Warren Steinley
Regina—Lewvan, Saskatchewan · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, I have just a quick question for my colleague from the NDP. The federal government says it is doing so well and its policies are just great, and its members are always patting themselves on the back. If the government is doing so well, why are so many Canadians struggling across the country?”
“Mr. Speaker, I am tabling a petition signed by members of my community on Commissionaires, which remains the largest employer of veterans in Canada. Commissionaires had an agreement with the federal government that gives Commissionaires the first right of refusal for security at federal buildings for government departments.”
“Mr. Speaker, the member for Yorkton—Melville has been a great colleague. She really embodies the three things we talk about as Conservatives: faith, family and freedom. She always asks about people's families.”
“Mr. Speaker, this member from northern Saskatchewan is the biggest embarrassment to come out of Saskatchewan since the Riders lost the Grey Cup for having too many men on the field. Let me make a list of what this guy has actually delivered. He cancelled the Snowbirds. He shuttered two agriculture research stations.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said affordability is the best it has been in decades, but in reality, 38% of Canadians face food insecurity. One in five say all food in the home has been eaten and there is no money left to buy more. It is no wonder Food Banks Canada gave the Liberal government an F on food insecurity.”
“Then they decide to cut the Snowbirds and the agriculture research stations, and not fund their commitments to the RCMP heritage museum that they have promised time and again.”
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“Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of reckless spending by the Liberals, Canadians have been forced to put 50% more of their expenses on credit cards since 2015. It is so bad that the budget watchdog has condemned the Liberal spending, saying it is “unsustainable” and “shocking”. When will the Prime Minister finally put an end to his out-of-control spending spree so that Canadians can put food on their table?”
“Mr. Speaker, I am sure, like my colleague and friend, many of us were back in our ridings last week talking to people. Affordability comes up in almost every conversation, whether it is about the cost at the grocery store, the cost of rent or the cost of filling our tank. I wonder if the Liberals are not getting that same feedback or are just out of touch. When I talk to people at the grocery store, they literally look at stuff on the shelf and have to put it back because they do not have enough money left at the end of the month. The paycheques are not going as far as they used to. Also, we have seen that Canada went from 7th to 25th in the world when it comes to the quality of life index. Everything has become worse over the last 10 years. This was not the case before 2015, and it will not be the case after.”
“The government caused that. The Liberal government caused the affordability crisis by spending money it did not have and creating inflation. It made parents unable to feed their own kids. The school lunch program is an indictment of the last 10 years of failed Liberal policies.”
“Mr. Speaker, I enjoy the speeches from the member for Winnipeg North because they are always full of interesting information that does not have much truth to it. We can tell when that happens because he gets louder and louder with the more information he talks about. When he gets really loud, we know he is telling a whopper of a tale. We heard that in the debate he had with the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan at the University of Winnipeg last week. He got louder and louder as the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan kept on beating him in the debate. I want to get back to the lunch program. I have asked this time and again, and I would love to have the member for Winnipeg North answer. Is it not an indictment of his government that it has to feed kids at school now because parents cannot afford to?”
“I ask everyone to mark their calendars and come out to the Canadian Western Agribition, where they can grab some food, ride the mechanical bull and see who is crowned supreme champion at this year's beef show. With participants from around the globe, it is where the world meets. From the Riders' big win last week to Agribition this week, Saskatchewan just keeps winning.”
“Mr. Speaker, from November 24 to 29, the country comes to town as Regina hosts the 54th annual Canadian Western Agribition. People come out and enjoy great food, the largest livestock show in Canada, four nights of electrifying rodeo, the trade fair and the best beef show on the continent. Whatever one fancies, Agribition has something for everyone. Agribition is about community. Our western way of life is the ultimate spot to be next week. This show holds a special place in my heart. Our family's winter vacation was showing our dairy cattle at Agribition. I am happy I can take my kids through the same barns and tell them stories about cattle shows and the life lessons learned on the farm. I can even let them help out in the wash rack with some animals every now and then.”
“He cannot deny the fact that prices for food have continued to go up for all Canadians from coast to coast, especially in rural and remote areas, where they see that, because trucking companies pay an industrial carbon tax on shipping food, food is more expensive. It is more expensive to get it to rural and remote areas. How can the parliamentary secretary possibly deny that fact?”
