Michelle Rempel

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, May 25th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, the Minister of Immigration is supposed to show up for four hours to be held to account for her decisions during the committee of the whole, but she has not confirmed that she will attend or that she will answer questions for the full four hours, as her colleague, the finance minister, did. I understand that she is scared to be held to account for the atrocious dumpster fire she has presided over for the last year, but she has a job to do, and if she will not do it, the Prime Minister needs to finally fire her.

Will the Minister of Immigration commit to answering questions for the full four hours on Thursday night, or will the Prime Minister finally fire her?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, May 6th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims that he has taken back control of the immigration system, but that is kind of hard to believe. In the past year, his government has let in hundreds of thousands of new temporary foreign workers while Canadians cannot find jobs. They have no way of tracking whether millions of non-citizens on expired or expiring visas will leave. Now the government is issuing visas to terrorists, and every time the minister speaks, somehow she manages to make things worse.

Why has the Prime Minister not fired her?

[Immigration, May 6th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims to have taken back control of the immigration system, but that is really hard to believe. That is because in the past year, the Prime Minister has allowed the government to let in hundreds of thousands of new non-citizen temporary foreign workers while Canadian kids cannot find jobs or a place to rent. The Liberals have allowed massive, scandalous fraud to run rampant in the non-citizen student visa program. They have turned a blind eye to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes in Canada, who are getting sweetheart deals to avoid deportation. They have lost track of millions of non-citizens who have no legal reason to be in Canada, and they are issuing visas to terrorists.

The immigration minister told us she meets with the Prime Minister on a weekly basis to discuss her file. That must mean that she is following his orders. There is no other plausible reason that a minister with this many failures under her belt would still have her job. The reality is that the buck stops with the Prime Minister. He needs to fire her and fix the system, not claim that everything is okay when it is not.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, May 5th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, when we listen to that answer and then listen to the Prime Minister say that the Liberals have taken back control of the immigration system, it kind of sounds a little delulu. The entire system is rife with abuse. There is no way to track if non-citizens actually leave and they are issuing visitor visas to terrorists.

If this is the Prime Minister's definition of what taking control of the immigration system is, then the dumpster fire is his fault, not hers. Does she agree?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, May 5th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the minister just claimed that their plan is working, yet in the last week alone, we found out that the Liberal government issued a special visa to a terrorist so he could enter Canada. It allowed over 21,000 non-citizens who fraudulently came into Canada to claim asylum, and it has no way to track if millions of non-citizens on expired or expiring visas would leave.

The Prime Minister said that this is taking control of the immigration system. If that is his opinion, is that the real reason why he has not fired his minister?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, May 4th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, today the minister said that she would continue issuing tens of thousands of new foreign student permits, in spite of millions of non-citizens being in Canada on expired or expiring permits and her admission that the Liberals have absolutely no way to track whether or not they have left. Fraud is still running unchecked in her department. They cannot detect it.

When asked in committee what the Prime Minister thought of these failures, the minister claimed she has weekly meetings with him and that she talks to him all the time. That begs the question, does the Prime Minister actually think she is doing a good job?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, April 30th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are not even letting the immigration minister answer a question that is directly in the purview of her department.

Here is what happened: At some point, the Minister of Immigration said that it is totally in the best interest of Canada to have a member of a listed terrorist organization, an actual terrorist, get a special permit to land in this country. The only reason they caught it was an independent journalist organization. She needs to get up and explain to Canadians how she let this happen.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, April 30th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, they “cannot comment” on it. Is that the best they could do for a QP line?

Here is the reality: The Minister of Immigration issued a permit. She would have had to have done it for a known member of a listed terrorist organization. The Minister of Immigration did that, and now the Liberals cannot comment on it. It is literally all over the news. Everybody in Canada needs to know how this happened and how the government is going to fix it.

You cannot just say you are not going to comment on it.

[Business of Supply, April 30th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, there is a character in Greek mythology named Cassandra, somebody who is doomed to know the future but nobody believes them. I feel like right now all the speeches that are happening are like Cassandra's speeches: this is going to fail, this is a bad idea, this is not the right decision. This is why the opposition is saying we cannot support this massive expenditure in the form that it is right now. It is crazy, especially given, as my colleague said, the government's poor track record in this regard.

I do not want to be watching a clip of this speech years from now saying that I was right and nobody listened on that side of the House. The government would be better served to say that this is a bad use of tax funds and that there are other things Canadians could benefit from. The government should pump the brakes on this, realize it is not a great idea and vote for this motion today, which supports those principles.

[Business of Supply, April 30th, 2026]

Mr. Speaker, yes, it is kind of wild that the Prime Minister has delivered nothing on the trade front. I thought that was his big promise. The track record with this guy is he makes a big promise and then he does not deliver. Canadians are not only starting to wake up to this fact, but it is costing them too.

I will just close with this anecdote. My husband really likes motorcycles, probably too much. Yesterday he was making a pitch to me that he should buy this motorcycle. It is probably not the best decision, do not encourage him, but this is what he said to me. He said, “Don't worry. I'll just put it on my sovereign debt fund. I got it. We're good.” I would just like to tell the Prime Minister that he is encouraging bad behaviour among everybody.