44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 11, 2024 10:00AM
- Jun/11/24 11:14:20 a.m.
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moved:
Motion No. 79
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 269.
Motion No. 80
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 270.
Motion No. 81
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 271.
Motion No. 82
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 272.
Motion No. 83
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 273.
Motion No. 84
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 274.
Motion No. 85
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 275.
Motion No. 86
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 276.
Motion No. 87
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 277.
Motion No.88
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 278.
Motion No. 89
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 279.
Motion No. 90
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 280.
Motion No. 91
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 281.
Motion No. 92
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 282.
Motion No. 93
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 283.
Motion No. 94
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 284.
Motion No. 95
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 285.
Motion No. 96
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 286.
Motion No. 97
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 287.
Motion No. 98
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 288.
Motion No. 99
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 289.
Motion No. 100
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 290.
Motion No. 101
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 291.
Motion No. 102
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 292.
Motion No. 103
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 293.
Motion No. 104
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 294.
Motion No. 105
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 295.
Motion No. 106
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 296.
Motion No. 107
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 297.
Motion No. 108
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 298.
Motion No. 109
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 299.
Motion No. 110
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 300.
Motion No. 111
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 301.
Motion No. 112
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 302.
Motion No. 113
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 303.
Motion No. 114
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 304.
Motion No. 115
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 305.
Motion No. 116
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 306.
Motion No. 117
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 307.
Motion No. 118
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 308.
Motion No. 119
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 309.
Motion No. 120
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 310.
Motion No. 121
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 311.
Motion No. 122
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 312.
Motion No. 123
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 313.
Motion No. 124
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 314.
Motion No. 125
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 315.
Motion No. 126
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 316.
Motion No. 127
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 317.
Motion No. 128
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 318.
Motion No. 129
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 319.
Motion No. 130
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 322.
Motion No. 131
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 323.
Motion No. 132
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 324.
Motion No. 133
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 325.
Motion No. 134
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 326.
Motion No. 135
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 327.
Motion No. 136
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 328.
Motion No. 137
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 329.
Motion No. 138
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 330.
Motion No. 139
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 331.
Motion No. 140
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 332.
Motion No. 141
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 333.
Motion No. 142
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 336.
Motion No. 143
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 337.
Motion No. 144
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 338.
Motion No. 145
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 339.
Motion No. 146
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 442.
Motion No. 147
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 443.
Motion No. 148
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 445.
Motion No. 149
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 446.
Motion No. 150
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 447.
Motion No. 151
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 448.
Motion No. 152
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 449.
Motion No. 153
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 450.
Motion No. 154
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 461.
Motion No. 155
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 462.
Motion No. 156
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 463.
Motion No. 157
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 464.
Motion No. 158
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 465.
Motion No. 159
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 466.
Motion No. 160
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 467.
Motion No. 161
That Bill C-69 be amended by deleting Clause 468.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are poor, a theme that is all too common after nine years under the Liberal-NDP government. Canadians know that they could do all the right things: They could go to school, have a part-time job while they are going to school, make ends meet, get a job, and work and put in as much as they can to save up. However, at the end of the day, the government will do everything in its power to work against all that hard work.
The Canadian experience, or the Canadian dream, that we used to have in this country used to include things that would seem very basic for any country. If people put in hard work, they could own a home, own a business and send their kids to a good playground or a school where they would not find such things as needles and crack pipes. They would be able to just walk down the street without fear of being mugged or fear of going through tent cities such as those we are seeing across this country. However, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, that experience is gone. Nine out of 10 young people say that they have lost the dream of home ownership. They see a Liberal-NDP government with a carbon tax scam, which has been increased once again. Because of this, single moms have to make decisions about skipping meals now.
There is a woke, ideologically extremist government that will do everything in its power to make sure Canadians will never be successful. This is because we have an out-of-touch Prime Minister who has probably never had to fill his own car with gas or go grocery shopping on his own. I am not even sure if he knows how to open doors anymore. He probably needs to be retrained after next year, when he is not going to be prime minister anymore. The sad part is that the incoming Liberal leader is no different. It is Mark “carbon tax” Carney who is going to be crowned. The pain that the Liberal-NDP government is inflicting on Canadians does nothing to these trust-fund babies or these elitists, but it does everything to harm the middle class and workers.
We do not have to look very far to see the pain the government has caused after nine years, with nothing but blind support from the NDP. On top of the tent cities, there are food banks with larger and larger lineups at them and with different demographics than there were nine years ago. In fact, people can have a well-paying job and still have to line up at a food bank. They could be a teacher or a nurse but still end up sleeping in their car because, after nine years, the Liberal-NDP government has doubled housing costs. The government spent $89 billion on housing. Rents and mortgages have doubled; in fact, rents are at the highest rate they have ever been in Canadian history.
However, this is no surprise, because we have an out-of-touch Liberal-NDP government that has no clue. According to them, Canadians have never had it so good. However, none of the Liberal or NDP MPs or the Prime Minister actually talk to Canadians. They would rather rub elbows, as Mark “carbon tax” Carney does, with the elites of the world. They would rather do that than sit at a dinner table with everyday Canadians and workers, such as the ones who cannot afford groceries anymore, who are deciding whether they should get that extra grocery item or who are thinking about whether they can actually afford heat or rent this month. Kids are starving because of the cost of food. That is nine years of the Liberal-NDP government.
The problem is that productivity in this country has declined once again, for the seventh consecutive quarter. GDP per capita tells us how productive the country is. I spoke on Bill C-69 just weeks ago; at that time, GDP per capita was at the lowest rate since 2016. The week before that, GDP per capita was at the worst rate since 2017. Today GDP per capita is worse than it was in 2014.