“Madam Speaker, I appreciate the talking points from my colleague opposite, but Sylvain Charlebois, the food professor, who is well known on social media, would completely disagree with everything the member just said. He said that the member's government policy has been directly linked to food price increases. He said the policies that the Liberals have had, such as the industrial carbon tax, have increased the food prices. Therefore, the member opposite can forgive me if I am going to take the word of Professor Sylvain Charlebois over his. The Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store. Prices have continued to go up.”
“I remember his making that solid commitment, but food prices have continued to increase, and they see that, and there just is not enough paycheque at the end of the month for people to buy groceries. That is something that has to be fixed in our country, so I am looking forward to the response from the member opposite.”
“We produce the highest-quality food, like great Canadian beef. We produce the best crops. That should be something that makes sure our country can and does have affordable food prices. I would also mention that in our country, food bank usage has doubled over the last 10 years. Canada is the breadbasket of the world, and if more people, especially in the middle class, are going to the food bank instead of the grocery store, it is an indictment of what the Liberal government has done over the past 10 years to food prices. If we tax the farmer who produces the food and we tax the trucker who ships the food, we tax the consumer at the grocery store who buys the food, and I would like to have some answers. I remember the Minister of Finance 's saying three years ago that food prices would drop by Thanksgiving.”
“It has to get from the field to the grocery store, so the taxes paid by our farmers, by our truckers and by the grocery stores to keep the lights on and to keep food cool are also included in the ever-increasing cost. To whoever will answer my question, I will say that I think food prices are a conversation across this country. I have been at home in my riding all week, and every time we have a conversation with someone who comes into our constituency office, they are talking about the ever-increasing price of life. There is an affordability crisis in our country, and it starts at the kitchen table. I know lots of families in which the parents do not eat any of the meat at the supper table until the kids are done eating, just to make sure there is enough for the kids to eat, and that is something that should never happen in our country.”
“We have been talking for the last couple of years about the continued food price increases in our country. We know that there is data showing that food prices over the last 10 years have increased more in Canada than in the States, actually 48% faster. We know that inflation has been caused by several things. One is the industrial carbon tax, and a second is taxes on food packaging in grocery stores. When we talk about the industrial carbon tax, some things my friends and colleagues from across the way do not understand is that it taxes each and every link along the transportation route. Food does not just magically appear in grocery stores; it has to get there.”
“Madam Speaker, I am happy to join today in the evening's adjournment debate. I asked a question a few weeks ago about food price increases, but I am sure my colleagues will give me one second to give a big shout-out and congratulations to our very own Saskatchewan Roughriders, the 2025 Grey Cup champions. I had the opportunity on Sunday to watch the game with all three of my children. I am proud to report that this is the first time the Riders have won the Grey Cup when all three of them were alive, because they have not won since 2013. It was a joy for me to have the time to experience watching the Grey Cup victory by our Riders with my three children, Jameson, Clair and Nickson. It was a great family bonding experience. I would like to get into the very crux of my argument.”
“Mr. Speaker, there is a problem paying attention tonight. The Liberal member for Winnipeg North just did something very interesting. He brought up a piece of Bill C-14 that he and his colleagues could have passed already. The private member's bill brought forward by the member for Cariboo—Prince George could have been passed two weeks ago. It would have helped to protect first responders by making it an aggravating factor to harm a first responder while in the line of duty. That private member's bill was put forward by our member of Parliament, but the Liberals would not let it pass with unanimous consent. They ask us to pass Bill C-14 to protect first responders, but that is exactly what we put forward last week and the Liberals did not allow that bill to pass. It is a bait and switch, and the Liberals do it quite often.”
“Mr. Speaker, we know the member for Victoria wants to defund the police. I had a conversation at a Remembrance Day ceremony with Mike Lokken, the commanding officer of the depot division, and I wonder if the member knows that this budget cuts $98 million from the RCMP budget. Did he know when he voted for this budget that it is cutting the RCMP budget by $98 million? The Liberals are asking the RCMP to do more with less.”
“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comment from the random Liberal on the far left over there about the RCMP and the “despicable” comment. Does he know the budget that he just voted for cut $98 million from the RCMP budget? I represent Depot, and I talked to the commanding officer. The Liberal government cut $98 million from the RCMP budget, and it asked the RCMP to hire 1,000 new recruits with $0 in the budget. The RCMP is now short $220 million from the Liberal government. That is despicable.”
