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Mr. Speaker, there is a problem paying attention tonight. The Liberal member for Winnipeg North just did something very interesting. He brought up a piece of Bill C-14 that he and his colleagues could have passed already. The private member's bill brought forward by the member for Cariboo—Prince George could have been passed two weeks ago. It would have helped to protect first responders by making…
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Mr. Speaker, I represent the home of the RCMP depot in my riding, so if the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I will do that every day. I actually go to graduations, and the rank and file support the Conservatives' tougher-on-crime approach. If the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I would love to have him come out to the depot and we can have that debate. He is the…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this adjournment debate and talk about a question I asked a few weeks ago in question period. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about food bank usage in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan, 35.1% of children live in a food-insecure household. However, the answer I got was really found lacking. The member from northern Saskatchewan sometimes goes off on …
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise to try to get a more expansive answer on a question I asked in question period a couple of weeks ago. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about the spike in food bank usage in Saskatchewan, where 35% of children are food insecure and over 30% of households are food insecure. I found the answer the member gave me lacking. He went on some rant about no…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments on the food program, because there were private food programs in place. I can think of some in my city: Chili for Children, the Nutrien food program, the Mosaic food programs and the Mother Teresa Middle School food programs for less fortunate kids. The problem is that, while there were programs in place, the Liberals never had conversations with any…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to address some of the questions I had about a month ago regarding housing starts. I watched a very interesting interview with the housing minister on one of our local political panels, which I think was this past weekend. He was asked a question about why he would not take the GST off all homebuilding. He stuttered and stammered and said the Liberals did not want to make b…
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Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I do not trust a government that bought a pipeline, spent an extra $38 billion to build a pipeline and had time extended on how long it took to build that pipeline. The Liberals have never seen a problem they did not think government could fix. I do not believe building a bigger government bureaucracy is going to build more homes for Canadians. I do see, though, 30 mills…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Lethbridge has been around this place for a fairly long time. I have been here about six years now. We have heard these wonderful slogans. One was during COVID, that we were going to go into debt so that Canadians would not have to, which was said by Justin Trudeau. Another one was that we were going to “build back better”. Another wonderful slogan from Justin Trud…
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Mr. Speaker, we always know what a Liberal is going to do. The Liberals are going to do the best thing for the Liberal Party of Canada, and when Canadians get hurt, it does not matter. We have seen it with their crime bills. They will support the criminals and support the Liberal Party, and try to protect their record, but not care about Canadians. We will see it in this motion too because we want…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend's flair for the dramatic, and he said something that was really on point, which does not happen a lot in his speeches. He said the Harper government balanced three budgets and the Justin Trudeau government balanced zero budgets. That is the truth. I would agree with him. Harper went through a recession, a financial meltdown, in 2008. Trudeau went through COVID. …
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Mr. Speaker, this debate is very much like the crime debate. The comments just made by my colleague from Barrie South—Innisfil were interesting. We also heard the member for Kingston and the Islands across the way say the Liberals have not dropped a budget in 18 months and they still won the election.
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Mr. Speaker, we heard the member for Swift Current—Grasslands—Kindersley talk about his constituents. The deputy House leader talked about how they want to protect the Liberal government. When we talk about failed policies, we talk about the failed Liberal policies. The Liberals are not Canada. Does the member agree with that?
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to rise to talk about a question I asked a couple of months ago. This was in my original question: ...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 Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, the member can yell all he wants and insult me, but it was not me who said the tax cut did not measure up. It was the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The member just said it was $800. I will take the Parliamentary Budget Officer's word when he said people would get $15 a month and low-income seniors would get $10 a year. The way the member is talking, everything is great. It is pretty e…
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Mr. Speaker, what a tone-deaf response that is. A thousand people lost jobs in Calgary. Under their failed Liberal policies, 86,000 people have lost their jobs. In Saskatchewan, 35% of people are food insecure, so he can go and tell them that he is going to take their jobs with the Liberals' energy policies. My question is this: Will they scrap the hidden carbon tax and maybe have a heart for peop…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store, but I find it interesting that the Liberals do not think there are any hidden taxes. There is the industrial carbon tax, the food packaging tax, the second carbon tax and their inflationary deficits, which make prices at the grocery store higher and higher. Why will the Liberals not scrap their hidden carbo…
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Mr. Speaker, what an idiotic response. A thousand people just lost jobs—
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Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to take up the question I had during question period a little while ago. It was about the hard-working men and women at Evraz steel, the steel plant in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the fact that they have continually had to lay off more and more workers because there is just not as much work as there used to be back in the good old days, one might say. We have had yea…
