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Mr. Chair, the Liberal Prime Minister claimed that he is the man we want in a crisis, but recent days have shown that he cannot live up to his own standard. Over the last week, Canadians have not seen leadership. They have seen contradictions, confusion and a series of foreign policy flip-flops on Iran and the conflict in the Middle East. First, the Liberal Prime Minister came out clearly in suppo…
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Mr. Speaker, we would pay for it by not having a fourth Liberal bureaucracy.
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Mr. Speaker, that was a great question. Just to reiterate, in Toronto, buyers now pay over $130,000 per apartment in municipal taxes, and nearly $98,000 per condo in Mississauga. For single-family homes, it is up to $180,000 in Toronto and Markham, and in Mississauga, it is $135,000. Canadians do not need a fourth Liberal bureaucracy. What the Liberal government is doing is laying the foundation f…
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Mr. Speaker, we have a Liberal Prime Minister who is so out of touch with Canadians, especially young Canadians, that he has told them to make more sacrifices, that they need to be content with less and to lower their expectations. Young Canadians are expecting a leader who will restore hope, not crush it. That has become the psychology of an entire generation, that they are losing hope. The stats…
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Mr. Speaker, I find that kind of rich coming from the Liberal member. When the Leader of the Opposition was the housing minister, rent for a one-bedroom apartment was only $900. That is less than half of what it is today. As well, the average home price was $450,000, much lower than it is today, after the 11 years of Liberal housing hell that the Liberal government has created. Let us talk about b…
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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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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. Speaker, the hope of ever owning a home is slipping away for young Canadians. Nearly half of young Canadians are being forced to move out of the communities they grew up in because they can no longer afford the Liberal housing hell. From 2019 to 2024, for every 100 new adults added to our population, there were only 12 housing starts intended for ownership. This is less than half the pace of p…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of laying foundations for homes, the Liberal government is laying foundations for another bureaucracy. The Liberal Prime Minister promised to build at a pace not seen since the Second World War, yet a recent report from the government's own housing agency says that homebuilding is expected to drop in each of the next three years, with housing starts in 2028 falling as much as …
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Mr. Speaker, the dream of home ownership has been shattered by a decade of Liberal policies and rhetoric. Only 269 new homes were sold in the entire Toronto area in January. Sales are down 36% from last year and are 80% below the 10-year average. The last time it was this bad was the early 1990s. The Prime Minister promised to “build, baby, build”, but the only thing the Liberal government seems a…
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Mr. Speaker, lunar new year has been celebrated on this land for as long as Canada has been a country. When Chinese immigrants first arrived in British Columbia around the time of Confederation, they brought with them the traditions that were passed down for thousands of years: traditions of family, renewal, gratitude and hope. For over a century these celebrations have been part of Canada's histo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Canadian dream of home ownership is slipping away from young Canadians. The government's own housing agency says that housing starts will fall over the next three years, going down as much as 18% by 2028, while prices keep going up. After years of Liberal policies that drove up costs and slowed down construction, buyers cannot buy and builders cannot build. The only solution the L…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals announced last week, as part of their so-called auto strategy, that they are providing $2.3 billion of taxpayer money in rebates for Canadians to purchase EVs. The problem is that this rebate is available for foreign-made EVs, and a vast majority of EVs purchased in Canada are produced elsewhere. Effectively, this taxpayer-funded Liberal rebate will now subsidize American…
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Mr. Speaker, I find the Liberal member's speech kind of rich. Last week, the Liberals announced their so-called auto strategy. It had a $2.3-billion fund for some rebates for EVs that are purchased in Canada. While that sounds great, the problem is that most EVs purchased in Canada are made elsewhere, including in the United States, where many factories are relocating. Effectively, this rebate is …
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Mr. Speaker, three years ago the Liberal finance minister promised Canadians that he would stabilize food prices. Well, he failed. Since that promise, lettuce is up 40%, beef is up 27%, and baby formula is up 13%. While Liberals excuse their failure as a global phenomenon, the facts tell a different story. Canada now leads the G7 in food inflation. It is double what it was when the Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, according to a Missing Middle Initiative report, 69% of Canadians say unaffordability is reshaping who can live in their communities, and nearly half of young Canadians have considered leaving their city or province just to find an affordable home. Meanwhile, ownership-focused housing starts have fallen from 69% to 49%, and Canadian home builders warn that this could be a lost decade …
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Mr. Speaker, touting a fourth Liberal housing bureaucracy is an admission that the first three bureaucracies failed. The Bank of Canada said housing activity is subdued or declining in most cities. New home sales are down 45% in the GTA, 52% in the Golden Horseshoe and a staggering 56% in Vancouver. Builders are laying off workers, projects are being shelved and first-home buyers are being squeeze…
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Mr. Speaker, a new report shows that home ownership among 30- to 34-year-olds has collapsed from 60% to 52%, with the steepest declines affecting younger Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, for every 100 new adults, there were just 12 housing starts meant for home ownership, less than half the rate of earlier decades. It is no wonder that 87% of Canadians are concerned about housing, and that rises …
