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Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, it is shameful that my colleagues across the way would clap for a 23% increase in the carbon tax when Canadians are lining up at food banks in insurmountable numbers. Millions of Canadians cannot afford to put food on their table and these folks over here stand and clap.

February 26th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, you can call them to account.

February 26th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, I cannot help but point out the obvious. She is a member of the NDP, which is currently in a coalition with the Liberal government, so in part, it is actually her doing that we are here in this place having this discussion at the eleventh hour. I would encourage her to perhaps work with her party to act differently and to actually act on behalf of Canadians.

February 13th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, I would ask the hon. member to point to the supports his government has offered to those with mental illness. What we heard in this place, in Parliament, from witness after witness is that the supports are inadequate. People desperately need more support. On this side of the House, I think of my hon. colleague, whose name I am not allowed to use, and his tremendous effort in advocating for support for those who live with a mental illness and his tremendous effort with bringing in a three-digit suicide line to help prevent suicide, and of course we know that is most often associated with a mental illness.

February 13th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, as Conservatives, our desire is to be on the side of vulnerable Canadians and to be their greatest advocate. Our desire is to listen to the pleas of those who came before the House. That is our job. We have been elected to represent our constituents to the best of our ability, so when it came to hearing testimony on medical assistance in dying being extended to those with a mental illness, we leaned in, listened and did the hard work.

February 13th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, the number of Canadians ending their lives through medical assistance in dying is accelerating at a rate that outpaces that in any other country. Canada's most recent annual report on medical assistance in dying, which I will call MAID from this point forward, shows that MAID deaths are actually up by 30% from just one year ago.

February 13th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal government's reckless policies, our country is in a place of crime and chaos. Since 2015, sexual assault cases have increased by 72%. That is a big number. The Liberal government's soft-on-crime approach is a direct attack on women and girls in our country.

February 8th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is right that this is not something to be made light of, but that is exactly what the Liberal government's policies have done. Unfortunately, after eight years of the Liberal government, the number of sexual assault cases in the country has skyrocketed by 72%.

February 8th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act  Madam Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to stand in this place and to address a very important issue. That issue comes down to affordability. It comes down to the well-being of Canadians from coast to coast, to those who live in rural areas, in urban areas, in my province of Alberta and in Atlantic Canada.

February 6th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to Sport Canada: what are the details of all reports or documents Hockey Canada has filed with Sport Canada since Hockey Canada's funding was restored in April 2023, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) title, (iii) type of report or document, (iv) summary of contents?

January 29th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, there is the government's false perception of reality, and then there is the reality that everyday Canadians are experiencing. I would invite the hon. member to consider what that reality actually is. If she could only come down from her high horse and enter the everyday life of Canadians, she might understand that not everyone lives in downtown Toronto and has access to the luxuries she does.

January 29th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, never before have we seen ignorance used as a political strategy the way the current Liberal government uses it. It is shameful. At the end of the day, Canadians are struggling, day in and day out, to be able to heat their homes, to be able to put food on their tables and to be able to care for their families.

January 29th, 2024House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, after eight years of the Liberal-NDP government, Canadians are arguably worse off than they have ever been before. In fact, the government would rather penalize a single mother for commuting to work to earn for her family than face the fact that its carbon tax is not working, not for the environment and certainly not for Canadians.

December 14th, 2023House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The hon. member for Fleetwood—Port Kells spoke in the House a moment ago. He just put a tweet out into the public realm with regard to the leader of the official opposition. It insinuates that the leader of the official opposition should commit suicide, so I would like to give the member the opportunity to apologize for the statement and retract it.

December 6th, 2023House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, there is a difference between the member and me. I exist here as a member who belongs to the Conservative Party of Canada and he exists here as a member who belongs to the Bloc. I exist here to defend all of Canada and he exists here to defend Quebec.

November 28th, 2023House debate

Rachael ThomasConservative