Pharmacare Act  Mr. Speaker, I view this legislation not as a pharmacare plan but a spending plan and what will be another empty broken promise, just like the carbon tax was going to be revenue-neutral and just like housing was going to become more affordable under the current government. Frankl

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I would like to table a petition from 26 signatories regarding the decision to threaten access to natural health products with higher costs and fewer products available on our store shelves. The cost recovery provisions will impose massive costs on all consumers of n

Winkler Flyers  Mr. Speaker, last Friday I was proud to be at the sold-out Winkler Centennial Arena to watch the hometown Flyers sweep the Steinbach Pistons to win the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, their first league title since 1998. The atmosphere was absolutely electric throughout the game b

Impact Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to support my dear friend, the Conservative MP for Louis-Saint-Laurent. His private member's bill is timely and would inject some badly needed common sense into how we conduct environmental impact assessments in this country. The goal of

Government Policies  Mr. Speaker, here is a memo to corporate Canada from the next prime minister of Canada: Fire the lobbyists, ignore the politicians and go straight to the people. There are far too many corporations that have Stockholm syndrome in this country. They feel grateful when their taxe

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, it has never been more expensive to eat, heat or put a roof over one's head. The Prime Minister pretends everything is fine, but it is not. He is in complete denial. We can look at the costs of groceries and homes. No

Points of Order  Madam Speaker, I would like to add that, as you move forward in your deliberations on this, given we had a historic event happen earlier this week with historic corruption once again in this country, combined with the numerous ethics violations, “corruption” is the appropriate wo

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers youth programs, in the 2022-23 fiscal year: (a) how many staff, broken down by employment status (i.e. full-time, part-time), were employed at the (i) Regional Headquarters, including the Northwest Region, Pacific Region, Cent

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the federal public service, broken down by year since 2015: (a) how many public servants are employed in each department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity; (b) what is the breakdown of the employees in (a) by (i) branch of each department, agen

Finance  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has added more to the national debt than all previous prime ministers combined. The costly coalition's out-of-control spending has resulted in Canada spending $46 billion just to service its debt. That is more money than the federal government send

Carbon Tax  Madam Speaker, do you know the most common question I get in any community I represent? It is not “what are we going to do about this policy or that policy?” It is “when can we have an election?” This is because, after eight years, Canadians know that the Prime Minister is simpl

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, what a good, common-sense question. If one does not tax something, one does not need to give it back. What a way to look at the world. The fact is that the rebate does not take into account that, just as those farmers have the costs passed on to them, every consumer

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague across the way for his work. We do share that same vision of working to help those people who are most vulnerable. The carbon tax is not the entirety of the problem that the Liberal government has created. The cost of living crisis has had a n

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned in my speech, a number of seniors have reached out to my office with this exact complaint, that they cannot afford to live anymore. I do not blame them. Many are on a fixed income, and they are seeing the dollar value continually deteriorate from the

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, there is nothing wrong with Dollarama. The unfortunate reality is that most folks where I live would rather go to Co-op to get the quality they expect. Giant Tiger is, of course, another great option for those people who have it locally available to them. Why are we