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Mr. Speaker, I have some advice for the Liberal member. Maybe the Liberal government needs to get their hands out of the pockets of Canadians. A report released last fall shows that gen Z Canadians have virtually no disposable income left, just $9 to $16 in spendable cash at the end of the month. Half say they will need to take on more work over the next year, 28% are borrowing from family and 12%…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians have become very familiar with Liberal rhetoric on public safety, unfortunately. We hear their words about combatting crime, standing with victims and protecting women and children, but words are not results, and rhetoric does not keep communities safe, unfortunately. Bill C-16 is a case study in the government's approach to justice: announce the right intentions, borrow Con…
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Mr. Speaker, today I rise in solidarity with the brave people of Iran. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have joined solidarity rallies across the country, including in Richmond Hill, where tens of thousands have gathered, braving the cold winter storms to stand on the side of freedom. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of Iranians have been massacred, with many more inju…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister promised Canadians a win with the President by July 21. Five months later, there is no win, no elbows and no deal. From factories to steel mills, Conservatives will always stand with the workers who feed, power and protect this country, and today, those Canadians are paying the price. Back in May, the Prime Minister said Canadians would judge him by the pric…
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Mr. Speaker, people should be able to work hard, save their money and buy a reasonably priced home in a reasonable timeline. That was the Canadian promise. However, today, the parliamentary budget watchdog confirmed that the Liberal Prime Minister has broken this promise. The report says that the Liberals' brand new housing bureaucracy is nothing more than a shiny, billion-dollar photo-op machine,…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister called himself the master negotiator, bragging that he alone could land a deal with President Trump by July 21. He puffed out his chest, promised “elbows up” and told Canadians he was ready to fight, but now that he has failed, he shrugs, asking, “Who cares?” and says he does not have a “burning issue” to discuss with the President. In months, he went from…
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Madam Speaker, every time the Prime Minister talks trade, he seems to be closing deals for his old firm Brookfield, while Canadian workers and taxpayers are left out on the sidelines. He went to Washington and Brookfield walked away with an $80-billion nuclear deal. He went to London and Brookfield got over $500 million for the European Space Agency. He hosted Swedish royalty and Brookfield announ…
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Madam Speaker, I see almost nothing for Richmond Hill South in this budget. This is what I see. The cost of living remains high, putting financial pressures on families and small businesses. Unemployment has increased, driven by weak hiring and layoffs. Businesses face ongoing uncertainty, delaying investment and expansion. Productivity remains weak, limiting wage gains for workers. That is the cu…
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Madam Speaker, budgets are not just about numbers; they are about trust. They are a promise, a promise that a government makes to its citizens: that it will be responsible with their money, transparent with their books and honest with their future. When Canadians open their credit card bills, they do not see “operating” and “capital”. They do not get to move expenses around to a different column t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister went from promising elbows up to throwing his hands up and saying, “Who cares?” the moment the President pushed back. He caved on the digital services tax, abandoned countertariffs, and walked away from the softwood legal fight, leaving Canadian workers totally defenceless. We thought he got nothing in return, but it turns out he got nothing for Canadians, because j…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to continue reading from page 53 of the Liberal costly credit card budget. It starts with “Over the past decade,” and it is no coincidence that the government has been in power for exactly one decade. It reads: Over the past decade, Canada’s productivity performance has been persistently weak. In this time, productivity grew by only 0.3 per cent annually—less than one-thi…
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Madam Speaker, I find that rich coming from the member. We are not attacking the Prime Minister's character; we are attacking his record. The member said we are spreading fake news. I am going to read directly from the costly Liberal budget so he cannot say we are spreading misinformation. On page 53 of this costly credit card budget, it states, “If Canada’s productivity growth had matched the U.S…
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Mr. Speaker, the current Liberal government is the most expensive in Canadian history. Every dollar the Prime Minister spends is driving up the cost of everything and is paid for by hard-working Canadians. According to the latest data, year over year, the price of chicken is up 6%. Seafood is up 8%, infant formula is up 6% and beef is up a staggering 17%. Food prices are now rising 40% faster in C…
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Madam Speaker, when the Liberal Prime Minister split the costly Liberal deficits into so-called operating and capital spending, experts warned that he would use this to cook the books, and last week, the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed exactly that. The PBO says that the Prime Minister's new so-called capital definition is overly expansive, violating international standards, and that it hid…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing generational with Liberal deficits is the debt the next generation must pay. Liberal inflationary deficits are driving up the cost of everything. Young Canadians cannot find jobs, they cannot afford homes and they cannot even afford food. Twenty-five per cent of Canadians face food insecurity. They are sacrificing by cutting back on nutritious food. It has gotten so bad…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister told young Canadians that they must make some sacrifices. They have already had to sacrifice good-paying jobs and the dream of home ownership, and they have already paid the price as food costs keep going up. Liberal inflationary deficits throw fuel on the fire. A 19-year-old girl from Halifax said it best on the national news: Food insecurity is not good; f…
