Pierre Poilievre

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, once again, this shows the erratic, out-of-control government we have over there. The Prime Minister is hiding from questions. His minister is losing control of his words and his mind. The government is falling to pieces.

The Prime Minister has lost control of the border, lost control of immigration and lost control of our finances, and he has now lost control of his caucus, whose member are saying that they have been intimidated into voting in favour of his tiny tax trick. He has lost control, but he is holding on to power.

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the member hallucinates almost as badly as his weak leader, who refuses to stand and answer for his own border failures.

Let us look at his record. He opened Roxham Road. He kept it open for a year longer than the Americans required. He put out a tweet saying, “Welcome to Canada”, inviting people to come here illegally.

According to that minister's department, there are half a million people here illegally, all of whom could be tempted to go south of the border, provoking a massive retaliatory response.

Once again, what is the plan to fix what he broke?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the weak Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of immigration and he has lost control of our borders. Now we are facing massive threats to our economy.

Right now, there are as many as 500,000 people here illegally. There are 700,000 students who came here with the implicit promise they would be able to stay forever. Now they are being told they have to leave, with the temptation that they might head south for the much stronger economy than we have here, which would provoke a massive retaliatory tariff.

What is the plan to reverse all the damage the Prime Minister has done?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister likes to encroach on provincial jurisdictions, he has lost control of his own responsibilities. In fact, he is being irresponsible about the borders, which fall under the most important federal jurisdiction.

The premiers have now lost confidence in the Prime Minister. The Quebec premier is sending the provincial police to protect the border. The Alberta premier is doing the same. The Ontario premier said exactly the same thing.

How can anyone have confidence in this Prime Minister?

[Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, November 28th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is weak and has lost control of our borders. He is the one who opened Roxham Road and kept it open for a year after the Americans offered to close it. He is the one who invited at least 700 international students here, implicitly promising that they could stay here permanently, and now they have to leave the country. He is the one who lost 500,000 people.

What is his plan for restoring order at the border and stopping U.S. tariffs?

[Finance, November 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not know. I was tempted to accuse him of hiding it, but as Napoleon Bonaparte said, we should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

Who is actually running the government?

[Finance, November 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that he will leave the economy to bankers. Well, the bankers sure are rolling in cash. They are collecting interest on the national debt, which he has already doubled, while Canadians line up at food banks. The question, though, was about the size of the deficit. Somebody cannot run a half-trillion dollar G7 government if they do not know anything about the finances of that government.

Can the Prime Minister tell us if he actually knows the size of the deficit?

[Finance, November 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, just to show how weak the Prime Minister is, he actually had to read a script just to talk about his tiny two-month tax break. My question a moment ago, though, was about the deficit. He admits that deficits contribute to inflation. We now have a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer, who the Prime Minister appointed, showing that the deficit is far bigger than he advertised in his last budget.

Once again, what was Canada's federal deficit last year?

[The Economy, November 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we have a weak Prime Minister who has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration and lost control of spending. Recently, it came to light that the deficit is much bigger than his finance minister reported in the recent budget.

The Prime Minister claims that he cannot tell us what the deficit is for this year, so we will make it easier for him. What was the deficit last year?

[The Economy, November 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, he is showing once again that he is a weak Prime Minister who has lost control. He lost control of the borders, he lost control of immigration, and he lost control of government spending.

He says he cannot say how big the deficit is, even though he already tabled a budget for this year. That is odd. It is the first time I have heard that from a Prime Minister.

I will ask him an easier question: What was the Government of Canada's deficit last year?