“Mr. Speaker, what I just heard from the member for Winnipeg North is laughable. There is not a more partisan politician in this chamber. He would do anything for the Liberal Party of Canada. This includes absolutely ensuring that everything looks good from their point of view. The only reason we need bail reform is that this member and the rest of the Liberals passed terrible legislation for the last 10 years, making our streets unsafe. It is unconscionable for him to stand there and say we need to reform, we need to reform, when they were the ones who messed up the justice system in the first place. A Supreme Court ruling that allowed people who had child abuse pictures and videos to get a one-year sentence is unconscionable, and any member of Parliament who does not think that is not right should not be here.”
“Mr. Speaker, we are discussing bail reform. One thing from the Liberals' side of the aisle that I find amazing is that they think there is an act of God and they need to reform these laws. They do not finish the answer and say we need bail reform because they have bungled this file over the last 10 years. Bill C-5 and Bill C-75 are the reasons we need bail reform. They messed it up. Why should we think they are the ones who can fix it?”
“Mr. Speaker, I represent the home of the RCMP depot in my riding, so if the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I will do that every day. I actually go to graduations, and the rank and file support the Conservatives' tougher-on-crime approach. If the parliamentary secretary wants to debate the RCMP, I would love to have him come out to the depot and we can have that debate. He is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety. If he cannot stand in his place and say that he thinks that people with 300 cases of child rape should be in jail, he should be ashamed of himself and God have mercy on his soul.”
“They will crawl over broken glass to find a microphone on any other cause, but they did not say one thing about this Supreme Court ruling and how these two individuals should be locked up and the key should be thrown away and never recovered. If we are not going to stand up as a group in the House of Commons, as members of Parliament, and say that we need to protect our children, then our country has no hope. This is something that needs to be changed, and as a father of three beautiful children, I have been struggling with this over the last few days. Even in our small town, we had a case of this. They went to court and got off on bail that day and were back in our community. We need to come together as a group, as members of the House of Commons, and say that these scumbags should never see the light of day.”
“He asked, “Dad, why don't you just say what you want?” In honour of my son's giving me that very good advice, I will take a few minutes and talk about something that hit me very hard as a father over the weekend, and that is the Supreme Court ruling on two despicable human beings who had hundreds of cases of child abuse on video and in pictures. From this graphic material, these kids are never going to be the same. We, as Conservatives, said that we would use the notwithstanding clause and make sure that these dirtbags got the sentences they deserved. Over there, it is very rare, because we follow, and I had my staff follow every Liberal and NDP member over the weekend, and not one of them commented on this ruling.”
“The response I got from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice was interesting, because I talked about the member from northern Saskatchewan leaving his constituents behind. He has been in favour of the firearms confiscation plan. He has been in favour of the industrial carbon tax. He is in favour of food taxes, such as the industrial carbon tax, the packaging tax and the carbon tax 2.0, known as fuel regs. There is no place in Saskatchewan where food is more expensive than in northern Saskatchewan, so he has really done a disservice to his community members, especially the children. On the topic of children, my son was here with me last week. He came and watched the proceedings.”
“Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this adjournment debate and talk about a question I asked a few weeks ago in question period. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about food bank usage in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan, 35.1% of children live in a food-insecure household. However, the answer I got was really found lacking. The member from northern Saskatchewan sometimes goes off on a bit of a rant here and there, and he did not answer the question at all. He talked about what the Liberals were going to do, that they might build houses and that they might do this or that. Tomorrow, the budget will be presented, and we are asking to have an affordable budget so that Canadians can have an affordable life.”
“I will say it every time I am on my feet: Parents want to feed their own kids, and the government cannot help but stand in the way of that with its overburdensome regulations, red tape and taxes and terrible fiscal policies.”
“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments on the food program, because there were private food programs in place. I can think of some in my city: Chili for Children, the Nutrien food program, the Mosaic food programs and the Mother Teresa Middle School food programs for less fortunate kids. The problem is that, while there were programs in place, the Liberals never had conversations with any of the groups delivering food programs. They just made a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all program. I am not sure what the numbers are, but 400,000 kids are supposedly going to get food. There are over five million kids below the poverty line using food banks every week. If the Liberals thought that was going to fix the problem, it has not. The solution is to bring back affordability, lower food prices and stop taxing parents to death.”
