work for half a year or more. For youth aged 15 to 24, unemployment is at 14%. Instead of choosing to invest in students here at home, in Canadian students, in our domestic workfor…
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Mr. Speaker, this is another example of the Liberals oversimplifying a problem and pointing the finger at a different level of government because, for not just the profession, but the entire industry, from imports and exports to Health Canada, there is a whole list of federal jurisdictions. What we are talking about today in this concurrence motion is the federal grant money that is now being deni…
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Mr. Speaker, I will split my time with the member for Cloverdale—Langley City. Canada is in the middle of a jobs crisis, and the Liberal government's answer is to make skills training harder to afford here at home. That is exactly what the costly Liberal budget 2025 does when it moves to restrict the Canada student grant for full-time students to students attending public educational institutions …
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Mr. Speaker, the Islamic Republic of Iran jails dissidents, massacres its own people, exports terror and is formally listed by Canada as a state sponsor of terrorism, yet just last week, the Liberals backed the regime in Iran for a seat on the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination, a body that helps shape policy on human rights, women's rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention. Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, it would affect everyone across the country, including residents in my riding of Richmond Hill South, whether that is in lower food prices, lower transportation costs or a lower price to pay at the pump. Instead of focusing on delivering on solutions to address the affordability challenges the Liberal government has caused, the Liberal government is laser-focused on trying to sti…
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Mr. Speaker, there are moments in public life when a government is tested not by what it says, but by what it does when people are hurting. This is one of those moments. Across the country, Canadians are not just frustrated; they are stretched to the breaking point. They are making trade-offs that no family in a prosperous nation should have to make. They are choosing between filling the tank and …
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives are calling for the permanent scrapping of Liberal taxes. That includes the 10¢ federal excise tax and the GST on top of all those taxes, and the Liberals' so-called clean fuel standard tax. Let us not forget that the 25¢-a-litre tax, the removal of which we are calling for, is a Liberal made-in-Ottawa problem. It cannot just be blamed on global oil prices. This is a tim…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not deficit spending. This is taking from the windfall that Ottawa is receiving from elevated oil prices. The Liberal government is not returning that money, which belongs to Canadians, and putting it in the pockets of Canadians at a time of an affordability crisis. Even for people who do not drive or take public transit, fuel tax still affects the price they pay at the grocer…
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Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government, the immigration system is more out of control than ever. The Prime Minister claims that temporary foreign worker number are down by 50%, yet the facts say otherwise. In 2025 alone, approvals hit a staggering 167,000, nearly triple the 60,000 in 2015. At the same time, youth unemployment is surging to 14% , and young Canadians cannot find work. The Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of Richmond Hill South to present a petition where petitioners are concerned that over the past decade, diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI, mandates have become embedded across federal departments, agencies, granting councils and federally funded institutions. Figures released by the current government indicate that more than a billion dollars ha…
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Mr. Speaker, never have foreign conflicts spilled onto our streets the way they have under the Liberal government. Three separate synagogues were shot at in a week in the GTA. An Iranian dissident in B.C. has gone missing, and police are investigating it as a homicide. An Iranian dissident in Thornhill had his boxing gym shot up 17 times the day after organizing a rally in Richmond Hill. Canadians…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not need more photo ops. They need results. This week, we learned the Liberals have only removed one IRGC official after nearly four years. At the House immigration committee, Liberal officials said they could not deport them because there were no flights to Iran and because they needed to protect their privacy. Conservatives are calling for the enforcement of deportation…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of Richmond Hill South and tens of thousands of petitioners who signed this petition who are concerned about Iranian regime-linked harassment and intimidation occurring on Canadian soil, endangering Canadians of Iranian heritage and of all backgrounds. The petitioners are calling on the Prime Minister and the Government of Canada to expand and rigo…
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I will be splitting my time, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak not just about a bill but about a generation that did everything right. They studied hard, they worked hard, they saved diligently and they followed the rules, and yet they cannot afford a home in the country they love and the Canada they call home. Today we are debating the Liberals' so-called Build Canada Homes act. The Liberals are…
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Mr. Speaker, conflicts have always existed overseas, but under the Liberal government, we are now seeing those conflicts spill onto our streets here at home. Last week alone, three synagogues in the GTA were targeted with gunfire, and now an Iranian dissident has gone missing, possibly a homicide, while members of the community fear that the regime in Tehran may be involved. After years of Liberal…
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Mr. Chair, Conservatives have always been consistent in our view. We ae unequivocal in our support of the Iranian people who are braving bullets, blackouts and beatings, executions and torture, because they seek a new and free Iran. Conservatives will always stand with the Iranian people against this tyrannical regime.
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