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Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I did say that she bears responsibility with voting on every single confidence motion and every single confidence measure in the House, and so she does bear responsibility for decisions made by this government. She is supporting the spending, she is supporting the
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, concerning the first part of my colleague's question, it depends. I know that this is not the answer he was hoping for. However, it depends. We will see how the debate unfolds. As for the second part of his question, as the member knows, we Conservatives voted in
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, what I am prepared to say is that we will have a common-sense immigration system. We will not need a referendum, since we will have a federal government that is able to work with all the provinces fairly. Furthermore, our government will make sure that the province
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, it is sad that those members have not read the immigration plans pre-2015. It was a Conservative government that created the super visa program for parents and grandparents. It was a Conservative government that made the PGP, the parents and grandparents permanent
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply The member is saying it is not true. I invite him to check the immigration committee's records, because all the numbers have been tabled successively over the last year, which proves the case that all the backlogs are worse than they were in 2015 for almost every single program t
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, a Yiddish proverb I love is that if a wise man and a fool are debating, and rabbis love this proverb as well, what we have are two fools debating between each other. Sometimes I feel this is what I am watching. I have listened to the Herle Burly Podcast, and the ne
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am pleased to join the debate on a Bloc opposition day motion. To summarize it briefly, it would recall a vote in the House that tied immigration targets in Canada to various areas of capacity in social services, French and English-language training, transportati
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I am glad that the minister was able to contribute to this debate. It is hard to take him seriously, though, because that immigration plan was tabled November 1. By that time, in his own ministry, there were now over one million international students in Canada. He
February 8th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Bill Gairdner Mr. Speaker, athlete, author, thinker, businessman, husband and grandfather are a few of the ways to describe Bill Gairdner, who passed away at age 83 last month. He won a silver at the decathlon in the 1963 Pan American Games. He competed in 1964 at the Tokyo Olympics, in 1966 a
February 7th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Constitution Act, 1867 Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for the very detailed history lesson that he gave about the oath of allegiance. I would have liked to hear even more about that. I would say that section 128 of our Constitution needs a twin, rather than a son, a godfather or a si
January 31st, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the processing times for applications submitted to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, as of October 30, 2023: (a) what are the processing times for the temporary programs, broken down by month in 2023 for (i) study permits, (ii) work permits, (iii) tempo
January 29th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive (FTHBI) announced by the government in 2019, from September 1, 2019, to date: (a) how many applicants have applied for mortgages through the FTHBI program, broken down by province and municipality; (b) of those applicants, how ma
January 29th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's Express Entry program: how many construction or trades workers have been admitted through the program, broken down by stream, year, and each of the major and minor groups within category 7 of the National Occupational
January 29th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the current Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages: (a) has the minister advocated or taken other action to convince the Prime Minister to remove or pause the carbon tax from natural gas or other sources of home heating; (b) if the ans
January 29th, 2024House debate
Tom KmiecConservative
Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023 Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his speech about the free trade agreement and the bill, which will implement it in Canada. I travelled with him several times to Washington, and I must say that he is a champion of workers’ interests in the labour and battery se
December 12th, 2023House debate
Tom KmiecConservative