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Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, this is a constant refrain that has been coming up in the House. The Conservatives actually spent less money, and the rate of crime was lower than it is today. We have had a 300% increase in car theft in Toronto since the Liberals took power. Yes, we probably did spe
February 6th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, the member does have one thing right. We are the tough-on-crime party. We are the only tough-on-crime party in the entire House. The truth is that I am not the one who needs to explain to my constituents why I am propping up a government, at every single opportunity
February 6th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with my colleague and good friend, the member for Oxford. Since 2015, the Liberals have pursued a systematic agenda of dismantling Canada’s judicial system and undermining the rule of law in this country. They have not only done so with t
February 6th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Public Safety Mr. Speaker, I do not know why we have to explain this to the Attorney General, but bail reform does not apply to auto theft. It is thanks to Liberals' policies that people can get arrested in the morning and go back to committing crimes in the evening. If they happen to get se
February 5th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Public Safety Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government, it pays to commit crime in Canada. Stolen cars now cost Canadians over $1 billion a year in insurance rates. Car thefts are up 300% in Toronto. That is thanks to the catch-and-release legislation that turns violent off
February 5th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 Mr. Speaker, while I appreciate the member opposite and my neighbour standing in fancy photo ops with the mayors and the housing minister making announcements, the homes have not been built in Vaughan. In fact, after eight years of the Prime Minister, rent has doubled in Vaughan
January 30th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 Mr. Speaker, I thank the member opposite for her condolences. At every opportunity, and I think the member's constituents ought to know this, she supports the Liberal government, and it is at every single stage of the game and in every single confidence vote, to raise taxes, to
January 30th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 Mr. Speaker, I am going to take a moment off the top to ensure the memory of my father is forever etched into the record of this place. Over the holidays, my brother and I, and our families, suddenly lost our father, Michael Lantsman, whose sacrifices were the sacrifices of heroe
January 30th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Carbon Pricing Mr. Speaker, another year means another carbon tax increase on April 1. It was -50°C in some places in this country where Canadians cannot even afford to heat their homes. Yesterday, the finance minister lectured Canadians on her out-of-touch version of events, and then we lear
January 30th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Carbon Pricing Mr. Speaker, I do not remember a government so indifferent to the plight of Canadians. The minister's advice of cutting Disney+ is cold comfort to the woman who is putting water in her children's milk. The cost of some produce is up 94% since she got here. The Liberals can lower
January 30th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the government's response to evidence that Samidoun has ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and other entities that have been recognized by the government as terrorist entities: (a) when did Public Safety Canada (PS) first recognize Sam
January 29th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the grant of approximately $133,800 that the government provided to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) and Laith Marouf: (a) how much of the $120,000 paid out through the grant contract has been recovered to date and when was the money recovered; (b) if the
January 29th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Housing Mr. Speaker, every time the Prime Minister comes back from another extravagant vacation he did not pay for, or cabinet decides to have a meeting in a luxury hotel, more Canadians are left without an affordable home. Even more are worried about losing their homes. After eight yea
January 29th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Housing Mr. Speaker, those are photo ops the minister is talking about. Home construction was down 7% last year. That is even worse than his nameless predecessor, who was fired from the gig. People cannot live in a photo op. The videos will not bring warmth to the 300,000 people without
January 29th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative
Liberal Party of Canada Mr. Speaker, there are many kinds of silence: the silence of indifference, the silence of complicity and the silence of cowardice. The government's refusal to take a clear position on South Africa's baseless case at the ICJ, its about-face on its once-respectable UN voting record
January 29th, 2024House debate
Melissa LantsmanConservative