Government Orders
Madam Speaker, with a new session, there is a new demeanor. I appreciate the calm demeanor of my colleague from Winnipeg North. Sometimes he gets a little robust in his debate. I find it interesting that the member who probably speaks the most on the floor of the House of Commons has an issue with us standing up and putting our concerns on the record for our constituents. I think a bit of debate a…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the hard work the member does for his constituents in Cariboo—Prince George. I do appreciate the fact that the question is something I mentioned in my speech. I would say it is not the standard of practice in the United States, Britain, France, Italy or a number of our peer countries, which, with the rare exception, have capped passing on citizenship to the first genera…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I would agree that reforms are needed, especially when it comes to some kind of language criteria. I believe my colleague would agree with that. Those are some of the adjustments that need to be made at committee level, but following the process and ensuring that people do get to speak in the House of Commons about legislation is a good part of the process. I think people do have co…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, Canada's fiscal watchdog confirms another broken Liberal promise, this time on the Liberals' tax cut. On the campaign trail, the Prime Minister promised Canadians an $800 income tax cut, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer just confirmed that the average Canadian will save $15 a month, and low-income seniors will save only $10 a month, which will not buy a gallon of milk from the Lum…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, it is sad but true, Canadians are getting used to being misled by that Liberal in particular. Moving on to another Liberal failure, a damning new report from the Liberals' own housing agency has declared the death of housing affordability in our country. It said that Canada needs to double housing construction to restore affordability, but the Liberals' record is dismal. Housing start…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, actually, we have a great example of different philosophies on display here in the House of Commons with the EV mandate debate. As a Conservative, I think that if someone wants to buy an electric vehicle, they should go ahead. If they want to buy a gas vehicle, they should go ahead. It is their choice and up to them; the government should not have to mandate people to do something. Li…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, I am happy to join the debate. The member was actually out in Saskatchewan last summer, and we met with Evraz steelworkers, pipefitters, building trades workers and refinery workers. Not once did EV mandates come up in any of our conversations. He was able to see our province, with its vast, beautiful, long distances. There are not a lot of charging stations and availability to charge…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, I was expecting a bit more from the member for Kingston and the Islands than that. Obviously, he is a little bit slower today for some reason. He does not understand that we cannot spend money we do not have. It is a very basic principle. The fact that the Prime Minister and his NDP-Liberals have produced more debt and made this country more indebted than all other prime ministers c…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, it is once again my pleasure to get on my feet and talk about the SDTC slush fund of the Liberals and the corruption that has gone through the organization from top to bottom for years and years, nine long years. I will also bring into the debate some other governments that have had some scandals as well. I come from Saskatchewan, and for a long time I was not proud of it. The governi…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I should have waited for the GST break, I guess, but we had the tree up a little bit before the GST cut coming into place. We did some hard work and got the backyard rink ready so we can have a hockey game with the kids and the uncles, who are with us for Boxing Day, when we welcome the start of the world junior hockey championship, which is being hosted right here in Ottawa. I wish g…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member very much. We can bring some joy to the chamber. Christmas is excellent. We got the Christmas tree up on November 12. My wife was very excited to get the Christmas tree up—
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, this is not the only responsibility the Prime Minister has abdicated. He has abdicated the responsibility of keeping our streets safe. Crime has gone up all over this country. It was a total abdication of policy when it came to his legalizing of harmful drugs. The fact that he does not think about fiscal policy and he says to leave it to the bankers is quite scary. We see by his pri…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Yes, Dingwall said that he was entitled to his entitlements. Madam Speaker, in terms of the funds that are going out, I do not know if this is actually a strategy the NDP-Liberals have, but maybe it is that, if they have this many scandals, the Canadian population will just become accustomed to it. Maybe if there are so many wrongdoings within the government, the Canadian population will say, “It …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague very much for the lesson in fiscal policy and monetary policy. I agree that his cabinet needs to have a lot more lessons. Maybe if he got to the cabinet table he could explain to the finance minister that difference, because her fiscal policy and her fiscal guardrails have done nothing but run this country's economy over the edge and create a dumpster fire of de…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, my hon. friend is a fantastic advocate