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Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's speech, and I think she has selective amnesia, because she said that it was easier to get bail in 2014 than in 2025. The Liberals brought in bail reform, so I think it is time to scrap the Liberal bail reform and make it so that we put prisoners in jail, not let them out on bail. Does the member know whether it was harder for criminals to get out on bail in …
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Mr. Speaker, first of all, my heart goes out to little E and her family and friends. I hope people are watching today, because they will see the difference between Liberals and Conservatives. A parliamentary secretary got up today and said Liberals will do anything to defend the Liberal Party of Canada; Conservatives will do anything to defend the rights of victims of crime in Canada. That is the …
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Madam Speaker, there is a lot to unpack there. First of all, the Harper government built four pipelines. The only difference was that it used private money. The Liberals used $38 billion of taxpayers' money. Second, the member said that their one economy is already showing results, but 1,000 people were laid off in Calgary. That is probably not the result he wants. I would say the results have def…
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Mr. Speaker, this northern Saskatchewan member of Parliament has abandoned his constituents faster than any MP I have ever seen. The member voted in favour of a gun buyback program, so his people could not hunt on their own land. There is the fact that he got up and voted in favour of a gun buyback program and supports that program, and then there is the fact that there is a 259% increase in food …
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Mr. Speaker, how do the Liberals not understand that if they would stop taxing Canadians to death, we would not need the programs? After 10 years of the Liberal government's reckless spending, prices of groceries continue to rise. The Prime Minister said he would be judged by the costs at the grocery store. Well, among Saskatchewan children, 35% live in food insecure households. When will the Libe…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to be here this evening to maybe get some more answers to the question I asked in question period before we rose last spring. We had an election and an election campaign, and a lot of commitments were made by the Liberal Party about building infrastructure. There was a lot of talk about pipelines during the campaign but not a lot of action after. The Prime Minister has be…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate that kind of, sort of answer. There was a lot of word salad there. I heard “build back better” again. As I always say, instead of build back better, I would love it if the Liberals put it back the way they found it. One question I have for the member across the way is this: We just brought in a new bill for the Major Projects Office to get things fast-tracked, but we co…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, we did have an election on April 28, but eight million Canadians voted for our platform, and they should have a voice in the House. If you assume that you do not have to listen to anyone who did not vote for you, I think you are in the wrong job. That is not right. The member talked about trying things that have not worked in other countries. The Liberals tried safe supply, and i…
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Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this debate on the opposition motion put forward today. However, before I do that, as it is one of the first times I have been on my feet after the last election, I would like to thank a few people for once again allowing me to be here as the voice of the good people of Regina—Lewvan. It is my third term, so 2019, 2021 and 2025. It has been an honour to be he…
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Mr. Speaker, this proposal would help victims through their knowing that the people who commit crimes against them will be in jail and not in the community with them and their family members. If we are going to put victims first, the people committing these crimes against Canadians should serve the time and not be out on parole. If someone commits serious offences three times, and victims know tha…
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the commitment of my colleague from Yorkton—Melville to victims' rights. Yes, I think that act should be strengthened. As the member said, the review did not happen. It would once again be another arrow in the quiver of making sure victims do get justice and have their rights heard. If it was reviewed, we would strengthen it to make sure we are listening to the people who…
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With regard to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency's Pest Control Products Fees and Charges Regulations: (a) what was the amount collected in fees in the last fiscal year, in total and broken down by each specific type of fee or component; (b) what is the itemized breakdown of how the Pest Management Regulatory Agency spent the money collected from each of the fees in (a); and (c) for which of t…
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Madam Speaker, I am happy to be back in the House of Commons representing the people of Regina—Lewvan. If I can have some leeway, we obviously had the summer to go back to our ridings to talk to our constituents to find out some of the main points and topics they would like us to discuss here in the House of Commons on their behalf. We did some barbecue circuits and had lots of events in Regina—Le…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mr. Speaker, having no pipelines means no jobs for hard-working employees at Evraz steel in Regina. How can the Liberals get pipelines built if they are looking for a consensus? What does consensus mean? Will they use Canadian steel to build these pipelines?
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Mr. Speaker, can members imagine driving to work every day wondering if that is the day they are going to get laid off? For 10 years, the Liberals have had antidevelopment policies, like Bill C-69, Bill C-48, the emissions cap and the industrial carbon tax. These hard-working men and women deserve a much better answer than that. Will the government be like the old government? Is the new guy the sa…
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Mr. Speaker, that sounds like a hard no to me. Saskatchewan people want to build pipelines. To secure and grow Canada's economy, we must develop a world-class energy sector. The anti-energy NDP Premier of B.C. has stated that there will be no new pipelines in B.C. Anti-development extremists in the Prime Minister's cabinet have dedicated their careers to keeping Canadian oil and gas in the ground,…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to join this debate. The member for Battle River—Crowfoot and I actually have a long history together. We both started as members of the Saskatchewan Party caucus office working in research. I was elected in 2011, and the hon. member took my job as the director of research in the Saskatchewan Party caucus office. I decided to make the trip to Ottawa, and I was very ha…
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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—
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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