Michelle Rempel

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, February 23rd, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have not been able to get hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of pandemic scam fraud returned to them, so I highly doubt they will be able to get fake refugees on deportation orders to pay back their health care. This is something that needs to end.

I will ask the minister again. This is a common-sense motion. Literally everybody agrees with it. Will the minister support our constructive motion to ensure that Canadians who pay for our health system are given better access than fake refugees?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, February 23rd, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, over the last decade, the Liberals have enabled hundreds of thousands of bogus refugee claims. Liberals' failures on immigration like this one mean billions of tax dollars have been spent on hotels and social welfare for false refugee claimants, all while Canadians struggle to access health care and while legitimate refugees languish. This has to stop.

Will the Liberals support our constructive motion to restore fairness and prioritize Canadians who pay for the health care system over fake refugees?

[Employment, February 13th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the reality is that rents have doubled in Calgary, and it is not just the dream of owning a home that is fading for young Canadians. Data shows that the prospects of getting a good-paying, entry-level job for Canadian youth have never been dimmer. Canada's economy is slow, and now artificial intelligence is changing entry-level jobs in almost every field, including law and accounting.

Given all of this, why are the Liberals bringing in hundreds of thousands more temporary foreign workers, with no plans to get millions with expired visas to leave, instead of incentivizing businesses to hire and give hope to Canadians?

[Housing, February 13th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation just said that by 2028, new housing starts will fall by as much as 18.1%. Meanwhile, the Liberals continue to bring in hundreds of thousands more temporary foreign workers and have no plans to get millions with expired visas to leave. Housing starts are not keeping up with immigration, and the Canadian dream of home ownership is fading for young people.

When will the government adopt our positive plan to incentivize homebuilding by removing the GST on all new homes and restore the dream of home ownership for young Canadians?

[Public Safety, February 12th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, contrary to their claims today, everything is not fine, and the Liberals' status quo is putting lives in danger. The Liberals, if what they are saying today is true, should have no problem supporting our motion that would stop non-citizen extortionists who shoot up homes in Surrey and in Brampton from filing bogus refugee claims or getting lenient sentences to dodge removal.

Why are the Liberals so determined to keep allowing non-citizen extortionists to break the law and stay here?

[Business of Supply, February 10th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, today, if a non-citizen enters Canada, there is nothing to stop them from committing a serious violent crime and then going on to make a bogus asylum claim. This is why Conservatives put forward an amendment to Bill C-12 to close this loophole.

Could the Leader of the Opposition speculate as to why the Liberals are trying to pass off the one-year, get-out-of-jail-free card, bogus refugee policy that is in Bill C-12 right now as a good thing, as opposed to actually fixing the problem?

[Business of Supply, February 10th, 2026]

Madam Speaker, my question would be why, as a member of the government caucus, the member supported a bill that protected the rights of LGBTQ Canadians, which I fully support, but also made their lives more difficult by catch-and-releasing criminals who terrorize them. The government often makes these false dichotomies, where we have to sacrifice common-sense civil liberties or protections that protect victims in order to protect one group of people. I do not buy that, and the member opposite should not either.

[Business of Supply, February 10th, 2026]

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for raising those bills. The reality, as I mentioned in my speech, is that there are many bills in front of the House of Commons that Conservatives have proposed that I think the Liberals have just rejected on blind partisanship. The Liberals need to stop listening to far-left special interest groups, powerful lobby groups of lawyers who profit off this system, and start listening to the victims of crime. Premiers like Premier David Eby are saying we need more measures to support these things. There needs to be a reset in thinking that focuses on victims, upholds the sanctity of the law and Canada's—

[Business of Supply, February 10th, 2026]

Madam Speaker, I welcome the question because it is a good one, and they are not. It is not redundant. In practice, as well as in the law, we need to have an amendment to clarify, to ensure that people who have committed violent crimes cannot claim asylum and to not give lenient sentences.

There are many instances now where the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act needs modernization. The definition of “serious crime” needs to be updated so that judges cannot use loopholes to give people leniency and avoid deportation. The Criminal Code needs to be updated as well, which is why I have a private member's bill in front of the House. The Liberals and the House could pass those things today, expedite them and end these processes.

I am very happy to work with my colleague through these bills, but he is wrong. He is hearing what lawyers and powerful lobby groups that profit off of these systems are saying, and he is not hearing the practical reality of—

[Business of Supply, February 10th, 2026]

Madam Speaker, how does a minister of the Crown not even know the bill that is in front of the House of Commons?

There are two things. Number one, it was Conservatives who went to Liberals to separate out the parts. The parts she talked about are in Bill C-12, not Bill C-2. That is wrong number one. Wrong number two is that Bill C-12 would not stop somebody from coming into Canada right now, committing a violent crime and then making an asylum claim.

The other thing is that there are 300,000 people in the refugee claim system right now, which means it takes years for those claims to be processed. In those years, those violent criminals can avoid deportation, claim social benefits and do all sorts of other things that make a mockery of Canada's immigration system and our justice system and harden attitudes toward immigration. That is disgusting. I cannot believe she does not even know the bill—