Andrew Scheer

[Ethics, November 19th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, day after day brings new sordid details about the employment minister's scandal. Yesterday, we learned that his company shares a mailing address with an international drug trafficker who has been busted for cocaine not once but twice. The minister has been caught out in falsehoods, caught faking indigenous identity to try to secure government contracts meant for real indigenous people, and his company is under investigation for nine fraud-related counts. Why on earth has the Prime Minister not fired this man?

[Carbon Pricing, November 7th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, he said pick up the slack. Under the Liberals' policies, Canada keeps falling on performance indexes. The only thing the carbon tax is doing is making Canadians poorer, and the results are devastating.

A damning new report from the Salvation Army shows the human suffering the Prime Minister is inflicting on Canadians. The report says that first-time users of food banks shot up this year from 43% to 58%, and one in four parents is eating less so their children can eat. This is in Canada. How can he be so cold-hearted?

Why will he not at least let Canadians decide in a carbon tax election?

[Carbon Pricing, November 7th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it is a cap on production and his own department says it will kill jobs.

Let us listen to something else the Liberals' own officials are saying. The Prime Minister's own environment commissioner has blasted the carbon tax as a failure. Here are some of his conclusions: The government has “not made sufficient progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” and “Canada remains the worst performer among all member countries of the G7”.

Every time the Prime Minister makes the carbon tax go up, Canada's climate performance goes down, yet he keeps doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Why will he not call a carbon tax election so Conservatives can stop his insanity?

[Oil and Gas Industry, November 7th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of brutal assaults on Canadian energy workers, the Prime Minister just delivered a knockout punch with a production cap on oil and gas development, which his own department admits will kill jobs and drive investment south of the border.

Canadian energy company Enbridge just announced a $700-million project in the U.S. The Prime Minister is creating powerful paycheques for American workers while Canadian workers cannot afford their mortgages or food. It is completely baffling why he would kill jobs here just to see them created down south. Is he getting some kind of commission from the U.S. energy lobby for all the business he is sending it?

[Questions on the Order Paper, November 6th, 2024]

With regard to the Prime Minister's announcement that Mark Carney would chair the Prime Minister's economic growth task force: (a) what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that Mr. Carney is not in a conflict of interest, including, but not limited to, any requirements to divest assets, put assets in a blind trust, or recuse himself from any advice that could impact the economic well-being of Brookfield Asset Management; (b) has the government received a list of assets, investments, and sources of revenue from Mr. Carney to ensure that he is not asked for advice on any issue which could have a financial implication for him; and (c) what measures, if any, are in place to ensure that Mr. Carney is not asked for advice for which his answer could cause a personal financial benefit?

[The Economy, November 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, all this production cap will do is make other countries richer while making Canadians poorer. That is something the Prime Minister is so good at.

Members can consider this: GDP per capita in Canada is down. In the U.S., it is up. Nine years ago, average wages in the U.S. and Canada were almost identical. Now, an American worker brings home $22,000 more than their Canadian counterpart. As well, half a trillion dollars in investments has fled Canada to the United States, creating bigger paycheques for American workers. All of this is because of the Prime Minister's high taxes and massive deficits.

The Prime Minister is the number one job creator in the United States. Instead of helping the U.S. economy, why does he not fight for Canada for once?

[The Economy, November 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I join in my hon. colleague's sending of condolences.

However, we are witnessing economic vandalism in real time. Last Thursday, the government was briefed that the only sector of the Canadian economy that was actually producing any growth was the energy sector. What did the government do today? It slapped a punishing cap on Canadian production. This will only chase investments and jobs to other countries, but that is something the Prime Minister is good at. He increased Canadian investment in the U.S. by $63 billion last year alone.

Will the Prime Minister stop fuelling the U.S. economy, cancel his tax hikes and cancel the production cap to bring those investment dollars back home?

[The Economy, November 4th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister's economic vandalism, over two million Canadians are visiting a food bank in a single month, housing costs have doubled and inflation continues to eat away at Canadians' paycheques.

The Prime Minister's massive deficits and tax hikes are causing extreme damage to the Canadian economy. For eight out of the last nine quarters, Canadian per-person GDP is down. This is a made-in-Canada, per-person GDP recession. That means Canadian workers work harder but bring home less.

Will the Prime Minister stop his economic vandalism and cancel his job-killing, paycheque-shrinking tax hikes?

[Business of the House, October 31st, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, it is time for the Thursday question. I note that the calendar is just about to change over to November. That means the government has kept Parliament paralyzed through the latter half of September and all of October, and now tomorrow will be the third month it would rather tie up the business of the House with a privilege motion on the refusal to hand over evidence to the RCMP in its $400-million corruption scandal.

The government has had a lot of time to go through hard drives and file folders, to go through all the documents that are surrounding the sordid affair where Liberal-friendly board members funnelled taxpayers' dollars into their own companies. I hear from constituents every day who want to know who got rich, who knew it was happening and what the government is doing to get their money back. It all starts with the RCMP's being able to do its job.

I would like to ask someone from the government side what the business of the House might be, should the government finally comply with the lawful production order and let Parliament get back to work.

[Privilege, October 28th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, that is a fantastic and timely point made by my colleague. Perhaps she is on the right track to finding out the motivation as to why the Liberals are going to such great lengths to keep this hidden.

I know what this is like, as an opposition House Leader, as someone who was Speaker and as someone who sat in the government benches from 2006 to 2011. Being willing to sacrifice a month's worth of House time is an incredible price to pay to keep corruption hidden. There clearly must be something devastating in these documents that the government is willing to go to this great length to keep the information hidden.

I will just point out again that every single time the Liberals try to solve something, they make it worse. Housing costs have doubled under the government, and that is why—