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Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North continues to spread his toxic rhetoric, rumours and innuendos, which have no basis in fact. Let us be factual here. These Liberals are going to increase the cost of food. We just learned today that the Canada food report said the price
December 7th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Privilege Mr. Speaker, I will just continue addressing the question of privilege that was raised on Friday by the member for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. I had gotten to the point in my dissertation as to the ruling that Speaker Milliken made in 2002 about the minister of national defence at t
December 4th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Privilege Mr. Speaker, I am rising today to add to the question of privilege raised by the member for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot on Friday, December 1. This is the first opportunity for the official opposition to address it. The member for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot was talking in quite a bit of de
December 4th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Privilege Mr. Speaker, just to add to my comments on the bylaws, I should also draw your attention to section 7, which says: Except as may be approved by the Board and subject to subsection (2), a Member may not use funds, goods, services and premises provided by the House of Commons for
December 4th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Privilege Mr. Speaker, on this question of privilege, I wanted to provide some extra information, because, like everyone else, I was shocked when I saw the Speaker in his robes addressing a leadership convention. I wanted to look at the use of the House of Commons resources as described un
December 4th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, as someone who is proud of my Ukrainian heritage, I am disgusted by that tirade from the member. He is sitting here, defending putting more taxes on our farmers and creating more food insecurity at a time when we have record numbers of people lining up at food banks
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I want to correct the parliamentary secretary on his comments. As he knows, it was the Liberal Prime Minister who appointed all those senators, making them Liberal senators.
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, the Liberals and the New Democrats continue to come here with their carbon-tax religion, failing to recognize that carbon is actually a building block of life and it is plant food, and that the carbon tax is not a climate change policy and has nothing to do with the
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Points of Order Madam Speaker, I want to add some extra information to the point of order that was raised yesterday after question period with respect to the government House leader, the member of Parliament for Burlington, when she said, “Is it because there is a group of Conservative members o
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Points of Order I am making a point of order. Madam Speaker, in consideration of Russia and a reference made by the government House leader, I want to remind the Chair that on March 17, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant, a red notice, for Vladimir Putin for crimes against humani
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North is my neighbour in Manitoba. He should get out of the city more often to talk to some farmers. He says there is so much great stuff for farmers. I wonder why farmers are not voting for the Liberals if they are doing so many great thing
November 28th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Committees of the House Madam Speaker, we know that our current Victoria class submarines cannot go under the ice. We know that, right now, only two of our submarines have had any sea time, and even at that, the two of them combined were out at sea for fewer than 100 days in 2022. We have to get serious
November 27th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Committees of the House Madam Speaker, we are all shocked to find out that the government spent the past eight years talking about drones and that it never, ever crossed the Liberals' minds that the drones would have to be capable of flying in the Arctic to do the surveillance that we need to do. It is
November 27th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Committees of the House Madam Speaker, climate change was actually one of the key parts of the report we did at the national defence committee. We all recognized at committee that with the disappearing Arctic sea ice, the Arctic is opening up for greater transit by other nations. That is why we can see
November 27th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative
Committees of the House Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, who is the shadow minister for the Arctic and Northern Affairs for the Conservative Party. I am glad to get the debate back on the report. We just listened to a bunch
November 27th, 2023House debate
James BezanConservative