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Mr. Speaker, I will look directly into the camera. I know the Liberal member is a little perplexed, but so are young Canadians. The Liberal Prime Minister went into a room full of students and told them they needed to sacrifice more, to lower their expectation and to be content with less, because the Liberals robbed them of their future. Those students and young Canadians all across the country wh…
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Mr. Speaker, it is getting worse every single day. In Ontario alone, over 17,000 young people lost their jobs just last month. Ontario's unemployment has now topped 700,000, up 83,000 in a single year. In Windsor, unemployment has soared past 10%. In Toronto, joblessness is up 46,000 year over year, a record high. This past summer, it was the worst in a generation, with returning full-time student…
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Mr. Speaker, in the midst of a generational youth unemployment crisis, the Prime Minister has a message for young Canadians: to keep sacrificing. After 10 long years of Liberal failure, he is asking young people, the very generation crushed under the weight of his economic mismanagement, to make even more sacrifices. What more is there left to give? Young Canadians have already sacrificed the drea…
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Mr. Speaker, I have some advice for that member. He should maybe stop parroting the talking points of the corporate lobbyists who are courting his office, because that is what it sounds like he is repeating right now. Although that story sounds rich, the numbers from StatsCan do not lie. This is a government agency that provides these unbiased statistics: Youth unemployment is up to 14.7% and it k…
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals are trying to pass their so-called bail and sentencing reform act today. However, as Canadians may recall, Conservatives tabled our jail not bail act just weeks ago. It is a piece of legislation that we thoughtfully and carefully drafted in consultation with police departments, victims groups and police associations to close all the Liberal loopholes. We worked all summ…
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Mr. Speaker, the root cause of this youth unemployment crisis is one person. It is this Liberal Prime Minister, because he calls himself a new Liberal prime minister, but he has just proven that he is just another bait and switch. He chose to double down on the same failed Trudeau-era policies of the last 10 years instead of turning the page and trying something new. Our Conservative plan would be…
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Mr. Speaker, every single dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends comes straight out of the pockets of Canadians, through higher taxes, higher deficits and higher inflation. While food bank use surges to 2.2 million visits per month, the Prime Minister thinks it is a brilliant idea to blow $8.2 million on gender-just, low-carbon rice in Vietnam. While the Liberals feed their bloated DEI bureaucra…
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Mr. Speaker, I first want to talk about what Canadian citizenship is. It is not merely a piece of paper or a legal status; it is a solemn promise. It is a bond of belonging that unites generations who built this country through hard work, sacrifice and shared purpose, a shared purpose that has been eroding under the divisive rhetoric of the Liberal government over the last decade. Canadian citizen…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservatives do not believe in two-tier citizenship. We believe all people applying to become a citizen should be treated equally. That includes things such as a security assessment, language—
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Liberal Prime Minister told a room full of students that they are going to have to make some sacrifices. Young people have already sacrificed enough over the last 10 years. They have sacrificed by paying skyrocketing food costs. They have sacrificed with an entire summer without jobs because Liberal job-killing policies have driven youth unemployment to recessionary leve…
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Madam Speaker, this is an another example of the Liberals' trying to divide, deny and distract. Canadians are fed up. Over 50,000 Canadians have died from the opioid crisis, which is a higher death toll than from the Second World War. Liberals continue to do nothing about it. Conservatives will lock up the fentanyl kingpins as the mass murderers that they are and keep them in prison for life, but …
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Madam Speaker, after 10 years of Liberal failure, Canadians now face a cost of living crisis, a crime crisis, a housing crisis and a border crisis, and the government has the nerve to stand up here today and pretend that Bill C-12 will strengthen Canada's immigration systems and borders. This bill will not fix our immigration system and does not protect Canadians. It does little to stop the flow o…
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Madam Speaker, when I was campaigning for the election and was knocking on doors, parents told me that they do not want their kids to be stepping on needles when they go to the park to play.
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Madam Speaker, I find it very rich. The member is asking for information, so let me give him some. This is from the Health Canada website. Is Health Canada also misleading? The Liberal member keeps accusing members of the House of misleading Canadians. According to the Health Canada website, again, fentanyl and its analogues were involved in 33% of opioid-related poisoning visits to the emergency …
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Mr. Speaker, every dollar the Liberal Prime Minister spends is taken out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians through inflationary deficits and higher taxes. Let us not forget that, for 10 years, Liberals claimed runaway deficits would spark investments. The current finance minister, back when he was industry minister, helped double the national debt, promising it would lead to growth. What di…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are pushing their so-called strengthening Canada's immigration system and borders act, yet illegal border crossings have surged under their watch, and the system has never been more out of control. Federal health care spending for asylum claimants has now ballooned to nearly half a billion dollars a year, covering vision care, home care and assistive devices, benefits tha…
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