Kevin Vuong

[Labour, December 13th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, today the Canada Post strike is a month old and there is no end in sight. This essential service to small businesses is absent during a critical sales period needed for their survival.

Two obstinate groups hold Canada hostage while the Liberals, desperate to cling to power, are afraid to lose NDP support by ending the strike. Both should know that there are no workers to unionize or taxpayers to tax without employers, and the government's failure to act is harming Canada's top employers and our economy.

Will the government do its job, put Canada first, stop hiding behind the CIRB and end this strike?

[Public Safety, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, given the complete and utter failure of the government and the immigration minister, honestly, I do not blame the parliamentary secretary for reading his script word for word. Frankly, I do not blame him for trying to run out the clock with his government-issued talking points either.

The parliamentary secretary talked about safeguards. Let us look at how those safeguards are performing. Earlier this summer, a father-son duo was arrested in Toronto before being able to execute an advanced-stage terror plot, an attack in Toronto, Canada. That father was in an ISIS terror video, in which he was pictured dismembering the body of a victim that they had murdered, hacking at them with a sword. Therefore, the safeguards are not working.

What is the plan to keep Canadians safe, defend the integrity of our immigration system and secure our borders?

[Public Safety, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, on November 27, the Prime Minister avoided my question and tried to deflect the failures of his immigration minister to protect Canadians and secure our borders.

The Prime Minister should worry less about the opposition leader and concentrate more on his ongoing refusal to name the individuals implicated in working on behalf of Chinese foreign interests and bring them to justice. What is motivating the Prime Minister to not provide those names? Is he afraid that on that list are members of his own party or cabinet, people who have benefited from Chinese foreign interference? Treason is a serious offence, as is being bought off by foreign influencers in being in receipt of electoral and financial benefits, as reported by NSICOP. These are all very serious matters that require full investigation by the appropriate authorities.

The Prime Minister does not have the legal authority to determine if traitors get shielded from our laws. The Prime Minister knows the damage and the danger caused by his weak and ineffectual immigration minister and the precarious position his failures are posing to the Canadian economy in light of the 25% tariff threat issued by President-elect Trump. How is it possible that the Prime Minister would shelter people and permit a porous border, where terrorists and those out to betray our democracy and our country are given free entry passes? Are we now to see another influx of extremists like we have seen with the IRGC, but this time from potential extremists exiting Syria?

At least 14 countries have already frozen Syrian asylum applications, four of which, by the way, are fellow G7 members. What about Canada? Is the immigration minister going to let even more extremists waltz into Canada under the pretext of being bona fide refugees, eager to exploit our compassion as Canadians and our refugee program as a cover to avoid detection or persecution? What kind of immigration and refugee system do we have under the government? It seems more interested in letting in terrorists rather than acting to defend our borders and protect Canadians.

The Prime Minister must come clean and explain why he is so reluctant to bring those names forward for investigation and prosecution. This entire mess cannot be the product of some misguided personal or twisted interpretation by the Prime Minister of some form of executive privilege. It is the Prime Minister's duty to protect Canadians, our democracy and our economy. While he is at it, he must find a new immigration minister who is actually capable of doing the job.

It is not a coincidence that the Prime Minister did not bring the immigration minister with him to Mar-a-Lago, despite one of the core issues being the fact that there were 350 people on the U.S. terror watch-list stopped from crossing into the United States from Canada. First and foremost, how did these people enter Canada in the first place? For the same period, 52 people were stopped on the U.S.-Mexico border. That is nearly one-seventh of the terror suspects stopped at the Canada-U.S. border. Before the parliamentary secretary accuses me of talking down our country, I am focusing on the safety of Canadians, the dangers of the government and the worst immigration minister in our nation's 157-year history.

My question to the parliamentary secretary is simple. If someone who worked for him messed up this badly, putting his team, his staff and his customers at risk, would he not fire them?

[Supplementary Estimates (B), 2024-25, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the result of the previous vote, voting nay.

[Supplementary Estimates (B), 2024-25, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the result of the previous vote, voting nay.

[Supplementary Estimates (B), 2024-25, December 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the vote, voting nay.

[Privilege, December 6th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I am rising on the question of privilege raised by the member for Thornhill. Just like her and the member for Battlefords—Lloydminster, as well as the member for Chatham-Kent—Leamington, my office is in the Confederation Building. I am rising in support of the case put forward by the member that privilege was indeed breached. Moreover, I would encourage the Speaker to consider the alarming report of three NDP MPs as witting abettors and accomplices to what was a clear breach of privilege and contempt of Parliament and our sacred traditions.

