Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023  We end up with $1.4 trillion in debt. That is $93,000 for every single household in Canada; $3,400 per year, per household, just for interest on the Liberal debt. We think about it like the GST. It is 5% on everything purchased. People go out to a restaurant, have a beer or go to a Blue Jays game.

National Volunteer Week  Last year, these free tax clinics made it possible for almost 650,000 Canadians with a modest income to file their taxes and receive more than $1.75 billion in benefits, credits and refunds. More than 3,400 community organizations, composed of more than 14,700 volunteers, contributed to achieving these results. I would encourage all members to take a moment to thank all of the phenomenal volunteers and the program.

Telecommunications  Today, just under 90% of Albertans have access to high-speed Internet. In March, I was there to announce 14 projects to connect over 22,000 homes, 3,400 indigenous homes, all in rural Alberta. This $112-million investment is in partnership with the province as part of our commitment to connect all Canadians by 2030. We will always stick up for Albertans.

Government Operations committee  When the moratorium was established, there were roughly 4,000 protected offices. Today there are roughly 3,400.

Information & Ethics committee  When I hear you talk about what is lavish in terms of material, I'm from Hamilton Centre and I would put it to you that $3,400 for champagne and wine is lavish and $1,000 for a steak dinner is lavish, and I think it's completely unacceptable in the context of the work that we do. What I would propose to this committee right off the bat, for those who are interested in actually changing the page on these ongoing sagas of what I think are scandals that take away from the legitimacy of our democracy, is the elimination of sponsored travel and its replacement with two international travel credits on our MOB, free of any kind of idea of influence, whether foreign, corporate, or otherwise.

Government Business No. 31—Proceedings on Bill C-50  What about the tens of thousands of Canadians whose jobs were devastated by the NDP-Liberals' fast-tracked coal transition? The environment commissioner said this was a total failure. It left 3,400 Canadian workers in about a dozen communities completely behind. However, the government members say to just trust them to engineer an economic transition for 2.7 million Canadians and the entire country.

Natural Resources committee  They are still waiting for the coal transition funding they were promised by the government. Over 3,400 or 3,500 workers were impacted by the microtransition that happened in coal in Alberta. Entire communities were devastated. Who knows? Maybe the Liberals will put forward a subamendment to hear from people from Hanna, Alberta.

Business of Supply  In Regina, Saskatchewan, it is $1,400 versus $4,400. In Toronto, Ontario, it is $900 versus $3,400. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is $1,300 versus $4,700. In Montreal, Quebec, it is $1,300 versus $3,400. In Fredericton, New Brunswick, it is $1,600 versus $3,600. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, it is $2,200 versus $3,200.

Radiocommunication Act  We have 3,500 municipalities in Canada and only 94 of them are urban, which means that over 3,400 municipalities in Canada are rural. It would be best for all of us as MPs to look at rural strategies to look at this. Most importantly, let us get rid of this spectrum speculation.

Business of Supply  For members living in Ontario, I want them to know that if they have people using home heating oil, they are paying, on average, $3,400 a year on that oil. For those on natural gas, it is $900 a year. Therefore, oil is almost four times the amount. If people do not have the money, how do they get off of it? They are in a vicious cycle, using the most expensive fuel to heat their home, and they do not have the money to get off the source they are using.

Information & Ethics committee  You acknowledged the protection of a democratic institution as it relates to the trust and the decisions that are made—having a conflict, having the appearance of a conflict, being influenced, the conversations we've had and I know that you would be privy to around foreign interference—as being germane, yet the order of magnitude in which the scenario was provided to you: $3,400 for champagne and wine I think, and one of them might have been a $700 bottle of wine.... I know you don't want to do hypotheticals, but let's have an ethical exercise right now. If I were to receive, in my office, from an unregistered company consultant, an $800 bottle of champagne, could I accept that under the current regime?

Information & Ethics committee  In essence, it's doing indirectly what it can't do directly, providing a third party with the funding mechanisms to fly a group of MPs across the Atlantic to London for an upscale conference that includes $3,400 in champagne and $1,000 steak dinners. If it were the case, sir, that a company or an entity were funding something indirectly through consultants, how would you frame that? Would that be a violation of the conflict of interest code, or could it perhaps be considered a criminal act?

Information & Ethics committee  I have a hard time, as a former consultant myself, understanding how an individual can come up with the kind of cash to send people on a trip like this, to have the kinds of expenses—$3,400 in champagne and wine and nearly $1,000 for steak—without there being some kind of fiduciary interest in that. In that regard, if it's not regulated and not within the framework of lobbying, could that not be considered in the space of bribery?

Information & Ethics committee  That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h) and in relation to the recent disclosures of sponsored travel by Stephen Ellis, Rosemary Falk, Philip Lawrence, Shannon Stubbs and John Williamson, which include more than $3,400 for champagne and wine and nearly $1,000 for steak dinners plus travel paid for by Canadians for Affordable Energy, the committee invite the Lobbying Commissioner, the Interim Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, and Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, to appear before the committee for no less than one meeting.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have a multi-million dollar set-up in front of me yet we want to bring a person in from Winnipeg at $2,200. There's an unspecified person coming in for $1,200. It's a total of $3,400. I see no reason in this budget to bring people in. We can bring them in on Zoom. We've done this in the past. I have emphatically asked every committee in the House of Commons to start using the multi-million dollar facilities in front of us.