Charlie Angus

[Privilege, December 3rd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, Radio-Canada reported yesterday that, in the ongoing interference in the Conservative leadership race by the Modi government, the member for Calgary Nose Hill was approached by agents of the Indian government to step down from the Patrick Brown campaign. We do not know whether a deal was cut or whether she was intimidated, but we do know that CSIS has identified a number of names of individuals who were involved in allowing the member who lives in Stornoway to take the leadership through now-serious allegations of interference by a foreign government.

Why does the member who lives in Stornoway refuse to get security clearance and to name the names? Will this member tell us if the member for Calgary Nose Hill is one of those identified by CSIS as being compromised by foreign government interference?

[Forestry Industry, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, Asia Pulp & Paper and the Wijaya family have a notorious track record. All of the alarm bells should have been sounding when their front company, Paper Excellence, showed up to get control of Canadian operations. Instead, the government laid out the red carpet. Now Asia Pulp & Paper controls vast sections of Canada's forests.

The Minister of Innovation brags that he has never taken any lessons. Obviously, he got played like a rube at the county fair. Why did the government abandon our workers and sell out our forests, and what is it going to do to protect our mills and our forestry communities?

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I remember when Stephen Harper was found in contempt of Parliament, the only prime minister ever found in contempt. He was found in contempt over an issue very similar but much more serious, the Afghan detainee documents. Allegations had been made that Canada was involved in turning over what often turned out to be low-value suspects for torture and intimidation, in violation of the Geneva Convention. Stephen Harper ignored Parliament, refused to turn over the documents and then prorogued Parliament and shut down the democratic process.

In this case, which is about turning over documents, the Speaker ruled that this matter should go to the PROC committee. I trust that members of the committee are going to make a decision about whether the Prime Minister is in contempt. However, to me, the real contempt of the House is that despite a ruling to send this to committee, the member who lives in the 19-room mansion Stornoway has shut down our work as parliamentarians, interfering with our rights and privileges. Meanwhile, the Trump agenda is rolling on, and we are sitting here as a broken democracy.

The role of Parliament is to ship this matter to committee. Members there can make a decision and return it to the House, and then we can decide whether the Prime Minister is in contempt. What is contempt is the refusal of the Conservatives to let us get to our work.

[Committees of the House, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I know it hurts when the Conservatives have to look in the mirror.

However, there was a $4,000 water bill for April and May, and a $7,506 bill for the months of July and August. Here is the thing: The member also has a private chef. If the Conservatives are serious about this, how about they forego the chef? Now, I know that “forego” is a complex word, so maybe we can put it into a bumper sticker. It could be this: “F the chef and be accountable”.

[Committees of the House, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I want to share on the issue of “not worth the cost”. There is the member who lives in the 19-room mansion at Stornoway, which costs $94,000 to operate and cost $170,000 in repairs. When he moved from his swanky digs in Ottawa to his super swanky digs, he dinged us $19,000 for—

[Committees of the House, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, in what universe would any single member of the Conservative Party care about public broadcasting? It is impossible. They live and feed in a swamp of disinformation. This is what elected Donald Trump.

The attack on the CBC is about attacking public journalism, just like the leader of the Conservatives attacked CTV, Global, the Toronto Star and The Canadian Press. Individual journalists have been targeted by the member who lives in Stornoway, who wants the world to live in a swamp of disinformation.

I am appalled that we are having to discuss contract choices made at what should be an arm's-length institution. There are many things I disagree with regarding the CBC. There are many times I rant as I listen to the radio driving in my car. However, I believe democracy requires an independent, credible media system.

The Conservatives sit there like numpties, laughing and ridiculing because they feed themselves on disinformation. They would not know truth if it came down naked, painted in purple, and danced all over their heads for two weeks. They have never seen truth because they live in a world of disinformation and are trying to reduce the rest of us to live in that fetid swamp.

[Committees of the House, November 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I am very concerned about the Conservative leader's tactics to divide Canadians and create conflict between francophone and anglophone communities. My riding has a very strong and proud Franco-Ontarian population. Many francophone communities are in rural areas. In my region, Radio-Canada is essential. In northern Ontario, it would be impossible to separate Radio-Canada from CBC because it is the same company.

Why are the Conservatives trying to use divisive politics to force a confrontation between francophones and anglophones across Canada?

[Committees of the House, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, Donald Trump has just announced that he is going to throw 25% tariffs on Canada's economy, throwing our industries into absolute chaos. How did the member who lives in the 19-room mansion in Stornoway respond? He comes in here and sends his troops in to fight about why CBC gave a contract to one company and not to another. The Conservatives are unfit to represent Canada at this time. What they are doing now is saying they will support radio stations in Quebec but shut them down in the rest of the country. This is about dividing people.

In my region in northern Ontario, CBC is the voice that keeps people together. However, the Conservatives think that they can divide Canadians, that they can say they will give Quebec everything it wants if they vote for the Conservatives. People in Quebec are not dumb enough to vote for that man, who will not have a plan—

[Committees of the House, November 25th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I am sure my hon. colleague has been dumped many times in his life. I do not think he should be blaming people who are smart enough to leave that relationship for his problems.

[Committees of the House, November 25th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The hon. member knows he cannot do indirectly what he is not allowed to do directly. I challenge him that the speeches that are generated by AI are not changed but the same dumbed-down repetition time after time.