[Public Safety, December 6th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the government has utterly failed to protect our families, our communities and our nation from extremism. Its inability to curb terrorism or secure our borders is not just a lapse. It is a betrayal of its fundamental duty. To be specific, IRCC bears a significant portion of the blame. Members can take the recent arrest of a father and son in Toronto before they could execute an advanced stage terrorist plot. The father was in an ISIS video hacking at a prisoner's arms with a sword, yet he was still given citizenship.

The government's inaction has created a dangerous vacuum. Its failures have forced civil society, religious leaders and peace-loving Canadians to stand up. I am proud to join in these efforts, and I was honoured to assist in the announcement that Toronto is the Global Imams Council's western headquarters and bear witness to the signing of the Ottawa declaration. I stand with the GIC and all who refuse to bow to hate.

The government's abrogation of its duties to protect Canadians must stop. If the government will not act, then we will. Our people deserve better.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary accused me of trying to scare Canadians. Let me tell everyone what is scary. What is scary is an ISIS terrorist, who is on video ripping apart the body of his victim, receiving Canadian citizenship. What is scary is an admitted human trafficker being issued a new fricking passport. What is scary is a foreign national, criminally convicted five times, being saved from deportation, as ordered by the immigration department and upheld by the court. What is scary is that not only does the parliamentary secretary not seem to find any of this concerning, but he actively defends it.

My question to the parliamentary secretary is simple. If he was Minister of Immigration, would he be doing exactly what his minister is doing now, which is nothing, or would he be taking real action to protect Canadians, secure our border and protect our livelihoods so we are not taxed to oblivion by the incoming Trump administration?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, in my question for the Minister of Immigration on November 22, last month, I can only think that the minister's reply was not only to ignore the question but to deflect from accountability for his failures with a personal attack on me and my staff that was as pathetic as it was transparent. Let us be honest. We all know that someone resorts to personal attacks when they cannot defend a position based on its merits, and there is no defending the minister's complete and utter incompetence.

To set the record straight, while I have gotten used to the minister's insults, I will not tolerate outright misrepresentations made against me or my staff, especially when I have evidence that categorically proves that my staff and I have made several representations to the minister to assist my constituents and their families.

For the minister to state that I have “never brought a single case to [him]” is an outright mistruth. If the minister had any credibility, he would do the honourable thing and withdraw his offending and inaccurate comments. Perhaps he should check with his own departmental staff to see the cases that we have brought to the minister.

I also want to correct the minister as to why I am no longer sitting in my former seat. It had nothing to do with my not wishing to sit near the Green Party leader; I had done so for nearly two years. I moved simply because, due to the addition of a new independent member, I would be sitting next to an MP whom I personally feel does not share the same interests that I have for a democratic Canada. The immigration minister would do well to review why certain members of his party's caucus no longer find themselves within it, and he may actually learn something from the exercise.

It was unconscionable for the minister to suggest that I only asked my question of his useless administration of the immigration department for my benefit. It was out of utter frustration for individuals who are trying to make Canada their home but who are suffering from delays and from the inability to receive any answers as to why they are waiting years to have their cases actioned. I have raised with the minister cases of doctors and skilled tradespeople, individuals who would contribute to building a better Canada for all Canadians but who find themselves languishing in an immigration quagmire.

Under the minister's direction, the morass that is IRCC seems better suited to letting the IRGC and other terrorists blatantly use and abuse our immigration and refugee systems in order to remain in Canada, rather than to help other people who would become contributing and law-abiding citizens. What an utter disgrace, and it gets even worse.

Due to the minister's incompetence, Canada is now facing heavy tariffs being laid on Canadian exports to the United States by the incoming Trump administration. Instead of bringing doctors to heal Canadians, the government issues new passports to admitted human traffickers. Instead of prioritizing tradespeople who would build the homes we need, the immigration minister abuses his power and uses a ministerial intervention, not for a life-or-death situation but to save a five-time criminally convicted foreign national who boasted of foreign financing to blockade Canadian roads, highways and pipelines.

It is high time for the minister to be dismissed by the Prime Minister before further damage is done to Canada and to those who not only want to make our country their home, but want to help heal Canadians and build the homes we need.

Therefore, would the parliamentary secretary not agree that the first step to fixing a problem is to acknowledge that we have one, and that at the core of it is an incompetent minister with twisted priorities?