James Bezan

[Committees of the House, December 17th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the tone of the member for Kingston and the Islands as he is quoting scripture is nothing more than anti-Christian bigotry—

[Committees of the House, December 10th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, that has to be the worst speech ever by the member for Winnipeg North. It was tough to listen to and completely irrelevant. Of course, it will be irrelevant because he is spreading misinformation. He is making use of the state broadcaster to push out the Liberal narrative without any actual evidence in it.

We know he does not want to talk about how the Conservatives increased the number of border guards by 26%, and we armed them so they could do their jobs better. We took away from the backroom and put less tail and more tooth. This is what we did as government, ensuring they were armed, equipped and our borders were more secure.

We also know that he does not want to talk about what the motion is actually about, and that is how fentanyl use and illegal illicit drugs continue to increase.

Why will he not talk about how, under the Liberal government, we have witnessed 22 Canadians dying every day because of fentanyl overdoses?

[Questions on the Order Paper, December 4th, 2024]

With regard to Canadians detained or incarcerated abroad: (a) how many Canadians are currently detained or incarcerated in Hong Kong; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by length of incarceration and type of charge or accusation that resulted in the detainment or incarceration?

[Committees of the House, December 2nd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North gets in here, all sanctimonious, with all sorts of machinations of what is happening over on the Conservative side, and he is making it up as he goes along. He says that we are bringing forward a filibuster. We are on a different motion from what he was debating this whole time. We are talking about a concurrence report from the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

Instead, he goes off on tirades, accusing the member for Calgary Nose Hill of being interfered with, when her own statements to the CBC and the statement she released on social media say that she was not. For him to stand in this place and disparage the comments made by the member for Calgary Nose Hill does a disservice to all hon. members in the House.

He wants to talk about filibustering, yet nobody has spoken more than him in the House since forever in the history of Canada, and definitely at this point in time when we are talking about the issues of both this concurrence motion and the question of privilege as it relates to the green slush fund. Let me just ask the member this. Is he going to continue to slow down the business of the House, or is he going to continue to—

[U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Products, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, we just witnessed some very partisan comments from the member for Winnipeg North of the Liberal caucus on this very serious issue, which would impact Canada and all Canadians. This is a time that we need to put partisanship aside.

Would my colleague from the NDP agree to put partisanship aside to work together in the best interests of protecting Canadian jobs, protecting Canadian salaries and protecting our industries here at this point in time?

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I am with my colleague from Kelowna—Lake Country. I just wish that the member for Winnipeg North would quit filibustering in here and actually do his job and turn over the documents so that we can get to the bottom of this. We just heard from the Bloc that the extension of hours next week was not the Bloc. We know it was not the Liberals who were extending hours. It was the NDP. We just had in here the member for New Westminster—Burnaby, the House leader for the NDP, saying that they are always here to stand up against corruption, but they are now in with the Liberals once again.

My question for my colleague from Kelowna—Lake Country is this: Does she believe that the NDP got out the scotch tape and pasted back together its agreement? Is the breakup over?

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the member actually talked publicly about signing the letter to remove the Prime Minister as leader of the Liberal Party. The bigger question is why has he not continued that fight to do the right thing for Canada and remove the one individual here who continues to make us less safe, continues to squander the dollars and continues to ensure that we can make investments in things like the Coast Guard, the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP?

The Liberals would rather take the dollars for building back our Canadian Armed Forces and have the money misappropriated by the Liberal insiders who were sitting on the green slush fund board. This is the question we need answered: Why not get rid of the Prime Minister?

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his hard work in making sure we always stand up against corruption, we stand up for democracy and we stand up for the proper governance of the House of Commons and of cabinet.

Meanwhile, we are witnessing the Liberals' refusing to co-operate with the Speaker. They are refusing to hand over the documents so the RCMP can do its work. We have been waiting for the documents for over five months, coming up on six months next week. The Auditor General found that there was a violation of the rules. The board members refused to recuse themselves; they were enriching themselves instead of leaving the room.

What would have been even better is if the Liberal appointees had never even made an application or taken the dollars in the first place. They were there to make sure that the green-tech companies across this country were getting the money they need, and instead they enriched themselves, which is all wrong.

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby gives a very interesting revisionist history. The NDP has been the party that has kept the Liberals in power; the Liberals are here because of the ongoing support of the NDP. Going into the by-elections this fall, the leader of the NDP said that he had torn up the agreement, which was so they could win their seat back in Elmwood—Transcona. There was a very thin margin in that by-election, and they were losing up until that point. When I was knocking on doors in Elmwood—Transcona, every constituent was sick and tired of the NDP's supporting the Prime Minister and the Liberals.

The NDP's coalition with the Liberals has allowed us to get to this point. It was the NDP that helped them shut down the debate and not turn over the documents we needed in the past, and they are now allowing the debate to go on. However, if they at all support a closure motion brought forward by the Liberal government, it again will prove that the NDP “have their six”, have the Liberals' back, and that the coalition is alive and well.

[Privilege, November 26th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, for the member for Winnipeg North, who does not know the numbers, I will explain that the only way the Liberals got their numbers up is that in 2017 they asked permission from NATO to add in, and there is an order paper question that just proved it, $6.5 billion from veterans' pensions, defence employees' pensions, and Coast Guard, which is not a paramilitary organization.