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Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 December 8th, 2025
Madam Speaker, when the Liberals send in the member for Winnipeg North to yell, scream and claim he is hard done by, that is when we know we are hovering over the target.
I have met with families that can no longer afford to pay for the essentials. Heartbreakingly, it is a larger number than ever, and the hon. member will know these same stories. I can say that what families also see is a free pass given again and again, under the Liberals, to their corporate friends, and a massive bail—
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 December 8th, 2025
Madam Speaker, it is not just me who is calling out this bill for what it is. Democracy Watch called it a “direct and significant financial conflict of interest”.
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 December 8th, 2025
Madam Speaker, you are right.
The Prime Minister will cash in.
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 December 8th, 2025
Madam Speaker, today I rise in the House of Commons to speak in opposition to Bill C-15, not because it is a Liberal budget bill but because it is a betrayal bill. The 634-page monster that the Liberals are trying to ram through in unprecedented fashion is hiding some of the most dangerous powers imaginable, powers that would let Liberal ministers pick winners and losers and exempt their corporate buddies from the laws that bind the rest of us, all while Canadian families scrape by with little more than empty promises from the Liberals, and with skyrocketing bills.
Let me paint a picture for the out-of-touch Liberal government. Right now across the country, moms and dads are staring at grocery receipts that have doubled over the past decade of Liberal inflation. That is not hyperbole; those are the facts. The Canada food price annual report that was released just last week confirmed it. Over the past 10 years of Liberal rule, food prices have surged. The price of beef is up 62% since 2019 alone, and the price of coffee has doubled over the past six years. A family of four is now shelling out over $17,500 a year just to feed itself. That is up more than$1,000 last year, and it is going to be up another $1,000 in the year to come, the report confirmed.
The cost of food has doubled in the past years, but paycheques have not, so Canadians are making sacrifices in order just to eat, and the budget has nothing for those families. Hungry Canadians are expected to fend for themselves under the Liberals. Families are left to choose between putting gas in their car and getting milk for the kids. They are skipping meals, rationing protein and watching their hard-earned paycheques evaporate into the Liberal inflation machine. One in four households is food insecure, and two million Canadians are lined up at food banks.
That is the Liberal legacy: a decade of deficits, taxes and skyrocketing industrial carbon taxes that have hammered the working class while Liberals cater to their wealthy and well-connected friends. Every year since the Liberals took office, Canadians have become poorer and poorer. First, families saw their savings dwindle. Then they gave up extras like a vacation or concert tickets. Before too long, there was no longer any money for the kids' hockey or ballet. Now, however, families cannot afford the essentials anymore, like their mortgage, their rent, heating their home, or food.
While families are tightening their belts, the Prime Minister is preoccupied with his Brookfield bondholder and banker buddies. He has inserted into the omnibus behemoth, the 634-page Bill C-15, a provision that would hand his cabinet ministers a golden key to unlock any federal law for his favourite companies or buddies, with the exception of the Criminal Code. It would not not exempt the Criminal Code, because I guess Liberals draw a line at giving a free pass for things like kidnapping, theft or murder, but everything else would be up for a “get out of jail free” card.
Exemptions from environmental protections, transportation safety rules, tax remittances and labour standards, just name it, would be for anyone they decide, and it is all justified with buzzwords like “innovation” and “competitiveness”. If they decide that someone or some company should not have to abide by the law, they would not have to.
Who would decide that if the bill is passed? It would be the Prime Minister or one of his ministers, alone in secret, based on their own fuzzy definition of what they call the public interest. There would be no parliamentary debate, no transparency and no oversight. Taxpayers would foot the bill for whatever mess they create or for whatever goes wrong. The Liberals' well-connected friends or companies would be off the hook, and it would be tough luck for average Canadians.
Let us think about it. The average Canadian entrepreneur, the small business owner, has to jump through all the hoops to get their business started or to expand their enterprise: environmental assessments, CRA audits, safety certifications, the works. However, some Bay Street giant or some buddy of the Prime Minister would just whisper in a minister's ear, and, poof, they would be exempt from taxes everybody else is expected to pay, from consultations everybody else is expected to do, from fishery quotas, from workplace safety regulations and from environmental regulations. They would be exempt, exempt, exempt.
Let me be clear: I agree with the people who legitimately say that the Liberals have made Canada uncompetitive with the rest of the world. It is true. Ask any entrepreneur these days, and they will say they agree that it is nearly impossible to keep a business alive in this country anymore. Liberals have added too much red tape, too much in taxes, too many forms, too many regulations, too many rules, too many reports and too many restrictions. That is why there has been an implosion of the small business sector across this country, with unprecedented closures and bankruptcies from coast to coast.