“That is what the Liberal government has done with its reckless spending and continued increases in taxes on Canadians. They still stand to say they took 22 million Canadians off the tax rolls. Yes, that saved them nine dollars a month. The fact that parents now drive past the grocery store to go to the food bank is an indictment on how bad the Liberal government has handled the finances of our country over the past 10 years. Inflation continues to spiral out of control, and food prices continue to go up. Do the Liberals realize that having a food program in school is an indictment of the government and not a showpiece? Parents would love to have the ability to feed their own kids. They do not want food stamps. They want good jobs on safe streets in the country they love.”
“The HungerCount food report that just came out says, “It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to double that.” We hear a lot from those on the other side, but one thing they trot out as their showpiece is the school lunch program. One thing I cannot figure out is, after 10 years, why the Liberals are proud that they are handing out food stamps. That is not an endorsement of their policies. That is an indictment of them. Parents want to be able to feed their own children. What the Liberal government has done under Justin Trudeau and now the current Prime Minister is strip that ability away. Canadians now pay more in taxes than they do in food, clothing and shelter for their families.”
“Quite often, our friends across the way want to make this a global issue, but the food price increases are hitting Canada particularly harder than many of our G7 partner countries. The question is, what is happening in Canada that is not happening in other parts of the world? Conservatives have asked this question time and time again, and the member for Whitby went on a rant about there being no hidden food taxes, but that could not be further from the truth. Some of the policies the Liberals have implemented over the last 10 years have led to so many Canadians being food insecure. Nearly one in five food bank clients are employed but still cannot make ends meet. Ten years ago, that was not the case. Those who had jobs in Canada were able to put food on the table for their families. That is not the case anymore.”
“Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise to try to get a more expansive answer on a question I asked in question period a couple of weeks ago. I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about the spike in food bank usage in Saskatchewan, where 35% of children are food insecure and over 30% of households are food insecure. I found the answer the member gave me lacking. He went on some rant about nothing that was even close to the question I asked about food banks. Since I asked that question, new numbers have come out. For the first time, there have been over four million visits to food banks in Toronto. The numbers are quite staggering. I will read some into the record. Canada food inflation is nearly double the Bank of Canada targets and food prices have been rising 40% faster in Canada than in the U.S.A.”
“Mr. Speaker, forgive me if I do not trust a government that bought a pipeline, spent an extra $38 billion to build a pipeline and had time extended on how long it took to build that pipeline. The Liberals have never seen a problem they did not think government could fix. I do not believe building a bigger government bureaucracy is going to build more homes for Canadians. I do see, though, 30 mills closing and a shortage of lumber as a problem for building homes. I see 106,000 people out of work, many of them in the construction industry, as an issue for building homes. The softwood lumber industry is in crisis because the Liberals cannot get a deal done, and mills are shutting down. Therefore, we do not have the people to build the homes, and we do not have the material to build the homes. I have never seen a bureaucrat pound a nail.”
“We want to make Canada a better place for Canadians to live. The Liberals can take all the good ideas they want from our platform. How does the parliamentary secretary to the housing minister reconcile her minister's inability to move quickly with the Prime Minister 's desire to get things built faster than they have ever been built? Those two things do not go together. Another thing I would ask is, how does the parliamentary secretary have faith in her housing minister, who, as the former mayor of Vancouver, left Vancouver, one of the highest-priced housing markets in North America, possibly in the world, in a dumpster fire? Why would he do any better for Canadians?”
“It said that housing starts dropped sharply in August, with housing starts in Canada declining 16% in August 2025. I know the Liberals are not big on numbers and factual information, but that is what Statistics Canada said. It also said housing starts went up by 14% in September. If they go up 3%, down 16% and up 14%, that is not as fast as anyone has ever seen housing being built. The Prime Minister talks about big, major projects and getting stuff built, but his minister is very concerned about moving too quickly on certain policies. I know imitation is the finest form of flattery, but the Liberals stole some of our campaign ideas, like taking the GST off houses costing $1.3 million and below. That is a good policy. As our leader has said, we are happy if they steal our good ideas.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am happy to address some of the questions I had about a month ago regarding housing starts. I watched a very interesting interview with the housing minister on one of our local political panels, which I think was this past weekend. He was asked a question about why he would not take the GST off all homebuilding. He stuttered and stammered and said the Liberals did not want to make big changes and that was a really big change. He said they were going to nibble around the edges. However, this party ran a campaign on building faster than the speed of light, building faster than anyone has ever seen houses being built. I went back to Statistics Canada, and I saw that in July, housing starts rose by 3%, and in August they dropped by 16%. The member across is shaking her head, but I can read it.”
