Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, for decades, Canada has had one of the strongest and most successful immigration and refugee programs in the world. That is because we have detailed laws, passport requirements, borders, and visas, all to ensure that our system is fair and rules based. This actually

Government Accountability  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has announced that he wants to change the rules of Parliament to make his life easier, and no one's life will be easier than his. If he gets away with this, he will only have to show up to work once a week. He also wants to strip the opposition of

Government Accountability  Modern, Mr. Speaker? Efficient? Efficient like the Chinese dictatorship that he thinks is so efficient? We do not live in China. Those are the Prime Minister's words. We do not live in China or Cuba. We live in Canada, and we have a parliamentary democracy that is accountable t

Finance  Let us start with facts, Mr. Speaker. The fact is that the middle class grew by 30% over the last 10 years. Here is an interesting fact. The Prime Minister's Office has already spent more on polling than the previous Conservative government spent in eight years. Millions of tax

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, what Canadians want tomorrow is a break from the Prime Minister. In the last budget, he hiked taxes on small businesses, on families, and on students, and then we got the national carbon tax and a payroll tax hike, but that is not enough. Now the Prime Minister nee

Government Accountability  Mr. Speaker, each and every person here was elected to represent the people in their riding, and together we represent the Canadian people. Far from a mere inconvenience, the Prime Minister appearing in the House every day to answer questions is a critical tool for him to provid

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is exactly right. We all know, although I do not think the Liberals know that—breaking news—governments do not create jobs. Businesses create jobs; individual Canadians create jobs. It is our job in this place to create the climate for that and allow

Business of Supply  No, Mr. Speaker, they do not. I agree with the hon. member about this issue; there is absolutely no transparency around this. Ports and airports, in particular, are strategic assets. When there is a thought of selling them, we need complete transparency. The member is right abo

Business of Supply  That is Liberal financing. How does that in any way benefit the taxpayer? At the end of the day, we have the Prime Minister nickel and diming families and businesses over and over again with tax hikes, and his solution is to give a benefit to a private investment firm at the ex

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, that would all be well and good, except the infrastructure funding is not even flowing. There is no money being transferred to municipalities and projects are not getting out the door. Mayors are saying that across the country, so I am not sure what the member is tal

Business of Supply  moved: That, given the failure of the government to achieve the economic and employment objectives presented in Budget 2016, and given the growing protectionist and competitive threat from the United States, the House call on the government to ensure that Budget 2017 includes:

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, as the official opposition, it is the Conservative Party's responsibility to tell the Prime Minister what hard-working Canadian families expect to see in his budget tomorrow. Canada’s Conservatives are the voice of the taxpayer. We focus on results for Canadians.

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is making Canada a less attractive place to do business and create jobs every single day. Business investment has fallen every single quarter since the Prime Minister took office, and when people are not investing in our economy, jobs are not creat

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, these are mostly part-time jobs and this is a serious issue that is coming up in this next budget. Small businesses are bracing for this next budget. They already know that they have been hit by the Prime Minister's carbon tax, the EI hike, the CPP tax hike, and hi

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we know that the Prime Minister has now written and rewritten his budget a few times. It seems he cannot quite find the right way to tell Canadians he wants more of their money. With Mr. Trump moving to drastically reduce taxes, what businesses need to hear is that