Canadians have been hit with 40-year highs in inflation because of the Liberal-NDP government's out-of-control spending. They got the most rapid interest rate hikes seen in Canadian history. They got slammed by a carbon tax scam that only went up, did nothing for the environment and only made the cost of gas, groceries and home heating even more expensive. Not only did the government do that, but it also made sure that investment in this country fled. More than $200 billion of investment has already fled since 2016. That is the record of the current government; however, again, Canadians have never had it so good according to the Liberals.
In fact, Canadians have had it so good that they want to leave. More Canadians are leaving each year now because of the high cost of living. The Canadian dream that everyone thought of or came here for, just as my family did, is gone, and the proof is in the numbers: the food bank usage, the people fleeing from here or thinking about leaving here, the number of bankruptcies and the insolvencies.
I will give an example of a small business owner. Small business owners are the ones the government considers to be tax cheats. I have a friend in the GTA, who left everything back at home and took the big risk of coming to this country. He came at a good time, when taxes were low and rent was half of what it is today. That was under a Stephen Harper government. It was a time when people knew that they could put in hard work and get something back.
He started his first job as a janitor in this country; now he is a very successful transport owner. What happened in that time, and what has happened to him now? He was able to save up. He was able to send his kids to a good school, and now they are a part of that business as well.
Now he is being taxed more than ever before by the ideology-driven government. In this country, after nine years, success is vilified. If people make money, the Liberals are going to take it. Now my friend has been hit with higher carbon tax costs; he cannot find workers, because the government has broken the immigration system; and, on top of all that, extortion has happened to him. After nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, he is getting hit with every single bad policy: He is paying higher taxes, he is not getting the labour he needs so he can grow his business, and his success is not only vilified by the government, but now extortion is happening to him because the soft-on-crime policies of the current government have done that to him and his business.
Now, this person's family lives in fear every single day. The family members live in separate hotel rooms. They have bulletproof windows on their house and cars. On top of that, they are now thinking about leaving. This is a story that is all too common in this country after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government. By every measure, productivity has gone down; that always affects the most vulnerable people and the middle class, the ones whom the Liberal-NDP government is supposedly always standing up for.
However, hope is on the horizon; it cannot come soon enough. Under a common-sense Conservative government, we would turn this country around. That Canadian dream would be revered once again around the world.
Under the leadership of the member for Carleton, we would axe the tax. We would get rid of the carbon tax for all and bring down the cost of gas, groceries and home heating. We would make sure business owners can keep that money, so they could invest more in themselves and in workers.
\We would fix the budget. We would bring in a dollar-for-dollar law, so that a dollar spent needs to have a dollar of savings somewhere, and this would help lower inflation and interest rates. The current government does not understand this, because the Liberals think that budgets balance themselves.
We would build the homes, not more of the bureaucracy that we have seen under the government, which has doubled the cost of housing in all respects.
We would stop the crime by bringing back mandatory minimum sentences so that we can have safe streets and safe communities once again.
Under a common-sense Conservative government led by the member for Carleton, we would bring home that Canadian dream once again. This is something that, after nine years, the out-of-touch Liberal-NDP government has destroyed.
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- Jun/11/24 12:52:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is a little rich, coming from the specific member, to be talking about falsehoods.
If the Liberals want to talk about falsehoods, they should remember how they sold the carbon tax scam. They said it would be revenue-neutral. Well, that was false. They said it would somehow fix the forest fires and the environment. That was false. In fact, their own environmental department says they do not even track how much this carbon tax scam brings down emissions, and emissions went up. The Liberals know it is just like the Prime Minister: not worth the cost.
On top of that, the member wants to talk about inflation. The carbon tax scam added to inflation. It is a big chunk of today's overall CPI number that we see. In fact, if the Liberals were to take away the carbon tax scam, as Conservatives would do, it would dramatically bring down inflation, which means we could bring down interest rates.
This carbon tax scam is nothing but a Ponzi scheme under the Liberal government, supported by the NDP, because all they want to do is protect their leaders' pensions.
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- Jun/11/24 12:54:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure that if he had been an effective small business critic, he would still be in that role.
I will tell Canadians why he is not. It is because the NDP has propped up this corrupt, inept, incompetent government. In fact, the member talks about small businesses, but it is because of them that more small businesses are going insolvent and that there are more bankruptcies. The NDP helped jack up the carbon tax scam. That is not just for businesses; it is the workers of those small businesses—
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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- Jun/11/24 12:55:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure that they might be a little farther away after the next election, but that is okay. They can heckle me all they want.
Canadians know that workers were hurt the most by the Liberal-NDP government's woke, extremist, ideological thinking, which drove them into food banks more than ever before. However, they take pride in saying that they are somehow the saviours of this country. In fact, we just have to look at their record. Ever since the NDP has been propping the Liberals up, there has been more food bank usage, more bankruptcies and more insolvencies. Moreover, the workers they supposedly stand up for are impacted the most by their failed policies.
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- Jun/11/24 2:38:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this fast-and-furious finance minister unveiled her latest job-killing scheme to screw over Canada's middle class to bankroll her incompetency. Newcomers such as my family came here for the Canadian dream, had very little, worked hard, saved money and started a small business. She calls them tax cheats and vilifies their success. This job-killing capital gains tax hike will destroy their life's work. They can save it all by cancelling their Disney+.
Before the minister runs away from the microphone again, does she think her attack on small businesses is actually fair?
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- Jun/11/24 2:39:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister and the leader of the NDP can do as many photo ops with their bikes as they want, but these champagne socialists are taking money from the middle class to give to rich Liberal insiders, their elitist Bay Street buddies and the bloated bureaucracy. This job-killing tax hike vilifies success, punishing small businesses and their workers. That is why GDP per person in Canada is collapsing and Canadians are poor.
Before she spends another billion dollars next week to service her debt, can she tell us if this is fair?
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