Andrew Scheer

[Syria, December 11th, 2024]

You have no idea what I was going to say. It gets good.

Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions among the House leaders. I move that, given that the Liberal government will—

[Syria, December 11th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker—

[Nobel Peace Prize, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During question period, there was a disturbance in the gallery, and it was very alarming to see the NDP member for Port Moody—Coquitlam almost immediately not just reference it, but incorporate it, it seemed, into her question.

It was a prepared question. We could tell it was prepared because even after you admonished her for pointing out the disturbance in the gallery, she could not adapt and repeated it three times. It seems like this was a coordinated event, and that someone was invited into the chamber and the member knew there would be such a disturbance. I would ask you look into the matter and report back to the House as to how this individual gained entry into the gallery and on whose behalf this person was invited.

This comes on the heels of a security scare today in the Wellington Building and a protest in the Confederation Building last week, where members of Parliament were impeded access to their offices, threatened and forced to face toxic behaviour. This is a pattern of behaviour we are seeing from the NDP. As we come to the end of this session, it is incumbent upon all members to respect the security and safety of this place.

[Points of Order, December 9th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I just noticed the virtually unprecedented attack on a sitting chair occupant in real time.

As the member should know, if he has specific complaints about the actions of a chair occupant, he should put it in a formal motion. However, when that was done in this chamber, the member voted against that motion. I just wanted to point that out.

I would also point out that, many times in the House, we hear Liberal members who have entire preambles to questions or asks that have nothing to do with government business. Sometimes they have both. However, you, Mr. Speaker, have allowed those questions to stand. Nevertheless, having the guidance that you gave, we did not get up afterwards and challenge your ruling or insult your ability to handle question period. We just simply adapted and followed the precedents that you have set out for the chamber.

I would say that it is absolutely relevant and within the purview of government to ask the Prime Minister what promises, policies or deals he offered another party in order to keep its support so that he can stay in power. That is exactly what those questions were today. I just find it shameful that the parliamentary secretary for the government House leader would challenge your authority and your ability to handle question period, Mr. Speaker.

[Business of the House, December 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I heard the Minister of Labour saying “Please, give a speech.” I will maybe go beyond my normal short interventions. Honestly, I think most members of Parliament would like to know if the government House leader can update the House on the business of next week, should her government survive the confidence vote on Monday.

We know there are mixed messages coming from the NDP. We have put forward a common-sense motion agreeing with the NDP leader's words when he said the government was “too selfish and too beholden to corporate” greed to protect the rights of workers.

We expect the NDP will support that, that they would not swallow themselves whole and demonstrate to Canadians the heights of their hypocrisy. We expect the government will fall on Monday, counting on the NDP to declare confidence in its leader by agreeing with his words.

Should that not be the case, and the NDP members turn out to be flip-floppers and hypocrites, we would like to know what the government would be calling for the rest of the week.

[Housing, December 5th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. I am seeking consent for a motion for the House to recognize that everyone living in first nations communities should have access to safe, clean drinking water and condemn the Liberal government, which has failed after—

[Committees of the House, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, my vote was recorded as a nay on the vote on the amendment. I would just like to have that clarified and recorded as a yea and ensure that on the subsequent vote, which was applied, it would be counted as a yea as well.

[Liberal Party of Canada, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, that is just not true. They just got mixed up about what day the debate is going to be held. It is going to be held this Thursday. The vote will be on Monday, and all Canadians will be watching to see who is on the side of Canadian workers. The Prime Minister launched a brutal assault on workers. He devalued their paycheques with his inflation. He drove up prices with his carbon tax. He has doubled housing costs. He has hiked taxes, cancelled big projects that put union members back to work and issued edicts that undermine their collective bargaining rights.

Once again, my question to the government is this: Have they put the coalition deal back together so that the NDP leader will qualify for his pension while Canadian workers suffer?

[Liberal Party of Canada, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the NDP leader put on a big phony show this summer on the eve of a by-election, pretending to rip up the coalition deal. Recently, he said, “[The Liberals] will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power.” We could not have said it better ourselves.

Conservatives have put forward a motion agreeing with the NDP leader. Canadians will soon find out whether or not the NDP leader means anything he ever says, or if he will sell out union brothers and sisters to keep this corrupt Liberal government in power just so he can keep his pension.

The question to the government is this: Have the Liberals put the coalition deal back together so that the Prime Minister keeps power and the NDP leader keeps his pension?

[Privilege, December 3rd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I will sum up by saying the New Democrats have made baseless and false accusations that damage the reputations of individual members of Parliament. The old saying that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on is very appropriate here because they can make these allegations and, just by defending ourselves, we are contributing to the propagation of the falsehood. That puts all members in a very risky situation. Any one of us could get up at any time and make false accusations about who they saw in the parliamentary dining room bar and what one member said or did and not be held to account because the effect of the accusation plants the seed in people's minds.

Secondly, the behaviour by individual NDP MPs themselves was the cause for the breakdown of order in the House. The way they treated the Speaker, someone they have voted confidence in before, is absolutely shameful. They marched up the aisle, waving and hurling insults and abuse. It is clear that if anybody's privileges have been infringed, it is the Conservative MPs who are the subject of baseless allegations. If anybody's workplace was made toxic by behaviour, it was Conservative staff in the lobby because of NDP actions.

The proper thing to resolve this right now is for the New Democrats to withdraw their question of privilege, apologize to the Speaker for their behaviour, apologize to the Conservative MPs whose reputations they have slandered and put this matter to rest.