Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, oil prices continue to decline and jobs in my province in the Canadian energy sector are being lost, yet the Liberal government is abandoning the global consensus on temperature targets. Instead, it is supporting a radical environmental policy that would kill even mo

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Congratulations to you, Mr. Speaker. You are now our ambassador both inside and outside these walls. For that, I admire you, and I challenge you to hold our Parliament to one of the greatest parliaments in Canadian history. It will not be easy, but you have my full support. I ple

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, our future is bright, particularly if we make the decisions that were quite present with our previous Conservative government. We made decisions about the UCCB. Our government made decisions on TFSAs and income splitting. I hope that these decisions will be reconside

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I have friends in Tofino. I am sad to announce that they did not vote for the member, but he seems like a decent guy. We need to build the pipelines to get our oil to market because that is what drives our economy. That is what drives the Alberta economy. There are

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the hard-hitting question, as usual. It is important to hear that, of course, we balance budgets, and of course, we are looking at the opposition over here who once ran one of the largest deficits in the history of our country. They are not th

Employment  Mr. Speaker, when the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development stood and talked about his yet to be announced investment plan, in typical Liberal fashion, he forgot about the west. The anti-energy Liberal government has gone out of its way to kill jobs in western

Intergovernmental Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I am a proud Albertan and I take tremendous pride in our resourceful and resilient province, a province, though, that seems to have been forgotten in the first 100 days of the current Liberal government. I would like to take a moment to direct the Prime Minister, hi

Don Getty  Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I bring the House's attention to the passing of Don Getty. Don Getty was a former premier of Alberta from 1985 to1992. In 1965, the leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, Peter Lougheed, asked Don Getty to consider enter

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to share my time with the hon. member for Haldimand—Norfolk. I am pleased to rise to speak to budget 2016 presented by the Liberal government. However, I would like to waste no time at all though and express my opposition to the direction of this bud

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I appear to have caused the member for Winnipeg North to get worked up over there, which is fine. Quite honestly, I thought it had been determined in the House that four pipelines were approved during the tenure of the previous government. He keeps spouting off abou

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, it is rich coming from the NDP, which time and time again in Alberta has devastated our job market, has devastated our workers. People are losing jobs en masse, largely because of what has happened not only at the federal level but also at the provincial level. To st

Employment  Mr. Speaker, Liberals in Edmonton campaigned on deficits and told us “Don't worry, we got this, and it will only cost you $10 billion a year”. It is now three times that much. They also told Albertans “Don't worry; we know what's best for your region”. Edmonton's economy has been

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would not necessarily say it is an honour to rise in the House today. It is something we all have to do, unfortunately, particularly when there is an incident like this one. I commend the member for St. Albert—Edmonton for bringing the motion before the House. It

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, that was a bunch of inaccurate facts. Let us first of all talk about the omnibus bills. We just heard not even an hour ago a notice of time allocation. I cannot see how that member can stand and argue that fact. I would like to think I could fetch a fee, but perhap

Taxation in Alberta  Madam Speaker, Albertans are an amazing group of hard-working, dedicated people. However, they are being attacked by both the federal Liberals and the Alberta provincial NDP. These attacks are only making it harder for Albertans to get back up. Last week the Alberta NDP announce