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House Hansard - 314

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 21, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 314 - May/21/24
Mr. Corey Tochor (Saskatoon—University, CPC)
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to join in the debate. We had some questions to the other members across the way about what Canadians are feeling about the disastrous Liberal government, and I would like to read into the record a couple of emails I have received. I am sure everyone here has received emails on the pain and suffering after nine long years of this failed regime. I just want to get this on the record from some of the people I represent, because as much as we are all here, the people who are really the masters of this country are the voters, the citizens of this country, who elected all 338 of us to come here to debate. I feel that we would be a better democracy and a better country if the people who are sent here would actually listen to what Canadians are feeling and would listen to how we can make a change in their lives. The budget comes out, and a flood of emails comes in. I would like to read just a sampling of those, to digest them a little and to explain a little of my feelings towards those emails and hopefully have some questions from others. Robert, who emailed after this budget was released, said that he just wants his voice added to everyone else's in Canada who are appalled by the $1 billion a month interest we are paying on this debt; more than we spend on health care. He wants us to please do everything and anything we can to turn this around. He also asks that we let the Prime Minister know that it is over. No matter how much money he squanders, trying to get ahead in the polls, he is yesterday's man. That was from Robert in my constituency. I thank Robert for writing in. I read every email that comes into my office. David wrote that the Liberal woke policies have put Canadians at—
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Context: House Hansard - 314 - May/22/24
Mr. Eric Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, CPC)
  • May/22/24 12:10:29 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, as I begin my comments here tonight, I want to share a sad note that I got from a constituent of mine only a couple of months ago. Daniel Paul had written me, sadly, with the news that his father, Gordon, 65 years old and a resident of the Cornwall and SDG area, was scheduled to come into my office a couple of months ago for some help. Unfortunately, Daniel let me know that, tragically, before his father was able to fulfill that appointment, he had taken his own life. I want to share an email that I exchanged with Daniel. He reached out and said to me that he would really appreciate it if I could share his father's story to highlight the absolute crisis we are facing in this country. He said that it would greatly help his family to heal if his story could be used to shed light on the countless others still suffering today from affordability. I want to give my condolences here on the floor of the House of Commons, as I said I would do, to Daniel, his wife, Amber, and his five-year-old daughter, Sophie. They have lost their father, father-in-law and grandfather in circumstances I can only imagine have been extremely difficult for them. I wanted to do this for Daniel and his family to let them know that, at the end of the day, in the House there are members who are working every day to help those who are suffering, whether it be with the affordability crisis we face or the mental health crisis we face, and getting optimism and hope for Canadians. I wanted to keep my word, as I have, and give my condolences to Daniel and his family and continue to fight the good fight in his father's memory. I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to ask a question about the radical drug policy of the Prime Minister and the NDP in British Columbia, with the support of the NDP here in Ottawa propping up the Prime Minister. When it came to the decriminalization, or legalization, of using hard drugs in public spaces in British Columbia, it was the Prime Minister's judgment and that of his coalition partners, which for years could have rejected the pitch from the B.C. government on this aspect, but instead, they approved it. Finally, after the pleas of the B.C. NDP government, which just happens to be facing an election later this year, and more importantly the horror stories that have been emerging from every part of the province about the disaster, the Prime Minister's decision was to reverse the exemption from the Criminal Code of the use of hard drugs such as crack, meth, fentanyl and opioids in public spaces. I want to not just use the words I have shared here today, but also to share from news articles. It was the CBC, of all media, that covered the Vancouver deputy police chief, Fiona Wilson, testifying on April 15 here at the House of Commons' health committee about the pilot and the Prime Minister's decision to decriminalize and allow hard drugs in public spaces. She said that it is “limiting police response to problematic public drug use, including inside hospitals and at bus stops”, and “in the wake of decriminalization, there are many of those locations where we have absolutely no authority to address that problematic drug use, because the person appears to be in possession of less than 2.5 grams”. She goes on to give a startling example: “So, if you have someone who is with their family at the beach, and there's a person next to them smoking crack cocaine, it's not a police matter.” What extremely poor judgment on the part of the Prime Minister to agree to the B.C. NDP request. He is just as complicit as they are on this out-of-touch wacko policy, as we have mentioned before.
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