for farmers across the country. He talked a lot about the issues and the policies that this government has foisted upon farmers, which are hamstringing them and making them uncompetitive. One thing I would like the member to talk about is the absolute disaster that is the capital gains tax increases on farmers and how it is going to hamper succ…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, what I did not get to was some of the NDP scandals in Saskatchewan and how poorly the NDP governed our province for 16 long years. People used to call it “Roy's revenge.” Roy Romanow was the NDP premier of Saskatchewan who closed 152 hospitals in our province, devastating health care. Roy Romanow closed 175 schools; that was one school for every week he was premier in our province. …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, NDP members are complicit in propping up the most scandal-plagued government in the history of Canada. The NDP members could not even stand behind their own leader's words when he said that the Liberals are full of corporate greed and that he wanted to tear up the coalition agreement. I will take no lessons from an NDP rump roast of a party that cannot stand up and support its own l…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Madam Speaker, there are many more scandals. I think I only got to number 40 on my list of 75. I was not here, but I believe the advice from the then Conservative government was for the Liberals not to continue with the Phoenix pay system and to do something different. This is what I have been told. There does needs to be a system in place to make sure the workers are paid properly. I think we go …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I remember the scandal that brought down the former Liberal government of Paul Martin, with the ad scam; that scandal was only $80 million to $90 million. This is $400 million of taxpayer money that was stolen and given to Liberal insiders and friends. The House has been seized with this for months now. How bad are the unredacted documents? How much must they implicate Liberal friends…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Obviously, Mr. Speaker, the minister has not been to a grocery store in a while. The NDP-Liberals driving up the carbon tax will cost people in Saskatchewan $2,000 a year. The latest food price report shows that Canadians are being forced to buy less nutritious food because of the higher prices. This is Canada under the Prime Minister. To make matters worse, the average family will spend an additi…
Read full speech →Statements by Members
Mr. Speaker, this is my favourite time of year for two reasons: First, the Christmas spirit can be seen everywhere we look, and, second, Regina hosts my favourite event. Every year at the end of November, Regina becomes a destination for everything agriculture. The 53rd Canadian Western Agribition was a resounding success. Folks from around the globe gathered in Regina to take in the world-class l…
Read full speech →Statements by Members
Mr. Speaker, after nine long years of these NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The Prime Minister has taken his anti-energy crusade to a whole new level after recently announcing his oil and gas production cut. This job-killing policy will result in sending jobs to the United States along with $700 million that will go to build pipelines in America. The NDP-Liber…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, as always, that was an entertaining speech from my colleague, the member for Kingston and the Islands, although he did not talk much about the environment. I asked the member for Winnipeg North a question, and I will ask the same question of the member for Kingston and the Islands. What is the environmental impact of allowing Montreal to dump raw sewage into St. Lawrence? About two or…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, there was so much wrong in that answer. I want to unpack it, but I do not have the time. However, one thing I will say, as a father of three, is that smoking is very bad. Please be assured that I do not think smoking is a good thing for anyone. I would just like to get that on the record. I was not sure that my hon. colleague was going to answer, but I am glad he answered because I en…
Read full speech →Adjournment Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, I am happy to wrap up this evening's events and ask some follow-up questions, on the carbon tax, to what I asked the Minister of Environment a week ago in question period. We all know the carbon tax costs a majority of Canadians much more than they get back in rebates. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed that time and time again and recently confirmed it in his most recent …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, my colleague gave a wonderful answer to the question I asked a few minutes ago. I have a follow-up question because his answer triggered something. How many innovation ministers does he think might be complicit in this scandal because there have been several since the current one? I am wondering how many innovation ministers, possibly because of the scandal, could still be deeply invo…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, you made a comment to the last Liberal speaker that they should not cause disruption. There is name-calling going on, and that is adding to the disruption in the House. I would like you to rule on that.
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I will leave the NDP comments where they stand. The NDP members talk about some of the scandals, but one thing I find fascinating is the fact that this Prime Minister is the first prime minister who has ever been in a conflict of interest, not once and not twice. How many cabinet ministers have also been found in conflict of interests? I would like my friend to answer the question of …
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, we request a recorded vote, please.