“Mr. Speaker, we heard the member for Swift Current—Grasslands—Kindersley talk about his constituents. The deputy House leader talked about how they want to protect the Liberal government. When we talk about failed policies, we talk about the failed Liberal policies. The Liberals are not Canada. Does the member agree with that?”
“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend's flair for the dramatic, and he said something that was really on point, which does not happen a lot in his speeches. He said the Harper government balanced three budgets and the Justin Trudeau government balanced zero budgets. That is the truth. I would agree with him. Harper went through a recession, a financial meltdown, in 2008. Trudeau went through COVID. Harper's government came back with a balanced budget after a few years. The Prime Minister is not on pace to balancing the budget ever given his unsustainable spending. The Trudeau government added more debt to the country than all other prime ministers combined. That is not rhetoric; that is fact.”
“Mr. Speaker, this debate is very much like the crime debate. The comments just made by my colleague from Barrie South—Innisfil were interesting. We also heard the member for Kingston and the Islands across the way say the Liberals have not dropped a budget in 18 months and they still won the election. Hon. Mark Gerretsen: I didn't say that. Warren Steinley: Mr. Speaker, we always know what a Liberal is going to do. The Liberals are going to do the best thing for the Liberal Party of Canada, and when Canadians get hurt, it does not matter. We have seen it with their crime bills. They will support the criminals and support the Liberal Party, and try to protect their record, but not care about Canadians. We will see it in this motion too because we want Canadians to have food on their tables, and the Liberals do not care.”
“Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Lethbridge has been around this place for a fairly long time. I have been here about six years now. We have heard these wonderful slogans. One was during COVID, that we were going to go into debt so that Canadians would not have to, which was said by Justin Trudeau. Another one was that we were going to “build back better”. Another wonderful slogan from Justin Trudeau was, “the budget will balance itself”. We are now hearing that the new line is, “we are going to spend less to invest more.” Does she think that this will be as successful as the other bumper sticker slogans?”
“He said it was the best thing in the world, then he flip-flopped so he would get re-elected. He really has no principles. Yes, the carbon tax was taken off, but then they had the industrial carbon tax. Then they had the second carbon tax come in and called it the clean fuel standard, which will add 17¢ a litre by 2030. Then, they had the fertilizer tax, and they had the packaging tax, which all make food expensive. That is why Canadians cannot afford food at the grocery store anymore.”
“Mr. Speaker, the member can yell all he wants and insult me, but it was not me who said the tax cut did not measure up. It was the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The member just said it was $800. I will take the Parliamentary Budget Officer's word when he said people would get $15 a month and low-income seniors would get $10 a year. The way the member is talking, everything is great. It is pretty easy to vote against a food program, because I believe, if tax payers pay less and the Liberals stop stealing their money, they would be able to feed their own kids, and that is what the people I represent want. They want the government to get out of their pockets. The member talked about food price inflation. That member was a cheerleader for the carbon tax.”
“If farmers are producing more food with less, if there is no hidden tax and if the government is not putting in policies that make food more expensive, then we would think food bank usage would go down, not up. I know that my friend from Whitby is going to answer this question, and it is a simple question. If food bank usage has gone up by 142% in the last 10 years, why is he telling Canadians that they have it so good?”
“All I hear time and again from the Liberals is that there is no hidden food tax, which is factually incorrect. There is. There is a tax on fertilizer. There is a tax on food packaging. There is a second carbon tax coming in. There is an industrial carbon tax. Only someone who has their head in the sand would not realize that this is going to increase the cost of food. I grew up on a farm. A lot of my friends took over their family farms. I know that in Canada, one thing that our farmers are very proud of is that they are producing more with less. They are producing more of what goes into food with fewer acres of land, with less water and with less fuel because they have GPS and have great technologies.”
“Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to rise to talk about a question I asked a couple of months ago. This was in my original question: ...Canada's fiscal watchdog confirms another broken Liberal promise, this time on the Liberals' tax cut. On the campaign trail, the Prime Minister promised Canadians an $800 income tax cut, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer just confirmed that the average Canadian will save $15 a month, and low-income seniors will save only $10 a month.... That was definitely not the promise on the campaign trail. We have seen the food bank usage across our country. Four million users were at the food bank in Toronto. I just saw a new report that said that since 2015, since the Liberal government took office, food bank usage in Canada is up by 142%. That is a staggering number.”
“Mr. Speaker, what a tone-deaf response that is. A thousand people lost jobs in Calgary. Under their failed Liberal policies, 86,000 people have lost their jobs. In Saskatchewan, 35% of people are food insecure, so he can go and tell them that he is going to take their jobs with the Liberals' energy policies. My question is this: Will they scrap the hidden carbon tax and maybe have a heart for people who do not have jobs, so Canadians can put food on the table?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store, but I find it interesting that the Liberals do not think there are any hidden taxes. There is the industrial carbon tax, the food packaging tax, the second carbon tax and their inflationary deficits, which make prices at the grocery store higher and higher. Why will the Liberals not scrap their hidden carbon taxes so that Canadians can afford to put food on the table?”
“Madam Speaker, there is a lot to unpack there. First of all, the Harper government built four pipelines. The only difference was that it used private money. The Liberals used $38 billion of taxpayers' money. Second, the member said that their one economy is already showing results, but 1,000 people were laid off in Calgary. That is probably not the result he wants. I would say the results have definitely been found lacking. Seeing as he brought up the economy, there is a question I often want answered. The Prime Minister promised that by July 1, he would knock down interprovincial trade barriers to make trade easier within Canada. Can the member give me a couple examples of interprovincial trade barriers that have been knocked down by the government?”
“I think there is something we need to work on to grow our energy and our resource industry as a major economic driver. Along with that would be our agriculture industry as well. We have seen fertilizer reduction targets. We have seen industrial carbon tax. We have seen carbon tax 2.0 being added to farming. This has increased farmers' cost of doing business, and we have then seen the price of food go up also. I would love an answer from my colleague from across the way, and I will follow up in a minute.”
“I know there are five projects from the Major Projects Office that have been announced. The question I focused on was this: If these get built, first and foremost, they should be built with Canadian steel, Canadian product and Canadian labour. This is one of the questions I would like to follow up on. The other one is this: Five projects were announced, but there are still 38 major projects at the impact assessment phase. Over the last few years, according to my numbers, 86,000 jobs and $54 billion have fled the country in investment in our energy sector. TransCanada, for example, is building pipelines, just not in Canada; they are in the United States. I would like a couple of answers to the questions I laid out. They are fair, and they are non-partisan.”
“Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to take up the question I had during question period a little while ago. It was about the hard-working men and women at Evraz steel, the steel plant in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the fact that they have continually had to lay off more and more workers because there is just not as much work as there used to be back in the good old days, one might say. We have had years of policies put forward by the Liberal government, such as Bill C-48 , the shipping ban; Bill C-69 , the “no more pipelines” law; and the emissions cap, which has been shown to really affect the resource industry in our country. My colleague for Calgary Midnapore said it very well: We have seen a thousand people getting laid off in Calgary recently. We have seen mills being closed in B.C. because of the tariffs on softwood lumber.”
“Mr. Speaker, first of all, my heart goes out to little E and her family and friends. I hope people are watching today, because they will see the difference between Liberals and Conservatives. A parliamentary secretary got up today and said Liberals will do anything to defend the Liberal Party of Canada; Conservatives will do anything to defend the rights of victims of crime in Canada. That is the difference between us and the Liberals. There is an example from my small town in which a child pornographer was let out on bail the same day, and he lives two blocks from our school. Would this piece of legislation ensure that criminals and animals such as that stay behind bars where they belong?”
“Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's speech, and I think she has selective amnesia, because she said that it was easier to get bail in 2014 than in 2025. The Liberals brought in bail reform, so I think it is time to scrap the Liberal bail reform and make it so that we put prisoners in jail, not let them out on bail. Does the member know whether it was harder for criminals to get out on bail in 2024 or in 2014?”