The solution cannot be that we give a special free pass to Liberal friends by continuing to overburden everybody else. That is truly picking winners and losers, like a Russian oligarch who has special privileges while everybody else pays the price. Canadians know that we all must be equal under the law. Cronyism is dangerous; it violates Canadian values, and it will destroy this country. The Liberals know that this is wrong, and that is why they hid the provision deep in the 634-page omnibus bill. Why did they create an omnibus bill? It is because they know that scrutiny is the enemy of corruption.
Liberals used to proudly herald that omnibus bills were a violation of democracy. They called them Trojan horses. I think members will remember those days. The Liberals promised never to use them, but here we are with a bill that would evade Parliament like a thief in the night. Division 5 of part 5 of Bill C-15 would amend the Red Tape Reduction Act to let ministers grant temporary “get out of jail free” cards for regulatory sandboxes. “Regulatory sandboxes” sounds kind of innocent, until we realize that it is a licence to print favours. Companies are going to line up to ask for them.
The Liberals talk about its being for innovation, but let us understand that what we would get if the provisions are passed are rent-seeking big players gaming the system and stifling real competition. The same judge and jury who would decide if an exemption is appropriate would also be the same minister deciding the exemption. Common sense says that if a law is bad, if it stifles development or innovation, we should repeal it for everybody. A democracy is no longer a democracy if some citizens or corporations can evade the law without parliamentary say. This is a power grab, not progress, and it stinks.
Now let us talk about the man at the top, the Prime Minister. The golden boy of global finance is now supposed to be Canada's champion, but here is the kicker. He still has skin in the game with Brookfield Asset Management: share options, deferred units and potentially tens of millions of dollars in carried interest from funds he set up, with payments that will mature in 2032 and 2034, maybe even long after he is out of office. He chaired the board and launched its green transition funds, and this is where Brookfield will win big and Carney will cash in.
Grande Prairie November 25th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, last Friday night the sirens sounded as firefighters and other first responders raced to the iconic Grand Prairie farmers' market in the heart of our city. Thankfully the market was closed for the day and no one was injured, but the flames rendered the building unusable.
This tragedy has come at the worst possible time. In the lead-up to Christmas, locals depend on the market for baking, gifts and other holiday goodies, and the makers, bakers, growers and crafters who sell their products depend on the Christmas sales to carry them throughout the rest of the year.
Our community will come together, because that is what it does. I am sure that, in time, the building will be rebuilt, but in the meantime our community will travel a bit farther to Evergreen Park to support the vendors, who desperately need our support.
We thank the city and county firefighters, including members who were off duty, who raced to the scene of the fire to put out the flames. I thank the market staff and the vendors for their resilience. I thank our community who will step up and support our Grand Prairie farmers' market as it seeks to serve us as it always has.
Citizenship Act November 3rd, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives agree to apply the vote, with the Conservatives voting against.
Committees of the House October 28th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives agree to apply the vote, with the Conservatives voting in favour.
Business of the House October 23rd, 2025
Mr. Speaker, over the last number of weeks, we have witnessed countless job losses announced in regions across this country. It is thousands in the energy sector, thousands in the forestry sector and thousands in the automotive sector.
I wonder if the member opposite could tell us what the legislative agenda is for the coming week and, specifically, if he will agree to the Conservatives' request for take-note debates on the emergencies in the softwood lumber industry and the auto sector. There has been devastating news over the last number of weeks. We hope the Liberals will agree that this is an important issue that we must be seized with in the House of Commons.
Will the hon. House leader for the Liberals and the Liberal Party of Canada agree to take these matters seriously and allow for take-note debates on the subject of the job losses in the forestry sector and the automotive sector?
Employment October 3rd, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he was going to fix the disaster that Justin Trudeau left, but 86,000 Canadians have lost their jobs since the Prime Minister took office.
Just this last week, 900 Calgarians lost their job at Imperial Oil, 300 jobs are threatened at Kap Paper, and GM has announced that it is moving jobs from Oshawa back to the United States.
The Prime Minister was elbows up, elbows down and flying all around. This guy promised that he was going to be different than Justin Trudeau, but just like Trudeau, he has been jet-setting, talking to fancy people and taking care of his Liberal friends while Canadians are losing their jobs.
Why will the Prime Minister not admit that he is just like Justin Trudeau and just another Liberal?
Employment October 3rd, 2025
Mr. Speaker, before the election, the Prime Minister said that it was “elbows up”. That was his solution to save Canadian jobs.
After the election, it has been elbows down, and since then he has been flying all around. He met with the Chinese and, after that meeting, they raised tariffs on Canadian farmers and seafood. He met with the Americans and, after that meeting, they raised tariffs higher on Canadian lumber. He met with the British, and they said they were not dropping the tariffs on Canadian beef.
The Prime Minister is elbows up, elbows down, flying all around, and it has cost 86,000 Canadians their jobs. Everywhere he goes, things get worse.
When will the Prime Minister just stop and park the jet before he costs more Canadians their jobs?