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I have a short question about the environment. About three or four years ago, the government signed an agreement with the City of Montreal to continue to dump raw sewage into the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the government cares about the environment and is so focused on emissions, what about having clean waters and clean waterways down in the St. Lawrence? How can they continue to allow…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, this is an important topic, and I listened intently to my friend's speech. I am wondering whether he has heard of other flip-flops on the carbon tax. One that comes to mind is the NDP in B.C. Its members were against it before they were for it. Another one that comes to mind is the flip-flop of the current Liberals when it came to being an open and transparent government. I remember…
Read full speech →Orders of the Day
Mr. Speaker, I have had a chance to speak to the amendment and the motion before. I remember, in university, I wrote a paper asking if the Liberal government had lost the legitimacy to govern. I asked if it had lost the trust of Canadians across the country. That was during the ad scam. Could my colleague tell us how the ad scam scandal that took down the corrupt Chrétien-Martin Liberal government…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Projects, since January 1, 2020: (a) how much funding has been provided by the government for any such projects, in total and broken down by individual project; and (b) has the government received any requests for such projects which it has not yet funded, and, if so, what are the details of the requests and the reason why they have not yet been funde…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Madam Speaker, I listened to the member's speech intently, but I noticed that he did not mention some of the things that we need to work on in Canada, such as the two million people who are using food banks, which is the highest number ever. That would be one indication that things are not going as well in this country as they should be. Another would be how high food inflation is in this country,…
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, we have just seen the tip of the iceberg of who has money and which Liberal insiders are getting rich. The foreign affairs minister's husband got some contracts in other areas. How deep does my colleague think this rot is and how long will it take to have this go through committee and actually find out how many taxpayer dollars have gone to Liberal insiders, friends and family?
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, I find it amazing that the NDP member asked a question about wining and dining when his leader cost the taxpayers $500,000 last year. He is the most expensive man in Parliament, and he does not know the difference between a bag of potatoes and a bag of apples. How will he ever deliver for Canadians?
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I welcome the member to the ag committee. I have served on it for four years and look forward to his contributions. At the start of the member's speech, he talked about being excited about the possibility of the Prime Minister and the Liberals taxing grocery stores more to try to lower food prices. He said that might be one of the options. Can the member give me an example of when w…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, there is no doubt that there needs to be more border security. We could use the $67 million from the Liberals' phony gun buyback plan and put some of that money into the border to have more people at border services. Another thing about processing that is really hurting farmers' bottom lines is trucking. Canadian Trucking Alliance members just said that the carbon tax is going to co…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I appreciate a question coming from anyone in this House. Everyone has the right to ask questions. However, for a member of the NDP to stand up and talk about anything other than the inconsistency of their leader and how he sold out Canadians for his pension is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, I do not do this very often, but to quote a Liberal minister, we will take no lessons from them when it comes to flip-flopping and breaking promises. The Liberals have broken many promises to Canadians. Do members remember when they were going to have a couple of small deficits and then balance the budget in 2015? Do members remember when they promised to lower emissions in 2015 and…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to join the debate today on the concurrence of the 18th report of the Standing Committee of Agriculture and Agri-Food on food price inflation. I find it very strange that the Liberal member would talk about tying up the House's time on things he thinks are not important. When I was in my riding of Regina—Lewvan and our communities all summer, one of the major topic…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this costly coalition, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. The NDP-Liberal government's reckless policies have forced two million people to food banks. Its destructive carbon tax has made it almost impossible for farmers to make affordable food to put on the tables of Canadians. Canadians want and deserve a carbon tax election. They can decide b…
Read full speech →Oral Questions
Mr. Speaker, when a single mother is deciding whether to put milk in the fridge or gas in the car for their children, that answer is going to give them no comfort this winter. The NDP has sold out Canadians, and for what? It is time to know the truth. Will the NDP stand with Canadians and make sure there is the carbon tax election that they want? Otherwise, is it true that the leader of the NDP ca…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to Exhibit 5.1 of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development's report entitled "Agriculture and Climate Change Mitigation - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada": (a) what was the methodology in determining the emissions of animal production; (b) what data gathering techniques were used; (c) what were the earliest and latest data points that were used; (d) can the data…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the government's proposed plastics registry: (a) what is the projected cost to establish the registry and maintain it each year; (b) what is the timeline by which the government will implement the registry; and (c) did the government conduct any studies on the impact the registry will have on the price of food and other consumer products, and, if so, what are the details of each suc…
Read full speech →Routine Proceedings
With regard to the Canada Dental Benefit, to date: how many Canadians have (i) signed up, (ii) been approved, (iii) received dental care paid for through the benefit?
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to take to my feet today and talk about the common-sense Conservative motion to release the secret report, which the environment minister had the PBO hide from Canadians, and to reveal the truth to Canadians. Before I get to the substance of my presentation, there are two things I want to say. First and foremost, this will be the last time I have a chance …
Read full speech →Government Orders
Mr. Speaker, that is really a straw man argument. People ask what the cost of doing nothing is. The carbon tax is not actually an environmental policy because it has done nothing. It has taken money out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians and has made it harder for them to put food on the table, but the carbon tax has done zero when it comes to the environmental part. It is a tax policy, not …
Read full speech →