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Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I am not shocked that the member for Winnipeg North is disappointed; I am frequently disappointed in a lot of the stuff that comes from that side of the aisle as well. I am not shocked by his comments. My point back would be that I believe every MP in the House sh

September 27th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I apologize to my colleague for not breaking out the French today, but I want to try to get a serious reply back to his question. We absolutely believe in the Constitution, but as I said in my speech, the challenge we have with housing is that it transcends all le

September 27th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, I am not going to get into the specifics of our plan. Our job right now is to criticize. Maybe that is even too harsh of a word. I would like to say that we will hold the government to account to ensure the legislation it is putting forward is the best possible for

September 27th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise for the first time in this session of Parliament to speak to Bill C-56, an act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act. The lack of affordable housing has been top of mind in my riding of Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound as home and rental

September 27th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the inconsistencies in the reporting of data by certain departments and agencies in the government's response to Order Paper question Q-1385 on security clearance denials: (a) has the government provided direction to all departments to (i) collect and record data o

September 18th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Special Immigration Measures for Afghan Nationals who assisted the Government of Canada: (a) broken down by unique email address, how many applications were received via email or webform for this program, to date; (b) how many application names did not appear o

September 18th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the findings from the 2023 Auditor General Report 2 titled “Connectivity in Rural and Remote Areas” that “59.5% of households had access to Internet coverage at the target speeds” in rural and remote areas: (a) after the completion of the Universal Broadband Fund,

September 18th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to the government halting activity with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): (a) was an initial risk analysis of the organization completed prior to Canada partaking in the activities of the bank pertaining to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence, and,

September 18th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Health of Animals Act  Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for Foothills for bringing this bill forward again. He brought it forward in a previous Parliament, and I believe I had the chance to jointly second it then. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to speak to it, so I appreciate the oppo

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Government Business No. 26—Amendments to the Standing Orders  Madam Speaker, I would encourage the House leader to go listen to my speech from Monday night on this, because I do not accept his argument that, just because certain members of opposition parties have used hybrid, it is somehow hypocritical of us. It is the rules. It is like th

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my good friend and colleague from Bay of Quinte to expand a bit on ChatGPT and the AI risks associated with it. We do recognize there is some great potential for AI. It can maybe help and streamline things, especially with data management and the

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed to be speaking to the travesty of justice and human rights committed by our current Minister of Public Safety. I am disappointed, but to be honest, I am not surprised. This minister has a track record of mishandling files, which is ultimately a diss

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask the member a similar question to one I asked earlier during this debate specifically around the amendment. It gets to the root cause of how victims are not being treated respectfully at times because of a lack of accountability within the minister's

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, one of themes in the report is the necessity to do a better job at consulting with victims before decisions are made, whether with respect to parole or within corrections services. Bringing it back to the amendment we are debating, I would like the member's take on

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, my question for the parliamentary secretary is around the amendment. It gets to the crux of the issue. I am going to give him a hypothetical. Maybe there is a chance in some future scenario that he is a minister. What would he do if he had staff who were hiding s

June 15th, 2023House debate

Alex RuffConservative